COMING UP

Professor Pinar Yoldas keynote talk Art is Evolutionary

August 22, 11:30 a.m. - 12:15 p.m.

Mutek Forum, Montreal Canada

This exposé delves into the neuroscience of art, highlighting the crucial role of sensation, perception, and memory, as Dr. Yoldas approaches art's evolutionary and neurological foundations, emphasizing immersion as a key element in modern storytelling and digital technologies.

PhD alum Paloma Checa-Gismero Biennial Boom Book Launch

August 22, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Institute of Contemporary Art, University of Pennsylvania

Please join us to celebrate the publication of Biennial Boom: Making Contemporary Art Global (Duke University Press) with a cocktail reception followed by a conversation between its author, Paloma Checa-Gismero (Swarthmore College), and Zoë Ryan, Director of the Institute of Contemporary Art at Penn. Purchases of the book via dukeupress.edu get 30% off with code E24CHGSM

PhD candidate Mingyong Cheng conference Fusion: Landscape and Beyond

August 22, 7:00 p.m.

Distrito 350, Guadalajara MX

As part of the parallel activities related to the new exhibition “Fusion: Landscape and Beyond” at Distrito 350, we will talk about the collaborative and interdisciplinary work of Mingyong Cheng, Xuexi Dang, and Xingwen Zhao.

PhD candidate Carl Schmitz in conference Comics and Film: An Uncanny Relationship

August 23, 2024

FAMU, Prague, Czech Republic

The conference "Comics and Film: An Uncanny Relationship" explores the intersection between the 7th and 9th arts: Cinema and Comics. The conference will feature new perspectives on the relationship between film and comics by discussing particular adaptations and visual storytelling in general, all while emphasizing both similarities and differences between the two media.

MFA alum Susan Mogul Five Women Artists in 1970s Los Angeles Review

HyperAllergic

The two-part, bicoastal exhibition features Hildegarde Duane, Nancy Buchanan, Susan Mogul, Susan Singer, and Nancy Youdelman. Although not part of a formal collective, they are connected through their interest in feminism, autobiography, the body, subversive humor, photography, and the do-it-yourself spirit.

 

Adrian-Dre Diaz writing on MFA alum JAX

HereIn Journal

Positioned as a reclamation of self and history, JAX’s artistic practice transforms hair—an often-overlooked aspect of cultural expression—into a dynamic medium that celebrates the rich, textured lineage of Blackness. Her installations, which cascade from the walls and ceilings in intricate webs of human and synthetic hair, weave together a tapestry of memory, identity, and continuity.

Professor Danielle Dean public work Long Low Line (Fordland)

Through September 30, 2024

Billboard on Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles CA

Starting from a collection of Ford Motor Company commercials archived in Detroit, Danielle Dean uses print advertisements from the 1920s to reveal how landscapes were instrumentalized in consumer culture to promote the aspirational ‘American Dream.’ 

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.

CLOSING SOON

MFA alumni Tigercrow Collective exhibition and Elsewhere

July 13 - August 23, 2024 (Extended!)

Best Practice, San Diego CA

Tigercrow Collective includes MFA alumni Cat Gunn, Kirstyn Hom, Heige Kim, Jun!yi Min, and Naomi Nadreau. Utilizing singular and collaborative artworks, the collective seeks places of refuge through objects that hold memory, materials that preserve touch, and references to ever-changing landscapes. Best Practice is co-founded by MFA alum Joe Yorty.

MFA alum Susan Mogul in Five Women Artists in 1970s Los Angeles

June 29 - August 24, 2024 (Extended!)

as-is.la, Los Angeles CA 

Featuring the work of Nancy Buchanan, Hildegarde Duane, Susan Mogul, Susan Singer, and Nancy Youdelman, the synchronous exhibitions link these five artists through their shared commitments to feminism, photography, storytelling, and the ingenuity necessitated by the indifference that greeted their practices as young women artists in 1970s Los Angeles.

UG alum Joshua Moreno in Slow Dance

July 26 - August 30, 2024

two rooms, San Diego CA

In this pairing, two artists who predominantly work in installation venture into different media. Slow Dance includes sculpture by Lofano, a film by Moreno, and new drawings from both artists. Lofano and Moreno contend with ephemerality and the limits of human innovation through interventions of transformation and accumulation, repositioning raw materials into poetic forms.

MFA alum Abdulhamid Kircher Rotting from Within

June 29 - August 31, 2024

carlier | gebauer, Berlin Germany

Rotting from Within is Abdulhamid Kircher’s first presentation of the eponymously titled body of work and the first exhibition of the artist at carlier | gebauer. The title captures a feeling which the artist describes as “the unearthing of my father and the generational trauma that exists within the patriarchs of my family; subsequently the task of uncovering my own self amidst the things passed down”.

MFA alumni Deanna Barahona, JAX, Chanell Stone, Nathan Storey in NextGen 2024

July 13 - September 1, 2024

ICA Central, San Diego CA

The annual exhibition, juried by a panel of art-world professionals, celebrates emerging artistic voices and highlights the innovative work being produced across the San Diego and Baja California region. Through NextGen, ICA San Diego provides local emerging artists with both exhibition opportunities and professional development, while highlighting the strength of our creative community.

MFA alumni Deanna Barahona, Guillermo Estrada, Professor Rubén Ortiz-Torres in Ni todas las formas, ni todo el lenguaje

July 20 - September 1, 2024

Museo Raúl Anguiano, Guadalajara México

“Not all forms, not all language” brings together artists involved with Residency 797, a space aimed at reflection, research and production of contemporary painting. The exhibition does not only integrate work produced in the residence, but gives its creators the freedom to propose new approaches that result in a diverse, powerful and structured dialogue.

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