UCLA Department of Art

OFF HOURS

UCLA's Department of Art

Staff Exhibition Biennial

Exhibition runs | 6 - 20 September 2007
Artist Reception | Saturday 15 September 2007, 4 - 7pm
Gallery Hours | Monday - Saturday, 9:30am - 4:30

UCLA's Department of Art is pleased to announce the opening of OFF HOURS, an art exhibition featuring works by Chris Bassett, Ed Beller, Ben Evans, Garrett Hayes, Matt Lipps, Jared Pankin, Julie Orser, and Steven Simon. This biennial event will include works in sculpture, installation, video, photography, ceramics and painting, to be held in the New Wight Gallery at the recently renovated Eli and Edythe Broad Art Center.

The exhibition is the second of its kind - showcasing the talents of the Department of Art's support staff who not only supervise the daily operations of the various genres, but also have their own art practices in their "off hours."

Their works are as diverse as their disciplines - including Orser's video installation and monument to VHS videotapes; a suspended 20ft steel rendering of the constellation Taurus by Evans; a performative sculpture by Simon memorializing the daily accrual of US soldiers killed in Iraq; Bassett's mapping of proto-punk rock band MC5's cross-country tour; sculptural and drawn action artifacts by Beller; radioactive and suggestive rock formations by Hayes; the literally and metaphorically incisive photography of Lipps; and, Pankin's architecturally unsound wooden wall tableaus.

UCLA | Department of Art
Broad Art Center | New Wight Gallery
240 Charles E. Young Drive
Los Angeles, CA 90095
www.art.ucla.edu
Info: Joli Kishi @ 310-825-0557

About the Department
The UCLA Department of Art's faculty of internationally recognized artists and theoreticians guide students in exploring contemporary studio practice. Emphasis is placed on autonomy, experimentation, communal discourse and artistic responsibility. Department faculty members include Jennifer Bolande, Barbara Drucker, Andrea Fraser, Russell Ferguson, Roger Herman, Mary Kelly, Barbara Kruger, Catherine Opie, Hirsch Perlman, Lari Pittman, Charles Ray, Adrian Saxe, Don Suggs, James Welling and Patty Wickman.

About UCLA Arts
UCLA Arts comprises six degree-granting departments: Architecture and Urban Design, Art, Design | Media Arts, Ethnomusicology, Music, and World Arts and Cultures; and three internationally acclaimed public arts institutions: the Hammer Museum (incorporating the Franklin D. Murphy Sculpture Garden), the Fowler Museum at UCLA and UCLA Live, the performing arts program. The school is also a nexus for cutting-edge interdisciplinary research supported by its centers: the Art | Sci Center, the Art | Global Health Center, the Center for Intercultural Performance, the Experiential Technologies Center and the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.