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ICA Central

Saturday, June 13
4:00 pm–7:00 pm

Free

C You Saturday! – June 2026

Please join us from 4 – 7pm on Saturday, June 13 for the opening reception of Cat Gunn: if only by the light of a new moon at ICA San Diego / Central.

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This free art event in San Diego is part of ICA’s commitment to reduce barriers to contemporary art in our community.

4:00 – 5:00 pm | Opening Reception for Cat Gunn: if only by the light of a new moon

Cat Gunn was the 2025 ICA Artist in Residence and the work on view in this exhibition was created during the year Gunn spent in at the ICA artist studio at Studio 6608. Using installation, ceramics,textiles and cyanotypes. if only by the light of a new moon, Gunn’s first solo museum exhibition, explores the complex terrain of inherited memory and the seemingly impossible nostalgia for a home that one has never known

5 PM | Poetry Reading by Alexis N. Garcia

Visitors are invited to a poetry reading at 5pm by writer, printmaker, and educator Alexis N. Garcia. You can find their poems, archival scans, & linocut experiments in The Hopkins Review, Poets.org’s “Poem-A-Day” series, The Slowdown, beestung, Peach Mag, among others. Garcia’s first book TIME IS A SILLY BOY, is forthcoming in Spring 2027.

5:30 PM | Exhibition Walkthrough with Cat Gunn and Jordan Karney Chaim

Please join ICA curator, Jordan Karney Chaim, PhD, and Cat Gunn for a walkthrough of the exhibition to discuss the work in the exhibition and their residency. Come celebrate with us!

Come celebrate with us!

C you there!

ICA San Diego / Central
1439 El Prado, San Diego, CA 92101

June 13 2026
4:00 – 7:00 PM

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