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...
The Beall Center to present works by computational art pioneer Vera Molnár: Variations The Beall Center to present works by computational art pioneer Vera Molnár: Variations
DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT The exhibition will include over 80 works by Molnár, the largest one person show of her work in the United States. Irvine, Calif., March 14, 2022 — The Beall Center for Art + Technology is honored to be the first gallery in the United States to present Variations, a...
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...
Arts Advocates: Mary Watson-BruceArts Advocates: Mary Watson-Bruce
OPERA AFICIONADO Q&A with Mary Watson-Bruce Mary Watson-Bruce, Ph.D. social sciences ’82, has an extensive history with UCI. She served as the associate director of geriatric medicine at UCI for ten years, and her late husband, Dickson Bruce, was a professor of history for over four...
Daphne Lei Appointed Director of UCI Illuminations, the Arts and Culture InitiativeDaphne Lei Appointed Director of UCI Illuminations, the Arts and Culture Initiative
Professor of Drama Daphne Lei has been appointed Director of UCI Illuminations, the Arts and Culture Initiative, effective Feb. 1, 2022. Provost Hal Stern made the announcement on behalf of Chancellor Howard Gillman on Jan. 28, 2022. Lei has served as interim director since Jan. 1, 2022. Lei has...
Christopher Adriance Named Vice President of Marketing for the Irvine Barclay TheatreChristopher Adriance Named Vice President of Marketing for the Irvine Barclay Theatre
Christopher Adriance (B.Mu. ’11) recently joined the Irvine Barclay Theatre as the Vice President of Marketing, overseeing the organization’s strategic marketing, branding and communications. Adriance joins the Barclay after eight years with the Pacific Symphony. During his time at the...
Learning the StepsLearning the Steps
Young alumni are prepared to thrive in their professional dance careers By Christine Byrd Lauren Gresens’ final performance as a student was a solo in North Star, a piece by acclaimed modern dance choreographer and UCI professor Lar Lubovitch. When she graduated a few months later, in June...
Curtains UpCurtains Up
UCI alumni and faculty help reopen live theater on Broadway and national tours By Christine Byrd One of Kaden Kearney’s, M.F.A. ’19, last performances before the pandemic was at the Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Now, Kearney is taking curtain calls at the Kennedy Center and the Ahmanson...
Making Music Together
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....
Ian Ingram’s Robot Menagerie Inhabits the Beall CenterIan Ingram’s Robot Menagerie Inhabits the Beall Center
The Beall Center’s Ian Ingram exhibition explores what the eponymous artist refers to as “animal morphology, robotic avatars, interspecies communication and technology in natural environments.” The 21 pieces in the exhibition involve 14 robots...
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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