COMING UP

Nathan Storey MFA Thesis Exhibition

AS THE SUN WOUNDS THE SHADOW

Performance: April 12, 5:00 p.m.

April 5 - April 12, 2024

Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

In AS THE SUN WOUNDS THE SHADOWS, Nathan Storey presents various bodies of work, such as Traces and Stains, that propose printed matter as a facilitator, witness, and residue of gay desire. Storey's artistic practice explores the intricate relationship between printed materials and queer memory, collectivity, liberation, and loss.

Chloe Nickels UG Exhibition Natural Defenses

Reception: April 11, 4:00 - 7:00 p.m.

April 8 - April 12, 2024

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego


Profs. Alexandro Segade & Malik Gaines screening Star Choir and talk with Prof. Alena Williams

April 12, 6:30 - 9:00 p.m.

Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, UC San Diego

Produced by The Industry, an experimental company that expands the operatic form in Los Angeles, this film chronicles Star Choir’s live premiere in fall 2023 at the historic Mt. Wilson Observatory, where an ensemble cast and orchestra performed inside the 100-inch telescope.

Professor Danielle Dean Out of this World

Reception: April 12, 7:00 p.m.

April 13 - June 15, 2024

Mercer Union, Toronto Canada

Commissioned for her solo exhibition Out of this World, Dean’s new film is a portrait of Hemel Hempstead, where she was raised and unfolds as a personal essay on the town’s history as a planned community under the New Towns Act of 1946.

Lecturer Joshua Tonies & MFA alum Joe Yorty The Treachery of Pleather

Closing Reception: April 13, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

March 9 - April 13, 2024

Best Practice, San Diego CA

A two-person exhibition of both individual and collaborative works. While their studio work, in terms of both content and material, diverges in several ways, working together synthesized areas of convergence. In particular, themes of queerness and invisibility/visibility emerged and ultimately became the foundation of their collaboration.

UG alum Marisa DeLuca in SDSU Graduate Open Studios

April 13, 10:00 a.m. - 2:00 p.m.

San Diego State University, San Diego CA

The Graduate Students at SDSU School of Art and Design are excited to open their studios to the public! This year, Open Studios will align with #ExploreSDSU, where prospective students will engage with the larger SDSU community and visit the campus with their families.

Jun!yi Min MFA Thesis Exhibition

I hope we wake to a body we love

Reception: April 19, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Performance: April 21, 4:00 p.m.

April 19 - April 26, daily 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

SME Gallery, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

Jun! offers a critical sustainable approach to difficult endurance performances that confront death by offering a space where death, pain, love, and intimacy can coexist. In doing so, Jun! reframes endurance as a practice of waiting for a better future, a future where we can wake to a body that we love.

Deanna Barahona MFA Thesis Exhibition ALL I CAN LEAVE YOU IS THIS GLITTER

Reception: April 19, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

April 19 - April 26, 2024

Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

ALL I CAN LEAVE YOU IS THIS GLITTER refers to more than just material possession but the impression of memories and ephemerality. The exhibition responds to the maximalist visuals of a family party, and its "glitter" or remnants of identity carried through migration while settling in new places.

UCSD Film Festival

April 20 - April 21, 2024

Price Center Theater, UC San Diego

Tickets are open for the 2024 UCSD Film Festival! Join us in celebrating UCSD's creative community April 20th and 21st. We will have 3 screenings of short films by UCSD students, a Q+A with an Emmy Award winning director, demos by Canon of their new cameras, and more! Tickets are free and open to the public.

Saba Zavarei: Remote Guest Lecture

April 22, 11:00 a.m. - 12:30 p.m.

YouTube Livestream

Saba Zavarei is a writer, researcher and artist, and the politics of body and space are at the core of her research and practice. Working across the media of text, performance and placemaking, she explores the ways in which bodies and performative interventions contribute to the production of space and the urban condition.

UG student Macey Keung Queer Love on 35mm Film

Kamil Gallery Online

"This photography series, shot on 35mm film, aims to capture raw love and intimacy amongst queer couples. By focusing entirely on bedrooms and interior spaces in the comfort of their homes, I strive to portray queer relationships rooted in authenticity. Breaking down the barriers between public and private spheres, this series invites viewers to witness pure moments that reflect the freedom and safe spaces within queer love."

MFA alum Angela Washko You Are: Mother, Player

April 5 – May 5, 2024

Public Works Administration, New York NY

You Are: Mother, Player is a solo exhibition centered around Angela Washko's 2020 Creative Capital project, Mother, Player, an experimental narrative video game featuring pregnancy and early parenthood stories from the artist (made during the global pandemic).

Professor Amy Adler Newest La Jolla mural presents a nighttime playground for the imagination

La Jolla Light

Adler’s work, “Location,” is the latest piece in the Murals of La Jolla program, which features 17 murals around town funded by private donations and installed and removed on a rotation. “Location” was installed in late March on the Kline Street side of a building at 7661 Girard Ave. 

The Perfect Specimen: An Interview of Lauren Lee McCarthy by PhD candidate Doreen A. Ríos

Autre Magazine

In Lauren Lee McCarthy’s Bodily Autonomy exhibition at UC San Diego’s Mandeville Art Gallery, she explores two very specific aspects of the way that we engage with science and technology.

CLOSING SOON

MFA candidate Jamil Baldwin in 9 Lives

March 8 - April 12, 2024

BELLYMAN, Los Angeles CA

Charles Snowden, Chris Velez, David Roy and Otis Technology Research Collective, Emelia Gertner, Haniko Zahra, Jamil Baldwin, Kearra Amaya Gopee, Maren Karlson, Molly McDonald, Nehemiah Cisneros, PG Collective, Shani Strand, Sophie Friedman-Pappas, Susan Arapricio, Tyler Christopher Brown. Curation by Salim Green and John Bogaard.

MFA alum Lorena Ochoa Ruegos y Desiertos

March 9 - April 13, 2024

Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles CA

Ochoa brings the stuff of everyday life into the work, and through that summons both the unique spirit of the immigrant neighborhood and the heavy weight of history. Found-object combines and sculptural assemblages juxtapose the familiar and the fantastic – deserts and dreams – in works that incisively critique the mythos of the American west through the lens of the Chicanx experience. 

Professor Monique van Genderen A Sweet Sidelong Glance

March 9 - April 13, 2024

Galerie Richard, Paris, France

Her paintings catch the attention first by their wide range of colors, soft and vibrant, and their perfect combinations. At a closer distance each painting expresses specific ways to apply the paint and very different painterly renderings fom light soft touches to vigourous large brush strokes.

PhD candidate Hande Sever in There in Green California

March 29 - April 19, 2024

Human Resources, Los Angeles CA

The artists in this exhibition address cycles of violence and loss. From the most abstract to the figurative, the material or psychological, they provide embodied perspectives across experiments with material and form.

Profs. Lorena Mostajo & Alexandro Segade, MFA alum Matthew T Williams, UG alum Leslye Villaseñor in Leucadia

March 16 - April 20, 2024

Oolong Gallery + Brown Studio, Encinitas CA

The Brown Studio includes a gallery and a garden which will be transformed into an exhibition and art party site from 5-9pm on Saturday, March 16. The Oolong warehouse will host a large scale salon style main exhibition (opening from 12-4pm) for the duration of the joint shows through April 20.

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