Transformation: Be The Chance unveiling at MCASD Downtown
The unveiling of ๐๐ณ๐ข๐ฏ๐ด๐ง๐ฐ๐ณ๐ฎ๐ข๐ต๐ช๐ฐ๐ฏ: ๐๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ฆ ๐๐ฉ๐ข๐ฏ๐ค๐ฆ โ a triptych Mural representing the emotional and physical metamorphosis that occurs when someone is vulnerable and open to the possibilities of healing and well-being by artists Andrew, Amy, Mathew, and Tia in collaboration with MCASDโs Art Therapist Berenice Badillo PhD MFT Board Certified Art Therapist and Veterans Village of San Diego (VVSD)โs Case Manager Ingrid Psuty.
Inspired by works in the MCASD collection including Ed Ruschaโs Brave Men of La Jolla,1995-1996 veterans in the program ArtOASIS at VVSD created a piece that invites the viewer, the passerby, to reflect on their own agency.
Did you miss our charla last week? In discussion with Curatorial Fellow Alana Hernandez, Claudia Cano spoke about her work in ๐๐ฐ ๐๐ข๐ฎ๐ฆ ๐ข ๐๐ช๐ญ๐ฅ ๐๐ฐ๐ฏ๐จ๐ถ๐ฆ: ๐๐ณ๐ต ๐ข๐ง๐ต๐ฆ๐ณ ๐๐ฉ๐ช๐ค๐ข๐ฏ๐ช๐ด๐ฎ๐ฐ, and some of her recent projects. Watch their chat on IGTV or on MCASD.digital!
See performance art-pop psychedelic duo Princess perform their live narrative video album Out There at the eXit pARTy on Friday, May 31. Tickets at link in bio. The eXit pARTy is the FINAL stop on their nation-wide tour that began at the Andy Warhol Museum this spring.
eXit pARTies are FREE for Members and $25 for general public. Ticket price includes craft cocktails from Snake Oil Cocktail Co., live DJ sets, and art-making activities on the Figi Concourse. Not a Member? Join for as little as $5 per month at mcasd.org/join.
See performance art-pop psychedelic duo Princess perform their live narrative video album Out There at the eXit pARTy on Friday, May 31. This will be their the FINAL stop on a nation-wide tour that began at the Andy Warhol Museum this spring.
Tickets at www.mcasd.org/exitparty
Princess was formed in 2004 in Texas Ballroom, a performance space and gallery on Chicago's South Side. The duo released a self-titled LP and performed until 2006, when they moved on to pursue other paths. They reunited in 2017 to create Out There, a concept video album and live performance piece that explores the role men ought to be playing during the current cultural reckoning of misogyny. The video's science fiction narrative explores the power of the Divine Feminine through collaborations with JD Samon, visual artist Jennifer Meridian, and the band TEEN.
eXit pARTies are FREE for Members and $25 for general public. Enjoy craft cocktails from Snake Oil Cocktail Company, live DJ sets, art-making activities on the Figi Concourse, and more.
MCASDโs An Artistโs Perspective program at The LOT in La Jolla.
MCASD invites its audience to start a dialogue with works in our digital collection. Consider the #subject, #color, #medium, #shapes, and #themes of each artwork when selecting an image or phrase as a response. Create new meaning and/or context by constructing relationships between your reactions and the elements of each artwork.
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BE THOUGHTFUL.
BE HUMOROUS.
BE VULNERABLE.
BE HONEST.
BE SUGGESTIVE.
BE SINCERE.
BE CRITICAL.
BE PLAYFUL.
MCASD.ORG/REACT
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[Image 1: James Turrell, Stuck Red. Image 2: James Turrell, Stuck Blue, 1970. Construction materials and fluorescent lights, (180 x 168 in.)
Museum purchase, Elizabeth W. Russell Foundation Funds, ยฉ James Turrell 1990]
โMasquerading as a myriad of characters, Cindy Sherman (American, born 1954) invents personas and tableaus that examine the construction of identity, the nature of representation, and the artifice of photography. To create her images, she assumes the multiple roles of photographer, model, makeup artist, hairdresser, and stylist. Whether portraying a career girl, a blond bombshell, a fashion victim, a clown, or a society lady of a certain age, for over thirty-five years this relentlessly adventurous artist has created an eloquent and provocative body of work that resonates deeply in our visual culture." - @MoMA The Museum of Modern Art
[Cindy Sherman, Untitled, (2000). Color photograph, edition 2 of 6 (36 x 24 in.) Museum purchase, International and Contemporary Collectors Funds, ยฉ Cindy Sherman 2000.]
"Best known for Synecdoche (1991), a grid of hundreds of monochrome โself-portraitsโโthe colors corresponding to their sittersโ skin toneโByron Kim explored identity politics with his early abstract paintings." - @artsy
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[Image: Byron Kim, Synecdoche: Barbara Arledge, C.W. Kim,... Victor Vilaplana, (1994). Oil and wax medium on panel, 10 x 8 in. each of 25. Museum purchase, Contemporary Collectors Fund, ยฉ Byron Kim 1994]
This Thursday, starting at 6:30PM, join our Education team for a special MCASD React event in association with Downtown at Sundown, located at 1001 Kettner Blvd.
MCASD React is our new digital platform that offers an opportunity to share how art impacts your life. Show us how artwork makes you feel, how it makes you think, and how it inspires you to create.
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[Image: Daniel Joseph Martinez, Self-portrait #9B Fifth attempt to clone mental disorder or How one philosophizes with a hammer, After Gustave Moreau, Prometheus, 1868; David Cronenberg, Videodrome, 1981, (2001). Digital Print, 48 x 60 in. Museum purchase; ยฉ Daniel Joseph Martinez.]
What does this artist dream about? How does this artwork make you feel? What might this artwork sound like? Share your answers with us at the beta testing of a new digital platform, MCASD REACT, at 1001 Kettner Blvd during tonight's Downtown at Sundown. Downtown at Sundown is free and open to the public from 5-8 PM.
[1. Ed Ruscha, Brave Men of La Jolla, 1995 - 1996, Museum purchase with proceeds from Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego Art Auction 2006, and from prior donations by Susan and Frank Kockritz and Mr. and Mrs. Norton S. Walbridge, ยฉ Ed Ruscha 1996; 2. Robert Irwin, Light and Space, 2017, Museum purchase with funds from the Annenberg Foundation, ยฉ 2017 Robert Irwin / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York]
Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego
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Your support is vital in allowing the Museum to fulfill its mission, and for that, we thank you.
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DEEP TIME UNIVERSITY
INTERSESSION
DEEP TIME UNIVERSITY
INTERSESSION
DTU: INTERSESSION WITH SIMON LEUNG
Educators Engage! K-12 teachers, museum educators, university faculty actively learning in the galleries.
Deep Time University- intersession - Michael Trigilio
DTU: Intersession Michael Trigilio
DTU: Internsession with Slanguage
DTU: intersession- Jennifer Moon
Sneak peek walk through of our brand new exhibition, Memories of Underdevelopment, opening TOMORROW! Enjoy free admission from 11-5.
DEEP TIME UNIVERSITY: intersession seminar 3 with Sarita Dougherty exploring "Deep Decolonization: (Re)mapping worldviews for self and planet"
Welcome to Unknowns, Unknowns, Unknowns, an exhibition that showcases investigations of artist Michael Ano on the relationships, power structures and limitations of institutions as they attempt to provide access, and learning experiences for all. On view Thursday through Sunday from 11 AM - 5 PM, and every Thursday until 8 PM through November 2, 2017.
Deep Time University: Part 3
Deep Time University: Part 2
Deep Time University: Part 1
Looking Forward: MCASD Marks 75th Anniversary with Expansion
This morning, Kathryn Kanjo was named the David C. Copley Director and CEO of the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego on MCASD's 75th anniversary. At the event, Hugh Davies lauded his successor and thanked those in attendance (and San Diego community) for their support of the Museum during his 33-year tenure. Board Chair Paul Jacobs spoke about the Museum's impending expansion and introduced architect Annabelle Selldorf, featured in this video about the La Jolla facility's expansion. Said Kanjo, "This expansion will give us room to show our collection, which includes masterpieces from 1950 to the present day."
Watch this piece from KCETโs Artbound about Marcos Ramirez ERRE and David Taylorโs DeLIMITations: A Survey of the 1821 United States-Mexico Border. The artists placed 47 sheet metal markers along the historical 1821 border between Mexico and the western territories of the United States, spanning from the Oregon coast to the Gulf of Mexico just west of Louisiana. An exhibition about the work is on view at MCASD Downtown through November 27. Special thanks to KCET for producing this video.
A visitor at MCASD La Jolla brought music into the galleries when he played the piano currently placed in Axline Court. The piano--painted by post-9/11 combat veterans with Combat Arts San Diego--was originally part of the San Diego Symphony's Upright and Grand Festival and Pianos in Public Spaces project. It is now on view in conjunction with our ArtOASIS Showcase, featuring artwork by active duty members of the armed forces, created as a means of coping with the effects of combat-related stress. Play the piano and view the ArtOASIS Showcase through September 4.
The Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego invites all audiences to experience our world, our region, and ourselves through the prism of contemporary art.
