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 Mercy Hawkins in Headlands 2022 Graduate Fellowship Exhibition

Mercy Hawkins (M.F.A., ‘ 21), the UC Davis 2021-2022 Graduate Fellow to the Headlands Center for the Arts will exhibit work produced during her residency at Headlands this June.

Small pyramid-shaped resin sculpture embedded with visible electronic circuit board scraps and metallic fragments, set on a plain gray surface.
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Alum in solo show at Axis Gallery

Muzi Li Rowe’s (M.F.A., ‘17) debut solo show “Morbidly Optimistic” looks at the intersection of technology, personal history, pseudo science and consumerism. Rowe collects obsolete devices such as used cell phones and digital cameras. Covered in dust, hair and grime, these things were once pristine cold machines until time made its personal mark. They are memento mori of a digital age.

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Alum Anna Valdez featured by NADA

The NADA NY (New Art Dealers Alliance) brings together more than 120 galleries and nonprofit organizations from 37 cities from May 5-8, 2022. The New York Times recently reviewed current NADA NY fair and spotlighted alum Anna Valdez (B.A., ‘09) and her solo booth (Pier 36) for the LA based gallery Ochi.

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Alum has solo show at Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art

Alum Duane Slick’s (M.F.A., ‘90) first solo exhibition is underway at the Aldrich Museum of Contemporary Art in Ridgefield, Connecticut.  “Duane Slick: The Coyote Makes the Sunset Better” brings 90 works

Charcoal diptych drawing depicting two close-up views of dark, elaborately styled hair buns rendered in fine detail against a plain background.
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Alum is guest artist for Sac State Festival of the Arts

Every spring, CSU Sacramento presents a Festival of the Arts, highlighting artist workshops, public lectures and an art history symposium. This year’s guest artist will be alumna Hong Zhang (M.F.A., ‘04). Hong will give a public lecture on April 20 at 4:30 pm in Kadema Hal, Room 145.

Exhibition flyer titled "Closer" with a grid of six small artwork thumbnails in varied styles and colors, including blue, gray, and speckled textures, on a white background.
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Alum Muzi Li Rowe in group show at Art Tonic

Art Tonic’s first exhibit “Closer” features six California artists who use or are inspired by the tiny, microscopic, intimate, discarded, and often overlooked materials of our daily lives. Muzi Li Rowe (M.F.A., ‘17), along with Chaitra Bangalore, Kate Farrall, Erin Kaczkowski, Sunroop Kaur and Summer Ventis, focus on the magic in the mundane. ⁠

Colorful banner reading "Artists' Soap Box Derby," striped in rainbow colors with a black-and-white checkered flag pattern along the top edge.
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Alum in SFMOMA’s 2022 Soapbox Derby

Bay Area creativity goes into overdrive when SFMOMA’s Soapbox Derby returns to McLaren Park for the first time in more than 40 years. The original artists’ derbies from the 1970s were legendary events — between the two races in 1975 and 1978, SFMOMA commissioned cars and trophies from more than 200 artists — including professors emeritus Robert Arneson and Mike Henderson, as well as Ruth Asawa, Ant Farm, Viola Frey, Mike Henderson, Mary Lovelace O’Neal, Richard Shaw, and Carlos Villa.

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ALum Dani Torvik in solo show at Gallerie Valerie

Dani Torvik (M.F.A., ‘21) will have a solo exhibiton at Gallerie Valerie in Crockett featuring her paintings. Reservations are required by emailing valerie@gallerievalerie.com or calling 510-99-2505.

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NCECA Conference spotlights UC Davis contributions to contemporary ceramic arts

The 2022 annual conference of the National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts (NCECA) is coming to Sacramento this March, highlighting the rich local ceramic arts scene for which this region is so well known. Several venues in Sacramento and the surrounding area will host exhibitions in conjunction with NCECA’s Fertile Grounds conference.

Exhibition flyer titled "Quilt Bloc" showing a patchwork quilt with squares in muted purple, tan, pink, and black tones, above a diagonal black line dividing the poster.
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Alum Noah Greene in “Quilt Bloc”

“Quilt Bloc” is an exhibition of historical quilts from the Springfield History Museum displayed alongside the works of seven contemporary artists. The contemporary artists bridge recent art making and exhibition practices with historic quilts and the collecting and exhibition of artifacts from the Springfield Museum. Among the artist participating in “Quilt Bloc” is Noah Greene (M.F.A., ‘18).

Mixed-media artwork with textured, crumbling material overlaid on a photographic sky and clouds background, half in dark shadow and half in soft daylight.
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Alum in group show “The sky is higher here”

“The sky is higher here”, a group exhibition at Transmitter and curated by Leila Seyedzadeh, features the work of alum Hedwig Brouckaert (M.F.A., ‘05). This exhibition displays works of a variety of mediums such as painting, textile, photography, textile weaving, mixed media, through which each artist examines the vastness of the sky and finds refuge in this great space without borders. 

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Alum Bruce Nauman at the Cantor Arts Center

Conceptual artist Bruce Nauman (M.A., ‘66) created the five-silkscreen set Studies for Holograms in 1970, at a moment when he took a boundary-breaking turn toward new technology. “The Marmor Collection: Bruce Nauman” at the Cantor Arts Center takes a look at these humorous images and Nauman’s exploration of art media and the human body as an endless source of pliable art materials.

Photographic collage titled "Untitled (Flight)" combining a blurred open highway scene with layered film-strip borders and color test bars along the top edge.
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Jason Englund awarded Artist in Residence at L’Expressoir

Congratulations to Jason Engelund (M.F.A., ‘13), recipient of an Artist in Residence at L’Expressoir in Marnay Sur Seine, France. Engelund will be a resident this spring. 

Roadside billboard displaying a bright blue artwork covered with colorful, playful cartoon-like creatures, mounted on tall metal posts against a clear sky.
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Alum featured in Billboard Gallery

The Holland Project’s Billboard Gallery showcases the work of emerging and established regional artists on billboards throughout Reno’s surface streets. Three new artists are installed every four weeks in 2022, including alum Kristin Hough (M.F.A., ‘16). Hough’s “HOT! l o o s e $tinkin’ WICKED wild P O W E R” is on view at Wells Avenue and Pueblo Street.

Ceramic sculpture titled "Sleeping with Death" depicting a woman lying beneath a starry blue blanket beside a skeletal figure, both peeking out from under the covers.
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Alum in new show at Richmond Art Center

Alum Lauren Ari (M.F.A., ‘01) is one of two Richmond-based ceramicists featured in the new show “Dreamforms” at the Richmond Art Center.

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Alum awarded NEA Grant

Alum Anna Davidson (M.F.A. ‘16) has been awarded a National Endowment for the Arts Research Grant in the Arts to support a project studying student outcomes of an environmental education curriculum that uses art-based, immersive, and interdisciplinary teaching methods.

Charcoal drawing titled "Pandemic Hairdos" showing two dark, mask-like coiled hair buns rendered as face-covering forms, side by side on a scroll.
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Alum in solo show at Nerman Museum

The Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art is presenting an exhibition of new work by alum Hong Chun Zhang (M.F.A. ‘04), featuring her meticulous charcoal drawings and ink paintings of long, straight black hair.  “Extensions: New Work by Hong Chun Zhang” will be on view from January 27 to April 24, 2022

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Alum Terry Berlier collaborates on concert/installation

A Kind of Ache is a multimedia installation and concert from sculptor  and conceptual artist Terry Berlier (M.F.A., ‘03), composer Sarah Hennies, and electroacoustic duo The Living Earth Show (Andy Meyerson and Travis Andrews) that reimagines a world designed from and for a queer identity. The drums-and-guitar duo will play Hennies’ score on Berlier’s sculptures, using objects, music and their imaginations to wonder “What would it feel like to be the majority?”

Whimsical ceramic sculpture of a bearded man wearing a safari hat and metallic vest, holding a telescope, seated atop a base studded with glass marbles and LED lights.
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Alum in “Out of Our Minds” at Sonoma Valley Museum of Art

The satirical and irreverant ceramic work of Tony Natsoulas (M.F.A., ‘85) is featured in the new show “Out of Our Minds: Clayton Bailey & Tony Natsoulas” at the Sonoma Valley Museum of Art.

Ink and watercolor painting titled "Take Out #2" on rice paper, depicting a takeout food container overflowing with a hair-like fibrous tangle in soft beige tones.
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Art Study Seminar with Alum Hong Chun Zhang

On Friday, December 10, alum Hong Chun Zhang (M.F.A, ‘04) gave a zoom artist talk with Jessica Li (The Wave Magazine, Harvard University) and Sarah Laursen (Curator of Chinese Art at Harvard Art Museums).