ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA
March 4 - June 17, 2023
The first UC San Diego Visual Arts faculty show organized since 2015, ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA presents work by new faculty who have joined the department over the past eight years. The exhibition marks the grand reopening of the Mandeville Art Gallery after a period of closure for extensive renovation.
The exhibition highlights recent projects by faculty artists within the context of the defining forces of our moment, such as continued struggles for equity and social justice, accelerating climate change, threats to democracy, and rapid technological developments. The featured photographs, moving images, paintings, sculptures, and performances address both the possibilities and the complexities of this new era, and offer a distinct sense of hope for the future. The title ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA is a reference to a poster by Las Hermanas Iglesias, a collaborative project by Assistant Professor Janelle Iglesias and her sister Lisa Iglesias, copies of which are free for visitors to take away during the run of the show. As the palindrome suggests, forward progression is never linear.
Participating Artists:
Memo Akten, Danielle Dean, dean erdmann, Malik Gaines, Mariah Garnett, Las Hermanas Iglesias, Lorena Mostajo, My Barbarian, Alexandro Segade, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Pinar Yoldas
[Images: Installation view, ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA, Mandeville Art Gallery, March 4-June 18, 2023. Photo: Arlene Mejorado]
Resources
On Screen: Danielle Dean "Long Low Line (Edit)" (2023)
Danielle Dean
b. 1982, born in Huntsville, Alabama; raised in London; lives and works in Los Angeles
Long Low Line (Edit) 2023
HD video, color; 6 mins
Courtesy the artist and Commonwealth and Council
Long Low Line (Edit) (2023) builds on Danielle Dean’s Long Low Line that was most recently presented in the heart of Times Square through their Midnight Moment series and in the 2022 Whitney Biennial Quiet As It’s Kept.
Adapted and customized for the Mandeville Art Gallery’s exterior LED screen, this site-specific version of Long Low Line uses linear panning - a reference to industrial assembly lines, multiplane camera techniques developed by Walt Disney Studios and the viewpoint from a car window - to deconstruct narratives of consumer culture that center dominance and extraction. Dean takes apart this imagery (much of it sourced from the Ford company’s archives) in the form of a digital billboard, a gesture that reclaims and refashions the fantasies produced by the advertising, film and auto industries. In the artist’s words, “The imagined landscape affects how we connect to the real—how we have justified mass consumption and environmental despoliation. I am interested in how this operational landscape might be subverted into a network of solidarity.”
Organized in conjunction with ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA.
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ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA
(SERÁ QUE NOS IMPULSAN HACIA UNA NUEVA ERA)
4 de marzo –17 de junio, 2023
La primera exposición de la facultad de Artes Visuales de la UC San Diego organizada desde el 2015, ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA (SERÁ QUE NOS IMPULSAN HACIA UNA NUEVA ERA), presenta la obra de los nuevos miembros de la facultad que se unieron al departamento en los último ocho años. La exposición marca la gran reapertura de la Mandeville Art Gallery después de un periodo de cierre debido a una extensa remodelación.
La muestra resalta los proyectos más recientes de los artistas de la facultad enmarcados dentro del contexto de las fuerzas que definen nuestro momento, tales como la lucha constante por la igualdad y la justicia social, la velocidad del cambio climático, la democracia amenazada y los rápidos desarrollos tecnológicos.
Las fotografías exhibidas, las imágenes en movimiento, las pinturas, las esculturas y performances encaran al mismo tiempo las posibilidades y las complejidades de esta nueva era y ofrecen un sentido distinto de esperanza hacia el futuro. El título ARE WE NOT DRAWN ONWARD TO NEW ERA (SERÁ QUE NOS IMPULSAN HACIA UNA NUEVA ERA) es una referencia a la edición impresa del poster hecho por Las Hermanas Iglesias, un proyecto colaborativo de la Profesora Adjunta Janelle Iglesias y su hermana Lisa Iglesias, cuyas copias estarán disponibles de forma gratuita para los visitantes. Como lo sugiere el palíndromo, el progreso hacia adelante nunca es lineal.
Artistas
Memo Akten, Danielle Dean, dean erdmann, Malik Gaines, Mariah Garnett, Las Hermanas Iglesias, Lorena Mostajo, My Barbarian, Alexandro Segade, Paul Mpagi Sepuya, Pinar Yoldas