April–July 2018 Exhibitions
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APRIL–JULY 2018 EXHIBITIONS YVE LARIS COHEN: MEETING GROUND ON VIEW 4/19/18 THROUGH 9/2/18 The work of transgender artist Yve Laris Cohen moves between the worlds of visual art and dance, situated within genealogies that include Minimalist sculpture, Institutional Critique, postmodern dance, and classical ballet. His work often considers the architecture and latent histories of theatrical spaces, through installations and performances that highlight states of transition. For Laris Cohen’s exhibition—his first solo museum presentation on the West Coast—the artist takes as his starting point MCASD La Jolla’s current expansion, a construction endeavor involving the conversion of Sherwood Auditorium into gallery space. On the occasion of Sherwood’s disappearance, Laris Cohen has engaged in an excavation of the history of the auditorium and, in turn, of the Museum itself. His installation will transpose architectural and archival elements of Sherwood to the Museum’s downtown building, effectively extending the life of the former civic space. There is a striking symmetry in this gesture: just as Sherwood Auditorium is transformed into a gallery, the artist transforms a gallery into Sherwood Auditorium. Laris Cohen sees architecture as not only a formal construction but also a social and political one. Indeed, the project considers not just material artifacts of the building, but also the labor that supported the auditorium’s programs and maintenance. As part of the exhibition, a former Sherwood events technician, Michael Scheer, has been contracted to assist with a weekly event taking place inside the installation. As a caretaker of Sherwood for over two decades, Scheer is now responsible for guarding archival materials from 1971, which marked a turning point in Sherwood’s history. This institutional ephemera points to Sherwood’s complex legacy, raising YVE LARIS COHEN: MEETING GROUND questions about the Museum’s parameters and its constituencies, both in the past and the present. Meeting Ground represents the culmination of over a year of research on the part of the artist, who spent several weeks onsite at MCASD examining its archive. The exhibition’s title references an early press release the artist found that announced the opening of Sherwood Hall, describing it as “a meeting ground between the Museum and the public.” His Learn more about Yve Laris Cohen in project offers a meditation on this idea, exploring how the Q&A on pages 8-9. the particularities of theatrical architecture shape both a museum’s programs and its publics. An event will occur every Saturday from 2 to 4 PM through September 2, 2018. Yve Laris Cohen: Meeting Ground is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and made possible by underwriting support from the Cochrane Exhibition Fund. Institutional support of MCASD is provided by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and COVER: G. LYNN BLACK-AND-WHITE FAYMAN, PHOTOGRAPH OF SHERWOOD HALL, EARLY 1960S. / OPPOSITE PAGE: GROUND PLAN OF SHERWOOD HALL, C. 1960, ARCHIVAL RESEARCH FOR Culture and the County of San Diego Community Enhancement Fund. 2 3 EXHIBITINONS EXHIBITIONS “I AM THE OAKLAND 80’S BABY OF THE RADICAL MOVEMENT OF LOVE, THE INTERRACIAL, OUTER-SPACIAL, AND OF DISCO IDEALISM. I AM THE IMPROBABLE CELEBRATION OF MY PARENTS’ ACTS OF RESISTANCE.” —SADIE BARNETTE SADIE BARNETTE: DEAR 1968,… ON VIEW 4/19/18 THROUGH 9/2/18 In Dear 1968,… artist Sadie Barnette mines personal and political histories using family photographs, recent drawings, and selections from the file that the FBI amassed after her father joined the Black Panther Party in 1968. The exhibition takes its title from Barnette’s large-scale drawing, which reads “Dear 1968,” “Love, 1984.” Laboriously rendering its seemingly mechanical , lettering by hand, Barnette approaches the year 1968 with a mixture of sentimental devotion and critical distance. Born in 1984, she sprinkles the embellishments of her birth era—glittery vinyl, UNTITLED (DAD, rhinestone stickers—throughout the exhibition in an attempt to reclaim her family’s history. SPECIAL AGENT Barnette and her family recently obtained her father’s 500-page FBI file through the Freedom of , 2017, GRAPHITE ON PAPER, Information Act and she responded to its intimate details by further redacting its contents with her signature stickers and paint splashes. Here, in its third iteration, Barnette has mounted the pages to pink panels, giving them a dystopic glow. On another wall, she has transformed the file’s official stamps into a domestic-style wallpaper. On top of the wallpaper, a pair of photographs show her UNTITLED (BLACK 1968) father in his Army uniform after being drafted to fight in Vietnam in 1966, and just two years later in his Black Panther uniform, fighting against racism on his own soil. In Barnette’s immersive reimagining of the family album, she demonstrates that her family’s story is not theirs alone. Examining the fraught relationship between the personal and the political, the everyday and the otherworldly, the past and the present, Barnette reveals that the injustices of 1968 have not yet been relegated to the pages of history, but live on in new forms today. , 2016, C-PRINT, EDITION OF 3, FRAMED (EACH OF 2): 47 X 41 IN., 1/4 ON Sadie Barnette: Dear 1968,… has been organized by the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art at the University of California, Davis and Associate Curator Francesca Wilmott. Funding for the San Diego presentation is made possible by gifts to the annual operating fund. Institutional support of MCASD is provided by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture and the 1966 AND 1968) County of San Diego Community Enhancement Fund. OPPOSITE PAGE, TOP BOTTOM: TO SADIE BARNETTE, FRAMED: 43 X 55 IN. SHEET: 38 X 50 IN. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST. / SADIE BARNETTE, 2017, CUSTOM WALL VINYL, DIMENSIONS VARIABLE. COURTESY OF THE ARTIST. 4 5 COMING SOON PROSPECT 2018 ON VIEW 4/19/18 THROUGH 9/2/18 Each spring, MCASD’s curatorial staff organizes an exhibition of artworks to be considered for acquisition by members of Contemporary Collectors and International Collectors, the Museum’s premier support groups. In advance of being selected by ballot at the Annual Selection Dinner, the works are displayed in the galleries along with contextual pieces from the permanent collection. This year’s presentation includes work by Meschac Gaba, Thomas Glassford, Camille Henrot, Judith Linhares, Jim Shaw, and Yinka Shonibare MBE. Prospect 2018 is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, with funding provided by MCASD’s International and Contemporary Collectors. Institutional support of MCASD is provided by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture and the County of San Diego Community Enhancement Fund. ARTISTS FROM THE MFA PROGRAM AT UCSD ON VIEW 5/17/18 THROUGH 6/17/18 This collaborative exhibition between MCASD and the University of California, San Diego Visual Arts Department presents work by graduating artists in the Master of Fine Arts program. Artists included in this year’s exhibition are Dustin Brons, Jessica Buie, Corey Dunlap, Jessica Frelund, Jon Paden, Garrett Pointer, HeeJung Shin, Andrew Sturm, Sindu Thirumalaisamy, and Evelyn Walker. The exhibition is co-organized by UC San Diego PhD student Jonah Gray and MCASD Assistant Curator Anthony Graham. Artists from the MFA Program at UCSD is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and the University of California, San Diego Department of Visual Arts. Institutional support of MCASD is provided by the City of San Diego Commission for Arts and Culture and the County of San Diego Community Enhancement Fund. COMING SOON > BEING HERE WITH YOU/ ESTANDO AQUÍ CONTIGO: PROSPECT PROSPECT 42 ARTISTS FROM SAN DIEGO AND TIJUANA ON VIEW 9/20/18 THROUGH 2/3/19 Being Here With You/ Estando aquí contigo will bring together work by 42 artists living and work- ing in the San Diego and Tijuana region. Filling the galleries of MCASD’s downtown location, the exhibition will include both early career and established artists, and will present new installations, videos, digital media, photography, sculptures, paintings, and performances. Being Here With You/ Estando aquí contigo will highlight artists whose distinctive practices are shaping conversations and communities in the binational region and beyond. Artists include Robert Andrade, Abraham Avila, Mely Barragan, Carlos Castro-Arias, Alida Cervantes, Andrea Chung, Kate Clark, Cog•nate Collective, Lissa Corona, Thomas Demello, ELSOLDELRAC, Paula Flores, Victoria Fu, Aldo Guerra, Ingrid Hernández, Janelle Iglesias, Beliz Iristay, Angie Jennings, James Luna, Ana del Águila Malvaez, Michelle Montjoy, Raúl Moyado Sandoval, Mauricio Muñoz, Panca, Chantal Peñalosa, Omar Pimienta, Brianna Rigg, C. Ree, Matt Rich, Andrew Roberts, Griselda Rosas, Daniel Ruanova, Adriana Trujillo and José Inerzia, Barbara Sexton, Ash Eliza Smith and Kim-Anh Schreiber, Eva Struble, Monique van Genderen, Juan Villavicencio, David White, Oslyn Whizar, Chantal Wnuk, and Joe Yorty. Being Here With You/ Estando aquí contigo: 42 Artists from San Diego and Tijuana is organized by the Museum of Contemporary Art AT THE AT ANNUAL SELECTION DINNER. / THIS PAGE: MCASD DOWNTOWN JACOBS BUILDING. San Diego and made possible by gifts to the annual operating fund. Institutional support of MCASD is provided by the City of San Diego 2017 OPPOSITE PAGE: MCASD’S DAVID C. COPLEY DIRECTOR AND CEO KATHRYN KANJO GIVES A TOUR OF Commission for Arts and Culture and the County of San Diego Community Enhancement Fund. 6 7 ARTIST Q&A HEADER ARTIST Q&A: YVE LARIS COHEN MCASD talks with New York-based, San Diego-born artist Yve Laris Cohen, whose first solo museum exhibition on the West Coast opens at MCASD Downtown in April. MCASD: Your performances and installations Orchestra performances were billed as Museum often foreground bodies, buildings, and programming.