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The UCLA MFA Present Proves We’ve Received to Be taught From College students
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The UCLA MFA Present Proves We’ve Received to Be taught From College students

Last updated: May 7, 2025 11:10 pm
Editorial Board Published May 7, 2025
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LOS ANGELES — After I was in graduate college for an MFA in writing, a professor advised me one thing harrowing. “Most people here aren’t artists,” she stated. “They’re students.” The judgment was implicit: College students go to highschool, and artists make artwork. On the time, I deeply needed to be an artist, and never a pupil — however after viewing graduate artwork exhibitions throughout Los Angeles, I consider the latter to be the superior class. Sure, there’s a vary of professionalism within the work on view — college students usually battle to tell apart child from bathwater, and easily put the entire tub on show as an alternative — however the College of California Los Angeles’s MFA exhibition proves how priceless it’s to be a pupil. Removed from excellent, their work illustrates the form of mess, ambition, and a focus that many “artists” can be fortunate to have.

Installations on view flip galleries into would-be campsites, erecting makeshift constructions throughout their barren white packing containers. Ayla Gizlice’s “Rumble, Rumble, Rumble” (all works 2025) cordons off one gallery with strings stretched from ground to ceiling, wrapped round a wrought iron bar. Past it lies what seems to be like a tea kettle and ground cushions, ready for friends who haven’t but arrived. Harrison Kinnane Smith’s exhibition makes use of scaffolding wrapped with orange plastic fencing to border its contents, stacking picket boards alongside one wall to evoke a half-finished building undertaking (“Story Poles (Proposal for New Wight Gallery)”). Every set up is in dialog with different paintings on view: Smith’s pictures investigates LA housing developments, and Gizlice’s exhibition consists of an unique fairytale — the type one would possibly inform round a campfire (“The Woman with Three Husbands”).

Set up view of Zenobia, “‘Why allow the tendrils of the heart to twine around objects (abject) – for Harriet Jacobs’” (2025), steel

Student sculpture, photography, and video interrogate art world conventions, poking fun at the ways artwork — and life — are traditionally experienced. Maren Karlson’s grayscale work and collages lie on the ground beneath a glass pane. Their show mimics how one would possibly examine her material, which ranges from machines to X-rays of her personal organs. In Zenobia’s “ ‘Why allow the tendrils of the heart to twine around objects (abject) – for Harriet Jacobs,’” an enlarged metal needle seems to pierce immediately via a gallery wall, ominously positioned at head-height. D.A. Gonzales exploits obstacles in “CBP-FO-2024-133704,” a sequence of 21 reflective graphite prints that reveal FBI denials of requests for video footage from surveillance cameras on the United States-Mexico border. And Misty EunJoo Choi demonstrates how home life interpolates artwork, usually to surreal outcomes: One video and accompanying set up includes a small kitchen vestibule tipped on its facet, the footage capturing warped day by day rituals: Toast flies “up” to a plate, and a determine crouches from the “ceiling” (“The Disoriented Room”). 

Right here’s the factor. If the previous two years have taught us something, it’s that college students are the true artists. At the least, they’re what artists ought to be: unafraid, playful, and principled, particularly within the face of ever-increasing authorities threats. At UCLA, these college students — all of whom are, shocker, artists too — make house for brand new methods of constructing, wanting, and being. Simply the way it ought to be.

0805A86E 2ACB 4131 9F11 CB4C919AA2C6 1 105 cAyla Gizlice, “The Woman with Three Husbands, 2” (2025)E4DC1B42 C25A 4F68 BB91 07AC79956266 1 105 cZenobia, “Mimesis (saccharine)” (2025), stoneware, ebony sawdust461E329C DB9F 4E51 8C41 A485298DE048 1 105 cSet up view of Misty EunJoo Choi, “fool-ly functioning things wall text” (2025), spray paint, combined media paper, plywood, drywall, flooring tile, wallpaper adhesive, laser print9033EFB7 0409 4354 A8F7 9D1CA243F66D 1 105 cSet up view of labor by Ayla Gizlice6F10E392 84F9 49F0 B0AD 5735B68A9AD0 1 105 cElement of D.A. Gonzales, “CBP-FO-2025-071750 (self-portrait)” (2025–ongoing), 5 gelatin silver prints, ongoing Freedom of Info Act Request correspondence639EEE5D 2C28 4D7E 940F E7B0DA1E135A 1 105 cMaren Karlson, “Staub #14” (2025), graphite on inkjet print on paperC7E4B2C5 FC34 4317 A793 6EC305C87459 1 105 cHarrison Kinnane Smith, “Story Poles (Proposal for New Wight Gallery)” (2025), {hardware}, lumber, paint, security fencing, story pole plan244B0F61 5A0C 43A7 8F32 E4CD6DD46600 1 105 cSet up view of Zenobia, “‘Poiesis’” (2025), carved ebony wooden

College of California Los Angeles 2025 MFA Exhibition #4: Misty EunJoo Choi & Ayla Gizlice continues at New Wight Gallery (Broad Artwork Heart, Suite 1100, Los Angeles) via Could 9. 2025 MFA Exhibition #3: D.A. Gonzales, Maren Karlson, Zenobia, & Harrison Kinnane Smith was on view in the identical gallery from April 17–25.

Learn our evaluation of Elements I and II right here.

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