LA West

www.sharonlouisebarnes.com
IG @sharonbarnes4702

Artist Statement
The pieces exhibited in Drive-By-Art Los Angeles were all created outside of my studio in a makeshift area of my home.  Artists all over continue to create through the world’s challenges.  It’s what we’ve always done.

Biography
Sharon Barnes is an interdisciplinary visual artist, born in Sacramento, CA and raised in South Los Angeles. She has exhibited widely including the California African American Museum, the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, Aqua Art Miami, and the Arco Chato in Panama. Her work explores cultural memory, struggle, and resilience through the use of process and materials.

www.elenabajo.com
IG @elenabajo

I am presenting two artworks that are related though one is an installation on a tree (visible both days) and the second one is a video projection only visible on Saturday night.

Artist Statement
Elena Bajo’s artistic practice weaves in both personal and political narratives into materials and movements that generate new compositions. Her multidisciplinary practice occurs at the intersection of anarchist thought, social ecology and metaphysics,engaging ideas of nature, and the body as a political and social entity questioning its relationship to ecologies of capital. She works both individually and collectively, using choreography, sculpture, performance, architecture, life sciences, text and video. Concept-generated and research based is concerned with the ecological, social and political dimensions of everyday spaces, the strategies to conceptualize resistance, the poetics of ideologies, and the relationship between temporalities and subjectivities. Exhibition spaces become art laboratories, where an experimental, performed work unfolds. The resulting works are both conceptual and poetic, they are linked to cognitive labor, a labor that has no limits cannot be valued as it is the condition of precarious work in today’s neoliberal economy generated amidst ecosophical moments of fracture, in an attempt to entertain fissures in a world of crystallized sensibility.

Biography
Elena Bajo is a Spanish-American artist, choreographer and cofounder of the LA collective D’CLUB dedicated to climate action. She has an MFA from Central Saint Martins, London, a Master in Genetic Architecture from ESARQ, Barcelona, and a degree in Pharmacology, Complutense University, Madrid. She studied Laban & Bartenieff Movement at TanzFabrik, Center for Contemporary Dance, Berlin. She was a co-founder of the temporary art project EXHIBITION, 2009, NY. She has taught and lectured at Saas-Fee Summer Institute of Art, Berlin; Goldsmith’s College, London; Rhode Island School of Design, RISD, Providence; and Sheffield Hallam University, Sheffield among other institutions. She has exhibited and performed internationally: EFA, NY; Movement Research, NY; APA, Brussels; LAMAG, LA; Blue Project Foundation, Barcelona; Parallel Oaxaca, Mexico; Garcia Galeria, Madrid; Kunsthalle Sao Paulo; Stacion, Pristina, Kosovo; Artium Museum of Contemporary Art, Vitoria; 44th Salon Nacional de Artistas, Colombia; Annex14, Zurich; Kai 10 Arthena Foundation, Dusseldorf; DRAF, London; La Casa Encendida, Madrid; 3rd Mardin Biennial, Turkey, Kunsthal Charlottenborg, Copenhagen; Performa Biennial, NY; Sculpture Center, NY; She has been awarded residencies at Skowhegan, Maine; ISCP, NY; Ratti Foundation,Como IT; Goldrausch Berlin, DE. She received a New York Foundation for Contemporary Arts Emergency grant award in 2019; the Audemars Piguet award, ArcoMadrid 2017; the Botin Foundation International Visual Arts Grant award 2018. She has recently released an artist monograph Critical Lexicon of Contemporary Art 2019

www.joshuaaster.com
IG @shinsky1

Artist Statement
For this project, my wife and I each decided to make a painting for opposite sides of a sandwich board. Somewhat like a kaleidoscopic image, my painting is a gridded magnification of a distorted view.

Biography
Joshua Aster is a Los Angeles based artist and abstract painter who received his MFA from UCLA in 2007. We live in an insane world. Paintings are challenges on a more intimate scale. Joshua Aster engages in a rigorous daily painting practice, finding meaning through simple shapes with an experimental mindset.  He has been featured in numerous exhibitions including solo painting exhibitions at Edward Cella Art, Karl Hutter Fine Art, Carl Berg Gallery, and LAXART. His work has been featured in the LA Weekly and The Los Angeles Times amongst other publications. He was awarded a MacDowell Residency in September 2014. He is also a founding member of the artist collective OJO, and has presented work at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Los Angeles and LACE in Hollywood, CA. His 26 ft long painting can be seen at the W Hotel in Hollywood.

Biography
Even though artist Charles Arnoldi was born in Dayton, Ohio, his art career was nurtured in Southern California. He attended Chouinard Art Institute in Los Angeles in the late 1960’s and by the 1970’s was having exhibitions at prestigious galleries across the United States. He was also collecting awards: the Los Angeles County Museum of Art’s Young Talent Award, two NEA Artist Fellowships in 1974 and 1982, a Guggenheim Fellowship, and a Maestro Grant from the California Arts Council. His work is in the collections of many major museums, including the Metropolitan Museum, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, The Whitney Museum of American Art in New York, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The Hammer Museum in Los Angeles, The Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago, and the Norton Simon Museum in Pasadena, California.

www.vincenjohnsonart.com
vincentjohnsonart@gmail.com
818-430-1604
IG @vincentgalenjohnson

Artist statement
It is my experience that driving a car in Los Angeles and seeing the world through its windows is a complex real­time cinematic event. Many portions of the Los Angeles and America that I photograph came into existence when New York was attempting to wrest the thorn crown of painting from Paris and succeeded. In the course of producing a photographic archive of urban America, I have employed strategies of production such as those used by the flâneur and the derive. From this also comes abstract paintings that are process-based explorations into interiority. Then there is my writing.

Biography
Vincent Johnson is an artist and writer in Los Angeles. He is best known for his photographs of urban environments and autobiographical short stories. Johnson is represented by the Erica Broussard gallery in North Adams, Mass.

www.annettakapon.com
IG @annettakapon

Artist Statement
Look up to the third floor balcony to see my work LAUNDRY.

Biography
Annetta Kapon works in sculpture, installation and video. Kapon, born in Athens, Greece, lives in Los Angeles and has exhibited in the United States and abroad since 1982. She is a Professor and Interim Chair in MFA Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design, where she teaches both studio and theory seminars.

www.mirenakimart.com
IG @mirenakim_art

Artist Statement
Vertical Scuttle tells a story about individual entities that swarm together to form a larger body. Combining qualities of the vessel, human, robot and cells, the forms climb over each other and cling to security gates of a shuttered business. Vertical Scuttle reminds us that this type of “togetherness” is something that has suddenly become forbidden and precious.

Biography
Mirena Kim is an artist and writer living/working in Los Angeles. After decades of working in the design field, Mirena chose to follow her interest in studio ceramics, creating minimally designed, functional pieces for interiors including restaurants and hotels. Eventually she expanded into sculpture and painting, earning a Master of Fine Arts degree from Otis College of Art and Design.

Performance Description:
Performance artists Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Paul Donald, Rochelle Fabb and Carol McDowell present sculptural and performative works separately and together on the meridian of 18th and Olympic in Santa Monica in response to Social Distance.

Paul Donald, born in Auckland, New Zealand in 1965, obtained his BFA with honors and his MFA with a specialization in painting—both at Sydney College of the Arts (Australia).  He has exhibited his paintings, sculptures, and has executed several major “construction” performances around the world, at venues in Australia, New Zealand, The UK, Canada, and the United States. His work has been included in group exhibitions and festivals internationally, including: Material Traces: Time and the Gesture in Contemporary Art (Montréal, 2013), Nothing Like Performance (2012, Artspace, Sydney), The Performance Arcade (Wellington, New Zealand, 2018 and 2019) and recently in Soloflex (Los Angeles), a four session performance series, and as part of the We the Artists, 30th Anniversary Celebration at 18th Street Arts Center, Los Angeles (2019). His work is held in private collections in Australia, New Zealand, the United States, The UK, and Canada. He teaches studio art at the University of Southern California, Roski School of Art and Design.
www.paulcdonald.com

Rochelle Fabb concocts ambitious group and solo performances and intimate, site-specific works incorporating installation, writing, performance and audience engagement. Her works explore lust, rage, passion and power with pathos, humor and a nod to pop culture. Her pieces have been performed internationally in venues ranging from theaters, museums and galleries to nightclubs, in the streets and underground venues. She co-founded the performance ensemble, Empire of Teeth and is a member of Mariel Carranza’s Encounter group.  She performed at LACMA, Human Resources, Highways, Lincoln Center, Knitting Factory, the New Genres Festival (Tulsa), Mobius (Boston), Off the Wall Fest (Miami), RAW Tempel (Berlin), Theatre Nogent (Marnay sur Seine, France), Ex-Teresa Int’l Festival (Mexico City), Waves International Performance Festival (Copenhagen). She was a touring member of the Rachel Rosenthal Company and Asher Hartman’s Gawdafful National Theater. Fabb has taught and lectured at the Center for Cultural Innovation, California Institute of the Arts, School for the Museum of Fine Arts Boston, College of Santa Fe, Philbrook Museum,  and the Institute for Studies in the Arts at Arizona State University.

Los Angeles native Marcus Kuiland-Nazario is an artist, curator and producer who is a veteran of the LA art and performance scenes. He is an artist in Residence at the 18th Street Arts Center. He is the proprietor (along with Michelle Carr) of the upcoming performance lounge THE WRINKLE ROOM. www.everydayisdayofthedead.com
mknlosangeles@gmail.com
IG @marcuskuiland 

Carol McDowell is an interdisciplinary dance artist, collaborator, and educator. Born in California and raised in Hawai’i, she fell in love with modern dance while studying with Betty Jones. McDowell has jumped from an airplane in Tim Miller’s Cost of Living, and danced Kei Takei’s Light, Jack Moore’s Four Songs, Pooh Kaye’s Active Graphics, Barbara Dilley’s Naked Face, Victoria Mark’s Medium Big Inefficient Considerably Imbalanced Dance, Laurel Jenkin’s BASE at the Getty and Alexx Shilling’s Be Cool at Highways. Additionally she has performed in works by Kevin Williamson, Jmy Kidd, Nickels Sunshine, Christine Suarez, Rebecca Alson Milkman, Ari Hoffman, Cheng-Chieh Yu, Cid Pearlman, Karen Finley, Yvonne Meier, Yoshiko Chuma, Poppo, John Bernd, and Phoebe Neville. Collaborations include projects with performance artists Mariel Carranza, Jerri Allen & Inez Bush, and Asher Hartman. Her choreographic projects have been presented at Pieter, Looking Left/Santa Cruz, the Craftwoman House, Skirball Cultural Center, Sweeney Art Gallery, Anatomy Riot, Highways, The Kitchen, DTW, PS122, and abroad in Indonesia and Europe. McDowell teaches dance studies and yoga at CSULB, Rio Hondo College, and West LA College.

www.briancmoss.com
IG @whatsonla

Artist Statement
In her 7/25/14 column for the New York Times, Ginia Bellafante wrote about a building in Manhattan that combined condominiums with affordable rental units for low-income residents. The building “received approval from the city for separate entrances — one for wealthy residents and one for those earning far less who would occupy the project’s affordable units, in a separate wing.” When viewing my work, the buildings behind you are condominiums referenced to in this URL. My drawings are situated in a building for low to moderate income individuals built by the same developer, partly in exchange for tax breaks. Our rents are determined by HUD. While we “share” the alley, we have separate gated entrances within a shared garage.

Vacancy de-control began in California in 1999, with a state law declaring when a unit became vacant, the rent could rise to “market rates.” In 1999, 83% of all units in Santa Monica were affordable, while in 2017, less than 4% are affordable. In 2018, a tenant must have earned over $110,000 per year to afford a median two bedroom unit (according to HUD, your rent should be 30 percent of your monthly adjusted income). bcm, 2020

Biography
As an artist, Brian C. Moss uses computers, drawings, installation, language, photography and sculpture. His projects ask viewers to question the ways that perception and visual media structure and interrelate all facets of physical and emotional experience. Moss’ varied and wide-ranging practice includes documentary photography, multi-media installations, public art and collaborative community-based art projects. His work has been widely exhibited in across the United States and he has received funding from the National Endowment for the Arts, Rockefeller Foundation, Durfee Foundation, Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Phoenix Office of Arts and Culture, Santa Monica Cultural Affairs Division, Los Angeles Center for Photographic Studies, Olson Color Expansions, Kodak and Astra-Zeneca.