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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Terry Berlier in Squeeze! Squeeze! Squeeze!

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.

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Hedwig Brouckaert at Clara M. Eagle Gallery

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

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Hedwig Brouckaert curates Liminal Lyrics

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

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Hedwig Brouckaert in Paper Pushers

“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.

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Alyssa Lempesis at Building Imagination Center

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

Monday-Wednesday, 12-5pm
Thursday-Saturday, 12-9 pm

Installation by Lisa Rybovich Crallé
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Art Alumni Showcased in Sacramento

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.

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Lisa Rybovich Crallé performs at New Berkeley Art Museum
June-November, 2016

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.

Trail Crest by Christopher Woodcock, 2015
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Christopher Woodcock at the David Brower Center

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

"Rhetorical Strategies" by Jonathan Sprague
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Alumnus Jonathan Sprague Featured in Sausalito Exhibition

Jonathan Sprague

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

Sofia Lacin and Hennessy Christophel and the Bright Underbelly Project. Photo courtesy of LC Studio Tutto
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UC Davis Alumna Completes Mural
Artist Sofia Lacin and the Bright Underbelly Project in Sacramento

UC Davis Art Studio alumna Sofia Lacin along with artistic partner, Hennessy Christophel, recently finished a vast mural which covers 70,000 square feet on the underside of US Route 50 between 6th and 7th Streets — making it Sacramento’s largest outdoor mural. 

This prolific artistic undertaking has recently been the subject of an article in sactown magazine. For more information about the project, visit Bright Underbelly.

Detail, Belle.Jet 1900.15, 2016, digital collage, mixed media on paper. Image from: http://shoutout.wix.com/so/aLBHkXpD?cid=e1bf3bcd-2180-4e9a-b879-459ab66666b9#/main
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Jessica Wimbley Recent Works
MFA 2005, Art Studio

February 23 – March 31, 2016

Artist Talk and Reception: February 23, 12:00 pm West Gallery, Campus Center

West Gallery University of La Verne, Abraham Campus Center
2000 Second Street La Verne, CA 91750
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Spring Open House at the Headlands Center for the Arts

On April 17 from 12-5 pm, come visit, Joyce Nojima (MFA 2014) in her studio at the Headlands Center for the Arts for their Spring Open House. You can find Joyce’s studio in Building 960.

Joyce was awarded a Graduate Fellowship for 2015-2016.

Headlands Center for the Arts
944 Simmonds Road
Sausalito, CA 94965
415-331-2787
infor@headlands.org

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Joyce Nojima in Postal Collage Project No. 4

Since September, Joyce Nojima (MFA 2014) has been participating in Marty McCutcheon’s Postal-Collage Project No. 5.  All of the collaborative creations will be on display in April at Ramon’s Tailor.  

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Joyce Nojima at CuriOdyssey

For one night only, CuriOdyssey will celebrate science, technology, engineering, art, and math in “STEAM.” On Friday, March 18 from 6-9 pm, join Joyce Nojima (MFA 2014) and contribute to her dream catcher installation. 

Additional participants include Kinetech Arts, Museum of Craft + Design and the Bay Area Garden Railway Society.

Tickets are $15 for non-members and $10 for members.

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Hedwig Brouckaert in offspace.xyz

Hedwig Brouckaert (MFA 2005) is participating in the group exhibition offspace.xyz, a curatorial project by Maxime Van Melkebeke in NYC. offspace.xyz will run from January 15 – March 3, 2016 during a residency in artist Anouk Kruithof’s studio at 195 Chrystie Street, New York.

offspace.xyz is an online exhibition available 24/7 but Brouckaert’s work, “In the Presence of Absence,” will display January 27, February 6, February 13, February 16 and other days to be announced.

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Lisa Rybovich Crallé
Alumna’s Upcoming Shows

February 14 – 28 “Bodily Engagements”

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Lisa Rybovich Crallé performs at New Berkeley Art Museum
Community Day at BAMPFA on January 31

Lisa Rybovich Crallé (MFA 2011) and collaborator, Sophia Wang, are presenting a new art/movement piece that starts at 8 PM and will last approximately twenty minutes. Their work is part of the free Community day marking the opening of BAMPFA, the visual arts center of the University of California, Berkeley.

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Julia Haft-Candell at Ochi Projects

Art Studio alumna Julia Haft-Candell (BA 2005) solo exhibition “Double Knot” will run from January 16 to February 20, 206 at the Ochi Projects in Los Angeles.

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Julia Elsas at the Drawing Center

Julia Elsas (MFA 2009) will participate in The Drawing Center’s Basement Performances on February 6, 2016. The performance, in collaboration with Kenry Wollesen and curated by John Zorn, will present handmade one-of-a-kind instruments and multiple video projections.

Uh-huh (Basketball), 2015, Juliana Paciulli Archival pigment print in artists frame 22.5 x 16 inches
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Juliana Paciulli at Greene Exhibitions

Art Studio alumna Juliana Paciulli (MFA 2004) has a new exhibition, “Uh-Huh,” opening January 16 at Greene Exhibitions. In her second solo exhibition at Greene Exhibitions, Paciulli advances her examination of the complex psychological relationship between women and popular culture with a new series of photographs, video, and three-dimensional objects that employ the language of the absurd.

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