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Speculative Design Senior Exhibitions BARCA / Futopia

June 13 - June 18, 2023

Reception: June 16, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Two group shows: Futopia - Designs for the nomadic life in the climate endgame by Speculative Design seniors led by Prof. Kyong Park. BARCA - Bioarchitecture + Art Revitalization + Chamorro Assemblages, a commission from the University of California Kendall-Frost Marsh Reserve by Speculative Design seniors led by master boatwright Mario Borja, Sherry Borja Miller (Keyshot), and Prof. Lisa Cartwright

MFA alumni beck haberstroh, mika Castañeda, Maria Antonia Eguiarte, and Victor Castañeda H present Suck Off!

June 16, 2023, 7:00 p.m.

Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

SUCK OFF! is a 'musical' in the tradition of queer camp theater that follows Dracula through their relationships with an Angel and an Asshole and an Astronaut as they pursue their dream of going to space.

University Car Club Lowrider Car Show

June 16, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Town Square, UC San Diego

Professor Rubén Ortiz Torres says, "This Friday 16, from 12-5 pm at Town Square in front of The Loft we will have the University Car Club lowrider car show. We will be there dancing the Vis Rats Mobile (aka La Carcachita), [MFA alum] Oscar Magallanes is bringing his bomba and there will be other surprises."

Interdisciplinary Computing & the Arts Senior Exhibition Sandwich

June 13 - June 15, 12:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

This show features works including electronic installations, virtual reality, animations, video games, coding art, projection mapping, performances, and much more. Come join us in celebrating the diverse body of work that the ICAM program has produced this year! Descriptions and documentation of the projects can be seen at the Kamil Gallery Online!

Heige Kim MFA Thesis Exhibition Out of Place

Closing Reception: June 16, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

June 9 - June 15, 2023

Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

By utilizing various mediums including video and installations, Heige explores environmental issues and hidden labor in our daily life. The opening will include performance & poetry by MFA candidate jun!yi Min and alishya almeida at 7:30 p.m.

mika castañeda MFA Thesis Exhibition

Ooooooooh Wheeeeeee! To be a pig in a tree… [THE ONE THAT GREW EMOTIONS AND DIED]

Closing & Performance: June 16, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

June 9 - June 16, 2023

Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

Spanning dive bars, drag shows, trashcans, and AA meetings, the exhibition asks us to reflect on the ways we create and maintain our histories, problematizing many questions around the autonomous/collective observing/preserving of love and community.

Professor Amy Alexander in Gaze in the Age of Technology

June 15 - June 18, 2023


Museum 54, New York NY

With painting, photography, video, installation, and virtual reality, Gaze showcases a series of artworks that delve into the imagery and sensorial experience of being the "gazer" and the "gazed," as well as the tension surrounding the production and analysis of these visual encounters.

MFA alum Alexandra Neuman in Exploring the Earth as a Lover

June 14, 16-18, 2023

Performance Space, New York NY

A four-day symposium to forge new relationships with the environment, engage in human/ non-human collaboration, critique calcified ideologies, and engage in new sexualities—all through the lens of environmentalism that is feminist, queer, sensual, sexual, posthuman, exuberant, and steeped in humor and play. Alexandra Neuman will be giving tarot readings on June 14th, and have a video installation The Collective Womb in the symposium.

MFA alum Isidro Pérez García presents Por Debajo de la Mesa: Terreno Familiar

June 24 - July 2, 2023

El Centro Cultural & El Nido Gallery, Santa Ana CA

A cross-border weaving collaboration that uses el tejer con tule - weaving with tule - as material and metaphor for investigating and upending regimes of migration, capitalism, land, labor, and art. For two weeks, a collective of art collectives from both sides of the US-México border will work together to weave an oversized set of table and chairs in Mexican "folk art" style - estilo de Maravatío, Michoacán. We will also offer workshops and events for the community to participate in.

Professor Rubén Ortiz-Torres CaliBaja Seminar

June 27, 2023, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Zoom Registration

For the summer science and art seminar series, Ortiz-Torres presents "Smart materials in search of natural intelligence." This will follow a talk from Public Health Education Professor Elena Martinez, "Cancer health equity among Hispanics in the United States."

MFA Heige Kim awarded Fulbright Open Study/Research Grant


Open Study/Research Awards provide the opportunity for academically mature students to complete independent research projects in Korea through 10 months of grant support. With its strong focus on growth and development, and its emphasis on maintaining tradition and history, South Korea is an excellent place to study and to research topics spanning a multitude of fields and issues.

FIELD #24 presented by founder & editor Professor Grant Kester


This issue has been guest edited by FIELD editorial collective members Primrose Paul and Laura Thompson. Black Lives Matter, and the broader cycle of protests catalyzed by the ongoing police killings of black Americans, inspired a range of new forms of cultural and artistic production/intervention over the past decade that span performance, site specific interventions, music, and dance, as well as more conventional gallery-based practices.

Faculty exhibition ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA

CLOSING SOON!

March 4 - June 17, 2023

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

The exhibition highlights recent projects by faculty artists within the context of the defining forces of our moment, such as continued struggles for equity and social justice, accelerating climate change, threats to democracy, and rapid technological developments.

UG alum Marisa DeLuca Part & Parcel

CLOSING SOON!

April 1 - June 23, 2023

Oceanside Public Library, Oceanside CA

Originally in response to increasing gentrification in the region, these paintings have developed into an investigation of personal feelings around home, impermanence, and remembrance. Work will be exhibited 4/1 to 5/12 at the Civic Center Branch and from 5/12 to 6/23 at the Mission Branch of the Oceanside Public Library.


Prof. Monique van Genderen at Quint One

CLOSING SOON!

May 12 - June 24, 2023

Quint One, San Diego CA

Monique van Genderen’s practice includes large-scale abstractions characterized by expressive gestures and dynamic compositions. Each work communicates the process of painting itself, using the canvas to create a sense of expansiveness, depth, and movement.

Profs. Alexandro Segade & Malik Gaines, My Barbarian Maskworkers

CLOSING SOON!

May 13 - June 24, 2023

Vielmetter Los Angeles CA

Drawing from radical, queer, feminist and of-color performance lineages, critically adapting classical forms such as Commedia Dell’Arte and Noh, and playfully mixing in references to Sci-Fi and Horror movies, My Barbarian has worked with masks throughout their long collaboration.

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