Christine Hudson, “For You”,
2023, 365 Roses, Gold and Pink Adornments, Spring Mattress, 55 x 78 x 10 inches
Christine Hudson is an interdisciplinary artist that works in sculpture, ceramics, performance, and installation. Their practice utilizes personal narrative, community building, and notions of care to investigate the way marginalized bodies incorporate resistance and resilience into their existence. Currently their work is exploring how familial relationships, cultural folklore, and colonialism inform and sustain patterns of trauma. They live and work in Los Angeles and received their BFA from CSU Long Beach and their MFA from UC Irvine.
Morgan Cuppet-Michelsen, I Feel For you, 2021, Single-channel video, sound through bone conduction headset.
Video of the artist performing the Chaka Khan version of Prince’s I Feel For You using groups of facial muscles to trigger individual notes. Using a digital interface that struggles to keep up and a 4-minute upbeat song that extends to 13-minutes of strained and sustained emoting. Facial expressions become music and the line between performance, reaction, and signification blurs.
Morgan Cuppet-Michelsen is a Los Angeles based artist working between language, visual and audio based mediums with a primacy in photography and film.
Jackson Hunt, Brussels Sprout Salad, 2023
Acrylic, inkjet and collage on canvas wrapped panel 22 x 18 inches
A sense of shapeshifting finds a natural expression in Hunt’s mercurial use of paint and printer, a chance-based representation of the inseparable past and present, as experienced by the technologized mind. The paintings are produced through an additive and subtractive process, responding to the paper as it wrinkles, bubbles and tears. Paint is layered in thin translucent sprays which build to a kaleidoscopic palette. Tears become gestural mark making, indexing the artist's body within the work. The source image expands and contracts, entering into and out of focus and is interrupted by fissures and screens.
Jackson Hunt has recently exhibited work at SOIL Art, Seattle, WA, TSA LA, Los Angeles, CA, CAC Gallery, University of California, Irvine, CA, and the New Wight Gallery, University of California, Los Angeles, CA among others. Hunt received an MFA from the University of California, Irvine and a BFA from Pratt Institute. Hunt currently lives and works in Los Angeles, traditional Tongva land.
Caleb Engstrom, Wet Plastic Total Failure
2023, Tulle, Foam, Vinyl, Resin, Pedestal 27 x 32 x 34 inches
Rest Energy is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary furniture design practice by Caleb Engstrom. His work is characterized by a process-driven exploration of materials and experimentation, often touching on themes of identity and material narrative.
In 2019, Caleb was an artist in residence at Event Horizon in Crete, Greece, and his work has been featured in numerous exhibitions across the United States, including at Hoken Project in Chicago, ZieherSmith in New York, and Diverseworks in Houston. His upcoming exhibition at INTRO/LA will open in October 2023.
Jean Shon, Ahppa’s Songbook: Michelle / Changing Partner, You Mean Everything To Me / Happy Together, Crazy Love / Yesterday, I Love You More Than I Can Say / Scarborough Fair, West Virginia / All for the Love of a Girl
2022, Inkjet Print, 24 x 32 inches
Ahppa’s Songbook incorporates my father’s notebook of song lyrics in English. As an immigrant where English is his second language, I noticed that he didn’t always get the lyrics correct. I focused on those slippages, and what sort of meanings I could draw out of them. I extracted words to create new meanings, new phrases, that are open to interpretation. They are meant to be read in various ways, up and down, or left to right. The process of creating this work allowed me to slow down and understand language with a different approach; it was a communication method with my father and a new way to understand the past.
Christine Dianne Guiyangco, Untitled study on punning laughter
Video, TV monitor size TBD (likely 21”-32”)—mounted on the wall, 2022 - work in progress
A short animated video of aesthetic form studies exploring the computational structure of time and space in the bilingual taglish pun “weitaminit” (pronounced “wait a minute”).
Christine Dianne Guiyangco puns. Punned by punning, she absorbs and relaunches puns to transcode the constant process of translation in the unstable basis of intra—and cross—cultural communication that language plays in forming national identity. The material form of puns and the performative speech act of punning becomes the framework from which she analyzes the political disciplines inhabiting the characters and the caricatures of a postcolonial cast. Her work employ puns and punning to illuminate the limits of imagination and how it breaks and extends to other systems of chronologies, creating different measures of time to endure the nonlinearity of colonization. She combines art, writing, critical theory, history, and fiction to engage in a practice that ranges from the production of site-specific and architecturally scaled installations, performances, comics, videos, sculptures, writings, and community collaborations to activist and pedagogical engagements. She received her BA in Art at the University of California, Los Angeles in 2014 and graduated with an MFA in Studio Art with Critical Theory Emphasis at the University of California, Irvine in 2020. Currently, she is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine.
Ethan McGinnis, To Help All Families Discover the Joy of Everyday Life (Shot By My Mother and Her .38 Special),
2022, Acrylic, vinyl stickers stolen from T0064, bullet holes (courtesy of Patti McGinnis), pre stretched canvases, receipt, picture ledge, frame. Dimensions variable.
Chris Warr, Teenage Mutants Addition,
2023, table base, table top, wheel hub, wood, epoxy, wall anchor, resin 3d prints, paint, caste plastic, steel, 28 x 28 x 69 in
Gabby Miller, Parados
2020, Materials: Pink Gels, Soft light from The Set of Days of Our Lives (repainted 3/85)
David Chen, Being Asian Artists (With My Friend Cove Tsui)
2023, Single channel video, 53:51 minutes