September 18, 6:30 p.m.

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla CA

Creating sculptures and installations using everyday materials in surprising, new ways, much of his work has an interactive component through which he encourages audience participation. His site-specific works often incorporate the architecture of the space while also making poignant commentary about modernity.

Reception: September 19, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

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?

Talk: September 19, 6:00 - 7:00 p.m.

Open Studio: September 20, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Art Produce, San Diego CA

In her talk titled Soft Piñatas: An Unexpected Result, Diana shares her creative journey from her artist residency at Art Produce, blending traditional piñata-making techniques with hand-sewn paper garments.

Reception: September 20, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

September 20 - October 11, 2024

Oolong Gallery, Rancho Santa Fe CA

The exhibition’s title, absolute fulfillment in the spectacle, refers to a concept borrowed from French theorist Guy Debord, whose seminal work The Society of the Spectacle (1967) critiqued the commodification of everyday life and the alienation caused by a culture of spectacle. Nadreau and McDonald take this notion and reframe it—exploring not only how reality is distorted by spectacle but also the potential for self-discovery and transformation within it.

September 20, 7:30 p.m.

Project [Blank] @ Bread & Salt, San Diego CA

WAVE + ENERGY is a concert of works that pair music and video to create an immersive sensorium where perceptions shift and boundaries blur. Curated by Joe Cantrell, this concert pairs some of our favorite improvising artists and musicians to create new works of sound that you can see and light that you can feel!

September 21, 7:00 - 9:00 a.m. PDT

Taipei Fine Arts Museum, Taiwan

Performing Fragile Archives: A Perspective From Latin America, the first online event of “www.counterarchive.commons” explores the political and economic conditions of Latin America, such as the history of multiple colonization and the power of the extreme right, has led to the instability of art and cultural archives, which are often faced with the loss of data and the inability to preserve them appropriately.

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. 

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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. 

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!

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.

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.

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.

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

August 8 - September 21, 2024

Parent Company, New York NY

The group exhibition entitled Tend, features works by Nora Chellew, beck haberstroh, Carly Mandel, Sara Murphy, Funto Omojola, and Mierle Laderman Ukeles. The exhibition is about care, or the lack of care, shown towards our bodies. It is about the love and violence that is inflicted on our bodies and about the time spent enacting care and bodily labor.

April 13 - September 22, 2024 

BAMPFA, Berkeley CA

A Movement in Every Direction: Legacies of the Great Migration illuminates the enduring impressions of the Great Migration through the eyes and work of twelve contemporary artists. 

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.

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.

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.’