Faculty Spotlight: Spring 2017
Awards, Publications, Exhibitions, and Performances from our acclaimed faculty
Architecture and Urban Design Professor Hitoshi Abe to lecture in Perloff Hall.
A.UD professor and distinguished architect Hitoshi Abe will lecture in Perloff Hall’s Decafe as part of the Department of Architecture and Urban Design’s lecture series. Known for architecture that is spatially complex and structurally innovative, the work of Atelier Hitoshi Abe has been published internationally and received numerous awards.
World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor Kyle Abraham’s company Abraham.in.Motion to perform at The Broad Stage
MacArthur Fellow and World Arts and Cultures/Dance faculty member Kyle Abraham brings his vibrant dance company Abraham.In.Motion to The Broad Stage for performances on May 4 & 5. Born into hip-hop culture in the late 1970s and grounded in Abraham's artistic upbringing in classical cello, piano, and the visual arts, the company transforms each stage they grace with deep explorations of sound, human behavior, and all things visual.
Department of Art Professor Jennifer Bolande exhibits installation “Visible Distance” along Gene Autry Tail in Palm Springs.
In a cinematic experience animated by driving along Gene Autry Trail, viewers of Jennifer Bolande’s “Visible Distance,” part of curated exhibition Desert X, will encounter a series of billboards featuring photographs of the very mountains towards which they are heading. Within the desert empire of roadside signs, Bolande chooses to advertise the very thing so often overlooked. On view through April 30.
Center for Art of Performance Director Kristy Edmunds to deliver a lecture at Culture Summit Abu Dhabi.
On April 12 Kristy Edmunds delivers a lecture during the “The Unintended Consequences of Technological Change” panel at the CultureSummit, a high-level international summit that will bring together leaders from the worlds of government, the arts, and the media to address the role culture can play when faced with some of the greatest challenges of our time.
World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor Dan Froot was named a Knight Foundation Artist in Residence at Miami Light Project.
World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor Dan Froot will be in Miami April 23-30 and June 22-29 to continue working alongside community members in Overtown, an underserved neighborhood near Downtown Miami. Along with local theater artist Teo Castellanos, he will use storytelling, movement and other performance strategies to address local issues.
Architecture and Urban Design Assistant Adjunct Professor and P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S Principal Georgina Hulich will lecture in Perloff Hall.
The Department of Architecture and Urban Design presents a lecture by Assistant Adjunct Professor Georgina Huljich, principal of P-A-T-T-E-R-N-S, a design research architectural practice based in Los Angeles that has gained international recognition for its subtle approach to architecture, one that seamlessly integrates digital technology within an extensive consideration of form, novel tectonics and innovative materials.
Architecture and Urban Design Lecturer Wonne Ickx co-curates Graham Foundation exhibition Spaces without drama or surface is an illusion, but so is depth in Chicago.
Ruth Esteves and A.UD lecturer Wonne Ickx co-curated Spaces without drama or surface is an illusion, but so is depth, an exhibition at Chicago’s Graham Foundation that examines the recent proliferation of collage in architectural representation in relationship to scenography and theatrical set design. The exhibition is on view through July 1.
Architecture and Urban Design Professor and Director of the Critical Studies M.A. and Ph.D. program, Sylvia Lavin, curates upcoming SCI-Arc exhibition The Duck and the Document: Stories of Postmodern Procedures.
The Duck and the Document features a series of fragments, from handrails to façade panels, salvaged from canonic buildings of the late 20th century. The Southern California Institute of Architecture (SCI-Arc) exhibition is curated by Architecture and Urban Design Professor Sylvia Lavin and runs from April 14–May 28, 2017.
Architecture and Urban Design Distinguished Professor Thom Mayne will deliver Keynote Address at Architectural Record Innovation Conference West and a James Michelin Distinguished Visitors lecture at Caltech.
On April 25 Mayne will deliver a lecture at California Institute of Technology entitled “Building Science: Multiple Agendas” as part of the James Michelin Distinguished Visitors Program.
Mayne will also give the keynote address at the Architectural Record Innovation Conference West in San Francisco, CA on June 1.
Department of Art Professor Catherine Opie and Distinguished Professor Lari Pittman are featured in group exhibition, What I Loved: Selected Works from the ‘90s.
Works by Department of Art Professors Catherine Opie and Lari Pittman appear in a group exhibition entitled What I Loved: Selected Works from the ‘90s, on view at Regen Projects in Los Angeles through April 13. This exhibition revisits these formative years and brings together a group of artists who came of age during this time, and whose work became part of the critical discourse for addressing issues of race, gender, sexuality, identity politics, globalization, and the AIDS crisis, among others.
For his Ambivalent House Jason Payne (Hirsuta), Architecture and Urban Design Associate Professor, wins the Arch Out Loud Design competition.
Stranger things have happened on Mulholland Drive. Like the Chemosphere before it, this house pushes hard on the envelope of experimental residential design. A spheroid floating low to the ground on a single column, the form is the inexact offspring of more geometrically perfect round houses already achieved. For the innovative design of his Ambivalent House, A.UD Associate Professor Jason Payne receives the Arch Out Loud Design award.
The work of Art Department Distinguished Professor Lari Pittman and Associate Professor Silke Otto-Knapp will be in conversation with one another for Subject, Predicate, Object exhibition.
Titled after a text by modernist poet Marianne Moore, the installation is conceived as a dialogue between the two artists. At first, the superficial differences between the works on view belie their respective similarities. Yet upon closer inspection established affinities are revealed that unify this otherwise unexpected pairing. The exhibition will be on view at Regen Projects April 22–May 27, 2017.
Design Media Arts Professor Casey Reas will give a lecture at the MIT Center for Art, Science and Technology (CAST) as part of the Being Material symposium.
Design Media Arts Professor Casey Reas will lecture during the “Programmable” panel of the symposium, “BEING MATERIAL,” held April 21 & 22 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. The symposium will highlight recent developments in materials systems and design, placing this work in dialogue with kindred and contrasting philosophy, art practice, and critique. Panels on the PROGRAMMABLE, WEARABLE, LIVABLE, and INVISIBLE—along with a concert, AUDIBLE—will explore new and unexpected meetings of the digital and material worlds.
World Arts and Cultures/Dance Distinguished Professor Peter Sellars presents performances at Princeton University and in Austria, and lectures at Peabody Dean's Symposium Series at the Peabody Institute at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, Maryland and UC Irvine.
On April 18 Distinguished Professor Peter Sellars and Reggie "Reg Roc" Gray will present "Flex-n-Princeton," a street dance performance that uses movement to tell deeply human stories about disturbing issues of the times.
This summer Sellars will direct a new production of Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart’s La clemenza di Tito, sung in Italian with German and English subtitles, at the Salzburg Festival, which takes place July 21–August 20.
On April 25 Sellars will lecture at the University of California, Irvine with filmmaker, author and anthropologist Roxanne Varzi for A Conversation Between Roxanne Varzi and Peter Sellars.
Finally, Sellars was selected as one of four esteem lecturers for the Dean’s Symposium Series, launched last year at the Peabody Institute, which provides a platform for conversation about the future of music and the issues facing professional musicians today. “These four guests are among the most innovative, forward-thinking artists and leaders out there,” notes Fred Bronstein, dean of the Peabody Institute. The symposium takes place on April 17.
Four Department of Architecture and Urban Design faculty members and one Department of Art professor emeritus were selected as participants of the 2017 Chicago Architecture Biennial.
The Chicago Architectural Biennial seeks to convene the world’s leading practitioners, theorists, and commentators in the field of architecture and urbanism to explore, debate, and demonstrate the significance of architecture to contemporary society. Over 100 firms and artists representing countries around the world were selected by the 2017 Biennial Artistic Directors, Sharon Johnston and Mark Lee, of the Los Angeles-based firm Johnston Marklee, who have both lectured in the Department of Architecture and Urban Design, and whose firm is designing the new Margo Leavin Graduate Art Studios in Culver City for the UCLA Department of Art. Among them are Lecture Andrew Kovacs, Lecturer Erin Besler, Lecturer Jimenez Lai, Professor Sylvia Lavin, and Department of Art Professor Emeritus James Welling. Alumni participants include Elena Manferdini, Andrew Holder from the Department of Architecture and Urban Design, and Gerard & Kelly from the Department of Art.
Header Image: Visible Distance by Department of Art Professor Jennifer Bolande for Desert X, 2017
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