No Longer Extant: Cayetano Ferrer and Adela Goldbard






Curated by Melinda Guillen

March 7–April 23, 2015

Visual Arts Gallery @ SME 142

As a spatial marker, the term “no longer extant” is typically encountered as a label demarcating an artwork, document, object, or structure that no longer exists in its primary form. No Longer Extant focuses on artistic engagement with processes of structural demolition featuring video, installation, and sculptural works by Los Angeles-based artist Cayetano Ferrer and Mexico City/San Diego-based artist and MFA candidate Adela Goldbard. Both artists possess an acute conception of the built environment as subject to political, social, ecological, and temporal conditions while mediating the cycle of creation, expansion, and destruction in their respective practices.

Related Program: Film Screening

Historical precedents of artistic engagement with architectural structures from a variety of vantage points


Ana Mendieta, Selected Filmworks (1972-1982) 

Gordon Matta-Clark, Splitting (1974)

Dan Graham, Past Future Split Attention (1972)

Jane Crawford & Bob Fiore, Sheds (2004)

Tuesday, April 7th, 5:30pm

Visual Arts Presentation Lab @ SME 149

Image: Lobo from the PARAALLEGORIES series, 2013-2015