COMING UP

MFA alum Susan Mogul In Conversation

January 7, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

Art Gallery of Guelph, Zoom Registration

Join us for an engaging conversation with pioneering video artist Susan Mogul, who will discuss her 1997 video I Stare at You and Dream, featured in AGG's exhibition Do You Remember Love, as well as her wider practice. Known for intertwining autobiography with documentary strategies, Mogul’s work often explores themes of family, relationships, and identity through a deeply personal lens.

MFA preview exhibition I am sending you love from the future

Reception: January 9, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

January 9 - February 8, 2025

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Participating Artists: Cuyler Ballenger, Maddie Butler, Coralys Carter, Nykelle DeVivo, Olivia Kayang, Moe Penders, John Singletary. The MFA Visual Arts Preview Exhibition is a group exhibition showcasing work by soon-to-graduate MFAs in advance of their final solo thesis shows. Los Angeles-based curator Irene Georgia Tsatsos worked as the Curatorial Advisor for the exhibition, where she conducted studio visits with the cohort and devised the exhibition’s title and theme.

New Writing Series

January 15, 5:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

First year MFAs in the Department of Literature Fiona Martinez, Sarah Mullen, Georgia Wright, and Klytie Xu will read their work in connection with the exhibition I am sending you love from the future. The MFA Visual Arts Preview Exhibition is a group exhibition showcasing work by soon-to-graduate MFAs in advance of their final solo thesis shows.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya solo exhibition TRANCE

January 10 - March 1, 2025

Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY

The exhibition expands and shifts the ways the artist depicts interior space in photographs by extending his studio pictures from the constructed “staged” area into the as-is quotidian workspace, and further still, by photographing within the same gallery where the images are now exhibited.

MFA alum Sabrina Piersol in exhibition Midnight Gardens

Reception: January 11, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

January 11 - February 8, 2025

Nazarian / Curcio, Los Angeles, CA

Midnight Gardens brings together a group of artists exploring landscapes, still lifes, and botanical scenes shrouded in the quiet mystery of night. The interplay of shadow and subtle light charges these nocturnal scenes with a sense of intrigue, as the night itself becomes a transformative force, revealing hidden layers of meaning and new possibilities.

BA alum Farshid Bazmandegan exhibition Drifting in Between reviewed

Hyperallergic

The artist focuses on a few key materials: emergency blankets, tar, and steel oil barrels. These materials reference the displacement and human cost of our government’s actions across the globe, as well as the natural resources that drive so much of our foreign policy. Indeed, one of the major reasons for the 1953 coup was to protect British oil interests in Iran. 

Professor Rubén Ortiz-Torres, Prof. Emerita Anya Gallaccio in Out of the Ordinary: Uncommon Materials, Marks, and Matrices

December 21, 2024 - April 6, 2025

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA

This exhibition explores contemporary artists’ use of unusual mark-making devices, including blood, smoke, Kool-Aid, coffee, scrap metal, vegetable juice, pins, dryer lint, and more, to create drawings and prints. Out of the Ordinary examines artists’ wide-ranging motivations for choosing such unorthodox media, from sensory play and experimentation to excavations of the charged historical and symbolic values of mundane substances.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya, MFA alum Lorna Simpson in Imagining Black Diasporas: 21st Century and Poetics

December 15, 2024 - August 3, 2025

Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA

The project debuts new acquisitions for LACMA and expands the Pan-African exhibition canon, historically focused on the Black Atlantic, by showcasing artists working along the Pacific Rim. Nearly 70 works of painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, and time-based media are organized into four themes: speech and silence, movement and transformation, imagination, and representation.

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

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

BA alum Marisa DeLuca solo exhibition What Goes Up, Must Come Down

December 14, 2024 - January 12, 2025

Hill Street Country Club, Oceanside, CA

Supporting the farewell programming for the Hill Street Country Club's closing in Oceanside, artist Marisa DeLuca will be holding a solo exhibition reflecting on catastrophic change in the region. Her body of work examines time, memory, and the socioeconomic implications of cultural erasure through oil paintings and installation.

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