January 28 to March 24, 2016
Reception Thursday February 11, 2016 at 5:30 pm with Artist Talk at 6:00 pm
*The gallery will be closed on January 18, 2016 in observance of Martin Luther King Jr. Day
Christian Hali is a multidisciplinary artist. His work explores male identity, the domestic space, and the everyday.
“Everything is a performance. We perform for ourselves as much as we do for others.
I’m interested in how mediated images and narratives smuggle ideology through popular culture and mass media. How has that affected my perception of everything? I use the tropes and conventions of film/TV as a structure to explore the everyday, the domestic space, and reflect on the macro and micro.”
Christian Hali is an adjunct art & design instructor who has taught at California State University Stanislaus, Modesto Junior College, Art Institutes of California San Francisco and the Sony Pictures Media Arts Program in Los Angeles. Hali is an award-winning artist, art director, illustrator, and creative executive with ten years of production experience for MTV, Disney, Nickelodeon, and Daniel Ostroff Productions. He is a published illustrator with Simon & Schuster and Landoll Books, and his illustration is in the University California Santa Cruz library archives.
Funded by a grant from the CSU Entertainment Industry Initiative, the CSU Stanislaus Art Department is hosting a series of guest workshops for CSU Art Majors around the theme of storytelling in the digital arts.
Eric Carter is a Bay Area designer and photographer. He has developed and designed eLearning applications, websites and print, illustrations, animations, interactive Flash widgets and portrait photography. Eric is currently working with the Bay Area Video Coalition and Tesla.
This series of workshops will conclude with a public exhibition of student work in the CSU Stanislaus’ Building Imagination Center. Limited to Stanislaus State students only.