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Catalyst for InnovationCatalyst for Innovation
Art students get creative outside gallery walls By Christine Byrd After more than a year away from campus due to the pandemic, Claire Trevor School of the Arts students were thrilled to get back into studios and in-person classes in fall 2021. For the five student leaders of the Catalyst...
Trailblazing Artist Ulysses Jenkins is being recognized for his critical work in video art Trailblazing Artist Ulysses Jenkins is being recognized for his critical work in video art
Groundbreaking video and performance artist. video and digital artist, Professor Ulysses Jenkins, presented the first major retrospective Ulysses Jenkins: Without Your Interpretation Feb. 5 - May 15, 2022, at the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. Below includes some of the various press and...
Tiffany López is named dean of UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the ArtsTiffany López is named dean of UCI’s Claire Trevor School of the Arts
Visionary arts and diversity leader comes from Arizona State University Tiffany López, Ph.D., visionary artist and administrator and proven champion for diversity and inclusion, has been named dean of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine, following a...
UCI M.F.A. Thesis Exhibitions 2022 head to the UAGUCI M.F.A. Thesis Exhibitions 2022 head to the UAG
M.F.A. Thesis Exhibition, Part I The Department of Art at the University of California, Irvine, is pleased to present the solo exhibitions of M.F.A. candidates Hiroshi Clark, Doris Rivera, and Gosia Wojas. This is the first round of 2022 M.F.A. thesis exhibitions. Please join us for the opening...
Forging a Common BondForging a Common Bond
Three UCI M.F.A. artists from 1969-71 reconvene in an Armory exhibition in Pasadena. By Richard Chang In 1969, three young women entered the newly formed M.F.A. program at UCI not really knowing what to expect. They were all divorcees with children. Each was doing a kind of art that was...
UCI’s Bruce Yonemoto is named a 2022 Guggenheim FellowUCI’s Bruce Yonemoto is named a 2022 Guggenheim Fellow
Professor of art is among 180 recipients of the renowned award Bruce Yonemoto, a video and digital media installation artist, educator, writer, curator, and professor of art at the University of California, Irvine, has been awarded a 2022 Guggenheim Fellowship. He joins 179 other American and...
A Whitney Biennial of Shadow and LightA Whitney Biennial of Shadow and Light
March 31, 2022 | By Holland Cotter After a year’s Covid delay, the latest Whitney Biennial has pulled into town, and it’s a welcome sight. Other recent editions — this is the 80th such roundup — have tended to be buzzy, jumpy, youthquake affairs. This one, even with many young artists...
A Year in Review: Eleanor Yu on Memory, the Pandemic, and Creative SufferingA Year in Review: Eleanor Yu on Memory, the Pandemic, and Creative Suffering
Support UCI Giving Day By Mia Hammett Art and Film and Media Studies double major Eleanor Yu is a third-year student with all the cool, calm, and collectedness of a seasoned artist. She’s driven to create by an equally acute attention and appreciation for the subtleties of modern...
A Haunting Film at UC Irvine is Not for the Faint of HeartA Haunting Film at UC Irvine is Not for the Faint of Heart
The immersive film Malka Germania (“Queen Germania” in Hebrew) references our personal and collective trauma about war and subjugation and artfully turns that trauma into manna. The 40-minute three-channel video is created by Israeli native Yael Bartana.
Los Angeles exhibit features work of video art pioneer Ulysses JenkinsLos Angeles exhibit features work of video art pioneer Ulysses Jenkins
PBS Newshour (CANVAS Arts), March 18, 2022 (Video) Ulysses Jenkins is considered a pioneer in the world of video art, which emerged as artists in the 1960s and '70s began using lighter and more affordable video cameras to create work and tell stories. One of the first Black artists in the field...
Art from displacement and lossArt from displacement and loss
(excerpt from the Los Angeles Times) Born a refugee, Jenny Yurshansky (UCI, M.F.A. '10) creates works about migration and inherited trauma. By Deborah Vankin When Jenny Yurshansky’s parents fled Soviet-era Moldova in 1978, they could take only a handful of items with them— what...
Steven Lam (Art M.F.A. '04) Named New School of Art Dean at CalArtsSteven Lam (Art M.F.A. '04) Named New School of Art Dean at CalArts
An experienced curator with a strong track record of higher education leadership, Steven Lam will join CalArts as its next dean of the School of Art. He’ll hold the Jill and Peter Kraus Distinguished Chair in Art, and is scheduled to begin July 15, 2022.
Ulysses Jenkins, a Daring Video Artist, Expanded Ideas of Blackness Ulysses Jenkins, a Daring Video Artist, Expanded Ideas of Blackness
Excerpt from Hyperallergic online. Feature by Allison Conner LOS ANGELES — “You’re just a mass of images you’ve gotten to know / From years and years of TV shows / The hurting thing, the hidden pain / Was written and bitten into your veins,” chants artist Ulysses Jenkins in his 1978 video...
Video Artist and Professor Ulysses Jenkins Finally Gets His MomentVideo Artist and Professor Ulysses Jenkins Finally Gets His Moment
By Richard Chang There are some talented people who create thought-provoking works all their lives, flying just below the radar and occasionally popping up for a moment in the spotlight. Ulysses Jenkins is one of those people. Jenkins is a professor of art, focusing on video, digital and...
12 Must-See U.S. Art Museum Shows in 202212 Must-See U.S. Art Museum Shows in 2022
Excerpt from Artnet News, January 13, 2022: 12 Must-See U.S. Art Museum Shows in 2022, From Philip Guston’s Scandal-Stalked Survey to Faith Ringgold’s Big New York Moment Plus, a full-scale Cézanne survey for a new generation, and Ulysses Jenkins gets the retrospective treatment in L.A....
The UAG hosts the American premiere of Yael Bartana’s "Malka Germania"The UAG hosts the American premiere of Yael Bartana’s "Malka Germania"
DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT *This article was updated on Jan. 4, 2022 to reflect the new opening date of Jan. 29, and on Jan. 27 to add the new closing date of April 8, 2022. IRVINE, Calif. – The University of California, Irvine’s University Art Galleries (UAG) is pleased to host the American...
TOP TEN: Sky Hopinka’s highlights of 2021 TOP TEN: Sky Hopinka’s highlights of 2021
#10 ULYSSES JENKINS (ICA PHILADELPHIA; CURATED BY MEG ONLI AND ERIN CHRISTOVALE) The work of Ulysses Jenkins was a revelation. Across the videos and performances featured in this career retrospective—among them Two-Zone Transfer, 1979, and Inconsequential Doggerel, 1981—one found a...
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