'NEW PERSPECTIVE' EXHIBIT AT COLLEGE'S ART GALLERY SHOWCASING WORKS OF FACULTY.Byline: Peggy Hager Staff Writer LANCASTER - Three Antelope Valley College Antelope Valley College is a comprehensive community college located in Lancaster, California, USA. It is operated by the Antelope Valley Community College District, with a primary service area of 1,945 square miles covering portions of Los Angeles and Kern counties. faculty members are showing paintings and travel photographs in the college art gallery's new exhibit, ``A New Perspective.'' Featured are paintings by art instructors Maya Gohill and David Babb and travel photographs from Dennis White, dean of fine and performing arts. ``They're really kind of magnificent,'' said Babb of White's photographs. Babb described his own work as close-up depictions of insects and plants. ``My drawings deal with kind of a botanical bo·tan·i·cal also bo·tan·ic adj. 1. Of or relating to plants or plant life. 2. Of or relating to the science of botany. n. theme. They're small and intimate,'' Babb said. In addition to teaching, Babb is also the new art gallery director, replacing Pat Hinds Hinds may refer to: People with the surname Hinds:
``I'd like to take the good things Pat Hinds did ... and just kind of build on it, make it a fun and exciting place to have art,'' said Babb. Babb came from Idaho, where he worked as curator CURATOR, persons, contracts. One who has been legally appointed to take care of the interests of one who, on account of his youth, or defect of his understanding, or for some other cause, is unable to attend to them himself. 2. of the Arts and Sciences Museum at the College of Southern Idaho Southern Idaho is a generic geographical term roughly analogous with the areas of the U.S. state of Idaho located in the Mountain Time Zone. It particularly refers to the combined areas of the Boise metropolitan area, the Magic Valley and Eastern Idaho. . His future plans include bringing in shows depicting the use of new media and digital art to encourage students. Gohill is also new to the college staff, having moved to the Antelope Valley This article is about the Los Angeles County region. For the census-designated place in Wyoming, see Antelope Valley-Crestview, Wyoming. The Antelope Valley from San Francisco San Francisco (săn frănsĭs`kō), city (1990 pop. 723,959), coextensive with San Francisco co., W Calif., on the tip of a peninsula between the Pacific Ocean and San Francisco Bay, which are connected by the strait known as the Golden in August. ``A New Perspective'' runs through Oct. 31 at the gallery, 3041 W. Ave. K. Gallery hours are 9 a.m. to 3 p.m. and 7 to 9 p.m. Monday through Thursday. Admission is free. For more information, call (661) 722-6395. CAPTION(S): 4 photos Photo: (1 -- color) A photograph by Dean Dennis White titled ``Rome from the Spanish Steps'' is on display at the Antelope Valley College faculty art show. The exhibit, ``A New Perspective,'' runs through Oct. 31 at the gallery, 3041 W. Ave. K. in Lancaster. (2 -- color) Gallery Director David Babb points to one of his works, ``Refuge.'' Babb described his own paintings as close-up depictions of insects and plants. (3 -- color) Instructor Maya Gohill views one of her paintings at the exhibit in the art gallery of Antelope Valley College. Gohill is new to the college staff, having moved to the Antelope Valley from San Francisco in August. (4 -- color) Patrons at the gallery look over some of the artworks in the ``A New Perspective'' exhibit. |
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