INVINCIBLE CALIFORNIA - UC Berkeley Art Alumni Exhibition 2020

NOTE: CLOSED EARLY FOR HEALTH SAFETY & STAFFING CONCERNS!

INVINCIBLE CALIFORNIA
UC Berkeley Art Alumni Exhibition 2020

Dru Anderson
Ali Dadgar
Veronica De Jesus
ghost ghost teeth
Clement Hil Goldberg
Nemo Gould
Bovey Lee
Deborah Oropallo
Shirin Towfiq
Chris E. Vargas & Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art
Lark VCR

Wednesday, February 19th - Thursday, March 12th, 2020
NOTE: CLOSED EARLY FOR HEALTH SAFETY & STAFFING CONCERNS!

CANCELLED: Closing Reception, Art Practice Fundraiser(link is external), and Art Legacy Workshop

Worth Ryder Art Gallery, 116 Kroeber Hall, UC Berkeley Campus
Gallery Hours: Monday - Thursday, 12 noon - 5pm (during exhibition period)
Free and Open to the Public

Join us for an exhibition of artists who studied at the UC Berkeley Department of Art Practice, all of whom experiment with forms of storytelling, are engaged with history’s continual recreation in the present, and resist cultural erasure.

Note that we have CANCELLED the Closing Reception, Art Practice Fundraiser(link is external), and Artist Legacy Workshop originally scheduled for Thursday, March 12th, due to the health emergency situation.

Dru Anderson(link is external)’s sculptural installation tells the stories of womyn via her prolific, dream-based painting practice and calls attention to economic hardship in the art community. 

Ali Dadgar(link is external) presents a new series of painterly, multi-layer palimpsests that both record and redact the story of his life in Iran and Oakland.

Veronica De Jesus(link is external)’ Letters from my Brother Abraham in Prison is an autobiographical installation of letters and drawings, and a space to connect.

The story of ghost ghost teeth(link is external)’s family’s history of emigration from Vietnam is hiding in his installation of paintings, memory objects, and wall drawings.

Clement Hil Goldberg(link is external) presents a new video version of the multidisciplinary satire Our Future Ends, a parallel extinction narrative about endangered lemurs, the lost continent of Lemuria, and erasure of queer spaces.

Bovey Lee(link is external)’s The Sea Will Come to Kiss Me is an installation featuring a series of elaborate seascapes cut from official paperwork that documents the process of her immigration to the US. 

Deborah Oropallo(link is external)’s series of photomontages Dark Landscapes for a White House critiques our cultural habituation to political and ecological traumas. 

Bovey Lee(link is external)’s The Sea Will Come to Kiss Me is an installation featuring a series of elaborate seascapes cut from official paperwork that documents the process of her immigration to the US. 

Deborah Oropallo(link is external)’s series of photomontages Dark Landscapes for a White House critiques our cultural habituation to political and ecological traumas. 

Shirin Towfiq(link is external)’s multimedia installation No, I Never Went Back relates the story of the artist’s father’s migration from Iran via an archive of twenty slide images he carried with him. The immersive experience consists of retelling memories mixed with Iranian songs of freedom.

Nemo Gould(link is external) creates mechanistic, interactive robotic sculptures that kinaesthetically process our anxieties. 

Chris E. Vargas(link is external), Executive Director of the Museum of Transgender Hirstory & Art(link is external), presents Transvestism in the News featuring 20th century headlines from trans activist and archivist Louise Lawrence. 

Lark VCR(link is external)’s Traumagotchi is a website for collective healing and virtual spell-casting that enables people to create a virtualization of their own trauma.

Please join us for an Opening Reception, 4 - 7pm, Wednesday, February 19th!