Don't Miss: Winter Break Edition
Twenty ways you can see faculty and alumni work all over the world during the winter break.
Get your UCLA Arts fix this holiday season! Read on for twenty ways you can see faculty and alumni work all over the world during the winter break.
Barrio Logos: Displacement and Vanishing Iconography
Image credit: Residency Art
Through December 16, 2017
Residency Art
310 E. Queen St
Inglewood, CA 90301
The only PST LA:LA exhibition taking place in South Central Los Angeles, this group exhibition was curated by Oscar Magallanes ’17, and features work by Department of Art Alumni Ofelia Marquez Stephens ’17, Oscar Magallanes ’17, Aaron Estrada ’16, and Gustavo Martinez ’15.
Never Free to Rest
Never Free to Rest, Kurimanzutto, Ciudad De México, 2017
Through December 16, 2017
Kurimanzutto
Gobernador Rafael Rebollar
94 San Miguel Chapultepec I Secc, 11850
Mexico City, Mexico
Work by Department of Art Associate Professor Rodney McMillian is featured in Never Free to Rest, a group exhibition at Kurimanzutto, one of Mexico City’s leading art galleries. The exhibition brings together works by six artists who utilize the radical language of abstraction to destabilize black representation and systems of control—conjuring new possibilities of perception, imagination, and liberation.
Day for Night
Image credit: Day for Night Festival
December 15–17, 2017
Day for Night Festival
Barbara Jordan Post Office
401 Franklin St
Houston, TX 77201
This music and art festival features programming by Design Media Arts Assistant Professor Lauren McCarthy and a collaborative project between Professor Casey Reas’s Processing Foundation and the UCLA Arts Conditional Studio, directed by Chandler Williams.
Tomorrow’s Man 4
Installation view of Tomorrow's Man 4, Curated by Jack Pierson, Regen Projects, Los Angeles, November 11 – December 22, 2017
Through December 22, 2017
Regen Projects
6750 Santa Monica Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Department of Art alumnus Paul Mpagi Sepuya ’16 is one of ten artists featured in this Regen Projects exhibition, curated by Jack Pierson and conceptualized around his celebrated artist book, Tomorrow’s Man, inspired by the famous bodybuilding magazine from the 1950s and ‘60s. The exhibition is presented in conjunction with the release of the fourth volume in the series.
Virtual Views: Digital Art from the Thoma Foundation
Bouquet 1, Jennifer Steinkamp
Through December 31, 2017
Orlando Museum of Art
2416 North Mills Avenue
Orlando, Florida 32803
This group exhibition featuring Design Media Arts Professor Jennifer Steinkamp explores the growing importance of electronic media in contemporary art as seen in the work of artists who are pioneers in the use of LEDs (light-emitting diodes), LCD (liquid crystal display), and computer-generated imagery.
FOREVER
Image Credit: Sprüth Magers
Through January 2018
Sprüth Magers
Oranienburger Straße 18
10178 Berlin
This presentation of new site-specific work by Department of Art Professor Barbara Kruger features boldly designed textual statements on the nature of truth, power, belief, and doubt that embody the distinctive visual language that Kruger has developed over the course of her forty-year career.
Keeping an Eye on the World
Photo:© Catherine Opie, Oliver & Mrs. Nibbles, 2012, Courtesy Regen Projects, Los Angeles & Peder Lund, Oslo
Through January 7, 2018
Henie Onstad Kunstsenter
Sonja Henies vei 31
1311 Høvikodden
Norway
Keeping an Eye on the World is Department of Art Professor Catherine Opie’s first European retrospective exhibition.
Strange Attractors The Anthology of Interplanetary Folk Art Vol. 1 Life on Earth
Vija Celmins, Night Sky I (Reversed), 2002 3-color photogravure/aquatint/photo etching/drypoint 21h x 24.50w in VC02001 Edition 18/65
Through January 13, 2018
Redling Fine Art
6757 Santa Monica Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90038
Using the twin Voyager space probes as a starting point, this group exhibition organized by Bob Nickas takes a first step in compiling a visual record of life on earth and features work by Department of Art alumnae Theodora Allen ’12, Trisha Donnelly ’95, and Vija Celmins ’65.
This is Not A Selfie: Photographic Self- Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection
Anne Collier, Mirror Ball, 2014, 27 3/16 × 26 13/16 inches, Los Angeles County Museum of Art © Anne Collier, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
Through January 14, 2018
San Jose Museum of Art
110 South Market Street
San Jose, CA 95113
Organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), This Is Not a Selfie: Photographic Self-Portraits from the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Collection is on view at the San Jose Museum of Art. This exhibition features LACMA’s stellar permanent holdings of photography—including works by Department of Art Professor Catherine Opie and alumna Ann Collier—and offers a compelling look at the primacy and variety of expressions within self-portraiture from the vantage of the “Age of the Selfie.”
Refik Anadol - Çatalhöyük Research Project Archive
Refik Anadol - Çatalhöyük Research Project Archive
Through January 14, 2018
Tomtom Mahallesi, İstiklal Cad.
Merkez Han No:181, 34433
Beyoğlu/İstanbul, Turkey
Using machine learning algorithms, Design Media Arts alumnus Refik Anadol ’14 developed a media installation using Çatalhöyük Research Project’s archive of 2.8 million data records. Commissioned as part of the exhibition The Curious Case of Çatalhöyük, this poetic representation of an archaeological archive can be experienced through January 14, 2018 at ANAMED.
Rodrigo Valenzuela
Image courtesy of the artist and the Feature Hudson Foundation
Through January 28, 2018
Feature Hudson Foundation
87 Rivington Street, Ground Floor
New York, NY 10002
In this solo exhibition, Department of Art Professor Rodrigo Valenzuela presents General Song, a body of work created in 2017 centered on representations of the barricade.
Monarchs: Brown and Native Contemporary Artists in the Path of the Butterfly
Image Credit: Klowdenmann Gallery
Through February 24, 2018
Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts
724 South 12th Street
Omaha, NE 68102
This group exhibition featuring work by Department of Art Assistant Professor Rodrigo Valenzuela takes the migration path of the Monarch butterfly as a geographic range and a metaphor.
Drawn from a Score
Casey Reas / Process 15, 2006 / Text, custom software (black and white, silent), computer, two screens dimensions variable / courtesy of bitforms gallery (NY)
Through February 25, 2017
Beall Center Art + Technology
712 Arts Plaza
University of California, Irvine
Irvine, CA 92697-2775
"Drawn from a Score" features artists—including Design Media Arts Professor Casey Reas—whose work emanates directly from a written, visual, or code-based score. Ranging from event scores first developed by John Cage and Fluxus artists in the late 1950s to contemporary uses of code as a score for computational works, the exhibition includes drawings, sculptures, performances, video projections, and computer-generated forms of art.
The Time. The Place. Contemporary Art from the Collection
Rodrigo Valenzuela (U.S., born Chile 1982), Builder # 1. 2012, Inkjet print, Henry Art Gallery, gift of Gail Gibson, 2015.3, Image courtesy of the artist
Through Spring 2018
Henry Art Gallery
University of Washington
15th Ave NE and NE 41st St
Seattle, WA 98195
The Time. The Place. features artworks from the collection of the Henry Art Gallery at the University of Washington that explore conditions and events of contemporary social and cultural life through the lens of time and place, including the work of Rodrigo Valenzuela, assistant professor in the UCLA Department of Art.
Winter Fountains
Artist: Jennifer Steinkamp, Title: Winter Fountains, Date: November 30, 2017 - February 28, 2018, sunset until midnight, Dimensions: 4 domes, each 26 feet diameter by 13 feet high
Through March 18, 2018
Parkway Museum District, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
The four sites where Steinkamp’s Winter Fountains will be installed on the Parkway: 1) Aviator Park 2) Rodin Museum 3) Park Towne Place Museum Residences 4) Spring Garden Triangle near The Oval
For Parkway 100, the centennial celebration of Philadelphia’s Benjamin Franklin Parkway, the Parkway Council presents Design Media Arts Professor Jennifer Steinkamp’s Winter Fountains, a major installation commissioned by the Association for Public Art (aPA). Winter Fountains serves as a centerpiece of Parkway 100, which includes more than a year of public events and activities planned by the Parkway Council – a coalition of cultural and educational institutions, businesses, and residences in the Parkway Museums District.
Light at KANEKO
Refik Anadol, Infinity Room
Through March 31, 2018
KANEKO
1111 Jones Street
Omaha, Nebraska 68102
Design Media Arts alumnus Refik Anadol ’14 presents his Infinity Room at KANEKO in an interactive and visual art experience that explores art and science. This isn’t the only UCLA Arts-connected work to see at KANEKO: Architecture and Urban Design Professor Mark Mack designed the institution’s entrance addition, for which he won the Excellence In Architecture Merit Award from AIA Nebraska.
Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life
Installation view of Nature Morte, Hå gamle prestegard, Stavanger, Norway, 6 June - 30 August, 2015
Through April 2, 2018
Guildhall Art Gallery
Guildhall Yard, London EC2V 5AE, UK
This group exhibition is based on Michael Petry's book Nature Morte: Contemporary Artists Reinvigorate the Still Life, published by Thames & Hudson, and features work by Design Media Arts Professor Jennifer Steinkamp.
ROW DTLA
image courtesy Row DTLA
ROW DTLA
777 S. Alameda Street
Los Angeles, CA
Architecture and Urban Design alumnus Robert Hale’s design firm, Rios Clementi Hale, was recently recognized for its restoration of ROW DTLA by the Architect’s Newspaper 2017 Design Awards. Head to ROW DTLA for holiday shopping or Smorgasburg and find out why.
CAW at the Austin Central Library
Christian Moeller, Detail of CAW, Austin, TX, 2017, Material: Aluminum, electric drive, Dimensions: H = 37’, W = 15’- 8”
Austin Central Library
710 W. César Chávez St.
Austin, Texas
Inspired by mystic yet commonplace birds such as ravens, crows, and grackles, CAW by Design Media Arts Professor and Chair Christian Moeller is a large, wall mounted, kinetic piece that resembles a gigantic cuckoo clock overtaken by black birds. A silent companion during the hours of contemplation at the Austin Central Library.
Within Films
WITHIN is the premier destination for innovative, entertaining, and informative story-based virtual reality. This virtual reality media company founded by Design Media Arts alumnus Aaron Koblin ’06 presents films you can watch anytime, anywhere.
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