Art Studio Alumni News & Exhibitions

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Alumni Exhibitions and News

Recent news items about Art Studio alumni, as well as their upcoming exhibitions. 

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Alum Manuel Fernando Rios in solo exhibition at Axis Gallery

Alum Manuel Fernando Rios’ (MFA 2011) solo show “The Weight” is currently on view at Axis Gallery in Sacramento. “The Weight” aims to visually explore the feeling of carrying mental baggage. Through mixed media paintings that often include silkscreen and image transfers, Rios weaves intricate compositions full of colorful abstracted and figurative forms capturing the complicated feelings of emotional weight.

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Alum Rosemary Holliday Hall in group show at Glass Curtain Gallery

Alum Rosemary Holliday Hall (BA 2013) is participating in the group show “Third Coast Disrupted: Artists + Scientists on Climate,” an exhibition that is the result of a yearlong conversation between artists and scientists centered on climate change impacts in the Chicago region. The exhibition can be viewed in person at the Glass Curtain Gallery or as a video documentation compiled by the Glass Curtain Gallery.

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Alum Vincent Pacheco presents solo exhibition at TGTG

Alum Vincent Pacheco’s (MFA 2017, BS Design 2003) solo exhibition “Smile Now, Cry Later” opens at The Garage on the Grove (TGTG) in Sacramento this Saturday, September 12 at 7-10 pm.  

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Alum Chris Lanier publishes “An Anatomy of Institutional Racism”

Alum Chris Lanier (MFA 2007) is featured in Drawing the Times, a platform for graphic journalists and cartoonists, with his adaptation of the Ferguson DOJ report “An Anatomy of Institutional Racism.”

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Alum art on SaveArtSpace billboard in LA

Alum Daniel Alejandro Trejo’s (BA 2013) art has been included in SaveArtSpace’s project “Looking Forward // Queer Futures” which displays artwork by 10 queer artists on billboards in the LA area. Daniel’s billboard is on Melrose and N. Mariposa and will be up for one month.

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Alum Hedwig Brouckaert in online group exhibitions

Alum Hedwig Brouckaert (MFA 2005) is in several group exhibitions in New York right now. “Re/Location,” sponsored by AS | Projects and curated by Jill Conner, will be available online until September 17, 2020. Re/Location features new works that reflect on the cathartic essence of the current moment and the process of change.

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Alum in Axis Gallery’s 15th National Juried Exhibition

Alums Carmel Dor (BA 2015), Laura Rayburn (MFA 2015) and Wesley Bell-Miller (MFA 2015) are all participating in the “Axis 15th National Juried Exhibition” now on display at the Axis Gallery in Sacramento.

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Alum Jason Engelund in solo show

Alum Jason Engelund’s (MFA 2013) solo exhibition “Sunscapes, Icarus Survives” opens August 20 at Adele Gilani Art Gallery in Sausalito.

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Alumni Create Outback Arthouse in L.A.

Alumni Kristin Hough (MFA ’16) and Julian Tan (MFA ’16) are among the founders of Outback Arthouse, a collaborative curatorial project in Los Angeles.

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Jessica Eve Rattner receives Headlands Graduate Fellowship

Jessica Eve Rattner

Congratulations to Jessica Eve Rattner (M.F.A. 2020) on receiving a 2020-2021 Graduate Fellowship to the Headlands Center for the Arts. 

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Alum Tavarus Blackmon co-curates virtual exhibition

Art Music Lit Space’s latest virtual exhibition “Methods of Negotiation” is now on view. Co-curated by Tavarus Blackmon (MFA 2018) and Derek Kwan, “Methods of Negotiation” asks how we negotiate in a world where many of our usual methods of negotiation have been disrupted?

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Alum Kyle Dunn in New American Paintings

Alum Kyle Dunn (MFA ‘12) has been featured in the magazine New American Paintings 145 (Pacific Coast). New American Paintings publishes the most important series of artist competitions throughout the country and catalogs each in a special volume. This issue (Volume 24, Issue 6, December/January 2020) looks at the Pacific Coast Competition 2019, curated by Christine Y. Kim, Associate Curator of Contemporary Art, LACoMA. 

Congratulation Kyle!

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Alumni Featured in Shelter in Studio Exhibition

Rachel Dean (M.F.A, ‘19), Stephen Kaltenbach (B.A., ’66, M.A., ‘67),  Douglas Kleinsmith (B.A., ‘18) and Muzi Li Rowe (M.F.A., ‘17) are currently featured in “Shelter in Studio,” an online exhibition that is California Artists’ Response to Covid-19.

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Alum Hong Zhang showing at the Milan Royal Palace

Alum Hong Zhang (MFA 2004) is participating in the group show “Out of the Blue” at the Palazzo Reale in Milan. The opening reception is Tuesday, September 8, 2020

This show, a collaboration with Milan based Alcantara textile company, is curated by Dagmar Carnevale Lavezzoli and Katie Hill. Six Chinese artists — Qin Feng, Qu Lei Lei, Sun Xun, Mao Lizi, Wang Huangsheng as well as Hong – have been invited to participate, with each artist presenting a new body of work using Chinese ink with Alcantara material.

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Alum Kyle Dunn has solo exhibition at Robertson Ares Gallery

Alum Kyle Dunn’s (MFA 2012) solo exhibition at Galerie Robertson Arès opened this June in Montreal. “Directions With No Endpoints” will be up until July 18, 2020.

Read Kyle’s interview with Galerie Robertson Arès in which he discusses his process, unique technique and ”Directions With No Endpoints.” 

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Alum Kevin Frances in “Documents”

Alum Kevin Frances (BA 2010) is participating in the group show “Documents” at the George Adams Gallery. “Documents” features paintings, photographs and woodcuts by Frances as well as artists Jack Beal, Manny Farber, Kija Lucas and Tony May.  

The exhibition will be available both online, in a digital format and installed at the gallery for viewings by appointment through July 16 to September 26, 2020.

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Alum Anna Valdez Has Solo Exhibition in SF

Alum Anna Valdez (BA 2009 and MFA, Boston University) is having a solo show at Hashimoto Contemporary in San Francisco now though June 27. 

“Objects of Affection” is her third solo presentation at the gallery and showcases Valdez’s maximalist still life paintings which offer a glimpse through the artist’s lens into art history and the familiar.

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Alum Receives Scholarship for New York Program

New alumna Chas (Chastine) Madla (B.A. ’20) has won this year’s summer scholarship to the New York Studio School of Drawing, Painting and Sculpture (NYSS).

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Alum Daniel Trejo interviewed in Hyperallergic

Alum Daniel Alejandro Trejo (BA, Art History and Art Studio, 2013) has been interviewed by Hyperallergic in their series Queer Art Workers Reflect.

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Alum Lisa Rybovich Crallé ends SFMOMA residency

In response to recent events at SFMOMA, alum Lisa Rybovich Crallé (MFA 2011) and her collaborative “Heavy Breathing” artist-lecture series ended their residency at SFMOMA’s #museumfromhome Community in Residence Program which was scheduled to present “How to Eat Blackberries” with artists Leila Weefur and Elana Gross on June 4.

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