Affective Resistance brings together works by eight artists using performance art and materialist abstraction as modes of resistance to systemic racism and state power. At a moment when society seeks to reckon with what true representation looks like, these artists deploy physical and material affect to make visible complex histories of oppression through the poetics of the performative.
The Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine is pleased to present Phantom Limb, the 2023 Undergraduate Honors Thesis Exhibition. The show features thesis presentations by eight students from the Art Honors cohort.
Erin Jessica Riley
Eleanor Yu
Jade Liu
Jessica Decker
Jo Lacangan
Katherine Paredero
Kimberly Tran
Peng Xue
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Part 2
MFA Thesis Exhibition, Part 1
The 18th Annual Guest Juried Undergraduate Exhibition features the work of over 30 artists whose work span painting, drawing, photography, installation, sculpture and experimental performance video. The exhibition has been juried by Deborah Oliver and Miles Coolidge and is on view at the UAG and Room Gallery until Saturday, April 15th.
After Many Sunsets is an exhibition of nine second-year M.F.A. students presenting works for their advancement to candidacy at the Claire Trevor School of Arts at University of California, Irvine.
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.
Location: Undergraduate Art Gallery and Room Gallery
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
Scavenger, an animal that feeds on carrion, dead plant material, or refuse;
A person who searches for and collects discarded items.
The apparent difference between a treasure hunt and a scavenger hunt is that the former is a search for something of universal value, whereas the latter is a search for something with local value. Admittedly, both values are fictions.
So let’s go on a hunt. The list of clues are here, in this space. The artifacts defy cohesion, they only function as clues. You figure out what you’re looking for.