Graduate Program Coordinator Rachelle Agundes’s new paintings and assemblages explore the porous boundary between the inside and outside. Her show “Outside-In” at the Birdhouse Gallery in San Francisco features works constructed from fragments of lived experience transformed into new spaces. Rachelle layers and rearranges fragments of images, allowing one image to interrupt another. Images from different times and locations are compressed, obscured, and allowed to remain unresolved. In “Outside-In” what is absent becomes present again.
Hong Chun Zhang's (M.F.A. 2004) site-specific installation "Passage," on view at the Boise Art Museum, links multiple ink drawings together to form the shape of a traditional East Asian robe. Made on soft white Italian Alcantara fabric, the robe shape represents history and tradition, while the flowing images of hair suggest movement, change, and identity. Hong's large ink paintings of hair, often based on her own hair, use a traditional Chinese painting style called Gongbi.
Lecturer Jeremiah Barber is featured in a group show now on view in San Francisco. "Land / Water / Meat / Noise" at Southern Exposure highlights artists whose work explores tactile and sense-driven themes and work with water, landscape, food, and sound as primary mediums. The exhibition explores how these elements shape our environments and everyday lives—how they move, transform, and leave traces across spaces, bodies, and time.
Alum Muzi Li Rowe (M.F.A. 2017) and Jessica Wimbley (M.F.A. 2005) have teamed up with local researchers in the science and health care communities for the ARx Live program hosted by the Museum of Science and Curiosity (MOSAC) in Sacramento.
Waltz of Life & Limb at the Pence Gallery in Davis pairs recent sculptural paintings by alum and artist Mercy Hawkins (MFA, Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program, '21), with her vibrant, large-scale watercolors on paper. With this work, Hawkins seeks to answer the internal call, to encounter what the body already knows, from our own inner rhythms, heartbeat, and breath, to dancing with wild arms.
Acclaimed fiber artist and 2025 Guggenheim Fellow Josh Faught has been appointed to the Maria Manetti Shrem Endowed Chair in the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program at the University of California, Davis.
Working primarily with textiles through techniques such as weaving and knitting, Faught draws on broader social and political histories, as well as his own experiences. He describes his process as “collaging and conflating” those influences, examining the relationships among them and considering where queer bodies exist within that matrix.
Alum and painting instructor Deirdre White (M.F.A. '93) will open her new solo show "Out of Place" at the John Natsoulas Gallery in Davis. "Out of Place" presents recent work that continues White's dialogue with paintings from history as well as paintings by her contemporaries.
"Out of Place" is on view from Setp. 30 to Oct.. 24, 2026. A reception is scheduled for Oct. 9 from 7-9 pm.
Professor emeritus Hearne Pardee's new solo show Landscaping features a selection of recent paintings and collages reflecting on his transition from the West Coast to the Hudson Valley. It also culminates fifty years of work from landscape, abstraction and collage. Combining work from observation with photographs, Pardee maps his new surroundings, locating himself in views from different cardinal points and at different seasons.
Julio Rodriguez (M.F.A. '27), Sierra Faust (M.F.A. '27), Lev Keatts (M.F.A. '26) and Tara Daly (M.F.A. '26) will present works in the group show Here After at the Dream Farm Commons in Oakland. Curated by artist Zoe Grey, Here After examines the Bay Area's changing arts ecosystem as seen through the eyes of emerging artists.
