UCLA Department of Art announces events for fall 2011

Sue Williams’ ’Coitus Interruptus’

The UCLA Department of Art is offering a variety of events for the public’s enjoyment this fall, including exhibitions and public lectures. Programs are subject to change. For updated information and confirmation of events, call 310-825-3281 or visit www.art.ucla.edu.

Exhibitions are at the New Wight Gallery, located in the Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center at UCLA. Hours are Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 4:30 p.m. (closed on campus holidays). Admission is free. All-day parking ($11) and short-term parking (payable at pay stations) are available in Lot 3 (enter the campus at Hilgard and Wyton avenues). The exhibition program of the New Wight Gallery is made possible through the generous support of Dallas Price-Van Breda.

Lectures are at the Billy Wilder Theater at the Hammer Museum, located at 10899 Wilshire Blvd., at Westwood Boulevard. Admission is free. Parking in the museum’s underground lot is $3 after 6 p.m. The Visiting Artists Lecture Series is made possible through the generous support of the William D. Feldman Family Endowed Art Lecture Fund.

This exhibition, curated by UCLA Department of Art graduate students, features the work of 17 artists from Southern California M.F.A. programs. The works manifest themselves as commodity fetish, exchange, currency, labor, relational sociability and sharing. In the context of this show, the marketplace is a medium, a moment of reaction, a place of negotiation and a thing to ignore.

Artists include: Josh Cho, Chris Coy, Misael Diaz, Kyla Hansen, Jae Hee Lee, Perry B. Marks, Quinton Jones McCurine, Paul Pescador, Sarah Petersen, Kari Reardon, Christopher Reynolds, Owen Schmit, Rowan Smith, Sean Townley, Son Vo, J. Patrick Walsh and Joe Yorty.

This exhibition features work by UCLA Department of Art M.F.A. students graduating at the end of the academic year. Works are in the areas of ceramics, interdisciplinary studio, new genres, painting/drawing, photography and sculpture.

This exhibition features works in various media — including ceramics, new genres, painting/drawing, photography and sculpture — by undergraduate art students who have received 2011–12 scholarships from the UCLA Department of Art and the UCLA School of the Arts and Architecture.

Leckey is a British artist who works with a variety of media, including film, sound, performance and installation. His work has been shown widely, including in exhibitions at the Tate Modern, London; the Museum Ludwig, Cologne; the Vancouver Contemporary Art Gallery; and the Guggenheim Museum, New York. Leckey was awarded the Turner Prize in 2008.

Sue Williams is a New York–based painter who has had solo exhibitions at the Carpenter Center, Harvard University; the Instituto Valenciano de Arte Moderno, Spain; Secession, Vienna; and the Centre d’Art Contemporain, Geneva. She has exhibited her work in numerous group exhibitions, including at Whitechapel Gallery, London; the Vancouver Art Gallery; and MoMA, New York, as well as in three Whitney Biennials.

UCLA Department of Art graduate students’ studios in Culver City will be open to the public after their fall reviews. The graduate open studios event takes place only twice a year, in late fall and spring. Visitors are able to meet the students and see their work in progress in a studio setting.