Every year during Graduate Open Studios, a group of MFA students organizes and designs a show that highlights the work being created in the UC San Diego Visual Arts graduate program. This year, curators James M Dailey and Xelestial Moreno-Luz put out a call that challenges the ways in which our world continually places limits on our collective imagination, as well as the ways institutions instrumentalize policies, procedures, and norms that constrain us.

This show uses mixed media, photography, sculpture, web design, poetry, and painting to question, subvert, reorganize, detach from, move beyond, and supersede the limits placed upon us. As curators, we would like to thank all the folks who were vulnerable enough to give us the opportunity to imagine the Main Gallery as a space of creative inquisition—not only for the artists, but also for us as curators, as we imagine what this program can look like.

Participating Artists: