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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.

VALS Presents Mungo Thomson - Nov 17 '09, 6:30PM - VAF Performance Space

Tue, 10 Nov 2009 11:02:45 -0800

Visual Arts Department Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents:

Mungo Thomson

Tuesday, November 17th, 2009 @ 6:30pm

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

VALS is pleased to present Mungo Thomson. In the words of artist Margaret Morgan, Mungo Thomson is a “polymorphous, bastard conceptualist”—a designation hard to improve on, given the artist’s promiscuously wideranging art. By turns deadpan and caustically sly—he has manufactured Styrofoam antenna balls emblazoned with John Baldessari’s bearded visage and bumper stickers bearing Bruce Nauman’s doxa “The True Artist Helps the World by Revealing Mystic Truths”—Thomson’s inherently conversational practice both gamely Pop-i_es is often antiaesthetic historical precedents and resituates that generation’s thought experiments in the social realm. In the white cube, Thomson’s interventions pressure their containers by rendering them visible in the absence of other work. Wind Chime (1999) a handmade chorus of wood and copper that responds to movement, _its the space with only the possibility of sound when the air is still. Building on this for the 2008 Whitney Biennial, Coat Check Chimes (2008) involves replacing the Museum’s coat-check hangers with custom-fabricated “tuned” metal hangers that - although peripheral to the galleries—bracket the viewer’s experience of the show.

Visit us on the web at http://lectures.visarts.ucsd.edu
For more information on the lecture please contact: Suzanne Wright, VALS Coordinator at stwright@ucsd.edu

'towards readiness" video work by Monica Duncan - VAF Gallery Nov 17-20 '09 - Noon-4PM

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 11:03:55 -0800

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Rich Bott: Beach Jazz Noir - Nov 7 '09 - Echo Park - 1296 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles CA

Fri, 06 Nov 2009 10:43:59 -0800

Rich Bott

Beach Jazz Noir
an audio/video performance

November 7, 2009 at 8-8:30PM

Echo Park, 1296 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles California 90026

Rich Bott: Beach Jazz Noir. A live audio visual chronicle of the following elements and more: Toe rings, day cruises, sea food restaurants, landlocked artificial island suburbs, the cries of seagulls, scuba dogs, shells, tanning zones, specialty coffee drinks and cell phones in tandem, lighthouses

Details at:
www.darinkleinandfriends.blogspot.com

Jesse Mockrin and Fabian Cereijido: Young Professional at the DAH-UCSD 3rd Floor - Nov 5 at 3:30pm

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 15:30:37 -0800

Jesse Mockrin
Young Professional

Thursday, November 5, 2009 at 3:30pm

Office of the Dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities, UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093

The Department of Visual Arts and the Division of Arts and Humanities of UCSD invite you to celebrate and discuss Jesse Mockrin’s Painting series Young Professional http://www.mockrin.com/jesse_mockrin.html currently on display at the offices of the Dean of the Division of Arts and Humanities of UCSD (on the 3rd floor Literature Building, Warren College) next Thursday Nov 5th at 3:30 p.m.

The event will start with a walk through of the exhibit guided by Jesse, and then we will gather at the conference room of the DAH office where the series will be discussed by Jesse herself, PhD candidate Isa Hinrichs (literature department) and Fabiàn Cereijido, (visual arts department) PhD candidate and curator of the exhibit.

VALS Presents Abraham Cruz Villegas - Nov 3 '09, 6:30PM - VAF Performance Space

Tue, 03 Nov 2009 08:32:25 -0800

Visual Arts Department Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents:

Abraham Cruz Villegas

Tuesday, November 3rd, 2009 @ 6:30pm

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

VALS is pleased to present Abraham Cruz Villegas.

For the 2002 Sao Paulo Biennial, Cruz Villegas wrote “However art makes itself evident, it shall remain, above all, raw source material in all its natural, unstable, physical, chaotic and crystalline states: solid, liquid, colloidal and gaseous. It is the joy of energy.” This would explain the use of materials in his work. Feathers, banana leaves, balloons and seashells are just a few of the materials used to make his conceptual sculptures. Cruz Villegas has an interesting attitude towards subject and materials. The sculptures are “there”, in the space. By virtue of them being “there”, they become relevant, interesting and worth a second look.

Visit us on the web at http://lectures.visarts.ucsd.edu
For more information on the lecture please contact: Suzanne Wright, VALS Coordinator at stwright@ucsd.edu

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

Rob Duarte: BANG: a kinetic sculpture/machine performance - 2009 (UCSD & Prospectives.09)

Tue, 27 Oct 2009 08:23:51 -0700

Rob Duarte

BANG
a kinetic sculpture/machine performance

Friday, November 6, 2009, 10am - noon, 2-5pm
Price Center East

Reception on Monday, November 9, 2009, 6-9pm
Visual Arts Facility Performance Space

UC San Diego, 9500 Gilman Dr., La Jolla, California 92093

(Performance at the Price Center East at storefront next to the Sunshine Market)

Clare Parry: Restoration & Ruin - MFA Thesis Exhibition - Nov 2-6 '09 - VAF Gallery, UCSD

Mon, 26 Oct 2009 08:10:45 -0700

Clare Parry: MFA Thesis Exhibition

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Robert Becraft Presents: DOGGY (langue de bois) - Visual Arts Facility Gallery - Nov 10-13 '09 - UC San Diego

Fri, 23 Oct 2009 09:23:41 -0700

Robert Becraft

doggy__
(langue de bois)

Exhibition runs November 10-13, 2009

Closing Reception on November 13th, 7-9pm

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

Gallery Hours: Noon-4:30pm

NOTE: Wednesday, November 11, closed in observance of Veteran's Day Holiday.

VALS Presents William Cordova - Oct 28 '09, 7PM - VAF Performance Space

Wed, 21 Oct 2009 10:49:08 -0700

Visual Arts Department Visiting Artist Lecture Series Presents:

William Cordova

October 28th at 7PM

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

VALS is pleased to present William Cordova. Cordova’s work is tied to an urban ecology of obsolescence, disparity, and displacement. Busted cars, trashed tires, discarded shoes, machetes, speakers, and books yellowed with age provide the material support and iconographic program for his drawings, collages, and installations. For the artist, these material choices reference the reality of lived experience, as opposed to the spectacle of culture, mass-produced for constant consumption. The fluency with which Cordova traverses media and remixes cultural signifiers confirms his visual multilinguism, as barbed as it is lived-in.

“Cordova has been preoccupied with issues of transformation and interpretation since his youth, owing partly to his own transitions between countries, economies, and languages. Having recently moved from Lima to Miami, the six-year-old found comfort in the sight of what he thought were familiar Peruvian cajón drums scattered on the streets, but which were in fact discarded speaker boxes...Much of Cordova’s work induces similarly uncanny interpretive spirals, abetted not by arbitrary Surrealist juxtapositions but the all-too-common strangeness of our own detritus and the too-often repressed histories they conceal” - SUZANNE HUDSON

Visit us on the web at http://lectures.visarts.ucsd.edu
For more information on the lecture please contact: Suzanne Wright, VALS Coordinator at stwright@ucsd.edu

Suzanne Wright: ''Memories of the Future'' - October 25-30 '09 - VAF Gallery - UC San Diego, CA

Mon, 19 Oct 2009 10:33:50 -0700

Suzanne Wright

Memories of the Future

Exhibition runs October 25-30, 2009, Noon-5:00pm

Closing Reception on October 30th, 7-9pm

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

To view images from Suzanne Wright's show, please click on "read more" below.

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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Vabianna Santos at the Rubber Rose in San Diego - Oct17-Nov14 '09

Mon, 12 Oct 2009 10:18:25 -0700

Vabianna Santos

Milk My Face

Opening Reception on Saturday, October 17, 2009, 6-10 pm

Exhibition runs October 17 through November 14, 2009

Closing Reception on November 14th

Rubber Rose, 3812 Ray St., San Diego, CA 92104

Milk My Face, a series of photographs by Vabianna Santos, will be on display at the Rubber Rose in North Park this month. The photographs attack the idea of identity as the planes of the face emerge from a pool of milk. The show opens during the North Park Nights event Saturday, October 17th, 6- 10 pm. There will also be a closing reception concurrent with Ray at Night, November 14th.

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