Department of Art | Claire Trevor School of the Arts

Affective Resistance

October 7 - December 16 Room Gallery

This exhibition 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 ...
Think of it as Money!: A Solo Project by Adrià Julià

October 7 - December 16 University Art Gallery

Adrià Julià’s large scale installation, Making Money, presents a constellation of artworks, in which the legacy of Hercule Florence—the 19th century French inventor—is the protagonist of a durational dreamscape, one in which money is the shapeshifting ...
Tenth Thursday Undergraduate Student Exhibition

December 7 Arts Campus

Join us for Tenth Thursday, an evening of art exhibitions and projects by talented undergraduates from the Department of Art. Experience diverse creations, interact with the artists, and celebrate the culmination of their end-of-the-quarter class ...
On the Passage of a Few People Through a Rather Brief Period of Time

January 20 - April 7 Contemporary Arts Center Gallery

The CAC exhibition is organized in coordination with the release of Mary Kelly’s Concentric Pedagogy: Selected Writings, edited by Juli Carson and published by Bloomsbury Press. Following the book’s lead, the exhibition focuses on “project-based” work ...
M.F.A. 2nd Year Exhibition

February 10 - March 2 Room Gallery

M.F.A. 2nd Year Exhibition - Winter 2024
Tenth Thursday Undergraduate Student Exhibition

March 14 Arts Campus

Join us for Tenth Thursday, an evening of art exhibitions and projects by talented undergraduates from the Department of Art. Experience diverse creations, interact with the artists, and celebrate the culmination of their end-of-the-quarter class ...
19th Annual Guest Juried Undergraduate Exhibition

March 14 - March 23

Join the Department of Art for the 19th interdisciplinary exhibition featuring students from across the art campus. The selected student’s works include painting, drawing, photography, installation, sculpture and experimental performance video.

Professor Simon Penny to give a talk at the University of Vienna

Professor Simon Penny, an accomplished artist and theorist, is scheduled to deliver a lecture titled “Skill: Know-how, artisanal practices, and ‘higher’ cognition” at the University of Vienna. The event is a collaboration with The Austrian Research Institute for Artificial Intelligence (OFAI) and is

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More than Just a Phase

L.A. Gallery Helps UCI Art Students and Alumni By Richard Chang According to the American Heritage Dictionary, a phase is a temporary manner, attitude or pattern of behavior. But a temporary art space in Los Angeles founded by a UC Irvine M.F.A. graduate seems to have left a lasting impact. Phase

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UAG presents 'Affective Resistance' featuring eight artists focused on complex histories of oppression

DOWNLOAD THE PRESS KIT Irvine, Calf., Sept. 29, 2023 – The University of California, Irvine’s University Art Galleries (UAG) is pleased to host Affective Resistance, curated by Liz Glynn and Alberto Lule. Featured artists include rafa esparza, Tarik Garrett, Pélagie Gbaguidi, donna Kukama, Rodney Mc

Department Programs

Programs

The Department of Art offers degrees in Art, with minors in Digital Arts, and Digital Filmmaking. It also offers an Honors in Art program, which is designed to further develop students’ critical, analytical, and technical skills, and is suited to those pursuing graduate school and/or exhibition careers. Honor students will be given access to a studio space for the academic year.

Tenth Thursday Undergraduate Student Exhibition