Current Exhibition
Mt. San Jacinto College Art Gallery Presents...
Figments, Annie Wold and Chet Glaze
August 10 – September 10, 2026
Reception with the artists: Tuesday, August 18, 4 - 6 pm
The MSJC Art Gallery presents a very special two person exhibition Figments by Annie Wold and Chet Glaze. This exhibition brings together two artists who let the traditional art making materials like clay, and paint to expand them in new and unusual ways. Annie Wold uses the visceral materials of clay to expand beyond typical forms and present wall hung ceramics that leave the hand of the maker and the unknown qualities of glaze interaction to create engaging new abstractions. Chet Glaze expands his use of paint beyond representation to create new headspace and meditative worlds. This exhibition is open to the public and invites the viewer to see these works as objects of distortion, dislocation and potentially altered states of what is seen and understood.
Annie Wold’s ceramic wall sculptures are paintings in a non traditional sense. She uses her body and hands to scratch and sculpt, push and pull the clay into corporeal shapes. She then layers glazes to have the interact and lets the unknown magic of firing the clay and glazes into unknown territories. Wold says about her work “I want to connect back to the way my ancestors may have made things- informed by intuition and the innate need to make without divorcing my western education.” Her work explores ideas of folk magic, foraging, dysmorphia, life cycles and alternative realities.”
The subject of Chet Glaze’s art is slippery for the viewer to pin down. His work presents a world where poured abstractions are apparitions for the viewer to wonder if what they are seeing actually exists. He often pours paint on wet canvases and manipulates the paint to create watery abstractions that evoke relatable spaces, however the viewer is presented with colors and forms that can be emotional states or a sense of dislocated floating. Glaze has said about his artwork “My work seeks to explore this particular phenomena by engaging collective trauma through the lens of the space that exists between the phantom and the person who conjures it.”
Annie Wold received multiple associate degrees from MSJC and later transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA) where she received two bachelors degrees, a BFA in Fine Art and a BA in Art History. Annie was a curatorial intern at The Hammer Museum, an awardee of the the UCLA Conservation Program scholarship and a Getty Marrow undergraduate intern. Over the past several years Annie has been a prominent tattoo artist within the Los Angeles community, having done several residencies and guest spots and she is now working towards her MFA application.
Chet Glaze was born in Fontana, CA in 1976. After a short enlistment in the US Army, Glaze attended college with the intent to study architecture. After a few studio art courses however, Glaze changed his major to studio art and completed his Bachelor of Arts in 2004 from California State University, San Bernardino with a concentration in Painting and Drawing. Glaze then attended the University of California, Santa Barbara for his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) which he completed in 2006.