“Your battles inspired me – not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.” ― James Joyce Portraits don’t happen in an instant.  They are born from years spent staring at the blank page, a white canvas, an empty frame.  They are made of microscopic particles of the physical […]

Kevin Bourgeois (presented by Causey Contemporary, New York) assembles At Play in the Fields of the Lord, a site-specific and interaction installation that furthers his investigation and critique of unseen policing and social fragmentation within “The Cloud” of anonymous, ephemeral contemporary culture.          

Fanny Allié (presented by Fresh Window,Brooklyn) engages outlines of the human form — from collage to emotive neon installations — to question our relationship to our bodies and social movements, as well as the intrinsic memories contained within and in our absence.  Fanny Allié, Horses, 2015

When the word “California” rolls off the tongue it has a transformative power- infusing the body with the sensation of basking in golden sunshine while rushing down Pacific Coast Highway at top speed in a convertible.  Or perhaps it’s the sensation of millions of grains of sand creeping in between one’s toes while ruminating over […]

In August 2015, Los Angeles based artist and surfer Jared Aufrichtig returned to the rural fishing village of Lobitos in Northern Peru.  It was his second consecutive year visiting Lobitos after visiting the village for six weeks in May 2014.   In partnership with the philanthropic group WAVES for Development, Jared enriched the lives of local children […]

As children many of us coveted a Crayola collection boasting every conceivable color on the palette with whimsical names like Permanent Geranium Lake, Mango Tango, Granny Smith Apple, Pacific Blue and Vivid Violet.  We could color our world with any shade and thus our crayons, colored pencils and markers were our tools to channel our […]