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  • Phantom Presence: Fall 2009 University Club Exhibition

    Daily: Monday 08/24/2009 - Wednesday 12/16/2009; All day
    University Park Campus University Club

    PHANTOM PRESENCE
    Fall 2009 Faculty, Student, & Alumni Exhibition

    Julia Paull, Roski facutly, with

    Amanda Alfieri, Senna Chen, Renée Martin, Joey Lehmann Morris, and Natalie Shriver

    Curated by Cesar Garcia (MPAS '09)
    & Julia Paull

    Opening reception: Thursday, Sept. 10, 2009 | 4–5:30 pm
    The USC University Clu, 645 West Exposition Blvd.
    Please RSVP at 213-740-5208 by Friday, Sept. 4

     

  • Undergraduate Exhibition: FA 309, Blank Stare

    Daily: Friday 11/13/2009 - Wednesday 12/02/2009; All day
    University Park Campus Graduate Fine Arts Building 3001 Gallery

    Reception: Thursday, November 19, 6–9 pm

    The 3001 Gallery was established by the Photography Area at the USC Roski School of Fine Arts in 2009. It is located in the Advanced Photography Lab in the IFT building which is located on the southwest corner of 30th Street and Flower Street. Enter from the 30th Street entrance.

    Savannah Wood
    Josh Zeive
    Sherry Zambrano
    Jon Wingo
    Craig Stubing
    Molly Murphy
    Lisa Losorelli
    Josh Dunn
    Erica Doo
    Akhila Bhoopalam

  • MFA Exhibition: Kenneth Tam & Tellef Tellefson, Can Straw Men Build Straw Houses?

    Daily: Wednesday 11/18/2009 - Saturday 11/28/2009; All day
    Gayle & Ed Roski MFA Gallery
    Graduate Fine Arts Building 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007

    Opening reception: Thurs., Nov. 19, 6–9 pm

  • Undergraduate Exhibition: FA 450, Apocalypse WOW!

    Daily: Thursday 11/19/2009 - Friday 11/27/2009; All day
    Pacific Design Center
    Room B239 8687 Melrose Avenue Los Angeles CA 90069

    Reception: Thurs., Nov. 19, 5–8 pm

    Janelle Carabajal
    Heber Rodriguez
    Isabelle Alford-Lago
    Renata Popenhagen
    Jen Wohlner
    Betsy Lastar
    Jon Wingo
    Katie Martinez
    Nicole Arnell
    Mor Germezi
    Robin Hextrum
    Senna Chen
    Max Skeen
    Martin Benson
    Sydney Mills

    The sky is falling! The sky is falling! These familiar words acknowledge the current sense of alarmism while evoking the potential for real danger. Based on real or perceived fears, the Apocalypse takes form as a shared social psychosis.  The work in Apocalypse WOW! —which includes painting, drawing, photography, video, printmaking, and mixed media installation—reconsiders this phenomenon by questioning the role of dominant structures and irreverently injecting humor into the veins of a serious subject. Working with issues as diverse as environmental vulnerability, the digitization of everything, future dystopia, and the complexity of connectedness, the young artists of Apocalypse WOW! are examining a more nuanced set of possibilities for their existence in a time of great uncertainty…while you run for the hills!

    The gallery is located in room B239 and is open Monday through Friday from noon to 5 pm.

  • Undergraduate Exhibition: FA 205B/305

    Daily: Thursday 11/19/2009 - Friday 12/04/2009; 9:00 AM - 7:30 PM
    University Park Campus USC Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery

    FA 305 Advanced painting/ FA 205 Int. Painting

    Closing Reception: Tuesday, December 1 | 6-9 pm

    Students participating in this exhibition are:

    •  Kimberly Bednar             
    • Tina Coles
    • Leslie Flores
    • Mindy Goto
    • Theo Goldrach
    • Yesol Ko
    • Sarah Lawes
    • Katrina MacGregor
    • Guinn Singer
    • Jennifer Yoo
    • Mira Gandy
    • Sophie Gosper
    • Michelle Homami
    • Thomas Mora
    • Ayano Tsuchiya

  • Undergraduate Exhibition: FA 409, Hey Man, You're Saved

    Daily: Saturday 11/21/2009 - Sunday 12/06/2009; All day
    Reception: Sunday, November 22, 5 - 8 pm
    Monte Vista 5442 Monte Vista Street Los Angeles CA 90042

    Monte Vista is proud to present Hey Man, You’re Saved, a group exhibition of new work by nine insightful and diverse artists from the USC Roski School of Fine Arts: Meredith Bayse, Senna Chen, Lucas Clauser, Caitlin Disney, Daniel Doperalski, Hannah Huang, Sydney Mills, Michelle San Agustin, and Kendall Sinclair. Operating between the ideal world of the concept and the structured site of the gallery, the work of these artists manifests through different media to explore appropriated sound and imagery, photographic process, fantastical and constructed landscapes, and the flux of identity. Hey Man, You’re Saved. So come in and be rescued from the monotony of visual consumption. Lets get saved!
     
    Public Dialogue - Wednesday, December 2, 7 - 9:30 pm:

    Henry Jenkins and Sydney Mills, Whiz, Bang, Shimmer, Pop: The Rise, The Fall and The Future of The Video Game Arcade

    Henry and Hannah Huang, Birth and Rebirth: The Jesus People in Community

  • Handtmann Photography Lecture Series presents: Arthur Ou

    Monday 11/23/2009: 2:00 PM - 5:00 PM
    University Park Campus Graduate Fine Arts Building Room 141

    Arthur Ou is a New York-based artist and Assistant Professor at Parsons The New School for Design. He has been the subject of solo exhibitions at Hudson Franklin in New York, IT Park Gallery in Taipei, and the Taipei Fine Arts Musuem. This year, he had a two-person show with Alice Könitz at LAXART, and last year he curated The World Is All That Is the Case at Hudson Franklin. In group contexts, Ou's work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, Chicago, London, Beijing, Berlin, Helsinki, Copenhagen, and Albuquerque, among others. Born in Taipei in 1974, Ou holds a BFA from The New School and an MFA from Yale.

  • Master of Fine Arts Lecture Series presents: Yvonne Rainer

    Wednesday 12/02/2009: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
    University Park Campus Graduate Fine Arts Building Lecture Forum

    Artist, dancer, choreographer, filmmaker, and writer Yvonne Rainer has been called "an avant-garde giant" by the New York Times. Born in San Francisco in 1934, she was one of the founders of the Judson Dance Theater in 1962, the genesis of a movement that proved to be a vital force in modern dance in the following decades. Between 1962 and 1975 she presented her choreography throughout the United States and Europe. Since 1972 Rainer has completed seven feature-length films, beginning with Lives of Performers and, more recently, Privilege (1990, winner of the Filmmakers Trophy at the 1991 Sundance Film Festival and the Geyer Werke Prize at the 1991 International Documentary Film Festival in Munich), and MURDER and murder (1996, winner of the Teddy Award at the 1997 Berlin Film Festival and Special Jury Award at the 1999 Miami Lesbian and Gay Film Festival). She is the recipient of numerous awards and fellowships, notably two Guggenheim Fellowships, a MacArthur Fellowship, a Wexner Prize, seven NEA awards, three Rockefeller Fellowships, and four honorary doctor of fine arts degrees.

    Yvonne Rainer, Trio A, 1978. 16mm film produced by Sally Banes.

  • Henry Jenkins and Sydney Mills, Whiz, Bang, Shimmer, Pop: The Rise, The Fall and The Future of The Video Game Arcade

    Wednesday 12/02/2009: 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
    Monte Vista 5442 Monte Vista Street Los Angeles CA 90042

    Please join artist Sydney Mills and American media scholar Henry Jenkins for Whiz, Bang, Shimmer, Pop: The Rise, The Fall and The Future of The Video Game Arcade.

    Together with audience members, Mills and Jenkins will examine the transformation from epicenters of the vibrant, budding gaming subculture of the early 1980s into modest communities struggling to keep their doors open.

    Refreshmnents to follow.

    This event is a part of FA 409, Hey Man, You're Saved.

     

  • Henry and Hannah Huang, Birth and Rebirth: The Jesus People in Community

    Wednesday 12/02/2009: 8:30 PM - 9:30 PM
    Monte Vista 5442 Monte Vista Street Los Angeles CA 90042

    Henry Huang, a long-term Jesus People member and his artist/engineer daughter, Hannah Huang, will discuss Birth and Rebirth: The Jesus People in Community. The Jesus People USA is one of the few intentional Christian communities remaining today, situated near uptown Chicago.  Topics include street witnessing, sustainable communal living, and the deep rooted subculture that results from this dynamic existence.

    Refreshments before at 8pm.

    This event is a part of FA 409, Hey Man, You're Saved.

  • ADDITIVE: Third Alumni Exhibition

    Daily: Thursday 12/03/2009 - Wednesday 12/16/2009; 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM
    University Park Campus Graduate Fine Arts Building Gayle and Ed Roski MFA Fallery

    Opening Reception: Thusday, December 3 | 6-9 pm

    Exhibition includes:

    • Carole Caroompas (MFA ‘71)
    • Jan Handtmann (BFA ’74)
    • Stan Hunter (MFA ‘00)
    • Tomo Isoyama (MFA ’00)
    • Mark Licari (MFA ‘00)
    • John O’Brien (MFA ‘89)
    • Laura Stickney (MFA ’76)
    • William Tunberg (BFA ‘63, MFA ’64)

  • MPAS OPEN HOUSE for prospective students with director Joshua Decter

    Monday 12/07/2009: 2:00 PM
    Graduate Fine Arts Building, Lecture Forum Room 109 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007

    Map

    Please RSVP to Elizabeth Lovins at pasprog@usc.edu or 213-743-8540.

    Joshua Decter, Director of the MPAS Program, will give a presentation at 2 pm.

    The Master of Public Art Studies Program (Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere) is a unique platform in which to research art and curatorial practices in relation to the social conditions of public space, and the contemporary public sphere.

    The program’s innovative 2-year interdisciplinary course of study encompasses seminars on the history of exhibitions, social & urban theory, art writing & criticism, art/architectural history, and a curatorial practicum in which students collaborate on the organization of a public-space exhibition project.

    Director of the program, curator and critic Joshua Decter – in conjunction with a faculty of leading curators, arts professionals, art historians, critics and artists such as Rhea Anastas, Lauri Firstenberg, Michael Ned Holte, Karen Moss, Carol Stakenas, Edgar Arceneaux and Christina Ulke advise students on the research and writing of a scholarly thesis.

    Recent guest speakers have included Ute Meta Bauer, Teddy Cruz, Mark Dion, Sam Durant, Andrea Fraser, Rudolf Frieling, Hou Hanru, Paul Ramirez Jonas, Grant Kester, Norman Klein, Miwon Kwon, Rick Lowe, Allan McCollum, Anne Pasternak, Patricia Phillips,  Marjetica Potrc, Gregory Sholette, Nato Thompson and Krzysztof Wodiczko.

    RSVP To Elizabeth Lovins at pasprog@usc.edu

    Wangechi Mutu, Mrs. Sarah's House, 2008-2009, Installation view, Prospect. 1 Lower Ninth Ward, New Orleans.
    Photograph by Joshua Decter.