UCI: Plein-Air en Plein Air

Plein-Air en Plein Air returns California landscape painting to the outdoors and presents a dynamic art experience in an unexpected setting. Images of artworks from the permanent collection of UCI Jack and Shanaz Langson Institute and Museum of California Art (Langson IMCA) will be projected onto the exterior surfaces of buildings in UCI’s School of Social Sciences complex, transforming part of campus into an open-air gallery over the course of two nights.

This commissioned installation is designed by Jesse Colin Jackson, associate professor of Electronic Art & Design; associate dean, research and innovation; and executive director of the Beall Center for Art + Technology at UCI Claire Trevor School of the Arts. Plein-Air en Plein Air (which means “outdoors in the outdoors” in French) situates two views in dialogue with one another: the present-day architecture and landscape of UCI’s campus with the now-historic California environs painted by artists in the late 19th and early 20th centuries.