The Cerritos College Art Department will be hosting two art shows this semester, “Object ~ Orientation” and “Drawn into a Dialogue,” both starting simultaneously on Feb. 1.

Each show plans to offer something different while ultimately sharing a common theme.

James MacDevitt, director and curator of the Cerritos College Art Gallery, said that the Art Department does four exhibitions every year.

“In the past, two of those have been faculty show and then our final student show that we do at the end of the year, which is a juried show.

“It includes works that have been selected by the faculty of their most promising students selecting their most mature work from any one particular class session,” MacDevitt said.

MacDevitt said that an outside juror comes to the show and chooses works to be recognized.

On the flyer for the “Object ~ Orientation” exhibit, there is a sofa chair made of human skin, with a hairy pillow on a light blue background. It is not really human skin, rather, it is a sculpture. This is part of a set that includes a couch and a coffee table.

Ambar Yanez, business administration major, commented on the “Object ~ Orientation” exhibit.

“I’ve seen it in movies and shows, and it’d be cool to have it here. It’d be nice to go to see something different.”

Photography major Gabriela Rufino said, “I think it’s really interesting. I’ve never seen it, so I think I would go and take a look at all the things that the Art Department has to offer to us.”

Sculpture is not the only type of art to be found at the show. Drawings of the Enola Gay exploding from a person’s neck are followed by another project from the same artist, showing a person with wild stallions for a head.

The exhibits will be open at the Cerritos College Art Gallery from Feb. 1 to March 10.