COMING UP

Professor John C. Welchman lecture series UpClose: Lectures on and around Marcel Broodthaers' Pense-Bete

October 23 - October 26, 2024

Antwerp, Ghent, Hasselt, Ghent

To mark the centenary of Marcel Broodthaers (1924-1976) and the 60th anniversary of his seminal piece Pense-Bête (1964), S.M.A.K. commissioned Welchman to write a close reading on this seminal work. Welchman will present his findings in a series of rolling lectures, seminars and discussions at S.M.A.K. and various partner institutes.

UG student Blake Riesenfeld Dilettante

Reception: October 25, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

October 25 - November 1, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Exploration of constructed space through photography and installation mediums.

MFA alumni Ana Andrade & Carolina Montejo talk

October 25, 11:00 a.m. - 1:00 p.m.

Zoom Link: https://lbcc-edu.zoom.us/j/88522919019

Join artists Ana Andrade and Carolina Montejo as they discuss their exhibition “Natural Encounters” at the Long Beach City College Art Gallery. The talk will be moderated by artist and Visual and Media Art dept co-chair, Carolyn Castaño.

PhD student Carl Schmitz talk Alongside the Jazz Diaspora: Institutionalized and Improvisational Abstract Expressionism

October 25, 2024

SECAC, Atlanta GA

SECAC's 80th annual conference, under the guiding theme of Wayfinding, SECAC 2024 will be designed by artists, designers, scholars, and educators. The conference seeks to unravel the intricacies of "wayfinding" across intersections of technology, cognition, culture, and design. 

Tanya Aguiñiga Open Studio: Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence

November 1, 12:00 - 2:00 p.m.


VAF Main Gallery, UC San Diego

Tanya Aguiñiga is the 2024 Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence at the Department of Visual Arts. Drawing on her upbringing as a binational citizen, who crossed the border daily from Tijuana to San Diego for school, Aguiñiga’s work speaks of the artist’s experience of her divided identity and aspires to tell the larger and often invisible stories of the transnational community.

New MFA Student Lightning Talks

November 1, 7:00 - 8:30 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego

Learn about the work of artists new to the Visual Arts MFA program: Nube Cruz, James Dailey, Xelestial Moreno-Luz, Ryan Oh, Kamryn Olds, Emily Polanco, Michelle Sui, and Zachary Thompson.

Professor Grant Kester, PhD students Paloma Checa-Gismero & Hande Sever Field Journal #28

We are living through a singular cultural moment in which the conventional relationship between art and the social world, and between artist and viewer, is being questioned and renegotiated. FIELD responds to the remarkable proliferation of new artistic practices devoted to forms of political, social and cultural transformation.

MFA alum Carrie Mae Weems awarded National Medal of Arts

Artists Carrie Mae Weems is among 20 artists who received the 2022 and 2023 National Medals of Arts at the White House on October 21. Considered the most prestigious award given to artists and arts patrons by the United States federal government, the medals were formally presented by President Joseph Biden in a private ceremony.

Professor Michael Trigilio in online exhibition GUI/GOOEY

October 19 - December 19, 2024

Plexus Projects Online, Brooklyn NY

Plexus Projects presents a series of online exhibitions exploring technological representations of the biological world. GUI/GOOEY features artworks that examine notions of “life” and “nature” with computational, digital, and virtual tools.

Lecturer Josh Tonies exhibition From Gardens, Where We Feel Secure

October 19 - December 7, 2024

Tres Ojos, Mexicali Baja California

In From Gardens, Where We Feel Secure, Joshua Tonies explores the aquarium as a space of intimate artifice, blending digital realism with tactile abstraction. Using 3D modeling and the mezzotint process, the aquariums blur the line between still-life and landscape. These miniature worlds reflect our desire to curate and control nature within domestic spaces.

MFA alum Misael Diaz, Cog•nate Collective How Can You Mend a Broken Heart?

October 12, 2024 - January 18, 2025

The FRONT Arte y Cultura, San Ysidro CA

This solo-exhibition assembles recent site specific works by Cognate Collective that consider the radical potentials of sound and collaboration when practiced as cursi radical – an aesthetics of proximity, vulnerability and collective care. The exhibition brings attention to historical and ongoing strategies local communities have developed to facilitate movement and sustain connection across borders.

MFA alum Abdulhamid Kircher in 2024 PhotoBook Awards Shortlist

Paris Photo & Aperture

The shortlist represents more than just the most highly produced, classically beautiful books—it is also an expression of the possibilities of bookmaking across a broad spectrum of resources, intentions, and storytelling techniques.

PhD student Doreen Ríos interview in book Digital Art: 1960s to Now

Victoria & Albert Museum

A new history of digital art from the 1960s to the present day, with decade-by-decade essays exploring evolving digital art practices, alongside interviews with artists, gallerists, museum curators and collectors. A collaborative, dynamic approach still characterizes the practice of today's digital artists, who employ technology as a tool while examining its social, ethical and political impact.

PhD student Hande Sever awarded Eidolon Production Grant

Eidolon Center for Everyday Photography, Budapest

"The project is a video essay examining German imperialism in West Asia, focusing on Turkey, before and during World War I through the lens of a vernacular photo album entitled Meine Liebe Pauline, zur Erinnerung an Türkei-Kleinasien 1917/181 (My Beloved Pauline, in Memory of Turkey-Asia Minor, 1917/18).

MFA student Emily Greenberg book Alternative Facts available for pre-order

The Book Catapult & Bookshop.org

In this absurd and wildly inventive debut collection, Emily Greenberg imagines the inner lives of the politicians, celebrities, artists, and entertainers who have ushered in our post-truth era. With equal parts compassion and incisiveness, Greenberg vividly renders the porous boundaries between fact and fiction, public and private, reality and simulation.

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Lecturer Trish Stone, Speculative Design class in exhibition curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright, PhD student Clarissa Chevalier Embodied Pacific: Seaways

September 27 - December 6, 2024

Visual Arts Gallery@SME, UC San Diego

Navigating the Pacific with works by Simon Penny, Sakman Mario Borja, the Sakman Chamorro Group with Sherry Miller Borja and the Speculative Design Master Class of 2023, Stan Rodriguez, Our Worlds (Kilma S. Lattin and Catherine Eng), and Jessica Ashook, Lacey Coover and Trish Stone, Mimi Kaveia George, Kyle McDonald, Delsie Betty Bosi and women sailmakers of Taumako.

Professors Amy Adler, PhD student Johnnie Chatman in exhibition Embodied Pacific: Three Lives

September 26 - December 6, 2024

Gallery QI, UC San Diego

Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall, First Women of Oceanography, in works by Amy Adler, Nicolas Miller, Johnnie Chatman, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright with Leandro Martínez Depietri.

Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work

September 28 - December 7, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

As part of the Getty Foundation’s PST ART: Art and Science Collide, the Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego presents Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work, a retrospective exhibition about the work of husband-and-wife team of Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, who were among the earliest and most notable ecological artists. Founding members of the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego, Helen and Newton were local San Diego artists for nearly four decades, where they developed their pioneering concepts of Ecological Art.

Professor Amy Adler, MFA alumni Lauryn Smith, Chanell Stone, BA alum Kimberly Heard in Embodied Pacific: Three Lives

September 9, 2024 - January 26, 2025

The Gallery at Geisel Library, UC San Diego

Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall in the Archives, with works by Amy Adler, Kimberly Heard, Judit Hersko, Lauryn Smith, Chanell Stone, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright, PhD candidates Joe Riley and Stephania Torres-Londono.

PhD student Clarissa Chevalier curated Embodied Pacific: Through a Porcelain Cast

September 9, 2024 – January 26, 2025

The Nest at Geisel Library, UC San Diego

An exhibition featuring works about the Zooglider, an autonomous vehicle for optical and acoustic sensing of zooplankton, by artist Claudine Arendt in collaboration with ocean scientists Mark Ohman and Sven Gastauer. Through a Porcelain Cast is part of the Fall 2024 Embodied Pacific platform of programming.

Professor Memo Akten, PhD student Joe Riley, MFA alumni Ash Eliza Smith, Robert Twomey in Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen

October 4, 2024 - Ongoing

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen invites you to explore Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Indigenous science through the eyes of contemporary artists. Collectively, the exhibition asks us to consider how ocean science technology is not just about “high-tech” but also very much about the tools we use to shape our understanding of the ocean’s unseen mysteries.

CLOSING SOON

Prof. Amy Alexander in exhibition AI AI AI

September 19 - October 26, 2024

Radian Gallery, San Francisco CA

Amy Alexander's Deep Hysteria images will be part of the AI AI AI international group invitational at Radian Gallery. In AI AI AI an international group of artists harnesses the bizarre, newfound power of generative AI engines to create works that often defy an easy explanation as to “why” – why did this combination of decisions made by the human and the machine deliver this particular result?

MFA alum Sabrina Piersol exhibition Better Said With Light

September 6 - October 26, 2024

Edge Art Space, Torino Italy

Located in a place of great history and rich cultural heritage, EDGE ART SPACE is a new-generation gallery that focuses in particular on promoting emerging artists on the international stage. Each exhibition is an experiment in curation, with a view to seeking out a new voice in art.

Lecturer Dino Dinco in Art & Sport

May 1 - November 3, 2024

Boulodrome du Douaisis, Sin-le-Noble France

Art & Sport are 13 exhibitions and aesthetic experiences, across 13 regions of France and in unexpected places! Drawing on the collections of the 22 Regional Contemporary Art Funds of France , Art & Sport presents varied works ranging from video to sculpture, in unusual and sporting locations such as stadiums, swimming pools or skate parks.

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