Nicole Irene Anderson’s (M.F.A. ‘25) constructed drawings and
paintings of atomized, flattened landscapes and desolate suburban
streets are featured in her solo show “A Tangled
Coexistence.”
ARTnews has recognized Professor Beatriz Cortez as one
of the most impactful contemporary Latinx artists working in the
United States.
“75 Latinx Artists to Know,” written by Maximilíano
Durón, Paula Mejía, Mauricio E.
Tara Daly’s (M.F.A. ‘26) solo show “Tender Balance” features new
paintings and sculptures that explore the interplay of
destruction and restoration, and a striving for harmony.
“Tender Balance” is on view in the Founders
Gallery at Art Works Downtown in San Rafael until Nov. 8. A
closing reception will be held from from 5-8 p.m.
The Rum Point Club in Los Angeles presents a solo exhibition by
alum Kyle Hittmeier (B.A. ‘07). “Stowaway” features ten new
paintings on canvas and linen centered on the Cayman Islands.
Oct. 12-Nov. 16, 2024 with opening reception on Oct. 12 from
5-8 p.m.
Join Professor Beatriz Cortez in a celebration of the
closing of “Future
Dreaming… A Path Forward,” an exhibition which
features her sculpture Ilopango, the Volcano that
Left. In a special event, musician and composer
Benjamin Cortez and Beatriz Cortez’s
sculpture Ilopango, the Volcano that
Left engage in a live improvisational human and
non-human conversation.
Professor Shiva Ahmadi’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles
will be presented by Shoshana Wayne Gallery this
fall. “Tangle” features new
paintings layered with screenprints which focus on female
figures
Alum Emmanuel Camacho Larios (B.A. ‘23) has co-curated and is
featured in the exhibiton
Desde los Cielos (From the Heavens at The Cheech Center
Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture.
Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer’s new article in
Artforum takes a look at exuberant and quirky art
of alum Maija Peeples-Bright (B.A. ‘64 and M.A. ‘65) in
her ”Animal Farm: On the Art of Maija Peeples-Bright.”
Join PBS KVIE for a
screening of Leonardo
da Vinci, a new film by Ken Burns, followed by a
conversation with art studio alum Julia Couzens (M.F.A. ‘90) and
design Professor James Housefield as they discuss
the towering achievements of Leonardo da Vinci.
Alum Mercy Hawkins is featured in the group show “Packing and
Cracking: The Art of (and Response to) Gerrymandering” at
Saint
Joseph’s Arts Foundation in San Francisco.
“All This Soft Wild Buzzing,” a new group show at
the California College of the Arts in San Francisco’s
Wattis Institute for Contemporary
Art, considers the relationship between artists and the
natural landscape through a lens of collaboration, of
listening, and of reciprocity.
A new two-person exhibition at Commonwealth and
Council in Mexico City features the works of UC
Davis Professors of Art Beatriz Cortez and Fidencio
Fifield-Perez.
In collaboration with the nonprofit video arts distributor
Electronic Arts Intermix (EAI), Professor Darrin Martin has
published an article reflecting on his efforts to examine the EAI
archive for videos exploring themes of disability or
that engage modes of access like captioning and audio
description.
Hashimoto
Contemporary turns ten this year and in celebration the
gallery presents “10 Year Anniversary,” a group show
featuring over 50 artists who have helped shape the
Hashimoto Contemporary’s trajectory and success during the past
decade. The anniversary exhibition celebrates a decade of shows,
publications, and artists, including alum Anna
Valdez (B.A. ‘09).
“10 Year Anniversary” is on view from Aug 3-31, 2024.
Recently gifted works to the Manetti Shrem
Museum from dedicated art lovers and philanthropists Jan
Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem are the focus on a new exhibition
curated and designed by UC Davis students.
“Future Dreaming, A Path Forward” is a new exhibition at
the Montalvo Arts
Center featuring fanciful and compelling art that
invites viewers to imagine futures built upon the ancestral
wisdom of multiple Indigenous heritages.
Kelley O’Leary (M.F.A. ‘22) has just received a Kala Art
Institute Parent
Artist in Residency for 2024-2025. This is O’Leary’s
second residency a Kala Art
Institute. In 2022, O’Leary participated in
their Artist-In-Residence (AIR) Program.
Berggruen Gallery’s summer invitational, “California Gold,”
celebrates Californian history, iconography, and culture.
Alum and art studio lecturer Christopher Woodcock
(M.F.A. ’10) is one artist featured in this show
Congratulations to the art studio M.F.A. class of 2024 and
to Nitheen Ramalingam and April Camlin, recipients of the Keister
& Allen Art Purchase Prize and LeShelle & Gary May Art Purchase
Prize.
The latest group show at the Axis Gallery features recent
paintings by six regional California artists, including Jose
Arenas (M.F.A., ‘00), Jeff Mayry (M.F.A., ‘16) and graduate
program advisor Rachelle Agundes.
Grand Central Art Center at Cal State Fullerton is hosting Julia
Rigby’s (M.F.A., ‘20) solo exhibition “Julia Rigby:
Fever Dream.” Opening June 1, Rigby will show new video
and sound installation work, including a sound sculpture designed
for the opening reception
On view from June 1-August 11, 2024
Opening reception on June 1 from 7-10 pm.
Hong Chun Zhang’s large scroll drawing “Life Strands” has been
included in a group show entitled “Hair
Pieces” at Heide Museum of Modern Art in Melbourne,
Australia.
“Beatriz Cortez & Candice Lin” is a new exhibition at Performance Space
featuring works deeply engaged with the histories of
colonialism and migration across time and space.
The Wayne Thiebaud Foundation has donated 12 works to the UC
Davis Fine Arts Collection that originated in the personal
collection of the late Department of Art and Art History
Professor Emeritus (1961-1991).
Professor emeritus Lynn Hershman Leeson embarks on a
transformative journey through time, identity, and the future of
human existence with her latest exhibition,
“Anti-Aging.”
Alum Will Maxen’s (M.F.A., ‘23) upcoming opening of
“And the Land Stands Still” marks Maxen’s inaugural showcase
with the UTA Artist
Space and his first-ever showing in New York.
The 62nd Ann Arbor Film
Festival will present a free encore screening of the program
“What Are Words For?” on Sunday, April 7, 4 p.m. at the
Michigan Theater. The program, curated by Professor Darrin
Martin, is available now in the online festival through April
7.
Alum Emilie Kim (B.A. art studio ‘23) is featured in an
exhibition in this years NCECA (National Council on
Education for the Ceramic Arts) conference in Richmond, Virginia.
Muzi Li Rowe (M.F.A., ‘17) began using simple tools to
create marks on paper as a way to process grief after her
mother’s sudden passing. Since then, she has been making drawings
as a regular studio practice, while experimenting with various
types of mediums and materials, and using drawing as a meditative
practice.
“Marginalia,” Rowe’s solo show at Axis Gallery, presents her
drawings or visual diaries that reflect on the past, using
abstract forms to bring back memories.
Jada Haynes (art studio and design, B.A., ‘22) will present
recent work in their exhibition “Silently Violent: Jada
Haynes” at the WAL Public Market Gallery.
This is Haynes’ first solo show in Sacramento and will feature
their new fiber sculpture which they utilizes fiber to
explore transformation, resilience and Black queer
identity. “Silently Violent” will be on view from March 1 – March
24 with an opening reception on Friday, March 1 from 5-8 pm.
In a recent interview for Good Black Art, Will Maxen
(M.F.A., ‘23) discusses process, the role of family and
lineage, and the complexities of identity in his art practice and
process. “Will Maxen Wants To Find Ground To Stand On In His
Work” by Taylor Michael can be read here.
Foundations is a seasonal online fair curated by Artsy
that highlights new works from galleries featuring emerging
artists. This year’s fair includes more than 130 galleries from
36 countries including Chili Art Projects, a London based artist
run gallery that has included Will Maxen (M.F.A., ‘23) in
their Winter
Edition program.
Professor Beatriz Cortez has been invited to the La Biennale di
Venezia – “Stranieri
Ovunque — Foreigners Everywhere.” The 60th
International Art Exhibition will be curated by
Brazilian curator Adriano Pedrosa and will be on view from
April 20 to November 24, 2024, at the Giardini and Arsenale
venues.
Matthew Kelly Debbaudt (M.F.A., ‘15) has curated a new show at
Gallery Also in Los Angeles. “Bedtime Chronicles” opens Saturday,
Feb. 3 and features work by eight artists, including fellow alum
Julian Tan (M.F.A., ‘16).
Alum Justine Di Fiore (M.F.A., ‘23) is showing paintings in the
new show “Soft
Fascination” presented by Marrow Gallery
at the Artsy online fair Foundations. The
group show features artists whose work considers the form
and function, and physicality and emotion of body. Di
Fiore’s work as a nursing assistant caring for the
terminally ill influenced her large scale
paintings which represent the distorted, sometimes dark and
messy emotions and physical state of the body.
Galerie Robertson
Arès‘ new group exhibition “CHROMA” explores the
phenomenology of color and how color shapes our lived
experience. Alum Kyle Austin Dunn’s (M.F.A. ‘12) vibrant and
meticulous paintings
Julia Couzens’ (M.F.A., ‘90) new mixed textile collages are
presented in “Considering
January,” a group exhibition at Patricia Sweetow
Gallery in Los Angeles that celebrates the rich language
of textile art.
The new film series at the Crocker Art Museum ”Art +
Film” explores how artists, filmmakers, and curators use
moving images and film in their work. The museum series kicks off
with local artist and alum Jessica Wimbley (M.F.A., ‘05), whose
work “The True Story of Edges” is currently on view at the
museum.
Emmanuel (Emme) Camacho Larios (B.A. ’23) has been
awarded the Estudio Aire Artist-In-Residence by Arts Connection in
the Garcia Center
for the Arts in San Bernardino.
“Auditions,”
a new show at The Verge Art Center curated by Richard Haley
(M.F.A., ‘07), takes a close look at the artist’s process
and the intersection of form and matter in
sculpture and video.
Professors emeritus Gina Werfel and Hearne Pardee are back
in Davis with a new show at the Pence Gallery. “Gina Werfel &
Hearne Pardee: Fragments” features recent paintings, collages,
and drawings created since their retirement from art studio in
2022.
M.F.A. candidate Nicole Irene Anderson (class of ‘25) will
display eight paintings with Johansson Projects at the FOG
Design+Art fair in San Francisco in FOG FOCUS, a newly
launched invitational designed to showcase art by young
artists as an integral part of San Francisco’s creative
ecosystem in honor of the fair’s tenth anniversary.
Celebrate the Manetti Shrem
Museum’s dynamic winter season featuring “Shiva Ahmadi:
Strands of Resilience,” the museum’s first solo exhibition
of a current UC Davis faculty member, during their Winter Season
Celebration on Sunday, Jan. 28.
Project: ARTspace is presenting a solo exhibition of new
work by alum Hedwig Brouckaert (M.F.A., ‘05). The show –
“Peel
(America)” — will feature a new site specific installation
of found porcelain tiles built up with layered paper
collages from glossy magazines depicting images of skin.
Shiva Ahmadi will give an artist talk at Royal Ontario Museum in
connection to the exhibition
“Being & Belonging.” A moderated Q&A hosted by
Mohamad Tavakoli-Targhi, with participation by exhibition curator
Fahmida Suleman, will follow the presentation. This event is
on zoom but
registration is required.
The 14th Shanghai Biennale “Cosmos Cinema” opened Nov. 8
highlighting works that reflect on diverse cosmologies and
microcosmic realities and the different ways in which
humanity interacts with and understands the cosmos. Professor
Beatriz Cortez’s sculpture “El Caracol,” a spiraling structure
inspired by the Mayan observatory at Chichen Itza, is featured in
this year’s show.
In conjunction with the exhibition
“Rising Sun: Artists in an Uncertain America,” Professor
Shiva Ahmadi will join curator La Vaughn Belle in a dialogue
on equality, free speech, and democracy.
Alum Lauz Bechelli
(B.A., ‘10) is stepping in as interim director at the Visual Arts Center (VAC) at the
University of Texas at Austin. Bechelli received her
M.F.A. in Painting from the Department of Art and Art
History at the UT Austin in 2020, and has extensive
experience working with small non-profit art organizations and
directly with artists.
Ilopango, the Volcano that Left journeyed from the Storm
King Art Center to the Experimental Media and Performing Arts
Center in Troy, NY earlier this week, taking the scenic route up
the Hudson River.
Rachel Maryam Smith will perform her Tuna Can Cabaret #3 — a
60-seat live recorded concert in the round — with Bassist Dan
Robbins and Drummer Steve Robertson on Saturday, Nov. 4.
Grace Munakata (B.A., M.F.A., ‘85) will show new paintings that
reveal her delight and concern for nature in the
exhibition ”Biology of Flight” at the Anglim/Trimble gallery in
San Francisco.
The San Francisco Arts Commission’s (SFAC) new group show
“Transcending Physicality: The Essence of
Place” features artists whose work explores the
complicated concept of “place” and the interplay of relationships
and interactions that shape and define places. Curated by artist
and educator Minoosh Zomorodinia includes work by alum
Kelley O’Leary (M.F.A., ‘22), Alex Arzt,
Ebti, S.
Art studio major Alice Herbert, now in her fourth year at Davis,
welcomes the feedback and guidance that comes from visiting
artists. Herbert is enrolled in Art 113 this quarter taught by
Katya
Grokhovsky, a visiting professor in the UC
Davis Department of Art and Art History.
M.F.A. candidate April Camlin’s (M.F.A., ‘24) first
west-coast solo exhibit — “Learning New Powers” – comes to
Davis on October 6 at Gallery 1855, Davis
Cemetery and Arboretum.
Lynn Hershman Leeson will be honored at the 2023 Mill Valley Film
Festival as a recipient of the
Mind the Gap Award for her visionary contributions to the
arts and lifetime achievements on October 8.
Terry Berlier (M.F.A.,’03) has been awarded a Faculty
Creative Project Seed Grant from Stanford University to
support a new project to re-envision the 19th-century statue of
renowned scholar of natural historian Louis Agassiz, once
installed at Stanford University.
Xavier Lopez (M.F.A., ‘98) is participating in the
Second International Latinx Performance Art Festival
“On
the Edge” at Seattle’s first Thursday Artwalk. The
festival will showcase a wide range of experimental performances
grounded in the themes of inclusion, identity, and
intersectionality. Lopez is the director of the festival as
well as one of nine performers showcased in “On the Edge.”
In a recent interview with Kathleen Wong of the UC Natural
Reserve System, alum Jordan Benton (M.F.A., ‘23) discusses the
intersection of art and science in his new photographic work.
Congratulations to Alberto Hamonet (M.F.A. ‘23) on his debut San
Francisco show “Orange Splendor!” His solo show
opens Saturday, Sept. 23. from 5-8 pm at the new
art space Climate Control connected to Et Al.
Hamonet is also exhibiting some of his large paintings at the
Through the Looking Glass festival in Oakland at Children’s
Fairyland amusement park from 7-11 pm this Saturday, Sept.
16.
Maija Peeples-Bright (B.A., ‘64, M.A., ‘65), known for exuberant,
whimsical paintings and sculptures, is featured in
8 Over 80, KQED’s
seriescelebrating artists and cultural
figures over the age of 80 who continue to shape the greater Bay
Area.
In pursuit of activating her sculptures with sound, Julia
Elsas (M.F.A., 09) started Sonic Mud, a band of professional
musicians that showcases her ceramic instruments. Elsas considers
her sculptures to be fully realized only when they are being
played.
“Just Looking,” professor emeritus Hearne Pardee’s new show at
the Bowery Gallery, features new collage paintings and
photographs of abstracted landscapes.
“Steel Tongue Accordion Ears,” a new sound piece by Professor
Darrin Martin, is now accessible on MIT List Visual Art
Center’s online sound experiences titled Replenish.
Professor Darrin Martin’s Artist
in Residence Program at Recology San Francisco culminates
with an exhibition titled “Past Life Resonance.” In this solo
show, Martin explores the possibilities of tuning in to everyday
things and surroundings and the resonances embedded in the things
we have thrown away.
“Nuts and Who’s: A Candy Store Sampler,” the new exhibition
at the San Jose Museum of Art, focuses on the 1960s arts scene in
Northern California and the cross-fertilization of ideas between
Funk, Nut, and the Hairy Who in the Bay Area and at the Candy
Store Gallery from 1968 to 1985.
On August 26 from 6:30–8:30 pm, Torreya Cummings (B.A.,
‘99) will hold a performance and video shoot
aboard Balclutha in San Francisco’s Maritime National
Park for her new work “Barbary
Coast Keelhaul.”
The Faith J. McKinnie Gallery re-opens a Project Space for
Curatorial Intervention with their new show “When They See
Us.” Alum Will Maxen (M.F.A., ‘23) and Jessica Wimbley (M.F.A.,
‘05) contribute works to this exhibition which opens August
19 and runs to September 10, 2023.
Alum Brenda Gonzalez (M.F.A., ‘20) has been included in the
upcoming “Summer
Salon” group show at Art
Share LA.
“Summer
Salon” features sculpture, paintings, photography, and
mixed-media collage and will be on view from August 12 –
September 2, 2023 with an opening on August 12th at 7 pm.
The Department of Art and Art History is excited to welcome
Beatriz Cortez to the
art studio program. Beatriz Cortez came to campus in
the spring 2022 as Teaching Artist in Residence for The Manetti Shrem
California Studio. She will join us again this fall as
an Associate Professor of Art.
The Manetti Shrem Museum commissioned Professor Robin Hill
to produce a unique sculpture edition that will function as
an archive of visitor reflections on their exhibition “Mike
Henderson: Before the Fire.”
Congratulations to Lisa Rybovich Crallé (M.F.A., ‘11) who will
soon open her very own storefront project space in Vallejo called
Personal Space. The inaugural show ”Salad
Days” and the Grand Opening will take place place on Sunday,
July 30 from 2-5 pm.
“Salad Days” is on view from July 30 to Sept. 10 and features
work by Keith Boadwee, Maria Guzmán Capron, Takming Chuang,
Reniel del Rosario, Lena Gustafson, Jordan/Martin Hell, Cliff
Hengst, Karen May, Carlos Charlie Perez, Abel Rodriguez, Gyan
Shrosbree, Jennifer Sullivan, Sarah Thibault, and Phyllis Yao.
Alumn Jordan Benton (M.F.A., ‘23) and William
Speiser will exhibit their collaborative work in the
new show “Coast in Color: Imaging Northern California Coastal
Dynamics.”
Paul Thiebaud
Gallery’s signature exhibition series ”Twenty-five
Treasures” originated in 1990 by gallery founder Paul
LeBaron Thiebaud when he brought works by 25 artists and makers
from a wide range of backgrounds together for his new exhibition.
“ME in a(ME)rica” is a new group show at Root Division in San Francisco
which features alum Helia Pouyanfar (M.F.A., ‘22) as she
explores migration journeys.
Alum Aida Lizalde (B.A., ‘18, M.F.A., ‘23 from Virginia
Commonwealth
University) has been awarded a 2023
Dedalus Master of Fine Arts Fellowship in
Painting & Sculpture.
Citizens for the Arts recently opened ”Art Pawn: New and
Used Art,” an interactive project dedicated to the sale of
used art and the development of emerging curatorial talent in New
York. Their new show “Un(CERTAINTY)” includes work by Alberto
Hamonet (M.F.A., ‘23) and will be on view until July 7.
Congratulations to graduate students Will Maxen, winner of the
LeShelle & Gary May Art Purchase Prize, and Jordan Benton,
recipient of the Keister & Allen Art Purchase Prize!
Alum Mathew Zefeldt’s (MFA ‘11) solo exhibition “Re_Spawn”
opens June 21 at The Hole
in New York. This is the second solo show for Zefeldt at The
Hole.
Muzi Li Rowe (M.F.A., ‘17) creates a series of Chinese
knots, an ancient form of folk art that is typically made with
fabric cords and is displayed as festive decoration, in her solo
show
“無知爲用 (Good of Nothing)” at Axis Gallery East Room in
Sacramento.
If you happen to be in New York, swing by The Yard: Flatiron
North for “While We Are Dreaming” presented by VIsionary
Projects. “While We Are Dreaming” features works inspired by
dreams, including a painting by Emily Gordon (M.F.A. ‘22). Also
included are Francena Ottley, Se Young Yim, Catie Dillon,
Caroline Guilbert, Beatriz Whitehill, Si Golraine, Christopher
Scheuer, Shaun Haugen, Mary L. Peng.
Opening reception June 16 from 6 to 8 pm.
The Yard, Flatiron North
246 5th Avenue
New York, NY
A new group exhibition curated by Connie Walsh is now on
view at Foyer-LA.
“Selvedge” features work by professor emerita Lucy Puls and alum
Helia Pouyanfar (M.F.A., ‘22).
“Feeding the Unseen: Remediations of Earth,” a new group
exhibition curated by Heidi Gustafson and Devon Deimler, is on
view at The Philosophical Research Society in Los Angeles.
Alum Kelley O’Leary (M.F.A., ‘22) is contributing to this
show featuring artworks that explore spiritually-charged
rocks, soil, metal, and pigment.
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.
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).
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 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.