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Morning Deliveries

October 2, 2014 by | Escalette Permanent Collection of Art

The Escalette Collection has been busy plucking up some very exciting new acquisitions! This morning, the first new batch arrived:  a set of five original paintings by Kelsey Brookes . This kind of delivery sure beats a box of donuts any day. Special thank you to Quint Gallery for helping

Albert Contreras

September 3, 2014 by | Escalette Permanent Collection of Art

  On the second floor of Moulton Hall hangs a series of paintings done by Albert Contreras. For those who venture up there, the art piece is hard to ignore. The works are colorful, optimistic, dynamic, and homogeneous but delightfully out-of-step symmetric. Each of the twelve parts is an X-gesture formed in a

Siemon & Salazar studio visit

February 26, 2014 by Natalie Lawler | Escalette Permanent Collection of Art

  Friends of the Escalette Collection – Siemon & Salazar studio visit, November 2013 Before the holidays, the Friends of the Escalette Collection were invited to a special tour of Siemon & Salazar glassblowing studios in Costa Mesa. For more information on the Siemon & Salazar studio, please visit their website: siemon & salazar All

Tony DeLap

February 24, 2014 by Hanna Brockway | Escalette Permanent Collection of Art

  Born in Oakland, California in 1927, artist Tony DeLap is a key pioneer in both the West Coast Minimalist and Op Art movements. Known for his illusionistic sculptures, DeLap has been a fixture in the Southern California art scene which he has helped shape. From 1949 to 1950, DeLap attended

Edith Baumann

February 11, 2014 by David Lee | Escalette Permanent Collection of Art

    In 1993, I first experienced the magic of the Pantheon in Rome. It was inspiring, AWEsome. This experience has continued to impact everything I paint. I’m trying to tap into something that is larger than me but includes me: wholeness within wholeness. Pattern gets repeated in nature and

David Michael Lee

October 10, 2013 by | Escalette Permanent Collection of Art

  David Michael Lee is an Orange County-based artist, curator, professor, arts advocate, master storyteller; his work is a unique facet to the collection at Chapman. Equal parts collage, painting, and spatial construction, Lee’s canvases often begin as fabric scraps sewn together on his grandmother’s sewing machine: a heavy-duty 1968 Singer. Driven by large blocks

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