wednesday june 28 - friday july 5, 2013


 

// Congrats to Raphael Noz (MFA '09), who was just awarded the Latino Teaching Artist Fellowship through Root Division!

// Anna Whitehead (MFA alum) has an indiegogo fundraising campaign going for her dance theater piece falling queens


// Sarah Hotchkiss (MFA alum) wrote a review of "Proximities 1: What Time Is It There" with work by Larry Sultan, Elisheva Biernoff, James Gobel and others, curated by Glen Helfand (MFA faculty), for SquareCylinder
// Check out photos from SOEX's Monster Drawing Rally (yes, that's [MFA alum] Hilary Pecis drawing with her new babe on one arm!), and have a look at what everyone came up with


 
ZILCH



WED 26 // Opening // "The Pass" with work by Erin Allen, Llewelynn Fletcher, Susan O'Malley (all MFA alums), Pablo Guardiola (MFA advisor), Erik Skollon (MFA/MA  alum/faculty) // 6 - 8PM // Kala Art Institute (1060 Heinz Ave, Berkeley)

FRI 28 // Opening // "With Cinder Blocks We Flatten Our Photographs" with work by C Wright Daniel, Jonathan Runcio (both MFA alums), Pablo Guardiola (MFA advisor) and others // 6 - 9PM // Romer Young Gallery (1240 22nd St, SF)

FRI 28 // Opening // SOEX's Mission Voices Summer 2013 Exhibition with participation from Sadie Harmon and Dave Sandoval (both MFA alums) // 5 - 7PM // SOEX (3030 20th St, SF)

FRI 28 // Opening // "Boardwalk" by Kota Ezawa (MFA faculty) // 8PM // YBCA (3rd and Mission Sts, SF)

SAT 29 // Opening // "RISK: Berkeley Art Center's Annual Juried Exhibition" with work by Rebekah Goldstein (MFA alum) and others // 6 - 8PM // Berkeley Art Center (1275 Walnut St, Berkeley)

SUN 30 // Closing // "CORNERWAYS" with work by Seth Curcio and Dan Swindel // 12 - 5PM // 1050 47th Ave #6, OAK  [MORE INFO]

JULY // On View // "A Sense of Place" with work by John Chiara (MFA alum) // PIER 24 Photography (Pier 24, SF)
THU 4 // "POV Realities Revisited Part 3" with work by Arash Fayez (MFA '13) and others // Cropabox (Gent, Belgium) 
FRI 5 // Opening // "Navigating the New" with work by Anna Simson, Katie Dorame (both MFA alums) // 6 - 8PM // Pro Arts Gallery (150 Frank H. Ogawa Plaza, OAK)




(7/6) Marnia Johnston at Healdsburg Center for the Arts 
(7/7) Klea Mckenna at Eugean Gallery, Seoul
(7/8) Marnia Johnston at MOP Projects, Sydney Australia
(7/9 - 27) various performance workshops at MilkBar (MORE INFO)
(7/10) Nicole Markoff at 18 Reasons
(7/10) Arash Fayez at Root Division
(7/10) Stairwell's and Helene Schlumberger in Houston
(7/11) Anna Martine Whitehead at African American Arts and Culture Complex
(7/11) Klea McKenna at Rayko Photo Center
(7/12) Linda Fleming at CCA Munoz Waxman Galleries
(7/12) Rhema Ghuloum at Matters of Space
(7/12) Klea McKenna at The Lab
(7/15, 21, 22, 23) Anna Martine Whitehead with Dancer's Group
(7/18) Simone Bailey at Studio Museum in Harlem
(7/20) Allison Smith at Haines Gallery
(7/22 - 26) performance composition workshop with Mary Armentrout (MORE INFO)
(8/2) Zarouhie Abdalian at Berkeley Art Museum
(8/30 - 9/2) Headlands Deep Craft workshop with Lawrence Labianca and others

"American Landscape and the Apocalyptic Sublime" solo show by David Maisel (MFA faculty) at Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Arizona (through September 1)

"Four Tet" with work by Laurie Reid (MFA advisor) and others at JiM Contemporani, Barcelona

"Selfless" with work by Senalka McDonald (MFA alum) and others at Mark Wolfe Contemporary (through June 28)

"My Country Has No Name" solo show by Toyin Odutola (MFA '12)  at Jack Shainman Gallery, NY (through June 29)

"Words and Places: Etel Adnan" curated by the graduating class of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at CCA at the Wattis Institute, 360 Kansas St, SF (through June 29)

"Make active choices. Art and Ecology: A How-to Guide" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) and others at the Museum of Modern Art, städtische museen Freiburg, Germany (through September 8)

"Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition" with work by Jason Hanasik (MFA alum) at Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, DC (through February 23, 2014)








CCA GRAD FINE ARTS NEWSLETTER: wednesday june 19 - friday june 28, 2013




WEDNESDAY JUNE 19 - FRIDAY JUNE 28, 2013
A selection of what MFA facultystudentsalums & friends are up to this week....



 

// Congrats to Liz Moran (MA/MFA '14) on her Tierney Fellowship, which comes with a stipend of $5,000!

// Kudos to Marnia Johnston (MFA alum) on her ten week Anderson Ranch residency

// Cheers for Neil Rivas (MFA '13), Galeria de la Raza's first Artist in Residence!



// We are proud to announce that the Bean Gilsdorf Living History Museum (MFA alum) is now open to the public: www.beangilsdorf.com



 
SAT 22 // Performance // "WHAT IS THE OPPOSITE OF BOREDOM AND WHO IS CARRYING IT IN THEIR BACKPACK?" with participation from Mark Gabriel (DMBA) and others // 7PM // Student Center (SF) 
SUN 23 // Artist Talk // "Leslie Scalapino Memorial Lecture in Innovative Poetics: Petah Coyne" // 5PM // Timken Hall (SF)




THU 20 // Opening // "split focus" with work by Renee Gertler (MFA alum) and others // 5 - 8PM // Eleanor Harwood Gallery (1295 Alabama St, SF)

FRI 21 // On View // work by Simone Bailey (MA/MFA alum) // CDA Projects (Istanbul, Turkey)
FRI 21 // Artist Talk // "Studio Converstions: Ted Purves (MFA Chair) and Shane Aslan Selzer"  // 6PM // Celeste Bartos Theater, NYMOMA (11 West 53rd St, NYC)



SAT 22 // "Translucence: A Residency Fundraiser" with work by Marnia Johnston (MFA alum) // 4 - 6PM // Ruby's Clay Studio (552A Noe St, SF)
SAT 22 // Opening // "Definite Tussock" solo show by Kathryn Spence (MFA advisor) // 4 - 6PM // Front Gallery (1412 Bonnie Brae St, Houston TX) 
FRI 28 // Opening // "With Cinder Blocks We Flatten Our Photographs" with work by C Wright Daniel, Jonathan Runcio (both MFA alums), Pablo Guardiola (MFA advisor) and others // 6 - 9PM // Romer Young Gallery (1240 22nd St, SF)



(6/30) Cornerways closing reception
(7/4) Marnia Johnston at Healdsburg Center for the Arts 
(7/7) Klea Mckenna at Eugean Gallery, Seoul
(7/8) Marnia Johnston at MOP Projects, Sydney Australia
(7/9 - 27) various performance workshops at MilkBar (MORE INFO)
(7/10) Stairwell's and Helene Schlumberger in Houston
(7/11) Anna Martine Whitehead at African American Arts and Culture Complex
(7/11) Klea McKenna at Rayko Photo Center
(7/12) Linda Fleming at CCA Munoz Waxman Galleries
(7/12) Rhema Ghuloum at Matters of Space
(7/12) Klea McKenna at The Lab

(7/15, 21, 22, 23) Anna Martine Whitehead with Dancer's Group
(7/18) Simone Bailey at Studio Museum in Harlem
(7/20) Allison Smith at Haines Gallery
(7/22 - 26) performance composition workshop with Mary Armentrout (MORE INFO)

"Four Tet" with work by Laurie Reid (MFA advisor) and others at JiM Contemporani, Barcelona
"Selfless" with work by Senalka McDonald (MFA alum) and others at Mark Wolfe Contemporary (through June 28)


"Brush" by Nicole Markoff (MFA '12) at Edo Salon and Gallery, 601 Haight St, SF (through June 25)

"A spring a thousand years ago" by John Zurier (MFA faculty) at Peter Blum, NYC (through June 22)
"My Country Has No Name" solo show by Toyin Odutola (MFA '12)  at Jack Shainman Gallery, NY (through June 29)

"Words and Places: Etel Adnan" curated by the graduating class of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at CCA at the Wattis Institute, 360 Kansas St, SF (through June 29)

"Make active choices. Art and Ecology: A How-to Guide" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) and others at the Museum of Modern Art, städtische museen Freiburg, Germany (through September 8)

"Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition" with work by Jason Hanasik (MFA alum) at Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, DC (through February 23, 2014)






CCA GRAD FINE ARTS NEWSLETTER: wednesday june 12 - friday june 21, 2013



WEDNESDAY JUNE 12 - FRDAY JUNE 21, 2013
A selection of what MFA facultystudentsalums & friends are up to this week....




// Allison Smith (MFA faculty) got a review in the New York Times, and a write-up on the Art21 blog

// Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/MA alum) has launched a Kickstarter campaign for Question Bridge Interactive
// Art Practical's newest edition features articles written by Michele Carlson (MFA faculty), Bean Gilsdorf, Sarah Hotchkiss (both MFA alums)
// Carol Pulitzer's studio visit with Rema Ghuloum (MFA alum) at her Joan Mitchell Center residency in New Orleans is posted on NolaVie


 
NADA


THU 13 // Opening // "Trust in Me" with work by Jennine Scarboro (MFA '12) and others // 6 - 8PM // Field Projects (526 W 26th St #807, NYC)


THU 13 // Opening // "Science Fictions" organized by Ryan Thayer (MFA alum) and Simon Lindhardt (exhibition essay by Sarrita Hunn [MFA alum]) // 8PM // Cafe Warschau (Sonnenallee 27, Berlin)

FRI 14 // "SOEX MONSTER DRAWING RALLY" with participation from Saif Azzuz, Mark Benson, Val Britton, Mia Christopher, Gabriela Cobar, Katie Dorame, Wes Fanelli, Rebekah Goldstein, Maggie Haas, Courtney Johnson, Kara Joslyn, Sam Lopes, Hilary Pecis, Maria Porges, Radka Pulliam, Maja Ruznic, Zachary Royer Scholz, Erik Scollon, Allison Smith, Sarah Thibault, Melissa Wyman, Jake Ziemann and tons more! // 6 - 11PM // THE NWBLK (1999 Bryant, SF)

FRI 14 // Opening // "Just Make Something" with participation from Sarah Hotchkiss (MFA alum), Jackie Im (CURP alum), and others // 6 - 10PM // Interface Gallery (Temescal Alley, 486 49th St, OAK)

FRI 14 // "NewNewCA" with work by Kate Bonner, Liam Everett (both MFA alums) and others // 6 - 8PM // San Jose ICA (560 South First Street, San Jose) 

WED 19 - FRI 21 // Conference // "Transformation in a changing climate" with participation from Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) and others // University of Oslo, Norway (MORE INFO)

THU 18 // Opening // "Esalen Pacifica Prize Exhibition" with work by Sarah Hotchkiss and Rema Ghuloum (both MFA alums) // Arka Gallery (Vladivostok, Russia)
THU 20 // Opening // "split focus" with work by Renee Gertler (MFA alum) and others // 5 - 8PM // Eleanor Harwood Gallery (1295 Alabama St, SF)

FRI 21 // On View // work by Simone Bailey (MA/MFA alum) // CDA Projects (Istanbul, Turkey)


FRI 21 // Artist Talk // "Studio Converstions: Ted Purves (MFA Chair) and Shane Aslan Selzer"  // 6PM // Celeste Bartos Theater, NYMOMA (11 West 53rd St, NYC)



(6/22) Kathryn Spence at Front Gallery
(6/23) Petah Coyne in Timken Hall
(6/30) Cornerways closing reception
(7/7) Klea Mckenna at Eugean Gallery, Seoul
(7/9 - 27) various performance workshops at MilkBar (MORE INFO)
(7/10) Stairwell's and Helene Schlumberger in Houston
(7/11) Anna Martine Whitehead at African American Arts and Culture Complex
(7/11) Klea McKenna at Rayko Photo Center
(7/12) Linda Fleming at CCA Munoz Waxman Galleries
(7/12) Rhema Ghuloum at Matters of Space
(7/12) Klea McKenna at The Lab

(7/15, 21, 22, 23) Anna Martine Whitehead with Dancer's Group
(7/18) Simone Bailey at Studio Museum in Harlem
(7/20) Allison Smith at Haines Gallery

"History of Magic, Part 1..." solo show by Alison Blicke (BFA alum) at Eleanor Harwood (through June 15)

"Selfless" with work by Senalka McDonald (MFA alum) and others at Mark Wolfe Contemporary (through June 28)


"Brush" by Nicole Markoff (MFA '12) at Edo Salon and Gallery, 601 Haight St, SF (through June 25)


"Question Bridge"  by Chris Johnson (MFA faculty), Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/VCS '04), Bayeté Ross Smith (MFA '04) and Kamal Sinclair at the Missouri History Museum (through June 16)

"A spring a thousand years ago" by John Zurier (MFA faculty) at Peter Blum, NYC (through June 22)

"My Country Has No Name" solo show by Toyin Odutola (MFA '12)  at Jack Shainman Gallery, NY (through June 29)

"Words and Places: Etel Adnan" curated by the graduating class of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at CCA at the Wattis Institute, 360 Kansas St, SF (through June 29)

"Make active choices. Art and Ecology: A How-to Guide" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) and others at the Museum of Modern Art, städtische museen Freiburg, Germany (through September 8)

"Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition" with work by Jason Hanasik (MFA alum) at Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, DC (through February 23, 2014)


wednesday june 5 - friday june 14, 2013



Sorry for the delay, everyone - google keeps disabling the account I use to compose this beast of a newsletter... Enjoy!



// In the Make has accomplished their 40 West Coast Artist Studio Visit Mission! Check out the results.
// Take a look at more inspiring studio visits by Lindsey Westbrook with Bruno Fazzolari, Linda Geary, Curtis Arima (fire!), Allison Smith (all MFA faculty), Sarah Thibault, Zarouhie Abdalian (both MFA alums)
// Michelle Blade and Hillary Wiedemann (both MFA alums) got a nice review from Genevieve Quick in Temporary Art Review for their "Willing Transfer of Belief" show at Johansson Projects

 
NADA


ON VIEW // "Zeitgeist" with work by Nicole Hall and Benjy Blanco (MFA alum) // SOMArts Gallery (934 Brannan St, SF)

THU 6 // Opening // "DELTA" solo show by Adrian Mendoza, curated by Nicole Markoff (MFA alum) // 18 Reasons (3674 18th St, SF)



THU 6 // Artist Talk // "Upping the Story" with Senalka McDonald (MFA alum) // 12 - 1:30PM // Project Row Houses (2521 Holman Street, Houston)
FRI 7 // Opening // "Aid For USA and Canada" roundtable discussion and solo show by Allison Rowe (MFA alum) // 6:30PM // Centrale Galerie Powerhouse (4296 St-Laurent Boulevard, Montreal)
FRI 7 // Opening // "Landscapes: Near and Afar" with work by Donald Fortescue (MFA faculty) and others // 6 - 9PM // Vessel Gallery (471 25th St, OAK)
FRI 7 // AUCTION // "Changemaker Social 2013" benefiting Intersection for the Arts with work by Pablo Cristi, Julia Goodman, Scott Oliver, Susan O'Malley, Amber Stucke, Christine Wong Yap (all MFA alums), and many more // 7 - 10PM // TIX
SAT 8 // Opening // "Common Objects" with work by Christina Empedocles (MFA alum) // SCAPE: Southern California Art Projects and Exhibitions (2859 E. Coast Highway, Corona Del Mar)

SAT 8 // Performance // "The Something" with Shaun O'Dell (MFA faculty), Justin Hurty, Raphael Noz, Ben Vilmain (all MFA alums), and the MARFA grad seminar class // ? // ? (?, Marfa, Tejas)


SAT 8 // Opening // "NextNewCA" with work by Kate Bonner, Liam Everett (both MFA alums) and others // 6 - 8PM // San Jose ICA (560 South First Street, San Jose)

SAT 8 // Opening // "In my Hair: A Group Show" with work by Senalka McDonald (MFA alum) and others // 3 - 7PM // Medialia Gallery (335 West 38th St, 4th Fl, NYC)



SAT 8 // "Power to the People" discussion with Iain Boal and Fred Turner (CCA faculty Geoff Kaplan book release) // 5 - 7PM // Kadist Art Foundation (3295 20th St, SF)
SAT 8 // Opening // "Wassup Painters" with work by Liam Everett (MFA alum) and others // Anat Ebgi Gallery (2660 S. La Cienega Blvd, SF) 
SUN 9 // Gallery Hours // "CORNERWAYS" with Seth Curcio and Dan Swindel // 12 - 5PM // Boise-Cascade Building (1050 47th Ave, Unit #6, OAK)

SUN 9 // On View // "Traces and Accumulations" with work by Nathan Lynch (MFA faculty), Christine M. Peterson, David Fought (both MFA alum), Leonie Guyer (MFA advisor) // Traywick Contemporary (895 Colusa Avenue, Berkeley)


TUE 11 - SUN 16 // Art Fair // "Liste 18: young art fair at basel" with work by Liam Everett (MFA alum) with Altman Siegel // Art Fair Basel (Burgweg 15, Basel)


FRI 14 // "SOEX MONSTER DRAWING RALLY" with participation from Saif Azzuz, Mark Benson, Val Britton, Mia Christopher, Gabriela Cobar, Katie Dorame, Wes Fanelli, Rebekah Goldstein, Maggie Haas, Courtney Johnson, Kara Joslyn, Sam Lopes, Hilary Pecis, Maria Porges, Radka Pulliam, Maja Ruznic, Zachary Royer Scholz, Erik Scollon, Allison Smith, Sarah Thibault, Melissa Wyman, Jake Ziemann and tons more! // 6 - 11PM // THE NWBLK (1999 Bryant, SF)


FRI 14 // Opening // "Just Make Something" with participation from Sarah Hotchkiss (MFA alum), Jackie Im (CURP alum), and others // 6 - 10PM // Interface Gallery (Temescal Alley, 486 49th St, OAK)




(6/30) Cornerways closing reception
(7/7) Klea Mckenna at Eugean Gallery, Seoul
(7/10) Stairwell's and Helene Schlumberger in Houston
(7/11) Anna Martine Whitehead at African American Arts and Culture Complex
(7/11) Klea McKenna at Rayko Photo Center
(7/12) Linda Fleming at CCA Munoz Waxman Galleries
(7/12) Klea McKenna at The Lab
(7/15, 21, 22, 23) Anna Martine Whitehead with Dancer's Group
(7/20) Allison Smith at Haines Gallery

"Selfless" with work by Senalka McDonald (MFA alum) and others at Mark Wolfe Contemporary (through June 28)

"Brush" by Nicole Markoff (MFA '12) at Edo Salon and Gallery, 601 Haight St, SF (through June 25)

"Objects in Mirror are Closer than they Appear" with work by Patricia Esquivias (MFA alum) and others at Contemporary Image Collective, Cairo (through June 7)

"Present Tense: 2012-13 Graduate Fellows Exhibition" with work by Liam Everett (MFA alum), Kari Orvik (friend of the program) at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA (through June 9)


"Question Bridge"  by Chris Johnson (MFA faculty), Hank Willis Thomas (MFA/VCS '04), Bayeté Ross Smith (MFA '04) and Kamal Sinclair at the Missouri History Museum (through June 16)

"The Wait (...) La Espera" with work by Omar Mismar, Heidi Lubin, Jose Iniguez, Alex Bargas, Robert Gomez, Maral Hashemi at The Gallery at the Consulate General (through June 16)
"A spring a thousand years ago" by John Zurier (MFA faculty) at Peter Blum, NYC (through June 22)

"My Country Has No Name" solo show by Toyin Odutola (MFA '12)  at Jack Shainman Gallery, NY (through June 29)

"Words and Places: Etel Adnan" curated by the graduating class of the Graduate Program in Curatorial Practice at CCA at the Wattis Institute, 360 Kansas St, SF (through June 29)

"Make active choices. Art and Ecology: A How-to Guide" with work by Amy Balkin (MFA faculty) and others at the Museum of Modern Art, städtische museen Freiburg, Germany (through September 8)

"Outwin Boochever Portrait Competition 2013 Exhibition" with work by Jason Hanasik (MFA alum) at Smithsonian Portrait Gallery, DC (through February 23, 2014)