INSIGHTS is the annual juried School of Art student exhibition at California State University, Long Beach. INSIGHTS 2024 takes place in the Max L. Gatov, Dr. Maxine Merlino, Dennis W. Dutzi, and Marilyn Werby galleries, which comprise the main School of Art Galleries located between Fine Arts 2 and Fine Arts 3 (May 8th–May 14th). Select works will also be displayed at the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum (May 18th–July 25th).
Undergraduate and graduate students were invited to submit up to three works for consideration -- the exhibition was juried by School of Art faculty from their respective program areas: Animation/Pre-Production, Ceramics, Drawing & Painting, Fiber, Graphic Design, Illustration, Metals & Jewelry, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture/4D, and Wood.
School of Art Galleries are open Wednesday, May 8th–Tuesday, May 14th
Gallery hours: Monday-Friday, 12pm–5pm.
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum will host a selection of works May 18th - July 25th.
May 18th is Beach Grad Day — a campus-wide graduation celebration. The Museum will open with special hours for Beach Grad Day and in celebration of its opening of INSIGHTS 2024 on Saturday, May 18th from 10am – 2pm.
The Museum summer hours are Tuesdays-Thursdays, 12pm-5pm. Select INSIGHTS 2024 works are on view through Thursday, July 25th.
Student Museum Exhibited Artists: Marisol Cruz Anthony Rico Kio Claudia Villa Kayleigh Ziehler-Mar Johanna Jimenez Zachary Elliott Tricia Vu Emily Berl Raylene De La Torre Raylene Olade Vanna Henderson Ernesto Vazquez
Accepted works will also be featured on the SOA Insights Instagram account: @soa_insights
Banner image shows Drawing and Painting program student artist Anthony Rico with a detail of his work Consumed.
Ongoing Exhibition
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld: Cosmic Connections
Through 2024 Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Gallery
Image
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld, Uncorrupted Mystery, 1990. mixed media on canvas. 40 x 72 inches. Collection of Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum. Gift of the artist.
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld: Cosmic Connections is the third exhibition of the artist’s work drawn from the Museum’s collection. Drawn from multiple series of work, this exhibition includes several of the artist’s large abstract paintings and related drawings made in the late 1980s and early 1990s. As the artist increasingly identified as a poet and visual artist, she began to create abstract, gestural works referencing the landscape and the cosmos. Two bodies of work, Cosmic Connections and Landscape Abstractions, reflect Kleefeld’s deepening understanding of her position within what she calls “the flow.” Recognizing herself as a creative being within a larger natural universe, Kleefeld’s work from this period expresses her continuing exploration of spiritual movements and consciousness-expansive practices. Including the most representative works from this period in her oeuvre, Cosmic Connections will remain on view through 2024.
