April 2009 Archives

2009 MFA Thesis Show, Part 1

Studio Art

Claire Trevor School of the Arts

University of California, Irvine

April 23-May 8

Opening Reception

Thursday, April 23, 6:00-9:00p.m.

Admission is Free

Bldg. 712 & 727

Tuesdays - Saturdays, 12-5p.m.

tel 949-824-9854

gallery@uci.edu

Anya Gallaccio creates site-specific installations, often using organic materials as her medium. Past projects have included arranging a ton of oranges on a floor, placing a thirty-two ton block of ice in a boiler room, and painting a wall with chocolate. The nature of these materials results in natural processes of transformation and decay, often with unpredictable results. Gallaccio has stated, "I see my works as being a performance and a collaboration... There is an unpredictability in the materials and collaborations I get involved in. Making a piece of work becomes about chance - not just imposing will on something, but acknowledging its inherent qualities."

Gallaccio attended Kingston Polytechnic and Goldsmiths' College at the University of London, and now lives and works in London. Gallaccio has exhibited extensively, including recent solo exhibitions at the Tate Britain and at Ikon Gallery in Birmingham, England. Her work is featured in numerous public and private collections such as the Tate Gallery, the Victoria & Albert Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, Sydney, and South Gallery, London.

Cokes is a Professor in Media Production, Department of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University, Providence, RI. For the 2008-9 academic year he is a Resident Scholar / Artist-in-Residence at The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles, CA.

Cokes' works have appeared in exhibitions at The Museum of Modern Art, NYC, MACBA, Barcelona, Spain, the Whitney Museum of American Art, Centre Georges Pompidou, Paris, France, ZKM, Karlsruhe, Germany, and La Cinémathèque Française, Paris. His numerous media festival screenings include Oberhausen Short Film Festival (1993, 2005), International Film Festival Rotterdam (2001 - 2006), Seoul Film & Net Festival (2005), and Rencontres Internationales Paris-Berlin-Madrid (2003 - 2008). Cokes' projects have been supported by grants and fellowships from The Rockefeller Foundation, John Simon Guggenheim Foundation, Creative Capital Foundation, National Endowment for the Arts, New York Foundation for the Arts, and New York State Council on the Arts.