LA East

IG @kori.newkirk

Artist Statement
An Interruption.

Biography
Kori Newkirk is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work spans a variety of different mediums, he lives and works in Los Angeles.

IG @team_oh

Biography
Timo Fahler and Thomas Linder met at the Kansas City Art Institute in 2005 as undergrads. They both found themselves in LA years later on their own accord. They started BBQLA, an artist run program active 2015-2019, together. They live and work as neighbors in the building which you will find their collaboration for Drive-by-Art riding atop as if the studio itself were a bull of which to hold on to and ride out as long as possible.

www.kanglee.net
IG @kangseunglee

Artist Statement
I am exhibiting two works (a neon work and take-away posters) from the project Untitled (la revolución es la solución!) (2017). Untitled (la revolución es la solución!) co-opt the work of photojournalists taken during the LA uprising in 1992 whose images continue to implicate the subjectivities of human bodies through graphic depictions of violence, perpetuating the stereotypes of racialized figures. Commonly understood as a white-black conflict, the uprising was also a boiling point for tensions in the Latino and Asian communities. As the first multi-ethnic race conflict in the United States marked by a cataclysm of growing discontent between the residents of disadvantaged, working class neighborhoods and the immigrant, merchant class, Koreatown was particularly volatile as business owners self-organized into a militia in response to police apathy. My removal of the bodies in the posters is aimed to challenge the popular representation and invite a movement towards the radical emancipation of otherness. The neon was traced from graffiti made during the uprising. 

The project was originally commissioned by Artpace San Antonio in commemoration of the 25th anniversary of the uprising. 

Biography
Kang Seung Lee is a multidisciplinary artist who was born in South Korea and now lives and works in Los Angeles. Lee is the recipient of the CCF Fellowship for Visual Artists (2019), the Rema Hort Mann Foundation grant (2018), and Artpace San Antonio International Artist-in-Residence program (2017). In 2020 Lee’s new projects will be exhibited at MMCA Seoul, Daelim Museum, Leslie-Lohman Museum, 18th Street Art Center and the 13th Gwangju Biennale. He received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. 

www.kylejorgensen.org
IG @kyyyynda

Artist Statement
This body of work incorporates tissue boxes as a unit of construction and a measure of bodily excess. Each series of tissue boxes (square and rectilinear) provides an interior structure for an exterior plywood facade. These envelopes are dictated by the ways in which the tissue box units are arranged. This playful system operates on rules of containment; the tissue box is completely contained within its shell, there’s an opening for tissues to be extracted and the units themselves are unable to be replaced if depleted. Once emptied of their contents these openings could become homes for birds.

Biography
Kyle is a Los Angeles based, multidisciplinary artist. His work explores the boundaries between sculpture and architecture and often employs conceptual approaches using everyday objects.

www.andrewholmquist.com
IG @andewhq

Artist Statement
The open plot of land to the left of my apartment offered a huge opportunity to grab people’s attention with an installation. I wanted to create an image in the landscape that clicks into place as you pass by, designed for the drive-by experience, and reminiscent of the anamorphic perspective of corn rows locking into place as you pass by them in a car, a familiar wonder from my childhood in Minnesota. I wanted to use construction materials – wooden stakes, plastic orange safety fencing, neon spray paint, and painter’s tape – that are fitting for an empty plot waiting to be built, and might at first viewing seem like the outlines of a construction site rather than a work of art. A smiley face seemed like an appropriate image to reward the curious onlooker with as they encounter and unlock the work as they move around it – the work of art smiles back at you as you smile at it in recognition. In this sweet spot, forced perspective creates the illusion of an orange column leading from the sidewalk straight up to a fenced in plot of trees 300 feet above. The rising sun back-lights the installation, a glowing blue smile beams down. However, the smile could also be read as a Ü, a hanger-on from my recent relocation from Berlin. Its up to Ü to decide!

Biography
Andrew Holmquist (b.1985) is an artist based in Los Angeles. He received his BFA (2008) and MFA (2014) from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. He was invited to participate in the 2016 Vancouver Arts Festival where his work was featured in the exhibition Drama Queer, examining the queer perspective in contemporary art. In 2017 his paintings were included in the exhibition “Eternal Youth” at the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, Curated by Manilow Senior Curator Omar Kholeif. His work is in the permanent collections of Rachofsky Collection at The Warehouse, Dallas, the Illinois State Museum, the Providence College Collection, the University of Illinois, the University of Chicago, the Joan Flasch Artist Book Collection, as well as the JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, The Progressive Art Collection, the BMO Harris Art Collection, and the First Midwest Bank Collection. He has had solo and group exhibitions in Chicago, Los Angeles, NYC, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Nashville, Vancouver, and Berlin.

www.robertgunderman.com
IG @ranchodelsapo

Artist statement
This piece is part of a group of paintings that count the deaths (by date) caused by Covid-19 in the United States.

Biography
Robert Gunderman was born in Los Angeles and currently lives and works in Ventura County.  Recently his work was included in L.A. on Fire at Wilding Cran (curated by Michael Slenske), and this last year he’s had solo exhibitions at Left Field Gallery and AF Projects. His work has been written about in the LA Times, frieze, Riot Material, Art & Text and the LA Weekly.

IG @marcel_alcala

Biography
Marcel Alcalá (b. 1990 in Santa Ana, CA) is a queer chicanx artist currently living and working at TOM House. Their work has been featured at the Hammer Museum, MCA Chicago, Swiss Institute, Ekebergparken, Rogoland Kunstsenter, Blum and Poe, Queer Biennial, Tom of Finland Foundation, Consulate General of Mexico, Los Angeles LGBTQ Center.

Biography
Jedediah Caesar is a Los Angeles based artist and curator. Solo exhibitions include Unearthed, Oakland Museum of California Art, Oakland, CA; Soft Structures, Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Boston, MA; Holding Station, Blanton Museum of Art, Austin, TX; Stone Underground, Locust Projects, Miami, FL; Rozoj, LAXART, Los Angeles, CA; and at Susanne Vielmetter Gallery, Los Angeles, CA and D’Amelio Terras Gallery, New York, NY. His work has been included in numerous group exhibitions including Thing, Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; 2008 Whitney Bienniel, Whitney Museum, New York, NY; Abstract America: New Painting and Sculpture, Saatchi Gallery, London, UK; Made in Space, Gavin Brown’s Enterprise and Venus Over Manhattan, New York, NY;  How we see: Materiality and Color, Laumeier Sculpture Park, St. Louis, MO. His work is in the collection of the New Museum, New York, NY; the Blanton Museum, Austin, TX; Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA and LACMA among others. Reviews of his work have appeared in publications including art agenda, Frieze, Art Papers, Sculpture Magazine, Texte zur Kunst, Art Forum and Mousse Magazine. He received a BFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts in Boston, and an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles. 

Oona Moon Caesarother is in the 3rd grade and lives in Berlin, Germany.

www.jasonyatesstudio.com
IG @mr.shuffles

Biography
LA-based artist Jason Yates’ central approach is the subversion and denaturing of the American readymade. The artist exhumes the nation’s collective unconscious by way of its neglected keepsakes. Through radical chromatic contextual recontextualization, Yates pursues an index of longing and an anthology of forgetting.