[Sdalliance] Making Communities: Art and the Border opens March 3
Fred Lonidier
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Thu Mar 2 18:08:44 PST 2017
Dear all,
Please find enclosed a copy of the exhibition announcement for Making
Communities: Art and the Border.
Warmest wishes,
Tatiana
Making Communities: Art and the Border
March 3 - April 13
Opening Reception in Two Locations
Friday, March 3, 5:30 - 8:00 pm
University Art Gallery (UAG), UC San Diego and
SME Visual Arts Gallery (SME), UC San Diego
UAG Special Exhibition Preview, February 28 - March 2, 11:00 am -
4:00 pm
UAG Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Thursday, 11:00 - 4:00 pm
SME Gallery Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Friday, 2:30 - 6:00 pm
LA JOLLA--Making Communities: Art and the Border highlights the
border as site for artistic creativity and production. It is the
third major exhibition in the series VISUAL ARTS @ 50: ART INTO LIFE,
celebrating the 50th anniversary of the department.
The Visual Arts Department of UC San Diego has a proud, long-standing
history of collaboration and engagement with artists in Tijuana and
the Chicano Community in San Diego. In recent days, the nation has
been subjected to an "America First" rhetoric treating the world as a
contest between rival nations, in which our southern neighbor is
cited as a cause of crime and economic decline. Making Communities:
Art and the Border counters this dark rhetoric and view of the world
with exhibitions at the University Art Gallery, the SME Visual Arts
Gallery and the Cross-Cultural Center, celebrating cooperation and
engagement with Mexican and immigrant communities as a source of
creativity.
For the artists of Making Communities, the border is not just a as a
physical reality imposed on the landscape by political forces and
entities, but also a subject for the imagination and a site for
social engagement and problem-solving. The multimedia exhibition in
the University Art Gallery and SME Visual Arts Gallery features
twenty artists whose work critiques and reassesses the border and
imagines a more interconnected and just world. Contemporary Latino
and Chicano art is also featured in a smaller, complementary
exhibition in the Cross-Cultural Center galleries. Inspired by the
Making Communities, the show there highlighting current student and
alumni artists will open on March 8 and run until March 31.
The exhibitions are curated by alumna Tatiana Sizonenko Ph.D. '13.
UAG and SME galleries feature UC San Diego artists including: David
Avalos, Cog*nate Collective, Collective Magpie, Alida Cervantes,
Teddy Cruz, Ricardo Dominguez, Louis Hock, Las Comadres, Fred
Lonidier, Yolanda Lopez, Jean Lowe, Kim MacConnel, Victor Ochoa,
Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Iana Quesnell, Allan Sekula, Elizabeth Sisco,
Deborah Small, Perry Vasquez, and Yvonne Veneges.
Making Communities: Art and the Border Programming
Making Communities Art and the Border Opening Reception
March 3, 5:30 - 8:00 pm
University Art Gallery
Barb Wired Dreams: The Anatomy of an Image
A workshop with Yolanda Lopez
March 8, 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Cross Cultural Center
Making Communities: Art and the Border Panel
March 9, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
University Art Gallery, Mandeville Center
Featuring:
David Avalos (MFA '90) has devoted himself to socially and
politically engaged art of the border region, informed by his
involvement with the Committee on Chicano Rights. As a Professor in
the School of Arts at CSU San Marcos, he continues to learn about the
art-making process with his students and colleagues.
Rita Gonzalez (MFA '92) is Curator and Acting Department Head in
Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where she
has curated several exhibitions and has a forthcoming exhibition, A
Universal History of Infamy coinciding with Pacific Standard Time LA/LA.
Yolanda Lopez (MFA '79) is a third-generation Chicana who is
internationally renowned for her Virgen de Guadalupe series of
drawings, prints, collage, assemblage, and paintings that depict
"ordinary" Mexican women with Guadalupan attributes.
Elizabeth Sisco (MFA '81) is a contemporary American artist best
known for her photo/text installations and collaborative public art
projects. Her work reveals the social cost of conditions in society,
especially for immigrants in California.
Ruben Ortiz-Torres (MFA, CalArts '92) is a multimedia artist and
Professor at UC San Diego whose work explores the issues of
globalization and the various, sometimes conflicted, responses to
this newest form of Euro-American dominance. Born in Mexico City to a
couple of Latin-American folkloric musicians, Ortiz-Torres is noted
as one of the first artists in Mexico to position himself within Post-
Modernism.
Moderator: Ricardo Dominguez, Visual Arts Associate Professor is a
Hellman Fellow, and Principal/Principle Investigator at Calit2, he is
the Co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group
who developed virtual sit-in technologies in solidarity with the
Zapatistas communities in Chiapas, Mexico, in 1998.
Dialagesthai
A Performance by Cog*nate Collective exploring the dialectical
tension between abstraction and tangibility as experienced + lived
across the US/Mexico border
April 6, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Visual Arts Presentation Lab, SME 149
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Department of Visual Arts sincerely thanks participating artists,
alumni, and lending institutions for their generous support and loans
of works. We express our sincere appreciation to alumnus David Avalos
whose enthusiasm and advice was indispensable and helped to make this
exhibition a reality.
Additionally, we would particularly like to recognize curator Jill
Dawsey and registrar Tom Callas of Museum of Contemporary Art San
Diego and Rosie Morales of
Shoshana Wayne Gallery for the loan of works.
We are also grateful to the University of California Institute for
Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS) for supporting Making
Communities: Art and the Border.
VISUAL ARTS @ 50: ART INTO LIFE
Since its foundation in 1967, the artists, critics, theorists and
historians of the Department of Visual Arts have been at the
forefront of developing, studying, and promoting new and post-studio
practices for art in an expanded field. Honoring the call of seminal
faculty member Allan Kaprow to blur the line between art and life,
VISUAL ARTS @ 50: ART INTO LIFE seeks to engage the campus and
community in celebrating the illustrious history of the Department
and in shaping its future.
Click here for a campus map to the University Art Gallery
Click here for a campus map to the SME Visual Arts Gallery
Click here for a campus map to the Cross Cultural Center
Media Contact:
Sheena Ghanbari
sghanbari at ucsd.edu
858-822-7755
Image Credits (top to bottom): David Avalos, Donkey Cart Altar, 1985,
42" x 28" x 45," wood, acrylic paint, chain link fence, foam, shot
glasses, .357 Magnum rounds, candles, forks, dice, paper flowers,
plastic statues of liberty, circular saw blades; Iana Quesnell, My
Tijuana, 2006, Graphite on Paper, 120" x 42"
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Making Communities: Art and the Border
March 3 - April 13
Opening Reception in Two Locations
Friday, March 3, 5:30 - 8:00 pm
University Art Gallery (UAG), UC San Diego and
SME Visual Arts Gallery (SME), UC San Diego
UAG Special Exhibition Preview, February 28 - March 2, 11:00 am -
4:00 pm
UAG Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Thursday, 11:00 - 4:00 pm
SME Gallery Hours: Monday, Tuesday, Friday, 2:30 - 6:00 pm
LA JOLLA--Making Communities: Art and the Border highlights the
border as site for artistic creativity and production. It is the
third major exhibition in the series VISUAL ARTS @ 50: ART INTO LIFE,
celebrating the 50th anniversary of the department.
The Visual Arts Department of UC San Diego has a proud, long-standing
history of collaboration and engagement with artists in Tijuana and
the Chicano Community in San Diego. In recent days, the nation has
been subjected to an "America First" rhetoric treating the world as a
contest between rival nations, in which our southern neighbor is
cited as a cause of crime and economic decline. Making Communities:
Art and the Border counters this dark rhetoric and view of the world
with exhibitions at the University Art Gallery, the SME Visual Arts
Gallery and the Cross-Cultural Center, celebrating cooperation and
engagement with Mexican and immigrant communities as a source of
creativity.
For the artists of Making Communities, the border is not just a as a
physical reality imposed on the landscape by political forces and
entities, but also a subject for the imagination and a site for
social engagement and problem-solving. The multimedia exhibition in
the University Art Gallery and SME Visual Arts Gallery features
twenty artists whose work critiques and reassesses the border and
imagines a more interconnected and just world. Contemporary Latino
and Chicano art is also featured in a smaller, complementary
exhibition in the Cross-Cultural Center galleries. Inspired by the
Making Communities, the show there highlighting current student and
alumni artists will open on March 8 and run until March 31.
The exhibitions are curated by alumna Tatiana Sizonenko Ph.D. '13.
UAG and SME galleries feature UC San Diego artists including: David
Avalos, Cog*nate Collective, Collective Magpie, Alida Cervantes,
Teddy Cruz, Ricardo Dominguez, Louis Hock, Las Comadres, Fred
Lonidier, Yolanda Lopez, Jean Lowe, Kim MacConnel, Victor Ochoa,
Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Iana Quesnell, Allan Sekula, Elizabeth Sisco,
Deborah Small, Perry Vasquez, and Yvonne Veneges.
Making Communities: Art and the Border Programming
Making Communities Art and the Border Opening Reception
March 3, 5:30 - 8:00 pm
University Art Gallery
Barb Wired Dreams: The Anatomy of an Image
A workshop with Yolanda Lopez
March 8, 3:00 - 4:30 pm
Cross Cultural Center
Making Communities: Art and the Border Panel
March 9, 5:00 - 7:00 pm
University Art Gallery, Mandeville Center
Featuring:
David Avalos (MFA '90) has devoted himself to socially and
politically engaged art of the border region, informed by his
involvement with the Committee on Chicano Rights. As a Professor in
the School of Arts at CSU San Marcos, he continues to learn about the
art-making process with his students and colleagues.
Rita Gonzalez (MFA '92) is Curator and Acting Department Head in
Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art where she
has curated several exhibitions and has a forthcoming exhibition, A
Universal History of Infamy coinciding with Pacific Standard Time LA/LA.
Yolanda Lopez (MFA '79) is a third-generation Chicana who is
internationally renowned for her Virgen de Guadalupe series of
drawings, prints, collage, assemblage, and paintings that depict
"ordinary" Mexican women with Guadalupan attributes.
Elizabeth Sisco (MFA '81) is a contemporary American artist best
known for her photo/text installations and collaborative public art
projects. Her work reveals the social cost of conditions in society,
especially for immigrants in California.
Ruben Ortiz-Torres (MFA, CalArts '92) is a multimedia artist and
Professor at UC San Diego whose work explores the issues of
globalization and the various, sometimes conflicted, responses to
this newest form of Euro-American dominance. Born in Mexico City to a
couple of Latin-American folkloric musicians, Ortiz-Torres is noted
as one of the first artists in Mexico to position himself within Post-
Modernism.
Moderator: Ricardo Dominguez, Visual Arts Associate Professor is a
Hellman Fellow, and Principal/Principle Investigator at Calit2, he is
the Co-founder of the Electronic Disturbance Theater (EDT), a group
who developed virtual sit-in technologies in solidarity with the
Zapatistas communities in Chiapas, Mexico, in 1998.
Dialagesthai
A Performance by Cog*nate Collective exploring the dialectical
tension between abstraction and tangibility as experienced + lived
across the US/Mexico border
April 6, 6:00 - 7:00 pm
Visual Arts Presentation Lab, SME 149
ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
The Department of Visual Arts sincerely thanks participating artists,
alumni, and lending institutions for their generous support and loans
of works. We express our sincere appreciation to alumnus David Avalos
whose enthusiasm and advice was indispensable and helped to make this
exhibition a reality.
Additionally, we would particularly like to recognize curator Jill
Dawsey and registrar Tom Callas of Museum of Contemporary Art San
Diego and Rosie Morales of
Shoshana Wayne Gallery for the loan of works.
We are also grateful to the University of California Institute for
Mexico and the United States (UC MEXUS) for supporting Making
Communities: Art and the Border.
VISUAL ARTS @ 50: ART INTO LIFE
Since its foundation in 1967, the artists, critics, theorists and
historians of the Department of Visual Arts have been at the
forefront of developing, studying, and promoting new and post-studio
practices for art in an expanded field. Honoring the call of seminal
faculty member Allan Kaprow to blur the line between art and life,
VISUAL ARTS @ 50: ART INTO LIFE seeks to engage the campus and
community in celebrating the illustrious history of the Department
and in shaping its future.
Click here for a campus map to the University Art Gallery
Click here for a campus map to the SME Visual Arts Gallery
Click here for a campus map to the Cross Cultural Center
Media Contact:
Sheena Ghanbari
sghanbari at ucsd.edu
858-822-7755
Image Credits (top to bottom): David Avalos, Donkey Cart Altar, 1985,
42" x 28" x 45," wood, acrylic paint, chain link fence, foam, shot
glasses, .357 Magnum rounds, candles, forks, dice, paper flowers,
plastic statues of liberty, circular saw blades; Iana Quesnell, My
Tijuana, 2006, Graphite on Paper, 120" x 42"
UC San Diego Department of Visual Arts, 9500 Gilman Drive, Mandeville
Center, La Jolla, CA 92093
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