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For Immediate Release
10/01/2015
L.H. Horton Jr. Gallery Presents Imagine the Fantastic October 8 - November 5 Reception, Oct. 8, 5 p.m. |
(Stockton, CA) - Delta Center for the Arts L.H. Horton Jr. Gallery presents presents the 6th Annual 2D–3D Works National Exhibition and Awards Competition, Imagine the Fantastic, October 8 - November 5, 2015.
The theme for this year’s 2D-3D works exhibition presents artists working in the genre of Fantastic Art. Think of the historic works of Gustave Moreau, Hieronymus Bosch, and Henry Fuseli, or contemporary artists Frank Frazetta, Diane Dillon, The Shiflett Brothers, Don Ivan Punchatz, and our juror, Terryl Whitlatch, to name a few.
Fantastic Art explores mythical, mystical, or folkloric characters, subjects or events in mythology, fantasy, science fiction, the imaginary and the dream state. One goal of the Fantastic Art exhibition is to present original artworks that drive the creation or illustration of a secondary creative outcome, such as a figure for a video game, film, book, or graphic novel.
The exhibition presents a survey of artists working in two and three-dimensional forms, including traditional and digital painting, digital photography, and collage, and fiber, bronze, ceramic, and metal sculpture. It’s an exceptional display of craftsmanship, diversity of style, and individual use of materials. There are 22 artists from around the country, including Delta College student and Stockton native, Veasna Ling, who won 3rd Place in the sculpture awards category. Exhibition juror, Terryl Whitlatch, selected the artwork and award recipients. Terryl is a Creature Designer and Concept Artist for such clients as LucasFilm, and Disney Feature Animation.
 Artist Terryl Whitlatch - Exhibition Juror |
Terryl Whitlatch was born in Oakland, California, and studied illustration at the California College of Arts, and the San Francisco Academy of Art. Terryl is a scientific and academically trained creature designer and concept artist. Combining in-depth knowledge of zoology and animal anatomy with her incredible illustration skills, Terryl is celebrated as one of the top creature designers in the world.
Terryl has worked with many studios, including Industrial Light and Magic, Lucasfilm LTD., Pixar, Walt Disney Feature Animation, PDI, Entertainment Arts, LucasArts, Paramount Studios, Universal Studios, Chronicle Books, Design Studio Press, Titan Books, and various zoos and natural history museums.
Terryl acted as principal creature designer for Star Wars Episode 1 - Phantom Menace. She designed most of the alien characters and creatures, from concept to fully realized anatomies and stylizations. Some of the significant characters include Jar-Jar Binx, Sebulba, the pod racers, the undersea monsters of Naboo, and the Naboo Swamp creatures. She also worked closely with George Lucas in the redesign of such pre-existing characters as Jabba the Hutt and the dewbacks.
Other films include, Brother Bear, Jumanji 1 & 2, Men in Black and The Polar Express. Recent films to which she has contributed concept work include John Carter of Mars and Pixar’s Brave.
She also is the creator and illustrator of three books: The Wildlife of Star Wars: A Field Guide, The Katurran Odyssey, and Animals Real and Imagined. Three new titles are soon to be released, The Science of Creature Design and The Principles of Creature Design (both in October 2015) and Bestiary: The Natural History of Mythical Creatures (Summer 2016) respectively.
Terryl also is a contributor to the fantasy and science fiction illustration blog Muddy Colors, and a frequent guest lecturer and workshop instructor at many venues, including Creative Talent Network Animation Exposition, Spectrum Live, The Guild of Natural Science Illustrators (GNSI), Industrial Light and Magic, Disney Feature Animation, Disney Interactive, Pocket Gems, Industry Giants Animation Convention, Anomaly, and many schools and universities.
Partnering with CopicMarkers/Imagination International, Terryl is also the creator of a new cutting edge course in Creature Design, Tales of Amalthea, which teaches both real animal and imaginary creature designs simultaneously. Visit her website at talesofamalthea.com
Juror Statement ~ Imagine the Fantastic
Terryl Whitlatch
Flights of fancy. Daydreams. Visions. Nightmares. But above all, visual storytelling. That is what fantastic art is all about—the sharing of one person’s glimpse of alternative reality with one another, in a way that we all can connect with and participate in. Fantastic art is surrealism at its core, and highly symbolic—it transcends reality into a hyper reality, and thus is never purely abstract—for abstract art is by definition entirely subjective, and can mean (or not mean) many things to many different people.
Throughout history, Fine Artists and Illustrators alike have immersed themselves in the phantasmagorical and created incredible worlds and characters. There is Salvador Dali, with his attenuated elephants and melting watches, Gustav Klimt, with his sloe-eyed shimmering goddesses, the exquisite pen and ink illustrations from the Dark Tales of Edgar Allen Poe, by Audrey Beardsley, and the Fairy Tale images created by Arthur Rackham. And the list goes on, Gustav Dore, John Tenniel, N.C. Wyeth, Giorgio de Chirico, Rene Magritte, Leonardo Da Vinci, Hieronymus Bosch, Brughel, Iain McCaig, James Gurney, Beatrix Potter….
There are as many depictions of the world fantastic as there are imaginations of men and women. This gallery show offers a capsule of these dreamscapes and the Back of the North Wind universes in both two and three dimensions. There is something for everyone. Welcome to these Hidden Worlds and Neverlands of dawn and gloaming, and of the mind and the imagination, and What lies Beyond.
Exhibiting Artists
*Artists Statements - http://gallery.deltacollege.edu
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Guest Artist: Arnold Doong
Arnold Doong’s early influence in Fantastic Art was heavily influenced by the classic Universal Horrors, Marvel Comics and Star Wars. Arnold attended the Art Center College of Design, and earned his Bachelor’s degree in Illustration in 1989. Subsequently, he’s been employed by a number of prominent clientele, from advertising to entertainment designs, including Nickelodeon, Warner Bros. Animation, Sideshow Collectibles and PicturePlane. Formerly affiliated with the San Francisco Society of Illustrators and the Animation Guild, he was also a participant in ICON4, the Illustration Conference in 2005. Presently, Arnold is an Adjunct Faculty at Cogswell Polytechnical College, teaching in the Digital Art & Animation Program.
The Horton Gallery exhibition formats bring in a large groups of artists to present their work, providing greater exposure to diverse styles and media to audiences, thereby extending the educational and creative experience for our students. The Gallery’s primary mission is to support student-learning outcomes in the visual arts curriculum by building knowledge in the aesthetic, technical, cultural and historical context of the visual arts.
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