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Access during evening and weekend hours is limited to enrolled
students. Students may get card keys from their
instructors to access the building at those times.
Art Studio class instructors will receive cards for their classes
in the second week of each quarter, automatically (there is no
need to submit a request).
Learn more about the late UC Davis art professor Robert Arneson’s
Alice Street series at
a conversation between Sandra Shannonhouse, the artist’s
widow, and Rachel Teagle, founding director of the Jan Shrem and
Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
Currently on display at the Berkeley Art Museum & Pacific Film
Archive is the exhibition “Strange”
featuring the work of artists whose art captures the spirit
of Surrealism. Among these featured artists is alum Julia Couzens
(MFA 1990).
Zach Clark, M.F.A. 2018 art studio, has recently published his
newest zine “Raised
Beds,” about home gardening, collaborating with dirt,
and being a person in the city.
Kathy Butterly (MFA 1990), who lives and works in New York, has
exhibited internationally and her art is in the collections of
the Museum of Modern Art; The Detroit Institute of Arts; the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the de Young Museum, San
Francisco. She has received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Grant, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.
The UC Davis MFA Art Studio graduate students invite all into
their studios to see what they are working on and connect
with others from the larger community.
Both the main graduate art building, with 13 studios, and TB9,
with 3 studios will be open and the artists will be present to
talk about their work and practices.
Open studios are free and open to all people interested in
checking it out and having conversations.
Amelia Jones is Robert A. Day Professor and Vice Dean
of Research, Roski School of Art
& Design, USC, and is a curator and scholar of contemporary
art, performance, and feminist/sexuality studies. Recent
publications include Seeing Differently: A History and
Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts (2012);
co-edited with Erin Silver, Otherwise: Imagining Queer
Feminist Art Histories (2016); and the edited special
issue “On Trans/Performance” of Performance
Research (2016).
A native New Yorker, Jonathan Calm is a visual artist in the
media of photography and video whose work combines as well as
challenges the aesthetic and ideological tenets of architecture,
documentary journalism and sculpture. A central theme of his work
is the relationship between photography and urban architecture,
and the powerful role of images in the way architectural
constructs shape the lives of individuals and communities.
Frances Stark’s drawings, collages, videos, PowerPoint
presentations, performances, and paintings have been extensively
exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. In 2017 a new suite
of her paintings were included in the Whitney Biennial, her
cinematic opera, The Magic Flute, premiered at LACMA,
and an earlier work was featured in the Venice Biennale. In 2015,
Stark’s sprawling mid-career survey, “UH-OH: Frances Stark
1991-2015,” opened at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles before
traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Meg Shiffler is the Galleries Director for the San Francisco Arts
Commission (SFAC), the arts agency of the City and County of
San Francisco. In this role since 2005, she curates exhibitions
featuring local, national and international artists that provoke
a dialogue between contemporary art and broad civic and social
issues.
