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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

Joel D. Levinson

July 29, 2013 by Hannah Brockway | Escalette Permanent Collection of Art

      The Escalette Collection of Art at Chapman University received prints of Joel D. Levinson’s California flea market series as a gift in 2011 from Gary and Eileen Levinson. Amongst the political scandals, wars and new technology of the 1970’s, photographer Joel D. Levinson turned to the

Wayne White

August 15, 2012 by David Lee | Escalette Permanent Collection of Art

With a flair for the absurd, Wayne White has captured audiences for three decades. Born in Chattanooga, Tennessee in 1957, White had limited interactions with art. For his family it was something to be bought at Kmart and discarded at the first inconvenience. With a drive to create, White battled an

Allison Schulnik

June 4, 2012 by Charlotte Hughes | Escalette Permanent Collection of Art

  With a degree in Experimental Animation from CalArts, Allison Schulnik’s paintings vibrantly echo her short film projects. She creates landscapes filled with eerie, forlorn figures whose clay bodies ooze and bloom bursts of colors in a writhing dance. Still, these offbeat and misshapen characters possess an ominous beauty

Lisa Adams

April 1, 2012 by Karlie Harstad | Escalette Permanent Collection of Art

  Los Angeles-based artist Lisa Adams began her artist career with a Bachelor of Arts in Painting from Scripps College in Claremont, California. Adams then continued through Claremont Graduate University’s Master in Fine Arts program. Working in a Post Modern artistic sense of layering and mixed media, Adams creates texture and depth

Jane Bauman

January 23, 2012 by Madeline Roth | Escalette Permanent Collection of Art

  After completing her undergraduate degree at Santa Clara University, Jane Bauman went on to receive her MFA in Painting and Sculpture from the San Francisco Art Institute. The artist’s work includes geometric shapes, including squares and chevron stripes; organic imagery, including plant life; medically-inspired imagery, such as her “Rorschach”

Mary Corse

January 23, 2012 by Madeline Roth | Escalette Permanent Collection of Art

Artist Mary Corse was born in Berkeley, California and went on to attend University of California at Santa Barbara and the Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles. Corse has been the recipient of numerous grants and awards, including the Cartier Foundation Award and the Theordorian Award from the Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum.  Corse has been

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