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MFA alum Lorena Ochoa and MFA candidate Deanna Barahona in Ahorita!

July 8 - September 2, 2023

Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles CA

The artists make work that calls attention to many of the foremost issues facing our communities, be they issues that manifest in the lived environment, issues of historical or contemporary cultural representation, or interior-focused issues. Ahorita! is both a call to resilience and a celebration of this ascendant artistic moment which is being defined by impactful women and non-binary artists.

MFA alum Sabrina Piersol in CAN Art Fair

July 12 - July 16, 2023

CAN Art Fair, Ibiza Spain

Peirsol is showing with 1969 Gallery from New York as part of the Contemporary Art Now fair in Ibiza, Spain. CAN is a brand-new art fair that blends the excitement of the contemporary art scene with the easygoing attitude of the Mediterranean lifestyle.

MFA candidate Amir Saadiq and MFA alumni Dillon Chapman & Maria Mathioudakis in 31st Juried Exhibition

Reception: July 14, 6:30 - 8:30 p.m.

July 15 - September 9, 2023

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla CA

Nearly 300 artists entered 900 works for consideration. Juror Isabel Casso, Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, selected the final 25 artists and 35 works to exhibit. Prizewinners will be announced at the opening reception on Friday, July 14.

MFA alum Işık Kaya in Into the Uncanny Valley

Reception: July 14, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

July 14 - August 26, 2023

Marshall Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Into the Uncanny Valley features four artists who came of age during the digital revolution and whose work responds to novel and often fabricated realities. As augmented realities and deep fakes become increasingly advanced and prevalent, they are beginning to challenge social order and established hierarchies, while also destabilizing our own internal judgment.

MFA alum Oscar Magallanes in Reflexión

Reception: July 14, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

June 20 - July 28, 2023

Quad Art Gallery, Riverside CA

Art Makes a difference in our community! This exhbition is a collection of artwork originally exhibited at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Arts and Culture during the inaugural opening. Featuring Guest Curator Cosme Cardova. 

MFA alum Arlene Mejorado in Mud Kin

Reception: July 14, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

July 15 - July 29, 2023

Roski Graduate Gallery, LA Arts District

A contemporary cohort of Indigenous, Latinx, and Immigrant artists and activists working in the southwestern United States are engaging with ancestral adobe structures and construction to resist artistic, cultural, and ecological assimilation.

MFA alum Sabrina Piersol in Adorned Self

Reception: July 15, 2:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles CA

The six emerging women artists grew up in the 1990s, an epoch characterized by multiculturalism, globalization, self-reference, environmentalism, and technological advances. 𝓐𝓭𝓸𝓻𝓷𝓮𝓭 𝓢𝓮𝓵𝓯 explores ornamentation as an act, both outward and internal, that opens the self to enlivenment; how we fashion ourselves in order to attract others, make a statement, or express individuality.

UG alum Marisa DeLuca Keeper

Closing Reception: July 15, 2023, 5:00 p.m.

Backfence Society, Vista CA

Sourcing original photographs from the Oceanside Historical Society's archives and incorporating materials from the city she loves, Marisa continues her creative research into psychometry, catastrophic change, memory and psycho-geography in this limited series of reliquary paintings. This event marks the closing of Marisa's Artist Occupancy at Backfence Society.

UG alumni Marisa DeLuca and Lizelle Lopez Aguilar present Artists in Solidarity 4th Annual Auction for Migrant Families

July 15 - July 30, 2023

Online Auction Site

Artists in Solidarity is a 501(c)3 nonprofit that stands with and supports migrant families and children who all deserve their chance to safely begin their American story and to be treated as human beings. The immigrant’s plight in the US remains untenable, and we raise money through art auctions to support organizations that work to bring decency, compassion, and respect to the process.

Assoc. Professor Brian Cross The West is Awake and conversation

July 18 - July 29, 2023

Galway International Arts Festival, Ireland

This exhibition celebrates the 50th Anniversary of hip hop and features a number of his photographs installed outdoors at Galway City Museum. Brian Cross will be in conversation with RTÉ DJ Ray ‘Wingnut’ Cuddihy to discuss his life and work on July 22nd.

Professor Teddy Cruz CaliBaja Seminar

July 18, 2023, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Zoom Registration

For the summer science and art seminar series, Teddy Cruz and Fonna Forman present "Unwalling Citizenship." This will be preceded by a talk from Stephen Mayfield, "Bio-manufacturing in green algae."

MFA alum Guillermo Estrada, Rancho Shampoo performance

July 20, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

MCASD, La Jolla CA

MCASD's ongoing partnership with Space Time (founded by UG alum Nick Lesley) responds to works on display, presenting rare artist videos and live performances. July’s collaboration responds to Celia Àlvarez Muñoz, featuring video work by Guillermo Gómez-Peña and a performance by Rancho Shampoo & the Indian Dub Orchestra (Guillermo Estrada, Rubén Alonso Tamayo, Rodo Ibarra, Julián González, David Bautista Toledo).

MFA alum Wren Gardiner in HereIn Journal


Simultaneously hilarious and unsettling, Wren Gardiner’s practice probes the relationship between the analog and virtual worlds. Their recent MFA thesis exhibition, By the Sweat of My Browser, featured three television monitors, each playing videos of Gardiner talking a mile a minute about health insurance, boobs, and their affection for the television show The Big Bang Theory.

Professor Monique van Genderen Paintings

CLOSING SOON!

June 3 - July 15, 2023

Quint Gallery, La Jolla CA

Her painterly language may be understood through her search to humanize abstraction, in which intersections of landscapes and organic forms convey memories and evolve over time.

San Diego Union Tribune Article

Mandeville Art Gallery Nature Scene

July 1 - October 2, 2023

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Nature Scene is a program presented on the Mandeville Art Gallery’s exterior screen featuring artworks that have been commissioned or specifically adapted for the space. It is on view daily from 7 am to 10 pm. The works use artificial intelligence, generative algorithms, 3D scanning, and more to depict the influence of technological evolution on the staging and mediation of the natural world.

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