Cal State Fullerton students took a walk down memory lane upon stepping inside the Titan Student Union Center Gallery on Tuesday for the opening reception of this semester\u2019s Associated Students Art Show.<\/p>\n
The theme for this semester\u2019s art show was \u201cMemory and Nostalgia,\u201d and yielded creativity in various art forms. All 20 student submissions were displayed, featuring mediums from watercolor and graphite to digital and 3D media.<\/p>\n
Brooke Ramirez, a fourth-year human services major and ASI art programs lead, said the art pieces were arranged primarily by color to make it look more cohesive, though the majority of the 3D printed pieces were arranged together. This included her own art piece, titled \u201cAs They Fade Away.\u201d<\/p>\n
\u201cI really just wanted to highlight my friends and some really happy memories that I had,\u201d Ramirez said. \u201cI kind of wanted to challenge myself by using clay, so I used the clay for the bottom.\u201d<\/p>\n
Ramirez\u2019s piece was made with clay, cardboard, wire and paper. It presents various photos of her and her friends emerging from a sculpted head.<\/p>\n
Sage Ginorio, a fourth-year advertising major and ASI art programs assistant, took what she called her \u201clast opportunity\u201d to submit her own 3D printed piece, \u201cRepressed.\u201d\u00a0<\/p>\n
Ginorio admitted she was worried about her process because she doesn\u2019t consider herself to be an artist. But she decided to stick with her skill set and took pictures and mementos from her childhood to convey the concept of memories that are hard to recall.<\/p>\n
\u201cI’m more of an arts-and-crafts person, and so I think that’s why mine looks very much like arts-and-crafts, like a little kid made it,\u201d Ginorio said. \u201cI’m not the best drawer, painter, and I can\u2019t really emulate what I want to say in those ways, but I can through my crafts.\u201d<\/p>\n
First, second and third place ribbons were awarded to the best submissions in the traditional, digital and 3D print categories. Ramirez said the awards are usually voted on by professors or art majors within ASI.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Winning entries included an oil painting inspired by old Polaroid photos, a 3D house made of cardboard and a digital illustration portraying an encounter with a turtle.<\/p>\n
Bryant Gudino, a fourth-year studio art major, came to the opening reception to support his friend Victor Castaneda, a third-year creative photography and experimental media major.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Castaneda\u2019s submission, titled \u201cBecoming,\u201d is a digital photo depicting a model whose face is surrounded by paper butterflies in the golden light.<\/p>\n
\u201cWhen he first showed it to me, because I saw when he was printing it out for the show \u2013 I didn’t know it was for this show back then \u2013 but I was like, \u2018Wow, you did this?\u2019\u201d Gudino said. \u201cI\u2019m just so wowed of what people make.\u201d<\/p>\n
Gudino said that galleries like these provide student artists good exposure. However, he also emphasized that artists should not let their creative process be hampered by the prospect of landing a piece in a gallery because even privately kept art has meaning.\u00a0<\/p>\n
Another submission that stuck out to Gudino was marketing graduate student Michael Butorac\u2019s acrylic painting \u201cUnforgotten Friday\u2019s,\u201d which took third place in the traditional category. The piece illustrates a wolf carrying plates of food along a wall filled with pop culture memorabilia.<\/p>\n
\u201cIt just reminds me of being a kid, that’s your most creative time,\u201d Gudino said. \u201cI feel like, as artists, that’s kind of the main goal. I think, at least for me, it’s like, \u2018I want to be as imaginative and creative as I was when I was five years old.\u2019 I feel like we just lose that on the way to adulthood, and most of it’s just getting that freedom back to let ourselves be kids.\u201d<\/p>\n
The ASI Spring 2026 Art Show will be displayed at the TSU Center Gallery until April 29.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Cal State Fullerton students took a walk down memory lane upon stepping inside the Titan Student Union Center…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":265667,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[36],"tags":[163,165,164,2308,13009,4437,6612,4574],"class_list":["post-265666","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-anaheim","tag-anaheim","tag-anaheim-headlines","tag-anaheim-news","tag-art","tag-asi","tag-exhibit","tag-gallery","tag-student"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265666","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=265666"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/265666\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/265667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=265666"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=265666"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=265666"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}