COMING UP

VIS 105C class exhibition Veil & Vessel

March 6, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Alia Campos, Tessa Chan, Jacqueline Chang, Adela Day-Rodriguez, KristiLynn Effle, Kalie Elston, Dayton Garrett, Milan Guardado, Kelsey Hemphill, Natalia Hernandez, Mason Higgins-Goodell, Kelly Lau, Sarah Obregon, Natalia Robles, Marlan Shamilian, Annie Smith, Kylie Yang. A studio course in drawing, focusing on issues related to intention, subject matter, and context.

Prof. Janelle Iglesias in Visions of a Future

Reception: March 6, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

March 6 - May 8, 2025

The FRONT Arte & Cultura, San Ysidro, CA

Casa Familiar’s 18th Annual Dia de la Mujer Exhibition at The Front. Visions of a future considers cultural aesthetics from Afrofuturism, Latinfuturism, and Chicanofuturism to question the relationship between past, present and future in the Americas, exploring themes of migration, colonialism, racism, and cultural identity while actively challenging dominant narratives.

MFA alum Susan Mogul screening & conversation with UG alum Selene Preciado Tell Me About Your Mother

March 6, 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

LACE Screening Room, Los Angeles, CA

Join LACE and legendary artist and filmmaker Susan Mogul for the world premiere of her latest film, Tell Me About Your Mother (2024), which investigates matrilineal lineage, domesticity and creativity. Following the screening, LACE’s Curator and Director of Programs, Selene Preciado, moderates a conversation with Susan Mogul and artists Nao Bustamante and Yuchi Ma to contextualize their video art practice.

MFA alumni Blaise Tobia and Virginia Maksymowicz CETA Arts Legacy Project Roundtable

March 8, 1:00 - 2:15 pm

California College of the Arts, San Francisco, CA

As part of Forgotten Federal Art Legacies: PWAP to CETA Convening, sponsored by the Living New Deal. The Living New Deal’s mission is to keep alive the New Deal vision of large-scale government programs to meet the nation’s challenges and serve the common people. 

PhD student Jae Hwan Lim talk for NEKST

March 9 - March 10, 2025

Nam Center for Korean Studies, University of Michigan

Ph.D. Student Jae Hwan Lim presents his paper "The Temporality of Sewol Mothers" at the University of Michigan's 12th International Conference of NextGen Korean Studies Scholars (NEKST).

UG Studio Honors Open Studios

March 11, 12:30 - 3:30 p.m.

Mandeville 201B (upstairs), UC San Diego

Angelo Aguila, Julia Bushman, Gissela Castillo, Malika Charles, Sheeva Davari, Natalia Hernandez, Jaime Leynes, David Lovell, Armando Merino, Sarah Obregon, Lauren Reed, Trish Stockton, William Ung. STUDIO HONORS is a two consecutive quarter sequence for advanced students focusing on developing a self-directed studio practice and producing a Thesis Project.

VIS 169A class exhibition Land Embodied

March 11-12, 3:00 - 6:00 p.m.

March 13, 3:00 - 5:00 p.m.

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

This art exhibition explores the intersection of human presence and the landscapes we inhabit. Through photography and mixed media, the show displays portraits, movement, terrains, and the spaces in between, capturing the tension and harmony of lived experience. It delves into the freedom of those experiences and the raw curiosity that shapes us.

Math Bass: Russell Lecture with MCASD

March 13, 6:30 - 7:30 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego

Over the past decade, artist Math Bass has developed a lexicon of symbols in the series Newz!—letters, bodily forms, architectural fragments, animals, bones—arranged in a variety of scores, each symbol an empty space of meaning, filled in by the context in which it finds itself. Repetition of these symbols exposes the difference at the heart of each iteration; there is always a gap in meaning, something unnamable left out of and left over in the viewer’s reading.

MFA alum Sabrina Piersol in exhibition Elemental Rhythms

March 15 - May 15, 2025

Louis / Buhl & Co, Detroit, MI

Through painting and sculpture, the artists examine the intricate connections between nature, identity, and transformation, exploring cycles of growth and decay, the interplay between the natural and constructed worlds, and the ways personal and cultural histories are embedded in the landscapes we inhabit.

VIS 161 class exhibition Eventual Vectors

Reception: March 17, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Juliana Amaya, Amara Bhatia, Kaylee Bradshaw, Chanta Chea, Sarah Chung, Emma Denton, Sonia Klein, Audrey Legaspi, Kieli Leon, Sydney Nunnemaker, So Rivera, Rania Shamji, Ember Sierra, Isabella Vargas, Shruthi Venkatesh, Ajjon Zimmerman. "Systems + Networks @ Scale" introduces students to the study and design of complex systems and networks at diverse scales, from the nanometric to the planetary (and perhaps beyond).

VIS 141A exhibition MPifun -n 48 -arrowup catsmeow -finalrealfile finalbackup.py

March 19, 11:30 a.m. - 3:30 p.m.

Mandeville B-114 and B-116, UC San Diego

Animation and Data Visualization Showcase of VIS 141A work Winter 2025. The course introduces external APIs currently of interest in the arts, extending a common programming language such as C, C++, Python, or Java, and the basics of TCP/IP networking. Students gain API fluency through planning and coding software or software mediated art projects.

PhD student Jae Hwan Lim interview Thinking Outside the Boundary of "Art"

Public Public

Korean socially engaged art journal, Public Public (https://maily.so/publicpublic), interviewed Jae Hwan Lim about his journey as a socially engaged artist/researcher and the editorial collective of the FIELD Journal.

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Professor Dr. Pinar Yoldas, MFA alum Paolo Zuñiga in Embodied Pacific: Extraction, curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright

January 16 - March 14, 2025

Gallery QI, UC San Diego

Featuring works that engage elemental media used for millennia, returning our senses to the surface and to regenerative botanical practices. Artists: Pinar Yoldaş, Catherine Eng, Gloria Montes Crosthwaite, Ana Gloria (Martha) Rodriguez, and Stanley Rodriguez for Our Worlds, Paolo Zúñiga, and Betty Delsie Bosi and the women weavers of the Holau Vaka Taumako Association

Border Craft

March 1 - June 15, 2025

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Border Craft is a group exhibition featuring contemporary artists employing craft practices to address the geopolitical realities of borderland regions. The works on view serve as a feminist and critical counterpoint to dehumanizing systems designed to divide people and cultures. The exhibition includes MFA alum Isidro Pérez García and Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence, Tanya Aguiñiga.

Professor Memo Akten, PhD student Joe Riley, MFA alumni Ash Eliza Smith, Robert Twomey in Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen

October 4, 2024 - Ongoing

Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen invites you to explore Scripps Institution of Oceanography and Indigenous science through the eyes of contemporary artists. Collectively, the exhibition asks us to consider how ocean science technology is not just about “high-tech” but also very much about the tools we use to shape our understanding of the ocean’s unseen mysteries.

CLOSING SOON

MFA alum Crystal Z Campbell solo exhibition Currents 124

October 25, 2024 - March 9, 2025

Saint Louis Art Museum, St. Louis MO

In their first solo museum exhibition, Campbell reflects on material histories, archival imagery, and abstraction in a subtle evocation of the Philippine landscape and colonial extraction. Rooted in familial history and the underloved, these new works in blown glass, handmade paper, digital collages, and video evocatively trace the ways in which nature, U.S. colonization of the Philippines, and abstraction are intertwined.

MFA alumni Jessica Buie, Dillon Chapman in RUINS, curated by MFA alum Nathan Storey

February 20 - March 15, 2025

Union Hall Art Space, Denver, CO

Curated by Nathan Storey the exhibition features six interdisciplinary artists reckoning with queer histories, pasts, archives, legacies, and loss within their own contemporary studio practices. The artists search for their fragmentary pieces and reimagine queer constellations as they unearth LGBTQ+ histories.

Professor Rubén Ortiz-Torres solo exhibition Zonas de Colaboración

January 31 - March 16, 2025

Wallach Art Gallery, New York, NY

The first major solo exhibition in New York of this seminal post-Mexican, neo-American artist, it highlights new directions in his groundbreaking practice. A leading figure in the Mexican and Latinx artistic communities, Ortiz-Torres’s spectacular deconstruction of styles, dislocation of paradigms of identity, and creation of new forms of political aesthetics offers multiple perspectives on the fluidity of culture.

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