Art
Art
Catherine Opie, Department Chair
Catherine Opie, Department Chair
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The top-ranked university studio-art program nationally, the UCLA Department of Art empowers students to reshape their worlds through critical inquiry and transformative creativity. Committed to equity and inclusion in art, it attracts diverse, highly motivated students who are encouraged to engage society's challenges and envision change. Students work with a faculty of internationally recognized artists in rigorous studio courses, developing skills in Drawing, Painting, Sculpture, Photography, Ceramics, New Genres, and Interdisciplinary Studio. Intensive making is augmented by courses in art history, critical theory, and a broad exposure to art in one of the world's leading cultural centers.
Bachelor of Arts
Latin Honors Candidate
![Portrait of student: Brenda Barrios](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/38c7382a-9224-4449-b779-5f10ff22353f_brenda+barrios+jpg+-+Brenda+Barrios.jpg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
My Art practice includes installations, performances, music production, kinetic and robotics, large sculptures, and costume design. Investigates themes about disability.
Latin Honors Candidate
![Portrait of student: Amelia Ruth Baxter](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/da2e6916-e85e-4588-a231-325ab8a0348e_portrait+-+Amelia+Baxter.jpg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
Beauty is brittle when reduced to its most limited aesthetic qualities, but its fullest expression is the grace given while in its presence. This is the place where we can soften.
![Portrait of student: Ana Soleil Belcher](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/da3ee001-3632-4472-a736-0ebbc8bc3c41_Untitled-4+-+Ana+Belcher.jpg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
My practice is an outlet for self-evaluation through the replication of personal photos. My paintings and drawings act as referential objects which anchor my moments of reflection.
![Portrait of student: Bradley William Bell](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/61801cc2-1c02-47d7-97f2-5a9b6283babd_IMG_8053+-+BRADLEY+BELL.jpg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
have you ever stood on a highway in the pitch black and heard nothing but singing?
![Portrait of student: Ellina Bartholomew Couts](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/e952e9ba-4999-4508-8175-971aa83cf44f_ElliottBCouts_Photo_150px+-+Elliott+Couts.jpg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
Avid reader and unabashed weirdo whose artwork is the heart of creative exploration. Themes center on the psychological and focus on interpersonal, personal mythology, and gender.
![Portrait of student: Zurisadai Duarte](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/98781eaf-cd7a-4bbf-89c0-1fba2939b489_IMG_9649+-+ZURI+DUARTE.jpg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
I'm an interdisciplinary artist from Berkeley, California. My work explores mystery, multicultural identity, and the healing and educational potential of creativity.
Via soundscapes, video, photo, and sculpture installations, I aim to create an immersive experience for the audience. I intend to share the difficulties when confronting who I am.
![Portrait of student: Audrey Rose Harrison](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/f955198b-27b4-41c9-8306-613ca8be3dd3_seniorpicfr+-+Audrey+nutterbutter.jpg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
To f*ck around is human, to find out is divine. Every changeable moving part makes way for reconfiguration. Let's play! Drawing, writing, video, installation, performance <3
Latin Honors Candidate
She is a multi-media artist from Taiwan. Her practice meditates on the idea of relationality, healing, and our connection with the universe.
Latin Honors Candidate
Hi I'm Ekim! My practice focuses on storytelling and perception. I work mostly in painting and film mediums but most of all I like to make puppets and cartoons :D
Hello. My name is Smonica Lin and I am an artist that works with new media, 3D and food. I hope to see the mankind live in a balanced coexistence with technology and nature.
Cum Laude
![Portrait of student: Raul Julian Lopez](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/1960d5f4-d443-4bb2-b5d0-f2fa8d03b921_IMG_3345+-+Raul+Lopez.jpg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
No me quitaron las alas para poder seguir adelante. Le doy gracias a mis padres por el apoyo que me dieron que por ellos lo logre.
![Portrait of student: Kendall Jalen Lowe](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/48bfab1f-96c2-4232-9798-cdfaa25f963e_IMG-7442+-+Kendall+Lowe.jpg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
I mainly create animations, drawings, and ceramic sculptures that are composed of the many characters that I create.
![Portrait of student: Eloise Jeanne Maier](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/8c821d45-0fda-4ea7-b8fd-9ee7bd5c0a84_IMG_0718+2+-+Eloise+Maier.jpeg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
Eloise Maier is graduating with a BA in Art and BA in Art History. She is a Los Angeles based fine artist and commercial photography stylist.
Latin Honors Candidate
![Portrait of student: Mae Isabelle Noland](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/99893026-6821-4495-b0b6-2216dc9b3751_Screen+Shot+2023-06-13+at+9.30.08+AM.png?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
I am a California Girl est. 2001. I have Urges to capture miracles among the filth. Goldilocks Zones, a mix of foul and fabulous, something Just Right.
Latin Honors Candidate
![Portrait of student: Rowan E O'Bryan](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/fd45a000-40e3-4ec1-b81f-c418594d37f5_rowanportrait.+-+ROWAN+O%27BRYAN.jpg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
My artwork is centered around my identity as someone who is chronically ill and disabled. My work spreads awareness and offers perspectives on disability outside the medical lens.
Liam is a woodworker that primarily makes sculptural furniture. His work inspired by people and nature.
![Portrait of student: Patille Isabelle Papas](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/a665d549-4fd0-4244-b391-54ac2e603217_749B7A87-1B79-41E7-9D4E-C717DA6467A6+-+Patille.jpeg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
Latin Honors Candidate
![Portrait of student: Carmen Drew Reeves](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/7351c225-e016-451f-a212-cc9a502b5d47_6636E371-1357-4476-A325-C8F6C7326C93+-+Carmen+REEVES.jpeg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
My work as an artist is based around living with a psychiatric disability. I focus on a direct response in my painting and performance to relate my ideas.
![Portrait of student: Antonia Guerrero Sanchez](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/537b553e-f656-48e9-a0c5-a7077ff66c21_antoniags_+-+antonia+sanchez.png?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
Antonia is a multimedia artist who creates work centered around her family, memories, and personal experiences. She also incorporates thread, beads, soda can tabs, and other items.
![Portrait of student: Hannah Connolly Stephens](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/c3b44cb6-083a-49bd-87a1-9150ca227367_Screen+Shot+2023-06-13+at+9.50.32+AM.png?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
This practice is neither tethered to Earth, nor soaring into formless planes. Light comes from unexpected places, illuminating that shaded path towards the one Beloved divine
Cum Laude
![Portrait of student: Yesenia Guadalupe Terrones Flores](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/d9cd5de1-5f8e-4939-abf3-aa38bc1c3269_IMG_6162+2+-+Yesenia+Terrones.jpg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
Yesenia Terrones Flores is a multimedia artist working in sculpture, photography, video, ceramics etc. Her work explores interests in materials, personal narratives & kinship.
Latin Honors Candidate
Latin Honors Candidate
![Portrait of student: Arthur Harris Wechsler](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/8738fc80-546f-4c1a-9f0c-cc3cd5374730_IMG_0972+-+Arthur+Wechsler.jpg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
My paintings evoke comfort and nostalgia, capturing personal narratives through authentic compositions. Surfing has played a crucial role in fostering this creative journey.
Latin Honors Candidate
I paint and make ceramic works. Lately, I have been making ceramic cups and bowls that I draw on using cuerda seca and oxide washes, incorporating imagery collected from LA.
Latin Honors Candidate
Latin Honors Candidate
![Portrait of student: Jiayi Zeng](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/9dd54048-2d5c-4c8a-824d-8d12f0f1282e_1+-+JIAYI+ZENG.jpg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
I am an introverted person by nature, so I tend to infuse my emotion into my artwork.
Master of Fine Arts
![Portrait of student: Zalika Azim](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/5a603393-8efd-4bc6-a106-faa5f23440b3_Azim_Zalika_Headshot+1_Daveion+Thompson+Image+-+Zalika+Azim.jpg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
Zalika Azim (b. 1990, Brooklyn, NY) is a multidisciplinary artist and educator whose work explores black migration, memory, belonging and possibility.
![Portrait of student: Saskia Cooper Baden](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/eef3e10f-c426-44bd-94be-c96fbee8b13c_Saskia+-+saskia+baden.jpg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
Saskia Baden is a photographic artist from North Carolina working with bodies of water and watery bodies, eroticism, amphibiousness, and metamorphosis.
![Portrait of student: Amina Monica Cruz](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/e4668dc8-61ba-4641-b1d6-696840f4cae4_AminaCruz+-+AMINA+CRUZ.jpg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
Amina Cruz was born and resides in Los Angeles, CA. Her interests are based in queer culture, photography, and exploring the space between transformation and identity.
I make videos and sculptures about objects and people left behind in the wake of progress.
![Portrait of student: Larissa Michelle Rogers](https://images.prismic.io/ucla-arts-commencement/0fd8281d-13bb-4f4c-a779-e35857a3a9c3_graduation_Larissa_rogers+-+LaRissa+Rogers.jpg?auto=compress,format&h=500&w=500)
LaRissa Rogers (b. 1996) is a Black and Korean anti-disciplinary artist raised in Ruckersville, VA. She is currently based between Virginia and Los Angeles.
Jamie Ross (1987, Canada) is a visual artist, filmmaker, pagan prison chaplain, preschool teacher and city gardener.
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