Sunday, February 15

UCLA student embraces AAPI heritage through tattoo artistry

Ashli-Ann Ha is piercing the skin of the tattoo industry, dot by dot. The fourth-year geography and sociology student started out by inking Bruin Plate bananas in 2019, but Ha said she has since honed the vibrant designs she creates using the stick-and-poke technique, a nonelectric method of tattooing that is executed using only a needle and ink. Read more...

Photo: Fourth-year geography and sociology student Ashli-Ann Ha tattoos clients using the hand-poke method, which aids in creating their characteristic simple, whimsical style. (Photo by Kristin Pischel, Photo Illustration by Katie Frei)


Art exhibit review: ‘There’s No Place Like No Place’ encodes language in colorful symbols

No color is left unused in alumnus Lindsay August-Salazar’s latest paintings. Shown in the exhibit “There’s No Place Like No Place” at Lowell Ryan Projects in Mid-City, six large abstract paintings hang in the sunlight-drenched downstairs gallery. Read more...

Photo: Alumnus and artist Lindsay August-Salazar’s exhibit “There’s No Place Like No Place” opened at Lowell Ryan Projects on Saturday. (Lauren Man/Daily Bruin senior staff)



UCLA organization brings awareness to HIV/AIDS in Latino community at holiday event

Art and community wellness are merging together for downtown Los Angeles’ Día de los Muertos celebration. Marking the holiday observed from Nov. 1 to Nov. 2, Grand Park will host its ninth annual Downtown Día de los Muertos event. Read more...

Photo: The Los Angeles Family AIDS Network, a UCLA organization, created an altar with the Latino Outreach Understanding Division for Grand Park’s Downtown Día de los Muertos event. The altar is tiered, topped with a woman holding a bread basket. (Courtesy of Michelle Moro/Grand Park)


UCLA alumnus sheds light on spiritual energy in objects in ‘Mondegreen Nursery’ exhibit

This post was updated Oct. 27 at 11:19 p.m. The whimsical oddities of Amelia Lockwood’s ceramics are now on display at ODD ARK•LA. The alumnus’s “Mondegreen Nursery” exhibit marks her first major project as a ceramist since her thesis show during the COVID-19 pandemic, which she said involved submerging surrealist sculptures into a pool in order to safely facilitate an engaging viewing experience. Read more...

Photo: Alumnus Amelia Lockwood’s art exhibit, “Mondegreen Nursery,” displays numerous ceramic sculptures in the shape of chickens and candelabras with themes of fire, board games and maps connecting the pieces. (Chelsea Rose Westman/Daily Bruin staff)


Graduate students immerse viewers in ‘Perspective Slip’ exhibit with surreal art

From the natural to the supernatural, artists are blending personal experience with modern science in a new exhibit. Fine arts graduate students in the department of design media arts are presenting their work in the exhibit titled “Perspective Slip,” which premiered Oct. Read more...

Photo: Fine arts graduate student Berit Gilma’s piece “The planet Mars, 1 million years BC,” is on view at the New Wight Gallery with other fine arts graduate students in the exhibition “Perspective Slip.” (Ariana Fadel/Daily Bruin)




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