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Wednesday, November 18

5:00PM

University Art Gallery

Thursday, November 19, 2009

2:00PM

Studio Four, Building 725

Room 101

Ken Gonzales-Day is known for his acclaimed series of photographs, Hang

Trees and Erased Lynching, both of which address historical erasure and its

relationship to photography.  In both sets of photographs the body is

implied through its absence. Gonzales-Day's work additionally demonstrates a

continued interest in the nature of western landscape photography.

Fellowships include the Whitney Museum of American Art, ISP and the Getty

Research Institute in Los Angeles.  He has had solo exhibitions at Palais de

Tokyo, Paris and LAXART, Los Angeles and has participated in group

exhibitions at LACMA, the Generali Foundation in Vienna and FotoLatina,

Museo de las Artes, in Mexico City;

Ken Gonzales-Day received his MFA from UC Irvine.  He lives in Los Angeles

and is a Professor at Scripps College.

Tuesday, October 13, 2009

1:00PM

Sculpture Studio, Building 720

2nd Floor, Nixon Theater

Cindy Bernard is known for photographs and projections that explore the relationship between cinema, memory, and landscape including the widely exhibited series Ask the Dust. In addition to her visual practice, Bernard is creator of the experimental music series sound. as well as the founder of The Society for the Activation of Social Space through Art and Sound (SASSAS). Taking an active interest in instigating social exchange, Bernard founded SASSAS out of the need for a small sustainable organization dedicated to experimental music in Los Angeles. As director of SASSAS, Bernard has produced concerts and sound events at the historic Schindler House in West Hollywood as well as at REDCAT and the Ford Amphitheatre working with artists such as Glenn Branca, Harold Budd, Nels Cline, Petra Haden, Joseph Jarman, Pauline Oliveros, Tom Recchion, Wadada Leo Smith, James Tenney and Roscoe Mitchell.

Her interest in music and the public commons has spurred two projects: a series of photographs of municipal band shells which Bernard sees as an architecture of public exchange, most recently exhibited at Tracy Williams LTD in New York; and The Inquisitive Musician? a collaboration with artist and translator David Hatcher based on a 17th century German satire, Musicus Curiosus, or Battalus, the Inquisitive Musician?, the Struggle for Precedence between the Kunst Pfeifer and the Common Players. She is currently completing Year Long Loop, a year long documentation of the view and sounds outside her Los Angeles home. 24 hours in length, she describes it as a cross between John's Cage's 4'33" and Andy Warhol's Empire.

She has received numerous grants including Anonymous was A Woman (1998), a Guggenheim Fellowship (1998) and a Los Angeles COLA Individual Artists Fellowship (2004). Since 1986, her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally, and is in the permanent collections of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA) and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) as well as international collections.    

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.