Faculty Spotlight: Fall 2016
Awards, Publications, Exhibitions, and Performances from our acclaimed faculty
Department of Architecture and Urban Design Professor Dana Cuff will give the keynote presentation at the American Institute of Architects, California Council (AIACC) Now Next Future conference
Now Next Future brings together architects, designers, emerging talent, and affiliates to inspire new ways of thinking about the future of design, practice, and the built environment through examples of their work and case studies. Dana Cuff, professor in the department of Architecture and Urban Design and director of UCLA’s cityLAb, will give the keynote presentation. The conference will be held at UCLA, on Oct. 28. Registration is still open to students.
Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México presents L’1%, c’est moi, a retrospective exhibition of Department of Art Professor Andrea Fraser’s work
Professor Andrea Fraser’s work is an on-going investigation of what we want from art. Since the mid-1980s, Fraser has used performance, video, text, and a range of other forms to explore the motivations of artists, collectors, gallerists, patrons, and audiences.
L’1%, c’est moi brings together a selection of works from over thirty years of critical engagement with the art field, from early works on paper based on appropriation, seminal gallery talks, and multi-voiced performances, to installations, text-based works, and documentation.
The exhibition is on view through December 3, 2017
Department of Art Distinguished Professor Mary Kelly is the subject of a new publication
Mary Kelly, edited by Mignon Nixon provides an in-depth look at the work and life of Distinguished Professor Mary Kelly. The publication features interviews and essays by prominent artists, curators, and art-world figures including Parveen Adams, Emily Apter, Rosalyn Deutsche, Hal Foster, Margaret Iversen, Mary Kelly, Helen Molesworth, Laura Mulvey, Mignon Nixon, Griselda Pollock, and Paul Smith.
The National Gallery of Art, Washington, D.C., presents Barbara Kruger: In the Tower, a new exhibition of work
A focused exhibition featuring the work of American artist and Department of Art Professor Barbara Kruger reopens the East Building Tower Gallery. Inspired by the gallery's recent acquisition of Kruger's Untitled (Know nothing, Believe anything, Forget everything) (1987/2014), the exhibition comprises related images of faces and figures in profile over which Kruger has superimposed her striking phrases and figures of speech.
The exhibition is on view through Jan. 22, 2017.
Department of Art Professor Catherine Opie inducted to National Academy of Art, receives Smithsmonian's 2016 Archives of American Art Medal, presents work in three exhibitions this fall
The National Academy is a lively community of artists, architects, educators, students, museum-goers, and those dedicated to the arts in America. Election as an Academician recognizes an artist's exceptional creative work and contribution to the arts. The Smithsonian’s Archives of American Art Medal honors the unique contributions of significant artists, collectors, dealers, historians, and philanthropists in the American art world. Opie’s work will be presented in Reinventing Photography: The Robert E. Meyerhoff and Rheda Becker Collection, which is on view through Mar. 5 at the National Gallery of Art in Washington D.C.; Catherine Opie: 700 Nimes Road, which traveled from MOCA Pacific Design Center to the George Eastman Museum in Rochester, NY where it will be on view through January 8; and Ecce homo/Behold the Man, which is on view at the Museum de Fundatie, in Zwolle, Netherlands through January 15.
Department of Art Distinguished Professor Lari Pittman’s exhibition, Lari Pittman: Mood Books, is on view at The Huntington
Los Angeles-based artist and Department of Art Professor Lari Pittman is known for his exuberant, colorful, and graphically complex works. In this exhibition, six monumental illustrated books, each opening to more than four feet in width, contain 65 paintings by the artist. They draw from a variety of aesthetic traditions, ranging from decorative art and design to advertising and folk art.
View the online exhibition.
The exhibition will be on view at The Huntington through Feb. 20, 2017.
Design Media Arts Professor Rebeca Méndez receives the 2016 Vision Over Violence Humanitarian Award
In 2004, Rebeca Méndez Studio donated their creative services to reimagine the Los Angeles Commission on Assaults Against Women, a non-profit, multicultural, volunteer organization whose mission is building healthy relationships, families and communities, free from sexual, domestic and interpersonal violence. Peace Over Violence, the identity that was created, more accurately represented the agency’s expanded mandate of not only intervening in sexual assault and domestic abuse cases against women, but also actively preventing violence through education programs for youth, including girls and boys, and informing public policy and opinion on a local, state, and federal level.
Participating alumni included, Gabriel Noguez, Gareth Walsh, Daisy Moreno, Donny Lu, Gregg Dodds, Tyson Evans, Jenn Tranbarger, Ryan Weafer, Luca Barton, and Roxane Zargham, among others.
See the Brand Identity Work
Find out more about the Peace Over Violence awards
Newly appointed World Arts and Cultures/Dance faculty member Kyle Abraham to present his 2012 work, Pavement, at the Brooklyn Academy of Music
Pavement, was inspired by the 1991 hip-hop drama “Boyz n the Hood” and W.E.B. Du Bois’s “The Souls of Black Folk.” The piece traces the decline of the African American communities of Homewood and the Hill District in Pittsburgh.
Pavement will be presented Nov. 2—5 as part of Tandem Paris-New York and 2016 Next Wave Festival.
Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor Dan Froot awarded a 2016 MacDowell Colony Fellowship to conduct a month-long playwriting residency
The mission of The MacDowell Colony is to nurture the arts by offering creative individuals of the highest talent an inspiring environment in which they can produce enduring works of the imagination.
Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor Peter Nabokov receives glowing review of two publications in the New York Review of Books
Ian Frazer recently praised Peter Nabokov’s two recent books, How the World Moves and The Origin Myth of Acoma Pueblo in a review published in The New York Review of Books’ latest issue.
Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor and Chair Lionel Popkin’s site-specific work Inflatable Park returns to Tongva Park
World Arts and Cultures/Dance professor and Los Angeles choreographer Lionel Popkin returns to Santa Monica with his spectacular site-specific dance work Inflatable Park. Commissioned especially for Tongva Park by the City of Santa Monica's Cultural Affairs Division, the piece is set on and around inflatable living room furniture nestled in the midst of Tongva Park.
The work was first premiered in April 2016 and will be presented again on Tuesday, Oct. 18. Admission is free and open to the public. The performance starts at 7:30 p.m.
Senses of Time curated by Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor Polly Nooter Roberts is concurrently on view at three arts institutions
Senses of Time, a film-based exhibit co-curated by Karen E. Milbourne of the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art and Polly (Nooter) Roberts, professor of world arts and cultures/dance, is on view at the Smithsonian National Museum of African Art, the Wellin Museum of Art at Hamilton College, and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). The exhibition ties the video artworks of seven African artists into a compelling exploration of the obstacles that African cultural identity has faced across the ages.
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Header Image Credit: Lari Pittman, detail from 12 Verified Occurrences During a Full Moon, 2015, acrylic and lacquer spray over gessoed, heavy-weight paper board, 27 × 25 × 4.5 inches. © Lari Pittman, courtesy of the artist and Regen projects, Los Angeles.