Bakersfield College faculty has been given an immense opportunity to show their artwork in Los Angeles as part of an art exchange with L.A. Artcore that began last year. ?

The works of Laura Borneman, Nan Gomez-Heitzeberg, David Koeth, Emily Maddigan, Adel Shafik, Kristopher Stallworth, Cameron Brian, Nina Landgraff, Cecilia Noyes, Claire Putney and Debora Rodenhauser are presented in the?Bakersfield College Faculty Exhibit, showing from Sept. 2 to Sept. 30.?

Stallworth is showing six black-and-white film photographs in a series called “Proof.” He sees the exhibition as an outlet for greater recognition.

“Showing art in L.A. is a good opportunity to show to a bigger market than Bakersfield. I already sold a print, so that’s always great,” said Stallworth.

Koeth, art professor and chair of the Art Department, feels that showing in L.A. will absolutely help further develop his career as an artist.

“It’s kind of like a never ending quest; artists are always looking for another exhibit. It’s a big deal to have an exhibit in L.A. It’s very competitive, as you might guess. The bigger the city, the more competitive the art gallery space is and the more people there are to try to fill those spaces. So it’s quite an accomplishment,” Koeth said.?

Though he is a graphic designer by trade, Koeth portrays his artistic vision through mediums such as traditional paint and untraditional discarded fruit.?His contemporary sculptures made from orange peels are currently showing in the L.A. exhibit.

The idea of recycling inspired him to create these eccentric pieces. “Recycling has been in the news. It has been certainly in the forefront of everyone’s mind for a few years so I decided to try to recycle a common object that we normally throw away,” Koeth said, “I just started working with peels from oranges and tangerines. Plus, I like the way they smell, too.”

Landgraff teaches painting and basic drawing and is showing three paintings at the exhibit. For the past few months she has been inspired by the combination of childhood experiences, literature and science that led to creation of her self portrait, “Angel of My Soul” and “Inner Child.”

Landgraff explained her work featured in the exhibition: “For the self portrait I just trained in a good academic art school, very realistic. I wanted to go out of that realism and try to do more of an emotional portrait. In ‘Angel of My Soul’, I was reading some science and with some special machines, when people were dying, they made a picture of the soul coming out of the body and when they made the picture, what it looked like was a small light bulb with rays and they even measured how much it weighed. And everyone has an angel, so I put my soul in an angel’s hand.”

Bakersfield College Faculty Exhibit is developing the careers of these 11 artists from BC at the Los Angeles Artcore Gallery at the Brewery Annex. The exhibit is open Thursday through Sunday, 12 p.m. to 4 p.m. until the end of September.