UCSB MFA EXHIBITION 2016 at the AD&A Museum at UC Santa Barbara
On Thursday, May 26 the Art 1A Visual Literacy lecture will be held at the AD&A Museum at UCSB– please be sure to arrive on time.
ASSIGNMENT: You will be taking pictures and Tweeting responses to the @ADAMuseum and @Art1AUCSB.
EXTRA CREDIT: For those among you looking to earn some extra credit, you can write a short, one to two page, exhibition response paper. You may write about the exhibition as a whole, or focus on a single artist featured. Please see the MFA Catalog below for more information about each of the artists and their work.
2016 MFA Catalog: http://www.arts.ucsb.edu/forms/2016-MFA_Catalog_Final.pdf
EXHIBITION DATES: Saturday, May 14, 2016 - 12:00pm to Sunday, May 29, 2016 - 5:00pm
The past two years have been a time of trials and errors, of successes and failures, and times of solitude and community life. The work presented here is the culmination of those two years of working, thinking, and being - inside and out of the graduate studios. Graduates Emily Baker, Vanesa Gingold, Morgan McAllister, Tom Pazderka, George Sanders, and Shannon Willis are as diverse in their approaches to making and media as they are in their conceptual leanings. Each brings their own investigations and subjectivities: the particular lens through which they process the world around them and by which their work functions. Yet, each is also united by the collective experience: by space, time, and conversation in this particular corner of paradise.
The exhibition is evidence of these dialogues: the ones we share with each other and the ones we have with ourselves. Conversations with our bodies, through materialities, with histories, through entanglement and displacement, through tools and apparatus, by decay and destruction, through skilled and deskilled labor, by directed research and internal investigation.
Come celebrate the most important work to date of six artists at the threshold of very promising careers.
Emily Baker will be doing a performance from 3:30-3:45, and I urge you to stay and watch if it doesn't present a conflict with another class. If you take pictures of her work please be sure to tag her @ebaker3684 (this is her Twitter and Instagram handle).
