# Event Details - **Event Name**: To Hold is To Be Held - **Event Start and End Date**: Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm – Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 pm - **Event Description**: The group exhibition features UC San Diego Visual Arts MFA students in their final year.About this EventOpening Celebration: Thursday, January 15, 2026, 6-8 pmJanuary 15 - February 14, 2026Participating artists: Jamil Baldwin, Rahul Basu, Sophia Cleary, Walker Hewitt, Izzai Martinez Angulo, Aambr Newsome, erika roos, Andrew WhartonCuratorial Advisor: Selene Preciado (she/her), Curator and Director of Programs, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE)https://mandevilleartgallery.ucsd.edu/exhibitions/to-hold-is-to-be-held.htmlThe impulse to find meaning in the way an object or image is displayed or housed within a framing structure or device, speaks of our capacity to envision something as whole, in order to understand its context and connect with it. By intervening the frame itself, or that which contains, holds, or supports their images, the artists in this exhibition approach image- and object-making by courageously reversing the value-system of the gaze and reflecting it back acknowledging its implicit performativity. Working across film/video, painting, photography, and sculpture, the cohort’s individual conceptual practices seize the function of the frame to make whole and heal the hauntings of the layered detritus that remains after ritual and life itself.For many of these artists, the container becomes a portal that allows the vantage point to be questioned, making the viewer and what is being seen part of a cycle where places are reversed and exchanged. Whether guarding images of private moments of interior domestic life inside the architectural structure of a door and its frame, which reveals different information open or closed; recreating architectural scaffoldings built temporarily for rituals; or holding personal possessions or intimate portraits of family members inside a self-constructed frame that in some instances include the indexicality of other objects molded as the screen or transparent surface to look into a picture, the hierarchy of the gaze is contested, as what is being looked at wants to hold us and look into us as well. For the artists working in film and video, time is a negotiation of existence and its memory, where oneself and the other–the body performing for or looking into the camera becoming one with the subject, or the subject reaching us like cosmic light that has extinguished a long time ago but it has transformed by the time it reaches us, image making is almost alchemical, with repetition and loss of information (re)framing transformation.Not unlike the direct references to reliquaries of memory or residues of existence, an occurring motif in the work of these artists is the presence of hands performing an action or communing with time to illustrate its passage and how we all hold each other’s histories and can hold each other up. Images or objects are held by something that works like a bridge between them and ourselves, and is this radical act that transforms the relationship between viewer and image-object. We feel held by what we are holding, and vice versa, and are accountable for what is lost and what remains in this process of becoming ourselves keepers and ancestors.- Selene Preciado - **Event URL**: https://allevents.in/san-diego/to-hold-is-to-be-held/100001978482606736 - **Event Categories**: art, entertainment, exhibitions, performances, fine-arts - **Interested Audience**: - total_interested_count: 0 ## Ticket Details - **Ticket Price Range**: min: 0, max: 0, currency: USD ## Event venue details - **city**: San Diego - **state**: CA - **country**: United States - **location**: Mandeville Art Gallery - **lat**: 32.8777592 - **long**: -117.2408635 - **full address**: Mandeville Art Gallery, 9390 Mandeville Lane, San Diego, United States ## Event gallery - **Alt text**: To Hold is To Be Held - **Image URL**: https://cdn-az.allevents.in/events4/banners/b40bb28ef4d5323b0b118c0f448446ecc8162a84f4a018dfc99ac74970ddc8c3-rimg-w900-h900-dc050505-gmir.jpg?v=1766236782 ## FAQs - **Q**: When and where is To Hold is To Be Held being held? - **A:** To Hold is To Be Held takes place on Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 06:00 pm to Thu, 15 Jan, 2026 at 08:00 pm at Mandeville Art Gallery, 9390 Mandeville Lane, San Diego, United States. - **Q**: Who is organizing To Hold is To Be Held? - **A:** To Hold is To Be Held is organized by UC San Diego Visual Arts. - **Q**: Who is this event for? Is it right for me? - **A:** To Hold is To Be Held is ideal for art lovers, collectors, creatives, and anyone inspired by visual arts, installations, and exhibitions. Whether you're a first-time attendee or a longtime enthusiast in San Diego, this event is thoughtfully curated to deliver a standout experience worth every moment. 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