Student Show 2008, Atkinson Gallery
This juried annual show is always a lively array of styles, media, scale, and content.
Numerous awards were given at the reception. Many of SBCC’s art students have gone on to noted careers in the art world and related creative fields. Artworks were for sale.
The year’s juror is Tim Schiffer, the Director of the Ventura County Museum. Mr. Schiffer studied art at Yale University and the University of California, Santa Barbara. A curator and writer as well as a painter, he has also taught at UCSB. While there, he was the director of the College of Creative Studies Gallery.
On July 21st the year of 1984, the magic stars in the sky said: "Crazy girl you're late, open your eyes and say buenos Diaz to this wonderful world!" , and so I did. I opened my eyes right after a clap on my baby but, introduced myself as Inga Guzyte and took off into this crazy little world, Lithuania. Two years after me, my brother Linas followed, who knew he would become a carpenter later on. The time ran faster, I kept on discovering the world as I was playing games with my cousins, saving potatoes from potato bugs and sitting on big stacks of hey. Despite the careless childhood 11 years later Lithuania got too small and my little family of one brother and a single mother moved to a new and bigger/crazier world with lots of unknown words. We moved to Germany. I felt quite intimidated and shy in this big world, but exciting things kept happening to me. Wooden machines with wheels, looked like skateboards to me, were making the every day life more and more fun. Lots of unsaid words were unleashed on white paper taking the form of little funny monsters. And so the world kept spinning, the little funny monster characters kept following me,playing with me even after my High School graduation.