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Friday is GAME DAY! Come show your support for you Friday is GAME DAY! Come show your support for your UCSB Graduate Students in the Art MFA program. See you on November 18th at Harder Stadium for this year’s Open Studios! @pantehart @kevinclancy.studio @dannahmari_art @matttjjjohnson @danikwan @melgo___ @hopengozistudio @johnnyonionseed @but_whos_katie @lyrapurugganan @marianarodela @katesaub @lela.shahrzad Spread the word 🔔 @ucsb_graduate_division @ucsbgsa @hfa_ucsb @mat_ucsb @ucsb_ccs #mfaopenstudios #ucsb #openstudios
Art Department TA’s are in strike starting NOW. Art Department TA’s are in strike starting NOW. Come to the Library to show support and march with us for fair wages!
This week in the Glass Box Gallery we have a solo This week in the Glass Box Gallery we have a solo show by Jesús Balandrano Ramírez. There’ll be a jazz ensemble, pan dulce, and free art prints at the closing reception on November 18, 5-7pm. “Having intersections in Catholicism and machismo culture, this show embodies my agency within these oppressive systems. The work reflects my experiences and desires of the good outshining the bad. By taking inspiration from the traditional Mexican art form of delicate yet strong papel picados and the use of thin line work, I’m nodding towards my soft, emotional side. Within these art forms lies my vulnerability. My coming out story. My repressed half. My love/hate relationship with the Catholic Church. I hope to show that there’s strength in community and reappropriation." - Jesús Balandrano Ramírez
This week at Glass Box: 10 People The gallery is This week at Glass Box: 10 People The gallery is showcasing the 2022-2023 Honors Cohort! Please come to learn more about these wonderful 10 people 💫 Reception: This Wednesday, November 9th from 5-7pm!
We are greatly honored and excited to have Karen L We are greatly honored and excited to have Karen Lofgren @karenlofgren speak with us Thursday night. ✨✨🤍. Lectures are free and open to the public!! Thursday, November 10, 2022 5-6:50pm Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero del Norte, Isla Vista, CA 93117 Karen Lofgren plays with perception through unusual and diversified elements with a focus on process and material. Born into counterculture participation, her childhood spent in experimental social structures has deeply influenced her practice. Ritual, history, mythology, and the construction of consciousness over time are core to her research. Through the lens of cultural and other wild systems, she combines minimal aesthetics with contemporary sculpture and considers our species outside of the human lifespan. Lofgren, a Fulbright Core Scholar at University of Arts London, Central St. Martins College in 2017/2018, has exhibited at venues including Palm Springs Art Museum; Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena, CA; Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, CA; Pitzer Art Galleries, Claremont, CA; Royal College of Art, London, U.K.; Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles, CA; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; Vancouver Biennale, Canada; and Ontario College of Art and Design, Canada. She has a permanent installation, also published as a book, titled "Trajectory Object c. 2000-2050”, produced with Andrea Zittel of High Desert Test Sites, located in Pioneertown, CA. Her projects have received support from the Mike Kelley Foundation; The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Canada Council for the Arts; West of Rome Public Art; The Ranch Projects; the U.S./U.K. Fulbright Commission; John Simon Guggenheim Memorial FOundation; and the Pollock Krasner Foundation.
Come study with us! The UCSB Department of Art Ma Come study with us! The UCSB Department of Art Master of Fine Arts program offers: • An intensive two-year program. • The chance to work with an interdisciplinary, hands-on faculty at a top public research university. • Full tuition remittance with teaching assistantships. • Opportunities for travel and research funding. • Private studio space. • Dramatic ocean views and coastal access. • Applications due January 3rd. More info at arts.ucsb.edu/application-procedures/ 2nd photo: Golden hour @artdept_ucsb grad picnic on the bluffs! Quilt by @kevinclancy.studio Photo by @hopengozistudio
Soo Kim @soo_kim_studio will be our guest lecturer Soo Kim @soo_kim_studio will be our guest lecturer this week! Get ready for an incredible talk 🔥🔥 lectures are free and open to the public Thursday, November 3rd, 2022 5-6:50pm Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero del Norte, Isla Vista, CA 93117 Soo Kim’s work has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Angles Gallery, Los Angeles; Sandroni Rey Gallery, Los Angeles; Julie Saul Gallery, New York; The Pasadena Museum of California Art; and the Pomona College Museum of Art. Her work has been included in group exhibitions at the Getty Center, Los Angeles; The 2002 Gwangju Biennale, Korea; Weatherspoon Art Museum, North Carolina; the Orange County Museum of Art; Architecture and Design Museum, Los Angeles; Art Sonje, Korea; Islip Art Museum, New York; the Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego; Susan Hobbs Gallery, Toronto; Frances Lehman Loeb Art Center at Vassar College, New York; Seoul Museum of Art, Korea; and the Honolulu Museum of Art, among others. Kim’s work is in public collections, including The Getty Center, The Broad Foundation, The Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Museum of Photographic Arts, San Diego, North Carolina Museum of Art, and The Escalette Collection of Art, Chapman University. Kim's public project for LA Metro's Purple Line subway station will open in 2024. A monograph of her work, A Week Inside Two Days, was published in 2018.
This week at Glass Box: aether net aether net is This week at Glass Box: aether net aether net is a solo exhibition by third year MFA student Kevin Clancy (@kevinclancy.studio). The exhibition will open November 1st with a closing reception November 4th from 5-8pm!
Save the date! UCSB MFA STUDENTS HOLDING OPEN STUD Save the date! UCSB MFA STUDENTS HOLDING OPEN STUDIOS ON NOVEMBER 18, 2022 UCSB’s Art Department will hold Graduate Open Studios, featuring finished and in-process artworks of painting, sculpture, photography, installation, performance, and video by MFA students from 5-10 p.m. Friday, Nov. 18, 2022. The event is free and open to the public, located at Harder Stadium on campus. Refreshments will be served. Harder Stadium is located at Building 580, University of California, Santa Barbara, Stadium Rd, Santa Barbara, CA 93106. The Graduate Studios are located beneath the bleachers closest to Stadium Rd. The entrance can be found on the eastern side of the bleachers—way-finding signage will be posted. Ticketed parking is available in Lot 30 across the street from the Stadium. Artists include Panteha Abareshi, Kevin Clancy, Maja Skjoth Hegelund, Dannah Mari Hidalgo, Matthew Johnson, Dani Kwan, Diego Melgoza Oceguera, Hope Okere, Johnny Onionseed, Katie Parker, Lyra Purugganan, Mariana Rodela, Kate Saubestre, and Lela Shahrzad. News Media Contact: Dani Kwan, UCSB MFA Candidate dkwan@ucsb.edu
Please join us this Thursday to hear Vishal Jugdeo Please join us this Thursday to hear Vishal Jugdeo speak about his dynamic art career. Lectures are free and open to the public 👏🏽👏🏽 @vjugdeo Thursday October 27th, 2022 5pm-6:50pm Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero del Norte, Isla Vista, CA 93117 Vishal Jugdeo is a multidisciplinary artist who works with video, installation, performance and sculpture to construct experimental approaches to narrative. Bridging documentary and fictional strategies, his work emphasizes layers of mediation which influence how we interpret the unfolding present. Since 2015 Jugdeo has collaborated with vqueeram, a poet and activist based in Delhi to produce an ongoing moving image archive documenting queer friendships and solidarities across diaspora. A recent iteration of their collaboration is the short feature Does Your House Have Lions, which has screened at MOCA Los Angeles, MoMA, New York, Commonwealth and Council, LA, CCA Berlin and TULCA Visual Arts Festival in Ireland, among several other venues. Jugdeo’s work has been featured in solo exhibitions at the ICA Philadelphia, LAXART, Los Angeles and Western Front, Vancouver. Commissioned works have been featured in Performa, New York, Made in LA at the Hammer Museum, and at the Kunstinstituut Melly, Rotterdam. Jugdeo completed an MFA at UCLA, and a BFA at Simon Fraser University. He is a 2015 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow.
We are honored to announce Hương Ngô @_bad_spy We are honored to announce Hương Ngô @_bad_spy as our speaker this week! 🎉 The lecture takes place on Thursday and is free and open to the public! Thursday, October 20th 5pm-6:50pm @ Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero del Norte, Isla Vista, California Hương Ngô is an interdisciplinary artist born in Hong Kong, grew up as a refugee in the American South, and currently based in Chicago where she is an assistant professor in Contemporary Practices at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. Beginning her studies in the sciences, she received her BFA (Summa cum laude) at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (James M. Johnson Scholar, 2001) and continued as a Trustees Scholar in Art & Technology Studies at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (MFA, 2004). Her archive-based practice began while a studio fellow at the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2012. She was awarded the Fulbright U.S. Scholar Grant in Vietnam (2016). Her work had been described as “deftly and defiantly decolonial” by New City and “what intersectional feminist art looks like” by the Chicago Tribune. Artist Statement: Through gestures of erasure and translation, my work forges new lines of inquiry at the intersections of transnational feminism, postcolonial theory, and critical refugee studies. By examining simultaneous historical silences and hypervisibilities of the fugitive, the exile, and the refugee, I make visible larger structures of power and imagined possibilities of borderlessness. Personal and collective archives anchor material experimentation and ephemeral mediums, positing embodied experience as an urgent site of knowledge production.
This week at Glass Box: An Eye for an I. The exhib This week at Glass Box: An Eye for an I. The exhibition includes a diverse range of paintings from 18 artists who all took part in Art 100: Intermediate Painting, Summer Session B 2022. Please join us for a closing reception Friday, October 21st from 5-7pm!
We are incredibly honored to host Nao Bustamante a We are incredibly honored to host Nao Bustamante as our visiting lecturer this week! 🔥 Thursday October 13th, 2022 5-6:50pm @ Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista, CA 93117 The lecture is free and open to the public!! Nao Bustamante is a Chicana actress, interdisciplinary filmmaker, artist, and writer, whose practice explores issues of ethnicity, class, gender, performativity, and the body. An internationally known artist, they are from the San Joaquin Valley in California. Bustamante is a Professor of Art and the Director of MFA Art at the USC Roski School of Art and Design. Bustamante has performed in galleries, museums, universities, and underground sites worldwide. She has exhibited, among other locales, at the Institute of Contemporary Arts in London, the New York Museum of Modern Art, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Sundance International Film Festival, Outfest International Film Festival, El Museo del Barrio Museum of Contemporary Art, First International Performance Biennial, Deformes in Santiago, Chile and the Kiasma Museum of Helsinki. In 2015, she was a UC MEXUS Scholar in Residence in preparation for a solo exhibit at Vincent Price Art Museum in Los Angeles. Bustamante’s video work is in the Kadist Collection. Bustamante is an alum of the San Francisco Art Institute, New Genres program, and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture.
Golden hour @artdept_ucsb grad picnic on the bluff Golden hour @artdept_ucsb grad picnic on the bluffs! Quilt by @kevinclancy.studio Photo by @hopengozistudio @matttjjjohnson @lyrapurugganan @marianarodela @dannahmari_art @lela.shahrzad @kevinclancy.studio
This week’s closing reception at Glass Box with This week’s closing reception at Glass Box with feature a zine werkshop led by first year MFA student Lyra Purugganan. This Wednesday from 6-7pm at the Glass Box!
Glass Box Gallery is thrilled to present the work Glass Box Gallery is thrilled to present the work of University of California Santa Barbara's Art Department Incoming MFA Cohort, Lyra Purugganan, Diego Melgoza, and Lela Shahrzad! In addition to the exhibition, all are welcome to attend the show's closing reception and accompanying workshop held by Lyra Purugganan on Wednesday, October 12th from 5pm to 8pm at Glass Box Gallery.
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We are excited to announce this week’s speaker a We are excited to announce this week’s speaker as Shana Moulton on 10/6. Shana is an incredible video artist and a beloved professor and grad advisor here in the Art Department at UCSB. 𝒯𝒽𝒾𝓈 𝒯𝒽𝓊𝓇𝒶𝒹𝒶𝓎 5-7𝓅𝓂 ℰ𝓂𝒷𝒶𝓇𝒸𝒶𝒹ℯℴ ℋ𝒶𝓁𝓁 𝒪𝓅ℯ𝓃 𝓉ℴ 𝓉𝒽ℯ 𝒫𝓊𝒷𝓁𝒾𝒸!! Shana Moulton is a California born and based artist who works in video, performance, and installation. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley in Art and Anthropology and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. In 2002, Moulton began the video series Whispering Pines, in which she performs as Cynthia, an alter-ego searching for purpose and fulfillment through home decor, self-help paraphernalia and cosmetic rituals. In Whispering Pines 10, Moulton’s performance is accompanied by an original musical score and libretto from composer Nick Hallett. The video is adapted from Moulton and Hallett’s eponymous opera, which was developed at The Kitchen, Harvestworks, and the New Museum, and subsequently toured art museums and performance festivals across the US. In 2013 the duo received a Creative Capital grant to reshape Whispering Pines 10 for the internet. The project is simultaneously presented as a digital exhibition with The New Museum: First Look and Rhizome at www.whisperingpines10.com. Moulton has had solo exhibitions at the Palais De Tokyo, Paris, Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, San Francisco, Kunsthaus Glarus, Switzerland, Art in General, New York, Fondazione Morra Greco, Naples, Galeria Arsenał, Białystok, Museum of Contemporary Art, Cleveland, Atlanta Contemporary Art Center, Atlanta, La Loge, Brussels, and The Museum of Fine Arts in St. Petersburg. Moulton’s work has been featured in Artforum, The New York Times, ArtReview, Art in America, Flash Art, Artpress, Metropolis M, BOMB Magazine, and Frieze among others. Her work is distributed by Electronic Arts Intermix and she is a featured artist on Art21’s New York Close Up. www.shanamoulton.info
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