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COMING UP

Celebration of Professor Danielle Dean and MFA alum Taylor Chapin

Reception: October 21, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

ICA North, Encinitas CA

Come celebrate our fall exhibitions at ICA North! Join Danielle Dean for a tour of her exhibition, Bazar, and listen in on a conversation between Taylor Chapin and ICA Curator Jordan Karney Chaim. Before the conversation, enjoy a DJ set by Chapin’s audio-collaborator, Emily Afton. Close out the evening with live music by Mara Kaye and Tim McNalley.

A woven word web of our own / AWWWOOO workshop with Alice Yuan Zhang

October 21, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

This workshop explores the intimate canvas of a local network through a joint exercise in creative writing and server hosting. Learn to make a web page, use the terminal, write with others, and weave a networked narrative. In conjunction with the exhibition “How We Gather,” which investigates solidarity through the lens of the pandemic.

Assoc. Professor Danielle Dean Bazar

Reception: October 21, 4:00 - 8:00 p.m.

October 21 - December 30, 2023

ICA North, Encinitas CA

Bazar originated out of Dean’s research in the archives of Bazar de l’Hôtel de Ville, and her work with a group of women from Permis de Vivre la Ville (License to Live in the City), a community engagement organization working to increase social engagement in the Paris suburbs.

MFA alum Crystal Z Campbell screening Listen Now, We Speak Beyond This Moment

October 23, 2023, 8:00 p.m.

Redcat, Los Angeles CA

Crystal Z Campbell’s films speak with collective power. Speaking before, and beyond, our present moment, these works unravel tangled and ignored histories, while also building future repositories for healing and knowledge. The program includes a post-screening talk with Crystal Z Campbell, moderated by Jheanelle Brown.

PhD candidate Doreen Ríos discussion Navegar las Fronteras Digitales

October 25, 2023, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

University of Bogota Jorge Tadeo Lozano, Colombia

Doreen Ríos will be participating in a conversation at the Coloquio de An-arqueología de los medios (Symposium of Media An-archaeology) hosted by Línea de Arte, Ciencia y Tecnología, IDARTES in Bogotá, Colombia, alongside Canek Zapata. Their discussion is titled "Navegar las Fronteras Digitales" (Navigating the Digital Frontiers).

Professor John C. Welchman book launch events for Royal Book Lodge

October 25, 26, & 29, 2023

Centre Pompidou, Paris; Toulouse, FR; Brussels, Belgium

John C. Welchman will discuss the first in-depth study of the 35 years of collaborative activity of Royal Book Lodge with an international network of artists, initiated at the end of the 1980s by Juli Susin and Véronique Bourgoin. An exceptional meeting in the presence of the author and artists.

PhD candidate Hande Sever in UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium

October 27, 10:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Hammer Museum, Los Angeles CA

Bodies of water contain multiple dimensions of histories, cultures, and topographies of the world. They have facilitated the movement of resources, goods, and people over long distances. The 58th Annual UCLA Art History Graduate Symposium, In/On/Across Bodies of Water, will explore bodies of water as media of expression, spaces of connection, frameworks of thoughts, and systems of cultural exchanges in art history.

PhD candidate Doreen Ríos curated Bienal Universitaria de Arte Multimedial

October 27, 2023 - January 10, 2024

Universidad de San Francisco de Quito, Ecuador

Titled "Espacios Líquidos: Políticas de la Pantalla" (Liquid Spaces: Screen Politics). This exhibition will be hosted at both the Centro de Arte Contemporáneo and Q Galería in Quito, Ecuador. This edition is committed to reflection on thinking, navigating, using and hacking screens and their contents through artistic proposals.

UG alum Kimberly R. Heard Let It Ripen on the Windowsill

Reception: October 28, 2:00 - 7:00 p.m.

October 14 – October 29 by appointment

orlando, Los Angeles CA

In 2020, Heard inherited a photographic archive that documented the quotidian life of her extended family dating back to the early 1900s. Through her mediation of archival and ephemeral material, the photographic image is transmuted into a boundless and unfixed form.

MFA candidate Jun!yi Min, MFA alum Cat Gunn in Queering the Table

October 30, 5:30 - 9:30pm

Mingei Museum, San Diego CA

The familial dinner table is often a daunting space for queer Asians because of unspoken games, awkwardness, hierarchical ideology, and passive aggressiveness. This one-day exhibition, curated by Jun!yi Min, clears the table by forefronting open communication and providing space for communal witnessing. Please RSVP

PhD candidate Hande Sever Something Like A Battlecry: On Sculptor Kuzgun Acar

November 1, 2:00 - 3:30 p.m.

Black Studies Project, PEB 201, UC San Diego

Hande Sever's dissertation research focuses on the life and work of Ethiopian-Turkish artist Kuzgun Acar (1928–1976), a pioneering Black artist and activist whose entire oeuvre was destroyed in the aftermath of the 1971 and 1980 Turkish military coups. RSVP for lunch

Ceres Madoo: Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence Lecture

November 2, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

Center Hall, Room 119, UC San Diego

Ceres Madoo is a Los Angeles based mixed media artist, who describes herself as a mix of a mix. West Indian, American, Black, Indian, Jewish and Mormon, like her art work, Ceres’ personal identity defies categorization. With a BA from UC San Diego ('89) and an MFA from Rutgers University, her conceptual, fluxus, critical educational roots happily collide with her inherent interests in non-western art, folk and craft methodologies.

MFA alum Lorena Ochoa exhibition ‘Se Busca’ in LA Times


Artist Lorena Ochoa sees their birthplace of Santa Ana as a city that contains multitudes. Ochoa explores those multitudes in their show at the Grand Central Art Center in Santa Ana, “Lorena Ochoa: Se Busca,” which examines the place where memory and transport intersect in their home town.

Prof. Grant Kester presents Issue #25 of Field Journal


We are living through a singular cultural moment in which the conventional relationship between art and the social world, and between artist and viewer, is being questioned and renegotiated. FIELD responds to the remarkable proliferation of new artistic practices devoted to forms of political, social and cultural transformation.

Assoc. Professor Danielle Dean in A Well-trained Eye

September 22, 2023 - March 2, 2024

Visual Arts Center, Austin TX

The possibilities, limitations, and responsibilities that come with instructing both humans and computers how to see stand at the core of A Well-trained Eye. The exhibition features works by thirteen artists who explore issues such as surveillance, classification, and categorical thinking in relation to AI technologies, looking closely at the biases that underlie data collection and analysis. 

Assoc. Professor Danielle Dean in Tomorrow is a Different Day

Ongoing

Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam NL

Tomorrow is a Different Day spotlights art and design from the collection, from 1980 to the present, by international artists and designers who are helping to shape the changes of today and tomorrow. They challenge the status quo and offer alternative perspectives.

ON CAMPUS

Mandeville Art Gallery How We Gather

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.

Chico MacMurtrie Border Crossers

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.

PhD student 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.

CLOSING SOON

MFA alum Jesse Mockrin The Venus Effect

September 8 - October 21, 2023

James Cohan Gallery, New York NY

Jesse Mockrin’s luminous oil paintings extract details from European Old Master paintings, reformulating and recontextualizing cultural narratives and art historical motifs to speak to the present. For Mockrin, these paintings and stories function as an entry point into an ongoing conversation about images, time, appropriation, and gender constructs.

MFA alum Virginia Maksymowicz The Lightness of Bearing

September 5 - October 28, 2023

Rowan University Art Gallery, Glassboro NJ

The works consider the symbolic resilience and strength of the female figure in art and architecture by blending the mythology of caryatids, (architectural columns of women effortlessly bearing the weight of massive architectural structures) with images of women from indigenous and ethnic cultures bearing the weight of ritualistic traditions.

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