JUL. 9-SEP. 24
Spectator/Spectacle Tom Patton and Recent Work Nancy Scott Patton
Humanities Center Gallery Trinity Hall M-F, 8-5 (summer hours Jul. and Aug.)

SEP. 3 Reception 5-7 pm (talk at 6)
Tom is a photographer and faculty in the Department of Art and Art History at CSU Chico. Nancy is a print/paper/book maker and art instructor.

SEP. 30-OCT. 29
Debra Koppman, I Saw the Strangest Things
Humanities Center Gallery Trinity 100 M-F, 8-5
SEP. 30 Reception 5-7pm (talk at 6)
Debra Koppman has a master's in studio art from UC Berkeley and a doctor of arts with an emphasis in aesthetics and art criticism from New York University. She is the previews editor for Artweek. She writes, “I have been particularly inspired by the folk arts of many cultures of North and South America, Africa, and Asia. I have been especially drawn to the rhythms and patterns heard in the music, felt in the dance, and found on the textiles, the doorways, and the stones made by living peoples and past ancestors….For the last several years I have been making things almost exclusively out of recycled materials.”

SEP. 30-NOV. 19
Sue Richardson, Once Upon a Time
Humanities Center Gallery Trinity Hallway M-F, 8-5
SEP. 30 Reception 5-7pm
Sue Richardson served as assistant curator for the Janet Turner Fine Art Print Gallery from 1987 until 2002. She has studied with James C. House and Richard Lieberman in Philadelphia; in Chico, with Patricia Babcock, Marion Epting, Paul Feldhaus, Chris Ficken, P.J. Garbutt-Murray, Grace Hertlein, Frank Turdici, and Janet Turner. This exhibition is a retrospective of Richardson's printmaking—etchings and linocuts—from 1984 to 1991. It includes 22 "suites," each a "short, modern fairy tale with pictures and text for all ages."

NOV. 5-DEC. 16

Ann Pierce, Umbrian Corridors and Others

Humanities Center Gallery Trinity 100 M-F 8-5 (closed Nov. 11, 25-27)

NOV. 5 Reception 5-7pm

Ann Pierce earned her BFA in 1953 and her MFA in 1955 from the University of Colorado in Boulder, and from 1964 to 1995, taught at Chico State, where she served as chair of Art from 1980 to 1983. Before retiring in 1995, and since, she has taught many private watercolor workshops in California and Nevada; has juried competitions; and has won many awards. Pierce has been listed in Who’s Who in American Art for 20 years, and she is a member of the Springfield Art Museum’s Watercolor USA Honor Society and of the Rocky Mountain, National, and West Coast Water Color Societies. Her work has been published in professional books and magazines including Watercolor '89 and Splash: America's Best Contemporary Watercolors, 1991 and can be found in numerous private collections. This exhibit includes works from Pierce’s summer 2007 visit to Italy and assorted paintings from her 50-year career.

NOV.30 - DEC. 17

Trevor Lalaguna, Co-Motion

Humanities Center Gallery Trinity Hallway M-F 8-5

DEC. 3 Reception 5-7pm (talk at 6)

Trevor Lalaguna describes this show as "sculpted fabric devices that test an individual’s position in a potentially absurd situation."

JAN. 11-FEB. 25

Lynette Krehe+John Ferrell, Tuesday, Thursday

Humanities Center Gallery Trinity Hallway M-F 8-5 (Closed Jan. 15+18, Feb. 12+15)

JAN. 28 Reception 5-7pm

Recent mixed media and paintings from married partners and founders of the 1078 Gallery when it started on Humboldt Avenue in the early 1980s: the colorful abstraction of John Ferrell and humorous satire of Lynnette Krehe.

JAN. 11-FEB. 25

Lawrie Brown, Trashscapes

Humanities Center Gallery Trinity 100 M-F 8-5 (Closed Jan. 15+18, Feb. 12+15)

Aptos artist Lawrie Brown has work in many collections including Bibliotheque Nationale, Paris; Bowdoin Museum of Art, Maine; Center for Creative Photography, Tucson; Central Washington University, Ellensburg; Crocker Art Museum; Metropolitan Museum of Art; Mills College; Monterey Peninsula Museum of Art; Musee Nicephore Niepce, Chalon-Sur-Saone, France; Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Oakland Museum; Ohio University; Polaroid International Corporation, Cambridge; San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; Stanford University; UC Santa Cruz; University of Louisville; University of Texas, Austin; University of Washington; and Yosemite Museum. She writes: I spent more than two years collecting the contents of my own trash bin before photographing the refuse. I chose to photograph the aftereffects of my own private consumerism… I also want to reveal the surprising beauty in images of leftover garbage.