For Immediate Release
San Joaquin Delta College Fine Art Faculty Exhibition
(Stockton, CA)—The LH Horton Jr. Gallery opens the 2007-2008 Season with a biennial, mixed media exhibition featuring the work of San Joaquin Delta College Fine Art Faculty. Showcasing the work of our visual arts instructors provides students, community members and prospective students a look into the diversity and resources within the Visual Arts Department.
The exhibit will include the work of: Jennifer Barrows, Gary Carlos, Rowland Cheney, Greg Goodman, Miguel Gurrerro, Michael Leonard, Joe Mariscal, Melanie Marshall, Raoul Mora, Mario Moreno, and Bob Schumacher.
Our instructors are professional artists and art historians, who continue to work, exhibit and publish in their creative disciplines while teaching at Delta College. Each of our instructors brings a unique dialogue and perspective in the arts.
Mario Moreno’s work focuses on vibrant, abstract paintings that explore the social, political, and cultural verities of the Chicano experience. A native artist of the San Joaquin, he has been teaching drawing and painting for 12 years at Delta College. His work has been part of the Royal Chicano Air Force and regional muralist movements.
Joe Mariscal has been teaching ceramics at Delta College since 1975. Mariscal has created two public works of art. A mural dedicated to Cesar Chavez and the UFW, is located on the front wall of the Goleman Library at San Joaquin Delta College. The second piece, Word Search, is a social comment on the “Rodney King incident”, and is located at the Convention Center in Sacramento.
Jennifer Barrows has been teaching art history at Delta College since 1999. Barrows’ essay titled, "Writing and Reading about Artistic Dress: Artists’ Intentions and Public Reception,” was recently published by Cambridge Scholars Publishing, in the book “Objects, Audiences, and Literatures,” edited by David Raizman and Carma R. Gorman. The book will be on display for the Faculty Exhibition.
Gary Carlos is a new faculty member who teaches sculpture. Raised in an immigrant family in California’s agricultural Central Valley, his work is influenced by witnessing the rapid transformation of both landscape and culture. Intersecting interests in painting, ceramics and public art led him to work in ceramic tile. His work was included in the 2006 NCECA Invitational Exhibition and in the book “Suburban Escape: The Art of California Sprawl,” published by the San Jose Museum of Art.
Melanie Marshall has been teaching adults since 1984, and was instrumental in developing the Graphic Arts Program at San Joaquin Delta College. Social Awareness has been a focus in recent digital campaigns, such as Trachoma, the leading cause of preventable blindness in the world, and in Guide Dogs for the Blind digital campaign.
Rowland Cheney has spent the majority of his adult life teaching art at Delta College. He works in a broad range of media and technique and is widely collected in bronze, paintings, and prints. Commissions represent the bulk of his work; such as the monumental scale bronze sculpture of Sandhill cranes commissioned by the City of Lodi. The piece entitled “Leaving and Coming Home ” was Lodi 's first venture into the Art in Public Places Program and was installed in the Lodi transit center in October 2002.
Born in French Camp, CA, Raoul Mora was awarded a scholarship to the San Francisco Art Institute, where he graduated with a Bachelor of Fine Arts. He’s been an art instructor for Stockton Unified School District and San Joaquin Delta College for over 40 years. Active as an artist and recipient of numerous awards in art, his work has been exhibited throughout the Bay Area, Arizona, and New York.
Miguel Guerrero is now retired from teaching business and accounting at Delta College. Inspired by his classes in the visual arts and printmaking, he now teaches printmaking for Delta College’s Continued Learning program.
Michael Leonard’s prolific work of over 6,000 medical illustrations spans nearly 30 years. His work is published in excess of 200 industry journals and 30 leading medical texts, and is a four-time winner of the national Medical Book Award. An adjunct professor at Delta College since January 2006, Leonard’s teaching career of 20 years includes Art History, Anatomy and Figure Study, Desktop Publishing, Beginning through Advanced Drawing, Painting and Portraiture.
Bob Schumacher is a sculptor and potter with 20 years as a professional artist. With an MFA from Indiana University, he has taught ceramics at Sacramento City College for nine years, and color and design at Delta College for the past two years. Bob has an art gallery in Clarksburg, California, and has exhibited his work both locally and nationally, and has completed several public art murals located in Sacramento.
The LH Horton Jr. Gallery is a Delta Center for the Arts venue located on the ground floor of Shima Center on the campus of San Joaquin Delta College. Gallery admission is free and open to the public, and is wheelchair accessible. Group Tours are welcome, and Gallery Talks can be arranged. Recommended parking is available in the Shima lots for a nominal fee.
Exhibition: August 21 – September 13, 2007
Reception: September 13, 5–7pm
Gallery Exhibition Hours
Tuesdays: 11:00 am – 4:00 pm
Wednesdays: 11:00 am – 6:30 pm
Thursdays: 11:00 am – 6:30 pm
Fridays: 11:00 am – 1:00 pm
August 25th: 11:00 am – 3:00 pm (1st Saturday following
exhibition opening)
Digital images of artwork available upon request.
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