COMING UP

PhD candidate Hande Sever in There in Green California

Reception: March 30, 6:00 - 10:00 p.m.

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.

MFA alum Lorena Ochoa Ruegos y Desiertos

Artist Walkthrough: March 30, 1:00 p.m.

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. 

Prof. Janelle Iglesias Las Hermanas Iglesias

Reception: March 30, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

March 30 - April 28, 2024

PULP Gallery, Holyoke MA

As the children of Norwegian and Dominican immigrants born and raised in Queens, our multidisciplinary work explores issues of hybridity, social participation, and transnational identities.

Nathan Storey MFA Thesis Exhibition

AS THE SUN WOUNDS THE SHADOW

Reception: April 5, 5:00 - 7:00 p.m.

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.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in Fragmented Bodies

Reception: April 5, 2024

April 5 - June 24

Galleria Lorcan O'Neill, Rome, Italy

Rally Film Screening and Q&A

April 6, 4:00 - 6:30 p.m.

Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts, UC San Diego

The Department of Visual Arts is please to co-sponsor this screening and discussion with filmmaker Rooth Tang. RALLY is a documentary that dives into the controversial influence of political activist Rose Pak and Chinatown's rise to power.

MFA alum Taylor Chapin Tip Toe

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

April 6 - May 11, 2024

Quint Gallery, La Jolla CA

These new oil paintings resonate with Chapin’s surreal style of patterning and further develop her interest in modes of figuration. Through the poses of her sitters, each fully concealed by checked and striped fabrics, she navigates collective human sentiments in life-sized scale and manufactures a limbo in which they all reside.

Profs. Alexandro Segade & Malik Gaines screening Star Choir

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 Jordan Rose book The Revolution Takes Form

Penn State University Press

During the French Revolution of 1830, insurgents raised some four thousand barricades. Afterward, lithographs of the street fighting flowed from the presses, creating the barricade’s first imagery. This book documents the changing political valence of the revolutionary ideals associated with the barricade in France from 1830 to 1852.

Lauren Lee McCarthy: Bodily Autonomy featured on Outland


The Mandeville Art Gallery exhibition "Lauren Lee McCarthy: Bodily Autonomy" is featured in a new article titled "Shock Therapy" published in Outland by Editor-in-Chief Brian Droitcour

VIS 149 class Beyond Dystopia

Online Exhibition

Professor Amy Alexander’s VIS 149 seminar, Beyond Dystopia: “AI." Machine learning works and experiments at the intersections of trepidation, optimism, and the great beyond. Featuring works by Andrea Luna; Preston Lin; Kathleen Huang; Luis Mateo; Ryan Munoz; Jorge Valdez Diaz; Yoko Zhuang; Annie; Xuanru; Ruiqi; Matthew Wastila; Acile Zidane; Bryce Lee; Anessa Williamson; Ana Ramos-Ontiveros; Yue Ma.

Graduate Open Studios Online

Grad Exhibitions Online

In case you missed Open Studios on March 2nd, you can see online versions of the screening program, exhibitions, and artists' studios!

CLOSING SOON

PhD candidate Doreen Ríos curated Espacios Líquidos: Políticas de la Pantalla

January 31 - March 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.

Assc. Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya in Copy Machine Manifestos

November 17, 2023 – March 31, 2024

Brooklyn Museum, Brooklyn NY

Since the 1970s, zines—short for “fanzines,” magazines, or self-published booklets of texts and images, usually made with a copy machine—have given a voice and visibility to many operating outside of mainstream culture. Artists have harnessed the medium’s essential role in communication and community building and used it to transform material and conceptual approaches to art making across all media.

MFA alum Lorna Simpson in The Flesh of the Earth

February 1 - April 6, 2024

Hauser & Wirth, New York NY

Curated by Enuma Okoro, ‘The Flesh of the Earth’ encourages us all to consider ways of decentering ourselves from the prevalent anthropocentric narrative, to reimagine a more intimate relationship with the earth, and to renew our connection with the life-force energy that surges through all of the natural world, both human and more-than-human.

PhD alum Gabi Schaffzin in imaginary i

November 11, 2023 – April 7, 2024

Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, Madison WI

imaginary i compares how artists and mathematicians utilize constructs of the imaginary, or complex numbers, to envision the future and reclaim, retrace, and reveal past patterns. When examining MMoCA’s collecting patterns, there emerges a history of acquisitions that dovetails with explorations of science and math.

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