Photography by Andy Warhol

California State University Fullerton Grand Central Art Center Presents:

Main Art Gallery
Original Photography by Andy Warhol
Exhibition featured in the GCAC Main Gallery
EXTENDED DATES! Through June 15th, 2008
Closing Reception: Saturday June 7th, 2008 7-10pm

Project Room
Blackwater Babylon: Michael Knowlton
Exhibition featured in the GCAC Project Room
EXTENDED DATES! Through June 15th, 2008
Special Event: Closing Reception, book release and signing: Saturday June 7th, 2008 7-10pm

Rental and Sales Gallery
Souped Up!
car culture and fine art collide
June 7-29, 2008
Opening Reception Saturday, June 7th, 2008 7-10pm

CSUF GRAND CENTRAL ART CENTER
125 N. Broadway, Santa Ana, CA 92701
714-567-7233, fax 714-558-4145

Director: Andrea Harris 714-567-7234
Rental and Sales:
Dennis Cubbage 714-567-7236
Press: Alyssa Wiens Cordova 714-567-7233. awiens@fullerton.edu
E-mail, aharris@fullerton.edu
http://www.grandcentralartcenter.com
Hours: Tuesday–Thursday and Sunday 11a.m.-4 p.m., Friday and Saturday
11a.m.-9 p.m. Closed Monday

Main Art Gallery
Original Photography by Andy Warhol
150 Polaroid and Black and White Photographic images

A gift of the Andy Warhol Foundation to CSUF and part of The Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program celebrating the foundation’s 20th anniversary. Grand Central Art Center proudly features 155 Polaroid and black and white photographs by legendary pop art icon Andy Warhol of notable socialites and Factory regulars Tatum O’Neal, John McEnroe, Jon Gould, Constance Young, Mary Tyler Moore and many more. Also, rare still lifes and landscapes of flea markets, a Halloween parade, beaches, dogs, and Japanese toys .This is the first complete exhibition of this work in the United States.

The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts announced an unprecedented gift of Warhol art to 183 college and university art museums across the U.S. The gift, made through the Andy Warhol Photographic Legacy Program in honor of the foundation’s 20th anniversary, consists of 28,543 original Warhol photographs valued in excess of $28 million. http://www.warholfoundation.org

Project Room
Blackwater Babylon: Michael Knowlton
Curated by Mitchell De Jarnett

Special Event:
Book Release and signing
June 7, 2008 7-10 pm
On June 7, 2008, Grand Central Press releases a limited number of the full color, hardcover, 33-page book, Blackwater Babylon, featuring the recent artwork of artist Michael Knowlton. This publication coincides with the GCAC exhibition curated by Mitchell De Jarnett and contains essays by Nathan Spoor, C.R.Stecyk, and Jerome Witkin. During the closing reception artist Michael Knowlton will be signing purchased copies.

Michael Knowlton is an artist involved in the lowbrow art scene as a writer for Juxtapoz and an early exhibitor in Zero One Gallery. His recent paintings are politically charged comments on current events and the war in Iraq, inspired by news broadcasts on TV and in newspapers, photojournalistic scenes, and the artist’s unique narrative.

“As we moved closer to invading Iraq for a second time, like many Americans, I saw that this had nothing to do with 9/11, spreading freedom or finding WMD. This was the PNAC plan, shaped and signed by the usual suspects. Carlyle and Halliburton already had maps, blueprints. No one wanted this war as much as the Oval Office. There were so many lies told. This war will cost over three trillion dollars and much of this money is going to mercenaries that answer to no law, military or Iraqi. Everybody knew if we were to take out a dictator there would be chaos. This war has become flypaper to the
U.S. sapping our resources and spending future generations’ nest egg and making generations of enemies. These paintings try to express my frustration at the squandering of resources, lives and future for what seems to be a business deal that will leave us vulnerable and under-armed if a real threat occurs. The mercenaries in these pictures are fictitious, but no more a lie than any told in Washington.”
-Michael Knowlton, 2008
http://www.michaelknowlton.com

Rental and Sales Gallery
Souped Up
Pop culture, Car culture and fine art collide in a group art exhibition featuring pinstripers, airbrush artists and legendary artists instrumental in the creation of the Southern California phenomenon “Kustom Kulture”. Artists include: Steve Vandemon, Doug Dorr, Jimmy C., Kent Bash, Bob Hill, Greg Miller, “Skratch”, Valerie Glorae, Edward Walton Wilcox, Brian Bent, Roy Varga, Lux DeVille, La Spooky and more.

Music at the opening reception Saturday, June 7th,2008 7-10pm by DJs Emu and Lady on the Deckz

UPCOMING GCAC SHOWS

Amy Caterina – Installation
“This used to be real estate, now it’s only fields and trees.”
Project Room Gallery
July 5-August 24, 2008
Opening Reception: July 5, 7-10 pm.
Lecture series and workshops: July 19th and August 9th, 2008 11-4pm free admission
Grand Central’s current artist–in-residence, Amy Caterina, creates a fiber arts and video installation exploring human preconceptions of natural and urban environments, regeneration, decay, and the flora and fauna of her imagination.

www.amycaterina.blogspot.com

Spitting Images
A photography exhibition curated by Dennis Cubbage
Main Art Gallery
July 5-August 24, 2008

Aspects of Mel’s Hole
Curated by Doug Harvey
A publication will be produced
September 6–October 19, 2008
GCAC Main Gallery and Project Room

Artist in Residence Installation
Alessandro Fornaci and Frank Martinangeli
Guest artists from Rome
November 1-December 21, 2008
Project Room

Richard Turner
Contempt Mandela
Installation and Publication
November 1-December 21, 2008
Contempt Mandala is a multi-media installation that takes, as its point of departure, Jean Luc Godard’s 1963 film Contempt. While primarily about the making of a movie and the dissolution of a marriage, it simultaneously explores the creative process and the fragility of human relationships.

2009
Grand Central Art Center 10th Anniversary Exhibition
An exhibition featuring artists works from the past 10 years of exhibitions and programming presented by CSUF Grand Central Art Center in celebration of our anniversary. An exhibition catalog will also be produced and available at the exhibition.
February 7th–March 22nd
Main Gallery and Project Room Installation

Mosaico Alegria Magazine

MOSAICO: From the word “Mosaic” A picture or decorative design made by setting small colored pieces, as of stone or tile, into a surface.

As the American Mosaic that represent our neighborhoods, we decided to brand the magazine with an art term as part of our master plan of inclusion instead of exclusion so that we can get to know each other better and take pride in our diversity. Nurturing art and culture as part of the rich uniqueness that have characterized Orange County, just a great place to live. Read more