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UCSB MFA Open Studios
I know I’ve been gone for awhile but hopefully, I’ll be posting more soon. I just started at the University of California at Santa Barbara’s MFA Studio Art program and we are having Open Studios on Sunday, October 23rd from 3 PM-7 PM at Harder Stadium. I hope to see you there! There will be drinks, food, and art!
About
Featuring the current MFA students from the Department of Art at UCSB:
Tim Brown, Jared Flores, Emily Halbardier, Bessie Kunath, Jae Hee Lee, Nick Loewen, Ruby Osorio, Rimas Simaitis, Van Tran, Alexander Bogdanov, Ryan Bulis, Sterling Crispin, Alison Ho, Tristan Newcomb, Chris Silva, and Erik Sultzer.
Open Studios is an opportunity for the MFAs to introduce themselves and their current work to the UCSB campus and the community at large. Located off-campus underneath the seating risers of Harder Stadium, The event will be held on Sunday, October 23rd, 2011, from 3pm – 7pm. Everyone is invited.
Come meet and greet, view the work of and engage in conversation with our 16 MFA’s about their ideas and practice; refreshments will be served.
Directions
(From North)
Exit Los Carneros Road off 101-S
Turn Right at Los Carneros Road
Turn Left at Mesa Road
Turn Right at Stadium Road
(From South)
Exit off Highway 217 from 101-N
217 turns into Lagoon Road
As you approach the Henley Gate entrance to UCSB, turn Right at Mesa Drive (bus circle loop)
Turn Left at Stadium Road
Harder Stadium and the entrance to Open Studios will be on the right at Gate 5; parking will be located ahead on either lot 38 on the right or lot 30 on the left before El Colegio Rd.
Parking
Closest parking to Harder Stadium is located in lots 30 & 38. An electronic kiosk is located at both parking lots for you to purchase a visitor parking permit. Access to the studios can be found at Gate 5, along Stadium Road and towards Mesa Road.
Additional campus maps can be located on the UCSB Transportation & Parking Services website: http://www.aw.id.ucsb.edu/maps
Contact
Carol Talley, Graduate Advisor
805-893-8710
ctalley@hfa.ucsb.edu
Dept. of Art Website
http://arts.ucsb.edu
Working on a New Video
Working on a new piece. Yay! Working title right now is “All thumbs” or “Text me” Not quite sure what it’s going to evolve into but more to come later.
2010 01SJ Biennial: Leo Villareal
Came across Leo Villareal’s work at the 2010 01SJ Biennial and thought you should also check out his work. He an artist who creates light sculptures with LEDs and code. He is currently showing at the San Jose Museum of Art.
Images from San Jose Museum of Art.
Still Smiling + Displace Installation Photos
still smiling (final) from Alison Ho on Vimeo.
still smiling
Digital video
Height 5′ 3″
Still smiling is a video installation that captures a common phenomenon of social awkwardness – the polite smile – and focuses in on it, without extraneous factors.
Influenced by being in-between cultures, I often find myself in situations that I do not completely understand, but yet still must keep up appearances. Over the years, I have mastered this smile, and have successfully feigned full understanding to family members and other viewers alike. Although well-intentioned at first, Still Smiling exhibits the tension that inevitably appears as the muscle strain seeps through my face, and body language dissolves politeness into honesty.
DISPLACE
Sand paper, vinyl stencil
Variable
Displace is a text piece that visualizes my interior reaction to a moment or a situation of social awkwardness. Displace arises from the words, “space” and “place” and plays upon how language occupies both.
The most poignant example in my life is a family dinner. All at once, family members will talk to each other in Taiwanese, address the waiters in Cantonese, discuss money (and other private affairs) in Thai, and then attempt to include the kids in English, as a good-natured gesture. Despite the intentions, I often feel confused, awkward, and overwhelmed by the multitude of inaccessible conversation swirling around me.
I feel displaced a level below my family, unable to understand all the nuances because my Mandarin skills are not on par with the rest of my family.
‘Displace’ is the visual representative of those feelings – the word ‘Displace’ has been sanded into the wall – it does not appear on the same surface level as other pieces in the gallery, but must fend for itself, sanded into the wall.
If you haven’t already, our BFA show will be up today and tomorrow at the White Box. The show ends on June 25th and 6 PM.