Event Detail

LAVA Exhibition

Opening Reception - Tuesday, March 6, 2018 from 4:00 to 5:30 p.m.
Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor, 105 University Center

LAVA is an art exhibition featuring work by graduate students, faculty, and alumni from the Department of Visual Arts. The show is supported by EVC Elizabeth H. Simmons and Dean Cristina Della Coletta. The selection of work conveys themes of color, patterns and vibrancy that showcases the unique diversity of visual arts. The exhibit engages audiences outside of the traditional gallery space and integrates concept art into our everyday routines. The two previous exhibitions — Mint and Chroma — were held at the Office of the Graduate Division and Office of the Division of Arts and Humanities respectively, with support from Dean Kit Pogliano and Dean Cristina Della Coletta.  Curated by Visual Arts alumnus, Farshid Bazmandegan.

At 4:30 p.m., the Opening Reception will feature a performance by David Borgo (tenor saxophone) and Tommy Babin (double bass). 

1. Drum Talk (composed by David Borgo)
2. Inner Urge (composed by Joe Henderson)

David Borgo is Professor and Chairman of the Department of Music at UC San Diego. He has published widely on the social, cultural, historical and cognitive dimensions of music-making, including a book titled Sync or Swarm: Improvising Music in a Complex Age, which won the Alan P. Merriam Prize in 2006 from the Society for Ethnomusicology as the most distinguished English-language book published during the previous year. David’s scholarly work also appears in Jazz Perspectives, Black Music Research Journal, Journal of Popular Music Studies, American Music, Journal of American History, Journal of Consciousness Studies, Parallax, Open Space, The Oxford Handbook on Critical Improvisation Studies, and in several edited book volumes. As a saxophonist, David has toured in the United States, Europe, Asia, Canada, Mexico and Brazil, and he has released ten albums of original music. David has given invited talks and/or performances at the Studio for Electro-Instrumental Music (STEIM) in Amsterdam, the Sonic Arts Research Center (SARC) at Queens University Belfast, The University of Göteborg, The University of São Paulo, Escuela National de Musica-UNAM in Mexico City, The University of Chicago, The University of Minnesota, The Northwest Electro-Acoustic Music Organization (NWEAMO), UCLA, UCHRI’s "State of the Arts" Festival, and The Bronowski Art and Science Forum, among other distinguished venues.

Called "muscular and exact" by the Globe and Mail, and "inflammable" by The Village Voice, bassist Tommy Babin has performed worldwide with a wide range of musical artists including Mats Gustaffson, Hamid Drake, Matana Roberts, Gordon Grdina, Francois Houle, and Anthony Braxton alongside his own projects. He is a Juno Award-winner, recipient of multiple awards from the Canada Council for the Arts , and can be heard on upcoming 2018 album releases alongside Paul Plimley, Jon Irabagon, and Eyvind Kang. Tommy is currently a doctoral student at the University of California, San Diego.
 

Curated by Visual Arts alumnus, Farshid Bazmandegan.

Selected works included are by:

Jessica Frelund (MFA Candidate)

Angie Jennings (MFA Alumna)

Lisa Korpos (MFA Candidate)

Aitor Lajarin (MFA Alumnus)

Jean Lowe (MFA Alumna)

Kim MacConnel (Professor Emeritus)

Rubén Ortiz-Torres (Professor)

Omar Pimienta (MFA Alumnus)

Italo Scanga (Professor Emeritus)

Ernest R. Silva (Professor Emeritus)