SOU Art Faculty Show

Artist Bios

Marlene Alt

Marlene Alt received her M.F.A. degree from the University of California, San Diego in 1986. As a sculptor and installation artist, her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, San Francisco, San Diego, Minneapolis, Portland, Chicago, and New York. Marlene’s work is informed by historical perspectives of the American landscape and an interest in the contemporary presence of the sentimental pastoral in American culture. Her work at the time of this exhibition focused on various feminine objects as metaphor for landscape and body, a topography of memory and desire.

Cody Bustamante

Cody Bustamante was born in Los Angeles, California. He received a Bachelor of Art degree from Humboldt State and his M.F.A. degree in studio Art from the University of California Irvine. Cody served as the art chair for the department for two years in addition to teaching classes in drawing and painting. He has been exhibiting professionally since 1979 and his work is held in numerous collections on the West Coast.

His recent work around the time of this exhibition focused on examining contemporary mythologies used to deal with the unknown. These myths include our ration and irrational notions of mysticism, religion, science and technology, and art and popular culture. Archetypical imagery from these various mythologies were utilized to create layers of sometimes dissonant and bizarre, and sometimes beautiful and resonant visual experiences.

Birds, fish, mermen, puppets, ghosts, rocket ships and submarines populated his work. They usually exist in a tense relationship to the abstract environments in which he imbedded them.

Kay Campbell

Kay Campbell received her M.F.A. in 1982 in Fibers from the University of Kansas. After heading the Fibers program at Ball State University from 1984-87. Kay came to SOU in 1987 where she was the head of the Fibers program for the Art Department. Her artwork has been exhibited widely throughout the country and has been published in several magazines and books. Campbell’s art work in Fibers and Mixed Media examines personal and universal human emotion. In her work she considers one’s relationship to shelter and protection as well as the definition of personal boundaries. The title of a recent body of work at the time was called The Shell Game is derived from the game of chance that is played on the sidewalks of metropolitan centers, intended to dupe the unwitting passerby.

Wes Chapman

Wes Chapman was born and raised in Montana and received his undergraduate education in Arizona and his graduate degrees from the University of Oregon. He was on the faculty at SOU for 26 years. During his tenure he was active in campus governance as a former department chair and with many other campus wide committees. In 1975 Wes established the photography program which has become an integral part of the art department’s degree programs. He has also been included in various local, regional and national juried art and photography exhibitions during these years.

Miles Inada

Miles Inada has a B.A. from Yale University and an M.F.A. from the University of Cincinnati. At the time of this exhibition Inada’s work Francisco Pulpo’s Scincinnati, had recently won second place at the SIGGRAPH 96 Student Competition in New Orleans, Louisiana.

Lisa Moren

Lisa Moren received her B.F.A. from Syracuse University in 1985 and her M.F.A. from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 1991. She had been a visiting artist/lecturer at several institutions including the Detroit Institute of Art, Kansas City Art Institute, Oberlin College, University of California at San Diego, and Pacific NW College of Art before joining the faculty at Southern Oregon University in the Fall of 1996. Lisa is an artist working with multiple medias who has exhibited throughout North America and abroad. Her projects are influenced by movements crossing images with non­linear narratives, objects, interactivity, and artists and writers inventing language.

Pipo Nguyen-Duy

Pipo Nguyen-Duy was born in Hue, Vietnam and earned his M.F.A. in photography at the University of New Mexico. His work has been shown nationally and was awarded NBA funding in the Western States Arts Federation, and the prestigious College Art Association Fellowship for outstanding work and scholarship. Pipo was working at the museum as an assistant curator.

Linda Pinkham

Linda Pinkham was the co-owner and master printer of Pinkham Press, a collaborative printmaking studio. Pinkham Press of Medford specialized in hand-pulled, lithographic original prints. The Press published and co-published editions for artists.

Pinkham holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in printmaking and photography and a Master of Science in Fine Art from Southern Oregon University, 1990 and 1992 respectively. She received additional training as a printer fellow at Tamarind Institute of Lithography, Albuquerque, NM. Her work has been exhibited in Oregon and California.

Linda was an instructor of art at SOU, teaching lithography, intaglio/relief, monoprinting, and drawing. In addition, she served on the board of directors of the Arts Council of Southern Oregon. She exhibited lithographs and monoprints in the faculty show. She considers her work to be meta-language-any language used to talk about another language. She is fascinated by the visual language of symbols, in particular those used by mass media. Her most recent work at the time undertook the redefinition of truths (stereotypes) perpetuated by our culture and mass media, by rearranging, combining, inventing and reinventing pictorial symbols and what they stand for.

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