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Open Studios 2013

March 9, 3:00-8:00pm
Visual Arts Facility (VAF) and Structural and Materials Engineering (SME) building
FREE PARKING

Featuring 37 graduate student artists, Open Studios is an opportunity for MFA and Art Practice students to engage the public into the process of their artistic production.

Open Studios will showcase the breadth of talent at the department and will act as a platform for conversations about the work on display. In addition to the ongoing Open Studios, graduate...

Experimental Drawing Studio Visiting Artist: Karl Haendel

“To Point (To), To Draw (From), To Look (At)”

Tuesday, February 26th, 2013, 4:30-5:30 pm

Structural and Material's Engineering (SME) Building at UC San Diego, SME Visual Arts Presentation Space (Rm. 149)

Karl Haendel is known for meticulous pencil drawings based on appropriated photographs. He is interested in investigating the properties of photography—inverting tones, scaling, and flipping...

(DIS)ORIENT: A solo exhibition by undergraduate student May Yang

Running Until March 23
The Loft, UC San Diego
(In Price Center East, 2nd Floor across from the Cross Cultural Center)
Free & Open to the Public

A series of paintings on the opium poppy as contemplations of its historical relationship to the artist’s self. Each painting marks a personal memory linked to the larger narrative of opium cultivation in Southeast Asia. Painting as a process of...

MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART SAN DIEGO (MCASD) AND UC SAN DIEGO (UCSD) PRESENT 2013 RUSSELL LECTURE FEATURING ARTIST TANIA BRUGUERA

San Diego, CA-On Wednesday, February 27, at 7 PM, the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego (MCASD) and UC San Diego (UCSD) will present its annual Russell Lecture at MCASD's La Jolla location. The 2013 Russell Lecturer is internationally acclaimed artist Tania Bruguera.

Bruguera, whom the New York...

CORPUS

February 21 - May 17
Opening Reception February 21, 5:30-8:30 pm SME Visual Arts Gallery, UCSD
Curated by Art History PhD Candidate, Lara Bullock

Curator's Tour: February 28, 12-1 pm
Conversation with Eleanor Antin & Emily Goodman (PhD Candidate Art History, Theory, & Criticism): TBD
Beer Talk: April, TBD
Gallery Hours: Tuesday-Thursday 11 am-5 pm

The SME Visual Arts Gallery is excited to present CORPUS, a group exhibition of video, photography, and sound installation by...

NanoMacroMega

Curated by Lucía Sanromán in collaboration with Visual Arts faculty and students
Closes on December 7 and Re-opens on January 7
Tuesday - Thursday 11am - 5pm
UC San Diego, SME Building Gallery

The SME building houses the departments of Structural Engineering, NanoEngineering, Biomedical Devices, and Visual Arts. It provides an unprecedented platform for the integration of science, technology and art with a focus on collaborative research and experimentation.

“NanoMacroMega,”...

Structural and Materials Engineering Building is a New Home for Visual Arts Initiatives

UC San Diego’s new Structural and Materials Engineering building (SME) opens a new era of experimentation and artmaking for the Department of Visual Arts, which shares the building with structural, biomedical, and nano engineers from the Jacobs School of Engineering. Interdisciplinary collaboration is encouraged by a floor plan which intermixes artists and engineers. SME...

Visual Arts professor Sheldon Brown will become director of the newly established Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination

By Inga Kiderra and Paul Mueller

The University of California, San Diego and the Arthur C. Clarke Foundation have agreed to establish the Arthur C. Clarke Center for Human Imagination (ACCCHI) at UC San Diego. The agreement was signed in conjunction with the foundation’s annual international Clarke...

Vis Arts At A Glance

The Visual Arts Department at UC San Diego encourages experimentation, innovation and risk-taking in scholarly and artistic production. We provide a unique environment for learning and research that crosses the boundaries between history, theory, and practice in the visual arts.

News

MFA Alumna Martha Rosler to receive the 2013 CAA Distinction Award

CAA announced the recipients of the 2013 Awards for Distinction, which honor the outstanding achievements and accomplishments of artists, art historians, authors, conservators, curators, and critic

MFA Candidate Lesha Maria Rodriguez receives three honorable mentions for her "Slaughter House" Series at the International Photo Awards 10th Annual IPA Competition

Women's Museum of California December 7-February 24 Opening Reception, December 7, 6:00PM

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