2010 Fall Faculty Show

2010 Faculty Art Show

September 9 - October 5, 2010

2010 Fall Faculty Exhibition

Gerard Baldwin................................................................ 1
Jay Calder....................................................................... 3
Cory Cryer....................................................................... 5
Kelley Eggert.................................................................... 7
Joe Kagle......................................................................... 9
Divya Murthy.................................................................. 11
Mari Omori.................................................................... 13
Julon Pinkston................................................................. 15
Kelley Revuelto............................................................... 17
Erich Schmalhorst............................................................ 19

Gerard Baldwin

I come from an Irish Clan where artistry runs deep. I could draw a straight line before I could walk. Blarney
is my first language—creativity is my second. My formal art training is from the Chouinard Art Institute
(now California Institute of the Arts) and the Allende in Mexico.
I began my apprenticeship in animation at UPA Studios, taking two years out for the Korean War, assigned
to NSA. Upon returning, I set out as a happy hired gun on a variety of shows and job rolls. I have been
animator, director, producer and writer, and have been the recipient of eight Emmy nominations and
three Emmys. Some of the films that showcase my work include Mr. Magoo, Bullwinkle, George of the Jungle, Yogi Bear, the Grinch,
Aladdin, the Flintstones and the Smurfs.
In my career, spanning over fifty years, it has been estimated that I have made more than 600,000 drawings. Although the drawings
have disappeared, evidence of my art can be seen on television every day in hundreds of animated films. In 1989, I moved my family
to Houston where I planned to retire. Instead, I continued working on animated films part-time, but also made time to draw and paint
for myself. “Painting,” I believe, “is closer to writing poetry than it is to film making, and whereas making an animated cartoon is a
collective effort, when painting you are quite alone...not like conducting a symphony, but more like whistling in the dark.”

gerardbaldwin.com

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First Church of the Paleocene Gerard Baldwin
2010, 18 x 32 inches, mixed media

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Jay Calder

Jay Calder is a native Southern Californian, and a second generation potter. For many years, his
family operated Calder Pottery, a “one of a kind” stoneware shop within Universal Studio Tours in
Universal City, California. He was heavily influenced by his father, Sam Calder, who was a professional
photographer, and later pursued a pottery career. Jay’s formal art training began at Brigham Young
University and continued with a M.F.A. at the University of Puget Sound in Washington. He studied under
F. Carlton Ball, a ceramic author and a monthly contributor to Ceramic Monthly for nearly ten years.
Jay’s work has been exhibited in juried shows and galleries in California, Utah, Washington, Louisiana,
New York, and Texas.
Clay has been the medium for a series of life-long learning experiences for me. It has been the means of personal self-expression, visual
problem solving, and unlimited variations in artistic growth. My personal goal is to create a body of work that is both aesthetically and
visually stimulating. My focal points are to combine multiple-joined forms into ceramic sculpture, and explore new ideas in functional
ceramics. I love to create luscious layers of glaze and explore textures.
For 25 years, Jay taught secondary art in the public schools in New Orleans, and Houston. He currently teaches as an adjunct
ceramic instructor for Lone Star College at the Kingwood campus. He studied under Roy Hanscom at Lone Star College while teaching
public school. Previously he taught at Houston Community College (Central Campus); and a completed a 2008-9 Artist-in -Residence
program at Houston Contemporary Crafts Center.

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Untitled, 2010 Jay Calder
42 x 78 inches, digital inkjet print

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Cory Cryer

Cory R. Cryer is an Associate Professor of Art at Lone Star College - Kingwood in Kingwood, Texas where
she teaches Ceramics. She received her Master of Fine Arts Degree in Ceramics from Texas Woman’s
University in Denton, Texas and her Bachelor of Arts in Teaching Degree from Sam Houston State University
in Huntsville, Texas. Her work is shown nationally and she has been the recipient of several awards.

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Ceramic Bowl Cory Cryer
2010, 11 x 4 1/2 inches

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Kelley Eggert

My ceramic sculptures exploit the ways in which the plant and animal kingdom procreates. Through
evolution, successful individuals within a species have developed behaviors to enable fertilization and
the rearing of a new generation. Reproductive behaviors vary greatly, yet they are all geared to lure,
trap, manipulate or impress a possible mate. Once fertilization has occurred, some degree of protection,
nurture and care must be carried out.

Flowers, the botanical source of my ceramic sculptures, are open and effectively placed to flaunt, advertise
and appeal to the pollinating agent. The successful ovary will bear fruit to protect the young and use
yet another set of strategies to spread the seed. Insects exist on impulse and instinct. They function solely by genetic encoding. An
arthropods ability to learn is extremely limited and arguably non-existent. Along with the purely instinctual traits of the insects, I use
them to represent ideas of human social, psychological and political systems.

Kelley Eggert earned her master of fine arts with a concentration in ceramics from the University of Florida, Gainesville. In addition to
receiving the University of Florida Alumni Fellowship from the University of Florida, she was also awarded two Albert K. Murray grants
and won the Peter Pugger award at the 2008 NCECA student juried exhibition.

Kelley received her undergraduate degree from the University of Akron in Akron Ohio. Kelley currently teaches at Lone Star Community
College, Houston Community College and Glassell School of Art. She has recently completed a one-year residency at the Houston
Center for Contemporary Craft. She is currently working on a new body of work for a show in Tampa, Florida this coming March
2011 sponsored by NCECA, the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts. www.kelleyeggert.com

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Opportunist Kelley Eggert
2009, 16 x 16 x 16 inches
stoneware, underglaze, luster,
silicone rubber, quills and dyed monofilament

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Joe Kagle

Joe Kagle started art school at Pittsburgh’s Carnegie Museum at age of eight (through eighteen) before
majoring in English/Art at Dartmouth College, 1951-55, A.B. and getting his M.F.A. from the University
of Colorado, 1955-58. Since 1963, he is listed in Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who in American Art
and Who’s Who in the World. He studied Chinese painting and culture at NYU and Harvard, 1968: then
Chinese culture/art at the Palace Museum (Taipei, Taiwan- his first Fulbright grant-1969).

He received an additional Masters degree in 1984 from the University of Arkansas at Little Rock in ‘gifted
education’. He was a Fulbright Scholar to the Republic of Georgia, 2001-2002-2003; Mongolia, 2004.
He has directed five university art departments and five museums. As a Smithsonian Institute Kellogg Fellow (1983-84), he researched
museum practices (he had been selected there as one of fifty artists in the 1976 International Public Art Exhibition in the National
Gallery). While chairman of the Fine Arts Department at the University of Guam, he completed more than a dozen large architectural
works (the largest: 40’ x 60’ UOG mosaic wall on the Student Center). Returning stateside in 1976, he concentrated on smaller
watercolors and acrylic paintings, while also selling larger creations abroad (i.e. large paintings for American Embassies). He has
had over 600 national and international exhibitions.

Recently, since early 2009, he has shown consistently in the International Competitive Exhibition of the Upstream People’s Gallery in
Omaha, Nebraska (which gets 800,000 visitors monthly to its website exhibitions globally). His thinking process to create works of
art starts with ‘systems thinking’ (with his traditional training as backup). Improving his verbal skills, he has been a disc jockey and
directed televisions shows. His mantras for work/life are: “May the beauty we love be what we do” and “Life is not how you survive
the storm: it is how you dance in the rain.” www.wacoart.com

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Dancing in the Rain, 2010 Joe Kagle
45 x 96 inches, digital inkjet print

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Divya Murthy

Divya Murthy is a project- based installation artist. She is currently collaborating with another artist and
creating outdoor sustainable sculptures for Art League Houston. Murthy is also creating an eco-conscious
installation for ALH’s gallery space which will debut in November 2009.
For the past three years, her major endeavor, “The Homeland Project,” documents the development and
destruction of her neighborhood in Southwest Houston through large-scale panoramic photographs and
environmental installations. Her work deals with her own comprehension of a homeland identity. She was
born in Bangalore, India, but moved to America as a young child and grew up in Houston, Texas.
Murthy has exhibited at Galveston Arts Center during Fotofest 2008, in Houston at The Williams Tower Gallery and the Houston
Center for Photography, Miami, New York, and Boston, MA. She is a recipient of the En Foco New Works Award, a Houston Center
for Photography Fellowship, The Yousuf Karsh Prize in Photography and an AIGA World Studio Grant.

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Detail from Disappearing Prairie Divya Murthy
2006, 12 x 144 inches
360° archival ultra chrome pigment print

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Mari Omori

s.e.l.f. What is the image of the authentic self? Is there a single image of the self or multiple images?
How different are the images of the private self and the public self? These are some of the questions that
come to mind when I think about our identities and the word “self.” I want to explore these topics using
myself as the subject.

I am a Japanese American artist working in southern Texas, a baby-boomer and a late
bloomer in the art world. I am a multi-tasking mother of one, constantly reinventing myself to
survive in and adapt to new environments. I teach art. I make art. I live life powered by art. “s.e.l.f.” is a life sized self-
portrait conceived in 2009. The guild portrait has three heads looking into the past, present, and future. It possesses
multiple arms. This image was derived from a wooden sculpture of great compassion, named Kannon, from Japan’s
12th century.

An artist and art educator, born and raised in Japan, Mari Omori received a BA from Cal State University Northridge and a MFA
from UCLA. She is currently a Professor of Art at Lone Star College-Kingwood, Kingwood, TX, a position she has held since 2002. 
She was awarded an artist-in-residency at the Mino Cultural Village, Mino, Japan for three months in 2008 in conjunction with her
Sabbatical Research Leave with the International Faculty Exploration Grant from Lone Star College Systems. Omori’s awards include
the Palm Beach County Cultural Artist-in-Residency Grant in 2007 working with 25 non-profit organizations, over 500 participants
in an exhibition at the Morikami Museum, Del Ray Beach, FL. Omori’s works have been widely exhibited in solo and group shows in
California, Massachusetts, Oregon, Texas, Japan, Taiwan and Thailand.

Her curatorial projects include “Washi5” (LSC-Montgomery, 2010), “Kyomei: Resonance” (Poissant Gallery, 2007), “cross roads:
asia/america” (Galveston Arts Center, 2006), and “affinities” (Heritage Gallery, JP Morgan Chase, 2005).  Her solo-exhibition in
2010 includes “Mothers/Daughters” at Bosque Gallery, LSC-CyFair and “artifacts” at the College of the Mainland Art Gallery. 

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s.e.l.f. - gold, 2010, Mari Omori
42 x 71 inches, digital inkjet print

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Julon Pinkston

Since 2006 my paintings, drawings and various other artwork have been based on forms found in road
debris found on Texas highways. When I first began this journey I found myself constantly drawn to the
work of hard edge painters, the American Abstract Expressionist movement and Pop Art. The subject
matter of road debris, while influenced by a new popularity of environmental consciousness, was primarily
interesting to me simply because the forms where already abstract, and the shapes that they made seemed
expressive. This to me expressed more about my existence than anything I could create. It seemed to be a
pure expression of my place in the world and society. Mine has been a journey exploring societal detritus
and trying to exploit subjectively cognitive and visual associations within the form of the subject matter.

This latest series is an attempt to transition into other subject matter that I wish to explore more, and it is an attempt to reconnect
with my roots, both in my personal life and my artistic genealogy. In this series I am using images of personal philosophical and
spiritual symbolism, the east Houston industrial complex, highway lights, highway cameras, urban sprawl and more. Much of the
new subject matter that I am introducing is based on my existing urban environment and my childhood where I was raised on the
east side of Houston.

Born and raised in Houston, TX, Julon Pinkston earned a B.F.A. in Painting at the University of Houston in 2003. He earned his
M.F.A. in Painting and Drawing from the University of North Texas, College of Visual Art and Design in 2008. Julon Pinkston
is currently an adjunct professor at Houston Community College-Central and Lone Star College-Kingwood. A young emerging
artist, his work has been exhibited throughout Texas. Julon was recently part of the Wheels and Tires exhibition curated
by Jim Hatchett which began in Houston’s Art Car Museum and recently toured to the Beeville Art Museum in Beeville, Texas.
julonpinkston.com

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Untitled Julon Pinkston
2010, 48 x 60 inches
acrylic on panel

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Kelley Revuelto

“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” - Scott Adams
I am not an artist; I do not make art. My images are glimpses into experiences. My images are fragments
of scenes: entirely complete yet void of margins. I offer to you a perspective distinct from your own.
I encourage you to contemplate the moment in which you did not participate. Your involvement is now,
at a distance and yet in front of you.
Kelley Revuelto has been with Lone Star College-Kingwood since 2004 where she teaches Art History
Survey I: Prehsitory to the 13th Century, Art History II: 14th Century to the 20th Century, and Art Appreciation. Ms. Revuelto
has a BFA in Graphic Design from Texas State Univeristy in  San Marcos, Texas  and a MA in Art History from Texas Women’s
University in Denton, Texas. She also has a minor in Aesthetics and specialized in Medieval Art (8th century until 11th century)
and Early Modern Art (early 20th century).

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Arriero, Santiago, Chile Kelley Revuelto
2008, 16 x 25 inches

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Erich Schmalhorst

My three dimensional work incorporates societal concerns with tactile interests. Growing up in Mexico
City, I was surrounded by structures that were centuries old. I was fascinated by their surfaces and how
they had evolved over time. I try to reproduce in my work the patina of age that weathering creates. My
pieces look like the structures that will linger after man has passed.
Out of my concerns for sustainability and the environment, my work is made primarily from discarded
materials such as styrofoam packing, old newspaper, plastics, bottle caps, etc. I like the way that these
materials lend themselves thematically to art that is about the passage of time. My two dimensional work
in the show is a portrait of my daughter when she was four. I started with a woodcut print that I then hand colored with Prisma. Each
image is unique. The visual vocabulary at the top of the piece I borrowed from drawings that she made at that age.
I was born in San Antonio, Texas but spent my early years in Mexico City. I attended High school in San Antonio and went to the
University of Texas at Austin where I received my BFA in studio art, a BA in Spanish and French, and a MFA in studio art. I have taught
art at the University of Texas as a TA and as an adjunct at San Antonio College, Valencia College in Orlando and at Lone Star College
(Kingwood and Tomball campuses). I have exhibited at the University of Texas at Austin, Koehler Center at San Antonio College,
previous faculty shows at Lone Star College-Kingwood, and numerous galleries in San Antonio, Austin, Houston, and Boerne. My art
is in private collections in the US, Mexico and Nigeria.

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PAB1, PAB2 Erich Schmalhorst
2010, 11 x 30 inches &
11 x 31 inches
mixed media

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Many thanks to...
LSCK Media Dept. - Peggy Whitley, Rosemary Cuellar, Diana Sorensen, Jason Watson

LSCK TV - Garrick Joubert, Edwin Brega, Dan Ko
Digital Manipulation - Karsan Hirani
Designs in Print - Pamela Clark
Brochure design - T.C. Robson

LSC-Kingwood Fine Art Gallery
20000 Kingwood Drive

Kingwood, TX 77339-3801
Phone 281.312.1534
LoneStar.edu/Kingwood

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