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Current Students
CLASS OF 2010
Crow Cianciola
Crow Cianciola is a dual degree student in the Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies programs at CCA. He completed a BFA from Maine College of Art in 2006 in an interdisciplinary major and came to CCA to continue a parallel practice of writing with art making as a conceptual form of analysis. It's all very exciting.
Ace Lehner
Ace Lehner is an interdisciplinary artist, writer and art educator living and working in the Bay Area. Lehner earned a BFA from Concordia University, Montreal Quebec Canada after participating in an International Artist Exchange program in London England. While living in Montreal Lehner was a founding member of Espace 808 an exhibition and perfomance space located in Montreal's historic 10 Ontario W. building. For the past five years Lehner has been actively engaged in art education of Bay Area Youth working with organizations such as Oakland School for the Arts, the Imagine Bus Project, Yerba Buena Center for The Arts and The San Francisco Boys and Girls Club. Lehner has produced intervention work, exhibitions, educational innitiatives and publications. Lehner's most recent work uses photography for its literal relation to how we visually read and misread identities while exploring how subjectivity is shaped by place and the intersections of ethnicity, class, gender and sexuality.In 2009 Lehner completed an MFA at California College of the Arts and is currently pursuing an MA in Visual + Critical Studies. www.acelehner.com (acephotoz 'at' gmail.com)
Liesa Lietzke
Liesa Lietzke earned her BA from San Jose State University in Creative Arts, an interdisciplinary fine arts program, in which she was active in musical performance and composition, writing, and painting. Her musical projects included the ensemble Soplavientos, which she directed and performed with from 1993-1998, developing a repertoire of Andean and other South American musical forms. She has published poetry as well as art critical writing and has been exhibiting and teaching art since 2001. Now focused on visual art and critical writing, she will complete her MFA (sculpture) at CCA in May, 2009, and her MA in Visual and Critical Studies in 2010. In her studio practice, she creates performances and sculptures that explore the playful and the grotesque, bodily experiences and perceptions, and the slipperiness of boundaries.
Elyse Mallouk
Elyse Mallouk is an artist and writer living and working in San Francisco. She maintains an interdisciplinary practice, working in painting, video installation, and sculpture. She holds a B.A. in Studio Art and English from Boston College, and is currently pursuing a dual MFA/MA in Fine Arts and Visual and Critical Studies at
California College of the Arts. www.elysemallouk.com
Matthew David Rana
Matthew David Rana is an artist and writer living in Oakland, California. Within the framework of artistic practice as a form of participatory research and knowledge production, Matthew’s recent works facilitate moments of shared experience, mutual learning and co-creativity with his audience. Borrowing discursive formal structures such as gardens, knitting groups and newsletters, his projects are part of a broader inquiry in to issues surrounding urbanism and the connections between everyday uses of space, social relations and participation in public life. His writings have appeared in The Donkey Journal, News of Common Possibility and Shotgun Review and most recently in There is No Two Without Three, published in 2008 by the Social Practice area of concentration at the California College of the Arts. Matthew is currently pursuing a dual MFA/MA in Social Practice and Visual & Critical Studies. He holds a BFA in Art Studio from the University of New Mexico. (matthewrana 'at' gmail.com)
Mark Taylor
Mark Taylor is an experimental filmmaker and Senior Interactive Producer at KQED, the public media station for Northern California. He is the managing editor of KQED Arts, a daily review blog; the creator and producer of "Gallery Crawl", a monthly program about the Bay Area art gallery scene; and the creator and producer of "The Writers' Block," a weekly reading series. Mark received his bachelor's degree in Film Production at San Franccico State University and has made a number of experimental films, which have screened at festivals, galleries and museums around the globe. Taylor's most recent work, "Sensing the World by Echo," is both a short collage film and an artist book that has been collected by the University of Southern California and New York's Museum of Modern Art, among others. Taylor has just begun his fist year in the Visual and Critical Studies program at CCA. (mtaylor3 'at' cca.edu) www.emptypictures.net
( Bios for class of 2011 coming soon ).
Madeleine Zinn
Madeleine Zinn received her BA in Art History from the College of Santa Fe. During this time, she spent a year abroad studying at the University of St Andrews, and completed her credits in New York City through internships at Harper’s Bazaar magazine and the Stephen Haller Gallery in Chelsea. Additionally, she spent a summer interning at the Georgia O’Keeffe Museum wherein she created a complete catalogue of images of the artist for the museum’s records. She is currently pursuing her MA in Visual and Critical Studies.
Current Students