UC Davis Art Studio MFA and BA Programs

Join us on Thursday, March 14 at 4:30pm for Raul de Nieves’ lecture. De Nieves creates exuberant sculptures and installations that explore ceremonial performance, costuming traditions and myth. Ideas of placemaking and place-marking are central to his recent work The Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston and High Line Art in New York. In this lecture, de Nieves will discuss recent directions in his practice. October 7, 4:30pm at the Manetti Shrem Museum Organized by Department... of Art and Art History and The Calilfornia Studio. Co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum. For more information, go to: https://arts.ucdavis.edu/event/raul-de-nieves To learn more about The California Studio: Manetti Shrem Artist Residencies, visit: https://californiastudio.ucdavis.edu/

Zeina Baltagi's (M.F.A., '20) installation "Sell Me the American Dream" opens this Saturday, October 9, at The Garage on the Grove (TGTG). Baltagi uses plaster, metallic leaf, pennies, and sound to reveal the fractured existence of life as a friend, a sister, the daughter of first generation parents, and a person living under capitalism. Join the artist for the 2nd Saturday opening reception this Saturday from 7-10pm https://www.thegarageonthegrove.com/

TODAY at 4:30pm! Tamar Ettun takes the stage to introduce UC Davis students to her multidisciplinary practice. Free and open to the public. October 7, 4:30pm at the Manetti Shrem Museum... Organized by The Department of Art and Art History and The California Studio. Co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum https://arts.ucdavis.edu/event/tamar-ettun

The Artists’ Legacy Foundation is hosting a conversation with 2021 Artist Award recipient Nancy Rubins (M.F.A., '76) and Tyler Green, historian, author, and producer/host of The Modern Art Notes Podcast. They will explore highlights from Rubins’s recent work and connect them to her larger practice. This online event will take place on Friday, October 22 at 4pm (PST) / 7pm (EST) via Zoom. To register, visit: https://www.eventbrite.com/e/nancy-rubins-in-conversation-w

Alum Jesse Genepi (M.F.A, '21) is particpating in the new group show at the Below Grand in New York. "The Marble Oracle" is on view until November 7 and features, in addition to Jesse, Joe Bochynski, Caleb Jamel Brown, You Ni Chae, Gabriel Cohen, Sarah Miska, Erik Probst, and Randy Wray. https://www.belowgrandnyc.com/the-marble-mouth-oracle

The latest show at Anglim Trimble features the works of Richard and Martha Shaw. Richard Shaw, Martha Shaw highlights Martha Shaw’s new paintings and monoprints and Richard Shaw’s (M.F.A., ‘68) Palissy inspired dinner plates. The show can be viewed online and in person until October 30, 2021. https://www.anglimtrimble.com/exhibitio/richard-martha-shaw

Join us on Thursday, October 7 at 4:30pm for the first event of The California Studio. Tamar Ettun, a Teaching Artist in Residence in The California Studio, will introduce her multidisciplinary practice, which brings together textile craftsmanship in installation, performance and video. October 7, 4:30pm Manetti Shrem Museum... For more information on The California Studio, visit: https://californiastudio.ucdavis.edu/ Organized by the Department of Art and Art History and The California Studio. Co-sponsored by the Manetti Shrem Museum. https://arts.ucdavis.edu/event/tamar-ettun

It's a movie night at Verge Center for the Arts tonight. Their documentary series "About the Artist: Making Art in the Golden State" continues with a double feature looking at Muzi Li Rowe (M.F.A., '17) and Nikki Thompson. Doors open at 6 pm with screening at 7 pm followed by a Q&A with the artists. Tickets are $10 but free for Verge members. To register, visit: https://vergeart.corsizio.com/c/6141282202de2ae837/register

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UC Davis Master of Fine Arts (MFA) candidates share how their artistic outlook has changed since the start of the pandemic in The Aggie. https://theaggie.org//the-lives-of-uc-davis-art-students-/

Alum Anna Muradyan (BA ‘18) is participating in Devil in the Details, an exhibition at the Chautauqua Visual Arts showcasing alum of their Chautauqua School of Art residency program. This inaugural Alumni Exhibition includes a diverse group of Chautauqua School of Art Alumni from various years, personal backgrounds, and studio techniques. Devil is in the Details is online until March 31, 2021. https://art.chq.org/exhibitions/devil-is-in-the-details/

Save the Date: Soo Sunny Park will be is the next guest artist in our Visiting Artist Lecture Series. This online event will be held February 4 at 4:30 pm - 6:00 pm. Soo Sunny Park is recognized for her sculptural light installations, which have been exhibited widely. An upcoming solo exhibition of Park’s work will be held at the San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art. To register, visit https://arts.ucdavis.edu/event/soo-sunny-park

Congratulations to alum Robert Machoian (MFA ‘10) on his nomination for Film Independent’s Cassavetes Award! Machoian was nominated for his recent film The Killing of Two Lovers for which he is the writer, director and producer. The Killing of Two Lovers premiered at Sundance on January 27, 2020 and is set to be released February 23, 2021 by Neon. https://www.filmindependent.org//2021-film-independent-sp/

Professor Emeritus Malaquias Montoya will participate in a virtual panel discussion in the Smithsonian American Art Museum’s ¡Printing the Revolution! Virtual Conversation Series: From Black and Brown Solidarity to Afro-Latinidad on Thursday, February 18 at 6:30 pm (EST). This panel features three artists from ¡Printing the Revolution! who have engaged with these concerns across the decades. Montoya will be joined with Favianna Rodriguez, an interdisciplinary artist, cultural... strategist, and activist, based in Oakland, California, and Moses Ros-Suárez, an artist, printmaker, and architect, and a member of the Dominican York Proyecto GRAFICA, a collective of Dominican American graphic artists. The panel will be moderated by Kaelyn Rodríguez, assistant professor in art history at Santa Monica College. https://americanart.si.edu//printing-revolution-virtual-co See more

Alum Caz Azevedo (MFA '20) 's Community Art Center will be hosting contemporary artists to talk about their work and art practice. This coming December 12 at 12 pm, Caz will talk to fellow alum Zeina Baltagi (MFA '20), whose work explores and exposes the tensions within identity and social politics. Caz will host a live online conversation about her project surrounding surveillance as Artist in Residence at the 11:11. These events are free and open to the public in efforts to help provide art education to the community. To attend zoom session, visit: https://www.cazazevedo.com/gallery

Alum Yuan Chen (MFA 2017) is featured in "Marin 6 Exhibition" at the Marin Society of Artists (MSA) in San Raphael. This group show is on site December 2 through December 31, 2020. Open Wednesday through Sunday, Noon to 4 p.m. In addition to Yuan, "Marin 6" includes Wendy Baker, Joyce Creswell, Gail Galli, Donna Loftus and Bette Trono. https://www.marinsocietyofartists.org/marin-6

Professor Darrin Martin is participating in the group exhibition Invocation Democracy, a political and mystical virtual exhibition curated by Monet Clark and hosted by Pro Arts Gallery in Oakland, CA, through Inauguration Day, on January 20th, 2021. In tandem, Martin will be taking part in a virtual conversation with the curator and fellow artists Ann McCoy and Edgar Fabián Frías featuring a live performance by Linda Montano on Saturday, December 12, 12pm PST. https://www.proartscommons.org/

Congratulations to alum Robert Machoian (MFA '10) whose film "The Killing of Two Lovers" has been included in MoMA's New Directors / New Films 2020 festival. "The Killing of Two Lovers" will screen virtually from 12/12 to 12/17. Get tickets here: https://virtual.filmlinc.org/film/the-killing-of-two-lovers/ https://www.newdirectors.org//fi/the-killing-of-two-lovers

Alum Mathew Zefeldt (MFA '11) has been included in the article To Adjust the Default Settings: The Common Zone of Painting and Digitality-Influenced Imagery written by Orsolya Lia Veto and published in Új Mvészet (November 3, 2020). In To Adjust the Default Settings, Vet discusses post-digital painting and the entanglement of the analogue and the digital that sheds light on the delineated conventions of easel painting and the highly controlled visual logic of the digital sphere. The fault lines emerging between the different languages of post-digital painting preserve the present tense dilemmas of the artist navigating through virtual and physical environments.

On December 3, 2020 at 4:30 pm (PST), Kyle Dunn will be on campus as part of our Visiting Artist Lecture Series. He will talk about his work which combines sculptural and painterly traditions, including bas-relief and trompe l’oeil, to express the vibrancy of the masculine emotional landscape not often represented in popular visual culture. Dunn has had solo exhibitions in New York at Sardine and Thierry Goldberg Gallery and has been included in group shows at the Galerie Mar...ia Bernheim, Zurich; Little Berlin, Philadelphia, PA; Nationale, Portland, OR; Part 2 Gallery; Oakland, CA; and Ground Floor Gallery, Brooklyn, NY. To register for this event, please visit: https://arts.ucdavis.edu/event/kyle-dunn This event has been co-sponsored by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art.