Set Pieces

2009 MFA Thesis Show, Part 2

Studio Art

Claire Trevor School of the Arts

University of California, Irvine

May 14-29

Opening Reception

Thursday, May 14, 6-9PM

Performance by Marcus Civin

May 14, 7 & 8PM

May 21, 12:00PM

Admission is Free

Blg. 712 & 727

Tuesday - Saturdays, 12-5PM

tel 949-824-9854

gallery@uci.edu

ucigallery.com

Thursday, April 30, 2009

6:00PM

Art Studio, Room 160

6:00PM

Humanities Hall, Room 254

Tony Cokes is a post-conceptualist whose practice foregrounds social critique. His video, installation, and sound works recontextualize appropriated materials to reflect upon our production as subjects under capital. His recent projects often take the form of text animations with sound functioning as a constitutive, intertextual element, complicating the visual. 

Thursday, April 9, 2009

6:00PM

Humanities Hall, Room 254

Employing the language of abstract sculpture, Patrick Hill creates highly referential, narrative constructions contrasting hard, architectural elements with soft, supple materials. This deliberate juxtaposition of materials serves to suggest distasteful aspects of the physicality of the human body and invites the viewer into difficult dialogues with the work.

Patrick Hill was born in Royal Oak, Michigan in 1972 and now lives and works in Los Angeles. His work has recently been exhibited at The Approach, London and Bortolami Gallery, New York. he was included in the 2008 Biennial Exhibition at Whitney Museum of American Art.

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

11:00 AM - 12:30 PM

Art Studio, Room 160

 

Jedediah Caesar received his M.F.A. from the University of California, Los Angeles.  His work has been shown in solo exhibitions at Andrea Kreps Gallery, New York, and Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles.  Recent group exhibitions include "Trace", Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, New York; "Ask the Dust", D'Amelio Terras Gallery, New York; "Sculpture--Nouvelles formes", Galerie Nathalie Obadia, Paris; "Sugartown", Elizabeth Dee Gallery, New York; "Fearless Vampire Killers", Casey Kaplan 10-6, New York; "Thing", Armand Hammer Museum and Cultural Center, Los Angeles, "The 7th Annual Altoids Collection", Consolidated Works, Seattle; Blue Star Art Complex, San Antonio; New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; Luckman Center for Visual Arts, Los Angeles; Locust Projects, Miami; and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, Los Angeles.

The Visiting Artist Lecture Series welcomed New York-based artist Carter to the UC Irvine campus the week of May 15th. Carter gave a guest lecture on his work, and lead a three day workshop in graduate studies. He met individually with graduate students with an emphasis on sculpture, painting and photography to discuss their past and current projects and later engaged in group critique. The final day was spent at the Getty Center discussing selections from the video program, California Video. The first comprehensive survey of video art from 1968 to the present, the program featured a day long screening of works by Bruce Yonemoto, Chair of Studio Art.

Carter has come to prominence recently with a varied yet cohesive range of work that suggests Oliver Sacks-like themes of real versus fictional identities, both mental and corporeal. His quasi-figurative landscapes, combining pen and ink with collaged elements, are dominated by rock-like human heads. His videos and Polaroids feature mannequins and prosthetic limbs appearing to do the work of the artist--drawing and arranging papers. His glossy sculpted busts, enlivened with little moustaches and spare coverings of hair, bear teasingly autobiographical titles such as 1949, Self Portrait as a Homosexual, 1965, 1970.

Born in Norwich, Connecticut in 1970, Carter received his BFA in 1992 from The Maryland Institute, College of Art in Baltimore and his MFA from UC, Davis in 1997. He also attended Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 1994.

He has been widely exhibited internationally, including The Saatchi Gallery in the USA Today exhibition and The Royal Academy of Arts, both in London, the Whitney Museum of Art, 2006 Whitney Biennial, New York and the Wheatherspoon Art Museum, Biennial Exhibition, North Carolina.

Carter is represented by Jack Hanley, Los Angeles/San Francisco, Salon 94, New York, Hotel Gallery, London and Yvon Lambert, Paris--where he will have a solo exhibition in October.