Department of Art | Claire Trevor School of the Arts

undergraduate | courses

Academic Year 2012-2013LOWER-DIVISION1 Art in Context: History, Theory, and Practice. A three-quarter foundation sequence introducing students to a broad range of contemporary art, media, and practices in relation to their twentieth-century cultural and historical antecedents.1A Art in Context:...

undergraduate | areas of emphasis

Painting...

lecturers

Yong Soon Min

ysmin@uci.eduYong Soon Min’s art practice, inclusive of curatorial projects, engages interdisciplinary sources and processes in the examination of issues of representation and cultural identities, and the intersection of history and memory. Recent exhibitions highlights include: 10th and 3rd...

Catherine Lord

Catherine Lord, Professor of Studio Art and affiliated faculty, Department of Women’s Studies and Department of Visual Culture, is a writer, artist, and curator whose work addresses issues of feminism, cultural politics, and colonialism. She is the author of the text/image experimental narrative...

Simon Leung

leungss@uci.eduSimon Leung’s foremost concern as an artist is how “the ethical,” broadly defined, can be thought and traced. His projects, in various media, include a rethinking of AIDS and otherness using the figures of the pinprick and the glory hole; meditations on “the residual space of the...

Antoinette LaFarge

alafarge@uci.eduAntoinette LaFarge makes work that engages with the politics of virtuality, ephemerality, and role play through performance and installation, participatory media, net culture, and fictive art.She works and teaches using both analog and digital media, and she believes that...

Ulysses Jenkins

ujenkins@uci.eduJenkins is a widely recognized video/performance artist, whose work has been show in a number or national and international venues. In the aftermath of 9/11 Jenkins initiated a project in reaction to the treatment of the women of Afghanistan, which resulted in the video DVD...

Daniel Martinez

d2martin@uci.eduDaniel Joseph Martinez was born in Los Angeles in 1957 and received his B.F.A. from the California Institute of the Arts in 1979. Martinez’s work utilizes a conceptual operation takes the form of photography, painting, installation, robotics, performance and public...

Monica Majoli

mmajoli@uci.eduMajoli’s practice examines the relationship between physicality and consciousness, as expressed through the documentary sexual image. Themes of intersubjectivity and temporality have informed numerous bodies of her work, together with decisive shifts in materiality. She has had solo...

Martha Gever

Martha Gever’s most recent public project was an exhibition of on-line video, entitled Video Dada, at UCI’s University Art Gallery (2010). Although the show dealt with the tremendous expansion of video and the place of art within this relatively new cultural arena, it also continued Gever’s...

Beatriz da Costa

IN MEMORIAM: BEATRIZ NORONHA DA COSTA, 1972-2012Da Costa is an interdisciplinary artist and researcher who works at the intersection of contemporary art, science, engineering and politics. Her work takes the form of public participatory interventions, locative media, conceptual tool building, and...

Miles Coolidge

mcoolidg@uci.eduUpon completing his Master of Fine Arts degree at the California institute of the Arts, Coolidge received a postgraduate DAAD fellowship for one year of study with Bernd Becher at the Kunstakademie Düsseldorf. His work has since been involved with reconciling a concern with the...

Kevin Appel

kappel@uci.edukevinappelstudio.com Appel's artwork occupies spaces within and between the practices of painting and architecture, following a trajectory describing the slow and messy dissolution of the integrity of the house, home, and pictorial space. His solo exhibitions include Ameringer...

Juli Carson

carsonj@uci.eduJuli Carson is an art historian, critic and curator. She is Director of the University Art Galleries, which host an annual rotation of professional and student shows. As the UAG Director, she curates several series: Room Gallery’s Emerging Artist Series, for which a single...

Gifford Myers

gmyers@uci.eduMyer's work includes painting, ceramic sculpture, sculpture (of all techniques and materials), and public art. His solo exhibitions include the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (1992), International Museum of Art for Ceramics, Faenza, Italy (2001); Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena...

Robert F. Nideffer

From 2005-2009 Nideffer was Co-Director then Director of the Arts Computation Engineering (ACE) Graduate program. In 1999 he founded the Game Culture and Technology Lab, and in 2005 (some five years after first being proposed... ) a related academic Concentration in Game Culture and Technology...

Simon Penny

penny@uci.edusimonpenny.net Current research/practice - Making Sense – Computing, Cognition, Art and Embodiment. MIT press. In press, due Fall 2017. A Body of Knowledge – Embodied Cognition and the Arts conference, Director. CTSA, UCI, 8-10 December 2016. sites.uci.edu/bok2016 Embodied Encounters...