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Reception: October 5, 5:00 p.m.
October 5 - December 8, 2023
Gallery QI, UC San Diego
These projects channel MacMurtrie’s aesthetic and political concerns into speculative interventions at or along the U.S.-Mexico border. While his “Border Crossers” inflate over the border fence from both sides at once as a gesture of connection between two countries, the “Dual Pneuma” sculpture embodies the idea of a fluid cultural identity.
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October 6, 2023 - September 15, 2024
Anchorage Museum, Anchorage AK
Examining ideas of interconnectedness, caretaking, and listening—between humans, land, plants, and animals—the works on view invite reflection, encourage action, and seek to cultivate optimism in the face of challenge.
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Reception: October 7, 2:00 - 6:00 p.m.
October 7 - December 9, 2023
Mandeville Art Gallery, UC San Diego
The group exhibition How We Gather investigates the notion and enactment of solidarity across various contemporary artists’ practices through the lens of the pandemic. Opening Party Saturday October 7th, 2-6pm, featuring a new commission by Elana Mann and Sharon Chohi Kim, performed by the San Diego New Verbal Workshop at 4pm. Taco catering 2-4pm, open bar 2-6pm.
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Reception: October 7, 2:00 p.m.
October 7 - December 16, 2023
University Art Gallery, UC Irvine CA
Affective Resistance brings together works by eight artists using performance art and materialist abstraction as modes of resistance to systemic racism and state power. Several works in the exhibition draw out the conflict between the democratic ideal of liberty and the subjugation of the body under the carceral system.
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October 9, 2023 - January 31, 2024
Geisel Library, UC San Diego
This exhibit exposes the diversity of North Korean society through publications, personal items, arts and North Korean propaganda posters from the UC San Diego Library’s Special Collections & Archives. Underlining the existence and everyday life of North Korea and its people, the physical materials in this exhibit invite open and critical thought exchanges about the country, where outsiders can rarely visit.
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Reception: October 13, 4:00 - 6:00 p.m.
October 13 - December 2, 2024
Steppling Gallery & casa la linea, Calexico CA
The MexiCali Biennial presents Land of Milk & Honey, a traveling multidisciplinary arts and culture program that focuses on concepts of agriculture in the regions of California and Mexico. Isidro Pérez García will perform Pulquería Chilote at casa la linea - arte contemporaneo following the reception from 7:00 - 9:00 p.m.
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Reception October 14, 7:00 p.m.
October 14 - December 1, 2024
Planta Libre, Mexicali MX
The MexiCali Biennial presents Land of Milk & Honey, a traveling multidisciplinary arts and culture program that focuses on concepts of agriculture in the regions of California and Mexico. Border Activations will occur on October 15th. (Electronic Disturbance Theater) EDT 3.0 will utilize audio and drone technology in a performance titled SOCIAL ECHOLOGIES: SCENE 3 starting at 2:00 p.m.
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Hyperallergic
STAR CHOIR achieves what important theater is meant to do: transport us, allow an escape from ourselves, while taking us deeper within. And honestly … it’s a sci-fi opera in a telescope. IT’S COOL!
Another review in San Francisco Classical Voice
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Interdisciplinary artist, writer, curator, educator, and social justice activist, Doris Bittar is a 2023 California Arts Council Legacy Artist recipient for artistic accomplishments, mentoring of young artists, and decades-long community organizing.
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September 9, 2023 - January 28, 2024
ICA Central, San Diego CA
NextGen presents the work of seven graduating artists from regional art programs, chosen by a jury of art professionals. NextGen celebrates emerging artistic voices and highlights the innovative work being produced across the San Diego region. The artists selected for this year’s exhibition work across media–from painting and photography, to installation, sculpture and video–combining found objects with personal mementos, mining their family histories, cultural legacies, and identities.
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September 23 - December 30, 2023
ICA North, Encinitas CA
In her paintings, Taylor Chapin uses bold color, swirling patterns, and enigmatically camouflaged figures to reflect a consumerist society that treats beauty and goods as social currency. In this new body of work, Chapin employs the visual strategies of advertising to reflect on this current moment in which our identity has become our brand.
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September 21, 2023 - February 18, 2024
Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego CA
Included in MCASD's exhibition are the 51 postcards that document Antin's 100 Boots as well as pieces featuring her alter ego, the King of Solana Beach. My Barbarian's layered performances continue Antin’s spirit of social critique and playfulness.
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September 6 - October 14, 2023
Tanya Bonakdar Gallery, New York NY
The works on view invite us to consider the full range of human experiences with nature, from the ecstatic to the darkest impulses, while simultaneously investigating the joyfulness and pleasure that come from the natural world.
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March 10 - October 15, 2023
San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose CA
Sadie Barnette’s multimedia practice explores her own family history as it mirrors a collective history of repression and resistance in the United States. Fascinated with the personal and political value of kin, her work highlights the love and humanity cultivated in familial spaces.
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