Nearly 100 people attended the CSUS Alumni Art Chapter’s first ever membership show, according to the art chapter President Florence M. Jones.

Under the title Chapter Annual Membership Show (CAMS), the reception held Thursday evening in the University Union Exhibit Lounge featured works from several alumni artists from Sacramento State.

The exhibit will continue until Oct 8.

“It was a great turn out,” Jones said. “This is a very nice show with striking works from all the artists.”

According to Jones the chapter has been in existence for six years. She said the organization does not primarily consist of graduates, but artists who have taken “a sufficient amount of courses” at Sac State.

Approximately 15 artists have their work on display.

Jim Piskoti, an art professor at CSU Stanislaus, juried the show.

“All of the show will be juried,” Jones said.

Some of the artwork on display includes ‘May,’ a mixed medium art form by Michael Zysk and ‘Titanic: Goodwin Family Memorial,’ an extravagant mixed media collage by Norma Maienknect.

The concept and visual aspects of the artists are masterful, influential and domineering.

Cay Dracnik oil paintings are a mixture of imperial and retrospection.

Dracnik’s oil painting ‘Yuppies?Now and Then’ is an example that life is recycled.

“This concept tries to bring forward in time how things are similar, but different,” Dracnik said of the painting.

The painting features a ‘modern woman’ sitting on a couch holding a television remote control. In the background is the elegant Sarah Barnhardt, who Dracnik says was probably the ‘first yuppie of her era’ in the 1900s.

“These were the times when women weren?t doing anything,” she said.

Bill Olmsted, University Union program director, said the exhibit gives people on campus a chance to view artwork without leaving the campus.

“Like with any show that we do, we’re trying to bring shows like this to campus for people who wouldn’t get out to see them,” he said.

CAMS can be viewed on the second floor of the University Union or it can be seen on the chapter’s Web site at www.fountainofjoy.com.