Alessandra Moctezuma artist talk with Alexandra Carter & Christiana Updegraff Oolong Gallery
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press release: https://conta.cc/43MPK3p
many thanks to everyone present 💫 video by Tucker Bass © https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uv7MCdFsUc
special thanks to Michael Hanley and Tucker Bass for professional AV recording and post, Margo Yinger for photography and event mgmt
intro / outro music by Aphex Twin 'Bbydhyonchord' on 'Drukqs' (2001)
Alessandra Moctezuma is Gallery Director and Professor of Fine Art at San Diego Mesa College, where she leads the Museum Studies program and teaches courses on Chicano Art. She earned Bachelor of Art and Master of Fine Arts (Painting/Printmaking) degrees from UCLA.
Ms. Moctezuma has extensive experience as a curator, instructor and public art administrator. Besides working as gallery director at San Diego Mesa College, Ms. Moctezuma has curated exhibitions for other art spaces including the Oceanside Museum of Art (Twenty Women: NOW, 2021, Borderless Dreams, 2005 and Through a Lens Sharply, 2006) and unDocumenta (2017) as part of the Getty’s initiative Pacific Standard Time LA/LA and more recently she co-curated a retrospective of Chicana artist Judith F. Baca, Memorias de Nuestra Tierra, for the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach (July 2021 – March 2022).
Ms. Moctezuma is actively involved in the San Diego arts community. She represents District 3 in the San Diego Arts Commission. She serves on the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Women’s Museum of California and Medium Photography. She is on the advisory committees for the Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Oceanside Museum of Art and the Centro Cultural de la Raza. In past years she has served in the San Diego Foundation Creative Catalyst committee and the City of San Diego Public Arts Committee.
The title Tether alludes to the sensation of being inextricably tethered to the body of others — to their children certainly but also to partners, and to the varying social expectations of artist / mother / woman.
Christiana Updegraff is a cross-discipline 3-dimensional artist, born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1979. She completed her MFA from San Diego State University in 2011. She received her BFA in 2007 from Kent State University. Christiana has maintained her studio in Los Angeles and San Diego for the last 15 years. During this time she has been creating and exhibiting work nationwide, as well as teaching Fine Art in higher education in Southern California.
Alexandra Carter (b. 1985 in Boston) lives and works in San Diego, California. She received an MFA from Goldsmiths University of London in 2015 and a BA from Rhodes College in Memphis in 2009. Recent solo exhibitions include “A Sense of Heat in Her Brain” at Luna Anaïs Gallery Los Angeles (2020), “Berries for Baubo” (2019), and “All gods are hot” (2018) at Radiant Space Los Angeles. Other solo exhibitions include Fusion Gallery (Turin, Italy), Southfork (Memphis), Projecto’ace Foundation (Buenos Aires), and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. She has been selected for residency projects nationally and internationally, including the Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence (Mynämäki, Finland), Rogers Art Loft (Las Vegas), KulturKontakt Austria (Vienna), Qwatz (Rome), Graniti Murales (Sicily), Vice~Versa Foundation (Goa, India), RECSIM (Jashipur, India), Galerija-Muzej Lendava (Slovenia), and the Kentucky Foundation for Women (Prospect, KY).
press release: https://conta.cc/43MPK3p
many thanks to everyone present 💫 video by Tucker Bass © https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uv7MCdFsUc
special thanks to Michael Hanley and Tucker Bass for professional AV recording and post, Margo Yinger for photography and event mgmt
intro / outro music by Aphex Twin 'Bbydhyonchord' on 'Drukqs' (2001)
Alessandra Moctezuma is Gallery Director and Professor of Fine Art at San Diego Mesa College, where she leads the Museum Studies program and teaches courses on Chicano Art. She earned Bachelor of Art and Master of Fine Arts (Painting/Printmaking) degrees from UCLA.
Ms. Moctezuma has extensive experience as a curator, instructor and public art administrator. Besides working as gallery director at San Diego Mesa College, Ms. Moctezuma has curated exhibitions for other art spaces including the Oceanside Museum of Art (Twenty Women: NOW, 2021, Borderless Dreams, 2005 and Through a Lens Sharply, 2006) and unDocumenta (2017) as part of the Getty’s initiative Pacific Standard Time LA/LA and more recently she co-curated a retrospective of Chicana artist Judith F. Baca, Memorias de Nuestra Tierra, for the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach (July 2021 – March 2022).
Ms. Moctezuma is actively involved in the San Diego arts community. She represents District 3 in the San Diego Arts Commission. She serves on the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Women’s Museum of California and Medium Photography. She is on the advisory committees for the Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Oceanside Museum of Art and the Centro Cultural de la Raza. In past years she has served in the San Diego Foundation Creative Catalyst committee and the City of San Diego Public Arts Committee.
The title Tether alludes to the sensation of being inextricably tethered to the body of others — to their children certainly but also to partners, and to the varying social expectations of artist / mother / woman.
Christiana Updegraff is a cross-discipline 3-dimensional artist, born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1979. She completed her MFA from San Diego State University in 2011. She received her BFA in 2007 from Kent State University. Christiana has maintained her studio in Los Angeles and San Diego for the last 15 years. During this time she has been creating and exhibiting work nationwide, as well as teaching Fine Art in higher education in Southern California.
Alexandra Carter (b. 1985 in Boston) lives and works in San Diego, California. She received an MFA from Goldsmiths University of London in 2015 and a BA from Rhodes College in Memphis in 2009. Recent solo exhibitions include “A Sense of Heat in Her Brain” at Luna Anaïs Gallery Los Angeles (2020), “Berries for Baubo” (2019), and “All gods are hot” (2018) at Radiant Space Los Angeles. Other solo exhibitions include Fusion Gallery (Turin, Italy), Southfork (Memphis), Projecto’ace Foundation (Buenos Aires), and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. She has been selected for residency projects nationally and internationally, including the Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence (Mynämäki, Finland), Rogers Art Loft (Las Vegas), KulturKontakt Austria (Vienna), Qwatz (Rome), Graniti Murales (Sicily), Vice~Versa Foundation (Goa, India), RECSIM (Jashipur, India), Galerija-Muzej Lendava (Slovenia), and the Kentucky Foundation for Women (Prospect, KY).