A man wearing a suit stands in front of three paintings displayed in a gallery of the Jan Shrem and Maria Manetti Shrem Museum of Art in Davis, Calif.

Painting a Story of Struggle and Triumph in India

  • by Maria Sestito
Nitheen Ramalingam, a graduate of UC Davis' Art Studio M.F.A. program, speaks about the growth he experienced during his studies — also his first time in the U.S. — and how the legacy of the caste system back home in India continues to influence his art practice. Ramalingam earned the Keister & Allen Art Purchase Prize at last year's Arts & Humanities Graduate Exhibition.
A person, wearing black clothing and black face mask, stands in front of three large panels of art

Merging the Ethereal and the Tangible

  • by Maria Sestito
Non-linear time sounds like something out of a science fiction movie, but what if we could rewrite our histories in ways that feel as if things don’t happen sequentially? Overlapping the concepts of time, memory and the body, Gracianne Kirsch uses many art modalities to explore their own many-sided self. 
Artist April Camlin, dressed in black, stands to the right of her large tapestry and mixed media art.

M.F.A. Graduate April Camlin Constructs Tapestries of Grief and Pleasure 

  • by Maria Sestito
A mixed media textile artist and musician, April Camlin brings her experience of grief, pleasure and pain into her work. She is a recent graduate from the M.F.A. in the Maria Manetti Shrem Art Studio Program at UC Davis and the recipient of the graduate fellowship at the Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito. Her work is in the university's permanent collection.
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