Through energized material and conceptual production, UC San Diego's graduate students in Visual Arts channel over forty years of their department's acclaimed legacy into ever-evolving modes of intervention and image construction. These next-generation artists confront complex networks of tradition, technology, and contemporary culture, each establishing a practice with its own diverse aesthetic resonance. Celebrated throughout the region with a number of awards and museum shows, the artists tap into the most advanced critical and theoretical terrains of art today, positioning themselves at the forefront of tomorrow's visual sphere.