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.
May 14, 2011
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, 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 [...]
March 31, 2011
Catalyst is pleased to present Cancelled, a solo project by Kelly McKnight that examines the traverse economy of the United States postal service in Orange County through the medium of photography.
March 6, 2011
Catalyst is pleased to present Tiny Square, a photographic solo exhibition by Gilda Nowparast that explores the worries and issues of people all around the world suggesting that they get smaller and less significant when looked at from a different perspective.
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.
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