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My first experience that awakened my enthusiasm for acting and theatre was at 11. “One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest“ came on television. A scene stiuck in my memory. Nurse Ratched forbids the patients to see the live broadcast of a basketball game. McMurphy/Jack Nicholson does not give in, he simply imagines the whole game before his eyes. Cheering at […]

Tyler Stallings is the UCR ARTSblock interim executive director at University of California, Riverside. He was chief curator at Laguna Art Museum prior to his arrival at UCR in 2006. His curatorial projects focus on contemporary art, with a special emphasis on the exploration of identity, technology, photo-based work, and urban culture. Exhibitions that he […]

Kal Spelletich was born in 1960 in Davenport Iowa. He worked at his father’s construction company when still a child. At the age of nine, he started experimenting with chemistry, electricity, fire, alchemy, constructing tree houses and boats to launch on the Mississippi River. Kal left home at 15 and has worked at countless jobs […]

Doreen McCarthy is a sculptor who works with inflatables, Plexiglas and Lenticular plastic. Her work is akin to engaging in conversation about the history of art. There are sly references to a number of influential movements and her creations illustrate her facility with a broad scope of rigorous conceptual and formal languages. The color and […]

Timothy Hull (born 1979, New York, NY) received an MFA at Parsons School of Design, New York, and a BA at New York University, New York. Recent solo exhibitions include: For Ammonis Who Died at 29 in 610 at ASHES/ASHES, Los Angeles, (2016) Painting in the Imperfect Tense, Klaus von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York (2016) […]

Yvette Brackman is an artist based in Copenhagen, Denmark. Her work takes many forms such as installation, sculpture, performance, video and text. She explores themes such as the relationship of the body to space and memory; the interaction between origin and trauma as a result of displacement and exile; cultural survival and adaptability and political systems […]

As a former dancer turned new media artist, Nina Waisman is fascinated by the critical roles that movement and sensation play in forming thought: “the very structure of reason itself comes from the details of our embodiment. The same neural and cognitive mechanisms that allow us to perceive and move around also create our conceptual […]