Alum Joshua Pelletier’s (MFA ‘10) solo show at Burb Contemporary
goes live January 22 at 6 pm PST. “Something
Rancid About You” showcases Pelletier’s latest ink drawings
that vent ”his frustration towards the inequities in our
society that the covid-19 pandemic has helped to lay bare.”
For inquiries regarding the works in “Something Rancid About
You,” please email the artist directly at dublevae@gmail.com
The work of alum Maryann Steinert-Foley (BA ‘11) will be featured
in the exhibition “Equine Therapy II” at b. sakata
garo in Sacramento. The show runs from January 5 to January
30, 2021. There will be an artist reception on January 9 from 6-8
pm.
Visitors are required to wear a mask or face covering for
the duration of their stay.
b. sakata garo
923 Twentieth Street
Sacramento, CA 95811
916-447-4276
The latest AML
Space (Art Music Lit Space) virtual show — “Survival Sounds”
— features the work of AML curators and UCD alum Tavarus
Blackmon (MFA ‘18), Joy Miller (MFA ‘28) and Derek Kwan.
Alum Caz Azevedo’s (MFA ‘20) Community Art Center is hosting
another Second
Saturday Art Talk featuring fellow alum Orang Hutan (MFA ‘20)
this coming January 7, 2021 at 6 pm. Orang Hutan will discuss her
close relationship with her choice medium of fire.
These events are free and open to the public in efforts to help
provide art education to the community.
The Chazen Museum of
Art at the University of Wisconsin–Madison recently
added a print by alum Darcy Padilla (MFA ‘18) to its collection.
Padilla has been an associate professor in the Art
Department at UW-Madison since 2018.
Alum Julian Tan’s (MFA ‘16) first virtual solo
show ”Catastrophic but not serious,” sponsored
by Nomind Gallery, is now online. Tan premiered a new
video — “No Way Around” — and works from 2018-2020.
Visit juliantan.com to view the
show (desktop version recommended).
Alum Caz Azevedo (MFA ‘20) ’s Community Art
Center will be hosting contemporary artists to talk about
their work and art practice. This coming December 12 at 12 pm,
Caz will talk to fellow alum Zeina Baltagi (MFA ‘20), whose work
explores and exposes the tensions within identity and social
politics. Caz will host a live online conversation about her
project surrounding surveillance as Artist in Residence at the
11:11.
Alum Yuan Chen (MFA ‘17) is featured in “Marin 6
Exhibition” at the Marin Society of Artists
(MSA) in San Raphael. This group show is on site December 2
through December 31, 2020. Open Wednesday through Sunday, Noon to
4 p.m.
Alum Sofia Lacin (BA ‘08) and her collaborator Hennessy
Christophel, who form the group Studio Tutto, completed their
latest mural “Hills on Fire,” large-scale mural at Blackman
Cruz, a renowned design showroom in Hollywood.
Alumni Muzi Li Rowe and Vincent Pacheco (both MFA ‘17) are
featured in the group exhibition “Strategies
for Coping” at the Axis Gallery in Sacramento on view
December 5-December 27, 2020.
Congratulations to alum Robert Machoian (MFA ’10) whose film
“The Killing of Two Lovers” has been included in MoMA’s New Directors / New Films
2020 festival.
Alum Mathew Zefeldt (MFA ‘11) has been included in “To
Adjust the Default Settings: The Common Zone of Painting and
Digitality-Influenced Imagery” written by Orsolya Lia Vető
and published in Új
Művészet (November 3, 2020).
Zeina Baltagi (MFA 2020) will join Caz Azevedo (MFA 2020) in
conversation on November 14 at 6 pm as part of the opening
reception of her work at Azevedo’s Gallery. Baltagi’s
show will run from November 14, 2020 to January 7, 2021 as a
revolving exhibition. She will discuss her current artist lecture
series at 11:11 A Creative
Collective where she has a residency.
Alum Julia Haft-Candell’s (BA ‘05) solo show “Carrier Bag of
Fiction” will open at the Candice Madey Gallery in New York City
this November 13 and run until January 23, 2021. The exhibition
title references Ursula K. Le Guin’s The Carrier Bag
Theory of Fiction, in which Le Guin explores millennia-old
storytelling traditions that favor conflict and violence,
weaponizing fiction to reinforce the myths of the hero and the
strongman. Alternatively, Le Guin proffers a concept of fiction
as a carrier bag or vessel used to gather the collective
activities of everyday people.