Manetti Shrem Art Studio

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.

Alberto Hamonet (M.F.A., ‘23) is featured in the latest edition of Hyperallergic’s “A View From the Easel.”

Take a look at the view here. 

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. Organized and curated by Naz Cuguoğlu, “Phantom Limb” features work by Graduate Fellows Hawkins, Kristen Wong (SF State), Ebtihal Shedid (California College of the Arts), champoy (UC Berkeley), Sylvia Hughes-Gonzales(Mills College), and Brett Amory (Stanford).

Congratulations to Whitney Vangrin — this year’s Headlands Graduate Fellow from UC Davis. 

Whitney will join six other Bay Area M.F.A art studio graduates from UC Berkeley, Stanford, California College of the Arts, Mills College, SF Art Institute and SF State, for this one year program at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausolito. The Graduate Fellowships support recent, promising graduates with studio space and presentation opportunities 

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., ‘23) 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. 

The Art Studio student-run gallery is ready to launch the spring Senior Shows. The Basement Gallery has scheduled for group shows:

May 6: “Figuratively Speaking” featuring Charlotte Grenelle Krayenbuhl, Layne Takahashi, and Julia Walters

May 13: MJ Tantingco and Zahra Hooshyar

May 20: Ivan Padilla and Jada Haynes

May 27: Mimi McMillan, Matthew Kellison, and Amanda Thomas

Receptions will be on Fridays from 6-9 pm. The Basement Gallery is located in 60 Art.