Painting

Ernest Silva

Title: 
Professor
FirstName: 
Ernest
LastName: 
Silva
Contact Info: 

esilva@ucsd.edu

Location: 
Visual Arts Facility 551
Biography: 
Ernest Silva joined the faculty of the Visual Arts Department in 1979. Silva studied at the University of Rhode Island where he received a BFA and obtained an MFA from Tyler School of Art of Temple University in 1974. Within the Department he teaches painting, drawing, sculpture, Introduction to Art-Making and graduate classes. Silva has been exhibiting his paintings and sculptures since 1972. His work is concerned with the use of vernacular references to construct a visual language. He has been included in over 45 one-person exhibitions that include New York, Chicago, Los Angeles, San Diego and Europe, as well as numerous group shows. Reviews of his work have appeared in Arts Magazine, Art News, the Los Angeles Times, the San Diego Union-Tribune, Artweek, The Publication, the Providence Journal, Images and Issues, La Stampa, Il Centro and Art in America. He received a NEA Fellowship in Painting in 1989 90 and an Excellence in the Arts Award from the University of Rhode Island in 2001. Silva's work appeared in Made in California: Art, Image and Identity, 1900-2000 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Along with his work as an artist, Silva was co-creator and co-curator of a bi-national project called InSite 92. He has been a member of the curatorial committee for Design World, a project for the San Diego Children's Museum of San Diego, CA (1999). He was also part of the planning team funded by the National Endowment for the Arts to foster "artistically excellent, high-visibility projects that encourage innovative thinking about the future of the arts," called the New Millennium Grant Award. Selected One-Person Exhibitions: Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston, MA (1972); Artist's Space, New York, NY (1975); Anyart Contemporary Art Center, Providence, RI (1976); Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI (1978); Roy Boyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (1982); Roy Boyd Gallery, Chicago, IL (1984); Vanderwoude Tananbaum Gallery, New York, NY (1984); Quint Gallery, San Diego, CA (1986); Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (1989); Dietrich Jenny Gallery, San Diego, CA (1989); Jan Baum Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (1991); Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI (1992); Porter Randall Gallery, La Jolla, CA (1994); Museet for Samtidskunst (Museum of Contemporary Art), Roskilde, Denmark (1995); Children's Museum of San Diego, CA (1995), permanent installation; Casa de la Cultura, Tijuana, Mexico (1995), permanent installation; Lenore Gray Gallery, Providence, RI (1996); Simayspace Gallery, San Diego, CA (1997); Athenaeum, Arts and Music Library, La Jolla, CA (1997); Art Resources Transfer, New York, NY (1998); Glendale College Gallery, Oceanside, CA (1998); Arts College International Art Gallery, San Diego, CA (1999); Art Resources Transfer, New York (2001); University Gallery, University of Rhode Island, Kingston, RI (2001); Ninapi Gallery, Ravenna, Italy (2003); Fenarolli Center, Lanciano, Italy (2003) and Art Resources Transfer Inc, New York, NY (2003). Selected Group Exhibitions: Moore College of Art, Philadelphia, PA; Pratt Graphic Center, New York, NY; Corcoran Art Gallery, Washington, D.C.; Fort Worth Art Museum, Fort Worth, TX; Newspace Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Heckscher Museum of Art, Huntington, NY; Indianapolis Museum of Art, Indianapolis, IN; University of Southern California, Los Angeles, CA; Roy Boyd Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; San Francisco Airport Museum, San Francisco, CA; Sordoni Art Gallery, Wilkes College, Wilkes-Barre, PA; Sonrisa Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; Janet Steinberg Gallery, San Francisco, CA; Palo Alto Cultural Center, Palo Alto, CA; Visual Arts Center of Alaska, Anchorage, AK; Fairbanks Art Association, Fairbanks, AK; Alaska State Museum, Juneau, AK; Dietrich Jenny Gallery, San Diego, CA; De Saisset Museum, University of Santa Clara, Santa Clara, CA; Nancy Lurie Gallery, Chicago, IL; Mia Gallery, Seattle, WA; Bill Bace Gallery, New York, NY; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose, CA; Art in Embassies Program, United States Embassy, Switzerland, Merging One Gallery, Santa Monica, CA; Steinbaum Krauss Gallery, New York, NY; Oceanside Museum of Art, Oceanside, CA; Gregg Flynt Gallery, Auckland, New Zealand, San Diego Museum of Art, San Diego, CA; Pilchuck Gallery, Pilchuck Glass School, Stanwood, WA. Selected Public Collections: Rhode Island School of Design Museum of Art, Berkeley Museum; Newport Harbor Art Museum; Fogg Art Museum at Harvard; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Oakland Museum; San Jose Museum; San Diego Museum of Art; De Saisset Museum; Orange County Museum of Art; Grand Rapids Art Museum; Laguna Museum of Art and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Take a look at www.ernestsilva.org. It includes recent paintings and installation photos from Ernest Silva: Windows of War, Fire on Tranquil Seas on exhibit till May 8 at the Athenaeum Music and Arts Library in La Jolla, CA.

Patricia Patterson

Title: 
Professor Emeritus
FirstName: 
Patricia
LastName: 
Patterson
Biography: 
Patricia Patterson graduated from the Parsons School of Design in New York. Before joining the Department in 1975, she taught art in Catholic grammar schools in the Bronx and Lower East side of Manhattan as well as the New School for Social Research. Patterson's career as a painter has been active since 1964. Her work has been exhibited at Downtown Whitney and P.S. 1 in New York, American Foundation for the Arts, Mills College in Oakland, in exhibits of Artists' Books which have toured the country, as well as the Navy Pier and the Nancy Lurie Gallery in Chicago, L.A.C.E. in Los Angeles, San Jose State University, San Diego State University, and the San Diego Museum of Contemporary Art in La Jolla. Most recently, Patterson has presented installations at the Quay Gallery in San Francisco, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Newspace Gallery in Los Angeles. Within the Department Patterson teaches Art and Politics in Utopian Societies, a graduate seminar which examines a series of 19th and 20th century communities of social reformers including the Shakers, the English Arts and Crafts movement (with special attention given to the political writings of John Ruskin and Thomas Carlysle), De Stijl, the Russian Avant-Garde, and the Bauhaus. She has also taught critical writing and painting on the graduate level. On the undergraduate level Patterson teaches Painting, Animal Drawing, Calligraphic Drawing, the Decorative Object and the Decorative Environment. Her course for the Introduction to Art-Making series concentrates on Folk and popular Art traditions, in particular on Mexico's Day of the Dead festival, Amish Quilts, and Newspaper Cartoons of the first half of the century. Patterson is a representational painter and a maker of installations whose work in recent years has dealt with the daily life of the Aran Islands, Ireland, presenting the land, its houses, rooms and inhabitants, as intimately conceived theatrical tableaux. Her most recent exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art entitled Here and There, Back and Forth continued the imaginative importation of people and places of the life-world into the art object, but expanded the field to include Southern California so that the work became a metaphor for communication between the two cultures. Her work is represented in San Diego by the Quint Gallery, in Los Angeles by Newspace Los Angeles, and in New York at the Tibor de Nagy Gallery. In February 1987, Patterson did a site installation at the University of Texas at Arlington Gallery. Reviews on Patterson include "Artists' Works Exhibit Their own Fear of Painting," Christopher Knight (photo), Los Angeles Herald Examiner, January 17, 1983; "Patricia Patterson's Roisin Dubh' at Newspace," Richard Armstrong, Artforum, May 1983, pp. 103-104; "Patricia Patterson at Newspace," Sanda Agalidi, Images and Issues, Summer 1983; "A Satisfying Blend," David Lewinson, Artweek, November 5, 1983; "Patricia Patterson at the San Diego Museum of Art," Elise Miller, Art News, March 1984; "Patricia Patterson at S.D.M.A.," Jeff Kelley, Vanguard, January 1984; "Remembering the Past," Colin Gardner, Artweek, February 23, 1985; "Patricia Patterson," Orville O. Clarke, Jr., Artscene, February 1985.

Rubén Ortiz-Torres

Title: 
Professor
FirstName: 
Rubén
LastName: 
Ortiz-Torres
Contact Info: 

ruortiz@ucsd.edu

Location: 
Visual Arts Facility 602
Biography: 
Rubén Ortiz-Torres is an artist who joined the Visual Arts Department effective Fall 2001. He began his career as a photographer, printmaker, and painter in the early 1980s, well before he received his M.F.A. from the California Institute of Arts in 1992. Ortiz-Torres is a Mexican-born artist who has been living and working in Los Angeles since 1990. Ortiz-Torres is widely regarded as one of today's leading Mexican artists and as an innovator in the 1980s of a specifically Mexican form of postmodernism. Over the past ten years, he has produced a body of work in a wide range of media -- extended series of photographs, series of altered readymades, a feature film, several videos (including three in 3D), large scale video installations, major painting series, sculptures, customized cars and machines, photocollages, performances and curated exhibitions. Since 1982, Ortiz-Torres's work has been featured in 25 solo exhibitions, over 100 group shows in the United States, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, and Canada, and more than 50 screenings of his films and video works. Over 150 written pieces cover his work in mainstream media such as The Los Angeles Times, The New York Times, Reforma (Mexico), La Jornada (Mexico), and El Pais (Spain); in significant art world publications with international circulation such as ArtForum, Art Images, Frieze, New Art Examiner, Poliester, Bomb, Flash Art, and Art in America; and in numerous exhibition catalogues and books. Ortiz-Torres has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants from, to name a few, teh Andrea Frank Foundation, the Foundations for Contemporary Performance Art, the U.S. Mexico Fund for Culture, the Louis Comfort Tiffany Foundation, the Banff Center for the Arts, and the Fullbright Foundation.

Amy Adler

Title: 
Associate Professor
FirstName: 
Amy
LastName: 
Adler
Contact Info: 

aadler@ucsd.edu, http://www.amyadler.com

Biography: 
Amy Adler received her BFA at Cooper Union in 1989 and her MFA from UCLA in 1995. Before coming to UCSD in the fall of 2004 Amy taught at UC Irvine, Art Center and CalArts. Amy has had one person shows in galleries in Los Angeles, New York, London, Berlin, Tokyo and Milan. In 1998 she had one person show at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Her project, Amy Adler Photographs Leonardo DiCaprio, was shown at the Photographers Gallery in London in 2001 and then at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles in 2002. She has been included in many international museum group exhibitions including The Kwanju Biennial, in Korea, Form Follows Fiction, at the Castello Di Rivoli in Turin, Italy and The Americans, at the Barbican in London. In the spring of 2005 Twin Palms Press released a monograph of her work entitled, Amy Adler Young Photographer. In 2006-2007 Amy will have one person shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and The Aspen Art Museum in Aspen, Colorado. Amy's website: http://www.amyadler.com
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