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“Accordance of Disciplines : Artist Ruben Ochoa and Architect Teddy Cruz with Art Critic, Robert Pincus, Moderator”
Thursday, September 23, 2010
6:30 PM
The Auditorium - The Neurosciences Institute - La Jolla
An evening with short presentations by the artist and the architect
with moderated discussion lead by the art critic focusing on the similarities, differences and philosophies of the artist and architect.
Ruben Ochoa, who grew up in Oceanside and is now a Los Angeles–based artist, works at the interface of art and architecture. Ruben’s work is a nod to Marcel Duchamp with an architectural take on the Southern California urban landscape and politics with his use of industrial construction materials. His monumental scale works combine materials of construction; shipping pallets, concrete, rebar and chain-link fencing.
He has achieved phenomenal success in recent years: representation by one of L.A.'s smartest galleries (Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects); a spot in the 2008 Whitney Biennial; solo shows in New York, Berlin, Vancouver and at Site Santa Fe last summer; a Guggenheim Fellowship; and acquisitions by several major museums.
Ruben’s sculptural installations showed at the MCASD this last spring.
One of over 6,000 artists and the only American, Ruben was selected as a finalist in the Pinchut Foundation’s Future Generation Art Prize. The exhibition of shortlisted artists will open at the PinchukArtCentre in October 29, 2010 in Kiev, Ukraine.
Teddy Cruz, the principal of Estudio Teddy Cruz has gained world-wide recognition for his commitment to finding architectural and urban planning solutions for global political and social problems that proliferate in international border zones. His projects primarily engage the micro scale of the neighborhood, transforming it into the urban laboratory of the 21st century.
Most architects live to build. Teddy Cruz lives to lay the economic, social and political groundwork for buildings — specifically, housing and small-scale commercial centers for minority communities, most of them in the rapidly growing area between San Diego, Calif., and Tijuana, Mexico, where, Cruz said, “some of the richest real estate in the world is 20 minutes away from some of the poorest.”
Teddy Cruz began studying architecture at Rafael Landivar University in Guatemala City (B.A., 1982), and after emigrating to the United States, continued his studies at California State Polytechnic University San Luis Obispo. In 1991, Cruz received the prestigious Rome Prize in Architecture and shortly thereafter completed his architectural education at Harvard University GSD (M.Des.S. 1997).
He has taught and lectured in various universities in the U.S. and Latin America, including an associate Professorship in the school of architecture at Woodbury University in San Diego where he founded the Border Institute (BI) dedicated to research on border urbanism, and a recent appointment to the newly-created tenured research and teaching post of Artist in Public Culture/Urban Space in the Visual Arts Department at the University of California, San Diego.
Robert Pincus, is a much admired art critic and literary critic, who until a few months ago was the staff art critic and books editor of the San Diego Union-Tribune. During his 25 years in San Diego, he has covered the art scene, from major museum shows to exhibitions by emerging and mid-career artists in smaller spaces. He knows the artists, understands the underpinnings of their work and writes with thoughtful clarity. Previously, he has been an art critic for The Los Angeles Times.
He has a B.A. in Comparative Cultures from UC Irvine, a Master’s Degree in American Studies from the University of Southern California and a combined Ph.D., in English and Art History, also from U.S.C.. His books include a groundbreaking study on the work of the late Edward Kienholz and of Nancy Reddin Kienholz, On A Scale That Competes With the World, and most recently an essay in Sophie Calle: The Reader.
He's contributed essays to many other books and exhibition catalogs including West Coast Duchamp, L.A. Pop in the Sixties and But Is It Art? The Spirit of Art as Activism. He is a corresponding editor for Art in America and also writes regularly for Art News. He's written essays and articles for many other publications, including Artforum and Sculpture. For he past 12 years he has taught a course titled "Art Now: Thinking Critically About Art" at the University of San Diego and this fall he is teaching a second course, "From Whitman to Warhol: Creating Democratic Culture."
Ron Newby
ronnewby34@gmail.com
www.bronowskiforum.org
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