(Carson, CA) The California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) University Art Gallery has been awarded $180,000 by the Getty Foundation for support of Brackish Water Los Angeles, co-directed by gallery director and co-curator Aandrea Stang and co-curator Debra Scacco.This art and research project is part of the Getty Foundation's PST ART: Art & Science Collide initiative and will culminate in a public-facing exhibition at the gallery next year, alongside a robust slate of programming, off-site activations, and a catalog. “We are very excited that CSUDH is participating in the PST ART initiative for the first time,” Stang said. “It is meaningful to ... Read More
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CSUDH Office Hours Presents “Seen” Art Exhibition
Seen, the third exhibition at the Office Hours art space, is on view until May 11 in LaCorte Hall B116. The opening reception is Thursday, April 6, from 5-7 p.m. Seen is an invitation to consider queerness in all its expressions. The works in the exhibition bear witness to the intricacies and wide spectrum of queer identities and way of embodying queer bodies. From quiet and introspective works, to both explicit and intimate manners of seeing one another, the works and artists in this exhibition celebrate queer community and kinship. Seen brings together current CSUDH Art and Design students: em aguilar, Mylee Etuale, Gabe Medina and Birdie Rojo, along with recent graduates Vanessa ... Read More
CSUDH Office Hours Presents “Insistent” Art Exhibition
Insistent, a group exhibition featuring CSUDH students and emerging and mid-career artists, is on view in LaCorte Hall B116 until March 23. The exhibition includes works on paper, sculpture, video, and textiles that are materially or conceptually conceived through multiplicity, accumulation, layering, obsession, or repetitive labor. One of the works on view is a textile installation by Bonded by Felt, a collective of the current CSUDH ART 392 Sculpture 2 class. Students worked individually on components for a multiples felt installation, making wool sculptures using needle felting techniques. The collective includes: Grisabel Alfaro, Jon Steven Camacho, Gabriel Carrillo, Melissa ... Read More
CSUDH University Art Gallery Presents “Our Lips are Sealed”
What: "Our Lips Are Sealed,” an exhibition of artwork by six Los Angeles-based artistsWhen: January 28 - April 15, 2023Where: CSUDH University Art Gallery, LaCorte Hall A-107 The University Art Gallery at California State University, Dominguez Hills (CSUDH) proudly presents “Our Lips Are Sealed,” an exhibition of work by six Los Angeles-based artists exploring how young women find their internal power. The exhibition will be on view January 28 through April 15, 2023; Monday-Saturday from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The public is invited to an opening reception for “Our Lips Are Sealed” on Saturday, January 28, from 3 to 6 p.m. Using sculptural installation, photography, ... Read More
Retrospective Exhibition Highlights Career of CSUDH Art Professor Emerita
CSUDH Professor Emerita of Art Gilah Yelin Hirsch has been honored with a retrospective exhibit at the Orange County Center for Contemporary Art (OCCCA) in Santa Ana. Titled “The Archeology of Metaphor, the exhibit runs through Oct. 29 and features work from throughout her lengthy and varied career, from her earliest 1968 paintings to the present. Hirsch, who joined the art department faculty in 1973 and taught at CSUDH for almost 50 years, is considered one of the first feminist artists. She was a founding member and wrote the manifesto for the Los Angeles Council of Women Artists, one of the first women's art organizations. The statement protested the underrepresentation of women in ... Read More
