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ART REVIEW Concepts by DegreesThis annual group exhibition of MFA students atUCSB offers the provocations diversity andfresh ideas the show has long been known for
By Josef Woodard News-Press Correspondent
May 25 2018 1054 AM
The Chess Club UCSB 2018 MFAThesis Exhibition
When through June 3
Where The Art Design amp ArchitectureMuseum UC Santa Barbara
Hours 12 to 5 pm Wednesdaythrough Sunday
Information 893-2951museumucsbedu
One of the heartening and heady events ofSanta Barbaras art calendar arrives likeregular but also reinventive clockwork atthe tail end of UCSBs academic year Thisis the moment when the MFA students in agiven year take over the universitys artmuseum the Art Design amp ArchitectureMuseum and give the space and oursenses a pleasurable jolt out ofcomplacency
This years gathering of artists passing overthe MFA transition a show called TheChess Club and curated by BruceFerguson presents a typical scenario in theMuseum space which is to say an atypicaland highly personal expression of conceptsand solutions honed within each artistsstyle Social and ecological commentary ofvarying shades and mediums blends inwith reshaped visions of painting andsculpture and nothing in the rooms that wecould honestly call formulaic or locked intoa strict artistic mold New ideas are alivewell and malleable here
While each artist follows a personal artisticpath the centralizing notion for this yearsshow comes by way of famed proto-ModernistDadaist Marcel Duchamp from a
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From top to bottom
Border (lands) by Robert Huerta
Eddy I and II by Lucy Holtsnider
Tumble I and II by Lucy Holtsnider
Hiding in the Light by Jimmy Miracle
Only Good Lies Before Me by JenniferLungris
Grit and Grace by Daria Noor Izad
century hence DuChamp famously andinfamously created some of the moreprovocative and archetypal modernistartworks early in his life and then gave uplife for chess A telling DuChamp quote isplaced strategically like a mantra in theexhibitions press release All this twaddlethe existence of God atheismdeterminism liberation societies deathetc are pieces of a chess game calledlanguage and they are amusing only if onedoes not preoccupy oneself with winning orlosing this game of chess
In a new twist on the old MFA tradition theartists responsible (Lucy Holtsnider RobertHuerta Daria Noor Izad Jennifer LugrisJimmy Miracle Carlos Ochoa and ToniScott) are given a face and personality inthe small entrance gallery of the museumvia painted portraits by Mr Miracle Likeothers in the current MFA group Mr Miraclecomes to UCSB with an already establishedset of achievement and artworldconnections and one of his paintings canalso be found in the concurrent group ofthe Museums Permanent Collection works
But if the MFA portrait club in front andanother traditional-seeming portraitDreamer heed a more traditionalpainterly convention he shows a moresubversive instinct with a group of smallcanvases dubbed Hiding in the Lightdensely-packed onto a floating wall facingthe main museum gallery entrance Theseare affably scrappy rough-hewn and onemight assume unfinished examples ofgeneric landscapes still life subjectsmundane figures in the neighborhood aPop Art-y Special K box and the sum effectsupersedes the importance of thecomponent parts
As stated in a wall text about the artist andhis motives and moves (a strategic wordand concept for the Chess Club) theunderlying principle of his tiny paintingtrove is to rigorously utilize eminentlytraditional skills in drawing and painting asa kind of contemporary radical act
The other painting element in this MFAshow takes its radical act a bit more lightlyor does she Ms Lugriss group of paintingsset back in one corner of the main galleryidentified as a single multi-paneledpainting goes by the macro-title OnlyGoods Lies Before Me In this set ofpaintings flat colors are assembled oncanvas in an almost mock-collage fashionalluding to and jumbling both concretereality references and junctures where thereal goes abstract and vice-versaStrangely an at once happy anddisconcerting effect - a moral and stylisticambivalence - is the expressive upshot
Grey zoning of existing emotional ormediumistic assumptions is also a criticalaspect in Daria Noor Izads Grit andGrace a deceptively shambling installationof unframed canvases crafted wood andceramics which is still in progress (A worktable sits in the midst of the painting-sculptural construction with tools andmaterials at the ready) The Iranian-American artists piece hovers with anintentional ambiguity around themes of female life rituals and the literal andmetaphorical aspects of horses with an intuitive and non-linear language at work
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Venturing into the virtual interior reality that increasingly popular invisible domainis represented by Carlos Ochoas So You Think You Want a Paradise His virtualreality project which ushers the viewer-listener onto an imaginary landscape offluorescent hues and pixelated fantasy-formalism is a vision which seems criticalof virtual worlds even as it embraces its potential
Toni Scotts The Empire Strikes Back is a large assemblage made of palm frondsrope and wood disarmingly disoriented by her act of painting the entire black Weget a strong impression of the easy life imposed upon and choked by restraints ofthe rope-implied and racial kind The African-American artist also showsPhrenology Pseudoscience and My Head My Music through which the artistsmeasurement of her own head are translated into pitches used in a music boxcontraption of her own imaginative and coded devising
In the current vulnerable state of immigration under the Trump regime the showmight be remiss not to address the pressing subject of immigration a task ablytaken on with Robert Huertas Border (lands) The artist son of Mexicanimmigrants has created an installation combining video a hyper digital collagemural jumbo envelopes from US Citizenship and Immigration Services andthe elemental stuff of dirt in plexiglass boxes centered in the museums backgallery To brave a cliche the dirt itself is a grounding force in the necessarilycomplex multi-media display and it signifies a loaded subject dirt as symbol ofland ownership deracination exclusionary tactics and redefined earth
As is the tradition with the MFA exhibitions each artist is given a space to call theirown as compared to group shows with intertwined artists Lucy Holtsnidersdesignated space is a pair of walls which get into the act as hosts for hersparsely-dispersed monotype print collage on handmade paper piece protrudingslightly from the wall to create an added dimensionality Her works with suchnature-referential titles as Thicket Eddy Thistle and Tumble involvedmutant forms strong yet fragile relating to her underlying interest in thedeleterious effects of climate change
In Thicket tree bark-like shards are imposed on by a white fencinggrid afigure-ground-oppression relationship which may not be one of the less subtlestatements in the show but nonetheless triggers an impulsive response fromviewers in 2018
Once again the MFA brigade provokes pleases and refuses to let visitors go easilyinto the good night and day
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From top to bottom
Border (lands) by Robert Huerta
Eddy I and II by Lucy Holtsnider
Tumble I and II by Lucy Holtsnider
Hiding in the Light by Jimmy Miracle
Only Good Lies Before Me by JenniferLungris
Grit and Grace by Daria Noor Izad
century hence DuChamp famously andinfamously created some of the moreprovocative and archetypal modernistartworks early in his life and then gave uplife for chess A telling DuChamp quote isplaced strategically like a mantra in theexhibitions press release All this twaddlethe existence of God atheismdeterminism liberation societies deathetc are pieces of a chess game calledlanguage and they are amusing only if onedoes not preoccupy oneself with winning orlosing this game of chess
In a new twist on the old MFA tradition theartists responsible (Lucy Holtsnider RobertHuerta Daria Noor Izad Jennifer LugrisJimmy Miracle Carlos Ochoa and ToniScott) are given a face and personality inthe small entrance gallery of the museumvia painted portraits by Mr Miracle Likeothers in the current MFA group Mr Miraclecomes to UCSB with an already establishedset of achievement and artworldconnections and one of his paintings canalso be found in the concurrent group ofthe Museums Permanent Collection works
But if the MFA portrait club in front andanother traditional-seeming portraitDreamer heed a more traditionalpainterly convention he shows a moresubversive instinct with a group of smallcanvases dubbed Hiding in the Lightdensely-packed onto a floating wall facingthe main museum gallery entrance Theseare affably scrappy rough-hewn and onemight assume unfinished examples ofgeneric landscapes still life subjectsmundane figures in the neighborhood aPop Art-y Special K box and the sum effectsupersedes the importance of thecomponent parts
As stated in a wall text about the artist andhis motives and moves (a strategic wordand concept for the Chess Club) theunderlying principle of his tiny paintingtrove is to rigorously utilize eminentlytraditional skills in drawing and painting asa kind of contemporary radical act
The other painting element in this MFAshow takes its radical act a bit more lightlyor does she Ms Lugriss group of paintingsset back in one corner of the main galleryidentified as a single multi-paneledpainting goes by the macro-title OnlyGoods Lies Before Me In this set ofpaintings flat colors are assembled oncanvas in an almost mock-collage fashionalluding to and jumbling both concretereality references and junctures where thereal goes abstract and vice-versaStrangely an at once happy anddisconcerting effect - a moral and stylisticambivalence - is the expressive upshot
Grey zoning of existing emotional ormediumistic assumptions is also a criticalaspect in Daria Noor Izads Grit andGrace a deceptively shambling installationof unframed canvases crafted wood andceramics which is still in progress (A worktable sits in the midst of the painting-sculptural construction with tools andmaterials at the ready) The Iranian-American artists piece hovers with anintentional ambiguity around themes of female life rituals and the literal andmetaphorical aspects of horses with an intuitive and non-linear language at work
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Venturing into the virtual interior reality that increasingly popular invisible domainis represented by Carlos Ochoas So You Think You Want a Paradise His virtualreality project which ushers the viewer-listener onto an imaginary landscape offluorescent hues and pixelated fantasy-formalism is a vision which seems criticalof virtual worlds even as it embraces its potential
Toni Scotts The Empire Strikes Back is a large assemblage made of palm frondsrope and wood disarmingly disoriented by her act of painting the entire black Weget a strong impression of the easy life imposed upon and choked by restraints ofthe rope-implied and racial kind The African-American artist also showsPhrenology Pseudoscience and My Head My Music through which the artistsmeasurement of her own head are translated into pitches used in a music boxcontraption of her own imaginative and coded devising
In the current vulnerable state of immigration under the Trump regime the showmight be remiss not to address the pressing subject of immigration a task ablytaken on with Robert Huertas Border (lands) The artist son of Mexicanimmigrants has created an installation combining video a hyper digital collagemural jumbo envelopes from US Citizenship and Immigration Services andthe elemental stuff of dirt in plexiglass boxes centered in the museums backgallery To brave a cliche the dirt itself is a grounding force in the necessarilycomplex multi-media display and it signifies a loaded subject dirt as symbol ofland ownership deracination exclusionary tactics and redefined earth
As is the tradition with the MFA exhibitions each artist is given a space to call theirown as compared to group shows with intertwined artists Lucy Holtsnidersdesignated space is a pair of walls which get into the act as hosts for hersparsely-dispersed monotype print collage on handmade paper piece protrudingslightly from the wall to create an added dimensionality Her works with suchnature-referential titles as Thicket Eddy Thistle and Tumble involvedmutant forms strong yet fragile relating to her underlying interest in thedeleterious effects of climate change
In Thicket tree bark-like shards are imposed on by a white fencinggrid afigure-ground-oppression relationship which may not be one of the less subtlestatements in the show but nonetheless triggers an impulsive response fromviewers in 2018
Once again the MFA brigade provokes pleases and refuses to let visitors go easilyinto the good night and day
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Venturing into the virtual interior reality that increasingly popular invisible domainis represented by Carlos Ochoas So You Think You Want a Paradise His virtualreality project which ushers the viewer-listener onto an imaginary landscape offluorescent hues and pixelated fantasy-formalism is a vision which seems criticalof virtual worlds even as it embraces its potential
Toni Scotts The Empire Strikes Back is a large assemblage made of palm frondsrope and wood disarmingly disoriented by her act of painting the entire black Weget a strong impression of the easy life imposed upon and choked by restraints ofthe rope-implied and racial kind The African-American artist also showsPhrenology Pseudoscience and My Head My Music through which the artistsmeasurement of her own head are translated into pitches used in a music boxcontraption of her own imaginative and coded devising
In the current vulnerable state of immigration under the Trump regime the showmight be remiss not to address the pressing subject of immigration a task ablytaken on with Robert Huertas Border (lands) The artist son of Mexicanimmigrants has created an installation combining video a hyper digital collagemural jumbo envelopes from US Citizenship and Immigration Services andthe elemental stuff of dirt in plexiglass boxes centered in the museums backgallery To brave a cliche the dirt itself is a grounding force in the necessarilycomplex multi-media display and it signifies a loaded subject dirt as symbol ofland ownership deracination exclusionary tactics and redefined earth
As is the tradition with the MFA exhibitions each artist is given a space to call theirown as compared to group shows with intertwined artists Lucy Holtsnidersdesignated space is a pair of walls which get into the act as hosts for hersparsely-dispersed monotype print collage on handmade paper piece protrudingslightly from the wall to create an added dimensionality Her works with suchnature-referential titles as Thicket Eddy Thistle and Tumble involvedmutant forms strong yet fragile relating to her underlying interest in thedeleterious effects of climate change
In Thicket tree bark-like shards are imposed on by a white fencinggrid afigure-ground-oppression relationship which may not be one of the less subtlestatements in the show but nonetheless triggers an impulsive response fromviewers in 2018
Once again the MFA brigade provokes pleases and refuses to let visitors go easilyinto the good night and day
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