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COMING UP

Chico MacMurtrie Border Crossers hosted by Professor Ricardo Dominguez

Reception: October 5, 5:00 p.m. 

October 5 - December 8, 2023

Gallery QI, UC San Diego

These projects channel MacMurtrie’s aesthetic and political concerns into speculative interventions at or along the U.S.-Mexico border. While his “Border Crossers” inflate over the border fence from both sides at once as a gesture of connection between two countries, the “Dual Pneuma” sculpture embodies the idea of a fluid cultural identity.

Asst. Professor Janelle Iglesias in How to Survive

October 6, 2023 - September 15, 2024

Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK

Examining ideas of interconnectedness, caretaking, and listening—between humans, land, plants, and animals—the works on view invite reflection, encourage action, and seek to cultivate optimism in the face of challenge. 

Mandeville Art Gallery How We Gather

Reception: October 7, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

October 7 - December 9, 2023

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

The group exhibition How We Gather investigates the notion and enactment of solidarity across various contemporary artists’ practices through the lens of the pandemic. Opening Party Saturday October 7th, 2-6pm, featuring a new commission by Elana Mann and Sharon Chohi Kim, performed by the San Diego New Verbal Workshop at 4pm. Taco catering 2-4pm, open bar 2-6pm.

MFA candidate Chanell Stone in Affective Resistance

Reception: October 7, 2:00 p.m.

October 7 - December 16, 2023

University Art Gallery, UC Irvine CA

Affective Resistance brings together works by eight artists using performance art and materialist abstraction as modes of resistance to systemic racism and state power. Several works in the exhibition draw out the conflict between the democratic ideal of liberty and the subjugation of the body under the carceral system.

PhD candidate Jae Hwan Lim organized Mundanity of North Korea

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.

MFA alum Isidro Pérez García in Land of Milk & Honey

Reception: October 13, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

October 13 - December 2, 2024

Steppling Gallery & casa la linea, Calexico CA

The MexiCali Biennial presents Land of Milk & Honey, a traveling multidisciplinary arts and culture program that focuses on concepts of agriculture in the regions of California and Mexico. Isidro Pérez García will perform Pulquería Chilote at casa la linea - arte contemporaneo following the reception from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.

MFA alum Omar Pimienta and Professors Ricardo Dominguez, Brett Stalbaum (EDT 3.0) in Land of Milk & Honey

Reception October 14, 7:00 p.m.

October 14 - December 1, 2024

Planta Libre, Mexicali MX

The MexiCali Biennial presents Land of Milk & Honey, a traveling multidisciplinary arts and culture program that focuses on concepts of agriculture in the regions of California and Mexico. Border Activations will occur on October 15th. (Electronic Disturbance Theater) EDT 3.0 will utilize audio and drone technology in a performance titled SOCIAL ECHOLOGIES: SCENE 3 starting at 2:00 p.m.

Professors Alexandro Segade & Malik Gaines opera Star Choir reviewed

Hyperallergic

STAR CHOIR achieves what important theater is meant to do: transport us, allow an escape from ourselves, while taking us deeper within. And honestly … it’s a sci-fi opera in a telescope. IT’S COOL!

Another review in San Francisco Classical Voice

MFA alum Doris Bittar named 2023 California Arts Council Legacy Artist


Interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, educator, and social justice activist, Doris Bittar is a 2023 California Arts Council Legacy Artist recipient for artistic accomplishments, mentoring of young artists, and decades-long community organizing. 

ONGOING IN TOWN

MFA alumni Cat Gunn, Hazel Katz, Heige Kim, Arlene Mejorado, Lorena Ochoa in NextGen 2023

September 9, 2023 - January 28, 2024

ICA Central, San Diego CA

NextGen presents the work of seven graduating artists from regional art programs, chosen by a jury of art professionals. NextGen celebrates emerging artistic voices and highlights the innovative work being produced across the San Diego region. The artists selected for this year’s exhibition work across media–from painting and photography, to installation, sculpture and video–combining found objects with personal mementos, mining their family histories, cultural legacies, and identities.

MFA alum Taylor Chapin Tell Me About Yourself

September 23 - December 30, 2023

ICA North, Encinitas CA

In her paintings, Taylor Chapin uses bold color, swirling patterns, and enigmatically camouflaged figures to reflect a consumerist society that treats beauty and goods as social currency. In this new body of work, Chapin employs the visual strategies of advertising to reflect on this current moment in which our identity has become our brand.

Prof. Emerita Eleanor Antin and Profs. Malik Gaines & Alexandro Segade in Eleanor Antin and My Barbarian

September 21, 2023 - February 18, 2024

Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA

Included in MCASD's exhibition are the 51 postcards that document Antin's 100 Boots as well as pieces featuring her alter ego, the King of Solana Beach. My Barbarian's layered performances continue Antin’s spirit of social critique and playfulness.

CLOSING SOON

Prof. Emeritus Haim Steinbach in Concerning Nature

September 6 - October 14, 2023

Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York NY

The works on view invite us to consider the full range of human experiences with nature, from the ecstatic to the darkest impulses, while simultaneously investigating the joyfulness and pleasure that come from the natural world. 

MFA alum Sadie Barnette Family Business

March 10 - October 15, 2023

San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose CA

Sadie Barnette’s multimedia practice explores her own family history as it mirrors a collective history of repression and resistance in the United States. Fascinated with the personal and political value of kin, her work highlights the love and humanity cultivated in familial spaces.

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