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MFA alum Lorena Ochoa talk for Se Busca

September 2, 2023, 7:30 p.m.

Grand Central Art Center, Los Angeles CA

SE BUSCA focuses on the intersection of memory and transport. It views migration, such as the migration of the artists mother from Michoacan to Santa Ana, the Santa Ana River’s path into the Pacific Ocean and oceanic currents combining with the mouths of rivers in Michoacan, and concrete freeways used for redlining all as synonymous.

UG alum Victor Ballesteros Drome

Reception: September 2, 2:00 - 7:00 p.m.

September 2 - September 24, 2023

La Orlando, Los Angeles CA

Curated by UG alum Alan Luna, these are paintings about faces, but they are also paintings about antiquities, armatures, structures, the fixity of oil painting in relation to the instability of the digital image as document, an archive. Victor is concerned with accumulation and repetition, Western collecting practices, post/colonialism, prosthetics, masks, horror/science-fiction.

MFA alumni Sadie Barnette and Carrie Mae Weems in Emancipation

Reception: September 7, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

August 17 - December 8, 2023

Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane, New Orleans LA

Seven of today’s leading Black artists were selected to make visible their perspectives about freedom and imprisonment, identity and personhood, and emancipation and liberation. The commissioned works are supplemented by loans of Civil War era materials and works from Newcomb Art Museum’s permanent collection.

ICAM Seniors present Pixels & Poetics

Reception: September 9, 7:00 - 10:00 p.m.

Adam D. Kamil Gallery, UC San Diego

Students of VIS 160 A & B, Senior Projects in Computing Arts, will present their works in the Kamil Gallery at Mandeville Center. Guests are invited to join in person or over Zoom. Online representations of the projects will also be viewable through the Kamil Gallery Online. Students pursue projects of their own design over two quarters with support from faculty in a seminar environment. Project proposals are developed, informed by project development guidelines from real-world examples.

PhD candidate Doreen A. Ríos curated Minimal Rituals

Online beginning August 30, 2023

Arebyte, London UK

An online exhibition that blurs the boundaries between humans, animals, and machines, and invites us to consider the ways in which technology can be used to reconnect with ourselves and each other through the mineral computation that surrounds us. 

MFA alumni Cat Gunn, Hazel Katz, Heige Kim, Arlene Mejorado, Lorena Ochoa in NextGen 2023

September 9, 2023 - January 28, 2024

Reception: September 16, 6:00 - 8:00 p.m.

ICA Central, San Diego CA

NextGen presents the work of seven graduating artists from regional art programs, chosen by a jury of art professionals. NextGen celebrates emerging artistic voices and highlights the innovative work being produced across the San Diego region. The artists selected for this year’s exhibition work across media–from painting and photography, to installation, sculpture and video–combining found objects with personal mementos, mining their family histories, cultural legacies, and identities.

MFA alum Maria Mathioudakis in HereIn Journal

Elizabeth Rooklidge for HereIn Journal

Called Untitled (Melting Specula with Acetone in Glass) (2023), it consists of a plastic gynecological speculum placed in a glass vessel, with the ends of the speculum’s bills dissolving into a foamy liquid. It is, I notice immediately, incredibly elegant; its crystalline materials, shiny surfaces, and delicate bubbles are all exquisite in their ethereality. But the work is also unsettling.

PhD candidate Doreen A. Ríos essay Dataspace: From the Observed Object to the Participating Subject

Eyebeam and Momus Critical Writing Fellowship 2023

The first time I visited Laboratorio Arte Alameda (LAA), a house of creative electronic experimentation in the heart of Mexico City, I didn’t know what to expect. I was looking for something I didn’t quite know how to name, until I found this space.

MFA alum Lorena Ochoa and MFA candidate Deanna Barahona in Ahorita!

CLOSING SOON!

July 8 - September 2, 2023

Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles CA

The artists make work that calls attention to many of the foremost issues facing our communities, be they issues that manifest in the lived environment, issues of historical or contemporary cultural representation, or interior-focused issues. Ahorita! is both a call to resilience and a celebration of this ascendant artistic moment which is being defined by impactful women and non-binary artists.

MFA alum Carrie Mae Weems Reflections for Now

CLOSING SOON!

June 22 - September 3, 2023

Barbican Art Gallery, London UK

Carrie Mae Weems is celebrated for her exploration of identity, power, desire and social justice through work that challenges representations of race, gender, and class. The largest presentation of the artist’s multi-disciplinary work in the UK to date, this exhibition brings together photographs, films and installations spanning over three decades. 

MFA alum Blaise Tobia in Paul Jaray: the Rationality of the Streamline

CLOSING SOON!

April 28 - September 3, 2023

Kunsthaus Dahlem, Berlin Germany

Blaise Tobia photographed Ant Farm's famous "Cadillac Ranch" installation in Amarillo, Texas, in August of 1974 - on his way to begin graduate studies at UCSD. They were selected by curator Wolfgang Scheppe for inclusion in an exhibition about Paul Jaray - inventor of the automotive streamline.

Asst. Prof. Janelle Iglesias in The Path Guides the Meaning

CLOSING SOON!

August 11 - September 9, 2023

Rebecca Camacho, San Francisco CA

As our lives are increasingly consumed, and our actions dictated by mediated experiences, dominated by screens, regulated by algorithmic determinacy, and divorced from the physicality of our world, the work of artists engaged in process-based practices remind us of the importance of making and doing as a pathway to meaning, learning, and growth.

UG alum Farshid Bazmandegan We Will Dance In The Garden Again

CLOSING SOON!

August 5 - September 9, 2023

Guest House, Inglewood CA

A reflection on ideas of displacement, home, and belonging as consequences of often-violent geopolitics, the exhibition sees the artists, Farshid Bazmandegan and Rachel Hakimian Emenaker, draw on history, archival materials, memory, and pop culture to translate their personal and political experiences through sculpture, painting, and installation.

MFA candidate Amir Saadiq and MFA alumni Dillon Chapman & Maria Mathioudakis in 31st Juried Exhibition

CLOSING SOON!

July 15 - September 9, 2023

Athenaeum Music & Arts Library, La Jolla CA

Nearly 300 artists entered 900 works for consideration. Juror Isabel Casso, Assistant Curator, Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, selected the final 25 artists and 35 works to exhibit. Prizewinners will be announced at the opening reception on Friday, July 14.

Assoc. Professor Danielle Dean in Milk

CLOSING SOON!

March 30 - September 10, 2023

Wellcome Collection, London

This major new exhibition explores our relationship with milk and its place in politics, society and culture. Featuring over 100 items, including historical objects, artworks and new commissions, it asks why has cow’s milk come to be seen as essential to a good diet in the UK? When did breastfeeding become a political subject? And how has milk been used to exert power as well as provide care?

Mandeville Art Gallery Nature Scene

July 1 - October 2, 2023

Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego

Nature Scene is a program presented on the Mandeville Art Gallery’s exterior screen featuring artworks that have been commissioned or specifically adapted for the space. It is on view daily from 7 am to 10 pm. The works use artificial intelligence, generative algorithms, 3D scanning, and more to depict the influence of technological evolution on the staging and mediation of the natural world.

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