The Balfour/Brutzman Gallery is committed to showcasing and promoting artwork from the California State University, Monterey Bay community. Dedicated to the memory and spirit of Hanna Balfour and Taylor Brutzman, this gallery is programmed by a student led curatorial committee that makes critical decisions inclusive of the vision, selection, and installation of each exhibition.
The Balfour Brutzman Gallery invites you to submit artwork in any medium that has emerged through your exploration of Identity.
Entry is open to all CSUMB Students. Final selections will be made by the Balfour Brutzman Curatorial Committee.
HOW TO APPLY: Entries must be e-mailed to balfourbrutzmanprojects@gmail.com by midnight on March 10, 2013.
- 1. Submit a maximum of six (6) images @ 72ppi
- 2. A list of image credits: title, medium, year, dimensions
- 3. Artist statement (no longer than one page) including your name, phone number, and e-mail.
You will be notified of our selections by Wednesday, March 13, 2013.
All artwork accepted must be ready to hand and delivered on THURSDAY, MARCH 14TH AND FRIDAY, MARCH 15, 2013 from noon-4pm to building 71.
For more information, please visit: http://balbrutzgallery.tumblr.com/
The Balfour Brutzman gallery is dedicated to supporting art-making by creating exhibition opportunities that challenge artistic development. It is important for artists to expose their ideas to new audiences as well as build exhibition experience in a peer environment.
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“Perhaps travel cannot prevent bigotry, but by demonstrating that all peoples cry, laugh, eat, worry, and die, it can introduce the idea that if we try and understand each other, we may even become friends.” – Maya Angelou
Verve: A Natural Endeavor Inside of a Concrete Jungle is an exhibition exploring our relationship with nature through travel. The images included here employ a sense of wanderlust existing within all of us. As students, we are fortunate to inhabit a location that yields wilderness 30 miles in any direction, but ours is a residency that often disengages travel or experiencing the surprises around us.
These photographs suggest more that just a glimpse of travel photography— a subcategory of photography involving the documentation of an area’s landscape, people, cultures, customs and history. These photographs are meant to engage your sense of wonder. A wonder that reintroduces one to life through different worlds and cultures. A wonder that leave you with a sense of admiration, respect, and surprise. A wonder that goes beyond our relationship with nature, a wonder that stops time and insists on introspection. A wonder that asks, what is my place in the world? A wonder that transcends race, class, and identity. A wonder that takes you from shantytown to urban landscape, and that leaves you with a greater perspective of the world. It is said that an image is worth a thousand words, but the artist in this exhibition can tell you first hand that an experience is worth twice that.
Click here to view photos from the exhibition.
to see more images from Sincerely 2012:
photo credit: all images by Stacey Perry
Apocalyptic beliefs have proven remarkably resilient over time. 2012 is considered a profoundly pivotal date in human history. Through media, we are presented with an overall vibe that our way of life is ending: global warming, financial ruin, and spreading plagues. Why the fascination with end-of-the-world scenarios or the notion that collective action is hopeless?
The Balfour Brutzman Gallery invites you to submit artwork in any medium that has emerged through your exploration of apocalyptic beliefs and the end of time, such as system failures, faith, apocalyptic expectations, and psychological or emotional needs. Your dystopic vision can range from Mad Max: love and revenge to Zombie Land to Charlie and Lester’s satirical DYI survival kits.
Entry is open to all CSUMB Students. Final selections will be made by the Balfour Brutzman Curatorial Committee.
How to apply: Entries must be e-mailed to balfourbrutzmanprojects@gmail.com by midnight on
February 24, 2012. Entries must include a maximum of six (6) images @ 72ppi, a list of image credits: title, medium, year, dimensions, and an artist statement (no longer than one page) including your name, phone number, and e-mail.
You will be notified of our selections by Monday, February 27, 2012.
All artwork accepted must be ready to hand and delivered on Wednesday, February 29, 2012 from noon-4pm to building 71.
For more information, please visit: http://balbrutzgallery.tumblr.com/
The Balfour Brutzman gallery is dedicated to supporting art-making by creating exhibition opportunities that challenge artistic development. It is important for artists to expose their ideas to new audiences as well as build exhibition experience in a peer environment.
Build your portfolio, Build your resume, Build your network!
ExplORDing: an outreach event exploring graffito as an act of self-assertion and self-presentation in the context of increasing popularity, anti-graffiti campaigns, vandalism, and street art.
Graffito Bike Tour: ExplORDing! A conversation and guided tour about art and vandalism. Bring your cameras! Your documentation will be exhibited in the Balfour/Brutzman Gallery.
When: Thursday, December 1, 2011, 12-1:30pm
Where: VPA 71 (quad)
If you don’t have your own bike, you can rent one from the bike center on campus for $10. For more information contact the otter cycle center at (831) 582-4617.
All Balfour/Brutzman events are free and open to the public.
CSUMB Balfour-Brutzman Gallery ORD ExhibitionARTICLE | NOVEMBER 10, 2011 - 8:06AM | BY CHRISTINE ROOT
PHOTO PROVIDED BY THECLA CAMPBELL
While people gathered on campus for California State University, Monterey Bay’s (CSUMB) annual Día de los Muertos or ‘Day of the Dead’ celebration on the evening of November 2, the Balfour-Brutzman Gallery’s student-run curatorial committee was completing the last minute touch-ups in preparation for the ORD exhibition’s opening reception that evening. Just as the crowds were arriving at the Visual and Public Art (VPA) department for the festivities, the gallery opened its doors and people quickly poured into the gallery.
Welcoming the curiosity of guests, the vintage yellow ‘Open Road’ girls ten-speed bike with original paint mounted above an installation of Fort Ord memorabilia caught the eye from nearly all those who passed by and continued to gain interest throughout the night.
“The installation had a really good feeling of nostalgia and really showed a visual timeline of Fort Ord. The bike on the wall really caught my eye and sparked my imagination, sending me on a trip through time in my mind,” Schaler Benedict commented after attending the opening.
Intrigued by the vast open space and reminiscences of the former Fort Ord military base, the exhibition embodies a refreshing and effervescent look at this transformative moment in time. The student’s artwork on display ranged from several mediums, including photographs of contemporary graffiti art covering dilapidated buildings and two large skateboard ramp installation made of repurposed materials all found on the ‘Ord’, accompanied by a video projection of the ramps in action.
Exploring the immense acreage of land scattered with old bullet casings from the Army’s old combat training grounds and abandoned buildings left behind in disrepair, ‘Ording’ has become a trademark past-time for CSUMB students.
Read more#http://otterrealm.net/article/art-ording
