Tara Baghdassarian strives to explore the unknown realms of the inner mind. Devoted to daydreaming, conceptualizing, and creating, she aims to leap through man-made boundaries with undomesticated creativity. Her art is fueled by her motivation to inspire others, evoke emotion, and spread awareness about women's struggles and the violation of human rights. She has worked in graphic design, typography, and in a wide range of mediums including, sound, ceramics, drawing, printmaking, video, and installation; a repertoire of experiences that strengthen her dream of becoming a modern day renaissance woman.
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Irene Chen is a student at UC Berkeley, majoring in Art and Rhetoric. She is interested in using a variety of artistic mediums, including drawing, painting, photography, writing, and more recently film, to explore the human mind and heart and its relationship with all that it feels and encounters. Her objective is to examine the state behind reality and the abstractions that can imagined beyond it.
Bridget Michele Cuevas is a Laguna Beach, California native now based in Berkeley. Cuevas is a mixed media artist continually nurturing the concept of organic thought in the absence of the concrete mind. Her conceptual concentration is situated heavily within taming chaotic compositions, through crisp lines and imagery.
Ryan Davis enjoys producing 3D animated short films as a form of expression and a method of technical and artistic self-education. She is currently interested in 3D for the ever evolving technology, and the freedom it offers her art- making. Her work often encompasses cartoon-inspired atmospheres with a different message laced into each of her pieces.
Grecia Dedios is greatly influenced by significant emotional events in her life, such as her marriage, the love bond with her family, her spiritual meditation journey through yoga, and her awareness of time and her travels. Through the use of line movements with charcoal, vibrant paint colors, and carefully designed film shots, Grecia attempts to create a space for her audience to reflect, and closely observe her artwork, and in turn meditate on their own special memories. The emotional connection she has with these events make for a long journey of artistic inspiration.
Nikki Duong is a third year Art Practice/Integrative Biology double major from Huntington Beach, CA. An avid art, science and television enthusiast, her interests include drawing, painting, animal biology, and watching way too much Netflix. She expresses these diverse interests through her oil paintings, charcoal drawings and digital media, which feature various concepts ranging from scientific illustration, to the pervasive nature of pop culture.
Sara Emsaki was born in Iran, and now she resides in Oakland, Ca. She currently studies Fine Arts at University of Berkeley. Interested in ambiguous and memory driven approaches to human sexuality, Emsaki juxtaposes paintings and sculptural pieces together to create an intimate space. She embraces the conversation between found objects and carefully painted after images and impressions. She is newly investigating the new medium with the tools and processes evolved in the painting studio. Her latest video installation explores gender and racial identities through the vision of the 19th century painter, Edouard Manet. Sara Emsaki believes that women are heroes.
Ozzie Salvador Juarez was born in Compton California and raised in Los Angeles. The array of culture that surrounds Los Angeles greatly influences his art. Our current society is dictated by marketing practices that have habitually bombarded our minds with arbitrary imagery that tells us what to think and what to buy. This perpetual process distorts our view of reality, allowing false interpretations of art to fill our minds. He is currently studying Fine Art at the University of California Berkeley. Mr. Juarez finds ways to reuse unwanted items for his new art creations. This humanitarian approach is but a small example of what’s to come from Ozzie Juarez.
Hannah Kim is a third year from Aurora, CO. She is an Art Practice major and a Peace and Conflict Studies minor, with an emphasis in human rights. Hannah grew up reading fantasy and thinking up imaginary worlds in her head. She now brings these imaginary worlds to life through a variety of methods such as sculpture, installation, and digital media. Hannah believes there’s still a child in all of us, it just needs some coaxing to come out.
Initially discovered in an abandoned walnut orchard at the age of two, Dakota Rose is primarily focused on mankind's involvement with nature and soil, particularly with agricultural farmers in the confines of rural Northern California. Aside from inventing the term patriotism, Dakota focuses his videography and photography on the culture of physical labor and those who spend their lives providing for others. He is a champion of the underdog and has an incredible eye for the intimate details within humanity.
Haley Seppa is a filmmaker and photographer who incorporates traditional narrative storytelling and framing with the less represented discourse of queer relationships, thus allowing space to subvert traditional representations and create new forms of critical inquiry in familiar visual language. She is an extroverted introvert who is practiced in the art of finding humor in all the wrong moments. Her most recent professional work includes serving as the Production Coordinator for the award winning Sundance feature film Connected, as well as script supervisor on the series Hush.
Yan Shi is a UC Berkeley graduating student/filmmaker. Often shooting without a pre-written script, Yan believes in the mysterious and intangible nature of filmmaking process. He prefers to follow his instinct and “let the camera takeover”. Yan sees every element, story, cinematography, sound, and the editing of film as part of the whole and not to be separated at the moment of creation.
Shirin Towfiq is a performance video artist interested in better understanding the dynamic relationships she interacts with on a daily basis along with exploring how others view her versus how she'd like to be viewed. She is attempting to understand how cultural, feminine, and interpersonal relationships affect her and what can be gained from focusing on intersectionalities within ones life. She is constantly looking for ways to connect with others and improve herself and those around her from new and deeper understandings of herself and others through performing artistic repetitions.
André Christopher Villa is a young, emerging artist born and raised in the SGV of LA County. His work is a conscious counter to what he believes is an increasing contemporary dependency on over-complicated art theory and process needed for the validation of art, leading to an influx of “bootie” art, that is intellectually sound, but aesthetically unstimulating or pleasing to look at. André Christopher’s art presents the viewer with a strong visual imprint that allows immediate experience to be the driving authority in understanding the work, appealing to abstract experience in relation to both space and color as part of a conscious return to clean-cut essentials, basic instinct, and the primary. André Christopher’s current video work explores the use of mantra-like repetition in determining mental states as well as reclaiming presence within everyday life.
Jensen Young is an Art Practice and Film Studies double major. Having grown up in Florida, she is inspired by tropical landscapes and the unique atmosphere of coastal life. With a background in drawing, painting, and digital art, she is expanding her practice to include video art and filmmaking. Her work explores a kind of darkness underneath the apparent idyllic reality. Using dreamlike sequences and psychological themes, she attempts to capture a universal discomfort that we often avoid or overlook in our conscious lives.
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