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Carolyn Mary Kleefeld - Climates Of The Mind - The Horse and Bird Press - 1979 (cover design by Carolyn Bean Associates)

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The place that non time and time meet is what we call understanding

From the book “Climates of the Mind”  page 137 by Carolyn Kleefeld. (1979)

"Unshared

Degraded in dusty spider laces

Faded books hide unshared faces

Hearts imprinted on unread pages

Die, waiting on shelves for ages"

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My margin note response to the above dated 7/13/1991

She (Carolyn Kleefeld) doesn’t understand. Nothing is wasted. The book’s time will come when the conscious mind intersects with it. I don’t believe that the books lie dead. 

No.

Like  the patient seed, they exist outside of time. When consciousness is poured over them, they grow to flourish. Book and consciousness must meet at the right time or the plant won’t grow.

The book sat patiently outside of time. The conscious existed inside time. It grew to meet book time. The place that non time and time meet is what we call understanding.

End of margin note

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Trees by Carolyn Kleefeld

Limber spins sway to propelling rhythms Emerald sprouts jewel tender boughs

Some grow to be confined inhibited by ridged roots

Others form tiresome bushes rounded in monotony

Transforming ones evolve with the seasons unafraid of change

Parental limbs embrace bending low to share fruits

Blossoms medal winning flowers breathing smiles of sweetened scent

Weeping willows surrender fertilizing graves for new sons' births

Tearing winds leave barren leafless victims

The hollow tree trunk echos life's vacancy

I find this poem particularly beautiful. I am always in awe in how many trees really exist and how many different types there are. They help us to breathe, and they stay loving, filled with wisdom for everyone to see and partake from... they also say that they have personalities too! Which is most adorable :,)

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Quantum Diva 

by Carolyn Mary Kleefeld

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CSULB School of Art announces the digital edition of Insights 2020 The Annual School of Art Student Exhibition will be hosted online and via social media.

Join us for the School of Art Award Ceremony on Thursday, May 7, 4pm-6pm SoA students will be honored with awards and scholarships. https://bit.ly/SoA_InsightsAwards

Online Opening | The digital gallery also goes live Thursday, May 7th. Instagram: @soa_insights Tumblr: soa-insights.tumblr.com

The CSULB School of Art (SoA) presents the annual student exhibition, Insights 2020, online this year in promotional partnership with the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum (Kleefeld Contemporary). Instagram and Tumblr will be used to display juried works of art from students. Zoom will be used to host virtual events. This online exhibition continues to celebrate exceptional works produced by students. Insights 2020 digital galleries will be live from May 7 to 22, 2020 on Instagram @soa_insights and Tumblr at soa-insights.tumblr.com. Follow #insights2020 on Instagram and Tumblr to stay updated on the exhibition, awards announcements, and more. Engage with the talented CSULB SoA artists on social media, join conversations, and share favorite works. Featuring work from both graduate and undergraduate students in the SoA, Insights 2020, highlights work from all departments: Art Education, Ceramics, Drawing and Painting, Fiber, Graphic Design, Illustration/Animation, Metals/Jewelry, Photography, Printmaking, Sculpture, 4/D, and Wood. Students were asked to submit three works for review by a SoA Faculty jury. Despite physical distancing pushing individuals a part, Insights 2020 brings students, faculty, and public communities together in recognition of student artists. The online exhibition invites participation, social connection, and encourages engagement between emerging artists and campus and public communities. As efforts to prevent the spread of COVID-19 continue, students persist in art making, and their works and talents deserve to be seen.

Artists’ Virtual Tour for Insights 2020 | Date and Time TBA Honored SoA Award winners will discuss their works of art on Zoom.

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Artist at Cal State Long Beach Museum Is Major Donor

Artist at Cal State Long Beach Museum Is Major Donor

Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld, the self-help book author, is a major donor to California State University, Long Beach. In 2019, she gave the university $10 million, the largest donation Cal State had received for the expansion of the university’s art museum, which is now named for Kleefeld. But Artnet said that she also gave “120 of her own artworks to the institution’s permanent collection (as well…

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Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Multidisciplinary Lecture series launches May 12

Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Multidisciplinary Lecture series launches May 12

Left to right: Doris Sung; sm[ART]box by TBM Designs installed on the lower campus quad of Cal State Long Beach. Courtesy TBM Designs. Photo by River Fingerhut Doris Sung: sm[ART]box and Sustainable Design on May 12 at CSULBFree program launces the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Multi-Disciplinary Lecture Series WHAT: Architect Doris Sung describes the new technology she invented for sm[ART]box. The…

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Millard Sheets' untitled mosaic mural before de-installation. Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum of Cal State Long Beach photo: Sean Dufrene

Preview a Stunning Historic Millard Sheets Mosaic Mural Recently Gifted to a California Museum

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D-5, Artist Conversation, Week of November 4th

Artist: Christine Nguyen

Exhibition: Emergence of the Kelp Deer, 2007

Media: Chromogenic print on Sintra

Gallery: The Arthur M. Axelrad Gallery

Website: https://www.christinenguyen.art/

Instagram: @seamoonshe

Christine Nguyen received her Bachelor of Fine Arts for photography from the California State University, Long Beach and her Masters of Fine Arts in studio art from the University of California, Irvine. She has had her work in exhibitions worldwide from the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, to Ho Chi Minh in Vietnam, to Munich in Germany. Nguyen worked for fourteen years as a photographer right out of grad school for the J. Paul Getty Museum at the Getty Research Institute before quitting in 2018 to pursue art full time.

Nguyen’s work on display at the Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum on the CSULB campus is titled: Emergence of the Kelp Deer. In the foreground to the left are two illuminated deer comprised of light lines in a sort of angular or geometric matrix. The shapes that make them up lend a futuristic and otherworldly feeling to the creatures as a kelp forest to the right reaches out amidst a sea of glowing flowers or perhaps polyps. At the same time, what appears to be a massive crystalline structure dominates the bottom right of the massive mural, overlapping the kelp and calling up on the images of deep sea tube worms. The colors primarily utilized in the work are cool, with a black background reminiscent of space or the ocean’s abyss setting the stage for ribbons of teal, white, and purple. This is contrasted by the warm oranges, browns, and greens of the kelp with additional white dots around the center of the work. The actual mural is comprised of fifty individual panels, which assembled together create a single image. The edges of the panels are whitened, like frost on a window perhaps from wear and tear, but more likely to simulate the fractal nature of a dream. Nothing in the image lines up exactly with the next panel meaning that close up, the figures are plainly disconnected but also from further away the viewer can get a sense of movement. One of the most stand-out features of the work is the delicate salt crystal structures that crust around the mural. They are unlike anything I have seen represented on a page before, but obviously calling to their sea sargassum inspiration.

Unfortunately, the artist was not present to take questions at the moment I had arrived but I was able to get some of the inspiration, origin of, and techniques behind the work from a previous interview with Nguyen, the information block provided by the gallery, and her own website. Nguyen takes inspiration from nature, science, the ocean and the cosmos. She has stated that some influences include “19th century Naturalists like Ernst Haeckel: biologist, philosopher, physician and artist; John Muir: writer, conservationist and advocate of the preservation of the wilderness and Anna Atkins: botanist and photographer” Such influences can be plainly seen in her work, from the structure of both plants and animals, to the overall setting, and the color choices. Nguyen has written that she does not confine her work to traditional settings, instead trying to represent the ocean stretching into the cosmos, and the stars lighting up the deeps. This is plainly visible in her work as teal shards fly across the black void, one can easily interpret them as fish or perhaps a cosmic wind.

I was completely astounded by Nguyen’s creativity in mechanically representing the salt crystal structures on her mixed media mural. The combination of techniques which were previously unknown to me blew me away and I began to look up what chromogenic print and lithography were. That along with the technique she used to get an imprint of the salt crystals were unreal. Beyond that, I actually quite liked the fractal nature of the offset mural squares which is unusual for me. I am a person who enjoys orderly, smooth, and continuous linework in art that I view, but this has been an eye-opening experience for me in the representation of dreams or other feelings associated with perspective.

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C1 – Artist Conversation – Laurie Lipton

Artist: Laurie Lipton Exhibition: Personal Effects, Default Setting Media: Charcoal, graphite Gallery: CSULB, Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum Website: https://www.laurielipton.com Instagram: laurieliptondrawings

Laurie Lipton was born in New York in 1953, she was the first person who received BFA from the College of Fine Arts at Carnegie Mellon University. She began her life as an artist at age 4 and was inspired by the religious paintings of the Flemish School. During her college life, she found drawings to be too restricted and conceptual, she was bored by drawing similar things repeatedly; she wanted to create something new, something that people have never seen before, something that just flashed in the back of her head. Therefore, after she graduated from college, she started her 36-year life of studying abroad. She has lived in Holland, Belgium, Germany, France, and England; during the time in Europe, she developed her way of drawing technique. Her work is insanely detailed, every drawing has thousands of fine cross-hatching lines that create the tone, it’s like “an egg tempera painting”.

Lipton’s drawings takings a long time to be accomplished because her drawings are incredible in detailing every aspect. The lines of her drawing can be straight, round and jagged, every line was carefully drawn with clean and sharp edges. Her drawings are 2 dimensional, include regular shapes like rectangle, triangle, circles, and some irregular organic shapes. Lipton’s drawings are completed using charcoals and graphite, so her drawings are all monochrome, which leaves the audience a lot of space for imagination. Lipton’s drawings are very organized in aspects, some of her drawings have a rhythm of flow, for example, the Personal Effects shows a big wave in the ocean. Since her drawing is insanely detailed and was drawn in a regular-sized paper (17 x 21 inches), the audience needs to come closer to view the details.

Lipton’s drawings revealed the reality of people under different types of social media. She thinks that nowadays people are all hiding behind their phones and creating a new person to show in the illusionary online world. All the things people encountered on social media have created their own Belief Bubbles, makes them believe that everything in the bubble is the entire world. People are scrolling down their screens and living happily in their bubbles; eventually, people are becoming systemized, wired, and set. Lipton is trying to tell the audience that social media has restricted our thoughts and information, and when you thought you are controlling the internet, it’s actually the other way around. Therefore, Lipton is calling out to the audience to put down their phones and go out of the bubbles that have been surrounding them, because that’s the only way to see reality.

Lipton’s work truly resonates with my personal experience. I remember the time when I was faking my life on the internet. And not just my life, I also photoshopped lots of my photos before I post them on my social media and pretend that’s the real me. It was difficult to pretend to be someone I’m not, I was stressed and frustrated, I felt I was trapped in some default setting I set for myself. Eventually, I deleted those fake pictures and uninstalled many unnecessary apps. That was the time I finally relieved and went back to reality. Lipton’s exhibition Personal Effects resonates with me because I once felt the fake social media world is like a big wave that’s going to engulf me. And I agree with her ideas that people should not lose themselves in the artificial world, that people should go out of their comfort zones and see the reality.

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December 11, 1992. Friday.

Each letter I write is important. Each symbol I read. Somewhere, somehow, it has been drilled into my brain that each breath, each wave is of no worth, useless. Of no value. I begin to turn from this now.  I don’t turn from you. I turn towards me. I draw circles around myself in order to define. In order to delight. There are no mistakes. there is no where to go. I am home.  In my rings of circles, my letters—each one has a value. Has a place."

Above is my margin note on page 3 of the 1979 book by Carolyn Mary Kleefeld : Climates of the Mind,  in response to this line from her poem on that page  “Is it only in our dusts of death that we fertilize her womb of soil?”

I like this quote from page 4 of Climates of the Mind as well:  “when we can not change or control something there is a relief—a peace in our awareness of it’s autonomy as in the glory of nature."

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C1- Artists Conversation – Emily Cheng  

Artist: Emily Cheng  

Exhibition: B.A.T. State III: Women Artists in Conversation with El Nopal Press  

Media: Paint

Gallery: Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum

Website: emilycheng.com

Instagram: EmilychengArt

Emily Cheng was featured in the gallery this week. She graduated with a BFA in Painting from Rhode Island School of Design. Her mediums are mainly painting, drawing, and sculpture; however, in this weeks’ gallery only, paintings were showcased. She has been featured in numerous solo exhibitions in China, Austria, and the United States. This week the gallery showcased only four of her paintings.

In her first art piece, we see a circular shape surrounded by a tan/beige background. Inside the circular shape, there is a white swirl in the center of it. The circle is the complete opposite of the background, and the swirl contains different shades of blue, red, green, and yellow. All the colors are in rectangular shapes inside the circle, and no color repeats next to one another. The different colors inside the circle and outside create a nice balance between the different shapes. The second painting is very similar to two of the first painting, but the inside colors have changed, and some colors are a lot brighter than the last painting. Red lines cover the circle but aren’t to be overbearing, so we can see the colors of the circle. The white swirl also isn’t in this painting. The third painting follows the same kind of format, but instead of beige, we see a light green and a blue-green around the circle. In the middle, we see a circular figure, but instead, it is a primary-colored swirl; along with the surge, there are figures attached to them. They all blend and collide with each connecting in the middle. In the last painting, we see the same scheme of blue-green and light blue, but now in the center, a dark green shade fills the middle and looks like a figure. To finish off the painting, we see the same lines that were in the second painting, but this time instead of being red, they were green.

The exhibition was created to showcase numerous different women, their art styles, media, and culture. Cheng creates pieces that are simple yet connect back to her religion, culture, and the body. She says that she exhibits “How our bodies relate to gravity, and how we can or cannot connect to the universe” (Cheng). Cheng is a Chinese- American, and in the 90s began to explore more of her culture and began noticing that she was genuinely Chinese translating it to later paintings. She also has to feel a click, energy, and force, or her artwork doesn’t mean anything to her. She doesn’t put out anything that she is not attached to her spiritually. She creates her paintings out of feelings creating it into artworks.

Her artworks were fascinating to see and to try to understand. To me, her art is very abstract, but it means a lot of different things for the artist. I believe that is the point or art actually. Even though I didn’t understand in the beginning, the meaning behind her paintings is fascinating, and I would like to see more of her art in the future.

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Artist Conversation- Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

Exhibition Information

Artist: Tatyana Fazlalizadeh

Exhibition:  Stop Telling Women to Smile

Media: Lithograph

Gallery: The Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum

Website: http://tlynnfaz.com/

Instagram: @ tlynnfaz

Tatyana received her BFA from the University of the Arts, Philadelphia in the year 2007. She enjoys painting on canvas for galleries to street art. She was a recipient of 2015 forbes 30 under 30. She is an active member in her community and is a strong advocate for women’s rights. She served as inspiration for Spike Lee’s She's Gotta Have It. Her work can be seen in solo galleries and  group exhibitions  in a range of galleries. She is currently writing her first book.

Going into the gallery it caught my attention. Looking at it, there is a great amount of details. There is a use of line work to create depth to the photo. Because of the detail there it looks very realistic. The portrait of the women looks powerful and has a great deal of emotion to it. The words printed on there are bold and right for the message. The piece looked empowering and even if it was a small frame it felt bigger than its physical size. 

This print is actually a street project of the same name. THe main purpose of this is to bring attention to the gender based harassment that occurs. That women in the street are constantly told to smile by male onlookers. This is one of many that are in the series. They are portraits of women and their experiences with harassment. Some examples are “I am not here for you,” “Harassing women does not prove your masculinity.”  The artist feels passionate about this and wants to bring attention to this through her art. She feels that this allows the women to have a bold presence and to be able to talk about their experiences.

Overall, I enjoyed the piece, and felt connected to it. As a woman I do have my own exercise with this. This issue is important to me as well and wished that it could be solved. The artist does a great job portraying many women’s feelings and experiences with this. 

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Artist Essay 5

Artist: Renée Petropoulos

Exhibition: B.A.T. State III: Women Artists in Conversation with El Nopal Press  

Media: Paint

Gallery: Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum

Website: https://reneepetropoulos.tumblr.com/

       Renée Petropoulos graduated from UCLA in 1974 with a BA in Art History, followed by a MA in Photography and Video in 1977, and an MFA in Studio Art in 1979. Renée has been featured in multiple galleries including, “From the United States to Mexico/ From Mexico to the United States” in 2014. Her work is also featured in the group exhibition, “Here”, at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery in 2018. In October, Renee was an artist-in-residence at 18th Street Art Center in Santa Monica where she also collaborated with Oaxacan artisan Arturo Hernández for a directed reading at Tongva Park. Her work is currently featured in the exhibition “B.A.T. State III: Women Artists in Conversation with El Nopal Press” at California State University Long Beach.

       Only three art pieces in the gallery were made by Petropoulos. Two of those pieces looked similar. The artworks consisted of straight lines that would intersect each other and create squared/rectangles across the page. The color used were black, green, red and blue. The lines were all different thickness. Some lines are thin almost as if they were made by a pencil and others looked as if they were made a by a thick paintbrush. The other art piece includes black and white lines that create an artist stand. The top of the stand has flowers and an eye. The flowers are red, blue and orange. The background is white.

       Renee Petropoulos was not present at the art museum, so I was unable to have a conversation with her. However, I did research and learned more about her. Petropoulos is a painter whose work reflects her interest in decorative forms and images of different cultures. She enjoys working with patterns, repetition and color. She is influenced heavily by street art and her work involves multiple layers of painted imagery. She has done public art in the past which includes a large painted ceiling at the downtown Los Angeles Public Library. Renee also creates sculptures. I was unable to find anything about what her art is supposed to mean so I’m assuming it’s up to the viewer to figure that out.

       Although I was only able to see three of Renee’s artwork, I enjoyed her work. It was different to me. Most of the time art shows you a picture and you know what it is. Her art has no specific thing/meaning in them and it’s up to the viewer to determine what the art is. It would have been great to be able to question her about her art since it would of gave me more context about her work. It’s difficult to find a meaning behind what her artwork means and that makes it unique to me since It make you think. Overall, I enjoyed her art.

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Artist at Cal State Long Beach Museum Is Major Donor

Artist at Cal State Long Beach Museum Is Major Donor

Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld, the self-help book author, is a major donor to California State University, Long Beach. In 2019, she gave the university $10 million, the largest donation Cal State had received for the expansion of the university’s art museum, which is now named for Kleefeld. But Artnet said that she also gave “120 of her own artworks to the institution’s permanent collection (as well…

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Recordar Es Vivir (Remembering is Living) opens April 5

Recordar Es Vivir (Remembering is Living) opens April 5

Detail images of sculptural ceramic works to be included in Recuerdos, the central installation of Recordar Es Vivir. Courtesy of the Artist and Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum. Photos by Tatiana Mata.  Solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Anabel Juárez will be on view through June 25 Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum (the Museum) presents Recordar Es…