College Night at the de Young Museum

My painting “California Boys” (center)

Live art drawing demonstration by CCSF Museum Drawing Class

“This is not a box of Wheaties” by Beth Bloom

“Dindelion” by Nining Muir

“Obsession” by Melissa Love

by Ekaterina Levina


I participated in the student exhibit “Warhol Now and Then” with my painting “California Boys” at the de Young Museum last Friday. Yep, it feels good to get to the show at the museum!
It was one big fun party, kind of “an art gallery meets a night club meets an indie film festival”.
I met a few people from the art school who also participated - Beth Bloom, Nining Muir and Simone Guimaraes, who' been a very enthusiastic president of the Art Club of CCSF this semester.

A Museum Drawing class of the City College did a live drawing demonstration in Piazzoni Murals Room. They manage to stay on their places despite all that action and music around.
Usually this class has three costumed models, but this time a male model didn't show up, so Rick Rodrigues, an art instructor, stood for a model. You could see that he wasn't used to modeling – Rick couldn't stay still for a minute.

I have a couple of favorites from the show.
I loved a short film (I think the title was “Anonymous”) by Melusina Gomez in collaboration with Tokotzli and Aztlan Media Kollective. It was a combination of a film, music, and performance with old-fashioned nostalgic imaginary and beautiful poetry with a hint of desperation of a broken heart.

The art exhibit had a bright colorful and optimistic feel for the most part. One work stood out and had none of that cheerfulness - “Obsession” by Melissa Love.
I haven't had the chance to talk to the artist, but I assumed that the young and pretty woman taking her picture next to this photo was her.

It's difficult to see the whole image, but there's also a shadow of a leaving man on a door on the right side. It's simple, concrete and wonderfully dark.
You can find a much better quality image and other photographs by Melissa Love on her website:

http://melissalovephotography.com/

In her statement for the museum Melissa Love wrote:

“.... Death fascinates us as it is one of life's many mysteries. One will never get to know what it is like, until he or she is faced with it. Until then, it seems all that we can do is observe.”