Opening reception for Jagdeep Raina’s exhibition Beautiful Zameen at the Todd Madigan Gallery.

Jagdeep Raina (b. 1991, Guelph, Ontario, Canada) has an interdisciplinary practice that spans drawing, textiles, writing, and, more recently, video animation, film and ceramics. His solo exhibition Beautiful Zameen is on view from March 16 to April 29 at the Todd Madigan Gallery.

Jhani Randhawa is a Kenyan-Punjabi/Anglo-American collaborator, counterdisciplinary maker, and independent scholar currently based in North America. Author of the hybrid poetry collection Time Regime (Gaudy Boy, 2022), Jhani is interested in fugue states, ecological grief-tending and environmental justice, and formations of friendship across species in diaspora. They are the co-founding editor of rivulet, a digital experiment and print project dedicated to investigations of the interstitial.

Directed by Ali Kazimi
Canada, 1994

The film documents the activist campaign of Narmada Bachao Andolan against the then-proposed Narmada Dam project in Gujarat, India.

In this online presentation, the Center for Land Use Interpretation’s Aurora Tang shares highlights from the CLUI exhibition Time Stamps: Revisiting California Through the Postcards of Merle Porter, on view at CSU Bakersfield’s Todd Madigan Gallery through May 7, 2022. 

Zoom link: https://csub.zoom.us/j/3021275265

Information about the exhibition: https://www.toddmadigangallery.org [toddmadigangallery.org]

Patrick Michael Ballard
April 8, 5:30 pm

Patrick Michael Ballard is a Los Angeles based artist engaging sculpture, storytelling, performance, pedagogy, and play as tools for understanding the formation of the self, the social constructs of creativity, and the behavioral nature of animistic experience. His works have taken on a wild variety of different forms including his theatrical espace room installed at Machine Project, Los Angeles (Return to FOREVERHOUSE), a five act play about his high-school internet avatar performed at Museum as Retail Space (After the Rise and Fall of Teenager), an experimental set of stand-up comedy (I SO SORE FOR EVER THING) performed at the Les Urbaines performance festival in Lausanne, Switzerland, and a two-story public sculpture mounted to the front of the historic Gamble House in Pasadena, California—activated every-hour-on-the-hour by a 3-minute micro opera. His current work involves the staging of private object-oriented, single player, improvisational rituals created with a pantheon of props and interactive sculptures for one participant/collaborator at a time (Fool’s Window), an instructional piano album titled The Metaphysical Piano, and a project still in process with the Todd Madigan Gallery at CSU Bakersfield (Weird Alms) in which he organized the placement of contemporary art objects as gifts, props, and learning tools into the permanent care, collaboration, and stewardship of the students. Patrick has exhibited work both locally and internationally and received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts and his BFA from CSU Long Beach. 

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Kahlil Robert Irving is an artist living and working in the USA, and is Assistant professor of ceramics at Maryland Institute College of Art. He is known for making mixed media installations and sculptural amassments. His work has been exhibited at the Nerman Museum of Contemporary, Kansas; the Arizona State University Art Museum, Phoenix; and the Rhode Island School of Design Museum, Rhode Island; The Singapore Biennial; and Making Knowing: Craft in Art, 1950–2019, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York. Currently he is working on a unique commission for the lobby of the Contemporary Art Center, Cincinnati and is opening a solo exhibition at the Contemporary Art Museum St. Louis September 11, 2020.

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Kerry Tribe is an artist and filmmaker based in Los Angeles. Her work has been the subject of solo presentations at SFMOMA, San Francisco; The High Line, New York; Carpenter Center for Visual Arts, Cambridge; The Power Plant, Toronto; Modern Art Oxford and Camden Arts Centre, London. Tribe was the recipient of the Presidential Residency at Stanford University, the Herb Alpert Award, the USA Artists Award, and she was the Guna S. Mundheim Fellow at the American Academy in Berlin. Tribe’s work is in the public collections of MoMA, the Whitney, the Hammer Museum, LACMA, SMAK Ghent and the Generali Foundation, among other institutions. She has served as visiting faculty at Stanford University, UCLA, CalArts, Harvard University, and regularly teaches at ArtCenter in Pasadena. Tribe received her MFA from UCLA, attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, and received a BA from Brown University.

Liz Craft is a Los Angeles installation artist and sculptor. Her artwork has been exhibited internationally and collected by museums including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, LACMA, and the Hammer Museum in Los Angeles. She received a Bachelor of Arts from Otis Parsons in 1994 and a Master of Fine Art from the University of California, Los Angeles in 1997.

Solo exhibitions include: Neue Welt, with Pentti Monkkonen, Liszt, Berlin (2017); Blow Me, Real Fine Arts, New York (2016); Big Girls, Truth and Consequences, Geneva Switzerland (2015); Secret Lives of Spiders, Jenny’s, Los Angeles (2015); Temple of Folly, LAND Project, West Hollywood, CA (2013); Works from 2002-2008, Marianne Gallery, New York, NY (2010).
Group exhibitions include The Beguiling Siren is Thy Crest, Museum of Modern Art, Warsaw (2017); DOMESTIC - Like a Preraphaelite Brotherhood, curated by Charlotte Cosson & Emmanuelle Luciani, Truth & Consequences, Geneva (2017); Love Streams, with Pentti Monkkonen, Schloss, Oslo (2016); Mirror Cells co-curated by Christopher Y. Lew and Jane Panetta, Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2016); Kleenex Rose, Bodega, New York (2016).

Jedediah Caesar is a Los Angeles based artist and curator. He received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles.  Solo exhibitions include Unearthed: Found + Made, Oakland Museum of California Art, Oakland, CA; Stone Underground, Locust Projects, Miami, FL; Rozoj, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA; Soft Structures, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA; City of Industry, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; as well as shows at Susanne Vielmetter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY. His work is in the collection of the New Museum, New York,NY; the Blanton Museum, Austin, TX; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA and LACMA among others. Reviews of his work have appeared in publications including art agenda, Frieze, Art Papers, Princeton Architectural Press, Sculpture Magazine, Texte zur Kunst, Art Forum, Mousse, and The Village Voice, among many others. Since 2014 he has been the director of the Todd Madigan Gallery at CSU Bakersfield.

Carolina Caycedo (1978, lives in Los Angeles) was born in London to Colombian parents.  She transcends institutional spaces to work in the social realm, where she participates in movements of territorial resistance, solidarity economies, and housing as a human right.  Carolina’s artistic practice has a collective dimension to it in which performances, drawings, photographs and videos are not just an end result, but rather part of the artist’s process of research and acting. Through work that investigates relationships of movement, assimilation and resistance, representation and control, she addresses contexts, groups and communities that are affected by developmental projects, like the constructions of dams, the privatization of water, and its consequences on riverside communities.

She has developed publicly engaged projects in Bogota, Quezon City, Toronto, Madrid, Sao Paulo, Lisbon, San Juan, New York, San Francisco, Paris, Mexico DF, Tijuana,  and London. Her work has been exhibited worldwide with solo shows at Vienna Secession, Intermediae-Matadero Madrid, Agnes B Gallery Paris, Alianza Francesa Bogotá, Hordaland Kunstsenter Bergen, 18th Street Arts Center in Santa Monica,  and DAAD Gallery in Berlin. She has participated in international biennials including Sao Paulo (2016), Berlin (2014), Paris Triennial (2013),  New Museum (2011), Havana (2009), Whitney (2006), Venice (2003) and Istanbul (2001). In 2012, Caycedo was a DAAD Artist-in-Berlin resident. She has received funding from Creative Capital, California Community Foundation, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs,  Harpo Foundation, Art Matters, Colombian Culture Ministry, Arts Council UK,  and Prince Claus Fund.

John Ziqiang Wu (b. 1983, Tangshan, China) is an artist and educator who lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA in Fine Art from Art Center College of Design in 2013 and his MFA in Photo/Media from the California Institute of the Arts in 2017. Wu is the co-founder of Learning Art & Art Learning Studio, an art tutoring workshop he has run with his wife, Yinan, in Chino, California since 2014. Wu’s work has been included in group exhibitions at SALT, Istanbul (2018); and Pasadena Museum of California Art (2010). He also performed alongside Asher Hartman in ANNIE OKAY at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2010). Wu has published several artist books, including The Place and The People; The Lamps’ Story; and Dad’s Hands Are Smaller (all 2018); and Learning Art and Art Learning Society (2017), which was also translated into Turkish as part of the exhibition Bureau of Unspecified Services at SALT in Istanbul. Through an observational process that translates his experiences into numerous watercolors and drawings, Wu’s interests are in the moments of overlap between institutional and personal experience. His practice as a whole reflects on the various models of art learning and pedagogy across different contexts and cultures in order to explore what art can be and how it can function in daily life.

ektor garcia (b. 1985, Red Bluff, California, USA) received his BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago in 2014, and his MFA from Columbia University, New York in 2016. Solo exhibitions include Sculpture Center, Long Island City, USA; Cooper Cole, Toronto, Canada; Mary Mary, Glasgow, Scotland; Museum Folkwang, Essen, Germany; kurimanzutto, Salon ACME, Mexico City, Mexico. Group exhibitions include LAXART, Los Angeles; New Museum, Marianne Boesky Gallery, Luhring Augustine, Salon 94, Sargent’s Daughters, New York; Chicken Coop Contemporary, Portland, USA; Museo de Arte de Zapopan, Guadalajara, Mexico; ACCA, Melbourne, Australia. garcia lives and works in between Mexico City, New York, and wherever he loses himself.

Join us for a conversation with Art and Art History Department faculty Phil Chang, Joyce Kohl and Jesse Sugarmann during the opening of The Occasional, a semi-annual exhibition of teaching artists at CSUB. We will be discussing their works in the show, and answering questions from the audience about the exhibition, individual works, and the artists’ practices in general.

Katie Grinnan (b. 1970, Richmond, Virginia; lives and works in Los Angeles) received her MFA from University of California, Los Angeles in 1999 and her BFA from Carnegie Mellon University in 1992; she attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in the same year, and studied at the Studio Arts Center International in Florence, Italy in 1991. Grinnan has had solo exhibitions at LA><ART, Los Angeles (2016); Diverse Works, Houston (2015); Human Resources, Los Angeles (2014); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2013); MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Los Angeles (2008); Aspen Art Museum (2005); and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2003). She has participated in group exhibitions held at Los Angeles Municipal Gallery (2017); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles (2014, 2012); Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2010); Honor Fraser Gallery, Los Angeles (2008); High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree (2008); and Whitney Museum of American Art, New York (2004). Grinnan is the recipient of a City of Los Angeles Individual Artist Fellowship (2019); the Center for Cultural Innovation Artist’s Resource Completion Grant (2012); a California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Artists (2010), an AXA Artist Award (2007), a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Fellowship (2006); and a Pollock-Krasner grant (2006).

Joey Terrill is a formative figure in the Los Angeles based Chicano art movement and AIDS cultural activism and is a former board member of VIVA!, the first gay and lesbian Latino art organization in Los Angeles. Painting and making art since the 1970s, Terrill has always explored the intersection of Chicano and gay male identity (where they overlap and where they clash) as a strategy for art production. 

He has contributed to exhibits ranging from Art, AIDS, America that opened in Tacoma, WA ending in Chicago, Ill. to Queerly Tehuantin at the now closed Galleria de La Raza in San Francisco with works from the pre-AIDS 1970's (like Homeboy Beautiful) as well as recent self-portrait paintings and Still-Lifes with HIV medications. He seeks to engage with and add to the fermenting investigation of Queer identity found in current artistic practice. 

Currently his work is featured in Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A. at the Majorie Barrick Museum of Art at the University of Nevada Las Vegas until March 16, 2019

He also works as Global Director of Advocacy and Partnerships at AIDS Healthcare Foundation.