COMING UP

Lecturers Gosia Herc & Josh Tonies in exhibition Insite Lab

Reception: September 14, 5:00 - 9:00 p.m.

September 14 - October 19, 2024

Best Practice, San Diego CA

The INSITE LAB is a roving platform for artists on both sides of the border designed to instigate conversations and experiences around process and research in art making. The LAB offers an innovative framework outside of academia where artists engage with specialists from a variety of disciplines and reimagine the region as a laboratory for research.

Professor Emeritus Kim MacConnel exhibition Kudos

Reception: September 14, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

September 14 - October 12, 2024

Quint One, San Diego CA

In the 1980s, the artist began cutting and sewing together pieces of fabric which he painted on directly with graphic motifs relative to specific locations around the world. He is known for his unabashed embrace of decoration, craft, and the handmade, and through these earlier fabric works, creates a meeting place across cultures.

BA alum Diana Benavídez Artist Talk & Open Studio

Talk: September 19, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Open Studio: September 20, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Art Produce, San Diego CA

In her talk titled Soft Piñatas: An Unexpected Result, Diana shares her creative journey from her artist residency at Art Produce, blending traditional piñata-making techniques with hand-sewn paper garments.

MFA alum Naomi Nadreau duo exhibition absolute fulfillment in the spectacle

Reception: September 20, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

September 20 - October 11, 2024

Oolong Gallery, Rancho Santa Fe CA


Professor Michael Trigilio, MFA alum Victor Castañeda performances in Wave + Energy

September 20, 7:30 p.m.

Project [Blank] @ Bread & Salt, San Diego CA

WAVE + ENERGY is a concert of works that pair music and video to create an immersive sensorium where perceptions shift and boundaries blur. Curated by Joe Cantrell, this concert pairs some of our favorite improvising artists and musicians to create new works of sound that you can see and light that you can feel!

Embodied Pacific All-Exhibition Opening

September 26, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Gallery QI at Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego

EMBODIED PACIFIC is a platform of multisited exhibitions and events organized through a Getty PST ART: Art and Science Collide supported partnership between UC San Diego Visual Arts and Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, featuring projects by more than thirty artists working with researchers in laboratories, field sites, and archives in SoCal and the Pacific Islands.

Professor 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.

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.

BA alum Marisa DeLuca with HereIn

HereIn Journal

Deeply committed to preserving the spirit of the ever-changing landscape of Oceanside, California, Marisa DeLuca’s photorealistic paintings anchor the viewer in each space she commemorates. DeLuca spoke with HereIn Intern Lainey Tomasoski about place, process, and how facilitating an emotional experience for viewers is the ultimate “payday.”

MFA alum, former Lecturer Ruth Wallen & former Professor Adriene Jenik in exhibition Desert Forest: Life with Joshua Trees

September 7 - December 29, 2024

Museume of Art and History (MOAH), Lancaster CA

The Desert Forest exhibition, part of Getty's PST Art: Art & Science Collide initiative, sheds light on the endangered Joshua tree and the fragile Mojave Desert ecosystem that sustains it. Additionally the article "Calling for Action" in the current edition of Aesthetica Magazine features Ruth Wallen's artwork and an interview with exhibition curator Sant Khalsa and Ruth.

Aesthetica Magazine Article

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

September 9 - December 22, 2024

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.

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.

MFA candidate Moe Penders Ramos in exhibition Mud + Corn + Stone + Blue

August 29, 2024 - April 12, 2025

Rubin Gallery & L Gallery, University of Texas at El Paso

The exhibition includes artwork from the U.S. Corn Belt and from Guatemala, Nicaragua, El Salvador, and Honduras. For the artists (many of whom have witnessed these events firsthand), it is important to make visible the connections between the natural world, agricultural reform, economic recession, military intervention, civil war, genocide, and mass migrations.

Mandeville Art Gallery Receives Grant from New York-Based Teiger Foundation

UC San Diego Today

In recognition of Director and Chief Curator Ceci Moss’s compelling vision, the gallery has been awarded a three-year, $150,000 grant by the New York-based Teiger Foundation. The grant is designed to advance innovative curatorial practice in contemporary art, with freedom to support a range of projects, from exhibitions to public programs and new commissions.

ArtForum Article

CLOSING SOON

MFA alum Arlene Mejorado in El Cuerpo: The (Performing) Body and the Photographic Stage

July 13 - September 14, 2024

Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles CA

Each artist constructs situations that are performed in front of the camera, and in doing so demonstrates an awareness of conditions of self-presentation. This includes considering oneself within the built environment or surrounding landscape—and, more specifically, in relation to Los Angeles as a place and its complex conditions as a backdrop.

MFA alum beck haberstroh in Tend

August 8 - September 21, 2024

Parent Company, New York NY

The group exhibition entitled Tend, features works by Nora Chellew, beck haberstroh, Carly Mandel, Sara Murphy, Funto Omojola, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. The exhibition is about care, or the lack of care, shown towards our bodies. It is about the love and violence that is inflicted on our bodies and about the time spent enacting care and bodily labor.

MFA alum Carrie Mae Weems in A Movement in Every Direction

April 13 - September 22, 2024 

BAMPFA, Berkeley CA

A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration illuminates the enduring impressions of the Great Migration through the eyes and work of twelve contemporary artists. 

LaJuné McMillian: The Portal's Keeper

July 1 - September 26, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

LaJuné McMillian: The Portal's Keeper is a new site-specific commission for the exterior video façade of the Mandeville Art Gallery. Building on the artist's interest in stewarding spaces for liberated Black realities and the Black imagination, McMillian conducted a movement and meditation workshop with UC San Diego students using extended reality and physical computing to translate participants' movement data into visuals for this new artwork.

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