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Steve Davis on Kazegama Daily: Wednesday 01/18/2012 - Sunday 03/04/2012; 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM University Park Campus Watt Hall, Ground Floor Galen Ceramics Studio, Room 107 Lecture: Wednesday, January 18th, 9 am and 2 pm Workshop & Firing: “Kazegama: An Alternative to Woodfiring,” Saturday, March 3rd, 9 am–6 pm Kiln will be unloaded: Sunday, March 4th, 9–11 am Wednesday’s lectures will cover the development of the “Kazegama” and preparations for the production and firing of students’ ceramic works. Steve Davis will discuss a brief history of Japanese woodfired ceramics, its influence on American Ceramics, and the development of an alternative kiln (the Kazegama) that produces results similar to Japanese woodfired ceramics. On the day of the workshop, students will be involved in the loading and firing of the kiln. During the firing of the kiln, Steve will share his approach towards clay and aesthetics through demonstrations. For additional information, go to kazegamas.com. SUPERHIGHWAY Weeks 3 & 4: Jennifer Wong Daily: Monday 01/23/2012 - Sunday 02/05/2012; 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM Superhighway University Gateway 3335 S. Figueroa Street Los Angeles CA 90007 Building Form On view in Superhighway from January 23rd–February 5th is a loop of student work. Jennifer Wong, Matchstick/Big Stick, 2011 Jennifer Wong, Gelatin Effect, 2011 Superhighway is located just inside the main entrance of the recently completed University Gateway apartment building, at Figueroa and Jefferson. The space is open from 10 am to 8 pm every day. Image: Jennifer Wong, still from Matchstick/Big Stick, 2011. New Turf: Ceramics Exhibition Daily: Monday 01/30/2012 - Thursday 02/09/2012; 8:30 AM - 7:00 PM University Park Campus Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery Watt Hall, Ground Floor An exhibition featuring the work of advanced and beginning ceramics students Reception: Monday, February 6th, 5–7 pm Net Work I.R.L. (in this room) Daily: Monday 01/30/2012 - Wednesday 02/15/2012; 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM STATION Gallery Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007 Reception: Wednesday, February 15th, 8:30–10 pm Helen Adamidou Anthony Antonellis Jeff Baij Chris Coy Jasper Elings Lois Hopwood Jordan Levine Guthrie Lonergan Erik Peterson QIL david SZAKALY slothwave Kathleen Stevenson Joshua Caleb Weibley Organized by Donnie Cervantes Exhibition designed with QIL IJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZABCDEFGH GIF is one of those computer words commonly used but rarely spoken. If I assume a general user, I opt for the more popular hard “G” /gif/ instead of the original /dʒɪf/ as in “gym”. To a hard G’s defense the G does stand for “Graphics”. However, the acronym’s own inventors have always emphatically stressed that it should sound like “Jif” the peanut butter. So “Jif” it is when I’m being choosy. Even then I tentatively amend that under my breath with a hard “G” to play things safe. I know this is internet nerd esoterica, but it underscores my point: that the word’s phonetic oscillations nicely evoke its temporal, oft-animated situation across multiple states. Visually and semantically, the GIF loops back on itself and the speaker like an unsure ouroboros forever updating its own tail. –Chris Coy Image: Erik Peterson, Rendering Error (Sunset), gif, 2012. Ian Stanton, Hello m_rosa, 2012 Daily: Monday 01/30/2012 - Wednesday 02/15/2012; 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM 3001 Gallery Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007 Reception: Wednesday, February 15th, 8:30–10 pm Date: Mon, 19 Dec 2011 3:08 To: m_rosa, Subject: Hhello Hello m_rosa, You were in your bathroom when I clicked into your broadcast page. Your bathroom is very beautiful. I’ve never felt so captivated with something for reasons I am unable to articulate. Perhaps it was the non-sex that halted my quick and passive perusing. The genuineness of your desire to share yourself with your watchers. I didn’t participate in the chat though I wondered if I should have, but thought—just another number on your guest-counter—maybe it was enough for me to watch you anonymously… silently. I felt as if there was some reciprocal and mutual desires to just (for lack of a better word) connect. To be present with you—script-less, erotic-less, face-less, name-less. Though, I wish you could have seen or felt my excitedness when I saw that you were about to play the piano. I used to play music. very best, istanton SUPERHIGHWAY: Ian Stanton Daily: Monday 02/06/2012 - Sunday 02/26/2012; 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM Superhighway University Gateway 3335 S. Figueroa Street Los Angeles CA 90007 On view in Superhighway from February 6th–26th is a loop of student work. Ian Stanton, Ishihara Color-Blind Test, 2011 Ian Stanton, Experiment with Cross-Linguistics Onomatopoeias, 2011 Superhighway is located just inside the main entrance of the recently completed University Gateway apartment building, at Figueroa and Jefferson. The space is open from 10 am to 8 pm every day. Image: Ian Stanton, still from Ishihara Color-Blind Test, 2011. Galen Ceramics Lecture Series: Julia Haft-Candell Wednesday 02/08/2012: 9:00 AM University Park Campus Watt Hall, Ground Floor Galen Ceramics Studio, Room 107 "Complexities" Julia Haft-Candell will be speaking about the evolution of her work over the past few years, as well as the inspiration behind it. She will also talk about different possible approaches to maintaining an artistic practice post graduate school. Julia Haft-Candell was born in Oakland, and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her BA in studio art from UC Davis in 2005 and her MFA from Cal State Long Beach in 2010. She currently is a part time ceramics instructor at CSULB, and teaches 3D Design at CSU Northridge. She will be part of an upcoming two-person exhibition at Greenwich House Pottery in New York in April 2012. Image: Julia Haft-Candell, Bustle, 2012. Fired porcelain and terra cotta, glaze, wood, silk, thread, 60 x 52 x 24 inches. Graduate Lecture Series: Rodney McMillian Wednesday 02/08/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lecture Forum Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007 Rodney McMillian's artistic practice embodies a wide range of media and techniques. An overarching concern in his work is the relationship between process, language or representation, and idea. He was a United States Artists Broad Fellow in 2008 and the received the William H. Johnson Prize in 2007. McMillian had recent solo exhibitions at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects and the Institute of Contemporary Art (ICA), Boston. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions worldwide, including the Whitney Biennial (2008), Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; The California Biennial 2008, Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach; Philosophy of Time Travel, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; Ordinary Culture: Heikes/Helms/McMillian, Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Painting in Tongues, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the traveling exhibition Uncertain States of America, Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art, Oslo; USA Today, Royal Academy of Art, London; Thing: New Sculpture from Los Angeles, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Frequency, Studio Museum in Harlem, New York, and the 2010 Artist lecture/Performance in collaboration with Tracie D. Morris and Chicava HoneyChild, “A Proposition by Rodney McMillian: 13 Unrelated Ideas,” at the New Museum, New York, NY. McMillian holds a BA in Foreign Affairs from the University of Virginia and an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2002. He serves as Assistant Professor, Sculpture, in the UCLA Department of Art. Elvira Clemente: Heads Daily: Friday 02/10/2012 - Thursday 02/23/2012; 8:30 AM - 7:00 PM University Park Campus Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery Watt Hall, Ground Floor Independent Student Exhibition Anna Helm: Light Slice Daily: Friday 02/10/2012 - Thursday 02/23/2012; 8:30 AM - 7:00 PM University Park Campus Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery Watt Hall, Ground Floor Reception: Friday, February 17th, 5–7 pm Independent Student Exhibition Graduate Lecture Series: Phil Collins Wednesday 02/15/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lecture Forum Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007 In his films, photographs, installations and live events Phil Collins explores the nuances of social relations in various locations and global communities. He often subverts the conventions of photojournalism to focus on the inherent contradictions of individual and collective systems of representation. Dissecting the political and aesthetic implications of popular visual formats, Collins’s works indicate that the meaning of a picture—be it still or moving—resides neither in its form nor its subject-matter, but in the transferences it establishes between the producer, the subject and the viewer. Throughout, Collins maintains a combination of critical consciousness, immediacy, and the recognition of the camera's ambivalent potential as an agent of emancipation and exploitation, desire and betrayal. Collins is based in Berlin and Cologne, where he is a professor of video art at the Kunsthochschule für Medien. His works are held in significant public collections such as, among others, Tate Gallery, London; Museum of Modern Art, New York; and Walker Art Center, Minneapolis. Greg Wilken: Compositions for Acrylic Drum Daily: Monday 02/20/2012 - Wednesday 03/07/2012; 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM STATION & 3001 Galleries Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007 Comprised of 8 pieces on view at Station and 3001 Gallery, Greg Wilken pays homage to a machine that has occupied a unique place in photographic history—the drum scanner. As its name implies, the film is mounted on to the surface of a clear acrylic drum, which is then spun around a narrow beam of light and an optical pick up. Using attributes unique to the drum scanner, Wilken plays up the loss of the hand in photography by showing fingerprints in the clear tape used to mount images to the drum. The machines scanning ability is used to reveal that which was generally hidden and has now become almost completely absent, the labor of the operator. On the other hand, unique qualities of the machine are used to playful effect. Some images wrap around from top to bottom, highlighting their scanned lineage from a drum. Wilken explores issues of liminality and tactility in this new work by not only highlighting but also creatively utilizing an intermediate stage of photographic production normally regarding as a means-to-an-end tool. Graduate Lecture Series: David Levi Strauss Wednesday 02/22/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lecture Forum Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007 David Levi Strauss is the author of From Head to Hand: Art & the Manual (2010), Between the Eyes: Essays on Photography and Politics, with an introduction by John Berger (2003), Between Dog & Wolf: Essays on Art and Politics (1999), Broken Wings: The Legacy of Landmines (1998), and a book of poems, Manoeuvres (1980). His essays and reviews appear regularly in Artforum and Aperture. He has contributed to exhibition catalogues and monographs on the work of numerousartists, including Martin Puryear, Ursula von Rydingsvard, Carolee Schneemann, Alfredo Jaar, Daniel Martinez, Francesca Woodman, Mike Bidlo, Terry Winters, Miguel Rio Branco, Tim Davis, and Leon Golub. Strauss was a Guggenheim fellow in 2003-4 and received the Infinity Award for Writing from the International Center of Photography in 2007. He was on the faculty of the Center for Curatorial Studies at Bard College from 2000-2005, and is now Chair of the graduate program in Art Criticism & Writing at the School of Visual Arts in New York. MFA OPEN STUDIOS Saturday 02/25/2012: 5:00 PM - 10:00 PM University Park Campus Graduate Fine Arts Building The Roski School of Fine Arts at the University of Southern California is pleased to announce the annual Graduate Open Studios event. Visit each of the 16 MFA studios, grab a drink with MFA candidates and join members of LA’s vibrant arts community for a film and video screening, live musical performances and DJ sets. Take advantage of this rare and intimate opportunity to meet and engage with up-and-coming artists and see their work firsthand. Light refreshments will be served. The Master of Fine Arts Program at USC is a two-year, full-time, studio-based program located in the center of Los Angeles. The program provides a highly individualized experience, and its interdisciplinary nature encourages wide-ranging experimental and intellectual exploration. MFA students work with an expanded community of professional artists, critics, and curators who participate in the weekly Visiting Lecture Series, teach Critical Studies courses, and participate in thesis committees. MFA CANDIDATES: Karen Adelman Carolina Caycedo Tyler Coburn Chris Coy Lila De Magalhaes Chris Engman Erin Foley Marc Horowitz Jibade-Khalil Huffman Dwyer Kilcollin Paul Salveson Rachelle Sawatsky Sean Townley Kristen VanDeventer J. Patrick Walsh III Barak Zemer LOCATION AND DIRECTIONS: 3001 S. Flower St. Los Angeles CA, 90007 Map The Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) is located at 3001 South Flower Street, on the corner of 30th Street and Flower Street. Please enter from the W 30th Street entrance. Limited parking is available on site and on nearby streets. Call 213.743.1804 for directions. SUPERHIGHWAY: Chris Hanke & Michael Castillo Daily: Monday 02/27/2012 - Sunday 03/11/2012; 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM Superhighway University Gateway 3335 S. Figueroa Street Los Angeles CA 90007 On view in Superhighway from February 27–March 11 is a loop of student work. Chris Hanke, Effacements Michael Castillo, Not in Focus Superhighway is located just inside the main entrance of the recently completed University Gateway apartment building, at Figueroa and Jefferson. The space is open from 10 am to 8 pm every day. Image: Chris Hanke, still from Effacements. Tim Linden: Four Weeks Duration Daily: Tuesday 02/28/2012 - Friday 03/09/2012; 8:30 AM - 7:00 PM University Park Campus Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery Watt Hall, Ground Floor Reception: Wednesday, February 29th, 6–7:30 pm Independent Student Exhibition Marcello Dolce: [ ] Daily: Tuesday 02/28/2012 - Friday 03/09/2012; 8:30 AM - 7:00 PM University Park Campus Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery Watt Hall, Ground Floor Reception: Wednesday, February 29th, 6–7:30 pm Independent Student Exhibition