Reception: November 2, 1:00 - 4:30 p.m.
October 31 - November 9, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.
Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego
This exhibition will showcase works that explore the trials and tribulations of girlhood, specifically, teenage dreams. Through mixed media paintings and photography, Teenage Dream will take you on a journey through heartbreak, angst, and true love.
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November 2, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.
Center Hall, Room 119, UC San Diego
Ceres Madoo is a Los Angeles based mixed media artist, who describes herself as a mix of a mix. West Indian, American, Black, Indian, Jewish and Mormon, like her art work, Ceres’ personal identity defies categorization. With a BA from UC San Diego ('89) and an MFA from Rutgers University, her conceptual, fluxus, critical educational roots happily collide with her inherent interests in non-western art, folk and craft methodologies.
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November 3, 6:00 - 7:30 p.m.
SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD
Learn about the work of artists new the Visual Arts MFA program: Jamil Baldwin, Rahul Basu, Sophia Cleary, Walker Hewitt, Izzai Martinez Angulo, Aambr Newsome, erika roos, and Andrew Wharton. Refreshments will be available.
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November 8, 4:00 - 5:00 p.m.
The Design Lab , UC San Diego
Design@Large presents "Speculative Biology and Our Biotech Future," in which Dr. Pinar Yoldas will look at the history of biotech and its near future. Also known as the Biotech Revolution, Yoldas will show why advances in biology play a significant role in defining our response to problems such as global warming, mass extinction, pandemics, and endemics.
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Reception: November 10, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Arab American National Museum, Dearborn MI
Colonial Colonnade partners Arabic and English as a nonlinear and unsequenced format of words without start and end points. Facets of the exhibition include cutout curtains of grouped text, moveable words, steel footholds to swing and hang from, and an encounter with a menagerie of letters and symbols.
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Reception: November 11, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
November 11 - December 22, 2023
Night Gallery, Los Angeles CA
The works in Audition expand Adler’s universe while simultaneously revealing their roots in her previous lines of inquiry: vulnerability, subject versus authorial agency, and queer desire. On each monumental canvas, Adler drew a different still frame from a single scene she’d cut from one of her short films.
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Reception: November 11, 5:00-8:00 p.m.
November 11 - December 16, 2023
Best Practice, San Diego CA
In I Get to Have My Own Private Hope, Fish and Pigeon go on a quest in search of the meaning of “work” prompted by the news of the extinction of bananas, and rent that’s passed due. This new video piece further questions today’s work conditions and societal structure through the precarity of Fish’s life and disappearing bananas.
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November 16, 6:00-8:00 p.m.
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA
This live adaptation of Bertolt Brecht’s The Mother includes original musical numbers and improvised content, and also maintains the Brechtian concept of the Lehrstück, or learning-play, by inviting audience members to participate in select scenes. A play about the revolutionary potential of motherhood, My Barbarian's The Mother and Other Plays offers audiences a theatrical, and critical, performance experience.
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The Campus Art Assessment Advisory Committee (CAAAC) plays a key role in ensuring that new campus art installations create opportunities for diverse artistic expressions that reflect campus priorities and allow all to feel included in the campus ethos.
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Thanks to generous support from the Overseas Korean Studies and Heritage Foundation (OKSHF), the Korean Heritage Library (KHL) at the University of Southern California (USC) offers research grants to assist scholars with onsite research on Korea. Jae Hwan Lim will research American peace activists' role in reestablishing South Korean society after the Korean War in the 1960s-80s.
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Kulturakademie Tarabya is an institution of the German Federal Government. It is run by the Goethe-Institut in Turkey. Hande Sever's residency at the academy will be supported with funds made available from the Goethe-Institut in Turkey and Allianz Foundation in Berlin, Germany.
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The artist and scientist Pınar Yoldaş shows a new site-specific installation from her investigation “An Ecosystem of Excess”, which has been growing steadily since 2014. The focus is on the oceans – once the origin of evolution and today heavily infested with plastic.
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August 5 - November 12, 2023
Grand Central Art Center, Los Angeles CA
SE BUSCA focuses on the intersection of memory and transport. Memory as in generational trauma, indigeneity, Purépecha ancestry, and how these memories from blood and dirt are transported through migration. It views migration, such as the migration of the artists mother from Michoacan to Santa Ana, the Santa Ana River’s path into the Pacific Ocean and oceanic currents combining with the mouths of rivers in Michoacan, and concrete freeways used for redlining all as synonymous.
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October 5 - December 8, 2023
Gallery QI, UC San Diego
These projects channel MacMurtrie’s aesthetic and political concerns into speculative interventions at or along the U.S.-Mexico border. While his “Border Crossers” inflate over the border fence from both sides at once as a gesture of connection between two countries, the “Dual Pneuma” sculpture embodies the idea of a fluid cultural identity.
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October 7 - December 9, 2023
Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego
The group exhibition How We Gather investigates the notion and enactment of solidarity across various contemporary artists’ practices through the lens of the pandemic. Opening Party Saturday October 7th, 2-6pm, featuring a new commission by Elana Mann and Sharon Chohi Kim, performed by the San Diego New Verbal Workshop at 4pm. Taco catering 2-4pm, open bar 2-6pm.
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October 21 - December 30, 2023
ICA North, Encinitas CA
Bazar originated out of Dean’s research in the archives of Bazar de l’Hôtel de Ville, and her work with a group of women from Permis de Vivre la Ville (License to Live in the City), a community engagement organization working to increase social engagement in the Paris suburbs.
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September 23 - December 30, 2023
ICA North, Encinitas CA
In her paintings, Taylor Chapin uses bold color, swirling patterns, and enigmatically camouflaged figures to reflect a consumerist society that treats beauty and goods as social currency. In this new body of work, Chapin employs the visual strategies of advertising to reflect on this current moment in which our identity has become our brand.
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October 28, 2023 - January 14, 2024
Central Library, San Diego CA
The San Diego Art Prize is predicated on the idea that the visual arts are a necessary and rewarding ingredient of any world-class city, and was conceived to promote and encourage dialogue, reflection, and social interaction around San Diego’s artistic and cultural life.
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September 9, 2023 - January 28, 2024
ICA Central, San Diego CA
NextGen presents the work of seven graduating artists from regional art programs, chosen by a jury of art professionals. NextGen celebrates emerging artistic voices and highlights the innovative work being produced across the San Diego region. The artists selected for this year’s exhibition work across media–from painting and photography, to installation, sculpture and video–combining found objects with personal mementos, mining their family histories, cultural legacies, and identities.
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October 9, 2023 - January 31, 2024
Geisel Library, UC San Diego
This exhibit exposes the diversity of North Korean society through publications, personal items, arts and North Korean propaganda posters from the UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives. Underlining the existence and everyday life of North Korea and its people, the physical materials in this exhibit invite open and critical thought exchanges about the country, where outsiders can rarely visit.
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September 21, 2023 - February 18, 2024
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA
Included in MCASD's exhibition are the 51 postcards that document Antin's 100 Boots as well as pieces featuring her alter ego, the King of Solana Beach. My Barbarian's layered performances continue Antin’s spirit of social critique and playfulness.
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