Think of it as Money! presents a constellation of artworks, in which the legacy of Hercule Florence—the 19th century French inventor—is the protagonist of a durational dreamscape, one in which money is the shapeshifting medium, bending and stretching through time.
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Part 2
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Part 1
The Cold War is Dead. Long live the Cold War.
Leaves for Burning takes its title from Peter Weiss’s play The Persecution and Assassination of Jean-Paul Marat as Performed by the Inmates of the Asylum of Charenton under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade (1965), wherein the assassin Charlotte Corday decries the literal death drive beating at the heart of the French Revolution’s aim for national liberté, égalité, fraternité. By 1793, Paris was overrun with the spectacle of mass incarceration of political heretics, followed by their public execution.
The Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine is pleased to present the solo exhibitions of MFA candidates Hiroshi Clark, Doris Rivera, and Gosia Wojas. This is the first round of 2022 MFA thesis exhibitions.
Please join us for the opening reception on Saturday, April 23rd from 2–5pm.
Hiroshi Clark
The Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine is pleased to present the solo exhibitions of MFA candidates Katherine Aungier, Andy Bennett, Tarik Garrett, Rahel Levine, Margaret Oakley. This is the second round of 2022 MFA thesis exhibitions.
Please join us for the opening reception on Saturday, May 15th from 2–5pm.
Katherine Aungier
The University Art Galleries is pleased to present the American Premiere of Yael Bartana’s three-channel video installation, Malka Germania, originally commissioned by the Jewish Museum Berlin in 2020 as part of Yael Bartana’s retrospective exhibition, Redemption Now. The large-scale immersive installation features an androgynous female “messiah,” who flushes Berlin’s “fears, dreams, repressed traumata and memories onto the surface,” as Jewish Museum curators Shelley Harten and Gregor H. Lersch describe.
Revolution Everywhere: Thresholds of Resistance features 3 large-scale installations by Panos Aprahamian, Heather M. O’Brien, and Simon Liu, whose artworks have been shaped by the recent revolutions taking place in Lebanon and Hong Kong. Though their aesthetic tactics and political subject matter differ, a common stance by Aprahamian, O’Brien and Liu can be observed. Within the current devastation of failed nation states and forced Disapora, a poetic approach to political events ‘makes life worth living.’
Revolution Everywhere
The Keeling
keel (v): to fall over, collapse, or capsize
Keeling Curve (n): a daily record of global atmospheric carbon dioxide concentration maintained by Scripps Institution of Oceanography at UC San Diego (keelingcurve.ucsd.edu)