Author Archive for Elizabeth Watkins
The Critic: ‘Oranges and Paper’ Is a Mixed Bag
Elizabeth Watkins | New UniversityJoey Lehman Morris’s “Black Mountain Detachment: Two Nights, From Waxing to Fully Stated” at the University Art Gallery.Contemporary art tends to make headlines in one of two ways: either via “shock” art, or shockingly expensive art. “Shock” art was widely propagated by Charles Saatchi’s “Sensation” exhibition in the late ’90s (epitomized [...]
We Like The Art, The Art That Goes Boom
THE CRITIC: “In The Manner of the Adverb” is part one of the MFA thesis show, and it showcases a partiality toward a clean, controlled aesthetic via drawings, paintings, film, photography and digital work. This spare visual sense is tempered with a conceptual intensity that informs the execution of each work, and fills the quiet space with potent references.
‘Be Kind, Rewind’ Isn’t ‘Science’
I wanted to love ‘Be Kind, Rewind.’ I adored Gondry’s direction of Jim Carrey and Kate Winslet in the desperate, beautiful ‘Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind,’ and I was all a-twitter over his aesthetic of home-made props and paper-horses-come-to-life in his last film, ‘The Science of Sleep.’ The film was not as great as [...]
Dos, Two, Duo, Double
‘Number Two,’ the current exhibition for the second-year MFA students, is peppered with a variety of media and referential vocabulary. Multiple formats of presentation are employed, as well, giving the viewer a thorny task in understanding the dialogues that the artists have entered.
There appears to be, however, a slight and subtle agreement among a few [...]
In the Blink of an Eye
As I watched my grandfather wither away from Alzheimer’s over the last year of his life, and stories about victims of strokes and nerve diseases continue to fill nightly news reports, it has been a personal fear of mine to end up a prisoner in my own body due to such a disorder. A lack [...]
Student Art: Albert Ok
While working as a waiter and training as a sushi chef to pay off student loans, fourth-year studio art major Albert Ok creates paintings that touch subjects vast and minute, as microscopic as a blood cell and as general as physical labor.
One painting of Ok’s, which garnered immediate and intense reaction from his peers, is [...]
Chemerinsky’s Challenge: The Race to Raise Finances
LAW SCHOOL: Poor estimates leave future Dean of UC Irvine’s law school fretting over funds.
Lt. Gov. Calls for Fee Caps
TUITION: Lieutenant Governor John Garamendi calls for a tuition cap for UC and CSU students.
Big Joy Stick, Big Fun at the Beall Center
The Grand Text Auto show, currently at the Beall Center for Art and Technology, is a tactile experience running the gamut from freewheeling play to somber contemplation, with something to amuse a viewer in any mood. This is no run-of-the-mill gallery experience; as always, the Beall eschews the all-too-common distance between the audience and the [...]
Students Offered Free Shuttling to Newport Beach
TRANSPORTATION: Fall brings changes to UCI as a Newport shuttle route is added by ASUCI.
