New York based artist Angela Dufresne
creates a duality of strangeness and familiarity partly though
her choice of palette—from acidic to tempered earth tones, to
muted veils of transparent color. Her work are released from
strict rules of logical
narrative, embodying fantasy and imagination.
VICTORIA AYALA
DAVID BRICKNER
SUMMER BRITT MARIA CAGUIN MARIA FUOCO MICHAELA GUERRERA IRENE HSU BENJAMIN JACKSON EMMA JACOBS JASMINE KAMARIOTIS
KYRA KENNEDY
CLARA KWON
YINI LAM
TITI LE SEO WON LEE
TYLER MEEKS
ELLIAN OHN ELIZABETH PRADER ROCIO SALAS CHARLSON SO NAOMI STARR SAMUEL STOWE STELLA SUN MAIA WACHTEL JANET WRIGHT TEYMUR GUSEYNOV
Rodney McMillian, "Representation of a Landscape as a Wall," 2012, Acrylic, latex and ink on paper, 14 x 48.6 feet. Installed at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.
Encompassing a
wide range of media, Rodney McMillian’s work is at heart a
highly poetic investigation of an American social history, as
it manifests itself from political reality to the deeply
personal spheres of the home and the body.
Born in Columbia,
South Carolina in 1969, McMillian lives and works in Los
Angeles. He received his MFA in 2002 from the California
Institute of the Arts and his BFA at the School of the Art
Institute of Chicago. McMillian has had solo exhibitions at
Momentum 14, ICA Boston, Boston (2009), at the Kitchen, New
York (2008); ArtNova, ArtBasel Miami Beach (2006); and at
Triple Candie, New York (2005). His work has been featured
prominently in important group exhibitions including “Whitney
Biennial 2008,” New York; “30 Americans,” Rubell Collection,
Miami; “Ordinary Culture: Heikes/Helms/McMillian,” Walker Art
Center, Minneapolis; “Painting in Tongues,” Museum of
Contemporary Art Los Angeles; “Uncertain States of America,”
Astrup Fearnley Museum of Art, Oslo, traveling to Serpentine
Gallery, London, and Bard Center for Curatorial Studies,
Annandale-on-Hudson; “Thing - New Sculpture from Los Angeles,”
UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; “Frequency,” Studio Museum in
Harlem, New York; “White Noise,” REDCAT Gallery, Los Angeles;
and “USA Today,” Royal Academy of Art, London. He is
represented by Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects.
The
Visiting Artist Lecture Series is sponsored by the Betsey
Straub Wiesenfeld Visiting Artist Endowment and the UC
Berkeley Department of Art Practice.
| Worth Ryder Art Gallery presents Damaso Reyes: The Europeans Artist Talk Thursday, March 14, 5-7 PM exhibition closes March 23 |
Image: Damaso Reyes, The Europeans: Idle Hands, Kosovo, 2005. Digital print. 21 x 30 inches.
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“DAMASO REYES: THE EUROPEANS” presents photographs from the artist and photojournalist’s investigation of the changing face of Europe over the past decade. This exhibition is a glimpse of his ongoing body of work, “The Europeans,” which seeks to document through photographs the changes Europe and its people are experiencing as the European Union expands and integrates. The show includes images from France, Germany, Switzerland, Kosovo and Slovakia among others.
Reyes will talk about his recent work as a Knight Luce Fellow for Reporting on Global Religion, for which he traveled to Spain, England and Ukraine to explore the growth of European Pentecostalism led by immigrants from former colonies and this exhibition also includes still images and a single channel multimedia work on this theme. With roots in Los Angeles, the Pentecostal faith has seen tremendous growth in Latin America, Asia and Africa over the past several decades. Reyes examines how Charismatic faiths are growing among native and immigrant populations alike, while traditional European Christian religious observance continues to decline.
Born and raised in Brooklyn, New York, Reyes began his career as a photojournalist while still a teenager. He has worked for institutions and his work has appeared in publications including: The United Nations Development Programme, The Associated Press, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday, The San Francisco Chronicle, The Far Eastern Economic Review, New York magazine, Vanity Fair Germany, Der Spiegel and Time Asia. Previous assignments and projects have taken him to countries including Rwanda, Iraq, Indonesia, Tanzania and throughout the United States. Reyes is a project leader at the World Policy Institute, as well as a 2012 Knight-Luce religion reporting fellow. Other fellowships and awards include a 2008 Fulbright, a 2008 Arthur F. Burns fellowship and has two first place awards for international reporting from the New York Association of Black Journalists.
"DAMASO REYES: THE EUROPEANS" is presented by the Department of Art Practice with support from Religious Studies, Graduate School of Journalism, Department of Ethnic Studies and Program in Comparative Ethnic Studies, International and Area Studies, Spanish and Portuguese Studies, and University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA).
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