Reception: February 1, 12:00 - 3:00 p.m. 

Jan. 29 - Feb. 4 by appointment: m1butler@ucsd.edu

Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

Maddie Butler presents a series of collages composed entirely of photographs excavated from her high school social media accounts. Returning to these images 15 years after they were taken, Butler’s interventions transform the snapshots into uneasy landscapes of nostalgia, desire and suburban girlhood.

Reception: February 1, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

January 30 - February 1, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

This exhibition aims to create an immersive experience for visitors, inviting them to reflect on the transformative power of love and the resilience and elegance embodied by nature. The exhibition will celebrate the intricate relationships between these concepts and inspire viewers to delve deeper into their own journeys of growth and self-discovery.

February 1, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Spanning photography, film/video, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, and performance, the works in the exhibition reimagine communal archives and ancestral histories, contest colonial narratives of progress and discovery, and portray the body as defiantly present, undergoing constant movement and transformation.

Reception: January 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.

February 1 - April 30, 2024

(re)FOCUS 2024, Philadelphia PA

The Artfront Partnership, a public art project under the aegis of Philadelphia Sculptors, has commissioned artists with a feminist perspective to transform vacant, dark storefronts into illuminated art spaces. Virginia Maksymowicz’s window considers the resilience and strength of the female figure in architecture by using the imagery of caryatids, who appear effortless in their supportive roles.

February 2, 9:45 a.m. - 6:00 p.m.

Getty Center, Los Angeles CA

The Getty Research Institute hosts the sixth annual Getty Graduate Symposium, which showcases the work of emerging scholars from art history graduate programs across California. Joe Riley will present "Ocean Art History and Critical Ecological Practice: Visualizing Algae as a Passenger of Change," introduced by Professor John Welchman.

February 3, 2:00 - 3:00 p.m.

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

For this piece, Min recants childhood memories that revolve around an intimate relationship with a piece of clothing in a house of domestic tension, care, play, and loss. Audience members are expected to shift throughout the performance, from viewer to participant, stationary to moving. There will be mentions of death and parental disciplinary actions. 

February 3, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, UC San Diego

Join Music M.A. alumnus Jonathan Sacks for a discussion of his distinguished career as a composer and orchestrator. Learn about what music brings to movies as Jonathan discusses his work in Toy Story 3, Mr. Holland's Opus, and other film favorites.

February 3 - May 2024

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY

As artificial intelligence tools for image creation enter the mainstream with text-to-image software such as DALL-E, Midjourney, and Stable Diffusion, Harold Cohen: AARON examines the historical foundations of AI artmaking and provides a deep exploration of creativity, authorship, and collaboration in the context of AI.

February 7, 1:00 - 6:00 p.m.

UpThere, VAF 353, UC San Diego

Lecturer Dino Dinco asked students in his VIS175 media class, Editing: Theory & Practice, to create experimental texts using the Cut-Up method. The texts reflect diverse strategies not only for cutting and reconnecting words and phrases but working with (or against) language to achieve linguistic and narrative coherence and incoherence.

February 8, 1:30 - 3:00 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Doc. dr. Boštjan Bugarič is an architect, researcher, curator, critic and editor. Since 2014 he has been an editor at the open source community Architectuul in Berlin. He is a professor at the Visual art and Design department at the Faculty of Pedagogy in Koper.

February 9, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

MCASD, La Jolla

Known for his dense multimedia compositions that reference both art history and mythology, Hundley’s work weaves together scenes from the past with familiar imagery taken from the contemporary world. Working in a variety of media Hundley fuses painting, drawing, sculpture, collage, photography, and performance into rich, multifaceted tableaux.

February 9 - February 11, 2024

Museo Tamayo, Ciudad de México

Machine Yearning is a weekend-long survey of personal investigations and critical perspectives on generative AI by artists. The program starts with an evening at the Museo Tamayo on February 9th, hosted by Ríos. Co-presented by KADIST, the University of Monterrey, and FERIA MATERIAL, the event features a keynote lecture by Manuel DeLanda.

February 10 - July 7, 2024 

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY

The first major exhibition of the Dean Collection (Swizz Beats & Alicia Keys), Giants showcases a focused selection from the couple’s world-class holdings. The Brooklyn Museum’s presentation spotlights works by Black diasporic artists, part of our ongoing efforts to expand the art-historical narrative.

February 12, 8:00 - 10:00 p.m.

CalARTS / Redcat, Los Angeles CA

A feature-length film meditation on vulnerability and interconnection through the lens of a natural forest and through the body of the filmmaker. From Inside of Here is preceded by Tending the Orchard, a collaboration around an orchard initiated by Basquin with co-director Katherine Agard (Creative Writing MFA 2018) that brings up history, anger, colonial violence, and the chance to feel the closeness of relationship.

February 13 - February 15, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Throughout my portfolio, I’ve largely dealt with the imperceptible or unremarkable, such as hostile architecture, roadkill, and graffiti; these instances are potent symbols for larger societal and infrastructural issues, relating to the removal of public spaces, takeover of nature, and the dichotomy of private vs. public art.

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.

October 9, 2023 - January 31, 2024

Geisel Library, UC San Diego

This exhibit exposes the diversity of North Korean society through publications, personal items, arts and North Korean propaganda posters from the UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives. Underlining the existence and everyday life of North Korea and its people, the physical materials in this exhibit invite open and critical thought exchanges about the country, where outsiders can rarely visit.

January 11 - February 3, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Spanning photography, film/video, printmaking, sculpture, drawing, and performance, the works in the exhibition reimagine communal archives and ancestral histories, contest colonial narratives of progress and discovery, and portray the body as defiantly present, undergoing constant movement and transformation.