{"id":493909,"date":"2026-10-12T21:04:09","date_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:04:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493909\/"},"modified":"2026-10-12T21:04:09","modified_gmt":"2026-10-12T21:04:09","slug":"a-single-screen-doesnt-restrict-uc-san-diegos-newest-exhibition-san-diego-union-tribune","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/493909\/","title":{"rendered":"A single screen doesn\u2019t restrict UC San Diego\u2019s newest exhibition \u2013 San Diego Union-Tribune"},"content":{"rendered":"

What happens when cinema escapes the screen?<\/p>\n

Looking to answer that question, the exhibition \u201cOff-Screen Space\u201d opened Oct. 1 at UC San Diego\u2019s on-campus Mandeville Art Gallery. On view through Friday, Dec. 4, the new exhibition displays a variety of moving images \u2014 experimental film, multi-channel installations, video art and cinematic performances \u2014 across different screens and surfaces.<\/p>\n

\""Off-Screen\u201cOff-Screen Space\u201d displays still and video art beyond traditional screens or across several. (Erika Johnson \/ UC San Diego)<\/p>\n

To get the full exhibition experience, visitors must look at items all around them, from monitors and sculptures to the ceiling. Some installations experiment with different types of sound, too, either through headphones or ambient noise in the area.<\/p>\n

\u201cOff-Screen Space\u201d was curated by UCSD associate professor Alison O\u2019Daniel and created in tandem with UCSD\u2019s Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts<\/a>.\u00a0Housed within the UCSD Division of Arts and Humanities, the Suraj Israni Center for Cinematic Arts is \u201ccommitted to promoting, advancing and advocating for film, filmmaking and the cinematic arts,\u201d according to the university.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Daniel, a visual artist herself, was named the Suraj Israni Chancellor\u2019s Endowed Chair in Cinematic Arts<\/a> in September 2025. Upon her appointment, she also became the first endowed chair in the university\u2019s Department of Visual Arts.<\/p>\n

O\u2019Daniel said the \u201cOff-Screen Space\u201d exhibition pays homage to all sorts of film and consists of pieces made by artists who live in or created work on the West Coast.<\/p>\n

That group includes Victoria Fu, who was commissioned to create a ticker on the gallery\u2019s facade that wraps around three sides of the building. Intended to be what she calls a visual poem, \u201cColorways\u201d scrolls through over 200 commercial color names across the three-sided display. Each is rendered in the color for which it is named.<\/p>\n

\"VictoriaVictoria Fu\u2019s \u201cColorways\u201d wraps text with accompanying colors on the three sides of the Mandeville Art Gallery as part of the new exhibition, \u201cOff-Screen Space\u201d (Victoria Fu)<\/p>\n

Fu borrowed color names from sources such as nail polish, automotive paint, interior paint and cosmetics. With these names appearing how they show up on the color spectrum, the sequence of colors can be \u201calternately funny, poetic, risqu\u00e9, (and) moody,\u201d she said.<\/p>\n

It appears in a continuous loop, with the cycle ending and starting again every 40 minutes.<\/p>\n

Fu is a professor of visual arts at the University of San Diego, and collaborated with painter Byron Kim to produce the mural \u201cSuns\u201d that was on view as part of the Murals of La Jolla program in 2016.<\/p>\n

\u201cColorways,\u201d marks her first artwork featuring solely text and something she created with the gallery site in mind.<\/p>\n

\u201cI had to take into consideration the very specific conditions of this site,\u201d Fu said. \u201cI knew it is a challenge for anything on the screen to be visible in full sun during the day, whereas the screen is very bright at night; that the mesh has a limited palette; (and) that people walking past would engage with it briefly, but probably repeatedly over the day or many days over a few months.\u201d<\/p>\n

She added, \u201cI hope people who walk by can take away something no matter how briefly they encounter the work, perhaps over multiple passes in their daily commutes to (or) from class, from seeing a single phrase to ultimately grasping the ideas behind the work over many viewings. Though language pretends to capture it, color isn\u2019t fixed, and is ultimately an abstraction that is specific to each person\u2019s perception and associations with it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Artists featured in the new exhibition are: Fu, Ava Aviva Avnisan, Dana Berman Duff, Zachary Epcar, Whitney Horn, Lev Kalman, Young Joon Kwak, Omar Lopex, Sarah Rara, Christopher Richmond, Rajee Samarasinghe, Lorna Simpson, Josh Tonies, Kerry Tribe, Adriana Trujillo, Jennifer West and Sun\u00e9 Woods (who goes by the artist name of Zomhlaba).<\/p>\n

Learn more about \u201cOff-Screen Space\u201d at mandevilleartgallery.ucsd.edu\/exhibitions\/off-screen-space.html<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"What happens when cinema escapes the screen? Looking to answer that question, the exhibition \u201cOff-Screen Space\u201d opened Oct.…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":493910,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[28],"tags":[7,930,5184,14136,74,84,76,75],"class_list":["post-493909","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-san-diego","tag-california","tag-la-jolla","tag-la-jolla-light","tag-la-jolla-light-things-to-do","tag-san-diego","tag-san-diego-county","tag-san-diego-headlines","tag-san-diego-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493909","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=493909"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/493909\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/493910"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=493909"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=493909"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=493909"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}