California Museum of Photography presents New Art from the University of California’s MFA Programs. The exhibition will be on view through September 22, 2007.
Compass 2007: New Art from the University of California’s MFA Programs examines artwork by 2007 graduates of the eight UC campuses’ MFA programs to survey the contemporary scene and speculate about future developments in art coming out of California.
The Compass 2007 exhibit will give an unprecedented, comprehensive look at the next generation of artists before they hit the national scene. The exhibit will be the first in recent history to encompass all of the University of California’s art departments. Currently, northern and southern California each have annual exhibitions that loosely connect the students of the schools. In Southern California, there is the annual Supersonic exhibit organized by the graduate students themselves and not curated professionally.
In northern California, there is the Yerba Buena Center’s triennial Bay Area Now Visual Arts exhibition, which sometimes includes the work of Bay Area MFA students but not from the inland communities such as Davis.
Compass 2007 will fill in the gaps between these two regionally - limited exhibitions to better understand the talent coming out of the UC system that is spread out across the state between large urban centers (Los Angeles, San Diego, Berkeley) and smaller communities (Irvine, Riverside, Davis, Santa Cruz, Santa Barbara). -- www.cmp.ucr.edu
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