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<\/a>Hanna Stocker\/In Motion<\/figcaption><\/figure>The Faculty Studio Arts Exhibition in on display at the News-Journal Center, 221 North Beach St., Daytona Beach, in the North Lobby\/Art Gallery. It features drawings, paintings and sculptures from Studio Arts professors including Pamela Griesinger, Kandy Lopez, Trent Berning and his wife Kelly Berning.<\/p>\n
Admission is free and open to the public and much of the artwork is available for purchase.<\/p>\n
\u201cI think it\u2019s a great opportunity for students to see what the faculty is working on and to see where their professors are coming from. Through looking at our art, students get a rare opportunity to really see into our brains,\u201d said Trent Berning, who organized the exhibition and teaches ceramics, pottery hand-building, wheel-throwing and art appreciation classes at DSC.<\/p>\n
\u201cMy style is really utilitarian objects,\u201d said Berning as he picked up one of his cup sculptures off the perfectly lighted platform without a second thought. \u201cCups are really intimate because the user feels the groves and gets to examine it up close. I love that they\u2019re functional too.\u201d<\/p>\n
The first objects encountered upon entering the gallery are the intricate and beautiful works of drawing professor Pamela Griesinger. She has four drawings, three paintings and a 12-piece grid of etchings titled \u201cMemorial\/Found Objects\u201d on display.<\/p>\n
Affectionately known by her students as Miss G, Griesinger is retiring this year after working for Daytona State College for more than 30 years.<\/p>\n
\u201cI\u2019ve never seen Miss G\u2019s art before and it\u2019s so detailed. It just really grabs the viewer. I love it,\u201d said Brandon Bennett, a student and member of DSC\u2019s Studio Rats Art Club, during the opening reception.<\/p>\n
\u201cSince she\u2019s retiring, we really wanted the focus to be on her work,\u201d said Kandy Lopez, a design and painting professor as well as the recent addition to the art faculty.<\/p>\n
\u201cOn the other hand they featured me as well, since I\u2019m new. I\u2019m a figure painter and more than anything I paint people who I think have \u2018swag.\u2019 I was born in New Jersey and raised in Miami, so I know what real urban life looks like and it\u2019s important to my work to capture the people and essence of where I was raised. People and their environment are connected, so that\u2019s why in some of my prints the people are connected to power lines, because they give the energy to the city,\u201d said Lopez.<\/p>\n
Lopez won the Outstanding Faculty of the Month Award for February and will begin teaching drawing next semester.<\/p>\n
\u201cWe volunteered our time and hung all the work ourselves. We all feel strongly about how we would like our work displayed and since we curated it, all the art is shown the way we want it to be,\u201d said Berning.<\/p>\n
The exhibition represents the breadth and scope of the Studio Arts faculty at Daytona State College and offer the opportunity to appreciate and celebrate a multi-faceted art faculty and its creative endeavors.<\/p>\n
The Faculty Studio Arts Exhibition will be on display through March 18. For more information contact the News-Journal Center Box Office at 386-226-1927.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Caitlin Peterson In Motion Staff Writer Art professors critique student work because they want their students to grow and learn the craft. But everyone has wondered what the work of the critic looks like and now is your chance to see it. The Faculty Studio Arts Exhibition in on display Continue reading Faculty artists on display through March 18<\/span>