January 12 – 26

Opening Reception: Thursday, January 12th | 6-9 PM

Closing Reception: Tuesday, January 24th | 6-8 PM

Catalyst Gallery

Catalyst Gallery presents Entre, a dual exhibition featuring paintings by Svetlana Linetskaya and photographs by Joey Luu. The opening includes a live performance by July Sunnyday at 6:3o PM.

Entre is a multimedia exhibition in which Linetskaya’s paintings and Luu’s photography engages in a conversation between concepts of the male and female gender and asks what is hidden behind these masks worn by both sexes. The Exhibit highlights the notion that there are no longer any single truths about insecurities associated with body image and sexuality, and emphasizes that sexuality and body image is now a two way road for both the male and the female. “Peeling Away,” a photography installation by Joey Luu mirrors “Untitled,” a painting installation by Lana Linetskaya and presents a myriad of images that creates an environment of confusion in understanding and interpretation by asking the viewer to reflect on biases, cultural, religious, and sexist views that may have been implicated by societal norms.

December 1 – 9

Opening Reception: Thursday, December 1st | 6-9 PM

Catalyst Gallery

Catalyst presents Margins, a group exhibition featuring works by Corinne Chan and Maria Guerrero. The opening includes a performance by July Sunnyday and Marisa Colcord at 6:40 PM.

November 3 – 15

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 3 | 6-9 PM

Catalyst Gallery

Catalyst presents Coalescence, a group exhibition featuring artists Marisa Colcord, Svetlana Linetskaya, Yijao Wang, and Olivia Yu. The opening includes a live performance by July Sunnyday from 6:00-6:10 PM.

Thursday, October 13 | 6-9 PM

Catalyst Gallery – ART 165

Catalyst presents a showing of the 2002 film Frida, a 2002 biographical film which depicts the professional and private life of the surrealist Mexican painter Frida Kahlo. It stars Salma Hayek in her Academy Award nominated portrayal as Kahlo and Alfred Molina as her husband, Diego Rivera.

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ONE NIGHT ONLY: Oct 5

Opening Reception: Wednesday, October 5th | 6-9 PM

Catalyst Gallery

Films by Katie Tilford, Marisa Colcord & Joey Luu

“Sleeping in Space, Pt. 1″, a film by Katie Tilford, is an exploration of the ways in which the self is mirrored, reproduced, and fragmented. By using water as a medium, the artist’s body is captured on camera such that there is no absolute border between the self and the environment, and one can not be defined without the other. A wholly new subject is formed which is conflated with the space, yet not divorced from the original body.

“Sleeping in Space, Pt. 2”, a collaborative film by Marisa Colcord and Joey Luu, is an exploration into an amalgam of emotions. Through the act of simple, repetitive gestures and accompanying music, this piece touches upon the notions of fear, desperation, endurance, the tranquility within these floating bodies and their responses in a “womb” like environment.

Still of “Sleeping in Space, Pt. 2″

June 2 – 9, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, June 2nd | 6-9 pm
Catalyst Gallery

Catalyst Gallery has its doors open for all those who would like to show their work. It is a FREE FOR ALL show, which means it is completely non-juried and anything that is brought, is shown. A salon style show, there will be antique furniture and glassware for decoration that is also for sale. This show is meant to highlight Catalyst’s connection with the undergraduate student body at UCI, and is a celebration of all forms of art from our campus.

Photos courtesy Tessa Kurszewski.

May 26 – 30, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 26th | 6-9 pm
Catalyst Gallery

Catalyst presents SATISFIED?, a solo exhibition by Vida Liu, that examines concepts of consumerism and materialism offering a journey towards finding a peaceful solution in the end. It consists of some early representational works that progress towards more recent abstract pieces.

Photos courtesy Tessa Kurszewski.

May 12 – 20, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 12th | 6-9 pm
Catalyst Gallery

Sea of Forms, a solo exhibition by Rina Kim, explores the phenomenon of commodity fetishism and consumer culture that relies upon material objects to instigate and construct relationships between people. As social relations are constantly being mediated and expressed through trades and exchanges of commodities, the true use-value of things becomes obstructed and forgotten. This body of work aims to reverse the impulse for constantly pursuing material goods, and rather, direct consumers towards establishing human relations organically.

May 5 – 10, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 5th | 6-9 pm
Catalyst Gallery

Catalyst is pleased to present Armistice, a group exhibition featuring works by Isabel Bogarin, Melissa Flores, and Melissa Maldonado that explores an array of associations and disassociations between feelings of love and bodily presence.

"Love by Corintians" by Isabel Bogarin

"Kiss" by Melissa Flores

"Mannequin Still" by Melissa Flores

"May Piece Be With You" by Melissa Meldonado

April 21- 29, 2011
Opening Reception: Thursday, April 21st | 6 – 9 pm
Location: Catalyst Gallery

Catalyst is pleased to present Living to Work, a solo installation project by Tessa Kurszewski which examines the repetitious, mundane nature of office work in America.

Click to see Tessa's flickr collection.

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Crit Circle

February 25th, 2010 → 5:00 pm