COMING UP

VIS 181 Final Screening Sound and Editing

March 20, 3:30 p.m.


SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Advanced course to gain sophisticated control of lighting and sound recording techniques with understanding of theoretical implications and interrelation between production values and subject matter. Interactions between sound and image in various works in film, video, or installation.

VIS 171 Final Screening Digital Cinema

March 20, 3:30 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

A digital image is not a film image, and this reality and its technological and conceptual implications are what this course will attempt to map out, exploring its possibilities and the massive overhaul of media aesthetics it implies.

UG alum Catherine Alderete screening La Paloma

March 20, 7:00 p.m.

SDLFF, AMC Mission Valley, San Diego CA

Screening as part of the Frontera Filmmakers - Shorts Film program in the 31st San Diego Latino Film Festival. The year is 1952, and post-war America experienced an uproar in violence. The Village Theater in Coronado is the scene of the crime, and a certain type of evil is in the darkness.

Prof. Janelle Iglesias Las Hermanas Iglesias

Reception: March 30, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

March 30 - April 28, 2024

PULP Gallery, Holyoke MA

As the children of Norwegian and Dominican immigrants born and raised in Queens, our multidisciplinary work explores issues of hybridity, social participation, and transnational identities.

Nathan Storey MFA Thesis Exhibition

AS THE SUN WOUNDS THE SHADOW

Reception: April 5, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Performance: April 12, 5:00 p.m.

April 5 - April 12, 2024

Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

In AS THE SUN WOUNDS THE SHADOWS, Nathan Storey presents various bodies of work, such as Traces and Stains, that propose printed matter as a facilitator, witness, and residue of gay desire. Storey's artistic practice explores the intricate relationship between printed materials and queer memory, collectivity, liberation, and loss.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in Fragmented Bodies

Reception: April 5, 2024

April 5 - June 24

Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome, Italy

Rally Film Screening and Q&A

April 6, 4:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, UC San Diego

The Department of Visual Arts is please to co-sponsor this screening and discussion with filmmaker Rooth Tang. RALLY is a documentary that dives into the controversial influence of political activist Rose Pak and Chinatown's rise to power.

VIS 149 class Beyond Dystopia

Online Exhibition

Professor Amy Alexander’s VIS 149 seminar, Beyond Dystopia: “AI." Machine learning works and experiments at the intersections of trepidation, optimism, and the great beyond. Featuring works by Andrea Luna; Preston Lin; Kathleen Huang; Luis Mateo; Ryan Munoz; Jorge Valdez Diaz; Yoko Zhuang; Annie; Xuanru; Ruiqi; Matthew Wastila; Acile Zidane; Bryce Lee; Anessa Williamson; Ana Ramos-Ontiveros; Yue Ma.

Professor Jordan Rose book The Revolution Takes Form

Penn State University Press

During the French Revolution of 1830, insurgents raised some four thousand barricades. Afterward, lithographs of the street fighting flowed from the presses, creating the barricade’s first imagery. This book documents the changing political valence of the revolutionary ideals associated with the barricade in France from 1830 to 1852.

Lauren Lee McCarthy: Bodily Autonomy featured on Outland


The Mandeville Art Gallery exhibition "Lauren Lee McCarthy: Bodily Autonomy" is featured in a new article titled "Shock Therapy" published in Outland by Editor-in-Chief Brian Droitcour

Professor Monique van Genderen A Sweet Sidelong Glance

March 9 - April 13, 2024

Galerie Richard, Paris, France

Her paintings catch the attention first by their wide range of colors, soft and vibrant, and their perfect combinations. At a closer distance each painting expresses specific ways to apply the paint and very different painterly renderings fom light soft touches to vigourous large brush strokes.

Lecturer Joshua Tonies & MFA alum Joe Yorty The Treachery of Pleather

March 9 - April 13, 2024

Best Practice, San Diego CA

A two-person exhibition of both individual and collaborative works. While their studio work, in terms of both content and material, diverges in several ways, working together synthesized areas of convergence. In particular, themes of queerness and invisibility/visibility emerged and ultimately became the foundation of their collaboration.

MFA alum Lorena Ochoa Ruegos y Desiertos

March 9 - April 13, 2024

Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Ochoa brings the stuff of everyday life into the work, and through that summons both the unique spirit of the immigrant neighborhood and the heavy weight of history. Found-object combines and sculptural assemblages juxtapose the familiar and the fantastic – deserts and dreams – in works that incisively critique the mythos of the American west through the lens of the Chicanx experience. 

Profs. Lorena Mostajo & Alexandro Segade, MFA alum Matthew T Williams, UG alum Leslye Villaseñor in Leucadia

March 16 - April 20, 2024

Oolong Gallery + Brown Studio, Encinitas CA

The Brown Studio includes a gallery and a garden which will be transformed into an exhibition and art party site from 5-9pm on Saturday, March 16. The Oolong warehouse will host a large scale salon style main exhibition (opening from 12-4pm) for the duration of the joint shows through April 20.

PhD student Tiffany Wai-Ying Beres curated Shan Shui Reboot

March 7 - July 7, 2024

China Institute Gallery, New York NY

The exhibition highlights a new generation of artists who are reinterpreting traditional Chinese landscape painting in the context of today’s global social issues and climate crisis. Shan shui refers to the time-honored painting of natural landscapes with brush and ink focused on an awareness of inner spiritual philosophy.

Mia Navarro The Utmost Joys of Living

Kamil Gallery Online

In this series, I try to make people feel, be in tune with their interior feelings, and be open to an exchange with the people and the world around them through color, texture, style, composition, and mixed media.

Professor Anya Gallaccio shortlisted to create London’s first HIV/Aids memorial


The new public art piece will “acknowledge an increasingly forgotten period in British history and the lessons we learnt from that time,” says Aids Memory UK, the charity behind the planned memorial.

Graduate Open Studios Online

Grad Exhibitions Online

In case you missed Open Studios on March 2nd, you can see online versions of the screening program, exhibitions, and artists' studios!

CLOSING SOON

Professor Memo Akten Distributed Consciousness

January 25 - March 20, 2024

Gallery QI, UC San Diego

Drawing upon the collaborative nature of knowledge building, the collective nature of intelligence, and the permeable boundaries between individuals, the show employs cephalopods and cephalopod cognition as a means of reflecting upon the “increasingly powerful and pervasive synthetic alien intelligences of artificial intelligence (AI).” The opening reception will be hosted by Professors Amy Alexander and Jordan Crandall.

Professor Memo Akten in SMALL V01CE

January 13 - March 23, 2024

Honor Fraser, Los Angeles CA

Honor Fraser Gallery presents "SMALL V01CE," curated by Jesse Damiani, exploring the intersection of human instinct, intuition, and artificial intelligence in creative processes. The exhibit examines how generative AI impacts human faculties like instinct and intuition, questioning whether these elements are essential for creativity and art. It invites leading artists to engage with these themes, offering a space for unconventional perspectives on how evolving technologies interact with innate human characteristics and the broader implications for the future of creativity and intelligence.

MFA alum Hung Liu Control and Freedom

January 11 - March 24, 2024

Vicki Myhren Gallery, University of Denver CO

Hung Liu: Control and Freedom traces the creative trajectory of this celebrated artist following her emigration from Communist China and the repressive regime of Mao Zedong. Featuring paintings, prints, and tapestries produced over the last thirty years, this exhibition underscores the depths of Liu’s talent and demonstrates her incredible range as she perfectly captures the beauty and dignity of her subjects.

PhD candidate Doreen Ríos curated Espacios Líquidos: Políticas de la Pantalla

January 31 - March 31, 2024

Museo Nacional del Cacao in Guayaquil, Ecuador

“Liquid Spaces: Screen Politics” curated by Doreen Ríos (MX) is committed to reflection on thinking, navigating, using and hacking screens and their contents through artistic proposals. The exhibition includes 22 projects by artists and groups from various corners of Ecuador.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in Copy Machine Manifestos

November 17, 2023 – March 31, 2024

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY

Since the 1970s, zines—short for “fanzines,” magazines, or self-published booklets of texts and images, usually made with a copy machine—have given a voice and visibility to many operating outside of mainstream culture. Artists have harnessed the medium’s essential role in communication and community building and used it to transform material and conceptual approaches to art making across all media.

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