Catalyst Gallery presents "Entre," an exhibit by Svetlana Linetskaya and Joey Luu that explores the duality between gender, body image and perception. The exhibit emphasizes issues presented within the topic of the male and female gaze, specifically exploring the boundaries and limitations placed on men and women through the popular canons of body image and expected canons of sexuality.
November 3, 2011
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.
May 24, 2011
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.
May 5, 2011
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.
April 11, 2011
Listen to the (segmented) five-hour long group crit of Noe Gaytan, Mitchell Klein, and Melissa Meldanado’s exhibited works in The Natural Number After 8 Preceding Ten as well as Kelly Mayfield’s I Just Don’t Think About It. David Familion, the Artistic Director of the Beall Center of Art + Technology and Professor at the UC [...]
April 2, 2011
Listen to the critique of Mitchell Klein's print construction.
February 15, 2011
Catalyst is pleased to present the first joint-school exhibition, Nexus, with many more to come. Nexus lays out an array of works composed of various mediums by UCI and CSUF undergraduates that explore similar themes of consumerism, identity, and representation.
February 4, 2011
Listen to the critique of Mitchell Klein's self portrait.
January 13, 2011
It has been one whole year since Catalyst last took a trip to the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk. Now we are back. As a means to spur new ideas in both, our individual art practices and our collective event planning and organization, it was, furthermore, a delightful, cultural experience that our community within Irvine could surely benefit from.
December 2, 2010
Our last exhibition of 2010, Dilapidated Beings features student works by Vida Liu, Melissa Maldonado, Alfred Urango, and Grace Wong.
January 12, 2012