Andres Sandoval

www.reneepetropoulos.tumblr.com
www.18thstreet.org
www.c-print.se

A bouquet of flowers as a gift and as a symbol of diversity, national identity, and beauty form the underlying motivation for the sculpture.  This idea has been developed through the form and the materials, which respond and correspond to the environment and the conceptual framework of the idea. The civic proximity and intimacy of domestic residences establish the framework for the gesture of bestowing a bouquet and cultivating an object that might suggest the connection between the two aspects.   Using a material such as stainless steel enhances the structural and visible dominance of the form, while the image presented of beautiful blooming flowers counterbalances this suggestion.  The reflection of the environment, provided by the reflective steel, dissipates the form by allowing it to ‘disappear’ from various viewpoints, thus allowing for an ever- changing experience.

www.pamelasmithhudson.com
IG @pamsmithhudson

Artist Statement
My work combines printmaking, layers of paint, wax, and collage to build textured surfaces on panels, canvas, and paper. I rely on the physical process to create my abstract landscapes and topographical works, where each layer is constructed, then deconstructed. Manipulating the materials with spontaneous and intuitive interactions and methods helps me explore limits. While it may be hidden, the energy of each layer is present within the work.

Biography
Pamela Smith Hudson lives and works in Los Angeles. Her artistic practice is a process of combining painting, printmaking, and collage to create abstract works that represent different views of our current landscape.She had her first solo show, Marking Space, at Chimento Contemporary in Los Angeles, California 2019. She has exhibited in a two person show, Charting the Terrain, at the California African American Museum 2018. Smith Hudson has collaborated with the Broad Museum and the Getty Museum on educational videos on Encaustic painting. Her works are included in the collections at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the California African American Museum of Art.

mviegener.com

Artist Statement
My recent art work has been about intimacy, technology and surveillance.  I’m interested in the overlap of formerly disparate territories, the private versus the public, personal interiority versus the parametrics of evidence and data.  “Hostage Situation” is an installation of bread on a rope dangling down from my living room window, 25 feet above the street.  It interrogates being hostage to an unhinged president, racist police violence, and far-right vigilanteism parallel to as the circumstances of epidemiological quarantine.

Biography
Matias Viegener is a writer, artist and critic who lives in LA and teaches at CalArts.  He is a cofounder of the art collaborative Fallen Fruit (2004-2013) and has exhibited and curated art at LACE, LACMA in Los Angeles, the Utah Museum of Contemporary Art, the Yerba Buena Center in San Francisco, ARCO in Madrid, Ars Electronica, and the Badischer Kunstverein. He’s the author of 2500 Random Things About Me and The Assassination of Kathy Acker, and editor of I’m Very Into You, the correspondence of Kathy Acker and McKenzie Wark, and co-editor of Séance in Experimental Writing and The Noulipian Analects.  He has published fiction and criticism in Afterimage, American Book Review, Artforum, Art Issues, ArtUS, Artweek, Black Clock, Bomb, Cabinet, Critical Quarterly, Fiction International, Framework, The Journal of Aesthetics & Protest, Mirage, Paragraph, Suspect Thoughts, and X-tra.  His work has been written about in The New Yorker, salon.com, The New York Times, Art in America, Frieze, Art:21, The Los Angeles Times, Hyperallergic, and The Huffington Post.

www.peterzellner.com
IG @peterzellner

Artist Statement
This work is inspired by Herman Melville’s contemplations of the unknowable in nature and, by extension, what remains unknown to us about our own natures.

Biography
Peter Zellner (b. 1969, Manhattan, New York) is an architect, painter, and educator. As an architect he has designed numerous art galleries on both coasts including Matthew Marks Los Angeles (with Ellsworth Kelly), Maccarone and Night Gallery. His recent paintings are characterized by an insistent and obsessive fashioning and refashioning of families of marks and symbols. Often making his works on the ground or floor, Zellner employs non-traditional instruments and devices to spread, scrape, apply and “…synthesize layers of ecstatically colored mottled fields, thickly painted segmented hexagrids, brush-drawn figures, and moments of atmospheric interruption.” (Christopher Michlig.)

www.jodyzellen.com
IG @jzother

Biography
Jody Zellen is a Los Angeles based artist who works in many media simultaneously.
She makes interactive installations, mobile apps, net art, animations, drawings, paintings, photographs, public art, and artists’ books.

www.why-site.com
IG @whyheywhynot

Artist Statement
Kulapat’s Kare Wash is more an act of engagement and gratitude towards artists, art professionals and medical professionals so they have clean cars to drive towards their destinations. Even without human contact, with the guests remain savagely within their vehicles, the artists of the Kare Wash hope to serve and convey the sense of care and gratitude as they do their best to cleanse. Guests will leave with shiny vehicle and specially made Bumper Sticker Decal as a memory of the Kare Wash in May 2020.

Biography
Kulapat Yantrasast (born in Bangkok) is a thinker and designer in architecture, art and design. He is the founding partner and creative director of wHY, a design practice with focus in multiple disciplines, organized into dedicated workshops – architecture, landscape, museums, objects, and ideas. In 2007 Yantrasast’s studio designed the Grand Rapids Art Museum, the first new art museum building in the world to receive the LEED certification (Gold).Yantrasast talks and lectures around the globe on creativity, food, and architecture.