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Alum in exhibition at The Cheech Center

Alum Emmanuel Camacho Larios (B.A. ‘23) has co-curated and is featured in the exhibiton Desde los Cielos (From the Heavens at The Cheech Center Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture. This exhibition features fifteen Inland Empire artists who use the concept of alienness to explore personal and communal identities that defy societal norms.

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Faculty and Alum Participate in Preview of “Leonardo da Vinci”

Join PBS KVIE for a screening of Leonardo da Vinci, a new film by Ken Burns, followed by a conversation with art studio alum Julia Couzens (M.F.A. ‘90) and design Professor James Housefield as they discuss the towering achievements of Leonardo da Vinci.

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Professors and Alumni particpate in group show at Gallery 120710

Gallery 12071’s new group show “Sweaty Armpits: We All Live in Bodies” features the work of numerous art studio alum.

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Alum in group show at Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation

Alum Mercy Hawkins is featured in the group show “Packing and Cracking: The Art of (and Response to) Gerrymandering” at Saint Joseph’s Arts Foundation in San Francisco.

Upcoming Events

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Eungie Joo
The California Studio

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Eungie Joo is Curator and Head of Contemporary Art at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art. Prior to SFMOMA, Joo was Keith Haring Director and Curator of Education and Public Programs at the New Museum in New York (2007 to 2012).

Community Education Room, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
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Fernando Palma Rodríguez
Visiting Artist Lecture Series

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Fernando Palma Rodríguez combines his training as an artist and mechanical engineer to create robotic sculptures that utilize custom software to perform narrative choreographies. Central to Palma Rodríguez’s practice is an emphasis on indigenous ancestral knowledge, both as an integral part of contemporary life and a way of shaping the future.

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Old Davis Road, Davis, California
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Renny Pritikin on A Life Among Artists

Community Education Room, Manetti Shrem Museum

You are invited to a book celebration for Renny Pritikin’s memoir, At Third and Mission: A Life Among Artists. Pritikin is a San Francisco Bay Area based curator, art writer and poet who was curator and director of The Nelson Gallery and Fine Arts Collection at UC Davis from 2004 to 2012.

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Torkwase Dyson
The California Studio

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Torkwase Dyson describes herself as a painter working across multiple mediums to explore the continuity between ecology, infrastructure, and architecture. She works in  in painting, drawing, and sculpture, and her abstract works examine human geography and the history of Black spatial liberation strategies, often grappling with the ways in which space is perceived, imagined and negotiated particularly by black and brown bodies.

Community Education Room, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
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Marie Lorenz
The California Studio

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Marie Lorenz is a New York-based  printmaker, sculptor, and filmmaker. Her work is rooted in the exploration and narrative of New York City’s waterfronts. Combining psycho-geographic exploration with highly crafted, material forms, Lorenz uses boats to create an uncertain space and bring about a heightened awareness of place.

Community Education Room, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA
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Byron Kim
The California Studio

Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Byron Kim creates paintings that double as portraits and landscape paintings, utilizing the languages of formal abstraction, observational paintings, and conceptual art. His well-known Synecdoche series (1991–present) is a group portrait composed of hundreds of 10 x 8 in panels, each painted to match the skin tone of a sitter.

Community Education Room, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, Davis, CA

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