Calendar
Art & Design events are free and open to the public. Click on individual event listings for the Mason Gross Galleries schedule.
Art & Design
Visiting Artist Lecture: Jacolby Satterwhite
Virtual EventsJacolby Satterwhite is celebrated for a conceptual practice addressing crucial themes of labor, consumption, carnality and fantasy through immersive installation, virtual reality and digital media. He uses a range of software to produce intricately detailed animations and live action film of real and imagined worlds populated by the avatars of artists and friends.
Artist Lecture: Sadie Barnette
Virtual EventsJoin us for a free virtual lecture with the Oakland-based artist Sadie Barnette, whose drawings, photography, and large-scale installations speak to the intersection of familial, cultural, and political history. This lecture is a part of an ongoing series of programs related to the Zimmerli Art Museum's upcoming exhibition Angela Davis — Seize the Time, opening in September 2021. Q+A with the artist to follow.
Design Lecture Series: Shannon Mattern
Virtual EventsShannon Mattern is a Professor in the Department of Anthropology at The New School in New York. For 14.5 years, she served as a faculty member in The New School’s School of Media Studies. Her writing and teaching focus on archives, libraries, and other media spaces; media infrastructures; spatial epistemologies; and mediated sensation and exhibition.
MFA First-Year Virtual Exhibition
Virtual EventsImage Courtesy of the MFA Class of 2022. Design by Clio Bravo. Our graduate visual arts students present their initial bodies of work across the mediums in this first-year review exhibition. Reception Friday, April 2 […]
MFA First-Year Exhibition Gallery Talks & Closing Reception
Virtual EventsThis virtual event features brief gallery talks by each participating MFA artist, celebrating the closing of their First-Year exhibition at Mason Gross Galleries, which is on view now. Register for reception View Galleries
Design Lecture Series: Shira Inbar
Virtual EventsThis lecture is presented as part of the spring 2021 Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required. Shira Inbar is an independent graphic designer with an edge of motion graphics, working […]
Visiting Artist Lecture Series: Cindy Ji Hye Kim
Virtual EventsCindy Ji Hye Kim utilizes a rich grayscale vocabulary in iconic representations of the body under duress. Synthesizing influences as disparate as early animation, construction scaffolding, pests and flora, medieval torture devices, and Korean folk arts, Kim’s depictions of the contorted human form speak to the limits not only of the body but also of the sayable.
Design Lecture Series: Heather Dewey-Hagborg, PhD
Virtual EventsDr. Heather Dewey-Hagborg is an artist and biohacker who is interested in art as research and technological critique. Her controversial biopolitical art practice includes the project Stranger Visions in which she created portrait sculptures from analyses of genetic material (hair, cigarette butts, chewed up gum) collected in public places.
Design Lecture Series: Forest Young
Virtual EventsImage Courtesy of the Artist This lecture is presented as part of the spring 2021 Design Lecture Series, free and open to all. Registration is required. Forest Young is a designer and educator. He is […]
Visiting Artist Lecture: Young Joon Kwok
Virtual EventsYoung Joon Kwak is an LA-based multi-disciplinary artist who primarily uses sculpture, performance, video, and community-based collaborations to reimagine bodies and the power structures that govern our everyday lives as mutable and permeable sites of agency. Kwak is the lead performer in the electronic-dance-noise band Xina Xurner, and the founder of Mutant Salon, a roving platform for collaborative installations and performances with their queer/trans/POC/mutant community.