COMING UP

Prof. Emerita Faith Ringgold, MFA alumni Lorna Simpson, Blaise Tobia, Carrie Mae Weems in exhibition Edges of Ailey

September 25, 2024 - February 9, 2025

Whitney Museum of American Art, New York NY

This dynamic showcase brings together visual art, live performance, music, a range of archival materials, and a multi-screen video installation drawn from recordings of Alvin Ailey American Dance Theater (AAADT) repertory to explore the full range of Ailey’s personal and creative life. 

Embodied Pacific All-Exhibition Opening

September 26, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.

Gallery QI at Atkinson Hall, UC San Diego

EMBODIED PACIFIC is a platform of multisited exhibitions and events organized through a Getty PST ART: Art and Science Collide supported partnership between UC San Diego Visual Arts and Birch Aquarium at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, featuring projects by more than thirty artists working with researchers in laboratories, field sites, and archives in SoCal and the Pacific Islands.

PhD student Joe Riley in UCLA New Wight Biennial 2024: Social Sediment

Reception: September 26, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

September 26 - October 10,2024

UCLA Broad Art Center, Los Angeles CA

Social Sediment is a group exhibition revealing the many layers of cultural deposits found on Tongva, Chumash, and Kizh territories—also known as “Los Angeles.” As a record and an act of recording, this exhibition asks viewers to consider their own relationship to the land they reside on and what layers of “sediment” are they contributing.

Professors Amy Adler, PhD student Johnnie Chatman in exhibition Embodied Pacific: Three Lives

September 26 - December 6, 2024

Gallery QI, UC San Diego

Easter Ellen Cupp, June Pattullo, and Anita Smith Hall, First Women of Oceanography, in works by Amy Adler, Nicolas Miller, Johnnie Chatman, and Jeffrey Stuker. Curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright with Leandro Martínez Depietri.

Lecturer Trish Stone, Speculative Design class in exhibition curated by Professor Lisa Cartwright, PhD student Clarissa Chevalier Embodied Pacific: Seaways

September 27 - December 6, 2024

Visual Arts Gallery@SME, UC San Diego

Navigating the Pacific with works by Simon Penny, Sakman Mario Borja, the Sakman Chamorro Group with Sherry Miller Borja and the Speculative Design Master Class of 2023, Stan Rodriguez, Our Worlds (Kilma S. Lattin and Catherine Eng), and Jessica Ashook, Lacey Coover and Trish Stone, Mimi Kaveia George, Kyle McDonald, Delsie Betty Bosi and women sailmakers of Taumako.

Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work

Reception: September 28, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.

September 28 - December 7, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

As part of the Getty Foundation’s PST ART: Art and Science Collide, the Mandeville Art Gallery at UC San Diego presents Helen and Newton Harrison: California Work, a retrospective exhibition about the work of husband-and-wife team of Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, who were among the earliest and most notable ecological artists. Founding members of the Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego, Helen and Newton were local San Diego artists for nearly four decades, where they developed their pioneering concepts of Ecological Art.

MFA alum Naomi Nadreau in Holding the Unholdable

Reception: September 28, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

September 28 - October 20, 2024

Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles CA

Each body of work forges a new language for connection, transforming the pain of disconnection and the fear of the unknown into something tangible. Naomi Nadreau, Cara Levine, and iris yirei hu, each with their own rich mythologies, unite in a shared investigation of interiority.

PhD student Doreen Ríos talk El teatro de los disturbios electrónicos: Una historia de desobediencia civil electrónica

September 28, 12:00 p.m. local

Casa Taller José Clemente Orozco, Guadalajara MX

"Futuro del espacio público" is the eigth and final program of Laboratorio de Arte Público, Nuevos Muralismos, in which we seek to speculate, rethink and imagine the spaces we live in today.

Professors Malik Gaines & Alexandro Segade performance Moon Mine

October 3 & 4, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Benton Museum of Art, Claremont CA

As part of Getty's PST ART, Malik Gaines and Alexandro Segade present a site-specific song cycle performed at dusk at James Turrell’s Dividing the Light that traces the stories of two lunar travelers, each hoping to find their own destiny in the nighttime sky. Voices and instruments intermingle as our travelers find their cosmic yield is not what they expect. 

MFA alumni Viginia Maksymowicz, Blaise Tobia host webinar series CETA: Forgotten Federally Funded Artists

October 3, 10, 17, 5:00 p.m. PDT

Zoom #1, Zoom #2, Zoom #3

The Living New Deal and the CETA Arts Legacy Project are co-sponsoring a three-part webinar series featuring former CETA artists and administrators, CETA historians, and internationally renowned visual and performing artists.If you are interested in the history of American public art, community-engaged art, artists from diverse cultural and economic backgrounds, and forgotten legacies that challenge a market-driven history of art, this webinar series is for you!

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

Opens October 4, 2024

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.

Professor Danielle Dean in Conscious Tether: Art and the Internet in Los Angeles

Reception: October 5, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

October 5 - October 20, 2024

Human Resources, Los Angeles CA

A group exhibition of contemporary artists considering what it means to live with and through the internet. Conscious Tether features work by Ahree Lee, Alice Yuan Zhang, American Artist, ann haeyoung, Danielle Dean, Devin Kenny, KCHUNG, LA Cryptoparty, Romi Morrison, Tiny Tech Zines, and Xin Xin. 

Professor Danielle Dean screenings of Hemel

October 5 & 6, 2024

New York Film Festival, New York NY

Returning to her hometown—the eponymous planned community, oriented around a factory—Danielle Dean alloys fiction and documentary, collective memory and autobiography, amid a hail of meteorites.

Professor Danielle Dean Frieze solo booth with 47 Canal

October 9 - October 13, 2024

The Regent’s Park, London UK

At Frieze London 2024 Danielle Dean showcases a new series of watercolours reflecting on her experience growing up as one of the few Black children in 1980’s Hemel Hempstead, a Postwar British “new town,” amid her white working-class family and absent Nigerian father. 

Professor John C. Welchman edited book Orshi Drozdik: Adventures in Technos Dystopium

les presses du réel

As attested by her inclusion in several important survey exhibitions, including The Medea Insurrection: Radical Women Artists Behind the Iron Curtain at the Wende Museum, Los Angeles (2019–20), Drozdik is one of the most significant Eastern European women artists working in experimental performance and photography before the fall of the Berlin Wall.

Prof. Amy Alexander in exhibition AI AI AI

September 19 - October 26, 2024

Radian Gallery, San Francisco CA

Amy Alexander's Deep Hysteria images will be part of the AI AI AI international group invitational at Radian Gallery. In AI AI AI an international group of artists harnesses the bizarre, newfound power of generative AI engines to create works that often defy an easy explanation as to “why” – why did this combination of decisions made by the human and the machine deliver this particular result?

MFA alum Roman de Salvo solo exhibition O Petravia

September 15 - October 19, 2024

two rooms, La Jolla CA

De Salvo’s 2019-2023 mural for Murals of La Jolla, McCairn, was fortuitously visible from Two Rooms, catalyzing a relationship between the artist and the gallery. Once taken down, salvaging and expanding the lifespan of the 18 x 25 ft. vinyl billboard became the basis for this exhibition. O Petravia is the artist’s ode to the neighborhood of Bird Rock, through his own re-imagining of an enchanting land of rocks and birds.

Professor Paul Mpagi Sepuya book Dark Room A - Z

Aperture

Paul Mpagi Sepuya reflects on the methodologies, strategies, and points of interest behind a single, expansive body of work at a pivotal moment in his career. This volume unpacks his Dark Room series (2016–21), offering a deep dive into the thick network of references and the interconnected community of artists and subjects that Sepuya has interwoven throughout the images.

CLOSING SOON

LaJuné McMillian: The Portal's Keeper

July 1 - September 26, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

LaJuné McMillian: The Portal's Keeper is a new site-specific commission for the exterior video façade of the Mandeville Art Gallery. Building on the artist's interest in stewarding spaces for liberated Black realities and the Black imagination, McMillian conducted a movement and meditation workshop with UC San Diego students using extended reality and physical computing to translate participants' movement data into visuals for this new artwork.

Professor dean erdmann solo exhibition 38

July 13 - September 28, 2024

Louche Ops, Berlin, Germany

38 consists of a body of work that arose from erdmann's interest and research into Magnus Hirschfeld's das Institut für Sexualwissenschaft and its voluminous influence on queer histories. erdmann's practice has long been concerned with the ways in which subjects develop and diverge in relation to their environments, geological and/or socio-political.

Professor Danielle Dean public work Long Low Line (Fordland)

Through September 30, 2024

Billboard on Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles CA

Starting from a collection of Ford Motor Company commercials archived in Detroit, Danielle Dean uses print advertisements from the 1920s to reveal how landscapes were instrumentalized in consumer culture to promote the aspirational ‘American Dream.’ 

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