Roski School of Fine Arts http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/rss Calendar feed for: Roski School of Fine Arts en-us copyright (c) 2012 University of Southern California Event Output System Steve Davis on Kazegama http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/172/event/896385 http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/xml/172/event/896385

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.

 

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

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]]> New Turf: Ceramics Exhibition http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/172/event/896794 http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/xml/172/event/896794 An exhibition featuring the work of advanced and beginning ceramics students

Reception: Monday, February 6th, 5–7 pm

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

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]]> Net Work I.R.L. (in this room) http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/172/event/896831 http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/xml/172/event/896831

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

 

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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.

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

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]]> Ian Stanton, Hello m_rosa, 2012 http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/172/event/896832 http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/xml/172/event/896832

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

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

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]]> SUPERHIGHWAY: Ian Stanton http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/172/event/896870 http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/xml/172/event/896870
On view in Superhighway from February 6th–19th 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.

Daily: Monday 02/06/2012 - Sunday 02/19/2012; 10:00 AM - 8:00 PM

Superhighway University Gateway 3335 S. Figueroa Street Los Angeles CA 90007

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]]> Elvira Clemente: Heads http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/172/event/896688 http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/xml/172/event/896688 Independent Student Exhibition 

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

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]]> Anna Helm: Light Slice http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/172/event/896687 http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/xml/172/event/896687

Reception: Friday, February 17th, 5–7 pm

Independent Student Exhibition  

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

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]]> Graduate Lecture Series: Phil Collins http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/172/event/896179 http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/xml/172/event/896179
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.

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

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]]> Graduate Lecture Series: David Levi Strauss http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/172/event/896181 http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/xml/172/event/896181 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.

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

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]]> Graduate Lecture Series: Andrea Zittel http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/172/event/896331 http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/xml/172/event/896331

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.

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

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]]> Graduate Lecture Series: Lisa Lapinski http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/172/event/896332 http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/xml/172/event/896332

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.

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

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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

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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)

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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.)
URBAN HOMESTEAD (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

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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

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CONTACT
Ewa Wojciak // Meagan Chin
USC Roski School of Fine Arts
abigdayforsmallpress@gmail.com

Saturday 03/24/2012: 11:00 AM - 5:00 PM

University Park Campus Harris Hall

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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.

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

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]]> Graduate Lecture Series: Lincoln Tobier http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/calendar/172/event/896335 http://web-app.usc.edu/ws/eo2/xml/172/event/896335 Lincoln Tobier’s projects embrace a variety of media including sculpture, photography, painting, video, radio, and theater. Much of his work explores the limitations of the public sphere and communication. His recent play The Orchestra Pit Theory By Roger Ailes has been presented in Los Angeles and Leipzig and will be staged in London this summer. He has had solo exhibitions at Martos Gallery in New York, Daniel Hug Gallery in Los Angeles, the Pat Hearn Gallery in New York, Galerie Maisonneuve in Paris, and the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, among others, and been included in group exhibitions at such institutions as the MoCA, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Leipzig, the Venice Biennale; the MAK Center Los Angeles, and the Institute for Contemporary Art. London. 

Wednesday 04/04/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Lecture Forum Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007

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Hamza Walker is the Director of Education and Associate Curator for the Renaissance Society at the University of Chicago. He is also on the faculty of The School of The Art Institute of Chicago. He has written for Trans, New Art Examiner, Parkett, and Artforum, and penned catalogue essays on Darren Almond, Rebecca Morris, Giovanni Anselmo, Thomas Hirschhorn, Moshekwa Langa, and Katharina Grosse. He organized the first United States exhibition of works by Anne-Mie van Kerckhoven, in 2011. Past curatorial projects at the Renaissance Society include a solo exhibition of photographs by Chicago-based artist Anna Shteynshleyger (2010); "Several Silences" (2009); "Black Is, Black Ain't" (2008); "Katerina Seda" (2008); "Meanwhile, in Baghdad" (2007); "All the Pretty Corpses" (2005); "A Perfect Union...More or Less" (2004); and "New Video, New Europe" (2004). He is the recipient of the 1999 Norton Curatorial Grant, the 2005 Walter Hopps Award for Curatorial Achievement, and, in 2010, he received the prestigious Ordway Prize.

Wednesday 04/11/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Lecture Forum Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007

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The work of John Knight can be said to engage institutional critique in a particularly generative way. Through nuanced intercessions into the mechanisms of display and visual communication, his practice unpacks conventions and codes that give art its value, using art as a platform to reflect upon larger political and economic systems. Working "in situ," each project is based on analysis and intervention specific to the venue at hand; its aesthetic logic takes its cues from the structure of that of the gallery, museum, or other exhibition venue. Recent projects include participation in the MAK Center’s How Many Billboards? (2010), and exhibitions at Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles (2009); Museu d'Art Contemporani de Barcelona (2009); Hamburger Bahnhof Museum, Berlin (2009); Galerie Rüdiger Schöttle, Munich (2008); and Espai d'Art Contemporani de Castelló (2008).

Wednesday 04/18/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

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Maggie Nelson is the author of four books of nonfiction: a critically acclaimed work of art and cultural criticism, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011) – an examination of the “full-fledged assault on the barriers between art and life that much 20th-century art worked so hard to perform;” a meditation on the color blue, Bluets (2009); a critical study of poetry and painting, Women, the New York School, and Other True Abstractions (2007); and an autobiographical book about sexual violence and media spectacle, The Red Parts: A Memoir (2007). She is also the author of several books of poetry, including Something Bright, Then Holes (2007); Jane: A Murder (2005; finalist, the PEN/Martha Albrand Award for the Art of Memoir), The Latest Winter (2003), and Shiner (2001; finalist, the Poetry Society of America’s Norma Farber First Book Award). Her poetry has been widely anthologized, and included in The Best American Poetry series. Nelson is a member of the CalArts MFA Writing Program faculty. Her essays and reviews have appeared in a variety of publications, including The New York Times Book Review, Artforum, Bookforum, and Cabinet.  

 

 

Wednesday 04/25/2012: 12:00 PM - 2:00 PM

Lecture Forum Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT) 3001 S. Flower Street Los Angeles CA 90007

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