COMING UP

MFA alumni mika Castañeda, Cat Gunn, Deanna Barahona, Maria Antonia Eguiarte missed connections exhibition discussion

June 25, 6:00 p.m.

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla, CA

Harvest & Gather (a curatorial project founded by mika Castañeda & Cat Gunn) is pleased to present missed connections, an exhibition that facilitates collaboration between artists. Each invited artist has selected another artist to exhibit with, thus fulfilling their missed connection at the Athenaeum. The panel discussion will include artists Deanna Barahona and Maria Antonia Equiarte Souza.

MFA alum Sadie Barnette How to Win

Artist Talk: June 26, 5:00 p.m.

June 27 - August 1, 2025

Sean Kelly, New York, NY

With her new exhibit, Sadie Barnette adopts the lexicon of the how-to guide to explore who has “it all” figured out, who doesn’t, and how far people will go to achieve power and impact. She extracts observations of societal functioning from public and private spheres, as well as the machinations of a society constantly in creative motion. 

Text Messages presented on Mandeville Art Gallery’s exterior screen

July 1 - September 27, 7:00 a.m. - 10:00 p.m. daily

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Comprised of works by digital artists displaying text manipulated and hijacked using programming and code. The words, phrases, and typography presented on view reveal the influence of machines on the production of meaning and the exercise of power within the context of social media, advertising, online censorship, and artificial intelligence. Participating Artists: Maya Man, Winnie Soon, Sasha Stiles.

MFA alum Kirstyn Hom in Present Tense

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

July 11 - August 9, 2025

Two Rooms, San Diego, CA

My work investigates the intersection of language and textiles through sculpture and installation. I strive to transform the written word by examining how personal and collective losses of the ‘mother tongue’ are shaped by assimilation and intergenerational trauma. I question how fabric can act as a document to repair lost threads in my ancestral past, while exposing the joy and tension of what resists translation.

MFA alum & former Lecturer Doris Bittar, BA alum Diana Benavídez in Infinite Rivers

Reception: July 12, 5:00 p.m.

July 12 - September 13, 2025

The Front Gallery, San Ysidro, CA

Casa Familiar is proud to announce the opening of a new art exhibition which explores artisanal practices, traditions and crafts that have been passed from person to person through generations. The works show that while artisanal practices and traditions are passed down, sometimes those traditions are kept intact for thousands of years, and sometimes they are in constant evolution.

MFA alum & former Lecturer Jean Lowe Down with the Hierarchy

Reception: July 12, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

July 12 - August 16, 2025

Best Practice, San Diego, CA

BEST PRACTICE is very excited to announce a collaborative exhibition of the work of Encinitas-based artist Jean Lowe and Mexicali-based graffiti artist Abraham Razo (Rancholo/DHEF) with a contribution from MFA alum & Professor Emeritus Kim MacConnel. Down with the Hierarchy! is an installation exploring the overlaps and connections between French period decoration, Persian carpet design, and street art.

FIELD Issue 30 founded & edited by Professor Grant Kester

The Spring 2025 issue of FIELD: A Journal of Socially Engaged Art Criticism. Welcome to the tenth anniversary issue of FIELD. It’s hard to believe that a decade has passed since we first launched our modest editorial enterprise. Then, as now, our primary goal is to provide an accessible platform for independent critical writing on a range of socially engaged art practices.

Simons Foundation Funds Research on Symmetries Between Art and Science at Mandeville Art Gallery

UC San Diego Today

Do human consciousness and artificial intelligence (AI) share common ground? This question and more will be investigated over the next seven months by UC San Diego cognitive neuroscientist Ying Choon Wu and artist Rhonda Holberton in partnership with former Mandeville Art Gallery Director and Chief Curator Ceci Moss.

Professor Mariah Garnett The Pow'r of Life is Love

June 22 – July 25, 2025

ICA Santa Fe, Santa Fe, NM

Developed over several years, this project traces Garnett’s engagement with the archive of her great-great-aunt Ruth Lynda Deyo—a composer who lived in Egypt from 1924 until her death in 1960. While in Cairo, Deyo transcribed spirit communications and composed an ambitious opera about Akhenaten and Tutankhamun, which remained unfinished and unproduced.

Professor Emerita Patricia Patterson exhibition

June 11 - July 19, 2025

Quint Gallery, La Jolla, CA

Quint Gallery is pleased to present a group of three paintings by Patricia Patterson at 7655 Girard Avenue. Created between 1988 and 1990, they depict imagery from everyday life on Ireland's Aran Islands.

CLOSING SOON

MFA students Nube Hawk Cruz, Xelestial Moreno-Luz, BA alum Kiko Thomas in SoCal MFA 2025

May 31 - June 27, 2025

Claremont Graduate University, Claremont, CA

Claremont Graduate University's Art Department is pleased to invite you to the SoCal MFA regional group exhibition. SoCal MFA is a juried exhibition of emerging graduate student artists from the region's vibrant MFA community.

Professor Emeritus Manny Farber Manet's Fish

June 19 - July 5, 2025

Quint One, San Diego, CA

These compositions are characteristically punctuated by leaves, vegetables, and flowers from the home garden designed by and tended to by Patricia Patterson, and which divided their studio spaces. The viewer is pulled up close by messages scribed into the paint, alternately deadpan and unexpectedly revealing, surly and self-deprecating.

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