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Class Notes
Otis College of Art and Design Alumni Magazine
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Class Notes
Fall 2011
ALUMNAE ALUMNUS ALUMNI ALUMNA Laura Daroca (’03 MFA Fine Arts) Director of Alumni Relations
I am thrilled to be the new Director of Alumni Relations! As an alumna and the former Director of Career Services, I look forward to hearing from fellow alumni and interacting with you in a new way. The exciting and inspiring accomplishments of Otis alumni never cease to amaze me. Reach out to me at ldaroca@otis.edu or (310) 665-6895. The listings below are a small sampling of recent alumni achievements and announcements. The Otis Times blog showcases a more extensive listing of what’s happening with alumni around the world, allows you to share news and opportunities, post images and video and connect with fellow alumni. Also, keep in touch with us and each other by joining the Otis Alumni Facebook page. Go to otis.edu/alumni for links to both sites or contact us at alumniupdate@otis.edu.
Valerie Tymoczko (’04 MFA Fine Arts) Latched onto Stephen Colbert (as Richard Branson) for a photo shoot for PROJECT, Branson’s iPad-only magazine
Steven Bankhead (’01 MFA Fine Arts) Eighteenth Brumaire, Rooftop installation at Steve Turner Contemporary, L.A.
David Gallup
Nate Hess
Steven Learner
’90 Fine Arts
’06 Fine Arts
’86 Environmental Design
“California’s Channel Islands”
“Modified Body”
Volunteered with Globe Aware to build
Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art,
STATION at USC Roski School of
a greenhouse for a children’s school in
Malibu
Fine Arts
Cuzco, Peru
Dana Montlack
Marjan Vayghan
Heather Verran
’94 MFA Fine Arts
’06 Fine Arts
‘86 Fine Arts
“Sea Creatures”
“falling up, with the cage”
Created new brands of Activewear:
Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla
Gallery 825, L.A.
MBody for Madonna and Eleven for
Marco Rios
Mary Younakof
’97 Fine Arts
’06 MFA Fine Arts
Raymond Zibach
“Despair Beyond Despair”
“343 Dresses: Chromatic Convergence
’90 Communication Arts
LA><ART, L.A.
Project”
Production Designer, Kung Fu Panda 2
Pacific Design Center, West Hollywood
DreamWorks Animation
’01 MFA Fine Arts
John Weston
Zoe Hong
Eighteenth Brumaire rooftop installation
’07 MFA Fine Arts
’02 Fashion Design
Steve Turner Contemporary, L.A.
“Pleasure Paintings”
Co-produced a fashion show at Cotton
Sabina Lee Gallery, L.A.
Mill Studios, Oakland
Venus Williams
Steven Bankhead
Kenneth Ober ’01 Fine Arts
Amanda Keller Konya
“Shortest Distance BTN2PTS”
’09 MFA Fine Arts
K. Saari Gallery, Steamboat Springs, CO
“Specimens from North America’s Most Polluted River”
Three Legged Legs (Greg Gunn, Casey Hunt, and Reza Rasoli , ‘06 Digital Media) “We’re All in this Together” spot for Method Cleaners shown on Virgin America
SOLOISTS Althea Edwards (two-person exhibition) ’84 Communication Arts “Launching a Dream: Reviving Tongva Maritime Traditions” UCLA Fowler Museum, L.A. James David Thomas ’84 Fine Arts “Nocturne” Terry Martin Gallery, Santa Monica Lucas Reiner ’85 Fine Arts “I see men as trees, walking” 333 Montezuma Annex, Santa Fe
Elisabeth Condon
Yuichiro Ando
’86 Fine Arts
’87 Fine Arts
“Climb the Black Mountain”
“Left to Rod”
Lesley Heller Workspace, N.Y.
New Puppy Gallery, L.A.
Lawrence Gipe
Anne M. Bray
’86 MFA Fine Arts
’87 Fashion Design
“Approved Images”
“Small Pleasures: Sketches Drawn from
Tucson Museum of Art
Everyday Life” TAG Gallery, Santa Monica
Cindy Kolodziejski ’86 Fine Arts
Darren Waterston
“Portraits of Sorts and Curiosities”
’88 Communication Arts
Frank Lloyd Gallery, Santa Monica
“Forest Eater” The Contemporary Museum & Honolulu Academy of Arts, Hawaii
Fay Ray
Centennial Museum, University of Texas,
’02 Fine Arts
El Paso
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica JJ Stevens Annie Buckley
’10 MFA Fine Arts
’03 MFA Fine Arts
“Department of Archeological Oversight”
“Love and Fortune”
Dark Matter Gallery (with D-Block
Jancar Gallery, Chinatown, L.A.
Projects), Long Beach
Nate Frizzell
COOL DESIGNERS
’06 Communication Arts “To Become Myself”
Douglas Kinsey
LeBasse Projects, Chinatown, L.A.
’85 Fine Arts Wine label for Florencio L. Navarro ‘s newest wine from Portugal, Semaphore 7 Cindy Kolodziejski (’86 Fine Arts) Bubble Eyes, 2011 earthenware, glass eyes, and silver wood frame
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