COMING UP

14th Annual Adam D. Kamil Media Awards

Exhibition: May 16 - May 23, 2023

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

The Kamil family, Department of Visual Arts, and School of Arts and Humanities at UC San Diego invite you to the 14th Annual Adam D. Kamil Media Awards Ceremony. Please join us for an evening of film and creativity to honor the memory of Adam Kamil and showcase the talent of the undergraduate students.

JAX MFA Thesis Exhibition Carpal Tunnel Crick Cracks in the Tendons of My Flexors: These Hands Will Never Be the Same

Performance: May 24, 7:15 p.m.

Closing Reception: May 24, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

May 18 - May 24 by appointment

Performance Space, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

JAX culminating thesis exhibition, Carpal Tunnel Crick Cracks in the Tendons of My Flexors: These Hands Will Never Be the Same, is an overflow of hair based installation work and a dedication to swept under the rug grief throughout her familial past, specifically in relation to her lineage of Mothers.

Naomi Nadreau MFA Thesis Exhibition Gratuitous Motion

Closing Reception: May 24, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

May 17 - May 24, 11:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m.

Main Gallery, Visual Arts Facility, UC San Diego

Alumni in Museum School Art Auction

May 24, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

Bread & Salt, San Diego CA

Diana Benavídez (BA), Maria Mathioudakis (MFA), Josh Tonies (Lecturer), Perry Vasquez (MFA), Allison Wiese (MFA), Joe Yorty (MFA). The Museum School based in San Diego, California, supports the academic growth and abilities of students through experiential, project-based learning both within and beyond the classroom.

MFA alum Oscar Magallanes, Prof. Rubén Ortiz Torres of 3B Collective Highway Hypnosis

Reception: May 25, 6:00 - 9:00 p.m.

May 26 - September 8, 2024

Craft Contemporary, Los Angeles CA

Highway Hypnosis explores the cultural lineage of 3B Collective, a group of native (and immigrant) Angeleno multidisciplinary artists. The exhibition delves into past and present connections within the collective’s work, such as challenging preconceived notions of craft, the commodification of cultural goods, hyper-individualism, and hidden labor.

LaJuné McMillian: Guest Speaker Series

May 28, 6:30 - 8:00 p.m.

SME 149, Structural & Materials Engineering, UCSD

LaJuné is a Multidisciplinary Artist, and Educator creating art that integrates performance, extended reality, and physical computing to question our contemporary forms of communication. They are passionate about discovering, learning, manifesting, and stewarding spaces for liberated Black Realities and the Black Imagination.

UG Senior Studio Exhibition

Reception: May 30, 5:00 - 8:00 p.m.

May 28 - May 31, 2024

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

To acknowledge the momentum and production of our students over the course of their years spent at UCSD creating, collaborating, conceptualizing and growing we wish to highlight their achievements with a curated exhibition. We want to celebrate students' talents, viewpoints and growth during their time spent studying at UCSD. 

MFA Jun!yi Min announced as Flaherty Seminar Fellow

Each year, the Flaherty offers fellowships to enable emerging and mid-career filmmakers, media professionals, and community members to attend the Flaherty Film Seminar. The Fellowship program is an expanded experience of the seminar designed to further understanding of cinema through participation in an array of unique activities designed exclusively for the fellows.

 

Lauren Lee McCarthy Swaps Stories of Saliva and Surveilliance

Hyperallergic

Art critic and artist Renee Reizman reviews the current exhibition Lauren Lee McCarthy: Bodily Autonomy at the Mandeville Art Gallery for Hyperallergic. Bodily Autonomy takes advantage of humor and hyperbole to demonstrate a very real world in which biosurveillance is prevalent overtly and covertly.

Lecturer Joshua Tonies & MFA alum Joe Yorty Kilo Quebec

May 18 - June 15, 2024

Phase Gallery, Los Angeles CA

This exhibition brings together a body of recent collaborative projects as well as a selection of independent works by the artists, each tracing a key lineage to their collaboration. Themes of queerness and invisibility/visibility emerged and ultimately became the foundation of their collaboration.

Professor Jessica D’Elena-Tweed designed book One Second to Live

Delancey Street Press

One Second to Live: Photography, Film and the Corporeal in An Age of Extremes is a book by George Porcari that covers the aspect of photography and film that deals with the "substantial" and the "non-spiritual" - the two dictionary definitions of the corporeal. Whatever the vast difference in corporeal photographs and films they all deal in some way with our innate, and complex relationship to all living things and to our own sensibility.

 

UG alum Aleesha Anderson artist residency & public art at Muir College

Muir College

Aleesha is a Muir College alumni who graduated in 2016 with a degree in Visual Arts, ICAM. Her work is deeply inspired by nature, geometry, and the dynamic ways in which people interact with and enhance their environments through play.

CLOSING SOON

Lauren Lee McCarthy Bodily Autonomy

March 2 - May 25, 2024

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

For the past fifteen years, Lauren Lee McCarthy has worked in performance, video, installation, software, artificial intelligence, and other media to address how an algorithmically determined world impacts human relationships and social life. Bodily Autonomy is McCarthy’s largest solo exhibition in the United States to date.

Prof. Paul Mpagi Sepuya Infinite Like Night

April 12–June 1, 2024

Document, Chicago IL

The exhibition serves as a site of exploration for Blue Studio, the artist’s newest body of work, shown here for the first time. While continuing his investigation of the studio as a place of portraiture and play, these photographs represent a departure from Sepuya’s recent series Daylight Studio / Dark Room Studio (2021-2023).

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