Anuradha Vikram
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January 25-February 11, 2012
Opening Wednesday, January 25, 5-8 PM
Exhibiting Artists:
Dru Anderson Dusadee Huntrakul Erin Johnson Sahar Khoury Jess Rowland Sean Talley
The Department of Art Practice at UC Berkeley is pleased to debut our MFA class of 2013. Introductions: 2012 First Year MFA Exhibition provides an opportunity to preview the work of these six emerging artists, who make art in a range of media including sculpture, drawing, assemblage, installation, sound and video.
Dru Anderson is currently deconstructing and reconstructing dreams using pastels as her medium. Her installation at Worth Ryder includes paintings and sculptures.
Dusadee Huntrakul works conceptually with found objects and installation. He also draws and builds things.
Utilizing video, audio, writing and sculpture, Erin Johnson's work examines the roles faith, technology, and desire play in communication. Recently, she has explored the entangled histories of the Spiritualist Church and the telegraph.
Sahar Khoury constructs formal, figurative, and architectural structures out of salvageable materials. She employs paint-dipping, cloth-wrapping, papier-mâché, and silkscreen in her installations, which vacillate between excessive ornamentation and skeletal.
Jess Rowland's artwork is Sound, Neuroscience, Video and Concept. She uses homemade electronics to integrate voice into everyday objects, made to mix and re-mix methods, ideologies, things that aren’t supposed to go together, into a whole which breaks artificial boundaries; breaks functionality or subverts it.
Made from unassuming materials such as plaster and graphite powder, Sean Talley's sculptures and drawings display a heightened aesthetic concern that recalls the formal inquiries of 20th century art practices.
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Worth Ryder Art Gallery
The Worth Ryder Art Gallery is located at 116 Kroeber Hall, and is open Tuesday through Saturday, Noon to 5pm. The gallery has served as a cultural and artistic hub for students (graduate and undergraduate), faculty, and the Bay Area community for over forty years. The gallery serves primarily as an exhibition platform for emerging contemporary artistic strategies and methodologies.
Archive of past shows can be viewed at https://picasaweb.google.com/ucbdapls
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Introductions: 2012 First Year MFA Show
So Low Show opens Wednesday
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SO LOW SHOW |
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November 30-December 10 Opening Wednesday, November 30, 4-7 PM |
| Valerie Carbajal Markham Johnson Nathaniel Klein Jessica Kreck Nancy Ledesma Alyssa Lempesis Bliss Morton Anjali Rao Ariel Ruby Stephanie Smith |
Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents Patty Chang
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PATTY CHANG  102 WURSTER HALL Since her sensational appearance on the New York art scene in the late 1990s with performance art and performance-based video works, Patty Chang has continually explored the limits of our physical and psychological comfort zone. Originally trained in painting, she is now primarily known for videos and photography documenting her own performances. Using her body as a medium of expression, she employs satire to question contemporary gender issues and to lead viewers to reconsider the popular image of China in the West and in Asia.
Patty Chang was born in San Leandro, California, in 1972. She currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Chang's latest solo exhibitions include “The Product of Love,” Mary Boone Gallery, New York (2009); and “Die Ware Liebe,” Arratia, Beer, Berlin, Germany (2009); recent group exhibitions include “Chewing Color: Patty Chang, Kate Gilmore, Marilyn Minter,” MTV HD Screen, Times Square, New York (2009); “The F Word,” The Western Front, Vancouver, Canada (2008); “You Are My Mirror 1 (Je T’aime Moi Non Plus),” FRAC Lorraine, Metz, France (2008). Image: Patty Chang, Captain, 2005. Video still. |
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The Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series is sponsored by the The Betsey Straub Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Endowment, The Bonwitt – Heine Memorial Lecture Endowment and the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice. February 13• Kianga Ford February 15 • Hachivi Edgar Heap of Birds • Co-sponsored by Native American Studies 160 Kroeber Hall |
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Worth Ryder Art Gallery closed Tuesday 11/14
The Worth Ryder Art Gallery will be closed on Tuesday, November 14 in observance of the UC Berkeley-wide strike and day of action.The Occupy Cal general assembly has endorsed the transformation the campus into an “Open University” in order to mark our opposition to the privatization of the university and also as a means of promoting the possibility of free and democratic education.Below, please find a schedule of events for Tuesday’s strike and day of action:12 p.m. A convergence on Sproul
(High) Noon – 2 p.m. Teach-outs at the Open University on Sproul
2 p.m. – 2:30 p.m Rally on Sproul against Police Brutality and Privatization
2:30 p.m March (destination TBA)
5 p.m. General AssemblyPlease consider lending your presence and support by participating in these events.
Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents Ted Purves and Susanne Cockrell
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TED PURVES AND SUSANNE COCKRELL
MONDAY, NOVEMBER 14 I 7:30 PM155 KROEBER HALL |
Susanne Cockrell and Ted Purves create social art projects that investigate the overlay of urban and rural systems upon the lives of specific communities. They ask questions about the nature of people and place as seen through social economy, history and local ecology. The collaboration began with Temescal Amity Works (2004-07), a public project which facilitated and documented the exchange of backyard produce, conversation, and collective biography within the Temescal neighborhood of Oakland, CA.
In addition to their collaborative practice, Purves and Cockrell are both professors at California College of the Arts (CCA) in San Francisco. Purves was the founder of CCA's MFA Area for Social Practice, and continues to be one of the lead professors for the central workshop within that curriculum. They have received a Creative Work Fund grant from the Elise and Walter Haas Foundation, a Visual Arts grant from the Creative Capital Foundation, an Investing in Artists Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation, as well as support from the Oakland Office of Cultural Affairs and California College of the Arts. |
| The Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series is sponsored by the The Betsey Straub Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Endowment, The Bonwitt – Heine Memorial Lecture Endowment and the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice. |
The Bucket Show and Falling Below Rising Above Opening Wednesday 11/9
| November 9-19 I Opening Wednesday, November 9, 4-7 PM |
 The Bucket Show I Advanced Sculpture, Meaning in Materials
Caity Ballister, Michael Burrell, Julian Harake, Kirstyn Hom, Jennifer Huang, Erin Johnson, Katy Philips, Ariel Ruby Falling Below Rising Above I Art and Meditation Amir Ajami, Li Bai, Caity Ballister, Trisha Cabantac, Xingfan Chen, Autumn Green, Tiana Hampton, Florence Hsueh, Anna Kim, Carmen Lau, IC Li, Michelle Mora, Jaehong Park, Justina Perio, Rogelio Pinto, Remington Price, Julia Tovar, Allyson Troxel, Adriana Villagran, Christina Wong, Vincent Yin
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Combat Paper/When the West Was Won/Recall Opening Tonight
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Combat Paper When the West Was Won Recall October 26-November 5 I Opening 4-7 PM |
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Worth Ryder Art Gallery presents three exhibitions that question and redefine constructs of masculinity and heroism in American culture. The exhibitions run concurrently from October 26-November 5. COMBAT PAPER has, since 2007, conducted workshops, performances, and exhibitions throughout the United States and abroad. It works directly with survivors of conflict to create works of and on handmade paper directly from their clothing and uniforms using traditional hand papermaking techniques. From September 21-23, Combat Paper Project led a hands-on workshop at UC Berkeley in the traditional process and techniques of hand papermaking, using uniforms and rags from the US military and transforming them into handmade paper which becomes the support for fine art prints made in an innovative technique called pulp printing. An exhibition of paper works made during the workshops in Wurster Hall will be on view at the Worth Ryder. Combat Paper lead artists: Drew Cameron, Drew Mattot Combat Paper at UC Berkeley is made possible by the Open Circle Foundation and the Yelling Clinic WHEN THE WEST WAS WON takes on the frontier as an imaginary place where the 'wilderness' begins, a bleak middle ground between familiar and unfamiliar spaces. What does the frontier look like when displaced, re-staged, or re-gendered? How does a body move in No Man's Land? Maya Pasternak looks at embodying 'the pioneer' from found photographs of 1960s Israel, Jake Ziemann re-interprets tropes of rural Americana through the lens of childhood mischief and peculiarity, and Katelyn Eichwald uses intimate paintings to talk about modern day cowboys and the dangers of loving them. Artists: Maya Pasternak, Jake Ziemann, Katelyn Eichwald RECALL seeks to mine the fantasy of American heroism by drawing imagery from deteriorating VHS copies of action films starring Arnold Schwarzenegger. RECALL appropriates existing cultural capital in order to call into question the iconography of the American action hero, as well as the aspects of the American psyche that that iconography reflects. Artist: Nicholas Almquist
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Visiting Artist Lecture Series presents Evan Holloway
EVAN HOLLOWAY MONDAY, OCTOBER 10 I 7:30 PM 
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The Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Lecture Series is sponsored by the The Betsey Straub Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Endowment, The Bonwitt – Heine Memorial Lecture Endowment and the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice.
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Artistic Research Symposium Tonight
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Artistic Research Symposium with Visiting Artists and Scholars from UC Berkeley and University of Gothenburg TONIGHT, 6-8 PM 102 Wurster Hall |
Participants: Dena Al-Adeeb, Annica Karlsson Rixon, Anna Viola Hallberg, Johan Oberg (University of Gothenburg), Dr. Lena Martinsson (University of Gothenburg), Greg Niemeyer (UC Berkeley Art Practice/BCNM); Moderator: Dr. Laura Fantone (SFAI) |
| "In Mind and Memory" (September 28-October 22, 2011) presents two research-based artistic collaborations. Accompanying the exhibition is a symposium that will address the relationship between academic research and contemporary art practice, as manifested in the emerging field of Artistic Research. This is a developing field at research universities around the world, but one as yet minimally represented within American institutions. The symposium will include a discussion with the artists about their creative processes and the role that research plays in their practices. This will be followed by a conversation about approaches to research in the arts and the humanities, within and outside of academic models. Participants include the artists as well as Gothenburg University faculty members Lena Martinsson and Johan Öberg, Art Practice faculty Greg Niemeyer, Beatrice Bain Research Group scholar Dr. Laura Fantone, and graduate students from the Working Group on Socialisms and Sexualities. Co-sponsored by UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice with Center for Middle Eastern Studies; Institute for Slavic, Eastern European and Eurasian Studies; Scandinavian Department; Center for Race and Gender; Beatrice Bain Research Group; Center for the Study of Sexual Cultures; and Townsend Center for the Humanities at UC Berkeley. Support for the exhibition also provided by IASPIS, The Swedish Art Grants Committee's International Programme for Visual Artists; Faculty of Fine, Applied and Performing Arts, University of Gothenburg; Department of Cultural Sciences, University of Gothenburg; Pro Suecia Barbro Osher Foundation; The Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation; and The Painter’s Place, San Francisco. |
IN MIND AND MEMORY opening Wednesday 4-7 PM
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Reception Wednesday, September 28, 4-7 PM |
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Artistic Research Symposium with Visiting Artists |
| Research Presentations hosted by the Townsend Working Group on Socialisms & Sexualities Monday, October 3, 1-4 PM Worth Ryder Art Gallery |
