Burning Time

Artists: Jonathan Alexander, Ph.D. and Antoinette LaFarge, M.F.A.

Burning Time is a graphic book collaboration between Professors Jonathan Alexander (English Department) and Antoinette LaFarge (Art Department) that explores the intimacies of imagined memory and sexuality. The book consists of a cycle of eight poems and associated panoramic paintings to tell the story of a young gay man arriving in New Orleans in the late 1950’s to start a new life. The project began with a trove of photographs that Jonathan Alexander was unexpectedly given at a family retreat, forgotten images that gave him a poignant glimpse into the life of a long-dead gay uncle. He began to imagine what his uncle’s life must have been like, arriving in New Orleans from rural Louisiana as a very young man in the middle of the 20^th century. In conjuring his imagined version of this man’s life, Jonathan soon realized that his words needed equally evocative images to create an emotional correlative of the uncle’s experiences, and he invited Antoinette LaFarge into the project. Text and image interweave to evoke a particular time and place while also summoning the timelessness of self-exploration and desire—experience reimagined as mythic adventure.

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Masks of Sri Lanka: Face to Face Communication

This exhibit features photographs of traditional ritual masks of Sri Lanka. While some masks belong to folk entertainment, others fulfill a more important social function of curing illness. The origins and myths related to traditional masks goes as far back as 2,500 years. These ritual masks were part of traditional beliefs in the community that provided stability for natives during pre-colonial period.

The curator, Danushi De Silva, is an International Student from Sri Lanka. She is a double major in International Studies and Sociology graduating in Spring 2019. Danushi is an honors student in Sociology in the 2018 – 2019 cohort and her research topic focuses on the rehabilitated child soldiers of LTTE in post war Sri Lanka. Danushi’s exhibit Face to Face Communication includes photographs of traditional ritual masks of Sri Lanka.

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Thresholds

UCI’s Art History Undergraduate Association hosts their annual art exhibit. The show highlights a selection of works by various members of the UC Irvine community. Paintings, sculptures, photographs, digital, and multimedia pieces reflect the way life changes all around us, what it means to be in a liminal space, and the personal transformations we undergo throughout our lives.

Opposite Ends

Artist: Joseph Lara

Joseph Lara’s first art gallery titled Opposite Ends serves to showcase the various ways in which he is currently establishing his brand. You can expect artwork that not only ignites conversation but ideas, as well. Lastly, he hopes to create a memorable enough experience to inspire viewers with the same vision that inspires him.

Joseph Lara is a 20-year old designer from Los Angeles, California. While on summer vacation before his third year at the University of California, Irvine he decided to pursue his passion of designing clothes. Through his own clothing label coined Opposite Ends he hopes to inspire those around him to pursue their own passion, whatever that may be. Lastly, through art, passion and creativity, he hopes to ignite a lively dialogue concerning the theme of Opposite Ends.

88 Cores

Artist: Peggy Weil

The 88 Cores exhibit features images from a four-and-a-half hour descent, two miles deep through the Greenland Ice Sheet. The ice sheet dates back more than 110,000 years and was drilled between 1989 and 1993 as part of the Greenland Ice Sheet Project 2 sponsored by The National Science Foundation. The fourth in a series of underground landscapes by Weil, 88 Cores is a photographic narrative of climate history and the gravity of climate change.

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Art, Science and the Space Between

Artist: James Hubbell and Arnold Starr, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the UCI Department of Neurology

The annual Arnold Starr Lecture was established in 2010 to honor the founding chair of the UCI Department of Neurology and the founder of the field of auditory neuropathy. This year’s theme “Art, Science and the Space Between” focuses on the exploration of and parallels between sculptural work and watercolor art. This weeklong art exhibition ended with a reception and lecture featuring both artists James Hubbell and Arnold Starr at the Crystal Cove Auditorium.

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Poverty Awareness Art Gallery

Artists: David Freeman, Brian Peterson and Jamie Ludovise

InSight Magazine, a student-run publication focusing on poverty and homelessness, curated a photo gallery exhibiting the faces of the people experiencing homelessness and hunger. Promoting the nationwide initiative for Hunger and Homelessness Awareness Week in collaboration with multiple student groups and community organizations, the photo gallery challenged the public’s perception of a “day in the life” of a homeless person.

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UCI Libraries 3^rd Annual ZineFest

The event highlights zine making, button making, mingling with local Zinesters and more!

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Lumen de Terra

UCI’s Art History Undergraduate Association hosts their sixth annual art exhibit. This year’s theme revolves around earth, nature, and the environment.

InSight Magazine Launch Week

A week long gallery that showcased the artwork and photography of the magazine’s collaborators.

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Refugee Awareness Week – Art & Photography Exhibit

Artists: David Verberckt and Sun Mu

Exhibit of photographs of Rohingya refugees by David Verberckt and artwork by North Korean defector and political pop artist Sun Mu.

In today’s polarized society, the word “refugee” has become increasingly politicized. Through Refugee Awareness Week at UCI, we hope to address misconceptions about refugees by understanding the processes of war, persecution, and other mechanisms of displacement that have forced an unprecedented 65.6 million people from their homes. We also hope to humanize the word “refugee” by sharing and understanding refugee stories, and by celebrating and enhancing their contributions to their host communities.

Neuralscapes

Artist: Arnold Starr, M.D., Ph.D., Chair of the UCI Department of Neurology

I am a neurologist/neuroscientist (Professor of Neurology/Neurobiology at University of California Irvine) and an artist. I began painting while in medical school to help understand the structures being studied. As a neurologist I became especially interested in individuals with disordered sensation and cognition and their consequences for “perception”. The act of “seeing” requires complex interactions between sensory inputs and our expectations. I use watercolors favoring vivid hues to reflect scenes of nature, water, and nerve cells. I want the viewer to think while looking and the process of “seeing” may often be accompanied by an unconscious smile.

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Focus Iran 2

The second biennial juried exhibition of contemporary photography and video works relating to Iranian culture or heritage. The exhibition features an international selection of emerging and mid-career artists from around the world who offer diverse perspectives of contemporary Iranian life. The group exhibition features thirty-six photographs and eight video works.

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Through Refugee Eyes

What are the underlying causes of the refugee crises? What are the challenges refugees face in camps, and what are their long-term aspirations? More importantly, what steps can we take in our local community to address these crises? Explore these questions and more as we seek to gain perspective and understanding “Through Refugee Eyes.”

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Art History Undergraduate Association (AHUA) 5^th Annual Art Show
Under the Scope

The mission of the Art History Undergraduate Association is to encourage undergraduates to pursue shared interests and passions for art by connecting them to a network of faculty, alumni, and students.

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Plastic Ocean Art Exhibit

The project is bringing awareness about the growing pandemic of marine plastics across the country by turning it into art and leaving it on display at public venues.

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War Diaries

When the invasion began in 2003, Lt. Tim McLaughlin commanded a Marine Corps tank into Iraq. Writer Peter Maass and photographer Gary Knight drove rental cars. This project is the result of their paths crossing in the Iraqi desert-turned-warzone. Diaries and Memories of War in Iraq features McLaughlin’s remarkable war diaries along with photographs by Knight and texts by Maass. The exhibit also features a video installation using news footage from 2003 to enhance the atmosphere of the invasion era.

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Music in Motion

A public art installation developed in collaboration with Pacific Symphony, and featuring contributions from faculty and students in the Dance, Music and Drama departments, Music in Motion is a live online “video booth” designed for community locations.

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Views of Crystal Cove

Student photography exhibit of Crystal Cove State Park, which encompasses 3.2 miles of Pacific coastline, inland canyons and the Crystal Cove Historic District with its colony of beach houses and ties to the early days of the California film industry. Whether their recollections are of mountain biking on the park’s inland trails, scuba diving offshore, or a romantic stroll at sundown, the park has become a favorite retreat for many UCI students.

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Transcending Limitations

Works by artists from the UCI community. By encouraging the expression of individual limitations through art, the Art History Undergraduate Association hopes to explore the way that students, faculty, and alumni choose to express, conceal, and identify aspects of limitations in their lives.

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California Modern, Irvine Style

Examines the history of UCI’s master plan and the city of Irvine in relation to American modernism and higher education and early 1960s Utopianism. The aim is to define Pereira’s legacy and influence on contemporary developments in campus architecture and urbanism. Curated by Kevin Staniec, City of Irvine.

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Microscopy Photo Exhibit

Biological research involves sophisticated microscopy of biological specimens. The resulting images are beautiful and often illuminating as they reveal the typically unseen structure of the natural world. Featured photographs of biological specimens captured by UCI undergraduate students.

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Vietnamese Focus: Generations of Stories

Showcases the diversity of the Vietnamese community in Orange County, the largest outside of Vietnam. Includes interactive features, photographs, documents, artifacts, ephemera, artwork, and oral histories from private collections, the Vietnamese American Oral History Project, and the Orange County and Southeast Asian Archive Center (OC&SEAA) at the UCI Libraries. The showing is informed by a new book, Vietnamese in Orange County by Thuy Vo Dang, Linda Trinh Vo, and Tram Le. Featured in the exhibition are original artwork by Trinh Mai.

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Mission Viejo Bears About Town

Commemorating the magnificent brown bears that once roamed the area, and the unique culture heritage of Mission Viejo. Designed to celebrate the bond between the original and various ethnic groups comprising our community, the nine-bear collection represents a family knitting together the unique and rich cultural heritage and legacy upon which the City of Mission Viejo was founded.

Blood in the Water: Remembering Katrina

Exhibit of photographs taken shortly after Hurricane Katrina devastated the Mississippi and Louisiana Gulf Coasts and the city of New Orleans.

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Music in Motion

Interactive dance project by UCI dance and media arts professor John Crawford.

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Light: Beyond the Bulb

An open-source international exhibition program that showcases the incredible variety of light-based science being researched today across the electromagnetic spectrum, across scientific disciplines, and across technological platforms.

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Altered Perceptions

Art meets science in this 3^rd annual exhibit organized by UCI’s Art History Undergraduate Association. The diversity of academic interests across the UC Irvine campus and the synergy of art and science inspired this year’s theme.

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