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December 20, 7:30 p.m.
Bread and Salt, San Diego, CA
Presented as part of Project [Blank]'s Salty Series of performances, Bob Cratchit is on his way home from work when a spaceship crash lands in his path. In this extraterrestrial twist on a holiday classic, an alien, a gallerist, an enormous piece of sacred toast and YOU help Bob navigate his existential workplace woes.
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December 21, 2024 - April 6, 2025
Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA
This exhibition explores contemporary artists’ use of unusual mark-making devices, including blood, smoke, Kool-Aid, coffee, scrap metal, vegetable juice, pins, dryer lint, and more, to create drawings and prints. Out of the Ordinary examines artists’ wide-ranging motivations for choosing such unorthodox media, from sensory play and experimentation to excavations of the charged historical and symbolic values of mundane substances.
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Reception: January 9, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.
January 9-February 8, 2025
Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego
Participating Artists: Cuyler Ballenger, Maddie Butler, Coralys Carter, Nykelle DeVivo, Olivia Kayang, Moe Penders, John Singletary. The MFA Visual Arts Preview Exhibition is a group exhibition showcasing work by soon-to-graduate MFAs in advance of their final solo thesis shows. Los Angeles-based curator Irene Georgia Tsatsos worked as the Curatorial Advisor for the exhibition, where she conducted studio visits with the cohort and devised the exhibition’s title and theme.
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January 10 - March 1, 2025
Bortolami Gallery, New York, NY
The exhibition expands and shifts the ways the artist depicts interior space in photographs by extending his studio pictures from the constructed “staged” area into the as-is quotidian workspace, and further still, by photographing within the same gallery where the images are now exhibited.
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Hyperallergic
The artist focuses on a few key materials: emergency blankets, tar, and steel oil barrels. These materials reference the displacement and human cost of our government’s actions across the globe, as well as the natural resources that drive so much of our foreign policy. Indeed, one of the major reasons for the 1953 coup was to protect British oil interests in Iran.
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The program supports writing about contemporary art and aims to ensure that critical writing remains a valued mode of engaging with the visual arts. These grants support projects addressing both general and specialized art audiences, from reviews for magazines and newspapers to in-depth scholarly studies.
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December 15, 2024 - August 3, 2025
Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA
The project debuts new acquisitions for LACMA and expands the Pan-African exhibition canon, historically focused on the Black Atlantic, by showcasing artists working along the Pacific Rim. Nearly 70 works of painting, sculpture, photography, works on paper, and time-based media are organized into four themes: speech and silence, movement and transformation, imagination, and representation.
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December 14, 2024 - January 12, 2025
Hill Street Country Club, Oceanside, CA
Supporting the farewell programming for the Hill Street Country Club's closing in Oceanside, artist Marisa DeLuca will be holding a solo exhibition reflecting on catastrophic change in the region. Her body of work examines time, memory, and the socioeconomic implications of cultural erasure through oil paintings and installation.
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September 9, 2024 - January 26, 2025
The Gallery at Geisel Library, UC San Diego
Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall in the Archives, with works by Amy Adler, Kimberly Heard, Judit Hersko, Lauryn Smith, Chanell Stone, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright, PhD candidates Joe Riley and Stephania Torres-Londono.
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September 9, 2024 – January 26, 2025
The Nest at Geisel Library, UC San Diego
An exhibition featuring works about the Zooglider, an autonomous vehicle for optical and acoustic sensing of zooplankton, by artist Claudine Arendt in collaboration with ocean scientists Mark Ohman and Sven Gastauer. Through a Porcelain Cast is part of the Fall 2024 Embodied Pacific platform of programming.
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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.
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October 19 - December 19, 2024
Plexus Projects Online, Brooklyn NY
Plexus Projects presents a series of online exhibitions exploring technological representations of the biological world. GUI/GOOEY features artworks that examine notions of “life” and “nature” with computational, digital, and virtual tools.
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November 2 - December 21, 2024
Track 16 Gallery, Los Angeles CA
Bazmandegan explores the intersection of space, memory, and the material world to examine the complexities of exile and displacement. Through installation, sculpture, and painting, he evokes the profound sense of loss, absence, and trauma that often accompanies the body and mind of an exile.
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October 25 - December 21, 2024
Luhring Augustine, New York, NY
Slice of Life showcases a group of MacConnel’s seminal “bedsheet” paintings alongside a number of smaller gouaches on paper, which served as studies for the larger works. The presentation of this selection of works, all produced between 1978 and 1982, offers fresh insight into a key figure of the Pattern and Decoration movement.
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December 6 - December 22, 2024
Human Resources, Los Angeles CA
The works in this exhibition challenge us to find other ways to talk about photography and the problem of interpretation. Together they acknowledge, explore and trouble cultural genealogies as well as systems of value, familial and otherwise, both locally and globally.
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September 7 - December 29, 2024
Museume of Art and History (MOAH), Lancaster CA
The Desert Forest exhibition, part of Getty's PST Art: Art & Science Collide initiative, sheds light on the endangered Joshua tree and the fragile Mojave Desert ecosystem that sustains it. Additionally the article "Calling for Action" in the current edition of Aesthetica Magazine features Ruth Wallen's artwork and an interview with exhibition curator Sant Khalsa and Ruth.
Aesthetica Magazine Article
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February 1 - December 31, 2024
Longview Museum of Fine Arts, Longview TX
Celebrating American artists from the 20th and 21st centuries, using works from LMFA’s diverse Permanent Collection. Jewish-American Native-America Asian-American African-American Naïve or Self-taught Latin-American U.S. Veterans East Texas and Local.
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December 7, 2024 - January 4, 2025
Quint Gallery, La Jolla CA
Quint Gallery is pleased to present a new suite of paintings made by Monique van Genderen since a summer stay in Sea Ranch, a beacon of modernist architecture located on Highway 1 in Sonoma County and set between the coast and the Gualala river. In addition to van Genderen's paintings, there will be a short film and documentation of the central painting in progress by Lile Kvantaliani, and an original poem by Jennifer Moxley, responding to the film.
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June 29, 2024 - January 5, 2025
Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY
Survival Piece #5: Portable Orchard marks the first standalone museum presentation of the fully realized indoor citrus grove conceived and designed in 1972 by artists and Emeriti Professors Helen Mayer Harrison (1927–2018) and Newton Harrison (1932–2022).
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