Department of Art Honors Open Studios on Wednesday, January 28 from 4:00-6:00

What: Honors Open Studios

When: Wednesday, January 28 from 4-6pm

Where: Arts 0242 & Arts 1352

Who: The Department of Art Honors Cohort

Christopher Velasco Artist Talk: Thursday, November 21

Christopher Anthony Velasco, Untitled from the Fresh Donor series, 2018-2019, Archival Pigment Print, 32 x 25 inches. 

Artist Talk Featuring Christopher Velasco

Day: Thursday, November 21

Time: 12:30-1:45

Location: Buchanan 1930

Christopher Velasco is a mixed-media artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He primarily works in photography that utilizes self-portraiture/portraiture, performance, and the documentation of the urban landscape, with an emphasis on the queer brown body incorporating horror/camp aesthetics.  

 Christopher Anthony Velasco, Portrait of the Mad Scientist After the Surgery, 2019, Inkjet print, 8 x 10 inches. 

Christopher received his Master of Fine Arts from UC Santa Barbara in 2019.  He received his BFA from California Institute of the Arts and also studied at Art Center College of Design and East Los Angeles College. Velasco is a former Getty Marrow Undergraduate Intern where he interned at the Santa Monica Museum of Art (Now the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles) and UCLA’s Chicano Studies Research Center and Library. Velasco is educator, instructor at CSSSA (California State Summer School of the Arts), mentor and film nerd.Along with his partner, Dakota Noot, started “Scream Queen” a series of group shows highlighting people of color, women and queer artists whose work explores horror and the abject. Both Noot and Velasco are also members of Monte Vista Projects.

Velasco’s work has been featured in exhibitions at Art Center College of Design, AD&A Museum, Avenue 50 Studios, California Institute of the Arts, Hibbleton Gallery, Los Angeles Center for Digital Art, Photo-L.A., and Vincent Price Art Museum. He was included in Where We Live: Student Perspectives, an exhibition associated with the Getty Museum’s Where We Live: Photographs of America from the Berman Collection. In addition to his photographic work, he has also performed with Harry Gamoba, Jr. with Virtual Verite, Los Angeles Union Station, UC Santa Barbara, and Last Projects.

Christopher Anthony Velasco, Self-Portrait as the Mad Scientist-Before the Surgery, 2018, Inkjet print, 8 x 10 inches. 

Website: http://christopheravelasco.wix.com/cav-photography

ARTIST TALKS & EVENTS AT UCSB THIS WEEK

Happening at the Glass Box and Mini Box Galleries This Week

Temporary Clash 2019 | The Department of Art MFA Exhibition at the AD&A Museum

EVENT DATE: 

Saturday, May 11, 2019 to Sunday, June 2, 2019

The Department of Art is pleased to present the 2019 MFA thesis exhibition entitled Temporary Clash at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum, UC Santa Barbara. The exhibition will be on view from May 11-June 2, 2019. A reception will be held on Friday, May 17, 5:30-7:30pm at the AD&A Museum on the campus of UCSB. The exhibition is free and open to the public. 

These eight young artists—whose enigmatic works are exhibited at the AD&A Museum—have developed individual projects that collectively incorporate a broad range of materials, aesthetics, and methods. From discrete objects that transcend their mundane origins to paintings, photography, data programming projections, and weavings, they present an array of idiosyncratic sensibilities. These different approaches simultaneously accentuate each artist’s singular voice whilst harmonizing as a whole

MFA students to be exhibiting their work include Maiza Hixson, Madeleine Eve Ignon, Adam Jahnke, Kayla Mattes, Elisa Ortega Montilla, Andrew Morrison. Echo Theohar, and Christopher Anthony Velasco.

Cover image: Kayla Mattes, Firewall, 2019, handwoven cotton and hand-dyed wool. 

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