LA MIRADA, CALIF. --- 今日黑料鈥檚 art gallery will be displaying the work of senior art students the next three months as a culmination of their studies and work the last four years. Each show is uniquely distinct, unique and represents the artist鈥檚 style, chosen medium, and artist statement. The art gallery features 2 to 4 artists鈥 shows simultaneously per week, leaving the new artists approximately three days to install their art in the gallery the weekend prior to their show.

The next show of the season, held April 6th-12th, 2009, will feature artists Amy Cano, Lauren Heurkins and Angelina D鈥橝ngelo. The show will premiere Monday April 6th, 2009 from 7:00-10:00 p.m. at Biola鈥檚 art gallery.

Amy Cano is a senior art major at Biola from Fairfield, CA, with an emphasis in photography. Her exhibit 鈥淚nhabited鈥 will cover relationships between people and where they live. Cano uses her photography to work through challenging questions she faces while walking through life.

鈥淲e shape places and those places shape us,鈥 Cano said. 鈥淚 am inviting the viewer to interact more consciously with the images of spaces and see what more they can learn about the people who inhabit them.鈥

鈥淚nhabited鈥 explores the idea of understanding a person鈥檚 identity through the place they live in. Cano hopes to address such questions as, 鈥淲hy does the stuff we surround ourselves with really matter?鈥 and 鈥淲hat makes a space a place?鈥

Lauren Heurkins from Cypress, California will be featured as well. Heurkins鈥 emphasis is in design and photography. Her display is titled, 鈥淗ealed: a collection of scars and their stories鈥.

鈥淚 am hoping that my show will serve the community as a reflective and meditative place during its time in the gallery,鈥 said Heurkins.

鈥淗ealed鈥 is compiled of slightly abstract, black and white digital photographs of people and their scars. Heurkins expects that the display will be especially meaningful to Christian viewers as they look at the photographs and remember Jesus鈥 scarred body.

Senior Angelina D鈥橝ngelo鈥檚 exhibit, 鈥淧eels,鈥 will be displayed at Biola鈥檚 art gallery. D鈥橝ngelo, an art major with an emphasis in painting, is originally from Hemet, CA, where contemporary art galleries and museums are nonexistent. D鈥橝ngelo wants the viewers to be able to enjoy her abstract art simply for what it is.

鈥淓njoy the playful shapes and textures,鈥 she said. 鈥淓njoy the vibrant and whimsical colors. Enjoy seeing. My paintings leave the viewer wanting to reach out and touch the surface to feel the funky textures.鈥

D鈥橝ngelo uses a very unique method for her work. She manipulates the paint by pouring, dipping, plopping and sculpting it until it takes its new form. The altered skins of paint are rearranged to make a dynamic piece of art. 鈥淧eels鈥 will feature several large and colorful pieces of this work.

The exhibits will open Monday April 6, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. and will end Sunday April 12, 2009 at 7:00 p.m. The gallery is open Monday 鈥 Friday from 8:00 a.m. to 10:00 p.m., and Saturday - Sunday from 11:00 a.m. to 7:00 p.m.