Faculty Spotlight February 2020
Updates from the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture Faculty
This month, Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance (WACD) Professor Kyle Abraham kicks off a series of four free workshops presented at WACD. Through the spring, Abraham’s dance company Abraham.In.Motion continues their international tour, including venues like Harbourfront Centre, Walker Art Center, Théâtre Paul Eluard, and others. Next month, Abraham's The Quiet Dance will be performed by Pittsburgh Ballet Theatre as part of their Here + Now Program.
Next month, Department of Art Professor Jennifer Bolande will screen her film The Composition of Decomposition at Magenta Plains Gallery, New York and the Museum of Modern Art, New York.
Next month, Department of World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor Tria Blu Wakpa will give a talk at the Evolution of Yoga Summit at Loyola Marymount University.
Department of Architecture and Urban Design Professor Emerita Diane Favro was recently awarded an AAP PROSE Award in the category of Reference Works for her book Roman Architecture and Urbanism: From the Origins to Late Antiquity, published by the Cambridge University Press.
Architecture and Urban Design Professor Georgina Huljich’s architectural firm P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S won two Rethinking The Future 2020 Awards in the category Hospitality Concept. Her project Karma Bequia won first prize and Stiff Chili / Karma Sanctum won third prize.
Design Media Arts Professor Peter Lunenfeld is cited in the new Pew Research Center's report on digital disruption and democracy, released in February 2020
Design Media Arts Professor Lauren McCarthy’s work is currently on view in two group exhibitions; Artefact 2020: Alone Together at STUK Art Center, Belgium and Algotaylorism at Mulhouse Kunsthalle, Mulhouse, France. Opening in March, Selphish is a group exhibition presented at Mécènes du sud Montpellier-Sète, Montpellier, France.
Department of Art Professor Catherine Opie presents three exhibitions on view now; Rhetorical Landscapes at Regen Projects in Los Angeles, New Masculinities at the Barbican Centre in London, and Labor: Motherhood & Art in 2020 at New Mexico State University Art Museum. Next month, she will give a talk at Henry Art Gallery in Seattle and present work in a group exhibition at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
On view now, Department of Design Media Arts professor Casey Reas presents work in two group shows on view; GANland at DAM Gallery in Berlin and Immaterial/Re-material: A Brief History of Computing Art at UCCA Center for Contemporary Art in Beijing.
On view at the Hammer Museum at UCLA, Inside the Mask is an exhibition presented in partnership with the Fowler Museum at UCLA and organized by World Arts and Cultures/Dance professor Peter Sellars.
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