LA East

www.dougharvey.la
dougharvey.blogspot.com

Biography
Doug Harvey is an artist, writer, curator, educator and experimental musician living and working in Sunland

www.artemisaclark.com
IG @bustilacaca

Artist Statement
Working primarily in performance and installation, I explore the materiality of Latinx and Latin American erasure on multiple scales and fronts, from the individual to the institutional. I relive and linger in these historic, cultural, and personal wounds while experimenting with embodied tactics for preserving histories often left out of official narratives and archives.

Biography
Artemisa Clark (b. 1985, Los Angeles) is a Chicanx, disabled visual artist and performance studies scholar. She holds an MA in Performance Studies from Northwestern University, MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California, San Diego, and BFA in Photography & Imaging from NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts. She has exhibited and presented research locally and internationally, in venues such as MOCA Los Angeles, the Hammer Museum, LACE, the Hemispheric Institute of Performance and Politics’s Encuentro X (Santiago, Chile), and Bikini Wax (Mexico City).

www.rebeccabruno.net

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.

www.kristineschomaker.net
IG @kristineschomaker

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.

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.

www.vprager.com
IG @vanessaprager

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

www.danidodge.com
IG @danidodge

Artist Statement
I am an installation artist who creates immersive, interactive environments that incorporate video, paint, sculpture and sometimes performance. In Choppy Waters I explore ideas of bodies out of place and time.

Biography
Dani Dodge uses unexpected sculptural materials to alter spaces. Her experience as an embedded journalist during the 2003 invasion of Iraq changed her forever. Since then, she has created art and installations that transform and challenge expectations. Within these works are often elements of magical realism. From brightening a black and white snowy forest in Ireland with luminescent tree stumps to turning a Los Angeles gallery into a gantlet of rotating car parts made from baby blankets, her works play with surrealist ideas using innovative forms. The works merge the rational and the dream state. Dodge has created site-specific installations at the Coos Art Museum, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, New Museum Los Gatos, Inland Empire Museum of Art, Inglewood Public Library, San Diego International Airport, San Diego Art Institute and more. Dodge’s installation/performance CONFESS at 2015’s LA Pride was named one of the outstanding public art projects of the year by Americans for the Arts.
Her work is included in four museum collections and has been shown across the U.S. and internationally. Dodge lives and works in Los Angeles.

www.yasminediaz.com
IG@yasminediaz

Artist Statement
These works are unique editions whose counterparts are currently installed in the exhibit, soft powers, at the Arab American National Museum. The museum closed its doors before the show had a chance to open, so this is a welcomed opportunity to share some of these works outside of the digital world. The exhibit reflects on coming-of-age nostalgia and Yemeni-American girlhood and addresses subjects familiar to many children of immigrants including code-switching, plural identities and conflicting loyalties.

Biography
Yasmine Nasser Diaz is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice navigates overlapping tensions around religion, gender, and third-culture identity. Her recent work includes immersive installation, fiber etching, and mixed media collage using personal archives and found imagery. Diaz has exhibited and performed at spaces including the Brava Theater in San Francisco, the Albuquerque Museum of Art, and the Torrance Art Museum. She is a recipient of the California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship (2019) with works included in the collections of LACMA, UCLA, and the Arab American National Museum. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

www.nancybakercahill.com
IG @nancybakercahill / @4thwallapp

Method No. 13 was originally created for the 2018 Surveillance exhibition at @durdenandray  “A Matter of Public Record”. Method No. 13 addresses issues that often remain invisible to us in our current era; surveillance capitalism, data mining, misinformation campaigns and censorship. The title refers to the Orwellian clock striking 13, a reference that feels more salient today than ever. The artwork, which includes sound, will be experienced via the @4thwallapp above the southwest corner of Sunset & Wilton Pl.

HOW TO USE THE 4TH WALL APP:

1. Using Wifi, download the FREE 4th Wall AR public art app. The app works on all phones 6s and above and Androids with AR Core. 
2. Go to: the southwest corner of Sunset & Wilton Pl, Los Angeles, CA 90028
3. Select Coordinates. The app will direct you to the AR artwork, which floats overhead. Be sure to enable sound, and allow access to location and photos. 
4. After selecting Coordinates, follow the arrow on your screen to view Method No.13. Use the camera or video icon to record the experience. 
5. Share your photos and video recordings on any social media and tag @4thwallapp #4thwallapp 

Artist statement
My work interprets the human body as an intimate source of knowledge; a vulnerable and resilient territory.The contradictions inherent in immersive media– invisibility/visibility, real/virtual, embodied/disembodied–  resonate with me as they mirror the push and pull of opposing forces within the body.Our ideas and lived experiences of our bodies are increasingly mediated by advances in technology. The tools I use to explore these changes reflect these adaptations. In drawing, video, virtual reality (VR), augmented reality (AR), installation and original sound, I attempt to isolate ephemeral moments of exertion and stillness. I am equally interested in power dynamics and how they shift, strain and contract. Drawing in traditional formats and in VR allows for an empathic expansion of my ideas. On paper and in virtual space, my process is deeply physical. My hope is that this energy is present in the experience of the work. I created a free, AR public art app, 4th Wall, to invite a broadly embodied experience of my work outside the solitary confines of the white cube. AR allows for an inclusive means of reconsidering site, time and space in relation to our own bodies. The app is also a tool of public engagement and subversive social practice. In addition, I have collaborative public art exhibitions in 4th Wall which include AR artworks created by me and by fellow artists that activate the historically, politically or culturally significant locations we have chosen. Geolocation enables us to reveal untold stories and otherwise hidden ideas. By using deliverable technologies that are accessible, I hope to reach larger audiences. My goal with all of my projects is to offer unexpected embodied experiences that in turn provoke conversation and initiate a broader cultural dialogue.

Biography
Nancy Baker Cahill is an artist working at the intersection of fine art, new media and activism. She is the Founder and Creative Director of 4th Wall, a free Augmented Reality (AR) public art platform. Through 4th Wall, she initiated Coordinates, an ongoing series of curated & site-specific AR public art exhibitions, including Defining Line (with artist Debra Scacco) along the LA river, and the city-wide Battlegrounds in New Orleans. She is the recipient of an ARC Grant from the Center for Cultural Innovation and has been profiled by numerous national and international publications. Baker Cahill is a TEDx speaker and was the subject of a 2019 Bloomberg Media Art + Technology short documentary. In 2019, she received an “Impact Maker to Watch” award at LA City Hall and was named by the LA Times as one of the ARTS Faces of the Year. She was a 2019 Desert X Biennial artist and created a combination analog and AR installation for Facebook’s AIR program in Los Angeles. In 2020 she featured an AR drawing in 360º at LA’s Hammer Museum and created a site-specific AR public artwork for SXSW (to be exhibited in 2021). She is one of ten artist scholars in the Berggruen Institute’s inaugural 2020 Transformations of the Human Fellowship. Upcoming projects include Liberty Bell, a national, multi-site AR public artwork commissioned by Art Production Fund. Baker Cahill served for years on the Hollywood Public Art Advisory Board, and currently serves as an advisory board member at Fulcrum Arts. She is the current Chair of the Board of Directors at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions).

www.jennyyurshansky.com
IG @jennyyurshansky

As you are driving between various installed works stream this audio guide to listen to recordings of California’s blacklisted invasive plant species, many familiar to you, which you will see during your journey. Follow this link to listen as they recount their capricious experiences in settling here: https://soundcloud.com/jenny-yurshansky/sets/drive-by-art 

The accounts speak as much to these plants’ precarious place in California’s landscape as they are also the stories of the state’s human migrants. It is important to remember that these species arrived as companions to humans and their activities. The dates these so-called aliens came here correspond to the eras of colonial imperialism, manifest destiny, globalized shipping, and successive waves of multi-ethnic immigrant laborers. The narratives explore the themes of migration, national identity, and the disputable function of political borders. These voices encourage us to reflect on the botanical landscape as one that is cultural. Many thanks to the talented humans who have channeled these florae for our ears.

Artist Statement
My work is deeply informed by my experience as a refugee who was born stateless. Using material and critical parameters defined by a conceptual and research-based approach, I explore the trauma of displacement by interrogating notions of belonging and otherness through site, historical traces, and social constructions, often formally manifested as absence, loss or erasure. My work includes writing and working with a variety of materials such as cast, slumped and found glass, welded and charred steel, MDF manipulated to simulate antique display cases, embroidered textiles, hand-cut paper silhouettes of plants, laser-etched granite, and photographic installations. I have been connecting my work on the losses experienced by refugees and migrants to ecological collapse and the climate crisis. These subjects are all intertwined, and it is only through dealing with our political and environmental issues systematically can we hope to find solutions to these exponentially increasing problems.

Biography
Jenny Yurshansky received her MFA in Visual Art from UC Irvine and was a post-grad in Critical Studies at the Malmö Art Academy. In 2020 she had a solo show at Harvard-Westlake and will have a solo show at American Jewish University. She will also be the first Artist-in-Residence at Bemis and has been awarded the Light On Travel Fellowship. In 2019 Yurshansky received the City of Los Angeles Artist Fellowship along with an exhibition at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. She had a solo exhibition at St. Mary’s College in Notre Dame, Indiana, and was part of the exhibition “A NonHuman Horizon” at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. In 2018 Pitzer College Art Galleries published her artist book and she was an Artist-in-Residence at Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts, along with being part of the 2018-19 Mexicali Biennial. In 2016 she was an Artist-in-Residence at Arts Initiative Tokyo. In 2014 she was the first Artist-in-Residence at Pitzer College Art Galleries followed in 2015 by her solo exhibition as part of the Emerging Artist series curated by Ciara Ennis. In 2015 Yurshansky was also a Guest Artist Researcher at the Royal Institute of Art in Stockholm, which she concluded with a solo show. In 2010 she was the first international artist awarded the Maria Bonnier Stipend from Bonniers Konsthall in Stockholm.