in Trinity 100 and hallway
Director: Sarah Pike, 898-6341, spike@csuchico.edu
School-year hours: M-F, 8-5
Summer hours: M-Th, 8-4

September | November | February

Sept. 1 

Artist talk by Niana Liu in conjunction with It's All Your Fault, an exhibit at the University Art Gallery.

5 pm, Trinity 100. Followed by a reception at the University Art Gallery

Niana Liu will talk about her multidisciplinary and culturally charged artwork, some of which is on view at the University Art Gallery, August 24–September 25. Niana Liu was born in Hunan Province, China. For the past 10 years she has lived in San Francisco. Since 2004, Liu has used painting, drawing, photography, video and installation to explore points of intersection and disparity between Western and Asian cultures. The talk and exhibition are in conjunction with the 2011–12 Humanities Center's theme, China and the West.

Sept. 8–30

Peter Hogue, Emeritus, English "Ballpark Figures/ Cahiers du Fotoplay"

Sept. 8 reception 5–7 pm, Trinity Hallway.

A multi-media memoir and work-in-progress: Photographs, collage and photocopy, written and spoken word, video, etc. Baseball, the Far West, movies, personal icons, friends and family…. With Secret Cinema Tertulias Thursdays, Sept. 15, 22, 29, 4–5:30 pm and Fridays: Sept. 9, 16, 30, 3–4:30 pm in Trinity 126) and periodic e-mail updates.

Peter Hogue taught modern literature and cinema studies in the English department at Chico State from 1971–2006. He co-founded CSU's University Film Series with Ira Latour and booked films for the series 1973–1990 and 1999–2002. He has also been a film critic for Chico News & Review, 1978 to date.

Nov 1–Dec 16

Chunhong Chang* 

Dec 15 Reception for the artist 5–7 pm, Trinity 100

Chunhong Chang is a full-time artist born in Taiwan and educated there. She moved to Chico to receive her MA in Art at CSU, Chico in 1998. In her work she seeks to preserve the different qualities of eastern and western artistic traditions while celebrating both cultures' traditional sense of beauty. She is influenced by the mastery of artists from centuries past: Dutch still life to the landscape, flower, and bird paintings of the Tang and Sung Dynasties in China.

She has exhibited widely in the United States and Taiwan. Her work is represented by Island Weiss Gallery in New York, Cohen-Rese in San Francisco, and locally at Chico Paper Fine Art and Zucchini and Vine. She taught art in public and private schools in Taiwan. She lives with her family in Chico.

Nov. 2 

"Affinities, Parallels and Differences: Contemporary Chinese Art and Its Western Counterpart," "China and the West" guest speaker Xiaoze Xie, the Paul L. & Phyllis Wattis Professor of Art at Stanford University*

7:30 pm PAC 134, followed by a reception in Trinity 100/126

Introduction and analysis of works by some key Chinese artists in a contemporary context. Since the 1980s, experimental art in China has been heavily influenced by the styles, ideas and strategies of the West. Combining such influences with the history and culture of China, artists have created work that shares affinities with its Western counterpart and yet is different and unique.

Xiaoze Xie received his Master of Fine Art degrees from the Central Academy of Arts & Design in Beijing and the University of North Texas. He has had solo exhibitions at the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, AZ; Dallas Visual Art Center, TX; Modern Chinese Art Foundation, Gent, Belgium; Charles Cowles Gallery, New York; Gallery Paule Anglim, San Francisco; Nicholas Metivier Gallery, Toronto; China Art Archives and Warehouse, Beijing; Gaain Gallery, Seoul; Devin Borden Hiram Butler Gallery, Houston, TX; among others. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions including Shu: Reinventing Books in Contemporary Chinese Art at the China Institute Gallery in New York and Seattle Asian Art Museum, and the traveling exhibition Regeneration: Contemporary Chinese Art from China and the US. His 2004 solo at Charles Cowles was reviewed in The New York Times, Art in America and Art Asia Pacific. More recent shows have been reviewed in Chicago Tribune, The Globe and Mail and San Francisco Chronicle. His work is in the permanent collection of the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston and the Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art and the Arizona State University Art Museum. Xie received the Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant (2003) and artist awards from Phoenix Art Museum (1999) and Dallas Museum of Art (1996).

This event is co-sponsored by the Humanities Center and the Department of Art and Art History and made possible in part by the generous support of David and Shari Hopper.

Feb. 1-24

Black and White in Black and White: Selections From the Douglas Keister Collection of Glass Plate Negatives

February 7 opening reception. Trinity 100, 5-7 pm, with presentation by Douglas Keister at 6.

February 8 Edward Zimmer, Historic Preservation Planner for the City of Lincoln and co-author with Douglas Keister of the book Lincoln in Black and White 1910-1925. PAC 134, 7:30 pm

In 1965, while he was a high school student in Lincoln, Nebraska, budding photographer Douglas Keister acquired a cache of 280 5” x 7” glass-plate negatives. He used the negatives to make some of his first prints in a darkroom he constructed in his parents’ basement. Three years later he went off to California to pursue a career in photography. The glass negatives were put in boxes and stored away for over thirty years. In 1999, a student in Lincoln who was doing research on black-owned businesses discovered 36 glass negatives and the story of this “significant find” ran in the Lincoln paper. Doug Keister’s mother saw the story and sent him the clipping. Keister contacted the Nebraska State Historical Society and soon after his 280 negative collection was deemed a State Treasure. Further research confirmed that all the photographs were taken by African American photographer John Johnson during the years 1910-1925. The bulk of Keister’s collection features scenes of the African American and immigrant community.

Large-scale versions of these extraordinary images will, for the first time, be able to be seen by the public. More information.

This exhibit is sponsored by the Office of the President, The Office of Diversity and Inclusion, The Office of the Dean of the College of Humanities and Fine Arts and The Humanities Center.

* The Humanities Center's theme for this year is "China and the West."