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MFA candidate Moe Penders Ramos Grabado en una partitura/ Etched in a Score

Reception: February 16, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Sound Performance: February 15, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

February 12 - February 23

Structural & Materials Engineering Bldg, SME 142, UCSD

MFA candidate Nykelle Devivo Arkestra Landing 

Reception: February 16, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

February 12 - 16 by appointment: ndevivo@ucsd.edu

Visual Arts Facility, Performance Space, UC San Diego

UG student Jordan Cathcart What Was Lost in the Flood

February 13 - February 15, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Throughout my portfolio, I’ve largely dealt with the imperceptible or unremarkable, such as hostile architecture, roadkill, and graffiti; these instances are potent symbols for larger societal and infrastructural issues, relating to the removal of public spaces, takeover of nature, and the dichotomy of private vs. public art.

Chair/Professor Ricardo Dominguez in Arthur Kroker & Friends / The Quantum Revolution

February 17, 12:00 p.m.

Zoom Registration Required at Link

City Lights presents a two session (lecture/panel) event celebrating the publication of The Quantum Revolution: Art, Technology, Culture– by Arthur Kroker and David Cook – published by University of Toronto Press (in the Digital Futures Series) – with Arthur Kroker, Lynn Baron, Rebecca Belmore, Ricardo Dominguez, Nadia Myre, and Jackson 2Bears.

Carmen Cuenca & Andrea Torreblanca Guest Lecture

February 20, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Structural & Materials Engineering, SME 149, UCSD

Carmen Cuenca is Executive Director of INSITE Proyectos de Arte AC, the non-profit established to facilitate the development of INSITE in Mexico. Andrea Torreblanca is currently the Director of Curatorial Projects at INSITE and the founder and editor-in-chief of the INSITE Journal. INSITE is an initiative committed to the production of artworks in the public sphere.

UG student group En Route Roots

Reception: February 23

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

This is a project that explores personal interpretations, memories, and emotions associated with your cultural identity. Our goal is to inspire a dialogue that celebrates our diverse student body through interactive displays.

Professor Pinar Yoldas Synaptic Sculpture

Reception: February 24, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

February 24 - June 23, 2024

ICA Central, San Diego CA

Drawing on her background in neuroscience and architecture, artist and UC San Diego Professor Dr. Pinar Yoldas has built a practice of speculative design that imagines new products, appendages, and creatures in the service of a more compassionate culture. While Yoldas has shown extensively in Europe for nearly two decades, this show will be Yoldas’s first solo museum exhibition in the United States.

Pablo José Ramírez Guest Lecture

February 26, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Structural & Materials Engineering Bldg, SME 149, UCSD

In this talk, Ramírez will set forth an introduction to brown artistic practices that put neo-colonial and liberal reason in crisis. Furthermore, he seeks to think about the paradoxical relationship between contemporary art and indigeneity as a creative entanglement that reshapes the repertoires of art history and museum collections. Pablo José Ramírez is an author and curator at the Hammer Museum.

Doctoral Research Colloquium

March 1, 10:00 a.m. - 4:30 p.m.

Structural & Materials Engineering Bldg, SME 149, UCSD

The Doctoral Research Colloquium features talks by PhD students who have recently advanced to candidacy along with a keynote lecture by a speaker who has influenced their practice. The colloquium is a public forum where the excitement and energy of newly launched dissertation projects are shared with the broader local community through sustained dialog with a senior scholar in the field.

Graduate Open Studios

March 2, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Visual Arts Facility & SME Gallery, UC San Diego

This is our opportunity to share with you and the San Diego community our research, scholarship, and artistic practices. Open Studios will feature over 20 MFA & PhD artists' open studios, exhibitions, screenings, and publications produced in the Department of Visual Arts. The artists will be present in their studios throughout the afternoon and excited to talk about and share their work with you.

Lauren Lee McCarthy Bodily Autonomy

Reception: March 2, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

March 2 - May 25, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

For the past fifteen years, Lauren Lee McCarthy has worked in performance, video, installation, software, artificial intelligence, and other media to address how an algorithmically determined world impacts human relationships and social life. Bodily Autonomy is McCarthy’s largest solo exhibition in the United States to date.

Roberta Wue Guest Lecture Contained Visions

March 5, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Structural & Materials Engineering Bldg, SME 149, UCSD

This talk will address photographer John Thomson's (1837-1921) reproductions and imitations of the fanciful and fictive export image, and his engagement with the imagined Chinese artist. Roberta Wue is associate professor of Art History and director of the PhD Program in Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine.

CLOSING SOON

Prof. Emerita Eleanor Antin and Profs. Malik Gaines & Alexandro Segade in Eleanor Antin and My Barbarian

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.

Lecturer Mara De Luca Capricorn Rising

January 13 - February 24, 2024

Quint Gallery, La Jolla CA

De Luca’s painting practice, informed by the unique qualities of her surroundings and place, studies the psychological and emotional impact of light and landscape. The works in Capricorn Rising were created over the past year, begun during a period as artist-in-residence at the Monira Foundation in Jersey City, New Jersey.

MFA alumni Ana Andrade and Matthew Taylor Williams in Salvaged Remix

January 20 - February 25, 2024

Two Rooms, La Jolla CA

Two Rooms is an artist-run gallery and project space, founded in 2023 by Lizzie Zelter. Adjacent to her studio in San Diego, CA, Two Rooms was born out of a desire for informal and experimental artistic exploration and community in the San Diego/Tijuana bi-national region.

Professor Anya Gallaccio in Deep Rooted

November 18, 2023 - February 25, 2024

City Art Centre, Edinburgh, Scotland

A group exhibition featuring work by eight contemporary artists – Dalziel + Scullion, Anya Gallaccio, Andy Goldsworthy, Andrew Mackenzie, Naomi Mcintosh, Katie Paterson and Hanna Tuulikki. Together, they explore the relationship between people and the natural environment using a variety of media and approaches. Some of the works reflect on current ecological issues, others explore our fragile coexistence with nature and capture its beauty.

Professor Emerita Faith Ringgold American People

November 18, 2023 - February 25, 2024

Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago IL

Featuring Ringgold’s best-known series—such as her experimental story quilts, renowned painting series American People and Black Light, soft sculptures, performance objects, and ephemera related to her activist work—the exhibition examines the artist’s figurative style as it evolved to meet the urgency of political and social change.

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