Upcoming Exhibitions

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MFA Preview Exhibition

January 9-February 8, 2025

For the time being, let’s say there are two kinds of moments: those of continuity, and those of inflection. The first might be an object in space, such as a physical boundary like a wall or a river or a home, and the other a point in time, such as when that boundary is challenged. You can diagram this in two dimensions on X and Y axes, yet these gridded points are, of course, imaginary, hypothetical. The spaces and times they plot can and do exist elsewhere, far from that grid. And these moments are constantly in flux, always evolving, impacting things and actions beyond them, sending out waves of change as beings in time.

Participating Artists: Cuyler Ballenger, Maddie Butler, Coralys Carter, Nykelle DeVivo, Olivia Kayang, Moe Penders, John Singletary

Curatorial Advisor: Irene Georgia Tsatsos

The MFA in Visual Arts Preview Exhibition is an annual group exhibition showcasing work by soon-to-graduate MFAs in advance of their final solo thesis shows held in the Spring 2025 quarter.

Border Craft

March 1–June 15, 2025

Border Craft is a group exhibition featuring contemporary artists employing craft practices to address the geopolitical realities of borderland regions, including San Diego–Tijuana. The works on view, along with a series of accompanying public programs, serve as a feminist and critical counterpoint to dehumanizing systems designed to divide people and cultures. Tanya Aguiñiga, one of the exhibiting artists and a Longenecker-Roth Artist in Residence at UC San Diego’s Department of Visual Arts, describes her art and activism at the US–Mexico border as a “song to collapse the wall.” This statement points to the sense of interconnection and poetic resilience present across the works on display, which include ceramics, furniture, quilts, weavings, embroidery, video, and performance.

Participating Artists:

Tanya Aguiñiga, Jackie Amézquita, Margarita Cabrera, Sofia Cordova, Isidro Pérez García, tercas (Mely Barragan and Irma Sofia Poeter), Marisa Raygoza