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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. 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. 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 Graduate Lecture Series: Andrea Zittel Wednesday 03/07/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lecture Forum Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007 Andrea Zittel’s sculptures and installations transform life’s central but often unnoticed activities—such as eating, sleeping, bathing, and socializing—into artful experiments in living. Her work has been included in group exhibitions such as the Venice Biennale, Documenta X, Skulptur Project in Munster, and both the 1995 and the 2004 Whitney Biennials. She has had solo exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, The Carnegie Museum in Pittsburgh, The Diechtorhallen in Hamburg, The Whitney Museum of American Art at Altria, NY; The Museum for Gegenwartskunst in Basel, and the The Louisiana Museum in Denmark. In 2006 the solo survey exhibition of her work, Critical Space, traveled to The New Museum of Contemporary Art, New York; the Contemporary Arts Museum, Houston, TX; the Albright-Knox Art Gallery in Buffalo, NY; the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art; and the Vancouver Art Gallery. Andrea Zittel is represented by Andrea Rosen Gallery in New York City, Regen Projects in Los Angeles, Sadie Coles HQ in London, Massimo DeCarlo in Milan, and Spruth-Magers in Munich. She is a co-organizer of High Desert Test Sites in Joshua Tree, CA. Nihura: El Rincon y La Moneda Daily: Friday 03/16/2012 - Wednesday 03/28/2012; 8:30 AM - 7:00 PM University Park Campus Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery Watt Hall, Ground Floor Neely Macomber Travel Prize Exhibition Incubate: Julia Paull and Joseph R Mendelson III, Ph.D. Daily: Monday 03/19/2012 - Wednesday 04/04/2012; 10:00 PM - 5:00 PM STATION & 3001 Gallery Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007 Julia Paull and Joseph R Mendelson III, Ph.D. Closing reception and artist's talk: Wednesday, April 4th, 2012 from 8:00–10:00 pm Incubate. The word is derived from the Latin incuabre (=to lie) but modern usage has it applied more towards the concepts of nurturing development of eggs or young, or even ideas. Over the last two years Joseph R Mendelson III, Ph.D., Herpetologist and Curator of Herpetology, Zoo Atlanta and Julia Paull, artist and Roski School faculty have been incubating about the complicated circumstances that now surround endangered species and programs that breed these endangered species in captivity. Incubate is an interdisciplinary experiment combining documents, and the writing of Mendelson with photographs by Paull, Together Mendelson and Paull have traveled to conservation breeding programs and facilities at The Costa Rican Amphibian Research Center in Costa Rica, the El Valle Amphibian Conservation Center in Panama, and Wikiri Foundation in Quito, Ecuador. Captive at Wikiri were a few newly discovered frog species that have yet to be named. As it happens herpetologists sometimes discover new species in Natural History Museums that are extinct, yet still unnamed. Incorporated into the thesis of this exhibition is the discovery of new species and the context in which amphibians exist. Julia Paull’s photographs are made possible by a University of Southern California Advancing Scholarship in the Humanities and Social Sciences Grant. Image: Julia Paull, Tadpole, Atelopus sp (New Species), 2012, 26.5 x 40 inches, inkjet print SUPERHIGHWAY: Chris Fernandez, Chris Hanke, & Quinn Singer Daily: Tuesday 03/20/2012 - Sunday 04/01/2012; 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM Superhighway University Gateway 3335 S. Figueroa Street Los Angeles CA 90007 Abstracting Light On view in Superhighway from March 20–April 1 is a loop of student work. Chris Fernandez, Infernal Underground, 2011 Chris Hanke, One for Each of Us, 2011 Quinn Singer, In a Crystal Rain Power Outage, 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: Quinn Singer, still from In a Crystal Rain Power Outage. Emily Wilkerson: Neely Macomber Travel Prize Presentation Tuesday 03/20/2012: 6:00 PM - 7:30 PM Lecture Forum Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007 EMILY WILKERSON (MPAS '12) D.F. to Delhi: Mining Alternative Exposure and Education Strategies of International Art and Curatorial Residencies Presently, contemporary artists and curators are encouraged to challenge their practices in new ways beyond the studio, gallery and museum or academy in geographically and socially diverse locations. As the increase in travel within our global art sphere parallels an increase in experimental spaces for practice, questions arise about the rapid development of residency programs around the globe and the goals of both the programs and the participants. Fueled by an interest in cultural exchange, experimentation, freedom from academic structures, collaboration and involvement with local communities and the public sphere, the idea of the artist and curatorial residency challenges traditional notions of education, practice and professional credentials, in many cases, providing alternative educational environments and outlets for exposure. Exploring the many forms of international artist and curatorial residencies, Public Art Studies Master’s candidate Emily Wilkerson will present research from recent visits to SOMA, Museo Rufino Tamayo, Museo de Arte Carrillo Gil, Museo Experimental El Eco, Centro ADM and Casa Vecina in Mexico City; and KHOJ, Sarai and Religare Arts in Delhi. In D.F. to Delhi: Mining Alternative Exposure and Education Strategies of International Art and Curatorial Residencies, Wilkerson presents an investigation of the contemporary role of the residency program, examining this contagious notion of international exchange with a lecture based upon her travels and personal interviews with program directors, curators and residents in Mexico and India. A reception will follow the lecture. This research was made possible by the Kathleen Neely Macomber Travel Award. Graduate Lecture Series: Lisa Lapinski Wednesday 03/21/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lecture Forum Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007 Lisa Lapinski’s imaginative sculptures incorporate mainstays of their genre—wood and wire, cement and clay—as well as painting, photography, drawing, and more unconventional materials such as ornate wallpaper, nail salon advertisements, boxed foodstuffs, and Snoopy figurines. Her work often resonates with narrative meaning deriving from philosophical, historical, and psychological sources. Lapinski’s work has been included in exhibitions at the Los Angeles Museum of Contemporary Art, the UCLA Hammer Museum, the 2006 Whitney Biennial at the Whitney Museum of American Art, the Museum of Contemporary Art Detroit, and at many other institutions. In 2008 she was the subject of a MOCA Focus solo exhibition at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Lapinski is represented by the Johann Konig gallery in Berlin, Taka Ishii Gallery in Tokyo, Galerie Mezzanin in Vienna, and Richard Telles Fine Art in Los Angeles. Shelf Life 2: A Big Day for Small Press Saturday 03/24/2012: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM University Park Campus Harris Hall USC Roski School of Fine Arts and Visions and Voices present Shelf Life 2: A Big Day for Small Press, a unique one-day event that gathers a diverse group of independent publishers, writers, artists, and designers whose voices and images have questioned and pushed the boundaries of popular culture. In addition to speaker presentations moderated by writer Byron Coley and featuring artist Gary Panter and graphic designer Chip Kidd, there will also be a series of hands-on workshops in zine publishing, e-publications, and blogging as well as a Bazaar with one-of-a-kind goods from a variety of vendors. Organized by Ewa Wojciak and Haven Lin-Kirk (USC Roski School of Fine Arts). Speaker presentations begin at 12:30pm Bazaar and workshops throughout the day /// SHELF LIFE FEATURED PRESENTATIONS BYRON COLEY (Ecstatic Yod, Wire, Arthur Magazine) GARY PANTER (Jimbo, Pee-Wee’s Playhouse, Slash, RAW Magazine) CHIP KIDD (Knopf, DC Comics, The Cheese Monkeys) Begins at 12:30pm Gin D. Wong Auditorium (Harris Hall 101) /// SHELF LIFE WORKSHOPS BEAUTIFUL/DECAY (Beautiful/Decay founder and Creative Director Amir H. Fallah will lead the Exquisite Trojan project, a collaborative publication consisting of collages that will mix and match various portraits created through surreal collages and fictional texts. The collection of collages and texts will be combined into a bound zine.) SLAKE MAGAZINE (Laurie Ochoa and Joe Donnelly, founding editors of the award-winning Slake:Los Angeles quarterly, will help writers harness the power of narrative. Come find out what narrative is, how it works and why it is so important to good storytelling, regardless of what medium you are using to tell your story. Then, apply your new-found powers.) MODERN MULTIPLES (Richard Duardo, founder and artist who works with Banksy, Shepard Fairey, Gary Panter, and other notable artists, demonstrates the secret to making the perfect silkscreen print.) ROOT SIMPLE (Kelly Coyne and Erik Knutzen of Root Simple show you three ways to use 5-gallon buckets to survive the upcoming zombie apocalypse. Join them and learn how to build a toilet, a stove and a garden out of the cast-off detritus of our bankrupt consumer culture.) Throughout the day Harris Hall and Watt Hall Courtyards /// SHELF LIFE BAZAAR An eclectic marketplace featuring publishers, artists, designers and their merchandise. This will be an opportunity for the event’s participants to show (and sign!) their books, magazines, and journals, and it will provide a platform for an even more diverse group of artists, publishers, and vendors to participate. Interesting crowd, interesting vendors, and interesting conversations. Throughout the day Harris Hall and Watt Hall Courtyards /// CONTACT Ewa Wojciak // Meagan Chin USC Roski School of Fine Arts abigdayforsmallpress@gmail.com Kristen VanDeventer: Thesis Exhibition Daily: Tuesday 03/27/2012 - Saturday 03/31/2012; 10:00 AM - 5:00 PM University Park Campus Graduate Fine Arts Building Gayle & Ed Roski MFA Gallery Reception: Thursday, March 29th, 6:00–9:00 pm Graduate Lecture Series: Philipp Kaiser Wednesday 03/28/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM Lecture Forum Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007 Philipp Kaiser studied art history and German literature at the Universities of Basel and Hamburg and received his PhD from the University of Basel. From 2001 to 2007 he was curator for modern and contemporary art at the Museum für Gegenwartskunst Basel, where he conceived numerous individual exhibitions with artists such as Louise Lawler, Christian Philipp Müller, Simon Starling, Johanna Billing, and Bruce Nauman, as well as group exhibitions such as Flashback: Revisiting the Art of the 80s. In March 2007 he became curator at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (MOCA). Having realized exhibitions on California conceptual art and the first museum solo show of Sterling Ruby, he is currently co-organizing the large-scale exhibition Ends of the Earth: Land Art to 1977 with Miwon Kwon, as well a retrospective of Jack Goldstein that will be exhibited at the Orange County Museum of Art. Both exhibitions will open in 2012. Kaiser was recently named the new Director of the Museum Ludwig in Cologne. He will assume the Director role at the end of 2012. In addition to his curatorial projects, Kaiser has written about contemporary art for publications such as Artforum, Kunst-Bulletin, and Parkett, and has taught art history at the Academy of Fine Arts, Karlsruhe/Germany and in the UCLA Art Department. ONE OVER ONE Wednesday 03/28/2012: 7:00 PM - 9:30 PM University Park Campus Fisher Courtyard ONE OVER ONE invites you to speak about an image of your choosing for one minute. The event will be held on Wednesday, March 28th from 7:00–9:30 p.m. in the Fisher Courtyard, University Park Campus. Submit your image by email to over.one.one@gmail.com, along with your name, phone number, and preferred time to present between 7:30 p.m. and 9:30 p.m. Preferred image size 1140 x 900 pixels, saved as a JPEG.