COMING UP

MFA cohort exhibition a handful of fog

Reception: July 20, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

July 20 - July 27, 2024, by appointment

Elliott Hundley Studio, Los Angeles CA

Exhibiting Artists: Deanna Barahona, JAX, Jun!yi Min, naomi nadreau, Chanell Stone, and Nathan Storey. Curated by: Coralys Carter and Cat Gunn. a handful of fog invokes the attempt of grasping at something nearly impossible to capture, continually escaping containment or comprehension. Yet, even with this slippage, we yearn for an understanding that feels unobtainable.

PhD candidate Doreen Ríos talk Medios inestables y prácticas curatoriales

July 19, 2024

Santo Domingo del Cerro, Antigua Guatemala

ArtTec, the first Ibero-American Digital Art Congress held in Central America, is an opportunity to facilitate the exchange of ideas and build sustainable artistic platforms, generate a dialogue between internationally recognized exponents of "New Media" and the local community to educate and support a thriving community of creatives of the next era.

MFA alum Zara Kuredjian solo exhibition Sandbox

Reception: July 20, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

July 20 - August 11, 2024

Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles CA

The exhibition features an installation of objects from Kuredjian’s Blocks series, a scattered constellation of square stone-like objects that combine earth, hydrostone, and silver. Sandbox was inspired by Kuredjian’s fascination with volcanic sites throughout California as well as architectural elements from monastic complexes in the southern Caucasus.

UG alum Joshua Moreno in Slow Dance

Reception: July 26, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

July 26 - August 30, 2024

two rooms, San Diego CA

In this pairing, two artists who predominantly work in installation venture into different media. Slow Dance includes sculpture by Lofano, a film by Moreno, and new drawings from both artists. Lofano and Moreno contend with ephemerality and the limits of human innovation through interventions of transformation and accumulation, repositioning raw materials into poetic forms.

MFA Alexandra Neuman performance The Collective Womb

July 26 at 6:00 p.m., July 27 at 2:00 p.m.

601 Artspace, New York NY

The Collective Womb is a matriarchal creation story in which abortion is recognized as an ecological redistribution of life-force. Staged on a large mound of soil, the performance celebrates the macro-scale creative power of our planet and the micro-scale creative power of each individual womb.

PhD candidate Mingyong Cheng performance video Learning to Move, Learning to Play, Learning to Animate

IDEAS Qualcomm Institute

A cross-disciplinary multimedia performance piece that challenges the human-centric perspective and aims to offer a new way of experiencing the world. Inspired by the concept of “the more-than-human-world” and its conceptual connection to shadow art, this performance features robot performers constructed from natural materials that learn to interact and perceive the world. 

MFA alumni Deanna Barahona, JAX, Chanell Stone, Nathan Storey in NextGen 2024

July 13 - September 1, 2024

ICA Central, San Diego CA

The annual exhibition, juried by a panel of art-world professionals, celebrates emerging artistic voices and highlights the innovative work being produced across the San Diego and Baja California region. Through NextGen, ICA San Diego provides local emerging artists with both exhibition opportunities and professional development, while highlighting the strength of our creative community.

MFA alumni Tigercrow Collective exhibition and Elsewhere

July 13 - August 17, 2024

Best Practice, San Diego CA

Tigercrow Collective includes MFA alumni Cat Gunn, Kirstyn Hom, Heige Kim, Jun!yi Min, and Naomi Nadreau. Utilizing singular and collaborative artworks, the collective seeks places of refuge through objects that hold memory, materials that preserve touch, and references to ever-changing landscapes. Best Practice is co-founded by MFA alum Joe Yorty.

MFA alum Arlene Mejorado in El Cuerpo: The (Performing) Body and the Photographic Stage

July 13 - September 14, 2024

Gallery Luisotti, Los Angeles CA

Each artist constructs situations that are performed in front of the camera, and in doing so demonstrates an awareness of conditions of self-presentation. This includes considering oneself within the built environment or surrounding landscape—and, more specifically, in relation to Los Angeles as a place and its complex conditions as a backdrop.

MFA alum Deanna Barahona in San Diego Union Tribune

San Diego Union Tribune

In that UCSD exhibition, “All I Can Leave You is the Glitter,” she displayed a number of large-scale, screenprint-and-tile pieces that gave a more micro view into family and culture. Using her own family history and photos as initial templates, often zoomed and pixelated, her work aims to explore, as she puts it, “the impression of memories and ephemerality” specifically those in the Latin American community.

MFA alum Susan Mogul in Five Women Artists in 1970s Los Angeles

June 21 – August 9, Oruzar Projects, New York NY

June 29 - August 10, as-is.la, Los Angeles CA

Featuring the work of Nancy Buchanan, Hildegarde Duane, Susan Mogul, Susan Singer, and Nancy Youdelman, the synchronous exhibitions link these five artists through their shared commitments to feminism, photography, storytelling, and the ingenuity necessitated by the indifference that greeted their practices as young women artists in 1970s Los Angeles.

LaJuné McMillian: The Portal's Keeper

July 1 - September 26, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

LaJuné McMillian: The Portal's Keeper is a new site-specific commission for the exterior video façade of the Mandeville Art Gallery. Building on the artist's interest in stewarding spaces for liberated Black realities and the Black imagination, McMillian conducted a movement and meditation workshop with UC San Diego students using extended reality and physical computing to translate participants' movement data into visuals for this new artwork.

CLOSING SOON

Professor Mariah Garnett in COLA 2024


May 18 - July 20, 2024

LA Municipal Art Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Garnett's new film Songbook is included in this year's COLA Independent Master Artist Project exhibition. Songbook was developed with the support of The City of Los Angeles, The Industry LAB (2022). Thematic iterations have shown in 2022 at CAMH and 2021 at Commonwealth + Council.

MFA alum Sabrina Piersol The Blue of It

June 29 - July 27, 2024

Sow & Tailor, Los Angeles CA

This painting series by Piersol, inspired by a plethora of influences ranging from Mary Oliver’s nature-infused poetry to the ethereal music of Fleetwood Mac, invites viewers into a world where tradition and personal narrative intermingle with the natural world, creating a profound sense of continuity and resilience.

UG alumni Marisa DeLuca & Lizelle Lopez Aguilar organized Artists in Solidarity: Fifth Annual Auction for Migrant Families

July 13 - July 28, 2024

We are excited to announce Artists in Solidarity's Fifth Annual Auction for Migrant Families. The immigrant's plight in the US is untenable, and we raise money through art auctions to support organizations that work to bring decency, compassion, and respect to the process. This year, all profits after operating costs will benefit Al Otro Lado and Border Kindness.

Professor Memo Akten Distributed Consciousness

July, 2023 - July 31, 2024

ACMI, Melbourne Australia

“Distributed Consciousness” is a multi-faceted work that spans themes of biological and artificial intelligence, distributed computation, distributed cognition, cryptography, evolution, phenomenology, ecological awareness, climate change, activism, and cephalopods. The project began as an NFT collection on the eco-friendly Tezos blockchain.

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