Through her work composing multidimensional pieces of recycled objects, Betye Saar, an L.A. artist and UCLA alumna, is heralded by the Museum of Contemporary Art as one of today’s greatest assemblage artists. Inspired by everyday materials that most people see for their functionality, Saar employs commonplace objects and images into artwork that ranges from autobiographical […]
Category Archives: Theater & Fine Arts
Undergraduate Juried Exhibition showcased at Broad Art Center
Students with smartphones are likely to be familiar with QR codes, but one UCLA artist has tried a new approach to this technological symbol by transforming the code into a work of art. Fifth-year fine arts and psychology student Kylie Carrigan created a larger-than-life QR code and mounted it onto a five-foot tall cube. This […]
Kerckhoff Art Gallery explores perceptions of beauty
Faceless and expressionless mannequins with colorful stripes of paint streaking across their bodies stand in front of the back wall in Kerckhoff Art Gallery. The artist, Kristine Schomaker, stands just a little above five feet, with buzzed hair, cat-eye glasses and a quirky smile. Schomaker uses her artwork to express and promote less conventional types […]
Opera UCLA revamps ‘Don Giovanni’
This week, 18th-century playboy Don Giovanni returns to the UCLA stage donning a black-and-white suit and fedora. On Feb. 14, Opera UCLA premiered a contemporary production of Mozart’s classic two-act opera “Don Giovanni.” A winner of the Luciano Pavarotti International Voice Competition, guest director Jeffrey Buchman’s production is showing again at UCLA’s Freud Playhouse this […]
Bruin releases haunting graphic novel exploring suicide
One night when living in Brazil a few years ago, Beto Skubs dreamt of two words, “painless suicide,” that would occupy his thoughts for months to come. “The words were haunting me for the day,” said Skubs, a graduate student in screenwriting. “I got very interested in the idea of how a person would get […]
WACsmash’D presents live arts, performance showcase
As the lighting dims to near-darkness, Olivia Schafer’s disembodied torso appears to dance above the black Marley floor. Schafer and the other dancers, clothed in white turtlenecks and jet-black pants, seem to float through the intricate routine. Inspired by Orson Welles’ 1938 radio adaptation of “The War of the Worlds,” Schafer, a fourth-year world arts […]
UCLA students finalists in Disney Imagineering competition
In Rio de Janeiro’s vacant courtyards, four architecture graduate students see untapped potential. As they walk, the walls fade away, submerging them into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean, their faces inches away from a dolphin’s elongated rostrum. As part of a design competition, four UCLA students envisioned this scene to represent the culture and […]