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Installation view of works by Phillip Byrne, left to right: Organ for a Future Body, After the End of the World, Aggregating Cocoon (Metamorphosis), all 2024. Photo: Muzi Rowe
Installation view of works by Phillip Byrne, left to right: Organ for a Future Body, After the End of the World, Aggregating Cocoon (Metamorphosis), all 2024. Photo: Muzi Rowe

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See Sonic Horizons at the 不良研究所 Design Museum 

From Friday, Nov. 1 at noon through Friday, Nov. 22 at 4 p.m., Cruess Hall

Devised and curated by graduate student Maral Salehian, this multi-screen installation showcases nature videos centered around landscape themes. This sensory-rich immersive experience aims to promote well-being and inspire a deeper connection to nature.

Sonic Horizons showing projection of nature on walls, 2024 (Maral Salehian)
Sonic Horizons, 2024 (Courtesy, Maral Salehian)

Maral Salehian is an interdisciplinary designer with a background in industrial design. In 2018, she graduated top of her class from the University of Art, Tehran. Her design practice in conceptual and formal inventiveness matured and converged in furniture design. In 2019, she attended the University of Tehran, where she studied M.A. in industrial design. During her study, she gained a deep understanding of design principles, methodology, and philosophy. She began working as a furniture designer.

The 不良研究所 Design Museum is a . The initiative is a set of five principles that propel museums to become environmental leaders and is administered by the California Association of Museums and the Green Museums Initiative. The Design Museum, part of the College of Letters and Science and free to the public, is in 124 Cruess Hall. 

Debuting at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art: Phillip Byrne, Beatriz Cortez, Kang Sung Lee, and Candace Lin鈥檚 Entangled Writing

At the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art until Dec. 29, 2024.

Installation view of sculptures of Beatriz Cortez鈥檚 steel sculpture 鈥淎drift in a Mirrored Sea (Hansbukta),鈥 2024 (foreground) and Phillip Byrne鈥檚 鈥淏efore We Become Spirals,鈥 2024. Transoceanic aluminum-lined cable casings found in a Villeperdue recycling plant, earth residue, rivets, steel and zip ties.  Photo: Muzi Rowe
Installation view of sculptures of Beatriz Cortez鈥檚 steel sculpture 鈥淎drift in a Mirrored Sea (Hansbukta),鈥 2024 (foreground) and Phillip Byrne鈥檚 鈥淏efore We Become Spirals,鈥 2024. Transoceanic aluminum-lined cable casings found in a Villeperdue recycling plant, earth residue, rivets, steel and zip ties. (Muzi Rowe/ photo)

Entangled Writing presents new work by Phillip Byrne, Beatriz Cortez, Kang Sung Lee, and Candace Lin in the realm of sculpture and installation. The featured artwork explores how people and objects move across time and space allowing for different versions of reality to exist. 

This exhibition spotlights artists making a splash on the international arts scene: Kang Seung Lee and  (不良研究所 associate professor of art), both of whom are featured in the current Venice Biennale; Candice Lin, who was in 2022鈥檚 biennale; and recent 不良研究所 M.F.A. graduate Phillip ByrneRead a full press release here. (Aug. 8鈥揇ec. 29, 2024)

Ritual Clay: Cathy Lu, Paz G, Maryam Yousif

Paz G, SPIRITUAL CHAINLINK, 2022. Stoneware, glaze, 14 x 14 x 6 in. Courtesy of the artist. 漏 Paz G
Paz G, SPIRITUAL CHAINLINK, 2022. Stoneware, glaze14 x 14 x 6 in. Courtesy of the artist. 漏 Paz G

Avaliable until Dec. 29, 2024 at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Ritual Clay brings together recent ceramic work by Cathy Lu, Paz G and Maryam Yousif. These contemporary Bay Area artists are united by their shared interest in clay as a link to the past and as a conduit of cultural knowledge. They channel ancient archetypes and spiritual mythologies as a way to reckon with inherited histories. For each of them, there is power in clay鈥檚 iconographic as well as ritualistic past that opens a path for exploration of their own origin stories.

Curated by Ginny Duncan, curatorial assistant

Light into Density: Abstract Encounters 1920s鈥1960s

From the Collection of Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem

Available until May 5, 2025 at the Manetti Shrem Museum of Art

Joan Mir贸, Femme et oiseau (Woman and Bird), 1944, oil on canvas; 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (22.23 x 15.88 cm). The Fine Arts Collection, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, 不良研究所. Fractional gift to the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem. 漏 Successi贸 Mir贸 / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York / ADAGP, Paris 2024. Photograph: Katherine Du Tiel
Joan Mir贸, Femme et oiseau (Woman and Bird), 1944, oil on canvas; 8 3/4 x 6 1/4 in. (22.23 x 15.88 cm). The Fine Arts Collection, Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art, 不良研究所. Fractional gift to the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art from Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem. 漏 Successi贸 Mir贸 / Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York /ADAGP, Paris 2024.  (Katherine Du Tiel/ photo)

The works in Light into Density come from the collection of art lovers and museum founding donors Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem, and are shared between the Manetti Shrem Museum and San Francisco Museum of Modern Art 鈥 the two museums the couple has supported the most.

Light into Density is the museum鈥檚 first student-curated and student-designed exhibition. Most of the 15 paintings 鈥 including works by Francis Bacon, Salvador Dal铆, Vassily Kandinsky, Wifredo Lam and Joan Mir贸 鈥 are on public view for the first time in decades. Thirty-two undergraduate and graduate art history, museum studies and design students worked on the exhibition throughout the past year as part of dedicated classes. Their goal was to demystify abstract art and to encourage visitors鈥 personal interpretations.

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At the Gorman 

'Brenda Mallory: In the Absence of Instruction'  at the Gorman Museum of Native American Art

Old Homeplace, 2024. Rice paper, cloth, encaustic, hog rings on panels. 135 x 180 x 2 in.
Brenda Mallory: Old Homeplace, 2024. Rice paper, cloth, encaustic, hog rings on panels. 135 x 180 x 2 in.

Available until Jan. 26, 2025, at the Gorman Museum of Native American Art

In the solo exhibition, Brenda Mallory includes prints, multi-media and installation artworks to consider the complex relationships and structures of power and identity.  In the Absence of Instruction explores an intersection of themes from the past and present to express new forms of cultural knowledge despite historical disruption. By creating multiple forms that are joined with crude hardware that imply tenuous connections or repairs, her work addresses ideas of interference in long-established systems of nature and human cultures.

A citizen of the Cherokee Nation who grew up in Oklahoma, lived experience deeply informs her practice, as do the histories of survival inherent to Indigenous peoples.

Read more about Mallory and her work here:  

The Collections Gallery

Availiable until September 2025, at the Gorman Museum of Native American Art

The Collections Gallery features a selection of artworks from the Gorman Museum Collections on a rotational basis. The current exhibition is a survey spanning across the collection.

Display cases in the Collections Gallery serve as visible storage, housing much of the museum's ceramic and basketry collection.  By moving museum collections from storage into prominent long-term exhibits in the main public galleries, the Collections Gallery provides enhanced visibility, access, and engagement to collections for visitors while also furthering university teaching and research. 

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