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Laida Lertxundi: 'Ríete, mi amor' in conjunction with ZineBi 51, Nov 24-27 '09 - Bilbao, Spain

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 11:52:40 -0800

Laida Lertxundi

CICLO RÍETE MI AMOR / Laugh my Darling Cycle
Laugh, my darling. Humour in feminist / Queer contemporary cinema

A screening series curated by Laida Lertxundi
in conjunction with
ZineBi 51, Bilbao International Film Festival.

November 24-27th, 2009

Guggenheim Museum Auditorium, Bilbao, Spain

Ríete Mi Amor, A screening series at the Guggenheim Bilbao, curated by Laida Lertxundi in conjunction with ZineBi 51, Bilbao International Film Festival. Kaucyla Brooke, Jane Cottis, Sadie Benning, A.S.M. Kobayashi and Kalup Linzy, a wide cross section of American and Canadian directors who have been working for years in the field of experimental cinema, form part of this short season with their recent films, which are a genuine hybrid of genres that include fiction, documentaries and filmed performances. The common denominator in these extraordinary audiovisual pieces is laughter, which appears in all of them to provide support for a profound critique whose aim is to question what is called gender normality and to make humour the basic element of queer theory and post-modern feminist discourse.

Jennifer Pastor: 'Dead Landscape' - Museum of Fine Art, Houston - Opens Dec 11 '09 - Houston, Texas

Thu, 12 Nov 2009 08:42:06 -0800

Jennifer Pastor

Dead Landscape

Opens December 11, 2009

Artist Jennifer Pastor, 6 p.m. Friday, December 11, Freed Auditorium, Glassell

Museum of Fine Art, Houston, The Glassell School of Art, 5101 Montrose Boulevard, Houston, Texas

Enos/Mockrin/Monday/Pimienta/Rodriguez/Schwartz/Westerbeke/Wright: SD NOW: Eight UCSD Visual Artists - OMA - Nov 20-Dec 6 '09

Thu, 24 Sep 2009 08:32:52 -0700

San Diego NOW: Eight UCSD Visual Artists

November 20 - December 6, 2009

The Zodiac Lounge introduces the exhibition on
Friday, November 20th from 7:00-10:00 p.m.

Thursday, December 3rd, from 7:00 to 9:00 p.m. for an Artist’s Forum

Oceanside Museum of Art, 704 Pier View Way, Oceanside, California 92054

Discover the artistic talent emerging from one of the finest conceptual art institutions in the nation. University of California, San Diego Visual Arts department was rated by U.S. News & World Report among the top 15 programs in the country. San Diego NOW presents the work of eight graduate artists: James Enos, Jesse Mockrin, Zac Monday, Omar Pimienta, Lesha Rodriguez, Tim Schwartz, Julia Westerbeke, and Suzanne Wright.

Danielle Susalla, curator of San Diego NOW, states “the accomplished artists at UCSD continue to push the envelope following in the conceptual playground of their forefathers. These eight artists blend a dynamic mixture of mediums that communicate well together.” A preview reception combined with Art After Dark: Admission is $15 or $10 for OMA members.

Professor Emeritus Manny Farber, JP Gorin: THE WAY OF THE TERMITE: THE ESSAY FILM - Nov 6-Dec 3- '09 - Cinematheque Ontario

Fri, 20 Nov 2009 08:50:14 -0800

Professor Emeritus Manny Farber, JP Gorin

The Way of the Termite: The Essay Film

November 6 through December 3, 2009

Cinematheque Ontario, Jackman Hall, Art Gallery of Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West, Toronto, ON M5T 1G4 Canada

Cinematheque Ontario is honoured to welcome Jean-Pierre Gorin, celebrated filmmaker and professor at University of California, San Diego, to guide us through this essential series on the “essay film,” one of the most exciting and elusive genres in contemporary cinema. In many ways a salient postscript to our successful nouvelle vague show this past summer, this series, which will run over two successive seasons, forms an inevitable, if shape-shifting portrait of cinematic auterism – which pre-dates Alexandre Astruc’s infamous coining of the term “caméra-stylo.” With examples by Chris Marker, Dziga Vertov, Luis Buñuel, Orson Welles, Chantal Akerman, Pier Paolo Pasolini, and Gorin himself, as well as his Dziga Vertov group collaborations with Jean-Luc Godard, various incarnations of the essay film will emerge, from the analytic and the ruminative to the incendiary.

Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold: Contemporary: 1960s: Freedom and Conflict-Art Gallery of Ontario, Toronto, Canada Nov14-30'09

Wed, 18 Nov 2009 15:13:18 -0800

Professor Emeritus Faith Ringgold

Contemporary: 1960s: Freedom and Conflict

November 14, 2008 – November 30, 2009

Art Gallery of Ontario Musée des beaux-arts de l’Ontario, 317 Dundas Street West Toronto Ontario Canada M5T 1G4

n the 1960s many people of the western world rejected conservative norms. Filled with hope for the future, they questioned governments, demanded civil rights and embraced sexual freedoms. What started in small youth and activist groups became a widespread movement for change. There was also a radical shift in art-making. Instead of just painting and sculpture, artists experimented with everyday objects, pop culture references, film and performance as they sought new freedoms of expression.

Professor Emeritus Manny Farber: Four Decades of Painting and Drawing - Gotthelf Art Gallery - 12.14.'09-2.24.10, La Jolla CA

Fri, 13 Nov 2009 13:45:21 -0800

Presented with Quint Contemporary Art

Manny Farber: Four Decades of Painting and Drawing

Exhibition runs December 14, 2009 through February 24, 2010

Gotthelf Art Gallery, 4126 Executive Drive, La Jolla, CA 92037

This exhibition includes a small, concise group of works painted between 1974 and 2008 by the late San Diego based artist Manny Farber. This show presents prime examples of Mr. Farber’s wonderfully vibrant artwork and spans the artist’s most active and prolific years before his death in 2008 at the age of 91.

Hours: Sunday-Friday 9am-5pm

Rob Duarte/Stephanie Lie/Elle Mehrmand and Alum/Lecturer Micha Cárdenas: Prospectives.09 - Nov 12-Dec 16 '09

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 14:25:05 -0700

Rob Duarte, Stephanie Lie, Elle Mehrmand, and Alum/Lecturer Micha Cárdenas

Prospectives.09
International Digital Arts Festival

November 12th – December 16th, 2009

University of Nevada, Reno, Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, 1664 N. Virginia St., Reno, NV 89557-0208

The Digital Media Studio of the Department of Art of the University of Nevada, Reno presents Prospectives.09 (previously RIFNM) We invite interdisciplinary graduate and phd students working in digital media to the UNR campus and Reno community for a series of events focused on emerging interdisciplinary practice in the digital arts. A juried exhibition in the Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, along with three days events featuring performances, symposia, game art and full-dome projections in venues in and around the UNR campus and Downtown Reno.

For details please click on "read more" below of visit event's website at:
http://www.unr.edu/art/prospectives09.html

John Welchman co-authors the John Baldessari: Pure Beauty Catalogue

Wed, 28 Oct 2009 09:21:38 -0700

JOHN BALDESSARI: PURE BEAUTY

The JOHN BALDESSARI: PURE BEAUTY Catalogue is Co-Authored by, UC San Diego Visual Arts Professor, John Welchman.

Welchman was also co-author of the catalogs for John Baldessari:
BRICK BLDG, LG WINDOWS W/XLENT VIEWS, PARTIALLY FURNISHED, RENOWNED ARCHITECT,
Museum Haus Lange, Krefeld, Germany, March 1 to July 19, 2009;
and John Baldessari: Music, ed. Stefan Gronert and Christina Végh, Kunstmuseum Bonn and Bonner Kunstverein (Walter König, 2007).

This is a travelling show, for details please click on "read more" below.

Neal Bociek: The Mashtis: Itai Faierman - By Dave Good for the San Diego Reader, Oct 21 '09

Thu, 22 Oct 2009 13:17:58 -0700

Neal Bociek

The Mashtis: Itai Faierman
(http://www.sandiegoreader.com/news/2009/oct/21/of-note-mashtis-itai-faierman/)

By Dave Good | Published Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 for the San Diego Reader

They call themselves the Mashtis: Itai Faierman is back with a new band after a four-year hiatus. Before he took off, Faierman spent a lot of time on the local singer-songwriter stages, combining his intricate songs with Jeff Buckley–like wailings that were steeped in a syrup of coffeehouse Buddha-love. Back then, Faierman’s singing roamed around like a dog off its leash. Well, those days are over. His new songs are rock-steady simple. And, at least for the live gigs, he has traded his acoustic guitar for a Gibson solid body and a tube amp, the rock-and-roll equivalent of the muscle car. Even though Faierman’s new CD Sunbed Tapes is a whispery acoustic collection, Mashtis drummer Neil Bociek puts a solid thump in the live works, and by dint of sheer volume, he elevates Faierman’s songs to alt-rock level. Maybe Faierman always was a closeted rocker, but it naturally follows that with a drummer onboard, everybody has to play louder.

Prior to forming the Mashtis, Faierman and Bociek experimented with a Sonic Youth–inspired art-noise band that ultimately went nowhere but that forged the connection that would be revisited when Faierman emerged earlier this year with fresh ideas and a couple of recordings. The turn to simplicity, he says, comes from being grounded. “And, look at the Beatles,” Faierman says. “A song can have only three chords and still be a great song.” Indeed, it can. There are footnotes to the Beatles (and Elliot Smith) all over Faierman’s songs. The wild card in the new band is Erica Putis, who plays her electric bass guitar more like a lead instrument. But, why the Mashtis? Putis says they were in Hollywood and saw an ice-cream shop, Mashti Malone’s, after which the name became somewhat of an obsession. “When we saw that place, we started calling each other Mashti One, Mashti Two. Stuff like that.”

THE MASHTIS: The Ruby Room, Thursday, October 22, 8:30 p.m. 619-299-7372.

Ricardo Dominguez at LACE - Oct20 '09-Jan '10

Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:17:43 -0700

Ricardo Dominguez

Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project

Exhibition runs October 21 through January 2010

Opening Reception on October 20, 2009

LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), 6522 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028

LACE is pleased to present Mark Tribe: Port Huron Project, a video installation depicting reenactments of protest speeches from the New Left movement of the Vietnam era. Each reenactment took place at the site of the original speech and was delivered by an actor or performance artist to an audience of invited guests and passers-by.

UCSD Adds arts PhD - Del Mar Times, 10.07.09 & Solana Beach Sun 11.13.09

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 14:08:03 -0700

UCSD 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.

Ernest Silva: The New Children's Museum "Animal Art"

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 09:13:25 -0700

Ernest Silva

Animal Art

Exhibition runs October 11 through November 2009

The New Childrens Museum, 200 West Island Avenue, San Diego, California 92101

Animal Art is the second in an ongoing series of exhibitions that renew the Museum’s galleries every 18 months. The exhibition also launches a new series of hands-on studio projects and new programs in the Arts Education Center. NCM is going animal! Participating artists: Roman de Salvo, Felipe Dulzaides, Sam Easterson, Jason Hackenwerth, Sun K.Kwak, Julio Morales, Marcos Ramirez Erre, Ernest Silva, Mungo Thomson, Perry Vasquez, Allison Wiese.

Image courtesy of The New Children's Museum

Noah Doely: Moon: A Photographic Exhibition, UCSD Visual Arts Facility 404 - Oct13-16 '09, 11am-9pm

Tue, 13 Oct 2009 08:18:29 -0700

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Univ Art Gallery Presents 'Off The Beaten Path' - Oct 23-Dec '09

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 11:24:06 -0700

Off The Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art

Exhibition runs October 23 through December 12, 2009
University Art Gallery, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093

Artists Talk: Violence and Politics
November 21, 2009, 1pm
Pepper Canyon Hall, room 106

For the new exhibition season the University Art Gallery, UC San Diego presents an international exhibition entitled Off The Beaten Path: Violence, Women and Art. The exhibition brings together artists from around the world to explore the global ramifications of gender-based violence. The exhibition, curated by Randy Jayne Rosenberg executive director of Art Works For Change, features twenty-one artists from nineteen countries. “Throughout the world, women and girls are victims of countless and senseless acts of violence. The range of gender-based violence is devastating, occurring, quite literally, from womb to tomb,” explains Randy Jayne Rosenberg. “The stories that underlie these artworks return us imaginatively to the event of violation and allow it to affect us.” Premised on the visionary potential in art, the exhibition avoids tabloid and sensational imagery. The invited artists were asked, “To help us create new representations through their artworks and, in doing so, help us feel and understand the essence of the problem of violence against women,” says Rosenberg.

Artists: Amnesty International, Laylah Ali, Maimuna Feroze-Nana, Mona Hatoum, Icelandic Love Corporation, Yoko Inoue, International Rescue Committee, Jung Jungyeob, Amal Kenawy, Lisa Bjørne Linert, Hung Liu, Gabriela Morawetz, Miri Nishri, Yoko Ono, Cecilia Paredes, Susan Plum, Cima Rahmankhah, Joyce J. Scott, Jaune Quick-to-See Smith, Masami Teroka, Hank Willis Thomas

For more information please visit the University Art Gallery website at: http://uag.ucsd.edu/exhibitions/2009/09_offthebeatenpath.shtml#

Contact: Isabelle Lutterodt, UAG Coordinator | 858.534.0419 | uag@ucsd.edu

VALS Presents Mike Plante's ''Lunchfilms'' on Oct 20 at 6:30pm - UCSD VAF Performance Space

Wed, 07 Oct 2009 10:38:06 -0700

Visual Arts Department Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents:

Mike Plante

Tuesday, October 20th, 2009 @ 6:30pm

Visual Arts Facility Performance Space, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093

VALS is pleased to present Mike Plante a Filmmaker and film programmer for Sundance and CineVegas, and writer for Filmmaker Magazine and Cinemad. Plante is the first artist of a really great line up of visiting artist's this Fall at UC San Diego Visual Arts Department. Plante will be showing ''Lunchfilms,'' a series he commissioned from filmmakers.

For more information on Lunchfilm, please visit:
http://lunchfilm.blogspot.com/

For more information on the lecture please contact: Suzanne Wright, VALS Coordinator at stwright@ucsd.edu