Robert F. Agrella Gallery - Doyle Library
Artists
Shiva Ahmadi
Shiva Ahmadi utilizes a variety of artistic mediums, including painting, sculpture, and animation, to tell stories. She combines luminous colors and mystical beings with violent imagery, drawing attention to global issues such as migration, war, and brutality against marginalized peoples.
Ahmadi (b. 1975) moved to the United States from Iran in 1998 and has been based in Bay Arae since 2015. She received her Bachelor of Fine Arts from Azad University (Tehran), and Master of Fine Arts degrees from Cranbrook Academy of Art, Bloomfield Hills, MI. Besides solo exhibitions at the Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; and Asia Society Museum, New York, NY, Ahmadi has been included in group shows at the Rubin Museum of Art, New York, NY; Aga Khan Museum, Toronto, Canada; Mori Art Museum, Tokyo, Japan; Arab Museum of Modern Art, Doha Qatar; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; and the Royal Ontario Museum, Toronto, Canada. Ahmadi’s work has been collected by the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York, NY; Asian Art Museum, San Francisco; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; Dallas Museum of Art, TX; Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts, Philadelphia, PA; Detroit Institute of Arts, MI; and Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA. Ahmadi is a recipient of the "Anonymous Was A Woman Award", Kresge Fellowship and Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant. She is currently a professor of art at the University of California Davis.
Nicole Irene Anderson
Nicole Irene Anderson creates psychological, ambiguous compositions that respond to specific locations and lived experiences. Anderson earned an M.F.A. in Art Studio from the University of California, Davis, and a B.F.A. in Painting/Drawing from California College of the Arts in San Francisco.
Eric Hongisto
Eric Hongisto is a Professor in the Department of Art + Architecture and has previously taught at the University of Delaware and Montana State University-Bozeman. He received his MFA in Painting/Printmaking from the Yale University School of Art, 1999, and his BFA in Painting from the Maine College of Art, 1997. Most recent awards include a 2009 Graves Award in the Humanities, a 2006 Pollock-Krasner Foundation Grant, a 2005 Guggenheim Fellowship in Installation and a 2002 New York Foundation of the Arts, Painting Fellowship.
He has participated in numerous Residency programs, such as the Fine Arts Work Center, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, Dieu Donne Papermill, Socrates Sculpture Park, and the Lower Eastside Printshop.
Recent exhibitions of his work have been shown at the deCordova Museum, Museum of the Rockies, Queens Museum, Bates Museum of Art, Drawing Center, and the Boston Center of the Arts.
Klea McKenna
Klea McKenna's work uses both photographic elements and embossing to create her most recent work. Utilizing the folds of the paper itself to create cast shadow and unexpected exposures. The work seems to straddle the mark making language of printmaking and photo while bending the rules of multiple disciplines.
Jennifer Scheuer
Jennifer Scheuer is an artist invested in lithography and the history of print.
Jennifer Scheuer is a recipient of the 2022 DeHaan Artist of Distinction Award from the Indianapolis Arts Council, and the 2019 Eliza Moore Fellowship for Artistic Excellence from the Oak Spring Garden Foundation.
Scheuer received her MFA in Studio Arts: Printmaking at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville. She attended the Tamarind Institute’s Printer Training Program in Albuquerque, NM. Scheuer received her BFA from Minnesota State University in Moorhead, MN. Her recent work utilizes silkscreen, lithography, relief, and bookmaking.
Trevor Shimizu
"Using paint as a means to engage with his environment, Trevor Shimizu’s work has always taken its cues from whatever subject is “at hand” – a sentiment famously attributed to impressionist painter Pierre Bonnard. Over the past several years Shimizu’s environment has changed. Whereas his earlier work reflected the roles taken up and activities that filled his life in New York City, his recent paintings are a means of processing his life and studio now oriented away from the metropolis and situated on the Hudson River."
April Vollmer
April Vollmer is a New York artist, author, and educator. Focusing on mokuhanga woodcut, she also makes drawings, collages, books and digital prints. Her work has been published in journals including Science, Printmaking Today and Contemporary Impressions and her book Japanese Woodblock Print Workshop was released by Watson-Guptill in 2015.
Ericka Walker
Ericka Walker works in the tradition of printmaking to make large scale contemporary prints that address concerns stemming from turn of the century propaganda images. Her work obliquely addresses foreign policy issues through a critical lens of history. Her prints address concerns of industry, agriculture, and mechanized warfare at a time when these concerns are ever more present.
Cate White
Born in 1971 into the back-woods culture of guns, 4x4s and meth of Northern California, White experiences the margins—both societal and psychic—as a refuge from which to observe cultural dynamics around power, belonging and meaning making. Recent works source their imagery in collective religious and literary myths, art historical masterworks, personal histories in snapshots and the pre-lingual language of abstraction.
Self-taught beginning at age 30, White’s work became public in 2015 with the Tournesol Award from Headlands, followed by Bay Area Now 8 at YBCA and residencies including the Mills College Art Museum A+P+I residency, and 12 solo shows and multiple group shows in the Bay Area and beyond. While primarily a painter, White often exhibits her work in multi-media installations that include drawings, sculpture, video and books.
White splits her time between Oakland and a shack on the Mendocino Coast where she hosts How Do You Paint on YouTube. Styled obliquely off of Bob Ross’s cult classic, this work is part performance art, part spoof and part attempt to get through a painting block.