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. 

Festival poster for "On Edge: 2nd International Latinx Performance Art Festival," featuring a colorful lucha libre-style mask on a black background.
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Alum featured in International Latinx Performance Art Festival

Xavier Lopez (M.F.A., ‘98) is participating in the Second International Latinx Performance Art Festival “On the Edge” at Seattle’s first Thursday Artwalk. The festival will showcase a wide range of experimental performances grounded in the themes of inclusion, identity, and intersectionality. Lopez is the director of the festival as well as one of nine performers showcased in “On the Edge.”

Black-and-white photograph of a person standing beside a tall scaffold-like sculptural installation in a gallery, from the artist's "Collectors" series.
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Alum explores the intersection of photography and science

In a recent interview with Kathleen Wong of the UC Natural Reserve System, alum Jordan Benton (M.F.A., ‘23) discusses the intersection of art and science in his new photographic work.

Flyer for the exhibition "Meadow," featuring an abstract painting with curved organic shapes in yellow, blue, green, and pink.
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Alum in solo show at Marrow Gallery

“Often I am Permitted to Return to a Meadow,” the new solo exhibition by Mercy Hawkins (M.F.A., ‘21), opens at the Marrow Gallery in San Francisco.

Cover of "Larger Than Life: The Art of Tony Natsoulas," featuring a colorful painting of exaggerated ceramic figurative faces.
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Alum Book signing at the Manetti Shrem Museum

Larger Than Life: The Art of Tony Natsoulas takes us through Natsoulas’ (M.F.A. ’85) time as a student at UC Davis,

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Young Sculptors Award recognizes art studio alum

Congratulations to Aida Lizalde (B.A., ‘18) and Helia Pouyanfar (M.F.A., ‘22) — winner and finalist for the 2023 Miami University Young Sculptors Competition for the William and Dorothy Yeck Award. 

Painting by Alberto Hamonet titled "Orange Splendor"
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Alum opens solo show at new Bay Area gallery

Congratulations to Alberto Hamonet (M.F.A. ‘23) on his debut San Francisco show “Orange Splendor!” His solo show opens Saturday, Sept. 23. from  5-8 pm at the new art space Climate Control connected to Et Al.

Hamonet is also exhibiting some of his large paintings at the Through the Looking Glass festival in Oakland at Children’s Fairyland amusement park from 7-11 pm this Saturday, Sept. 16. 

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Alum Maija Peeples-Bright featured in KQED artist series

Maija Peeples-Bright (B.A., ‘64, M.A., ‘65), known for exuberant, whimsical paintings and sculptures, is featured in 8 Over 80, KQED’s series celebrating artists and cultural figures over the age of 80 who continue to shape the greater Bay Area.

Will Maxen, “It’s Hard to Remember, I’m Tougher in the Sun,” 2023, oil and inkjet transfer on canvas
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Alum in inaugural show at Residency Art Gallery

Will Maxen (M.F.A., ‘23) is featured in Residency Art Gallery’s inaugural exhibition at its new location in Hollywood Park.

Album cover art for Sonic Mud's "Above Ground," featuring a stylized illustrated figure
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Alum releases debut album featuring hand-built instruments

In pursuit of activating her sculptures with sound, Julia Elsas (M.F.A., 09) started Sonic Mud, a band of professional musicians that showcases her ceramic instruments. Elsas considers her sculptures to be fully realized only when they are being played.

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Alum Vincent Pacheco at Axis Gallery

“Indígenous – Vincent Pacheco” presents Pacheco’s (M.F.A., ‘17) ongoing body of work to develop a lexicon of his ancestral lineage as a tool to understand his identity.

Paul Taylor, "Disappearing Suit," 2020. Photo by Max Johnson
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Alum in solo show at Your Mood Gallery

Alum Paul Taylor’s (M.F.A., ‘11) solo show “Degrees of Disappearance” opens September 2 at Your Mood Gallery in San Francisco.

Still from Darrin Martin's video artwork, showing a portrait distorted with vertical waveform-like streaks
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New work by Professor Darrin Martin featured in Replenish

Darrin Martin

“Steel Tongue Accordion Ears,” a new sound piece by Professor Darrin Martin, is now accessible on MIT List Visual Art Center’s online sound experiences titled Replenish.

Abstract blue-toned artwork by Darrin Martin featuring radiating light-like lines
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Professor Darrin Martin in solo show at Recology

Darrin Martin

Professor Darrin Martin’s Artist in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco culminates with an exhibition titled “Past Life Resonance.” In this solo show, Martin explores the possibilities of tuning in to everyday things and surroundings and the resonances embedded in the things we have thrown away. 

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Alum in new show exploring 1960s arts scene in Northern California

“Nuts and Who’s: A Candy Store Sampler,” the new exhibition at the San Jose Museum of Art, focuses on the 1960s arts scene in Northern California and the cross-fertilization of ideas between Funk, Nut, and the Hairy Who in the Bay Area and at the Candy Store Gallery from 1968 to 1985.  

Tavarus Blackmon, "Slap"
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Alum in solo show at CSU Sacramento

Alum Tavarus Blackmon’s (M.F.A., ‘18) solo show “Tavarus Blackmon: House of the Good Dog” features recent paintings, drawings, and new media works

Torreya Cummings, detail from "Barbary Coast Keelhaul," 2023
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Alum explores San Francisco LGBTQ history in new video work

On August 26 from 6:30–8:30 pm, Torreya Cummings (B.A., ‘99) will hold a performance and video shoot aboard Balclutha in San Francisco’s Maritime National Park for her new work “Barbary Coast Keelhaul.”

Will Maxen, "White Spaces (beach)," 2023, oil and gesso on canvas
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Alum featured in inaugural exhibition at new gallery

The Faith J. McKinnie Gallery re-opens a Project Space for Curatorial Intervention with their new show “When They See Us.” Alum Will Maxen (M.F.A., ‘23) and Jessica Wimbley (M.F.A., ‘05) contribute works to this exhibition which opens August 19 and runs to September 10, 2023.

Flyer for the "Summer Salon" exhibition at Art Share LA, decorated with butterflies
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Alum Brenda Gonzalez at Art Share LA

Alum Brenda Gonzalez (M.F.A., ‘20) has been included in the upcoming “Summer Salon” group show at Art Share LA.

“Summer Salon” features sculpture, paintings, photography, and mixed-media collage and will be on view from August 12 – September 2, 2023 with an opening on August 12th at 7 pm.

Luka Vergoz, "studio," 2023, mixed media
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Luka Vergoz awarded Headlands Graduate Fellowship

Luka Vergoz (M.F.A., ‘23) has been awarded a 2023-2024 Headlands Graduate Fellowship.

Colorful logo graphic for "Personal Space" featuring a stylized face
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Alum to open project space

Congratulations to Lisa Rybovich Crallé (M.F.A., ‘11) who will soon open her very own storefront project space in Vallejo called Personal Space. The inaugural show ”Salad Days” and the Grand Opening will take place place on Sunday, July 30 from 2-5 pm. 

“Salad Days” is on view from July 30 to Sept. 10 and features work by Keith Boadwee, Maria Guzmán Capron, Takming Chuang, Reniel del Rosario, Lena Gustafson, Jordan/Martin Hell, Cliff Hengst, Karen May, Carlos Charlie Perez, Abel Rodriguez, Gyan Shrosbree, Jennifer Sullivan, Sarah Thibault, and Phyllis Yao.