Supersonic: L.A. Design Center
5955 South Western Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90047
June 25 - July 16, 2005
Exhibition hours: Tuesday – Sunday, 11am – 5pm
(closed July 3)
Opening Reception: Saturday, June 25, 3 – 8pm
Valet parking $5
Limited street parking
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Southern California has become a major internationally recognized
center for graduate art programs with renowned faculty, a place
to watch for new talent in the art world.
Following the success of last year’s first student-organized
exhibition of Southern Californian M.F.A. graduate work, eight
art schools from Southern California have again joined efforts
to present Supersonic: L.A. Design Center.
Supersonic: L.A. Design Center, organized by students from
eight Southern California graduate programs, presents the works
of 130 graduate students from high caliber art programs of intellectual
and artistic rigor featured together in one exceptional location.
This exhibition is a remarkable opportunity for these M.F.A. graduates
to share their work and dialogue with each other, as well as a
larger Southern California community. Critical writings from PhD,
M.A. and M.F.A. students from the eight participating graduate
schools will be hosted through the Supersonic: L.A. Design
Center web publication, supersonic2005.soccas.org. These
writings discuss the artists’ work in relation to this exhibition
and to larger art practices, creating a forum that further highlights
the depth of work assembled together for this show.
“The turbo-charged collaboration among the major M.F.A.
programs once again demonstrates that innovative concentrations
of creative energies and forces can counter the proverbial sprawl
of Southern California. This time, the massive organizing effort
has truly been OF, BY and, as before, FOR the participating students
whose abilities are clearly not limited to art-making and thinking
but also to creating a viable community in process. This year,
the partnership with a new venue, the L.A. Design Center, signals
the exciting renaissance of the arts and culture in all parts
of Los Angeles and a desire for new possibilities in the mix of
a different locale with new art and new audiences,” remarked
Yong Soon Min, UC Irvine, Supersonic faculty coordinator.
The L.A. Design Center, John Friedmann & Alice Kimm Architects’
newly renovated and ambitiously constructed ‘Warehouse Complex’
with its hard wood floors, exposed brick walls, and large windows,
will serve as center stage for this year’s Supersonic exhibition.
One participating MFA student stated, "The great thing about
this Supersonic is that it is student organized. As we all graduate
from school there are nerves and expectations for our futures.
By organizing a show together we turn that uncertainty into action,
and that reminds us that we already are what we want to be.”
Participating M.F.A. programs include: Art Center College of Design,
California Institute of the Arts, Claremont Graduate University,
UC Santa Barbara, UC Irvine, UCLA, UC San Diego and USC.
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