San Diego Mesa College Gallery

2018 was an awesome year! We got to work with so many amazing artist and had an awesome group of students helping us along the way! Looking forward to wait 2019 will have in store for us!

Wow today was a crazy day, so many boxes!
So much packing we’ve had to do over the last couple weeks and we got it all done. Today was our last day in this space. And we are super excited to be moving into our new gallery when we are back from break in January but it’s a little bittersweet as we have had so many good memories in this space.
Now time to make some more next year starting with the Alumni Exhibition opening at the end of January. @ Mesa College Art Gallery

There are lots of chances for you go get out in the next 7 days and get your last min holiday shopping done while supporting local artists. Check the events below and have a great week.
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Monday, Dec. 17
Art Show & Sale Hosted by Skydancer Designs at
4:30-9 PM

Wednesday, Dec. 19
Artist Reception & Poetry Night hosted by San Diego Art Institute
5-8 PM

Art Reception: Works by Coko Brown at Woods Real Estate Services
6-8 PM

Thursday, Dec. 20
Downtown at Sundown hosted by Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego and SDSU Downtown Gallery
5-8 PM
MCASD TAG> Artistic Intervention 5:30-7:30 PM

Visual Bazaar hosted by Teorema/Lúdica Co—Tasting Room and Orozco
7-11 PM

Friday, Dec. 21
Generations Creations Holiday Bazaar hosted by La Maestra Foundation -- Generations Center
11-5 PM

Makers Market & Clothing Swap at The Brown Building
5:30-9 PM

Saturday, Dec. 22
Del Barrio Market: Noche Buena hosted by the Barrio Logan Flea Market @ San Diego, California

Art History Wednesday
Catherine Opie Icehouses and Surfers

We’ve made it to the last week of classes and are ready for our winter holiday. San Diego’s “White Christmases” are more like “White Sand Beach Christmases” but we all get out into the landscape in our own way to spend those few short weeks before classes are back in session. Catherine Opie looks to temporary communities in her “Surfers” (2003) and “Ice Houses” (2001) series. For the “Ice Houses” works she traveled to Nothern Minnesota to photograph the shanties that move onto frozen lakes in the winter time. The “Surfer” photos were taken in Malibu, California.

Her use of negative space and a consistently placed horizon line shows her subjects being consumed by the landscape. What are you up to this winter? Surf or Snow?


Image Credits: Surfers 9, 2003 (cropped), Icehouse 3, 2001 (cropped)

Come to the gallery this Friday December 7th at 6pm for a special performance by San Diego Mesa College Vocal Ensemble of The Harp Project. And another chance to check out our Fall 2019 Student Exhibition.

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Don’t let the wet weather this week keep you in, go see some art!
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Tuesday, Dec-4
Hyde Art Gallery hosts the 2018 Student Exhibition at Grossmont College from 4-7 pm

Wednesday, Dec-5
New Beginnings II-HanaleiArtworks 1yr Anniversary Exhibition by Hanalei Artworks at 6-10 pm

Thursday, Dec-6
Cine en Sherman: Singing Our Way to Freedom hosted by Outside The Lens at the Sherman Heights Community Center 6-8:30 pm

Friday, Dec-7
Friday Night Liberty: Holiday Extravaganza Liberty Station 5-9 pm
Drink Play Create, an after-hours adult-only holiday party The New Children's Museum 8 pm-12 am

Saturday, Dec-8
Family ArtLAB: Printing for Action at UTC La Jolla with Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego 2-4 pm
Meet the Artists in North Park! Hosted by Explore North Park and North Park Main Street 3-6 pm
@ San Diego, California

Anyone looking to fulfill an Art History requirement or just l want to learn something new. Here’s a perfect class for that, take Pre-Columbian Art this Spring 2019 semester. For more question contact Professor Rogers at [email protected]

Art History Wednesday

This piece by Lakota artist Wanbli Koyake is done in the traditional pictographic style of the Planes Indians. The paper background comes from the Peabody Museum, an institution known for it’s large collection of ethographic artifacts. The artist requested this list of cultural terms, many of them inappropriate and innaccurate, and has corrected it with the names Native tribes use to refer to themselves and eachother. His riders wear traditional outfits and are identified by their traditional names as they cross this sheet of paper overtaking the teachers, academics and scientist carrying books related to the study of Native peoples.

Koyake attended art school including graduate school but seperated from the western model of academia for personal reasons. He now considers art making a part of his existance as he learns to live through Lakol Wicohan kin, the Lifeway of the Friendly People.

This reflexive critique of history and of who is in charge of classifying and recording histories exposes issues of bias that are built into many institutions including art museums. Efforts to decolonize and reasses these relationships are a process of ongoing learning that is crucial as we move forward into a more just and equal society.

photo via Minneapolis Institute of Art @ Minneapolis Institute of Art

We are putting the finishing touches on our student show. The opening reception and student art sale is this Thursday from 3 to 7 pm. Stop by to see our new Window installation by and get a head start on your holiday shopping 🎉🎁🎊

This is our last show before we move to the new art building next semester, wish us a fond farewell as we move to bigger and better things.