School of Art

Artist and curator Molly Surazhsky's (Art BFA 19) CalArts thesis exhibition Mashacare: Home of the Freaks, Misfits & Weirdoes is on view from July 14 to Aug. 18 at Hunter Shaw Fine Art gallery in Los Angeles. Surazhsky’s collection of garments hails from a dystopian future, in which the planet’s...

American filmmaker and CalArts alum Ericka Beckman's (Art MFA 76) works are on display in Ericka Beckman: Double Reverse, an exhibition running through July 28 at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) List Visual Arts Center, the campus’ contemporary art museum. Double Reverse...

On view until Sept. 22, the Laguna Art Museum presents I Will Not Make Any More Boring Art, an exhibition of prints from John Baldessari (Chouinard 59). The pieces come from the collection of The Jordan Schnitzer Family Foundation, and include impressions of almost every print Baldessari has...

This weekend, The Power Plant, a leading contemporary visual art gallery in Toronto, Canada, opens If you end up with the story you started with, then you're not listening along the way, by artist Mario Pfeifer (Film/Video 09). The trilogy of video installations marks the Berlin-based artist's...

As a queer, gender nonconforming person, Molly Allis is creating art that cultivates hope and joy and aims to make children feel proud of who they are | Image: Molly Allis Molly Allis (Music MFA 14) is a queer filmmaker, musician and educator as well as the artist behind All Together Now!, a new...

From now until mid-August, Jessica Wawra (Kesselring) is in residence at Hauser & Wirth Los Angeles, taking over the gallery's Book & Printed Matter Lab with her exhibition Extensions of Horror.  Wawra (Kesselring) is currently pursuing an MA in Aesthetics & Politics from the CalArts School of...

School of Art faculty member Louise Sandhaus and alum Kat Catmur (Art MFA 14) have recently co-authored and designed the book A Colorful Life: Gere Kavanaugh, Designer. The tome is a 220-page exploration of the polymathic artist’s career, filled with Kavanaugh’s spectacular designs. There are...