2015 Fellows | Fellowship for Visual Artists
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Meditation Drawing Day Six Seven Eight (Parrot Balloon Box), 2015, acrylic, ink, colored pencil, grease pencil, graphite on canvas, 90 in. x 68 in.
Anonymous Backdrop Painted in Otisville Correctional Facility, New York, 2013, Inkjet print, 42 in x 52 in
Communograph House, from Communograph project, installation inviting works by Regina Agu, Journey Allen, Lisa E. Harris, Rebecca Novak, Ifeanyi Okoro, Michael Khalil Taylor, mixed media, dimensions variable
Video still from Cycle of the Witch (or, sorry I missed church, I was busy practicing witchcraft and becoming a lesbian), 2013, single-channel video, 13 minutes
O Captor, My Captor, 2014, In collaboration with David Bell, Grace Exhibition Space, Brooklyn, durational performance, dimensions variable, Photo: Jen Diskin
Still image from rial and tERROR, 2011, video, color, sound, 16:27 min
Bright hot day long dark night, 2008, Road trip performance and sculpture mixed media installation (truck, objects), variable dimensions
Leonard Nimoy: Actor, Collector and Philanthropist, 2012, enamel on board with decals, 16 in. x 20 in.
Film still: Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film (16mm film negative sanded with surfboard shaping tools, sex wax melted on, squirted, dripped, splashed, sprayed and rubbed with donuts, zinc oxide, cuervo, sunscreen, hydrogen peroxide, tecate, sand, tar, scraped with a shark's tooth, edits made by the surf and a seal while film floated in waves- surfing performed by Andy Perry, Makela Moore, Alanna Moore, Zach Moore, Johnny McCann - shot by Peter West - film negative sanded by Mariah Csepanyi, Andy Perry and Jwest), 2011, 8 minutes 15 seconds
16mm film negative transferred to high definition video, projector, projection screen, beer bottle caps, blankets, pillows
Commissioned by the Contemporary Arts Forum, Santa Barbara, California and Thanks to Andy Perry
homeland, 2014, documentation of tap dancers performing for the gallery security cameras and the public, dimensions vary
Prithvi #2, 2014, pencil and enamel on paper with shaped frame, 45 x 66 in, installed at Night Gallery, Los Angeles, March 2015
Our nearness is the nearness of planets, 2011, HD video, 5:00 min
Apple Box Arrangement, Mirage, 2015, parabolic mirrors and iron pyrite with apple boxes, 45” x 40” x 32”
Llora Cuando Te Pase // Cry When It Happens, 2010, film still
Sculpture, 2015, installation detail at Triangle France, Marseille, wood, drywall, exhibition space, 9 ft. x 59 ft. x 79 ft.
Six Women (Half-Double bed), 2015, acrylic on bed sheet, 37 x 54 inches
Steam Egg, 2010 – present, mirrors, mortar, insulation, steel, steam, herbs, hot water kettles, 10 ft. x 7 ft. x 7 ft.
1-9, 2013, Film, 72 minutes
Gush Buster, 2011, oil-based enamel on canvas, 40 in. x 30 in.
OBSIDIAN STONE intervention, 2013, Baldwin Hills Look Out, Culver City, CA
“Untitled (head)”, 2010, oil on canvas on panel, 12 in. x 12 in. x 1in.
Alphabet Crates, 2012-2015, wooden crates, paint, ceramic birds and plaster pie, 10 ft. x 5 ft. x 22 in.
2015 FVA Fellows
2015 FVA Panelists
Emerging Artists Panel:
- Erin Harkey, Civic Art Project Manager, Los Angeles County Arts Commission
- Jamillah James, Curator, Hammer Museum
- Aurora Tang, Researcher and Curator, High Desert Test Sites and Center for Land Use Interpretation
- Anuradha Vikram, Director, 18th Street Arts Center
- HK Zamani, Artist, CCF Fellow
Mid Career Artists Panel:
- Irene Tsatsos, Gallery Director/Chief Curator, Armory Center for the Arts
- Rita Gonzales, Curator, Los Angeles County Museum of Art
- Shoghig Halajian, Assistant Director, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
- Karen Moss, Art historian, Curator and Educator
- Alan Nakagawa, Artist, CCF Fellow