Alumni News 2009
Studio Art
ANYONE TRAVELING TO WOODSTOCK?
If you're going to be in Woodstock, NY, through July 26, 2009, be sure to stop by the Center for Photography at Woodstock, where CTSA alumn Betsy Seder is being featured in Photography NOW 2009. Her series Time and Space Died Yesterday references Italian director Michelangelo Antonioni's film L'Eclisse (1962). The film explores the cityscape of EUR, a suburb of Rome that was established by Mussolini as the site of the never-realized 1942 World's Fair and the seat of a future Facist empire. Seder's images create a setting for a new imagined narrative in which visions of modernism, utopia and dystopia overlap. The exhibit is being curied by Charlotte Cotton, curator and head of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Dept. at LACMA.
IN LOS ANGELES
June 27-July 8, 2009 Opening Reception: Saturday June 27, 7:00-9:00 p.m.
LA ART presents
The artists in this exhibition work in the disciplines of photography, video, performance, installation, sculpture, drawing, and painting, and engage with subjects that range from identity, language, and architecture, to the body, institution, and globalization. A performance by Civin will be featured during the reception on June 27 at 7:30 p.m.
Students from unique backgrounds and experiences seek out UCI's rigorous three-year MFA program, which emphasizes experimental and interdisciplinary approaches to art making within an intellectual and theoretical framework.
Please visit www.mfa2009.org to preview work by the artists exhibiting in Monster Mongers and Retailers of Other Strange Satellites.
LA ART
T. 310.559.0166 F.310.559.0167 www.laxart.org
Open Tuesday through Saturday 11:00 a.m. to 6:00 p.m. Closed July 4.
FAN MAIL!
From: Mary Isaksen Posted At: Monday, June 15, 2009 12:24 PM
Posted To: ucimagazine@uci.edu
Conversation: Teal Wicks is incredible!
Subject: Teal Wicks is incredible!
It was by some miracle that we snagged eighth-row tickets to last Saturday's evening performance of "Wicked" in SF at the Orpheum (it was a miracle, because we bought them Saturday morning at the kiosk on Union Square!) As I paged through the Playbill awaiting the start of the show, I read with great delight that Elphaba would be played by a UCI alumnus, because my son and daughter-in-law are both UCI alumni! David (DiGiorgio) was Class of 1998 (two BS degrees, Mechanical Engineering and Computer Science); my daughter-in-law (Kara Wald) was (I think) Class of 1997 (Chemistry). What I couldn't know before the show started was the mind-blowing level of talent Teal Wicks was going to bring to this performance. I couldn't have been prouder of her if I were her own mother; she was glorous.
I hope to see a lot more of Teal in the future; she is Broadway bound for sure. Please convey my congratulations to her.
Mary Isaksen
San Juan Bautista, CA