EXHIBITIONS Gallery admission, parking, and opening reception are free to the public. artsinirvine.org
Greg Price: Smooth Ripple August 14–December 12 · Opening Reception: August 14, 2–4 p.m. Irvine City Hall
Since 2013, Irvine-based artist Greg Price has been pushing the boundaries of sculpture by utilizing extreme temperatures to manipulate glass. Price’s process captures weightless moments of three-dimensional form, suspended in time and space, inviting viewers to experience a familiar material through a fresh and unexpected lens. Greg Price: Smooth Ripple profiles the artist’s process and concepts through showcasing a series of colorful wall-mounted glass sculptures. Image Credit: Greg Price, Detail shot of Untitled, Cast Glass 25 Years at the Beall Center for Art + Technology October 26–December 28 · Opening Reception: October 26, 1–3 p.m. Great Park Gallery Located within the Claire Trevor School of the Arts at the University of California, Irvine, the Donald R. and Joan F. Beall Center for Art + Technology was established in 2000 with the mission of fostering research, organizing exhibitions, and facilitating public programs that promote innovative connections between art, science, and engineering. Over the past 25 years, the Beall Center has expanded on the contemporary art-viewing experience by showcasing unique interdisciplinary art practices. In partnership with UC Irvine, this joint exhibition highlights artists, installations, and exhibitions from the Beall Center's 25-year history. Swing Shift November 15–January 17 · Opening Reception: November 15, 2–4 p.m. Irvine Fine Arts Center: Central Gallery Swing Shift is an interdisciplinary exhibition of contemporary artworks that highlight workers — formal, informal, domestic, industrial, highly visible, paradoxically unseen — and the impact of their labor. Among the artworks on view are video-based reflections on the labor of preparing a home-cooked meal, sculptures that document the human foundations of modern supply chains, drawings that honor labor leaders, poetic interventions, and works that ruminate on creative life. The exhibition’s title, Swing Shift , is informed by the concept of “shift work," seamless and uninterrupted service, made ubiquitous by the industrial revolution. The spectrum of labor that informs the artworks on view is by no means exhaustive but is critical to modern life. Throughout the differing modalities of work and workers acknowledged in the exhibition, the wit and sensitivity of artists is championed as an inimitable labor of its own — a collection of gestures to remind us of our unique faculties for sensitivity and critical thought. Image Credit: Francis Almendarez, Denim #4 (Vetted) from the series Denim (Worker Pants), 2021–ongoing. Alisa Ochoa: Splinters November 15–January 17 · Opening Reception: November 15, 2–4 p.m. Irvine Fine Arts Center: Project Gallery Splinters , a solo presentation of new work by Orange County-based interdisciplinary artist Alisa Ochoa, debuts a new single-channel video and accompanying audio and ceramic sculptures. Shaped by themes that are simultaneously personal and universal — life, death, love, grief, transience — the exhibition invites viewers to consider the temporal and shifting nature of our memories and relationships. In conceiving of and producing the artworks in the exhibition, Ochoa drew inspiration from memories of her late father, his prized 1979 Chevy Camaro, screen memories, and the migratory patterns of birds. Through a combination of moving images, sound, and hand-crafted objects, Ochoa’s project considers how “like ghosts, traces linger, quietly remaining in the delicate contours of the present.” Image Credit: Alisa Ochoa, My father pictured with his beloved 1979 Berlinetta at Mt. Charleston, Las Vegas. 89
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