Alberto Cuadros (day + night)
Alberto Cuadros (day + night)
100 Strawberries: MALIBU, 2020
Flashe on canvas
dimensions variable (box truck)
Artist Statement
100 Strawberries is a social project. Each painting in the series is a stand in for an individual person, ultimately forming a network of loose associations. The iconic strawberry signs found along the coastal highways of California serve as both an avatar for the artist, a native Californian, as well as a point of departure and framework for a meditative and personal painting series.
Alberto Cuadros
100 Strawberries: MALIBU, 2020
Flashe on canvas
dimensions variable (box truck)
Biography
Alberto Cuadros b. 1989, San Francisco Bay Area. Lives and works in Topanga, California.
Nicklas Stewart (day + night)
Nicklas Stewart (day + night)
It's A Hell Of A Time To Be Thinkin' About Heaven, 2020
Dritftwood, Metals, Shells, Enamel, Collected Materials
Artist Statement
Explorer of the unknown.
Nicklas Stewart
It’s A Hell Of A Time To Be Thinkin’ About Heaven, 2020
Dritftwood, Metals, Shells, Enamel, Collected Materials
Nina Waisman
Nina Waisman
Internatural 1.4, 2020
Archival prints on paper
17 x 30 inches
With thanks for the very generous support of Forest Island Project Residency and U.C. Santa Barbara'sThe Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory
Reflections
If we don’t learn to think socially, as bacteria and virus wisely do, we will never succeed in living in equilibrium with the ecology we’ve been so fortunate to belong to.
Artist Statement
A small group of aliens arrive at Mono Lake.
Where they come from, the way to learn about
something is to synchronize with its rhythms and behaviors,
to let it tune them from the inside out.
On their first visit, they encounter water, tufa, cyanobacteria,
alkali flies, volcanos, gulls, humans. And digital logic.
With thanks for the very generous support of Forest Island Project Residency and U.C. Santa Barbara’s The Sierra Nevada Aquatic Research Laboratory
Nina Waisman
Internatural 1.4, 2020
Archival prints on paper
17 x 30 inches
Nina Waisman
Internatural 1.4, 2020
Archival prints on paper
17 x 30 inches
Biography
As a multimedia artist with a background in dance, Nina Waisman’s work is informed by the critical roles that movement and sensation play in forming thought. Scientists find such “embodied thinking” shapes all human logic: no human idea is actually rational. Waisman’s interactive sound installations, sculptures, videos and performance-works highlight the possible hacking of such embodied thinking, while focusing on related issues — surveillance, invisible labor, border control, machine-human feedback loops, cultural role programming. Recent works lead viewers to “try on” non-human behaviors, in hopes of learning from those who’ve survived longer than we — namely every non-human species on Earth — before it’s too late. Waisman has created artworks for venues including the Dorothy Chandler Music Center, Mono Lake, the Hammer Museum, 18th Street Arts, the City of Santa Monica, CECUT Tijuana, OCMA/California Biennial, House of World Cultures/Berlin, FILE/Sao Paolo, The Museum of Image and Sound/Sao Paolo, MOLAA, Zero1, ISEA. Waisman co-created and directs The Laboratory for Embodied Intelligences (LEI), a collective dedicated to exploring the role of embodiment in forming other-than-human intelligences, ranging from microbial on through plant, animal and extraterrestrial intelligences. With degrees from Harvard, Art Center College of Design and UCSD, she has taught at institutions including Art Center College of Design, Cal Arts, SFAI, UCSD, Casa Vecina in Mexico City and lectures internationally.
Tony De Los Reyes
Tony De Los Reyes
Artist Statement
For the past several years I have been making artwork about the US-Mexico border, regarding the magnitude and complexity of its environmental contexts, historic influences, cultural implications, and political consequences. My work offers viewers a diversion from popular misconceptions and tropes about the border, and allows for a personal interpretation through the experience of an otherwise traditional, and mostly apolitical, medium. For Drive-By-Art I am also making a limited-edition print, The Boat, based on my reaction to the current situation, and available for purchase at my kid’s socially-distanced, highly sanitized, take-out lemonade stand.
Tony De Los Reyes
The Boat, 2020
Silkscreen on paper
18 x 24 inches
Edition of 40 with 12 AP’s
Tony De Los Reyes
Big Jacumba, 2020
Oil and silkscreen on canvas
39 x 51 inches
Biography
Tony de los Reyes’ paintings and prints are based on personal and historical images of the US-Mexico border. By combining the seemingly disparate languages of abstraction and documentation, his work constructs metaphors for the border’s complexity and shifting reality. De los Reyes has been in numerous gallery and museum exhibitions, including On the Move: A Century of Crossing Borders, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the V Transborder Biennial, El Paso Museum of Art/Museo de Arte Ciudad Juárez. His work is in the collections of LACMA, the New Britain Museum of Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, and the New York Public Library.
Nicole Rademacher
Nicole Rademacher
Separate/Together
Community engagement, sidewalk, chalk, performance, and mindfulness
*IN ORDER TO KEEP WITH QUARANTINE GUIDELINES, PLEASE SIGN-UP BELOW TO PARTICIPATE
Separate/Together invites community members to make art sharing their lived experiences of being in quarantine, on the sidewalk outside of the artist’s home via an art therapy directive. The idea of art as medicine dates back to antiquity, and the act of creating art has been linked to improvement in emotional well-being. Separate/Together hopes to help us cope with the stressors of COVID-19 and to give the community a way to connect in this bizarre time of social distancing.
In order to keep with quarantine guidelines, please sign-up to participate here. Each time slot is set up to provide ample time and space on the sidewalk for one person or family to make art together––plan for about 30-45 minutes.
No arts skills required! All materials will be provided in specially created and sanitized art-packs. Don’t forget your masks!
Artist Statement
Nicole Rademacher is an artist and Marriage and Family Therapist & Clinical Art Therapist in training. In her art practice, she explores and questions concepts around belonging, intimacy, and emotional exploration through video, collage, photo, text, ethnography, psychology, and intimate events and workshops in the community. As an adult adoptee in reunion, Rademacher is deeply involved in the adoption community facilitating healing workshops, being a digital advocate for adoptee and birth mother narratives, and serving on the board of Celia Center, Inc.
Nicole Rademacher
Separate/Together
Community engagement, sidewalk, chalk, performance, and mindfulness
Nicole Rademacher
Separate/Together
Community engagement, sidewalk, chalk, performance, and mindfulness
Nicole Rademacher
Separate/Together
Community engagement, sidewalk, chalk, performance, and mindfulness
Biography
Nicole Rademacher has an MFA in Electronic Integrated Arts from Alfred University and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. She is currently an MA candidate in the Marital & Family Therapy with specialization in Clinical Art Therapy Program at Loyola Marymount University in Los Angeles, CA. Selected honors include an artist residency at La Cité Nationale des Arts in 2010, receiving an Artistic Community Engagement Grant from the Rema Hort Mann Foundation in 2016 and a Veridian Community Engagement Fellowship Award in 2017, and being awarded the Maxine B Junge Scholarship to begin her studies in art therapy in 2018. Rademacher has exhibited and screened work worldwide including Transmediale, Harvestworks, LOOP Video Art Festival, 18th Street Arts Center, and at LAX Airport.
Rebecca Bruno
Rebecca Bruno
Artist statement
Rebecca Bruno’s work explores the creative impact of embodiment and place, spanning multiple media including dance, photography, video, drawing, painting, and installation. Often sensitive to the site in which her works are experienced, Bruno draws inspiration from architecture, movement, psychoanalysis, and color. Informed by humanity’s impulses toward self-understanding, and world-fathoming, Bruno employs methods of abstraction, expressionism, surrealism, and dream-tending to facilitate the experience of lesser-seen and felt-sense qualities.
Biography
Rebecca Bruno is a Los Angeles-based, California artist. Much of her work is informed by a dance training stemming from American modern and post-modern lineages with influences from American jazz, Eastern European folk dance, Russian and Italian classical ballet, and somatic methods like ideokinesis and authentic movement. Bruno’s interest in visual art and installation grew out of a desire to track the choreographic process in an attempt to reflect on the experience of ephemerality and synthesize the moving body and the space in which it exists.
Kristine Schomaker
Kristine Schomaker
Performances: Sat-Mon 12-2:30pm and 3-6pm
The Artist is In, 2020
Performance
Continuing her art practice of using therapy to deconstruct her personal and political narrative, Kristine will be sitting on Main Street offering advice and inspiration to artists and art professionals who stop by 12-2:30pm and 3-6pm Saturday through Monday, May 23-25th. In between sessions, she will be reading aloud from the book “How to be an artist” by Jerry Saltz. Kristine will be sitting on the porch at 1910 N Main Street on the corner of Moulton Avenue at the Brewery, 1910 N Main Street Los Angeles CA 90031
Artist Statement
I am a plus size woman with an eating disorder. My work is personal, intense, emotional, violent and familiar. A dedicated conceptualist and surrealist autobiographer, I address the de(con)struction of self in relation to society’s perception/projection/reflection of beauty. My multidisciplinary work focuses on the complexities of gender identity, body image, and the societal privileging of women’s physical beauty over character and intellect. Inspired by artists such as Janine Antoni, Lynn Hershman Leeson, Mary Kelly, Eleanor Antin, Hannah Wilke, Felix Gonzalez-Torres, Meret Oppenheim and Baroness Elsa von Freytag-Loringhoven, Jenny Saville, Ana Mendieta, Joseph Albers and Hans Hofmann, I use everyday objects, mixed media, paint, photography, performance, digital animation made in Second Life, written word, social media, video, photography and conceptual social practice projects to investigate, document and challenge personal and universal ideas of self and society.
Kristine Schomaker
Performances: Sat-Mon 12-2:30pm and 3-6pm
The Artist is In, 2020
Performance
Biography
Kristine Schomaker is a multidisciplinary artist, art historian, publisher and mentor living and working at the Brewery artist complex in Los Angeles, California. She earned her BA in Art History and MA in Studio Art from California State University at Northridge. In 2014 Kristine founded Shoebox PR, a support network that focuses on creating community and offering mentorship and resources to artists. Kristine is also the publisher of Art and Cake, a contemporary L.A. Art Magazine focusing on underrepresented artists and exhibitions. Kristine has taught art history at Antelope Valley College and Pasadena City College, formed an artist collective in Los Angeles and has organized and curated numerous art exhibitions throughout Southern California. Kristine sits on the board for the CSUN Arts Alumni Association.
Vanessa Prager
Vanessa Prager
Reflections
In these strange times I thought I would be strangely at ease with social distancing as I often spend most of my days alone making art. But I keep having the urge, while on a walk or driving through the absurdly empty streets, to reach out and hug a stranger. To melt together, if only for a moment, among the hot Los Angeles pavement, dust swirling at our feet. I miss you.
Biography
(third person, short paragraph; please cut and paste into the email) Vanessa Prager (b. 1984) is an American artist, born and raised in Los Angeles, CA. Known mainly for her large-scale, abstract oil paintings, Prager’s main subject is the female figure. Thick, loose, heavily impastoed bodies melt in and out of form and what we consider beauty and identity is often a central theme to her work. Recent solo shows include In The Pink, The Hole, NYC (2018) and Ultraviolet, Richard Heller Gallery, LA (2017), while group shows include Extra, The Hole, NYC and How They Ran, Over the Influence, LA (both 2018). Currently Vanessa Prager is represented by Richard Heller, Los Angeles and The Hole, NYC