USC Roski School of Art and Design

10/06/2023

Next Roski Talks lecture will be presented by artist Cosmo Whyte.

Oct 10, 7pm at the Roski Grad Bldg (LA Arts District).
1262 Palmetto St, LA 90013 (open to the public and free)

Cosmo Whyte employs drawing, painting, sculpture, and photography to explore the intersections of race, nationalism, and displacement.

In 2020 he had solo exhibitions at MOCA Georgia and ICA San Diego. Whyte has exhibited in biennial exhibitions including Prospect.5 New Orleans (2022) 13th Havana Biennial (2019), the Jamaica Biennial (2013, 2015, 2017), and the Atlanta Biennial (2016). His work has also been included in exhibitions at The High Museum of Art, Atlanta, GA; The Drawing Center, New York, NY; The Somerset House, London, UK; Museum of Latin American Art, Los Angeles, CA; Kunsthal KAdE Museum, Amersfoort, Netherlands; Kunstraum Potsdam, Germany; Museum of Cultural History, Oslo, Norway; Atlanta Contemporary, Atlanta, GA; Museum of Contemporary Art Georgia, Atlanta, GA and the National Gallery of Jamaica, Kingston, Jamaica.

09/21/2023

Next Tuesday (Sep 26, 7pm) curator Christopher Lew will deliver the next Roski Talks lecture at our Graduate Bldg in the LA Arts District. The talk is open to the public and free!

Address: 1262 Palmetto St, Los Angeles CA 90013
Reservations at www.roski.usc.edu/events

Christopher Y. Lew is founder of C/O: Curatorial Office, a curatorial consulting firm. Lew has over fifteen years of experience working at American museums and arts nonprofits. He had been the founding Chief Artistic Director at Horizon Art Foundation and Outland Art and is also a former curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art where he oversaw the emerging artist program and was co-curator of the 2017 Whitney Biennial.At the Whitney, he organized numerous exhibitions including Josh Kline: Project for a New American Century (2023), Salman Toor: How Will I Know (2020), Pope.L: Choir (2019), Kevin Beasley: A view of a landscape (2018), Eckhaus Latta: Possessed (2018)

Undergraduate/Graduate Applications Due: January 15, 2017

First organized in 1883, the USC Roski School of Art and Design is the oldest art school in Southern California. A supportive environment for experimentation in visual art of all media, the school encourages interdisciplinary, progressive approaches to studio art, design, curatorial practice, and critical studies. With equal emphasis on making and thinking, USC Roski prepares artists, designers, curators, and writers to contribute in new and meaningful ways both to their fields and to society at large.

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09/15/2023

Design Roman Ley will present the next Roski Talks on Sept 19, 7pm, at the USC Roski Grad Building in the Los Angeles Arts District (1262 Palmetto St, Los Angeles 90013). Roski Talks are open to the public and free.

Roman Ley is a designer currently working at Google where he leads the Packaging Creative Team. His career in branding began at Interbrand and Landor, creating visual systems for companies such as AT&T, DirecTV, Epson, Xerox, Visa, FedEx, Clorox and Kaiser Permanente. His focus is on packaging design from end-to-end, producing solutions and experiences across Google's hardware portfolio. Details and reservations: https://roski.usc.edu/events

Undergraduate/Graduate Applications Due: January 15, 2017

First organized in 1883, the USC Roski School of Art and Design is the oldest art school in Southern California. A supportive environment for experimentation in visual art of all media, the school encourages interdisciplinary, progressive approaches to studio art, design, curatorial practice, and critical studies. With equal emphasis on making and thinking, USC Roski prepares artists, designers, curators, and writers to contribute in new and meaningful ways both to their fields and to society at large.

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09/11/2023

Opening Thurs (9/14 at 6pm) is the exhibition “Choose your Avietar” at the Gayle & Ed Roski Gallery. Reception is open to the public and free. No reservations needed.

Exhibition on view: Sept 15 - 27, 2023, by appointment only, during the hours of Mon – Fri, 9am – 5pm. Click on link in bio and go to EVENTS for details and reservations.

Location: Roski Studios Building (corner of 30th and S. Flower streets, LA CA)

Roski artist Averill Jane Smith's exhibition, Choose your Avietar, examines real, digital, and imagined landscapes through layered photography and paintings.

09/09/2023

Opening next week is the exhibition "Apparitions" by Roski artist Jameson Baldwin. The exhibition is on view Sept 14 - 27 in the Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery (USC Watt Hall, ground level). Hours: Mon - Fri, 9am - 5pm.

The exhibition explores the interplay of RGB lights, color theory, and photography, resulting in a dynamic composition that evokes emotion, challenges perceptions, and transcends the confines of a static image, while simultaneously constructing a vibrant symphony of hues that harmonize and clash, dance and oscillate— symbolizing the inherent fluidity of femininity and the ever-evolving essence of the female experience.
Details at www.roski.usc.edu/events

09/08/2023

Next week, internationally renowned artist and USC Roski alum Carolina Caycedo will present the next Roski Talks lecture
Sept 12 (7pm) at the USC Roski Graduate Building in the Los Angeles Arts District: 1262 Palmetto St, Los Angeles CA 90013

Carolina Caycedo (London,1978) is a Colombian multidisciplinary artist living in Los Angeles. Her immense geographic photographs, lively artist’s books, hanging sculptures, performances, films, and installations are gateways into larger discussions about how we treat each other and the world around us. Through her studio practice and fieldwork with communities impacted by large-scale infrastructure and other extraction projects, she invites viewers to consider the unsustainable pace of growth under capitalism and how we might embrace resistance and solidarity. Caycedo received a Master of Fine Arts from the University of Southern California and a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Los Andes in Bogotá, Colombia. She has held residencies at the DAAD in Berlin; The Huntington Libraries, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens in San Marino, California; and the Office for Contemporary Art in Norway, among others.

Image: Carolina Caycedo, Agua Pesada / Alma' Althaqil (2023)
Sculptural installation, dimensions variable. Installation views: Sharjah Biennale, 202

Undergraduate/Graduate Applications Due: January 15, 2017

First organized in 1883, the USC Roski School of Art and Design is the oldest art school in Southern California. A supportive environment for experimentation in visual art of all media, the school encourages interdisciplinary, progressive approaches to studio art, design, curatorial practice, and critical studies. With equal emphasis on making and thinking, USC Roski prepares artists, designers, curators, and writers to contribute in new and meaningful ways both to their fields and to society at large.

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09/06/2023

This Friday!
Join USC Roski for another Make Mend Workshop - Presented by USC Visions and Voices - to celebrate USC Green Week

Sept 8, 11:30am - 2pm
Watt Hall (WAH), South Lawn
Admission is free / Reservations requested

For this free "Make Mend" workshop (using the Wabi Sabi concept of embracing flaws and finding beauty in imperfection), participants are invited to bring old clothing or cloth (natural materials such as cotton, silk, or linen preferred) to be unraveled or shredded and transformed into skeins of usable textiles. The workshop will include a deconstruction circle, spinning circle, and community share area, and create inventory to be used in the second and third workshops. No experience is necessary, and light refreshments will be served.

09/01/2023

Designer Emma Berliner will give the next Roski Talks on Tuesday, Sept 5, at 7pm, at the Roski Grad Bldg in the Los Angeles Arts District (1262 Palmetto St, LA 90013). Talks are open to the public and free. Reservations requested. Details and reservations at: Roski.usc.edu/events

ABOUT THE SPEAKER
Emma Berliner is a designer, creative director and educator who lives in Los Angeles, CA with her wife Ivy and dog Iggy. Her collaborative design practice specializes in identity and motion design for screens, big and small. Past clients include Nike, Glossier, HBOMax, Amazon, Netflix, Coca-Cola, Vogue, Nylon, Goop, CalArts, Annapurna Pictures and Paramount TV. Emma publishes q***r and LA focused print work under the banner mixedgreens. In addition to her design work, Emma teaches motion graphics at CalArts and CCA.

07/18/2023

Now on view is “Mud Kin: Mapping Adobe and Land-based Indigenous & Latinx Projects from Southern California to West Texas,” curated by Roski alum Tracy Fenix (MA ’22)

Exhibition on view through July 29 at the Rosk Graduate Gallery, LA Arts District. Gallery hours are Wed - Fri, 12 - 6pm or by appointment.

Exhibiting Artists: William Camargo, Alyssa Chandelle, Sandro Canovas, Jazmin Garcia, Camille & Melinda Hoffman, Joanna Keane Lopez, Carlos Jaramillo, Ozzie Juarez, Arlene Mejorado, Reyes Padilla, Ronald Rael, Daisy Quezada Ureña, Ernesto Yerena Montejano, Jose Villalobos, and Cougar Vigil.

Exhibition Curator: Tracy Fenix (Native Tejana), USC MA & MUP
Exhibition Assistants: Jordan Gonzales, MUP/MA and Alice Zhao, MA

This is a Macomber Travel Grant Exhibition

A contemporary cohort of Indigenous, Latinx, and Immigrant artists and activists working in the southwestern United States are engaging with ancestral adobe structures and construction to resist artistic, cultural, and ecological assimilation. Predominant expressions of land-based art and environmental activism in the US have historically ignored Indigenous and Latinx contributions, and at the same time, acquiring critical reception or scholarly notice has been tied to the whitewashing of cultural signifiers. These artists and activists preserve ancestral adobe and ecological practices to keep its roots within Indigenous heritage while promoting its inclusion to canonical land-based artworks and also promoting its environmental sustainability in the deserts of the Southwest.

Details here: https://roski.usc.edu/events

05/11/2023

Last week, USC Roski invited members of the LA design community and the general public to see what our MFA Design candidates where up to. Their projects were new and insightful. Thank you to the designers for their hard work. And here is a glimpse into the projects on display.

05/10/2023

The USC Roski Facutly and Staff congratulate our amazing artists, designers and scholars who are graduating this Friday!

04/14/2023

Opening tonight at 6-8pm is the USC Roski BFA Thesis Exhibition in the Roski Studios Bldg at the corner of 30th and S. Flower Sts in LA. Opening reception is open to all. Exhibition is on view through May 12 by appointment. Details at www.roski.usc.edu/events