Debra Ollin Qwerty's Avatar

Debra Ollin Qwerty

@debraollin.bsky.social

Associate editorial director at ucsantabarbara.bsky.social, Co-founder of Lum Art Magazine, Board member at Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara. Writing on research, art and ideas.

19 Followers  |  42 Following  |  10 Posts  |  Joined: 20.01.2025  |  1.8112

Latest posts by debraollin.bsky.social on Bluesky

Ngô transforms overlooked electronic components into sculptures and cyanotypes, honoring the refugee labor behind the technology we rely on.

08.03.2025 18:09 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Generational memory and labor, Southeast Asian refugee experience, in new Hương Ngô exhibition Her latest exhibition, “Hương Ngô: Core Memory” (Sept. 27–Jan. 26, 2025), presented by Museum of Contemporary Art Santa Barbara (MCASB) and The Riviera Beach House, synthesizes the artist’s reflection...

Writing about artist Huongngo.bsky.social felt like uncovering a hidden circuit—one that connects labor, migration and creativity in ways we don’t always see. news.ucsb.edu/2024/021652/...

08.03.2025 18:08 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

#BarryMcGee #CaliforniaArt #TextBasedArt #PublicTexts #UCSBArt #AlexLukas #ChristeSunKim #CoritaKent #KateLaster #GuadalupeRosales #GeorginaTreviño #RoseDAmato #ArtExhibition #VisualLanguage #DeafArtists #CountercultureArt

15.02.2025 22:38 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

He’s joined by artists like Corita Kent, Kate Laster, Guadalupe Rosales, Georgina Treviño, Christine Sun Kim and Rose D’Amato, whose work spans painting, print, signs and sound. What happens when words don’t mean what they seem?

On view Jan. 18–April 27, 2025.

15.02.2025 22:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
Preview
California artists reimagine language, state’s identity in new exhibition “Public Texts: A Californian Visual Language” at UCSB’s Art, Design & Architecture Museum explores how artists use text to challenge perception, critique culture, and reflect California’s evolving ide...

Just wrote about Public Texts. The show features 20+ artists using text to challenge perception, critique culture and reflect California’s evolving identity. Barry McGee’s graffiti-inspired work isn’t just meant to be read—it’s meant to be experienced. ow.ly/LEYS50UZNou

15.02.2025 22:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

As relevant today as ever!

31.01.2025 20:04 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I expect all 18 of my followers to like and share this post!

31.01.2025 19:25 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

ucsantabarbara.bsky.social

31.01.2025 19:18 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Preview
Japanese artist Tomiyama Taeko’s critique of imperialism The Art, Design & Architecture Museum presents “A Tale of Sea Wanderers,” the largest collection of Tomiyama’s work outside Asia. Born in 1921 in Kobe and later living in Japanese-occupied Manchuria, ...

She grew up in Japanese occupied Manchuria. Her POV was radical, anti-imperialist — unfit to be exhibited in Japan — but she kept painting. Here, I talk about her unique power with the California art museum that just acquired the largest collection of her work outside Asia

31.01.2025 19:18 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Top of the fold

23.01.2025 11:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

@debraollin is following 20 prominent accounts