UCI Arts – CONNECT Spring 2021

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Art in Absentia UCI’s first professional exhibition in a virtual format, The Black Index, benefits from processes developed for student showcases during the pandemic By Christine Byrd

When the artists,

curators and preparators painstakingly install an exhibition in one of the Claire Trevor School of the Arts’ three galleries today, they know hardly anyone will set foot inside the space to see it. Instead, a camera with six bug-eyed lenses will snap hundreds of circular photos, which will then be painstakingly stitched together into a virtual tour, and published online. So while the gallery sits empty, day in and day out, the hope is that more people than ever — and from farther corners of the world — will experience what’s inside it.

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Welcome to the University Art Galleries (UAG) of the COVID-19 era.

Being Seen The Black Index is debuting in the Contemporary Arts Center Gallery through March 20, curated by Bridget R. Cooks, UCI associate professor of African American studies and art history, and supported by a grant from the Ford Foundation. The exhibition features the work of six professional artists — Dennis Delgado, Alicia Henry, Kenyatta A.C. Hinkle, Titus Kaphar, Whitfield Lovell and Lava Thomas — who use drawing,


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