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Dear Art Department Community, We are pleased to a Dear Art Department Community, We are pleased to announce that this week’s speaker in our Spring 2026 Art Series is Jennifer Vanderpool. @jennifer_vanderpool WHERE : Interactive Learning Pavillion ILP Room 2101 WHEN : THURSDAY, April 23rd, 5pm WITH : ARTIST JENNIFER VANDERPOOL open to the public Jennifer Vanderpool, Ph.D., is a multidisciplinary artist, curator, and writer. Her practice investigates the working class and working-class labor. She centers the traumas of disenfranchised peoples and the places they inhabit, and highlights the cultural amnesia perpetuating the status quo. Vanderpool has exhibited solo shows at museums and galleries in the USA, Mexico, Colombia, Ecuador, the UK, Denmark, Sweden, Ukraine, Russia, and Vietnam. Her practice has been funded by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Kunstrådet: Danish Arts Council, Kulturrådet: Swedish Arts Council, Malmö Stad, and coawarded two National Endowment for the Arts grants. Vanderpool is currently exhibiting in the UK at The Harley Foundation and Wentworth Woodhouse. These exhibitions are part of her ongoing Untold Stories series about disinvested communities which have been funded by the Ohio Arts Council, US–UK Fulbright Commission, British Academy Leverhulme Trust, UCSB research grants, DéPOT (Deindustrialization and the Politics of Our Time)—sponsored by the Social Science and Humanities Research Council of Canada and collaborating organizations in Germany, France, Italy, the United Kingdom, and the US.
Dear Art Department Community, Please join us for Dear Art Department Community, Please join us for Humanities Decanted with Shana Moulton @shanamoulton WHEN : Tomorrow 4/21 4:00pm-5:30pm WHERE: McCune Conference Room 6020 HSSB Join us for a discussion with Shana Moulton about her recent exhibition at MoMA, Meta/Physical Therapy. “The Humanities Decanted series is a platform for UCSB faculty to present their newest research and creative projects. The format of each event is a dialogue in which our featured colleague offers perspectives on their new work,” said Susan Derwin, IHC director and professor of German and comparative literature. “We are excited to welcome Professor Moulton to the IHC to engage in conversation with IHC Assistant Director Casey Haughin-Scasny. Professor Moulton is a multi-media performance artist with a wonderful narrative sensibility, and we look forward to learning from their dialogue about Professor Moulton’s creative process and what it is like to perform her work for different audiences and in different spaces.“ Moulton’s 2024 exhibition at MoMA, Meta/Physical Therapy premiered a new site-specific installation. Through performance, video, and sculpture, Moulton chronicled the experiences of her semi-autobiographical alter-ego, Cynthia, as she navigated personal choices and physical limitations. Transforming the Kravis Studio into a prismatic environment, this installation employed the artist’s signature blend of spiritual imagery, medical technology, popular culture, and references to high art and dollar-store kitsch. An extension of Moulton’s Whispering Pines series, which began in 2002, the project continued the artist’s incisive examination of the aesthetics of pain and healing and the mass marketing of wellness and explores the maladies of middle age. Presented as a multi-chapter narrative, the installation was accompanied by a series of performances created in collaboration with composer Nick Hallett, bringing Cynthia’s inner world to life. Please join us, refreshments will be served.
Dear Art Department Community, We are pleased to a Dear Art Department Community, We are pleased to announce that this week’s speaker in our Spring 2026 Arts Colloquium is artist James Gobel. @jamesgobel James Gobel (b. 1972, Portland, OR) is a contemporary artist based in Los Angeles and San Francisco. With a BFA from the University of Nevada and an MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, Gobel has cultivated a unique artistic voice that resonates with themes of identity and craft. Gobel has had solo exhibitions in New York, Los Angeles, and San Francisco, most notably at the UCLA Hammer Museum. His work has also been included in significant group exhibitions at the Leslie+Lohman Museum of Art, Des Moines Art Center, Asian Art Museum in San Francisco, Akron Art Museum, Parrish Art Museum, and the New Museum in New York. His paintings of zaftig male figures, along with abstractions and text works composed of cut felt and yarn, have been featured in prominent publications such as Artforum, Art in America, Flash Art, the New York Times, and the Los Angeles Times.In recent years, Gobel has showcased his work in solo exhibitions like “Helbent For” at de boer Gallery (2026) and “The Charles Laughton Papers” at Patricia Sweetow Gallery (2024). His contributions to the contemporary art landscape reflect a commitment to exploring complex narratives around identity and community. Please join us at 5:00pm in ILP 2101. Open to the public.
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