COMING UP

UG student Youngmi Bombach More About: Emotions Left Behind the Window

February 11 - February 14, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

In our lives, we form relationships in various ways, and these connections, whether positive or negative, inevitably affect each of us. Through this exhibition, I aim to explore the emotional complexities, setbacks, and growth that emerge from the family dynamic.

PhD alumni Amanda Cachia, Paloma Checa-Gismero talk Disruptions in the Present

February 12, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Printed Matter, New York City, NY 

Art’s relationship to different publics—whether through biennial exhibitions that consolidate regional identities, by using materials to create new planetary relationships, or even the basic questions of who has access to art exhibitions—has created mounting tensions in how to do and see art history.

MFA alum Emily Greenberg conversation with Scott Broker

February 16, 2:00 - 4:00 p.m.

The Pop-Hop, Los Angeles, CA

MFA alum Emily Greenberg will be in conversation with writer Scott Broker about her new book, Alternative Facts. The author's portion of the sales will be donated to LA fire relief. The event will include a reading, discussion, and book signing.

Che Gossett guest lecture Catastrophe and Care: Black Queer/Trans Art in the Afterlife of Slavery

February 18, 6:00 - 7:20 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego

In this talk, scholar Che Gossett focuses on Kiyan Williams’s performance and sculpture. In Williams’s work, anti-black and racial capitalist World is negated and abolished — in its ruination new critical forms crystallize and figurations of the flesh emerge, reverberating and interinanimating each other.

Professor Danielle Dean Frieze LA Booth with Commonwealth and Council

February 20 - February 23, 2025

Santa Monica Airport, Los Angeles, CA

Danielle Dean will be showing works with Commonwealth and Council at Frieze LA. Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles founded in 2010. Our program is rooted in our commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality.

MFA alumni Jessica Buie, Dillon Chapman in RUINS, curated by MFA alum Nathan Storey

February 20 - March 15, 2025

Union Hall Art Space, Denver, CO

Curated by Nathan Storey the exhibition features six interdisciplinary artists reckoning with queer histories, pasts, archives, legacies, and loss within their own contemporary studio practices. The artists search for their fragmentary pieces and reimagine queer constellations as they unearth LGBTQ+ histories.

UG student Sheeva Davari Pattern of Being

Reception: February 24, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

February 25 - February 28, 1:00 - 4:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

“Pattern of Being” highlights Sheeva’s experimentation of layering feminine floral motifs juxtaposing ideas of racial prejudice between the Middle East and the United States and of feeling distanced from her family across the world. 

Profs Alexandro Segade & Malik Gaines video Fusing Art & Science: Open Sky

PBS SoCal

Open Sky brings together the work of contemporary artists exploring light and space as both material and subject, inviting us to reconsider our place in the universe. Inspired by James Turrell’s Dividing the Light at Pomona College, the exhibition includes Moon Mine, a site-specific song cycle by Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade, blending voices and instruments to explore cosmic journeys and unexpected destinies. 

MFA alum Hung Liu exhibition Happy and Gay

January 17 - April 13, 2025

Maria and Alberto de la Cruz Gallery, Washington DC

Hung Liu: Happy and Gay, curated by Georgetown University Art and Curatorial Studies graduate students in collaboration with Dr. Dorothy Moss, presents a selection of Liu’s works from 2011-2013. In the series, Liu revisits cartoons of her youth that were published in children’s books (known as xiaorenshu).

DOCTORAL RESEARCH COLLOQUIUM with keynote from Dr. Tamara Kneese

February 28, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UC San Diego

The Doctoral Research Colloquium features talks by PhD students who have recently advanced to candidacy along with a keynote lecture by a speaker who has influenced their practice. The colloquium is a public forum where the excitement and energy of newly launched dissertation projects are shared with the broader local community through sustained dialog with a senior scholar in the field.

GRADUATE OPEN STUDIOS

March 1, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Visual Arts Facility and SME Gallery, UC San Diego

This is our opportunity to share with you and the San Diego community our research, scholarship, and artistic practices. Open Studios will feature over 25 MFA & PhD artists' open studios, exhibitions, screenings, and publications produced in the Department of Visual Arts. The artists will be present in their studios throughout the afternoon and excited to talk about and share their work with you.

Professor dean erdmann announced as Chinati Foundation artis in residence

The Big Bend Sentinel

The Chinati Foundation/La Fundación Chinati is pleased to announce its 2025 Artists in Residence: Leslie Cuyjet, dean erdmann, Guadalupe Rosales, Klara Lidén and Charisse Pearlina Weston. This year, each artist will spend up to two months living and working among the art, architecture and land at Chinati. 

ONGOING ON CAMPUS

Professors Memo Akten, Robert Twomey, PhD student Joe Riley, MFA alumni Ash Eliza Smith in Embodied Pacific: Ocean Unseen

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.

CLOSING SOON

Lecturer & BA alum Gosia Herc solo exhibition In Formation

January 11 - February 15, 2025

Best Practice, San Diego, CA

For this exhibition, a new body of sculptures was created over the last year in addition to a portion of her ongoing series Pacific View Studies and Broken Garages, each a group of several dozen small deadpan black and white ink and graphite drawings of garage doors that conjure the work of the New Topographics photographers of the 1970s. 

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