The Basement Gallery is planning a pop-up
show for Halloween and they are looking for some art to
display. The name of the show is “What makes you
scared?“ If you would like to participate in the
show, please fill out the application which is linked below.
All the criteria for the show is in the application.
The UC Davis MFA Art Studio graduate students invite all into
their studios to see what they are working on and connect
with others from the larger community.
Both the main graduate art building, with 13 studios, and TB9,
with 3 studios will be open and the artists will be present to
talk about their work and practices.
Open studios are free and open to all people interested in
checking it out and having conversations.
Kathy Butterly (MFA 1990), who lives and works in New York, has
exhibited internationally and her art is in the collections of
the Museum of Modern Art; The Detroit Institute of Arts; the
Museum of Fine Arts, Boston; and the de Young Museum, San
Francisco. She has received a Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation
Grant, a Guggenheim Fellowship, a Pollock-Krasner Foundation
Grant, and a Joan Mitchell Foundation Grant.
Amelia Jones is Robert A. Day Professor and Vice Dean
of Research, Roski School of Art
& Design, USC, and is a curator and scholar of contemporary
art, performance, and feminist/sexuality studies. Recent
publications include Seeing Differently: A History and
Theory of Identification and the Visual Arts (2012);
co-edited with Erin Silver, Otherwise: Imagining Queer
Feminist Art Histories (2016); and the edited special
issue “On Trans/Performance” of Performance
Research (2016).
A native New Yorker, Jonathan Calm is a visual artist in the
media of photography and video whose work combines as well as
challenges the aesthetic and ideological tenets of architecture,
documentary journalism and sculpture. A central theme of his work
is the relationship between photography and urban architecture,
and the powerful role of images in the way architectural
constructs shape the lives of individuals and communities.
Frances Stark’s drawings, collages, videos, PowerPoint
presentations, performances, and paintings have been extensively
exhibited in museums and galleries worldwide. In 2017 a new suite
of her paintings were included in the Whitney Biennial, her
cinematic opera, The Magic Flute, premiered at LACMA,
and an earlier work was featured in the Venice Biennale. In 2015,
Stark’s sprawling mid-career survey, “UH-OH: Frances Stark
1991-2015,” opened at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles before
traveling to the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.
Meg Shiffler is the Galleries Director for the San Francisco Arts
Commission (SFAC), the arts agency of the City and County of
San Francisco. In this role since 2005, she curates exhibitions
featuring local, national and international artists that provoke
a dialogue between contemporary art and broad civic and social
issues.
The UC Davis Department of Art and Art History’s Art Studio
Visiting Artist Lecture series brings artists, writers and
curators to campus. All presentations are free and take place at
4:30 p.m. at the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of
Art.
The Art Building is located on Hutchison Drive, about halfway
between the Memorial Union and Mrak Hall on the UC Davis campus.
There is limited parking behind the building, but there is
visitor parking nearby, across the Arboretum in lot VP5.
