Melanie Nakaue: Eclipses

Melanie Nakaue’s Eclipses is a multi-channel video installation comprised of a series of experimental animations. Through an amalgamation of collages,digital graphics, and stop motion animation, Nakaue depicts a disjunction between psychological and physical entities associated with “eclipses.” For this presentation at the Culver Center of the Arts, the idea of an “eclipse” is manifested through explorations of physical dimensions associated with layering and shadows. Nakaue unites these elements to illustrate the liminal space of passing between two states of being, consciousness and the unconscious.

Jeanette Kohl, chair of the Department of the History of Art, gave the commencement speech at UCR’s partner university in Germany, Friedrich-Alexander-Universitaet (FAU) Erlangen-Nuremberg.

Kohl was invited by FAU’s chair of the art history department, Professor Christina Strunck. The visit was part of an ongoing collaboration between the two universities. The partnership began in 2013, after a graduate student workshop with faculty and students from FAU in Riverside. Kohl and another UCR art history professor, Kris Neville, took a group of seven graduate students on a summer study trip abroad to the German university in 2014. Read more

The Art History Association, 1st Annual Tea

Leslie Paprocki, Museum Careers In The 21st Century: Insight From The Inside

Born and raised in Buffalo, New York and transplanted to Southern California at age 8, she has been captivated by the power of museums from a young age. Trips to art museums, historical houses and centers, parks, and other cultural attractions pepper the landscape of her childhood memories and in turn dictated her educational path. In pursuit of her passion  for the history of art, she completed a Bachelor’s degree, Magna Cum Laude, in Art History and Administrative Studies and a Master’s degree in the History of Art, both from the University of California, Riverside.

Megan Heuer, Director Of Public Programs And Public Engagement at Whitney Museum Of American Art

Megan develops and oversees all adult public programs, including artists’ talks, lectures, panel discussions, workshops, and courses. Prior to joining the Whitney in 2014, she was a Jane and Morgan Whitney Fellow in the Modern and Contemporary Art Department at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, and she previously worked in the curatorial and education departments at the New Museum. She is completing a PhD in art and archaeology at Princeton University.

CMP Projects: Phil Chang

Installation view, Phil Chang: Monochromes, Static and Unfixed, California Museum of Photography, 2015. Photo by Nikolay Maslov

Saturday, May 16
Artist talk-5pm
Reception-6-9pm

CMP Projects presents a solo installation by artist Phil Chang. The project is suspended on the border of photography and non-photography, demanding that the viewer consider the medium’s inherent qualities. The exhibition features a selection of photographs from Chang’s recently conceived untitled series of monochromes (2014-ongoing). These photographic prints are made without the use of a camera or film, thereby pushing our understanding of the medium as it abandons the analog for a decidedly digital age. Additionally, one unfixed photographic work is included in the exhibition. An evolution of his highly acclaimed body of work “Cache, Active” (2012), Monochrome, Exposed (2015) is a new unfixed photograph that will be exposed over the course of its own exhibition’s first hours during the artist talk on Saturday, May 16. At 5pm, the artist will remove the light-safe black plastic that preserves the unfixed paper in darkness. Over the next hours, Monochrome, Exposed will be created in real time.

Phil Chang was born in 1974 in Indiana. He currently lives and works in Los Angeles where he is visiting faculty in the Department of Art at the University of California, Los Angeles, and a lecturer at Otis College of Art and Design. He earned his MFA at California Institute of the Arts, and his BA at the University of California, Irvine. CMP Projects: Phil Chang is the first solo museum presentation of his work.

CMP Projects is an ongoing series of solo presentations curated by Joanna Szupinska-Myers, CMP Curator of Exhibitions. The series is partially supported with funds provided by UCR’s College of Humanities, Arts, and Social Sciences (CHASS) and the City of Riverside. Additional support for CMP Projects: Phil Chang has been provided by M+B, Los Angeles.