COMING UP

VIS 105C class Monsters & Memories

Reception: March 7, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Gallery Hours: March 7, 2:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

A studio course in drawing, emphasizing individual creative problems. Class projects, discussions, and critiques will focus on issues related to intention, subject matter, and context.

Professor Emeritus Harold Cohen Refactoring (1966-74)

Preview: March 7, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

March 8 - May 11 2024

Gazelli Art House, London UK

A solo exhibition exploring transitional work from 1966-1974 by represented artist Harold Cohen, coinciding with a major exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art, on view until 19 May 2024.

MFA candidate Jamil Baldwin in 9 Lives

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

March 8 - April 12, 2024

BELLYMAN, Los Angeles CA

Charles Snowden, Chris Velez, David Roy and Otis Technology Research Collective, Emelia Gertner, Haniko Zahra, Jamil Baldwin, Kearra Amaya Gopee, Maren Karlson, Molly McDonald, Nehemiah Cisneros, PG Collective, Shani Strand, Sophie Friedman-Pappas, Susan Arapricio, Tyler Christopher Brown. Curation by Salim Green and John Bogaard.

UG student Aunya Graham JESTER

March 9 & 10, 12:00 - 7:00 p.m.

UpThere, VAF 353, UC San Diego

The artist premiers a series of photographic self-portraits in which Graham explores clown and/or extreme makeup as her face is contorted in myriad expressions as a performative commentary on the “masks” she wears while navigating the world. Graham is also showing a video projection in which Graham confronts and destroys a clay bust of

herself.

Professor Alexandro Segade performs with Hiroshi M Mori

March 10, 2:00 p.m.

Oolong Gallery, Encinitas CA

Alexandro Segade of My Barbarian and current artist Hiroshi McDonald Mori will host a performance in conversation. Please join us this Sunday at 2pm in the warehouse gallery for the event. Mori and Segade have previously worked together, and the latter also taught Mori at Bard in the MFA program.

VIS 106B class Sentiment and the Self

Reception: March 12, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

March 12 - March 15, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Abby Boyers, Amanda Brex, Julia Bushman, Tessa Chan, Sophie Devaney, Paige Fleisler, Eliana Flores, Christina Giang, Vanessa Ha, Saanvi Kotia, Isabel Krashenny, Hannah Lee, Layn Lee, Kaylee Lien, Alejandro Mendoza-Mercado, QuyenDi Nguyen, Heather Nicosia, James Olichney, Natalia Robles, William Ung.

VIS 147B class Emergent Human

March 12, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

In-person and on Zoom

Franklin Antonio Hall, INKwell, UC San Diego

The performances aim to delve into the intriguing theme of humanity's continuous emergence from the technological landscape of modern existence. Throughout the evening, we will explore various facets of our relationship with technology, prompting reflection and discourse on our intertwined existence with it.

VIS 141A class A Clusterf#ck o'Spices + Bugs

March 13, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Mandeville B-116, UC San Diego

Showcase of work from VIS 141A Winter of 2024. Artists will be present to discuss their projects.

UG Studio Honors Open Studios

March 14, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Mandeville 203, UC San Diego

Marley Baluch, Cole Byers, Kleo Zhou, Lillia Weismuller, Jordan Cathcart, Partha Shankar, Rachel Holsworth, Robyn Rosete, Chloe Nickels, Angel Ren, Youngmi Bombach. STUDIO HONORS is a two consecutive quarter sequence for advanced students focusing on developing a self-directed studio practice and producing a Thesis Project.

PhD candidate Doreen Ríos conversation De Disney a los memes

March 14, 6:00 p.m.

Museo Universitario del Chopo, Ciudad de México MX

Currently, cybernetic reality generates a reinterpretation of pop signs that challenges and enriches their meaning and relevance in the artistic field. To delve deeper into the topic, specialists meet to talk, question and trace a line of exploration of pop art from different approaches and perspectives at the local and global level.

Water for Life screening and Q&A

March 15, 6:00 p.m.

Suraj Israni Center, UC San Diego

As part of the San Diego Latino Film Festival, the Department of Visual Arts is pleased to co-sponsor this screening of Water for Life, which will include a Q&A with director Will Parrinello. The filmtraces the collision of water rights, indigenous beliefs, and resource extraction through the lives of three Latin American community leaders.

MFA candidate Jamil Baldwin in Reencuentros: Seeing You Again

Reception: March 16, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

March 2 - May 18, 2024

Irvine Fine Arts Center, Irvine CA

Home is universal and home is deeply personal; family can be anyone, and family is specifically someone. The exhibition Reencuentros: Seeing You Again presents eight contemporary photographers whose works delve into the ubiquitous and intimate nature of family and home.

Professor Grant Kester & PhD student Wei Wu Field Journal #26


We are living through a singular cultural moment in which the conventional relationship between art and the social world, and between artist and viewer, is being questioned and renegotiated. FIELD responds to the remarkable proliferation of new artistic practices devoted to forms of political, social and cultural transformation.

MFA alumni Dillon Chapman on Hazel Katz

Herein Journal

Hazel Katz is a filmmaker with a singular voice. Her body of work largely comprises well-researched, yet humorous and emotionally arresting, hybrid documentaries, which span topics from trans history and sex work (Sulka’s Daughters, 2022) to the impact of COVID 19 on the carceral system (Who Gets to Die, 2021).

Graduate Open Studios Online


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

Lauren Lee McCarthy Bodily Autonomy

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.

CLOSING SOON

PhD candidate Doreen Ríos curated Mitocondria, Inmersión en el linaje materno

December 7, 2023 - March 10, 2024

Centro Nacional de las Artes, Mexico City MX

The project consists of an exhibition, physical and virtual, with 31 artists, researchers, and scientists, to address their maternal lineage using mitochondrial DNA as a trigger. The project includes the delivery of mitochondrial DNA results to participants, a laboratory for reflection and artistic creation, and an exhibition. This is a project developed in collaboration with the Genomic Studies Lab at UNAM.

MFA alum Katie Herzog Currents

January 12 - March 17, 2024

Monterey Museum of Art, Monterey CA

"This body of work began when I moved to a rural ranch in Southern Monterey County, and simultaneously learned that my ancestors spoke Lekoudesch, also known as Jewish Cattle Traders Jargon. I am fascinated by Lekoudesch: a secret language of Hebrew origin developed by Jewish cattle traders who were not permitted to own land or participate in many facets of society due to being Jewish."

Asst. 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.

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