The China Shop, a new faculty-led initiative that embeds
resident artists
and designers within scientific laboratories at UC Davis to
conduct
research, presents a conversation between scientists and artists
on May 30 at 4:30 p.m. in the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem
Museum of Art.
This year’s Arts and Humanities Graduate Exhibition, running June
9 – 25 at the Jan
Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, features student
work from across the College of Letters and Science.
BROKE-OLOGY,
a play by Nathan Louis Jackson and now playing at The Sofia in
Sacramento, features artwork in the set design by Jessica Wimbley
(M.F.A., ‘05) and husband Chris Christion. The play which
explores a family at a crossroads, runs to June 4,
2023.
“Woman
Life Freedom,” the new group show at Woman Made Gallery in Chicago, takes
it’s inspiration from the chant by women marching for human
rights, bodily autonomy and regime change in Iran. This
exhibition brings together the work of 43 women and nonbinary
artists who responded to a call for art, including alum
Helia Pouyanfar (M.F.A., ‘22), and contributions by 18 Iranian
artists who were invited to participate.
The work of undergraduate students in ART 113:
Interdisciplinary Art taught by internationally acclaimed artist
Shimon Attie, teaching artist in residence for the Manetti Shrem
California Studio, will be featured in the 2nd Friday
ArtAbout in downtown Davis on May 12.
Alum Brooklynn Johnson’s (M.F.A., ‘19) solo show will open on
Saturday, April 29 at The Weight Room on
the BYU campus. Johnson is currently a visiting lecturer in
the Department of Art at BYU.
Save the date for a conversation between alums Brenda Gonzalez
(M.F.A., ‘00) and Julia Rigby (M.F.A., ‘00) on May 16 at 6
p.m. via
Zoom. Brenda will discuss her work and her residency at
Arts at Blue Roof.
UC Davis is hosting two internationally acclaimed artists who
will give public talks, screen films and work directly with
students in May. Lynn Hershman Leeson and Shimon Attie are
presented by The Manetti Shrem California Studio in the
Department of Art and Art History, housed in the College of
Letters and Science. The California Studio is part of UC Davis
art studio and underwritten by a gift from Jan Shrem and Maria
Manetti Shrem.
Hyperallergic’s most recent installment of “A
View From the Easel: Grad School Edition”
spotlights second-year M.F.A. candidate Justine Di Fiore and
her studio space in the Art Studio Grad Building.
Ceramic artists Daniel Alejandro Trejo (B.A., art studio and art
history, ‘13), Claudia Tarantino and Bill Heiderich are in the
new group show “Moments in Time & Space” at the Pence Gallery.
The show is on display from April 14 to June 12, 2023. An opening
reception will be held April 14 from 6-9 p.m.
In conjunction with the ten year anniversary of Verge’s
groundbreaking at 625 S Street in Sacramento, the Verge will
present “The
First 10yrs,” an inaugural biennial exhibition of works
produced during the first ten years of Verge’s Resident
Artist Studio Program (RASP).
Congratulations to Emmanuel Camacho Larios (art studio and
Chicana/o studies) who was just accepted to the Summer Sculpture
Marathon at New York Studio School of Drawing.
A new group show curated by Manuel Fernando Rios (M.F.A., 2011 )
and Jose Arenas (M.F.A., 2000) at The Latino Center of Art and
Culture opens in Sacramento on March 11.
Amy Lincoln’s (B.A., ‘03) solo show
“Radiant Spectrum” is on view at Sperone Westwater through
April 22nd, 2023. Lincoln’s 12 large-scale seascapes and
landscapes reference atmospheric elements—air, water, light and
clouds—and engage concepts of light reflection and refraction.
Professor Darrin Martin’s “Along the Perimeter”
will premier as a live performance turned into an
installation as part of the Ann Arbor Film
Festival’s Off the Screen series.
The John Natsoulas Gallery will open a new exhibition
showcasing the artistic visions of Northern Californian
women artists. Curated by Sarah Posner,
“Women of Northern California: Making Meaning for Yesterday,
Today, and Tomorrow” celebrates the influential
women artists who have led the way in establishing and developing
artistic movements and media in our region.
The Blanton Museum of
Art at the University of Texas at Austin is soon to become a
major hub for Latino art, thanks to the donation and purchase of
more than 5,000 works of art
Gallery rosenfeld is
presenting the first UK solo exhibition of Professor Shiva
Ahmadi’s work. ”The Courage of Eve” will be on view from
Feb. 22 to April 1, 2023 at the London based gallery.
Pen +
Brush’s first exhibition of 2023 is the group show “The
Ripening” featuring 15 artists, including alum Hedwig
Brouckaert (M.F.A, ‘05).
Curated by Parker Daley Garcia with Birdie Piccininni, “The
Ripening” runs from Feb. 16 to April 15. Loosely
based on Édouard Glissant’s book of the same name, “The Ripening”
explores the state of identity today.
Join Mike Henderson, professor emeritus, in an online
conversation with the Alta Live magazine as part of
its #AltaLive series of artist talks on Wednesday,
Feb. 15 at 12:30 pm (PST).
Alum Jessica Wimbley’s (M.F.A., ‘05) new video installation “The
True Story of Edges” was recently installed at the Crocker Art
Museum. Consisting of two back-to-back videos of the artist with
a collage of images within her afro, the work features hair as a
changing space for memory and storytelling.
“The True Story of Edges” is located near the main entrance
stairwell.
“The Lost City: Between Art and Science,” a new exhibition at
the McKissick Museum at the University of South
Carolina, presents work by artist/scientist and alum Dr.
Anna Davidson (M.F.A., ‘16).
Mike Henderson, art professor emeritus, taught at UC Davis for
more than 40 years. He is now back in the spotlight with a major
exhibition at the Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art
and shows at the FOG art fair and Haines Gallery in San
Francisco.
The Pence Gallery
presents Myrtle Press’ invitational print exchanges in their
current show “Myrtle
Press Prints: Portfolio x 2.” This exhibition features
prints by sixteen artists, including a few current and
former UC Davis artists, including Professor Graham
McDougal, Aster Foley (B.A., art studio), Manuel Fernando Rios
(M.F.A., ‘11), Sandy Whetstone (B.A., art studio) and Dixie
Laws (B.A., art studio).
Recology San Francisco announced the recipients of their artist
residencies for 2023 and Professor Darrin Martin and alum
Torreya Cummings have made the list.
In March 2022, alum Daniel Alejandro Trejo (B.A., art history and
art studio, ’13) curated “No End in Sight” at the Verge
Center for Arts in Sacramento. The show, which was included as
part of the 2022 NCECA
(National Council on Education for the Ceramic Arts)
conference in Sacramento, highlighted local artists
making clay sculpture.
Torreya Cummings (B.A., ‘99) and Terry Peterson (M.F.A., ‘12)
explore the natural world in a digital context in a two-person
exhibition currently on view at the Library
Gallery at California State University, Sacramento.
The students, faculty, staff and alumni of the Department of Art
and Art History pay tribute to UC Davis Professor Emeritus Conrad
Atkinson, who passed away Oct. 8. Atkinson served as an art
professor in the Department of Art and Art History from 1992 to
2003.
Curated by Christopher Woodcock (M.F.A., ‘10) and featuring
alumni Lisa Rybovich Crallé (M.F.A., ‘11), Kyle Dunn (M.F.A.,
‘12) and Benjamin Rosenthal (M.F.A., ‘11), “A
Library of Forms” is a riot of color and movement.
Helia Pouyanfar (M.F.A., ‘22) has been included in Southern Exposure’s 31st Annual Juried
Exhibition “Mirror Material.”
Curated by Tiger Strikes Asteroid, this show celebrates
hybridity of materials as well as identities. The works displayed
reflect the diverse cultural, historical, and personal
influences that inform our shifting identities.
Dani Torvik (M.F.A.,
‘21) has a solo exhibition, “Drip, Pool, Ooze: Alchemical
Distillations,” at the Felix Kulpa Gallery in Santa
Cruz from Oct. 7-Nov. 30.
Professor emeritus Tom Bills’ new show at 57W57 Arts in Manhattan displays
recent work that translates his usual large-scale sculptures into
wall-mounted pieces.
“Tom Bills: Wall Sculptures” is on view until October 14,
2022.
Tufenkian Fine
Arts‘ new show “Macrocosmic: A Selection of Works” features
works by Julia Couzens (M.F.A., ‘90), Brad Miller and Coleen
Sterritt. “Macrocosmic” showcases multiple perspectives on
nature, the body, and space.
This group exhibition of sculpture and works on paper, chosen by
guest curator Carole Ann Klonarides, is on view from September 6
to October 29, 2022. An artist reception to be held on
Saturday, September 17 from 3:00 pm to 6:00 pm.
Mark your calendars for the 2022 Sac Open Studios.
Two-hundred and seventy artists will open their studios to the
public in Sacramento and the surrounding area on September 10-11
and 17-18 from 10 pm to 5 pm.
Torreya Cummings (B.A., ‘99) and Terry Peterson (M.F.A.,
‘12) explore the natural world in a digital context in a
two-person exhibition currently on view at the Library Gallery
at CSU Sacramento.
Noah Greene (M.F.A., ‘18) has curated a solo exhibition
of new work by Brooklynn Johnson (M.F.A., ‘19) called
“House of Waves.” This exhibition is organized as part of a
nomadic curatorial project called TRAVELERS.
The MexiCali
Biennial’s ”The Land of Milk and Honey [La tierra que
mana leche y miel]” is a traveling multidisciplinary arts and
culture program focused on the ideological concept of agriculture
in the regions of California and Mexico. “The Land of Milk and
Honey,” organized by Ed Gomez, Luis G.
Root Division’s latest
show “Introductions
2022″ showcases the talent of twelve emerging artists in
the San Francisco Bay Area, among them recent graduates Kelley
O’Leary (M.F.A., ‘22) and Helia Pouyanfar (M.F.A., ‘22).
The new group show at Soft Times
Gallery features bright, colorful and fun ceramics,
fiber art, and paintings by ten artists, including alum Kyle Dunn
(M.F.A., ‘12).
Helia Pouyanfar (M.F.A., ‘22) has published a limited edition art
photography book titled Once, in passing. Images,
taken between the ages of 16 to 19 when the artist lived as
a refugee in Turkey,
“Material Handling,” a new group show at Axis Gallery in
Sacramento, highlights paintings, textile-based works, sound
sculptures, installations and drawings by John Cristello, Anne
Garvey, Esther Marie Hall, Laura Sanford and alum Josh Short
(M.F.A., ‘09). Tavarus Blackmon (M.F.A., ‘18)
curated ”Material Handling” which will be on view from July
2 to July 31.
Alum Tavarus Blackmon (M.F.A., ‘18) and Manuel Fernando Rios
(M.F.A., ‘11) are partipating in the group show “Vibrant
Explorations” at Yolo Arts gallery The Barn.
Artnet’s Tim Schneider has
named professor emerita Lynn Hershman Leeson’s “Twisted Gravity”
one of the most boundary-pushing works at this year’s Art Basel.
The work of alumna Hedwig Brouckaert
(M.F.A., art studio, ‘05) is featured in “Speekkamer,” a
two-person exhibition, at Poort 8 in Ghent, Belgium. Also
featuring work by Alexandra Leyre Mein, the show opens on June 30
and runs July 1-3 and 8-10 and by appointment.
Congratulations to Kelley O’Leary (M.F.A., ‘22) and Morgan
Cristine Flores (M.F.A., ‘22), winners of the LeShelle &
Gary May Art Purchase Prize and Keister & Allen Art Purchase
Prize respectively. The winners of the two awards
were announced at the opening celebration of the 2022 Arts
and Humanities Graduate 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.
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.
Congratulations to Jordan Benton (M.F.A., ‘223) who has
received the
Russel J. and Dorothy S. Bilinski Fellowship for his
collaborative proposal with William Speiser, a PhD candidate in
Hydrologic Sciences at UC Davis!
Kelley O’Leary (M.F.A., ‘22) is participating in an online group
show with I Like
Your Work. “Through
Mossy Ways,” which features Kelley’s installation piece
“Gnomon,” is curated by Marcela Florida and on view through the
spring.
I like Your Work has an open call for their summer exhibition
curated by Jane Lawrence. Deadline for submissions is May 30th.
Follow the link in their bio @ilikeyourworkpodcast for submission
details.
Clayton Schuster takes a look at Adeliza McHugh, the founder
of the legendary Folsom gallery The Candy Store and the
current Crocker Art Museum exhibition “The Candy Store: Funk,
Nut, and Other Art with a Kick” in his article for the
online art magazine Hyperallergic.
Art History M.A. candidates Srđan Tunić and Anya Shulman,
and second-year M.F.A. candidate Kelley O’Leary will present
public lectures in “Weird Studies,” a graduate student symposium
sponsored by the Department of French and Italian. The symposium
will take place Saturday, April 23 and continue on the following
Saturday, April 30 from 10:00 am to 3:00 pm.
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.
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.
In a recent San Francisco Chronicle Dateline feature, Tony Bravo
highlights the numerous contributions San Francisco artist and
professor emerita Lynn Hershman Leeson has made to the
contemporary art scene.
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.
Professor Shiva Ahmadi will visit the Detroit Institute of Arts to dicsuss
her art practice which borrows from the artistic traditions of
Iran and the Middle East to critically examine contemporary
political tensions. Her presentation,
which will be onsite Thursday, March 31, 5:30-7:30 pm, is part of
the FAAC/FMCA Artist Talk and Reception series.
The Candy Store Gallery opened in Folsom, California in
1962. The gallery was in fact a house and a candy store, but
eventually was converted into an art gallery by Adeliza McHugh.
The artists McHugh exhibited in her gallery—artists
such as Robert Arneson, Clayton Bailey, Roy De Forest, David
Gilhooly, Irving Marcus, Gladys Nilsson, Jim Nutt, Jack Ogden,
Sandra Shannonhouse, Peter VandenBerge, and Maija Peeples-Bright
(née Zack)—were known for their quirky, anti-establishment
aesthetic.
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.
A new site-specific exhibition in Sacramento is bringing together
over thirty artists to explore issues of urban space
and community. “Coordinates: Ice
Pac” is a series of temporary installations located
in the former Pacsat Headquarters on S Street
in Sacramento.
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.
The
McEvoy Foundation for the Arts will hold a discussion on
technology and the female body on Saturday, March 5 at 3 pm with
professor emerita Lynn Hershman Leeson.
“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).
Second-year graduate Kelley O’Leary (M.F.A., ‘22) has been
interviewed and featured in on-off.site, an
independent collective of San Francisco Bay Area artists.
“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.
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.
Sampada Aranke, Scholar in Residence, Manetti Shrem
Museum, and Dan Nadel, Curator at Large, Manetti Shrem
Museum, will host a colloquium for the Cultural Studies
Graduate Group on Curating Black Rage and Black
Utopias: Mike Henderson, Before the Fire, 1965-1985. This
zoom event will be held Thursday, March 10 from 4-6 pm (PST).
William Wiley was a longtime UC Davis art professor, renowned
artist, punster and champion of the Slant Step, a touchstone
of Funk art. His work from the mid-1960s, some made with his
student Bruce Nauman, gets a close look in “William
T. Wiley and the Slant Step: All on the Line” at the
Jan Shrem and
Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art. The exhibition gathers for
the first time many slant step objects made by both artists and
others.
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.
The E Street Gallery in Sacramento is presenting a tribute
exhibition to artist Linda Katzdorn Austin who died last year.
With remarkable efficiency, humor, and care for our students,
Linda managed the art studio’s printmaking lab for nearly twenty
years.
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.
Alum Anna Davidson (M.F.A. ‘16) has been awarded a National Endowment for the
ArtsResearch 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.
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?”
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).
Former Professor Squeak Carnwath is currently featured
in several shows across the county. Nearby at b. sakata garo in
Sacramento, Carnwath’s solo show ”Here Now Then When” will
be on view until December 4, 2021. Carnwath was a Professor in
Art Studio from 1983-1998 before transferring to UCB’s Art
Practice Department.
Mercy Hawkins (M.F.A., ‘21) is particpating in a three person
show at Marrow Gallery in San Francisco. ”Two Moons in
Sagittarius,” which also features Tahiti Pehrson and Lindsay
Stripling, will run from November 29 to January 5, 2022
Opening on November 12 at the Pence Gallery! “First
Impressions: Early Prints by Roy De Forest” offers a remarkable
look at the artist’s early explorations in printmaking.
Alum Julia Haft-Candell (B.A., ‘05) has been included in an
upcoming show at LA Louver curated by Alison Saar. In
“SeenUNseen,”
Saar gathers ten artists that display energy around the idea
of Spirit Portraiture — spirits captured in visual form.
Included in “SeenUNseen” are JOJO ABOT, Rina Banerjee,
Vanessa German, Kathy Grove, Julia Haft-Candell, Kenyatta A.C.
Hinckle, Ricardo Vicente Jose Ruiz, Alison Saar, Keisha
Scarville and Arthur Simms.
Alum Ryan Meyer (M.F.A., ‘18) is in the new group show “A Deep
Well” at Ground
Floor Contemporary in Birmingham, Alabama. In addition to
Meyer, artists Lauren Frances Evans and Sarah West are in
the show.
“A Deep Well” will be on view from November 4 to November 20,
2021.
An opening reception will take place Thursday, November 4,
5-7 pm and an artist talk on Thursday, November 11, 6 pm on
Zoom. The Zoom link will be available here.
Alum Hedwig Brouckaert (M.F.A., ‘05) is participating in the
group show “Rhapsody in
Blue” at the Villa Les Zephyrs in Belgium. The title
refers to the extreme mood swings from the twenties of this
and the past century. Curated by Isolde De Buck, the
exhibition includes artists Sadie Murdoch , Hadassah Emmerich,
Hans Op de Beeck, Johan Creten, Thomas Lerooy,
Hans Demeulenaere en Samyra Moumouh, Maaike Leyn, Sarah Yu
Zeebroek, Deogracias Kihalu and Sharon Van Overmeiren, as
well as Brouckaert.
How have artists and arts workers been conducting their careers
and their lives during the last eighteen months? In a piece
written for SF MOMA’s Open Space, alum Daniel Trejo
(B.A., art history and art studio, ‘13) shares his experiences of
making art in the Sacramento region as a Latinx
artist in “Thoughts
at 70 mph”.
Save the date for “Dad Life,” an upcoming show at Axis Gallery, featuring new
paintings by Tavarus Blackmon (M.F.A., ‘18). “Dad Life” will run
from November 6 – November 28, 2021.
“Every (Movie, Sound, Image, Text) on my cell phone,” Professor
Darrin Martin’s 2009 video, is currently live streaming as part
of the Digital
Amnesia program curated by Montse Pujol
Solà on the Impakt Channel.
Professor Darrin Martin’s video and 3D print “Contrapposto” is
included in “Crip*,” a new
traveling exhibition curated by Liza Sylvestre at Krannert Art Museum, University
of Illinois, Champaign, Illinois.
“Take Breath is Breath (Breathe),” Professor Darrin
Martin’s new video in response to the pandemic, makes its
premiere as part of “Interconnected,”
a group show curated by Jackie Clay and Jillian Crochet
at San Francisco’s Southern
Exposure.
Alum Sandra Ono’s (B.A., ‘03) solo show “Flowers” opens at
P.Bibeau in New York,
featuring sculptures referencing the 1979 Greensboro
Massacre and death of Ono’s namesake, Sandra (Sandi) Neely Smith.
At the age of 29, Smith was killed during a ‘Death to the
Klan’ protest against the continued racial injustice in
Greensboro.
“Flowers” will be on view from October 28-December 18, 2021.
Alum Muzi Li Rowe’s (M.F.A., ‘17) solo show “Magical Thinking”
will open at Burb Contemporary on
October 28, 2021. The show will be available online and on Burb
Contemporary’s social media (@burbcontemporary).
Burb Contemporary
38th and H Street
Sacramento, CA 95816
burbcontemporary@gmail.com
Alum Jesse Genepi (M.F.A, ‘21) is particpating in the new group
show at the Below Grand in New York. “The
Marble Oracle” is on view until November 7 and features, in
addition to Jesse, Joe Bochynski, Caleb Jamel Brown, You Ni Chae,
Gabriel Cohen, Sarah Miska, Erik Probst, and Randy Wray.
A new show at Anglim
Trimble features the works of Richard and Martha Shaw.
“Richard Shaw, Martha Shaw” highlights Martha Shaw’s
new paintings and monoprints and Richard Shaw’s (M.F.A.,
‘68) Palissy inspired dinner plates.
The show can be viewed online and
in person until October 30, 2021.
“Thunderstruck 2.0: black hole sun” is an exhibition inspired
by a journey to Nancy Holt’s “Sun Tunnels” by the Thunderstruck
Collective, a group of artists including Kristin Hough (M.F.A.,
‘16), Katherine Spinella, Michael E. Stephen, John Whitten,
Morgan Rosskopf and Ashlin Aronin.
In one of the largest Kansas City public art commissions, alum
Hong Chun Zhang (M.F.A., ‘04) was selected to create artwork
for the Kansas City International Airport New
Terminal. Zhang is one of nineteen local artists chosen to
add public art to the city’s new airport terminal and
garage. Kansas City’s One
Percent for Art is funding the
commissions.
Alum Paul Taylor (MFA, ‘11) is participating in Round Weather’s latest group
show “Wind
Over Water.” The exhibition, which considers art as a
meditation device and/or spiritual practice, also includes
artists Shelley Hoyt, Rumi Koshino, Maisin artists, Nkiruka
Oparah, Yulia Pinkusevich, Jesse Schlesinger, Elizabeth Sims,
Andrew Sungtaek, and Rosie Lee Tompkins.
Two new exhibitions at the Hosfelt Gallery and at the di Rosa
Center for Contemporary Art honor the self-deprecating wit of
Professor Emeritus William Wiley.
University of Kansas associate professor and alum Benjamin
Rosenthal (M.F.A., ‘ 11) has a new show titled “And the band
played on, and on on” at Studios Inc. in Kansas City.
In Brooklyn Rail’s Weekend Journal #125, alum Hong Chun
Zhang (M.F.A, ‘ ‘04) gives a tour of her Kansas studio and
shares details about her new body of work made during the
pandemic.
Tavarus Blackmon (M.F.A, ‘18) is featured in a group show
presenting the latest work of the 2020-2021 Kala Art Institute’s Fellows and Media
Residents.
“On the Boundary,” a new exhibition at Datz Museum of
Art in Gwangju, Korea, features the works of Professors Young Suh
(art studio) and Katie Peterson (English).
Daniel Herr (B.A., art studio, ‘04) has curated and is showing in
the group show “The Escape” at The Java Project in Brooklyn.
In addition to Herr, artists Colleen Marie Foley, Graham Duward,
Nick Naber, Arielle Falk, David Price, Amy Lincoln, Chris Hood,
Noah Dillon, Henri Paul Broyard, and Corey Presha are
participating.
Alum Brooklynn Johnson (M.F.A., ‘19) solo show “Folding
Mirror” opens August 4 at eeee in Mexico City.
eeeee (Espacio de
experimentación y exposición en la Escandón) is an independent
work and exhibit space for artists. Artists participate in eeeee
for short periods (1 to 3 months) to focus on producing a new
body of work and then exhibit their work during or at the end of
their stay.
The Verge Center for the Art’s original documentary
series About the Artist: Making Art in the Golden
State premiers Thursday, July 22 with an episode
featuring alum and Sacramento-based artist Manuel
Fernando Rios (M.F.A., ‘11).
Alum Raymond Zarnowitz (B.A., ‘12) will exhibit recent paintings
in a solo show ”Meaning and Difference” at 373
Broadway, New York. “Meaning and Difference” will run from July 2
to July 31 on Fridays and Saturdays with an Opening Reception on
Friday from 6-9 pm.
A new exhibition featuring work by art alumni that recasts a
unique chapter of Northern California’s unconventional art
history will open July 1 at the Jan Shrem and Maria
Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.
Annabeth Rosen has received a UC Davis 2021 Lifetime Achievement
Award. The Lifetime Achievement Awards in Innovation
recognize researchers whose career accomplishments include
innovations leading to a long-term positive impact on the lives
of others and who are an inspiring influence for other
innovators.
Kristin Hough (M.F.A., ‘16) has curated a group show at Test Site
Projects which will be opening Saturday, June 26. “SEEDED”
includes alum Arielle Rebek (M.F.A., ‘17), as well as Devra Fox,
Charlotte Lethbridge and Katharine Spinella.
Genevra Daley is the
winner of the 2021 Keister and Allen Art Purchase Prize for a
Master of Fine Arts student in studio art. One of her works will
be purchased for the UC Davis Fine Arts Collection.
Indy Film Library has
posted a review of “Poem Reply to Sofia,” an experimental film by
first-year M.F.A. candidate Sofia Del Pedregal, in their recent
newsletter. .
Alum Matthew Kelly Debbaudt (M.F.A., ‘15) is
presenting a solo show in Los Angeles on Wednesday, June 2. His
show “Moment Notice” is onsite, for one-night only from 6 pm
onward. Matthew will document ”Moment Notice” on his
Instagram
as well.
The new Manetti Shrem Museum exhibition, “Wayne
Thiebaud Influencer: A New Generation,” celebrates
Thiebaud’s contributions and impact on the local and
national art community. In particular, the
exhibition features numerous Art Studio alum whose careers
and artistic philosophies were formulated by the teaching of
Wayne Thiebaud.
“Everday Inspiration: A Still Life Invitation Show,” a group
exhibition featuring artists working working in the still life
genre, includes four paintings by alum Gabriella Soraci
(MFA ‘07). The show will be on display from May 14 to June 4 on
site as well as
online at the Maude Kerns Art Center. For the
exhibit, Kate Bollons, Sarah Ciampa, Carolyn Gates, Jordan K.
Professor Emeritus Mike Henderson was recently interviewed
by Janet Reilly of the Nob Hill Gazette for his current show at
the Haines Gallery in San Francisco.
“Shifting
Sands,” an exhibition co-curated by alum Hedwig Brouckaert
(MFA ‘05), Ghislaine Sabiti and Yvette Molina,
celebrates the many different cultures and backgrounds found
in NYC.
The students, faculty and staff of the Department of Art and Art
History pay tribute to UC Davis Professor Emeritus
William T. Wiley, who passed away Sunday, April 25. Wiley
was one of the department’s pioneers as an artist and
educator.
Pinewood Vortex, a collaboration between Kristin Hough (MFA ‘16)
and Faith Sponsler (MFA ‘17), began with an impulse to widen the
scope of who makes and shows land art, a field traditionally male
dominated.
Join Justina Martino (MA, Art History, ‘15) for a Verge Art
Center Lunchtime Art Chat with Muzi Li Rowe (MFA, Art Studio,
‘17) on April 30 at 12:00 PM (PST). Muzi, a Verge Center Ali
Youssefi Project alum, will share a slideshow about her art,
inspirations and processes and attendees will have the
opportunity to ask questions.
Professor Gina Werfel, along with artists Carol
Boram-Hays, Leslie Ford, Augustus Goertz, Arlene
Santana and Gerald Wolfe, are showing in the exhibition
“Expanding Space” at Lichtundfire.
Due to technical difficulties, the May 20 Film Fest @ UC Davis
program has been rescheduled for May 27 at 7 p.m. PDT, with a
Q&A and awards presentation to follow.
The festival features short films of eight minutes or less in
length, submitted by UC Davis students and recent graduates.
Submissions include a variety of genres, from animation to live
action to documentary to experimental. This year the
selection committee has also accepted submissions of original
screenplays of eight pages or less.
Steven Harvey Fine Art Projects (SHFAP) presents “Conduit,” a two
person exhibition featuring alum Daniel Herr (BA, ‘04).
“Conduit” will be on view from March 24 – April 24, 2021.
Artists at University of Alabama, Birmingham, including alum and
UAB instructor Ryan Meyer (MFA ‘18), give their perspective
on the pandemic in the group show “Work from Home.” Faculty and
staff in UAB’s Department of Art and Art History are
exhibiting work created during and about COVID 19 at UAB’s
Sustainablity’s Solar House from March 1-May 30.
Lomex in New York is featuring a solo exhibit by alum Andrea
Fourchy (BA ‘12), her second show at Lomex. “Girlfriends” will be
on be on view until April 25, 2021.
Artsy recently launched First Look, a timed sale of new-to-market
works by women artists that its Curatorial team considers “ones
to watch.” Artsy’s curators include alum Anna Valdez (BA
‘09) in this group of exceptional talent with rising
critical appreciation, and growing collector interest –
artists breaking new ground and poised to reach new audiences in
2021.
A solo presentation of works by Professor Annabeth Rosen will be
on view for
Art Basel’s OVR: Pioneers: Annabeth Rosen. The Online
Viewing Room will be available from March 24 to March 27,
2021 courtesy of
P.P.O.W.
It’s Women’s History Month – a time to reflect on progress
and battles left undone. It’s also perfect timing for
Julia Couzens’ exhibition “Stitch ‘n Bitch.” Alum Julia
Couzens (MFA ‘90) is an uncompromising artist and writer of
discerning insight. Drawing upon over thirty years steeped in the
vernacular of modernist and contemporary art history, Couzens
focuses her critical lens on gender disparity in the visual arts
in her new show ”Stitch ‘n Bitch” which opens at the
Patricia Sweetow Gallery on Saturday, April 3.
The Verge Center for the Arts is re-opening
and presenting its first exhibition in a year on site.
“Class of
2020″ showcases the work of the 2020 Ali Youssefi Project
(AYP) artists in residence, including alum Brooklynn Johnson (MFA
‘19), Vincent Pacheco (MFA ‘17), and Muzi Li Rowe (MFA
‘17).
Professor Shiva Ahmadi, along with 20 other US-based artists
of Arab and Iranian heritage, is particpating in the
exhibition ”A Boundless Drop to a Boudless
Ocean,” a collaboration between the Orlando Museum of
Art and the American University in Cairo.
For over two decades the Film Fest @ UC Davis has premiered
hundreds of short films by student filmmakers. Now in its
21st year, this year’s virtual festival is seeking
submissions from UC Davis students or recent graduates.
The Film Fest committee is accepting works that are eight minutes
or less in length. Submissions are open to all genres and
styles, from narrative to documentary to experimental.
Alum Amy Lincoln’s (BA, 2003) solo show “Seascapes” has
opened at the Taymour Grahn Projects in London. The
online exhibition will be on display from March 5 to March
26, 2021. An interview with Lincoln is available through the
online exhibiton as well.
