Past Exhibitions
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Sculptures by Doyle Foreman: A Retrospective
Sculptures by Doyle Foreman: A Retrospective celebrates the career of metal sculptor and UC Santa Cruz Professor Emeritus Doyle Foreman. Throughout his seven-decade career, Foreman sculpted visceral reflections of his experiences with metal and the American landscape,…
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EASP Grad Exhibition: Search Party
Dates: Fri, Apr 19, 2024 to Sun, May 19, 2024 Location: Sesnon Gallery Search Party The culminating exhibition for the UCSC 2024 EASP MFA cohort FREE and open to the public Opening Celebration: 4/19/2024 – 5-7pm (SANTA CRUZ, Calif.) March…
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Remove by X: UC Santa Cruz Protests in Print
Dates: Tue, Feb 28, 2023 to Sat, Apr 29, 2023 Location: Porter Faculty Gallery This exhibition brings together an archive of documents, posters, and photographs of 20th century organizing at UC Santa Cruz. From protesting the Vietnam War to organizing against…
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Remove by X: UC Santa Cruz Arts Ephemera from the 20th Century
Dates: Tue, Feb 28, 2023 to Sat, Apr 29, 2023 Location: Sesnon Gallery Appearing overnight and often disappearing the next, posters advertising senior recitals, art exhibitions, and performances form the dynamic visual backdrop to life on the UC Santa Cruz…
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Flora: Lucie Noël Thune
Dates: Tue, Sep 20, 2022 to Sat, Dec 3, 2022 Location: Porter Faculty Gallery For over a decade, Lucie Noël Thune has created seductive, challenging, and poetic works of art that highlight our relationship to the artificial. Found objects, chemical…
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Frames Per Second
Dates: Tue, Sep 20, 2022 to Sat, Jan 28, 2023 Location: Sesnon Gallery 1/2/2023 Update: Frames Per Second has been extended through January 28, 2023! The Mary Porter Sesnon Art Galleries are pleased to announce Frames Per Second, a rotating exhibition of exemplary films…
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Archive & Collections Hub
Dates: Wed, Jul 27, 2022 to Sat, Dec 31, 2022 Location: Sesnon Gallery MARY PORTER SESNON ART GALLERIES ARCHIVE & COLLECTIONS HUB Visit our Archives & Collections Hub to browse the Charles Griffin Farr Collection and some of our exhibition ephemera. The Exhibition…
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Don’t Forget About Art: Sesnon Underground Group Portfolio
Dates: Tue, May 24, 2022 Don’t Forget About Art is a group portfolio featuring art by UC Santa Cruz students inspired by the Shit Must Stop/S.M.S. portfolios (1968, Letter Edged in Black Press). Organized by the Sesnon…
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Irwin 2022: Amelia Smyth
Dates: Tue, Apr 26, 2022 Amelia Smyth was born in San Francisco and raised in Berkeley, California, and has always had a strong connection with nature in all of its forms. Studying both Fine Arts and Chemistry as…
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Irwin 2022: Valerie Jackson
Dates: Tue, Apr 26, 2022 Valerie Jackson is a photography/mixed media artist finishing her senior year at UCSC. Inspired by her mother, she started photographing her life from a young age, but didn’t decide to pursue a degree…
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Glenn Ligon: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation
Dates: Thu, Apr 14, 2022 to Sun, Aug 14, 2022 Location: Sesnon Gallery Glenn Ligon: From the Collections of Jordan D. Schnitzer and His Family Foundation brings together works on paper by the influential artist, which explore how constructions of Blackness…
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Just Futures: Black Quantum Futurism, Arthur Jafa, and Martine Syms
Dates: Tue, Feb 1, 2022 to Sat, Mar 19, 2022 Location: Sesnon Gallery UC Santa Cruz continues to monitor COVID-19 developments and remains prepared to act quickly and appropriately in response. Additional mitigations and protocols may be announced to ensure…