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New Exhibition at UC San Diego Gallery Explores Art and Activism on the Border - UCSD News Room - 10.12.09
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 10/20/2009 - 7:40am. ReviewFred Lonidier/PhD Candidate Eduardo Navas/MFA Alumni Nina Waisman and Felipe Zúñiga/Undergraduate Alum Camilo Ontiveros
New Exhibition at UC San Diego Gallery Explores Art and Activism on the Border
(http://ucsdnews.ucsd.edu/newsrel/general/10-09TijuanaSD.asp)
By Doug Ramsey for UC San Diego News Room, October 12, 2009
Seven artists from either side of the border dividing San Diego and Tijuana are represented in an exhibition this fall that deals head-on with politics, immigration, the environment and other hot-button issues – through the lens and sensibility of artists working in multiple media.
“Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface” opens officially on Oct. 15 in the gallery@calit2 on the first floor of Atkinson Hall on the University of California, San Diego campus. The gallery is part of the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).
The Oct. 15 launch includes a panel discussion and Q&A with six of the seven presenting artists at 4pm in the Calit2 Theater, and an opening reception from 5pm to 7pm. Both events are open to the public and free of charge.
Two of those artists – Lea Rudee and Fred Lonidier – are UC San Diego faculty members. Rudee is a professor of materials science, accomplished photographer and former trustee and president of San Diego’s Museum of Photographic Arts. Rudee was also the founding dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering. Lonidier is a professor in the Visual Arts department at UCSD, which he joined in 1972 (after earning his MFA from UCSD the same year). Other artists also have UC San Diego credentials: Nina Waisman and Felipe Zúñiga (Class of ’08) earned MFA degrees in visual arts from the university; Camilo Ontiveros earned an undergraduate degree from UCSD, then an MFA from UCLA; and Spanish-born, Peruvian-raised José Ignacio López Ramírez-Gastón is a graduate student in computer music at UC San Diego. Finally, Giacomo Castagnola is a Peruvian architect from Ricardo Palma University in Lima, Peru. Castagnola earned a degree in architecture and urbanism, and now lives and works in Tijuana; he has shown his architectural work on both sides of the border.
E Silva, R Guerrero, H Li: MCASD zeroes in on ‘Here’ (aka San Diego)-A review by Robert Pincus for the SD Union-Tribune - 10
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 2:13pm. ReviewRaul Guerrero, Huai Li, Ernest Silva, and Alum Brian Dick
MCASD zeroes in on ‘Here’ (aka San Diego)
(http://www3.signonsandiego.com/stories/2009/oct/18/mcasd-zeroes-8216here8217-aka-san/?features&zIndex=184030)
By Robert Pincus, Union-Tribune Staff Writer, for the San Diego Union-Tribune, October 18, 2009
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego has announced that it will do its largest exhibition of local artists in a quarter-century. The show, “Here Not There,” will be on view from June 6 through Sept. 9, 2010, in La Jolla.
Underpinning the desire to present a wide-ranging show, in terms of media and approaches to the making of art, is the notion that the art scene in San Diego has, as the museum's press release says, “developed a critical mass of local talent.” The ambition is not to try to pinpoint any single notion of a regional style or sensibility, but to emphasize “the variety, strength, and vitality of individual contemporary art practices in this region.”
Rubén Ortiz-Torres: 'Art: Five 'voices' in a song of diversity' - A Review by Edward Sozanski - Philadelphia Inquirer - 10.18.0
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 1:26pm. ReviewArt: Five 'voices' in a song of diversity
(http://www.philly.com/philly/entertainment/20091018_Art__Five__voices__in_a_song_of_diversity.html)
Fabric Workshop brings together artists with a broad ethnic and geographic range.
By Edward Sozanski Contributing Art Critic for the Philadelphia Inquirer, October 18, 2009
'New American Voices" is the kind of exhibition we have come to expect from the Fabric Workshop and Museum, in that it features a relatively few large, sometimes complex, works. Three of the five featured artists represent minorities - two are American Indian and one is Latino - and consequently offer a less-familiar cultural bias.
Louis Hock: Seeing and Believing - A Review by Ariel Swartley, 9.3.09 for Montalvo Arts Center
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 10/19/2009 - 8:53am. Review
Louis Hock: Seeing and Believing
(http://montalvoarts.org/blogs/ariel_swartley/louis_hock_seeing_and_believing/)
By Ariel Swartley for Montalvo Arts Center, September 3, 2009
We rarely see the officer’s face, but he’s very much in ours: badge looming, holster bulging. The image, shot at the Immigration and Naturalization Service’s checkpoint on Interstate 5 north of San Diego, dominates one wall of Feral, Louis Hock’s video installation in Montalvo’s Project Space gallery. What happens there? Dusk deepens. Every so often the black-gloved hands halt the flow of vehicles and waves one to the side for further inspection. On the opposite wall spheres arc over emerald grass and across puffy cloudscapes. Swatted or self-propelled? The soundtrack of mechanical thwacks gives no clue.
Hock, who grew up in Nogales, Arizona, just across from Nogales, Mexico, has long been interested in the way meanings get drawn—like a preternaturally straight boundary line—over the hills and gullies of experience. His desire to bring those discrepancies into focus has led to public art works like Art Rebate, which traced the route, via signed ten dollar bills, of money spent by visa-less residents in U.S. communities, and to installations like American Desert, which paired popular views of the Southwest from classic films and Road Runner cartoons with photographs of border crossing trails—some thousands of years old—still used by humans and animals.
Images, Hock knows, read differently when they are isolated and when they’re viewed over time. Initially, Feral’s leather-accessorized torso—aggressive, sexual, and overblown—is an icon of enforcement. It’s meant to evoke emotions of fear or security depending on where we stand. But even the most law-abiding viewer will feel this officer comes too close for comfort. Hock’s camera forces intimacy. We can’t help noticing the body beneath the uniform. The longer we look, the more the message unravels. Do we really expect this employee, glancing, suddenly human, at his watch, to divine the contents of every car trunk?
Camilo Ontiveros, Nina Waisman and Felipe Zuniga: Los Dos Lados - A Review by the UC San Diego Guardian on Oct 15 '09
Submitted by yolietorres on Thu, 10/15/2009 - 12:14pm. ReviewCamilo Ontiveros, Nina Waisman and Felipe Zuniga
Los Dos Lados / The Two Sides
(http://www.ucsdguardian.org/hiatus/los-dos-lados-1.1999739)
UC San Diego Guardian, October 15 2009
EGG WOMB SPEWS FOUND MEDIA
Seemingly inspired by Brooklyn artist Tara Donovan’s sublime “Untitled” sculpture — a piece crafted from hundreds of Styrofoam cups and glue — the exterior of “Media Womb” is deceivingly simple. Sitting smack dab in the middle of Atkinson Hall’s main walkway, the layered structure is made from more or less unsophisticated materials: Hundreds of cardboard egg cartons are stacked to form a rectangular womb large enough for four people to sit in.
MacConnel/Lowe/Guerrero: 'Quint: Three Decades of Contemporary Art'-A Review by Robert Pincus- SD Union-Tribune 10.10.09
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 2:37pm. ReviewKim MacConnel and Jean Lowe, Raul Guerrero
'Quint: Three Decades of Contemporary Art'
(http://entertainment.signonsandiego.com/events/quint-three-decades-contemporary-art/)
A long look back at the influential Quint Contemporary Gallery. As presented by the California Center for the Arts, Escondido Museum.
By ROBERT L. PINCUS for the San Diego Union-Tribune on October 10, 2009
If the history of any San Diego gallery deserves a museum exhibition, it is Quint Contemporary Art. Its longevity alone is something to marvel at, in a town where art collecting has been sporadic and sometimes anemic. But that long life is doubly surprising given the adventurous spectrum of art that Mark Quint has consistently exhibited.
Prof. Emeritus Manny Farber and Prof. Emeritus P. Patterson: Duo to discuss works of film critic Farber - Del Mar Times 10.07.09
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 1:30pm. Review
Professor Emeritus Manny Farber and Professor Emeritus P. Patterson
Duo to discuss works of film critic Farber
(http://www.delmartimes.net/entertainment/261443-duo-to-discuss-works-of-film-critic-farber)
DelMarTimes.net, October 7, 2009
Robert Polito and Patricia Patterson will discuss "Farber on Film: The Complete Film Writings of Manny Farber," edited by Polito, at 7 p.m. Oct. 9 at D.G.Wills Books, 7461 Girard Ave. Patterson was Farber's wife and collaborator.
Emanuel "Manny" Farber (1917-2008) was at his home in Leucadia when he passed away at age 91. He began his career in the 1940s writing art and film criticism for The New Republic and The Nation. Also an artist, his first group exhibition was in 1945, followed by his first solo exhibition in 1957.
While pursuing art full time, Farber continued as a film critic until the late 1970s for Time, The New Leader, Cavalier and Artforum. He also contributed to Commentary, Film Comment, City Magazine and Film Culture.
Farber taught film at UCSD from 1970 to 1987. Vanity Fair added him into its Hall of Fame in June 1998.
UCSD Adds arts PhD - Del Mar Times, 10.07.09 & Solana Beach Sun 11.13.09
Submitted by yolietorres on Tue, 10/13/2009 - 1:08pm. Announcement | ReviewUCSD adds arts Ph.D.
DelMarTimes.net on October 7, 2009
UCSD's Department of Visual Arts welcomes the inaugural class for the Ph.D. concentration in art practice, one of the first doctoral programs in the country designed for practicing artists.
Incoming students will have a wide range of resources on campus, including Departments of Music, Theater and Dance, CALIT2 (a center for new computing technology) and the extensive collections of the libraries. Grant Kester is chairman of the Visual Arts Department.
The art practice concentration is housed within the Ph.D. program in art history theory and criticism.
Like the other Ph.D. concentrations, art practice requires 2 1/2 to three years for course work and one to three years to complete the dissertation.
Similar Story on the SolanaBeachSun.Net, November 13, 2009
http://www.solanabeachsun.net/news/262658-ucsd-adds-arts-ph.d.
Art review: Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison at Cardwell Jimmerson - By Leah Ollman - 10.09.09
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 1:50pm. Review
Professor Emeritus Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison
Art review: Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison at Cardwell Jimmerson
By Leah Ollman for Los Angeles Times, October 9, 2009
"... The work of Newton and Helen Mayer Harrison falls somewhere between prophecy, poetry and proposition. For nearly 40 years, the Harrisons have identified places where we’ve torn the life-web and devised strategies for its repair. They are healers (in the spirit of the Jewish mandate tikkun olam, repairing the world) as much as they are artists, but in their practice the two impulses are inseparable..."
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Complete story on the Los Angeles Times website at:
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/culturemonster/2009/10/art-review-newton-and-helen-mayer-harrison-at-cardwell-jimmerson.html
New Exhibition at UC San Diego Gallery Explores Art and Activism on the Border - calit2 - 10.9.09
Submitted by yolietorres on Mon, 10/12/2009 - 1:25pm. ReviewFred Lonidier/PhD Candidate Eduardo Navas/MFA Alumni Nina Waisman and Felipe Zúñiga/Undergraduate Alum Camilo Ontiveros
New Exhibition at UC San Diego Gallery Explores Art and Activism on the Border
(http://www.calit2.net/newsroom/release.php?id=1606)
Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface
San Diego, October 9, 2009 -- Seven artists from either side of the border dividing San Diego and Tijuana are represented in an exhibition this fall that deals head-on with politics, immigration, the environment and other hot-button issues - through the lens and sensibility of artists working in multiple media.
“Tijuana/San Diego: Cooperation and Confrontation at the Interface” opens officially on Oct. 15 in the gallery@calit2 on the first floor of Atkinson Hall on the University of California, San Diego campus. The gallery is part of the UC San Diego division of the California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2).
The Oct. 15 launch includes a panel discussion and Q&A with six of the seven presenting artists at 4pm in the Calit2 Theater, and an opening reception from 5pm to 7pm. Both events are open to the public and free of charge.
Two of those artists – Lea Rudee and Fred Lonidier – are UC San Diego faculty members. Rudee is a professor of materials science, accomplished photographer and former trustee and president of San Diego ’s Museum of Photographic Arts . Rudee was also the founding dean of the Jacobs School of Engineering. Lonidier is a professor in the Visual Arts department at UCSD, which he joined in 1972 (after earning his MFA from UCSD the same year). Other artists also have UC San Diego credentials: Nina Waisman and Felipe Zúñiga earned MFA degrees in visual arts (both Class of ’08) from the university; Camilo Ontiveros earned an undergraduate degree from UCSD, then an MFA from UCLA; and Spanish-born, Peruvian-raised José Ignacio López Ramírez-Gastón is a graduate student in computer music at UC San Diego. Finally, Giacomo Castagnola is a Peruvian architect from Ricardo Palma University in Lima, Peru. Castagnola earned a degree in architecture and urbanism, and now lives and works in Tijuana; he has shown his architectural work on both sides of the border.
