Faculty Spotlight: Summer 2019
Awards, Publications, Exhibitions, and Performances from our acclaimed faculty
On any given day, the work of our faculty enlivens museums, galleries, performance venues, lecture halls, public spaces, and more—both at home and abroad. Their creative and scholarly contributions mine the complexities of the human condition, asking essential questions of our time while expanding the potential of creativity and the depth, diversity, and real-world impact of the arts.
World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor Kyle Abraham’s company Abraham.In.Motion is performing in Germany, Spain, North Carolina, and Massachusetts this summer.
Architecture and Urban Design Professor Neil Denari designed Silver Lake 1, a new mixed-use space on Sunset Boulevard. Construction will be completed in September.
Art Professor and Chair Andrea Fraser’s work Men on the Line: Men Committed to Feminism, KPFK, 1972 (2012) is on view at the Hammer Museum in the exhibition Hammer Projects: Andrea Fraser.
World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor and Chair Dan Froot will launch his new podcast, Pang!, on July 1. It’s an audio-drama adaptation of the staged work of the same name, based on the oral histories of families around the country who are living below the poverty line and hungering for change.
World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor and UCLA Art and Global Health Center Director David Gere co-curated a large-scale photography and storytelling project that illuminates the life experiences of more than 130 people living with HIV and AIDS. Through Positive Eyes will open in September at the Fowler Museum.
Design Media Arts Professor Erkki Huhtamo will participate in a panel titled Media Archaeology linking Asia and Latin America at the ISEA 2019 Conference in Gwangju, Korea. He will deliver a lecture on Media, Mobilities and Posthuman Culture at Digital Hollywood media school in Ochanomizu, Tokyo on July 3, and on July 4, Huhtamo will lecture on Music and Media Arts at Nihon University College of Art (Nichigei) at Eked, Tokyo.
Art Professor Barbara Kruger received the prestigious 2019 Goslarer Kaiserring from the Mönchehaus Museum Goslar. On September 21, Kruger will be recognized with this international artist prize, which is one of the most respected art prizes in the world and is referred to by connoisseurs as the Nobel Prize of Fine Arts.
Design Media Arts Assistant Professor Lauren McCarthy is presenting work in three group exhibitions: Entangled Realities at the Haus der elektronischen Künste Basel, See and Be Seen: Picturing Notoriety at the Norton Museum of Art in Florida, and AI: More Than Human at the Barbican Centre in London.
Art Professor Rodney McMillian is presenting work in the Susan Vielmetter exhibition Sculpture in Downtown Los Angeles, and in the exhibition 30 Americans at the Nelson Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City.
Art Professor Catherine Opie is showing work in exhibitions at 19 institutions over the course of the summer.
Art Distinguished Professor Lari Pittman is exhibiting work in ICA Boston’s exhibition Less Is a Bore: Maximalist Art & Design through September 22. On September 29, a major retrospective of Pittman’s work will open at the Hammer Museum, titled Lari Pittman: Declaration of Independence.
Design Media Arts Professor Casey Reas will lead Blowup, a weeklong workshop in July at Anderson Ranch for visual exploration and discovery. On August 11, Reas will lead a workshop in Los Angeles at Tiny Tech Zines, a fair for zines about technology.
World Arts and Cultures/Dance Professor Peter Sellars directs the Los Angeles Master Chorale production Lagrime di San Pietro at the Salzburg Festival in July.
Art Professor Rodrigo Valenzuela has a solo exhibition on view at the New Museum in New York City titled Screen Series: Rodrigo Valenzuela.
Header Image: Neil Denari, Silver Lake 1 / 2019, Los Angeles, California, 6,000sf / Mixed-Use Restaurant and Office Space
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