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March 9 , 2009

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Exhibit Explores Multi-Cultural Influences Of Two Los Angeles Ceramic Artists

WHAT: Forth and Back: The Migration of Influence in the Work of Phyllis Green and Karen Koblitz 

WHEN: March 17 through April 22; Gallery dark March 30-April 4 for Spring Break; Conversation with the artists, 7 p.m. March 17

WHERE: University Art Gallery, LaCorte Hall A107, CSU Dominguez Hills

(Carson, CA) – “Forth and Back: The Migration of Influence in the Work of Phyllis Green and Karen Koblitz,”will open on March 17 in the University Art Gallery and continue through April 22. The gallery will be dark March 30-April 4 during Spring Break.

An exhibition featuring 30 works of art by prominent Los Angeles ceramic artists Phyllis Green and Karen Koblitz and curated by Jim Keville, assistant professor or art at California State University, Dominguez Hills, “Forth and Back” explores the variety of world cultures that inspire these two artists and those influences help form their individual artistic expressions.

In Phyllis Green’s mixed media pieces, Pre-Columbian ceramic and Asian influences are evident, as her art explores issues of gender and identity, “high art,” and craft.  Although clay has been a primary art material for Green, she incorporates fabric, found furniture and video into her provocative sculptures.

The work of Karen Koblitz displays influences from Italian Renaissance maiolica ceramics, as well as the impact Islamic Moorish craftsmen had on Italian design. Her travels to Azerbaijan in 2006 further influenced her more recent artwork in ceramics and textile designs, incorporating imagery and symbols of her native California. Her work celebrates the positive interaction between Eastern and Western cultures.

An opening reception for the artists will take place on March 17, from 6 to 8 p.m. in the University Art Gallery. A conversation with the artists led by curator Jim Keville will be held in conjunction with the opening at 7 p.m.

Free to the public, the exhibition and related events are sponsored by the Instructionally Related Activities Committee of the Associated Students, Inc.

Open from 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday through Thursday, the University Art Gallery is located in room A-107 on the first floor of LaCorte Hall on the campus of CSU Dominguez Hill, 1000 E. Victoria St, Carson. A map of campus is at www.csudh.edu/VisitUs/campusmap.shtml.

Visitor parking in campus lots is permitted with a valid parking pass. Passes are $4 and available at yellow dispensing machines adjacent to each campus lot.

For more on the artists visit their web sites: www.karenkoblitz.com and http://www.phyllisgreen.net.

Note to Editors: Images of some of the works in the exhibit are online at www.cla.csudh.edu/dnp/art_gallery/exhibition_detail.asp?ageID=17. High resolution images are available upon request.

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