Hilary Norcliffe 
Katie Stubblefield
Katie Stubblefield
Katie Stubblefield 
Katie Stubblefield 
Katie Stubblefield 
Katie Stubblefield 
Katie Stubblefield
This video is from St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket's opening reception, where Gallery Curator, Michele Cairella-Fillmore introduces the crowd to the exhibit and the exhibit's artists. The artists, Jennifer Gunlock, Hilary Norcliffe, and Katie Stubblefield, spoke as well in the video to explain how everything came about.
St. Broxville Wood:
Into the Thicket
Jan 21, 2020 to Jul 31, 2021
Location: Kellogg University Art GalleryPress the tab key to view the content. Use the down arrow key to move to the next tab and up arrow key to move to the previous.
Nature can at once be beautiful and dangerous, gorgeously sublime, uncompromising and inconstant. With one hand it provides us with oxygen, water and food, and with the other it drowns us, eats us and wipes us away with disease.
St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket is an immersive, interactive installation by Jennifer Gunlock, Hilary Norcliffe, and Katie Stubblefield that evokes many of Nature’s unpredictable behaviors and dwells on our human response: from awe, celebration and song or story-creation, to domestication, callous disrespect and destruction. The artists' work further includes collaborative assembled sculpture and works on paper combined with wood elements, found object, ceramic and video projection installation, constructed interactive and instrumental sound installations.
St. Broxville —a fictional amalgam of the artists’ cities of birth—is a swamp, a forest, or a surreal setting for fractured memories, prophecies or visions. In this exhibition each artist explores her own complex attitudes towards the forces of Nature, bringing contemporary methods, curiosity and whimsy to her work with one of Nature’s most valuable, age-old gifts: Wood.
Out of the crooked timber of humanity, no straight thing was ever made.
- Immanuel Kant, 1784
In honor of March 2020's Women's Month, this show features a three-woman collaborative exhibition dedicated to nature, humankind's interaction with the environment, and nature's response.
Artist Biographies
Based in Long Beach, CA, Jennifer Gunlock is a traveler who imbeds her wanderings into the artmaking process. With an attraction to crevices, old growth and decay, she photographically collects imagery such as the gnarled oaks and cemetery crypts of New Orleans, lichen-covered slate rock cliffs of Pennsylvania, and the beautifully decaying Beaux-Arts and Art Deco buildings of Los Angeles, to later deconstruct and assign new meaning in the studio. Gunlock has earned a BA in Fine Art at California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 1998 and an MFA at California State University, Long Beach in 2003. She has exhibited nationally and in local venues such as Sturt Haaga Gallery at Descanso Gardens, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Launch LA, and Angels Gate Cultural Center. She has been Artist in Residence at Playa in Summer Lake, Oregon; Shoebox Projects in Los Angeles; Brush Creek Foundation for the Arts in Saratoga, Wyoming; and at the Pajama Factory in Williamsport, Pennsylvania. In 2014- 15 Gunlock participated in in “Fires of Change,” an NEA-funded collaboration between artists and scientists, to translate the social and ecological issues surrounding wildfire in the Southwest. Following a fire science bootcamp in the Grand Canyon, and a year to complete a project, a group exhibition opened at Coconino Center for the Arts in Flagstaff, Arizona in September 2015 and traveled to the University of Arizona Museum of Art in Tucson and 516 Arts in Albuquerque, New Mexico.
Hilary Norcliffe was born in England, raised in Canada, and has lived for many years now in Long Beach, California. She holds a BA in Psychology from McGill University, Montreal, Canada, and received her MFA in Visual Arts from California State University Long Beach in 2002 in Drawing/Intermedia. There she was named Outstanding Graduate for the College of the Arts for her interdisciplinary work weaving visual arts with theatre, music and dance.Norcliffe currently teaches art at CSULB and Coastline Community College, and likes to make art a lifestyle while she raises her daughter. She is particularly interested in opportunities to break down the boundaries between art and “life”: most recently she has been exploring the world of children’s picture books and creating wood- sculptural installations combined with found object, that sometimes double as interactive musical instruments, and/or tell quirky narratives about life with irony, whimsy and humor.
Katie Stubblefield lives and works in the Los Angeles area. She received her BFA from Middle Tennessee State University, Murfreesboro, and an MFA from California State University, Long Beach in 2001.Her works have been included in several group exhibitions including CSU Main Gallery, San Louis Obispo Museum of Art, Jamie Brooks Fine Art and POST Gallery. Stubblefield has received an Individual Artists Fellowship and microgrant in support of both her two- and three-dimensional works from the Long Beach Arts Council. She is part-time faculty at Coastline Community College, Newport Beach. Stubblefield’s new wood cut prints, oil paintings, sculptures, and sight-specific installed projects explore order, chaos, and entropy. Her color-soaked oil paintings and value-based prints take visual cues from the natural resources used to complete her sculptural works and installed projects. Salvaged trees, rebar, concrete, discarded clothes, deconstructed architecture and disused vehicle parts are examples of the artist’s working materials that are interwoven, tangled and refigured in space. Stubblefield’s imagery is informed by site visits, forensic photography, first-hand accounts and evidence of changed/damaged/evolving environments.
Check out Jennifer Gunlock's work at www.jennifergunlock.com
Check out Hilary Norcliffe's work at www.hilarynorcliffe.com
Check out Katie Stubblefield's work at www.katiestubblefield.org
Images top to Bottom: Photo Portrait of Jennifer Gunlock, Photo Portrait of Hilary Norcliffe, Photo Portrait of Katie Stubblefield
Friday, February 19, 2021, 12:00 pm
St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket - Artists' Virtual Exhibition Tour and Talk
Join Artists Jennifer Gunlock, Hilary Norcliffe, Katie Stubblefield & Curator Michele Cairella Fillmore for a Virtual Exhibition Talk & Tour! Friday, February 19, 12:00 p.m. (PST) - Live via Zoom
Friday, December 4, 2020
Video Tour Now Available for St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket
Despite the gallery closure due to COVID, you can still view the show "St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket" through a video tour here!
Tuesday, June 30, 2020
Rumbles and Thrums - A Virtual Journey through "St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket'
The exhibition St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket opened at the Kellogg Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona in January of 2020, and was entombed therein when the school closed its campus in March due to the Covid19 pandemic.
Tuesday, March 17, 2020
Exhibition Continued Virtually
St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket
Due to the COVID-19 pandemic, and in order to help control any possible spread, both the Kellogg University Art Gallery and the Don B. Huntley Gallery will be closed until further notice.
Saturday, February 21, 2019, 4:00 pm
Reception Video:
St. Broxville Wood
In honor of March 2020's Women's Month, this show features a three-woman collaborative exhibition dedicated to nature, humankind's interaction with the environment, and nature's response.
Saturday, February 1, 2019, 2:00 pm to 5:00 pm
St. Broxville Wood Opening Reception
Please join us during the opening reception on Saturday, February 1, from 2pm to 5pm! There will also be artist remarks at 4:00pm during the reception.
Tuesday, January 21, 2019, 4:00 pm
Exhibition Opening Jan. 21
The Kellogg Gallery welcomes the public for the exhibition opening day of St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket on Tuesday, Jan. 21, 4-8pm.
Exhibited Works
Jennifer Gunlock Artworks
With an attraction to crevices, old growth and decay, Gunlock photographically collects imagery such as the gnarled oaks and cemetery crypts of New Orleans, lichen-covered slate rock cliffs of Pennsylvania, and the beautifully decaying Beaux-Arts and Art Deco buildings of Los Angeles, to later deconstruct and assign new meaning in the studio.
Habitat
Habitat #2 (View from the Hills)
Outback
Urban Interface
Upward Mobility
Motherlode
Smokestack
Red Flag Warning
Urban Planning
Building Boom: Roosting Site #1
Building Boom: Roosting Site #2
Building Boom: Roosting Site #3
Hilary Norcliffe Artworks
Norcliffe is particularly interested in opportunities to break down the boundaries between art and “life”: most recently she has been exploring the world of children’s picture books and creating wood- sculptural installations combined with found object, that sometimes double as interactive musical instruments, and/or tell quirky narratives about life with irony, whimsy and humor.
Rapunzel's Rake
Root Eater
Toil and Trouble
The Taking Tree
Eavesdroppers
2x4-o-phone
Household
Time-in-Chair
Drawer-o-phone
Bed Balafon
Three Tree Stories
Unsuspecting Visitor Series
Feefifofum
Lost (Bread Crumbs)
Dulcimer Grill
River Run – Expecto Patronus
Stumps
Wicked Witch of the West Goes Deep Tree Diving
HWYL
Two Faced Tree Troll
Katie Stubblefield Artworks
Stubblefield’s new wood cut prints, oil paintings, sculptures, and sight-specific installed projects explore order, chaos, and entropy. Her color-soaked oil paintings and value-based prints take visual cues from the natural resources used to complete her sculptural works and installed projects. Salvaged trees, rebar, concrete, discarded clothes, deconstructed architecture and disused vehicle parts are examples of the artist’s working materials that are interwoven, tangled and refigured in space. Stubblefield’s imagery is informed by site visits, forensic photography, first-hand accounts and evidence of changed/damaged/evolving environments.
Mirror, Mirror Series
Target Practice Series
Thicket Series
Tree Ring Series
Comeuppance
Broxville 1 from Mobile Woods Series
Lurch
Photo of Brambles 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6
Brambles 7
Brambles 8
Twister
Microburst
Flow By
Poppet Series
Nest
Gallery Views
Installation View, Title Wall, "St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket" Exhibition, Artists: Jennifer Gunlock, Hilary Norcliffe, and Katie Stubblefield.
Installation View, Front West of Gallery, "St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket" Exhibition. Artists: Jennifer Gunlock, Hilary Norcliffe, and Katie Stubblefield.
Installation View, Front West of Gallery, "St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket" Exhibition. Artists: Jennifer Gunlock, Hilary Norcliffe, and Katie Stubblefield.
Installation View, Front East of Gallery, "St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket" Exhibition. Artists: Jennifer Gunlock, Hilary Norcliffe, and Katie Stubblefield.
Installation View, Front East of Gallery, "St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket" Exhibition. Artists: Jennifer Gunlock, Hilary Norcliffe, and Katie Stubblefield.
Installation View, Corridor of Gallery, "St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket" Exhibition. Artists: Jennifer Gunlock, Hilary Norcliffe, and Katie Stubblefield.
Installation View, Corridor of Gallery, "St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket" Exhibition. Artists: Jennifer Gunlock, Hilary Norcliffe, and Katie Stubblefield.
Installation View, Back of Gallery, "St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket" Exhibition. Artists: Jennifer Gunlock, Hilary Norcliffe, and Katie Stubblefield.
Installation View, Back of Gallery, "St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket" Exhibition. Artists: Jennifer Gunlock, Hilary Norcliffe, and Katie Stubblefield.
About the Virtual Exhibition
The St. Broxville: Into the Thicket Virtual Exhibition is a 1GB downloadable file. It is an application-based file. It can take up to 5 minutes to download and 3 minutes to open. This Virtual Exhibition is only downloadable on computer desktops and not intended to be downloaded nor viewed on a smaller device such as a cell phone or tablet.
Download Info
System Requirements:
MacOS 10.14.6 or higher/Windows 10 required.
Downloading Instructions:
Download the zipped folder for your operating system and follow the steps below to enjoy our exhibition.
The application is not made by an Apple or Windows developer so a warning may prevent immediate operation of the file. This is normal for software offered outside the app store.
To start the exhibition with a MAC, right click on the executable file with the St. Broxville: Into the Thicket logo. Select "open" from the three options. If it does not work the first time, it should on the second try.
To start with a PC, double click the .exe file and give permission when Windows asks.
Navigating Through the Exhibition
How to navigate: Navigate the space using a combination of mouse and keyboard.
To Move:
W=Move Forward S= Move Backwards
A=Move Left D= Move Right
Use Mouse to Interact/Navigate:
When mouse cursor becomes a “hand” you can interact with the artwork. Clicking and dragging moves the view.
1. Click on the art object for the alternate views, captions, and artist statements.
2. Move close to monitors or books on stands to automatically activate videos or animate books.
Close App: Esc
Note: You can also use a game controller in combination with mouse.
To review the St. Broxville: Into the Thicket Virtual Exhibition please review and/or download the following according to your needs:
Download Here
The first button will download the virtual exhibition for any Windows users. The second button will download the virtual exhibition for any MAC users.
Opening Reception Video with Artists' Talk
Live Action Video Tour
A video tour of each artwork in the St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket exhibition with a narration to explain how the exhibit came together. The show contains collages, prints, assemblage, sculpture, installation, and interactive musical instruments.
Virtual Exhibition Talk & Tour
A recording of the zoom virtual exhibition talk and tour for St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket. Participants are taken through the exhibit in a virtual mockup of the Kellogg Gallery as the artists talk about their works. There's a Q&A section at the end.
Virtual Exhibition Walkthrough
A short video of a walkthrough of the virtual exhibition for St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket.
Rumbles and Thrums | A Virtual Journey through "St. Broxville Wood: Into the Thicket"
The exhibition "St. Broxville Wood - Into the Thicket" opened at the Kellogg Gallery, Cal Poly Pomona in January of 2020, and was entombed therein when the school closed its campus in March due to the Covid19 pandemic. The show contains collage, prints, assemblage, sculpture, installation, and interactive musical instruments created by artists Jennifer Gunlock, Hilary Norcliffe and Katie Stubblefield. The work is conceptually rooted in an investigation of trees and wood in relation to humankind. The premise behind this video is that St. Broxville Wood continues to be aware of itself while the gallery doors are closed, and that each piece has been communicating with the others.