COMING UP

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.

PhD candidate Carl Schmitz Adding Pop to the Art History Survey

April 3 - April 5, 2024

ARLIS/NA Conference, Pittsburgh PA

This poster presentation—part of the annual Art Libraries Society of North America conference—highlights the progressive possibilities of Pop Art as visual splash, framing assignments in section by way of visualization and applied graphic design, and Universal Design for Learning.

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.

Prof. Amy Alexander talk for Into Darkness, Into Light Conference

April 6 - April 10, 2024

Anthropology of Consciousness, St. Louis MO

Amy Alexander will be presenting a talk on her project, Deep Hysteria, as part of the panel, "Art and Media at the Technology/Consciousness" at the Anthropology of Consciousness 41st Annual Conference. Deep Hysteria is an art/research project that repurposes algorithmic bias in AI systems to shed light on human gender biases.

UG Chloe Nickels Natural Defenses

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.

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.

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.

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.

CLOSING SOON

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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. 

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