CROSSING THE DATELINE
Group exhibition guest curated by Pitiwat Somthai
with work by Nelleke Beltjens, Hedwig Brouckaert, Carol Hepper,
Suparirk
Kanitwaranan, Pasutt Kanrattanasutra, Komson Knookiew, Bussayamas
Nandawan, Panu Suaysuwan, Pitiwat Somthai and Vanida
Pornsombatpaiboon
March 16 – June 4, 2017
Opening March 23 at 6:30pm
UC Davis Alumnus Jason Engelund, MFA 2013, partnering Chabot
Elementary School in Castro Valley, helped the institution
receive an Arts Education Grant from Crayola.
Multimedia artist Paul Taylor, who received his MFA from UC
Davis, is among the featured artists represented in “Turbulence”
at the Chandra Cerrito
Contemporary in Oakland. The group exhibition runs
Dec. 2 through Jan. 26.
Taylor is also featured in an invitational show at the
Axis Gallery in Sacramento. The show runs Dec. 2 through
18.
Hedwig Brouckaert (MFA 2005) will participate in a 2-person
exhibition, Collect Light, with Vanessa Albury at
the Clara M. Eagle Gallery at Murray State University. The
exhibiton will run from November 18, 2016 to February 7, 2017.
Clara M. Eagle Gallery
Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky
20 Grand Avenue, Space 509
Brooklyn, NY 11205
The Jan Shrem and
Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art will open to the
public on Sunday, Nov. 13 featuring a special exhibition of the
work of first-generation faculty, but also feature exhibitions of
contemporary artists who exemplify the interactive and art-making
UC Davis tradition.
Zach Clark (MFA 2016) will be in the group show “Paper Cuts” in
Arts Benicia. “Paper Cuts” runs from October 15 to November 13,
2016. The opening is Saturday, October 16 from 6-8 pm.
Arts Benicia
911 Tyler Street, Suite 114
Benicia, CA 94510
Nelleke Beltjens (MFA 2001) will be in the group show
“Crossing the Dateline” at the Bangkok Art Center (BACC) which
runs from March 16 to June 4, 2017.
Nelleke Beltjens (MFA 2001) is in a two-person exhibition
with Alexandra Roozen at Galerie Roger Katwijk. The show
runs from February 18 to March 25, 2017.
Galerie Roger Katwijk
Lange Leidsedwarsstraat 198-200
Amsterdam, the Netherlands www.rogerkatwijk.com
Nelleke Beltjens (MFA 2001) will particpate in “Fundamental”
at the Kulturbunker Köln-Mülheim. The show, curated by Marta
Cencillo-Ramírez and Peter Lodermeyerunds, runs from
October 14 to October 29.
The Living Earth Show presents: Luciano Chessa’s “Squeeze! Squeeze!
Squeeze!” If Michael Gordon’s Timber, one of Luigi
Russolo’s futurist noise intoners, and Captain Ahab had a ménage
à trois in a dentist’s office, the resultant surreal, minimalist,
psychosexual, microtonal tour-de-force of a music-baby would be
Luciano Chessa’s Squeeze! Squeeze! Squeeze!: A Meditation Over
Chapter 94 of Herman Melvilles Moby Dick, commissioned for and
performed by Bay Area extreme chamber music iconoclasts The
Living Earth Show.
Hedwig Brouckaert (MFA 2005) will participate in a 2-person
exhibition with Vanessa Albury at the Clara M. Eagle Gallery at
Murray State University. The exhibiton will run from November 18,
2016 to February 2, 2017.
Clara M. Eagle Gallery
Murray State University
Murray, Kentucky
20 Grand Avenue, Space 509
Brooklyn, NY 11205
Hedwig Brouckaert (MFA 2005) has curated “Liminal Lyrics” at
Kunstraum in Brooklyn. The exhibition runs from October 16 to
November 20, 2016. Artists showing in “Liminal Lyrics”
include Hedwig, Lucy Puls, Nelleke
Beltjens (MFA 2001), Carol Hepper, Taney Roniger, Sofie
Muller, Alexander Gorlizki, Stephanie Leblon, Max Razdow and Bart
Stille.
Kunstraum
20 Grand Avenue, Space 509
Brooklyn, NY 11205
“Paper Pushers,” an exhibition curated by Mel Prest and Rob de
Oude, will be on display at Trestle Gallery in Brooklyn
from September 23 to November 4, 2016.
In addition to Hedwig (MFA 2005), Sarah Bednarek, Joan
Grubin, Nils Karsten, Paul Loughney, Francesca
Pastine, Zachary Royer Scholz, Viviane Rombaldi
Seppey, Oriane Stender and Lawrence Swan are
participating.
Alyssa Lempesis (MFA 2014) will have a solo exhibition at the
Building Imagination Center on the CSU Stanislaus campus. The
exhibition runs from October 1 to October 27, 2016.
Artist reception: Thursday, October 13, 2016 at 5:30 pm. There
will be an artist’s talk at 6:30 pm
Building Imagination Center
135 W Main Street
Turlock, California
209-664-9865
Two UC Davis master of fine arts graduates, Lisa Rybovich Crallé
(2012) and Richard Haley (2007), have exhibitions at the
Verge Center for the Arts in
Sacramento.
“Bangles” by Crallé fills the vertical space of the gallery with
an immersive installation comprised of large, suspended
sculptures made of pleather, cloth and artificial hair. Crallé’s
sculptures reduce the human figure to its most basic linear form,
adorning the gallery like architectural jewelry. She lives
in the San Francisco Bay area.
Lisa Rybovich Crallé (MFA 2011) and collaborator, Sophia
Wang, bring back “Heavy Breathing!” The series Sophia Wang and
Lisa launched last summer, returns this year in partnership with
the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive (BAMPFA). They
will be organizing six monthly events from June through November,
featuring artists: Stephanie Syjuco, Jacqueline Kiyomi Gordon,
Olive McKeon, Sofía Córdova, Cassie Thornton, and Chris Sollars.
Christopher Woodcock (MA 2010) will be participating in “Common
Ground: a Celebration of Our National Parks” at the David Brower
Center.
For its 2016 juried show, the David Brower Center presents Common
Ground: A Celebration of Our National Parks, celebrating the
hundredth anniversary of the National Park System and our parks
as seen through the eyes of twenty Bay Area artists. Join us for
a beer & wine reception, free and open to the public.
Opening reception: Friday, May 20, 2016 from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Recognized as a portrait and landscape photographer, Jonathan
Sprague, MFA class of 2015, is among the artists whose work is
featured in I’ll Tell You Later, Graduate Fellows
Exhibition at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito.
Opening on May 15 at noon, Sprague is one of seven emerging
artists showcased in the show.
I’ll Tell You Later, Graduate Fellows Exhibition,
Headlands Center for the Arts, May 15-June 5, Opening
Reception: Sunday, May 15, 12–5pm.
Hours: Sunday-Thursday: 12–5pm Free
