Project Room
March 18 - May 23, 2010
Reception March 18, 5:30-7:30pm

Nayland Blake is a noted New York artist who spent a decade living in San Francisco into the late 90s. Known primarily as a sculptor, a large part of his current practice is blogging. He has kept up a near-daily diary of texts, photographs and most recently, cartoons on www.naylandblake.net for several years. This is the first-ever off-line exhibition of his autobiographical drawings cum cartoons, in which a philosophical character appears who greatly resembles Blake but also suggests Yogi and Smokey, the Bear(s). Original black and white drawings will be on view as well as digital images, in color, from cd. Blake is represented by Mathew Marks Gallery in New York and is the chair of the graduate program in photography at the ICP in New York.

Image: Nayland Blake
Self 30

Entryway Gallery
March 18 - June 25, 2010

Coordinated with the exhibition in the main gallery, which includes autobiographical cartoons and illustration-derived magazine covers and other paintings, this small show includes 200-year old social satire prints from the fine art collection.

Early satirical prints are important social documents that comically portray people and situations of interest to their contemporaries. The exaggerations created were not simply recordings of these people and events but were knowingly critical or infused with popular prejudices revealing the absurdities and hypocrisy of the subjects. Most often the prints were also titled so there was no possible doubt of their intended meaning. Because they sold singularly and cheaply, in large numbers, like comic books today, many have survived over the centuries. –based on information from www.ilab.org

Image: Thomas Rowlandson
The Last Drop, 1811
etching with watercolor on paper

Buehler Alumni Center
March 25 - June 20, 2010
Reception & Presentation
March 31, 12-2 pm

This exhibition features work created by a diverse team of youth from West Sacramento, as part of a community media project. Youth Voices for Change offers an opportunity for young people to be heard and to share their thoughts with adults in the community and the region. The project offers a model for youth engagement, influence and action. Youth Voices for Change is a collaboration of Art of Regional Change and Healthy Youth/ Healthy Regions at UC Davis in conjunction with Sactown Heroes, a fifteen member youth group affiliated with the West Sacramento Youth Resource Coalition, who collaborated with UC Davis scholars and artists to create all the works for this exhibition. For more information visit the project website, artofregionalchange.ucdavis.edu.

Image: From the Youth Voices for Change comic book

We are proud to announce the NELSON ARTfriends Fall Online Silent Auction to the general public. This Fall we have a special section of posters as well as some specially donated fine art. You can purchase artwork by bidding or paying the buy- it-now price.

Available are works by Hung Liu, Don Ed Hardy, and more as well as posters by Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Wayne Thiebaud, Manuel Neri, and William T. Willey!

Paintings and Drawings: Charles Campbell Gallery
1980
17.5" x 11.5"
poster

January 7 - March 7, 2010
Reception January 7, 5:30-7:30pm

The excellence of the UC Davis Fine Arts Collection has been made possible through generous donations by artists, alumni and other supporters in the community over the past 35 years. The past two years have seen unusually large and excellent gifts arrive, in particular the 2008 gift of twenty hand-embellished prints by Wayne Thiebaud, which will be on view for the first time. Also seen for the first time will be works by Diebenkorn, Oliviera and others in honor of the late Gurdon Woods, a gift in honor of his retirement by emeritus faculty member Malaquias Montoya, a gift of Arneson drawings from the estate in honor of Chancellor Larry Vanderhoef, an Arneson portrait of the late Roy de Forest given by the estate, and much more.

Image:
Wayne Thiebaud
Cupcakes & Donuts
Hand worked aquatint with watercolor
2007/2008
Gift of Wayne and Betty Jean Thiebaud

Entryway Gallery
January 7 - March 7, 2010

This small show of three treasures from the collection is offered to share with visitors the ongoing “behind-the-scenes” work of a museum. These works by Edward Weston, Roy De Forest, and Wayne Thiebaud were identified as being particularly worthy and particularly in need of rehabilitation. On view are the finished products.

Image:
Edward Weston
Shell on Rocks at Point Lobos, 1931
Gelatin silver print
Gift of John Williams

Buehler Alumni Center
December 9, 2009 - March 21, 2010

This exhibition is of work that was made at the art workshop at the California Medical Facility, Vacaville, part of the state’s prison system. Jeff Hesemeyer, who was the founder and teacher of that program for many years, facilitated this donation.

Image:

John Thomas
Yard Days, 2002
Acrylic on canvas board
Gift of California Medical Facility

Project Room
September 24 - December 13, 2009
Reception October 1, 5:30-7:30 pm

From the collection of Lawrence Banka & Judith Gordon of San Francisco.

Image:
Pablo Picasso
Dove of Peace
Jigsaw Puzzle
1966, ink on cardboard
14.5 " x 14.5 "
(Photograph by Lloyd Hryciw)

September 24 - December 13, 2009
Reception October 1, 5:30-7:30 pm

Guest curated by Felicenne Ramey with Renny Pritikin. From the collections of Avis C. Robinson of Washington DC and Sandra McPherson of Davis. In association with a concurrent exhibition at 40 Acres Art Gallery in Sacramento. This exhibition is supported by a gift from the Nehemiah Corporation.

Image: Sharecropper's Masterpiece

Buehler Alumni Center
August 27 - December 6, 2009
Reception October 8, 4-5:30pm

Guest curator and UC Davis alum Bruce Guttin organizes a drawing exhibition by Davis artist Mary Delonge in recognition of October's National Disability Awareness Month.

Image:
Mary Delonge
Roman Grapes
1995

Entryway Gallery
September 14 - December 13, 2009

From shopping bags to pillowcases, Merch Art covers the full gamut of how art can be incorporated into everyday merchandise.

Image:
Andy Warhol
Campbell's Tomato Soup
screenprint on shopping bag
1966

July 9 - August 14, 2009
Opening July 9, 6-8pm

This installation is guest curated by Joseph del Pesco. He has created font alphabets based on the handwriting of famous contemporary artists, which are available for use by visitors.

Image is from Black Market Type and Print Shop Installation

Project Room
July 9 - August 14, 2009
Opening July 9, 6-8pm

In the Project Room there will be a humorous video installation, Routines, on view by Danish artist Mads Lynnerup.

Image:
Mads Lynnerup
Still from Routines Video

Entryway Gallery
July 9 - August 24, 2009

In coordination with the two poster-based projects in the main gallery, the Nelson presents a small selection from its holdings of twentieth century placards.

Image:
Poster from Raymond Saunders: Paintings, Mixed Media,
and Works on Paper, 1972-1982

May 29 - June 19, 2009
Opening May 29, 6-8pm

The five graduating students – Julia Elsas, Crystal Haueter, Cynthia Horn, Evie Leder, and Josh Short will present video, installation, sculpture and paintings.

Image:
Julia Elsas
uh-huh, yeah.
thread, fabric, steel

Evie Leder
Untitled
video

Josh Short
Boss 302 V8
cardboard, hotglue, 2by4s, rope, zip ties, bolts, found hosing

Cynthia Horn
Found
oil on canvas
60" x 72"

Crystal Haueter
Courtney Submersed
cut photo collage and resin

Buehler Alumni Center
April 23 - August 23, 2009

Artist: Tracy Perkins

Image: Tracy Perkins
Earlimart, CA. March 7, 2008.

March 26 - May 17, 2009
Opening March 26, 6-8 pm

Trimpin, a MacArthur Fellowship recipient, is a sound sculptor, composer, inventor, and one of the most thought-provoking one-man forces in art today.

Images from Sheng High Installation

March 26 - June 26, 2009

Wonner rose to prominence in the 1950s as an abstract expressionist associated with the Bay Area Figurative Movement. This small exhibition of works from the Fine Arts Collection is in memory of the artist who passed away April 23, 2008 in San Francisco.

Image: Paul Wonner
Vence, France
1959

January 8 - March 8, 2009
Opening January 8, 6-8 pm

Dave Lane, of Sacramento, uses found and modified agricultural and industrial steel relics of the 20th century to embody his personal cosmology.

Image: Dave Lane
Heart of Gold
(image courtesy of the Kondos Gallery, Sacramento City College)

December 22, 2008 - March 8, 2009

The Nelson will show a small selection from the collection of works by the late San Francisco artist Conner, who died this year. Arguably the most important visual artist of the San Francisco Beat movement of the 50s, Conner made films, collages and assemblages. The collages are notable for their mystical suggestions and classical sources, and the assemblages for their use of recycled, often homely, found materials. The show will include prints that haven't been exhibited by the Nelson in 16 years, plus a never-before-seen assemblage.

Image: Bruce Conner
Untitled

Buehler Alumni Center
December 22, 2008 - April 19, 2009

Frank Van Sloun was an American Realist painter associated with the Ash Can School of New York in the early years of the last century. He was born in 1879 in St. Paul, MN and died in San Francisco in 1938. He briefly dropped out of art school to be a professional baseball player in St. Paul, but moved to NY to be an artist in 1900. He achieved his greatest renown during the 30s; he was on the faculty of UC Berkeley starting in 1926, after moving to the Bay Area in 1911.

Image: Frank Van Sloun
Not a Self Portrait

September 25 through December 7, 2008
Opening September 25, 6-8pm

Laura Breitman Artist Demonstration
November 4, 2008, 4:30 pm • Contact the gallery to sign up in advance. Limited space.

Laura Breitman
New York
Piece by Piece
collage drawings

Camille Utterback
San Francisco
External Measures
interactive video artist

Lauren Davies
San Francisco
Dog Models

Image: Laura Breitman (top)
Aspen
Camille Utterback (middle)
From the External Measures series: Untitled 5 (2004)
interactive installation
screen view
Lauren Davies (bottom)
Australian Shepherd and Maltese

Buehler Alumni Center
October 2 - December 18, 2008

In coordination with the opening of the new Robert Mondavi Institute for Wine and Food Sciences this fall, the Nelson presents at its satellite gallery in the Buehler Alumni Center an exhibition of photographs by Senior Project Manager, Architects and Engineers, Allen Lowry. Lowry has documented the construction project, with special emphasis on the architectural details that become hidden forever as the building's walls are erected.

Image: Allen Lowry
Vault 2007

Entryway Gallery
September 25 - December 7, 2008

In the entryway gallery are new large color photo collages by UC Davis alumnus Jimmy Jalapeeno, MFA 1973. He has lived in Austin, Texas since leaving California.

Image: Jimmy Jalapeeno
Breakfast in Heaven
temporal pastiche images
2007

July 10 through August 15, 2008
Opening on July 10, 6 - 8 pm

This will be the second regional biennial curated by Renny Pritikin. This exhibit includes twenty selected artists from the Davis/Winters/Woodland/Sacramento region.

Image: Cheselyn Amato
Flower Garden (2008)

Buehler Alumni Center
June 19 through September 28, 2008

Image: David Fukuyama
Untitled (from the Truck Drivers Series)
silver gelatin print
10.5" x 13.25"
1970

May 30 through June 20, 2008
Opening on May 30, 6-8 pm at the Nelson Gallery and 5-7 pm at the Gallery at the Memorial Union

Irman Arcibal
Caroline Cloak
Chau Thuy Huynh
Mary Alison Lucas
Nickolas Mohanna
LissaIvy Tiegel

Image: Mary Alison Lucas
Stubble
2008
clay, finish nails, low fire slip, low fire glazes
13” h x 14”w x 12”d
Photo Credit: Lee Fatherree

Entryway Gallery
May 30 through August 30, 2008

Image: Thure de Thulstrup
Seated Figure
Pencil on tan wove paper
19th century

April 3 through May 18, 2008
Opening on April 10, 6 - 8pm

This exhibition consists of selections from the collection of Yang Peiming of Shanghai, and has been guest curated by Katharine Burnett of the Art History Department, UC Davis.

Special Event:
A Symposium regarding the works on April 12, 9:30am - 5pm in Art 217, UC Davis.

Speakers:
Judy Andrews, Ohio State University
Chen Xiaomei, UC Davis
Ellen Johnston Laing, University of Michigan
Shen Kuiyi, UC San Diego
Sheldon Lu, UC Davis
Lindsay Riordan, UC Davis
Riche Richardson, UC Davis
Yang Peiming, owner and Director, Shanghai Propaganda Poster Art Centre

Discussants:
Don Price, UC Davis
Blake Stimson, UC Davis
Richard Vinograd, Stanford University

Image: Various Chinese Propaganda Posters
TESTING

1920-1982

Buehler Alumni Center
March 20 through June 15, 2008
Special Reception for his daughter on March 20, 3 - 5 pm

Image: Daniel Shapiro
Untitled
Collage
1982

Entryway Gallery
April 3 - May 18, 2008

Image: Unknown Mianzhu, Sichuan Province, China
Door Gods in Civil Service Attire
circa 20th century
Woodcut on paper
Gift of Dr. Mary Fong

Sonar Eclipse/Echo Location
Ginko Afterglow

January 10 through March 23, 2008
Opening on January 10, 6:30-8 pm
Special Lecture by Liz Phillips on January 10, 4:30-6 pm at the University Club

Image: Liz Phillips
Fish Ping Ellipse

Buehler Alumni Center
January 10 through March 16, 2008

Artists:
Freemond Gadberry
Sean McFarland
Joel Meyerowitz
Richard Misrach
Ira Nowinski
Arthur Ollman
Janet Wilson-Kaufman

Image: Janet Wilson-Kaufman
Untitled (Space Woman)
1988
Cibachrome
Gift of Nancy Wilson-Ives

Entryway Gallery
January 10 through March 23, 2008

Artists:
Richard Petticord
Charles Seliger
Albert Smith
Robert Sterling

Image: Richard Petticord
Untitled #7
1964
Oil on board
Gift of Wayne and Betty Jean Thiebaud

Below are the links to download the video of the YOU SEE Panel Discussion.

Window's Media Player
Download file

QuickTime Media Player
Download file

September 27 through December 9, 2007
Opening Reception - September 27, 6-8 pm

Between 1959 and 1962 Richard L. Nelson brought together a legendary faculty built around the participation of Robert Arneson, Roy De Forest, Manuel Neri, Wayne Thiebaud, and William T. Wiley. You See: The Early Years of the UC Davis Studio Art Faculty includes work from the collection of the campus gallery named in Nelson’s honor in 1976.

Special Event
Panel Discussion: Tuesday November 13th 6pm at the Studio Theatre at the Mondavi Center
Open Seating, Free Admission
You See: Manuel Neri, Wayne Thiebaud and William T. Wiley Moderated by Michael Schwager, curator of the di Rosa Preserve

Image: Robert Arneson
A Hollow Gesture
1980

Buehler Alumni Center

Featuring work by four former members of the UC Davis Art Department faculty: Ralph Johnson, Richard L. Nelson, Roland Petersen, and Cornelia Schulz.

September 27 through December 9, 2007

Image: Richard L. Nelson
Putah Creek, n.d
Oil on canvas
gift of Wayne Thiebaud

July 12th to August 17th

Image:
Nina
Elizabeth Catlett

June 1 through June 22
Reception Friday, June 1
5-7 Pm at the Memorial Union Gallery
6-8 PM at the Nelson Gallery

Image: Gabriella Soraci
Still Life

Buehler Alumni Center
Seymour Howard

July 19 through September 13
Reception: July 19 from 4 to 6 p.m.

Image: Seymour Howard
Gold Flag

Temporary Public Art Projects in Downtown Davis

April 9 through June 30, 2007

Image: Dave Lane
Device for Making Stars

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
March 29th, 2007 through May 20, 2007

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
January 11th, 2007 through March 18, 2007
Image: James McNeill Whistler
The Smith's Yard, 1895

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
March 29th, 2007 through May 20, 2007
Image: Piacenza Opera House by Doug Hall.

SPECIAL LECTURE BY DON FARNSWORTH OF MAGNOLIA EDITIONS
THURSDAY NIGHT APRIL 26TH AT 6PM
At the Grad Student Studios

Buehler Alumni Center and the Entryway Gallery
March 29th, 2007 through June 22, 2007

Image: Christopher French
The point between what you want people to know about you and what you can't help

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
September 28, 2006 through December 10th, 2006
Images to left by Hiraki Sawa courtesy of James Cohan Gallery, New York

Richard L. Nelson Gallery Project Room
January 11, 2007 through March 18, 2007

Image by Lynsey Addario

Beuhler Alumni Center
January 4, 2007 through March 18, 2007

Image: Andreas Luppius
Untitled (Optical Illusion od Male/Female Heads)
17th Century

Entryway Gallery
January 4 through March 18, 2007

Image: Don Worth
Erosion Near Laguna Beach, Calif.
c. 1960

Beuhler Alumni Center
September 11, 2006 through December 10, 2006

Image: Gerald Paul Stinski
Still Life of Persimmons
Painting
20th c.

July 6th through August 13th, 2006
A survey exhibition of forty-seven artists residing in the Sacramento-Davis-Woodland area. This show is an attempt to simultaneously advocate for the energy and quality of the regional art scene, and establish a periodic exhibition that argues for a shared level of ambition and accomplishment within that community. Image: Bryce Vinokurov.

June 2, 2006 through Friday June 23, 2006
Steve Lambert, Ilya Noe, Amanda Schoppel, Natalie Rishe

Entryway Gallery
September 28, 2006 through December 10, 2006

Image: Unknown (after Hiroshige II)
untitled 19th century color woodblock print

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
March 30, 2006 through May 21, 2006

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
Project Room
March 30, 2006 through May 21, 2006

Image: Last Supper
58 min DV

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
Entryway Gallery
March 30, 2006 through May 21st, 2006

June 2 through August 11, 2006

James McNeill Whistler, Helen E. Hokinson, Otis William Oldfield, Ernest Laborde, Henry I. Glintenkamp, & Gregory Kondos

Beuhler Alumni Center
Through September 15, 2006

Image: Gaston Lachaise

The Nelson Gallery
& Pence Gallery
(at both locations)
January 5th - March 19th, 2006

Image: Weegee "The Critic"

Entryway Gallery
January 5, 2006 - March 19th, 2006

Image: Marcel Dzama "Untitled," 2000 (Detail)

The Nelson Gallery
Project Room
January 5, 2006 - March 19th, 2006

Buehler Alumni & Visitors Center
January 17 - March 21, 2006

Image: Robin Hill (detail)

November 30th, 2005
Graduate Art Studio Bldg.
7:00PM

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
September 29 - Dec 11, 2005

Nicole Fein
Tom Friedman
Jason Jagel
Midori Harima
David Miles
Jill Sylvia
Stephanie Syjuco
Christopher Taggart
Yuken Teruya

Image: Christopher Taggart

Walter A. Buehler Center
October 6 - January 6, 2006

A modest exploration into the language games created by the artists responsible for the historic spirit of the slant step.

Richard L. Nelson Gallery (Project Room)
September 29 - Dec 11, 2005

Amy Ellingson
Xylor Jane
LTTR
Richard Moszka
Dyke Action Machine
Danh Nguyen

Image: Xylor Jane

Entryway Gallery
September 29 - Dec 11, 2005

55 letter-press posters from Horwinski Press in Oakland, CA.

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
July 22nd - August 26th, 2005

Local sculptor and video artist Terry Berlier presents a project inspired by the struggles of the residents of the legendary Slatter’s Court cul-de-sac neighborhood near downtown Davis.

Basement Gallery
July 5th - 22nd, 2005

Hildebrand is a painter who received her MA from UC Davis (Class of '62) after studying with Wayne Thiebaud and Roland Peterson.

Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center
June 30th - September 18th, 2005

Photographs of performances in Egypt by David Whipple & Fred Rupert Snyder.

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
June 3rd — June 24th, 2005

Alma Bryan
Lindsay Coats
M. Elisabeth Higgins O'Connor
Jessica Wimbley

The 2005 MFA exhibition features four artists' work at the Nelson while four other artists' work will be on view at the Memorial Union Gallery.

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
March 31st - May 22nd, 2005

Viola Frey, Vera Iliatova, Sean McFarland, Richard Misrach, Ron Nagle, and Indian Minatures from the Fine Arts Collection.

This exhibition explores issues of scale - in ceramic sculpture, painting, and photography - in three paired sets of artworks.

Image: Viola Frey

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
March 31st - May 22nd, 2005

Claudia Tennyson
Thursday March 31st — April 8th
Kate Pocrass
Monday April 11th — April 22nd
Amy Franceschini
Monday April 25th — May 6th
WOWhaus
Monday May 9th — May 22nd

Image: Wowhaus

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
January 13th - March 13th, 2005
MID-CENTURY STREET VENDOR PHOTOGRAPHY

Image: Joseph Selle

Entryway Gallery
March 31st - August 26th, 2005

Harrell Fletcher and Miranda July
Abner Nolan
David Stein

Flip through three unusual interpretations of the common household vehicle for family nostalgia.

Walter A. Buehler Visitors and Alumni Center
March 3rd - June 24th, 2005

"...from within the routines of everyday life in Bangladesh unfold a series of unique moments captured during wanderings through the city of Dhaka."

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
January 13th - March 13th, 2005

The photographs of Canadian Lorraine Gilbert document the west coast forest and its devastation and reforestation by lumber companies.

Image: Lorraine Gilbert

Walter A. Buehler Alumni Center
November 1 - January 16, 2004

Photographs of UFW (United Farm Workers) leaders Cesar Chavez and Dolores Huerta from 1979 to 1998.

Image: Richard Steven Street

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
October 15 - December 19, 2004

Themes from the Fine Arts Collection Reflected in Recent Northen California Art

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
April 2 - May 21, 2004

Solo exhibition of recent paintings and sculpture.

Image: Louie (detail)

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
January 16 - March 12, 2004

Installation and Performance.

Richard L. Nelson Gallery
October 17 - December 5, 2003

5-channel media installation with sound; subtitled in English; 40 minutes (cycle)