friday august 31 - friday, september 7

FRIDAY AUGUST 31 - FRIDAY SEPTEMBER 7, 2012

Here's what MFA faculty, students, alums & friends are up to this week...

Send submissions to gradoffice@cca.edu

Congratulations to the winners of the 2012 Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards: Fatema Abdoolcarim, Teresa Baker, Dan Battle, Ji Eun Chun. Amber Fawn Keig, Jesus Landin-Torrez III, Yan Yan Mao, David Olsson (all MFA 2013), Liz Moran (MA/MFA 2014)!

More media coverage for (MFA '13) Neil Rivas's "Illegal Super Heroes" series: Latina Magazine, Immigration Compliance Group, Laughing Squid, Nuovo TV, ArtsHub (Australia), Comics Alliance...

TUE 4: FIRST DAY OF SCHOOL

WED 5 // Opening // "17th Annual Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking Scholarship Awards Exhibition" with work by Sarah Jones (MFA '14) // 5:30 - 7:30 // West Gallery (OAK)

FRI 7 // OPEN SESSION // Dialogues & Practices incoming student slideshow // 12 - 3 PM // Timken Hall (SF)
FRI 7 // ALL GRAD BBQ // 5:30 - 8:30 // Hooper 3 Courtyard (SF)

FRI 7 // Opening // "Murphy & Cadogan Contemporary Art Awards Exhibition" // 6:30 - 9PM // SOMARTS (934 Brannan St, SF)

FRI 31 // Opening // "Carbon 13" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) // 6 - 8pm // Ballroom Marfa (108 East San Antonio St, Marfa, TX)

SAT 1 // Opening // "Get the Flu" solo show by Mark Benson (MFA alum)  // 6 - 10pm // Evergold Gallery (441 O'Farrell St, SF)   [register for your limited edition flu shot!]

SAT 1, 2 // Performance // "The Speed and Eagerness of Meaning (Longer Longing Version) by Richard Walker (MFA faculty) // 3PM // SFMOMA (151 Third St, SF)

FRI 7 // Opening // Malak Helmy (MFA alum) in the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea

FRI 7 // Opening // "Coming Up Roses" solo show by Sarah Thibault (MFA alum) // 5:30 - 7:30PM // Mark Wolfe Contemporary (1 Sutter St, SF)

FRI 7 // Opening //  "Capoeira: Roots, Myths and Legends" public art installation by Anna Ludwig (MFA '10) // 6:30-9:30PM (artist talk 7PM // Capoeira Mandinga Academy (4137 Piedmont Avenue, OAK)

FRI 7 // Opening // "Phantasmagoria" with work by Rachel Dawson, Amy Keefer (both MFA alums) // 6 - 9PM // Make Hang Gallery (450 Green St, SF)

FRI 7 // Closing // "Residency 3: Amanda Curreri" (MFA alum) // 7 - 10PM // Royal Nonesuch Gallery (4231 Telegraph Ave, OAK)

FRI 7 // Opening // "In Stasis" with work by Liam Everett (MFA alum), curated by Jackie Im (CURP alum) // 7 - 10PM // MacArthur B. Arthur (4030 MLK Way, OAK)

(9/8) Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at Favorite Goods in LA

(9/8) Allison Smith (MFA faculty) at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College

(9/11) Dawoud Bey Talk, Timken (SF)

(9/12) CCA Faculty Exhibition (OAK)

(9/12) Stephanie Syjuco (MFA faculty) at Zero1 Biennial

(9/13) Amber Stuck (MFA alum) at Caine Schulte Contemporary Art

(9/13) Wattis Presents: When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes

(9/14) ADD/DROP DEADLINE

(9/14) Imin Yeh at Zero1 Biennial

(9/14) Serena Cole (MFA alum) solo show at Soo Visual Arts Center

(9/15) Sara Thacher (MFA alum) at Zero1 Biennial (SJ)

(9/15) Headlands Center for the Arts 30th Anniversary in SF

(9/15) Ranu Mukherjee (MFA Faculty) screenings at Zero1Biennial (SJ)

(9/18 - 10/7) VIP Vernissage Art Fair in NYC

(9/19) Painting/Drawing Lecture Series: Andrew Masullo (SF)

(9/19) Design and Craft Lecture Series: Maria Elena Buszek (OAK)

(9/20) Graduate Lecture Series: Matthew E. May (SF)

(9/21) Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at CCA Derry in Northern Ireland

(9/23) Sita Bhaumik (MFA/MA alum) workshop at the Women's Building

(9/27 - 28) Nancy Nowacek (MFA alum) performance at Blackwood Gallery, Ontario

(9/27) We're All Here Because We're Not All There: Celebrating 25 Years of the Barclay Simpson Award opening at the Oliver (OAK)

A selection of work by students, faculty and alumni currently on view... "17th Annual Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking Scholarship Awards Exhibition" at the West Gallery, OAK (through September 5) "Telling Fortunes" show by Ranu Mukherjee (MFA faculty) at San Jose Museum of Art (through January 13)  "Refuse, Residues and the Useless" solo show by James Coquia (MFA alum) at Old Crow Tattoo (through September 9) "dOCUMENTA(13)" with participation by Amy Balkin, Shaun O'Dell (both MFA faculty) and Elizabeth Dorbad, Ann Schnake, Ruth Robbins (all MFA alums) (through September 16) "Rock Paper Scissors" with work by Raphael Noz (MFA alum) at Coagula Curatorial (through September 1) "Strange Fruit" solo show by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/MA alum) at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (through September 30) "Five Corners" with work by Evan Ellsworth Jourden, Matt Gordon (both MFA alums) and others at 2nd Floor Projects (through September 12) "I'm So Goth - I am Dead!" curated by Bob Linder and Julio César Morales (both MFA advisors) with work by Andrea Bacigalupo, Bessma Khalaf, Jonathan Runcio (all MFA alums) and Enrique Chagoya, Jason Jagel (both MFA advisors) and Desiree Holman (MFA faculty) at Queen's Nails Annex (through September 15) "Corner of the World" with work by Elizabeth Moran (MFA/MA '14) and Margo Woloweic (MFA '13), curated by Amanda Roscoe Mayo (CURP alum) at Macarthur B. Arthur (through September 2) "Searose Garden" solo show by Kathleen Clausen (MFA alum) at Ramon's Tailor (through September 15) "dOCUMENTA (13)" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at Mueuem Fridericianum (through September 16) Jessica Skloven (MFA alum) solo show "Recent Works" at Z Space (through October 14)  "Beauty" with work by Fatema Abdoolcarim, Leora Lutz, Neil Rivas (all MFA '13), Ann Schnake, Jake Ziemann, Jeanine Scarboro, Johanna Friedman (all MFA '12) and Christopher Nickel (CCA staff) at Berkeley Art Center (through September 9) "Residency Projects" with work by Michele Carlson (MFA faculty) at Kala Institute (through September 15) "MATRIX 243" solo show by D-L Alvarez (MFA faculty) at Berkeley Art Museum (through October 7) "Movement in Many Parts" with work by Kim Anno, Sanjit Sethi (MFA faculty) Mik Gaspay, Susan Chen (MFA alums), curated by Weston Teruya (MFA/MA alum) at the Asian Resource Center Gallery (through September 28) "Rendez-vous 12" with work by Zarouhie Abdalian (MFA alum) at South African National Gallery (through October 14) "At the Edge" with works by Sean McFarland, Jamie Vasta, Anna Von Mertens (all MFA alums) and Jay Nelson (BFA alum) at Berkeley Art Museum (through December 23) "Strange Fruit" solo work by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA alum) at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (through September 30) "Wall of Sound" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts (through September 8) "Salon No 9" with work by Alika Cooper (MFA alum) at MArine Art Salon, LA (through September 15) "Return to Rattlesnake Mountain" with work by Brindalyn Webster (MFA alum) at Maxon Mills (Wassaic, NY) (weekends through September 2) "Chico & Chang" group show with work by Pablo Cristi (MFA alum), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (through September 16) "Anomalous Perspectives: The 2011 Critical Mass Creative Stimulus Award Exhibition" with work by Sarrita Hunn (MFA alum) at Sheldon Art Galleries (through September 15) "Mind the System, Find the Gap" group show with work by Stephanie Syjuco (MFA faculty), z33 (through September 30) "International Orange" group show with work by Doug Hall (MFA advisor), Allison Smith and Stephanie Syjuco (both MFA faculty), Fort Point National Historic Site (through September 3) "David Maisel: History's Shadow" at Keck Center (through October 5) Paintings and wall installation by Leah Rosenberg (MFA alum) at State Bird Provisions (ongoing)

thursday august 23 - thursday august 30, 2012

WEDNESDAY AUGUST 22 - THURSDAY  AUGUST 30, 2012

Here's what MFA faculty, students, alums & friends are up to this week...

Send submissions to gradoffice@cca.edu

Faculty! Alumni! Have you published, written, designed, illustrated, etc. a book in 2012? Is it readily available in bookstores or online? If so, we'd love to feature it in the upcoming issue of Glance magazine. Send us a link!

// Sasha Duerr (MFA faculty) and her Permacouture are featured in the September 2012 issue of Whole Living

// Sarah Hotchkiss (MFA alum) shares her "Best of" for ArtPractical's third anniversary

// Neil Rivas's (MFA '13) "Illegal Super Heroes" posters are stirring up a lot of KAPOW!; Hispanically Speaking News, Comic Book Resources, MTV tr3s blog, Huffington Post, La Mega 96FM Atlanta, Our Tiempo, NBC Latino!

TUE 28 - 29 // NEW STUDENT ORIENTATION!

TUE 28 // GRAD STUDENT ALLIANCE MIXER // 5PM // THEE PARKSIDE (17th & Wisconsin, SF)

THU 23 - 26 // Performance // Stage Presence Performance Series: "The Visitor Owl" by D-L Alvarez (MFA faculty) and Kevin Killian (MFA advisor) with by Benjamin Vilmain (MFA /12) // 7:30pm // SFMOMA (151 Third Street, SF) TICKETS

THU 23 // Opening // "Primer Acto: Inauguración" with work by Mark Benson (MFA alum) // Museo Tamayo (Mexico City)

FRI 24 // Reading // "An Evening of Readings and Conversation: Jean Genet in the Aunque" by Amanda Curreri (MFA alum) // 7 - 9pm // Royal Nonesuch Gallery (4231 Telegraph, OAK)

SAT 25: Opening // "FourSquared" with work by Maja Ruznic (MFA alum) // 7 - 10pm // Arc Studios and Gallery (1246 Folsom St)

SAT 25 // Opening // "Resound 2" solo show by Carl Auge (MFA alum) // 5 - 9:30pm // chashama 461 (201 East 42nd Street, 32nd Floor, NYC)

SAT 25 // Screening // "Chinatown Music Festival: Special Screening" with work by Noah Krell and Christine Pan (both MFA alums) // CCC Gallery (750 Kearny Street, 3rd Floor, SF)

TUE 28 // Opening // "ZERO1 Biennial: Now and Forever" a solo show by Nancy Nowacek (MFA alum) // Natalie & James Thompson Gallery (San Jose State University, 1 Washington Square, SJ)

THU 30 // Opening // "Piece Offering" with work by Allison Smith (MFA faculty) // 6 - 9pm // Hanes Art Center (University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill)

THU 30 // Opening // "Symbiosis State - Participatory Sculpture" with work by Amber Stucke (MFA alum) // David Brower Center (2150 Allston Way, Berkeley)

(8/31) Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at Ballroom Marfa

(9/1) Mark Benson (MFA alum) solo show at Ever Gold  [register for your limited edition flu shot!] \

(9/5) Sarah Jones (MFA '14) with the 17th Annual Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking Scholarship Awards Exhibition (OAK)

(9/7) ALL-GRAD BBQ

(9/7) Malak Helmy (MFA alum) in the Gwangju Biennale, South Korea

(9/7) Sarah Thibault (MFA alum) at Mark Wolfe Contemporary

(9/7) Anna Ludwig (MFA alum) at Capoeira Mandinga Academy

(9/7) Rachel Dawson (MFA alum) at Make Hang Gallery

(9/7) Amanda Curreri (MFA alum) at Royal Nonesuch Gallery 

(9/7) Liam Everett (MFA alum) at MacArthur B. Arthur curated by Jackie Im (MA alum)

(9/8) Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at Favorite Goods in LA

(9/8) Allison Smith (MFA faculty) at The Frances Young Tang Teaching Museum and Art Gallery at Skidmore College

(9/12) CCA Faculty Exhibition (OAK)

(9/12) Stephanie Syjuco (MFA faculty) at Zero1 Biennial

(9/13) Amber Stuck (MFA alum) at Caine Schulte Contemporary Art

(9/13) Wattis Presents: When Attitudes Became Form Become Attitudes

(9/14) Imin Yeh at Zero1 Biennial

(9/14) Serena Cole (MFA alum) solo show at Soo Visual Arts Center

(9/15) Sara Thacher (MFA alum) at Zero1 Biennial

(9/15) Headlands Center for the Arts 30th Anniversary in SF

(9/18 - 10/7) VIP Vernissage Art Fair in NYC

(9/19) Painting/Drawing Lecture Series: Andrew Masullo (SF)

(9/19) Design and Craft Lecture Series: Maria Elena Buszek (OAK)

(9/20) Graduate Lecture Series: Matthew E. May (SF)

(9/21) Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at CCA Derry in Northern Ireland

(9/23) Sita Bhaumik (MFA/MA alum) workshop at the Women's Building

(9/27 - 28) Nancy Nowacek (MFA alum) performance at Blackwood Gallery, Ontario

(9/27) We're All Here Because We're Not All There: Celebrating 25 Years of the Barclay Simpson Award opening at the Oliver (OAK)

 

 

A selection of work by students, faculty and alumni currently on view... "17th Annual Yozo Hamaguchi Printmaking Scholarship Awards Exhibition" at the West Gallery, OAK (through September 5) "Telling Fortunes" show by Ranu Mukherjee (MFA faculty) at San Jose Museum of Art (through January 13)  "Refuse, Residues and the Useless" solo show by James Coquia (MFA alum) at Old Crow Tattoo (through September 9) "dOCUMENTA(13)" with participation by Amy Balkin, Shaun O'Dell (both MFA faculty) and Elizabeth Dorbad, Ann Schnake, Ruth Robbins (all MFA alums) (through September 16) "Rock Paper Scissors" with work by Raphael Noz (MFA alum) at Coagula Curatorial (through September 1) "Messengers" solo show by Maja Ruznic (MFA alum) at Trailer Park Proyjects (through August 31)  "Strange Fruit" solo show by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/MA alum) at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (through September 30) "Five Corners" with work by Evan Ellsworth Jourden, Matt Gordon (both MFA alums) and others at 2nd Floor Projects (through September 12) "Sharp Pop, Dull Break" solo show by Rebekah Goldstein (MFA alum) at The Wall Gallery (through August 29) "I'm So Goth - I am Dead!" curated by Bob Linder and Julio César Morales (both MFA advisors) with work by Andrea Bacigalupo, Bessma Khalaf, Jonathan Runcio (all MFA alums) and Enrique Chagoya, Jason Jagel (both MFA advisors) and Desiree Holman (MFA faculty) at Queen's Nails Annex (through September 15) "Corner of the World" with work by Elizabeth Moran (MFA/MA '14) and Margo Woloweic (MFA '13), curated by Amanda Roscoe Mayo (CURP alum) at Macarthur B. Arthur (through September 2) "Searose Garden" solo show by Kathleen Clausen (MFA alum) at Ramon's Tailor (through September 15) "dOCUMENTA (13)" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at Mueuem Fridericianum (through September 16) "I (Heart) Data Mining" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) at Kadist Foundation (through August 31) Jessica Skloven (MFA alum) solo show "Recent Works" at Z Space (through October 14)  "Beauty" with work by Fatema Abdoolcarim, Leora Lutz, Neil Rivas (all MFA '13), Ann Schnake, Jake Ziemann, Jeanine Scarboro, Johanna Friedman (all MFA '12) and Christopher Nickel (CCA staff) at Berkeley Art Center (through September 9) "Underneath It All: Desire, power, memory and lingerie" with work by Amanda N. Simons (MFA/MA '14) at Textile Center (through August 25) "Residency Projects" with work by Michele Carlson (MFA faculty) at Kala Institute (through September 15) "MATRIX 243" solo show by D-L Alvarez (MFA faculty) at Berkeley Art Museum (through October 7) "Movement in Many Parts" with work by Kim Anno, Sanjit Sethi (MFA faculty) Mik Gaspay, Susan Chen (MFA alums), curated by Weston Teruya (MFA/MA alum) at the Asian Resource Center Gallery (through September 28) "Rendez-vous 12" with work by Zarouhie Abdalian (MFA alum) at South African National Gallery (through October 14) "At the Edge" with works by Sean McFarland, Jamie Vasta, Anna Von Mertens (all MFA alums) and Jay Nelson (BFA alum) at Berkeley Art Museum (through December 23) "Believe It" solo work by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA alum) at the Savannah College of Art and Design Pinnacle Gallery (through August 24) "Strange Fruit" solo work by Hank Willis Thomas (MFA alum) at The Aldrich Contemporary Art Museum (through September 30) "Wall of Sound" at Steven Wolf Fine Arts (through September 8) "Salon No 9" with work by Alika Cooper (MFA alum) at MArine Art Salon, LA (through September 15) George Pfau (MFA alum) residency at Royal Nonesuch Gallery (4231 Telegraph, OAK) "Return to Rattlesnake Mountain" with work by Brindalyn Webster (MFA alum) at Maxon Mills (Wassaic, NY) (weekends through September 2) "Chico & Chang" group show with work by Pablo Cristi (MFA alum), San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art (through September 16) "Stretch & Expose" with work by Aaron Terry (MFA faculty), Angus Haller, Jonathan Runcio, Mark Taylor, Erin Allen (all MFA alums) at San Francisco City Hall (through August 27) "Anomalous Perspectives: The 2011 Critical Mass Creative Stimulus Award Exhibition" with work by Sarrita Hunn (MFA alum) at Sheldon Art Galleries (through September 15) "Mind the System, Find the Gap" group show with work by Stephanie Syjuco (MFA faculty), z33 (through September 30) "International Orange" group show with work by Doug Hall (MFA advisor), Allison Smith and Stephanie Syjuco (both MFA faculty), Fort Point National Historic Site (through September 3) "David Maisel: History's Shadow" at Keck Center (through October 5) Paintings and wall installation by Leah Rosenberg (MFA alum) at State Bird Provisions (ongoing)