WSOA + MCD Spring ’25 Public Programming
2025-01-31 18:00 - 2025-04-22 18:00 (America/Los_Angeles) | Woodbury University, 7500 N Glenoaks Blvd, Burbank, CA, 91504, United States
Join us for an exciting lineup of public programming events hosted by WSOA and MCD in the upcoming Spring 2025 semester! Discover a diverse range of exhibitions, lectures, and symposiums. All events are free and open to the public.
January

Friday, January 31 at 6pm
Wedge Gallery: WSOA Study Abroad Rome Student Exhibition
February

Tuesday, February 4 at 6pm
Fletcher Jones: Film Screening of Lewerentz Divine Darkness by Sven Blume
Friday, February 21 at 6pm
Ahmanson: Adobeisnotasoftware
Tuesday, February 25 at 6pm
Ahmanson: Elkpen
March

Friday, March 7 at 6pm
Wedge Gallery: Chibbernoonie
Friday, March 7 at 6pm
Nan Rae Gallery: Michael Dee
Tuesday, March 18 at Noon
Fletcher Jones: World Building Discussion
Tuesday, March 25 at Noon
Ahmanson: Henry Yang
April

Friday, April 4 at 6pm
Wedge Gallery: Dot Dash, A Group Show
Friday, April 4 at 6pm
Nan Rae Gallery: TV Eye, An Alto Beta Exhibition
Saturday, April 19 at 10am
Ahmanson: Caroline Partamian and Katie Giritlian
Tuesday, April 22 at 6pm
Fletcher Jones: The Organizer’s Guide to Architecture Education with Kirsten Day, Peggy Deamer, Andrea Dietz, Tessa Forde, Jessica Garcia Fritz, Palmyra Geraki, and Valérie Lechêne

Michael Dee's Peaches and Cream
2025-03-07 - 2025-03-28 | Nan Rae Gallery, 7500 N. Glenoaks Blvd, Burbank, CA, 91504, United States
March 7 – 28, 2025
Opening Reception | Friday, March 7 from 6-9pm
Woodbury University is pleased to announce Michael Dee’s Peaches & Cream, a solo exhibition of 16 large-scale digital photographs and 3 cast metal sculptures, opening March 7, 2025 in the Nan Rae Gallery. This exhibition expands on Dee’s complex visual vernacular that includes an aesthetic derived from an inherent curiosity and a process-based approach to art making; Dee is equal part technical wizard and art impresario, his images originally derived from the picturesque natural world, yet reconstituted in the camera to reflect a deep and abiding commitment to the ever-shifting natural landscape seemingly under siege by the imminent danger of climate change and global warming.
Dee’s process is both investigative and strangely mythic — his approach more like a visual anthropologist than a straight-up photographer. The work also demonstrates a distinctly 19th century sensibility while also embracing a neo-conceptual aesthetic; one might even go so far as to describe Dee as a combination of Auguste Renoir and Andy Warhol. The attention to detail in the work is startlingly alive as each of the 16 large-scale photographs of hummingbirds appears hyper-realistic and very nearly alien. These are not literal documents of the natural world so much as they are a living tableau of a disappearing world. Dee creates a strangely idyllic space within the gallery where healing and reflection can occur amid the turbulence and painful realities of daily living. His sculptures of the snow-owl and penguin stand as immovable witnesses to both the passage of time and our own transitory nature as the world around us vanishes daily.
Michael Dee has exhibited widely in galleries and museums in London, New York, Los Angeles, Cleveland, Philadelphia, Miami, Houston, Seattle, Mexico City, Montreal, Osaka, Normandie, and Cologne. His work is included in the Weisman Collection, The Joan Quinn Collection, The Long Beach Museum of Art, and the Perez Museum of Art.
More Information About Michael Dee.
