Rio Hondo College Art Gallery SUR:biennial 2011
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Luciana Abait, Nest, PVC sheets, Wallpaper, Plywood, Polycrilic, 10' x 14', 2011.
Luciana Abait
Luciana Abait was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina, has lived in Miami and now lives and works in Los Angeles. Abait’s Mixed Nature Series creates the sensation of witnessing a new visual nature through manipulated landscapes and installations. “Nest”, a site specific installation built for Sur Biennial, reflects upon the relationship between the urban and natural environment. The fact that this nest it is made up of bricks aims at reflecting on the extent to which urbanization has intruded into nature. It also questions the need of nature to adapt into men’s constructions to survive.
Some of the artist’s solo exhibitions include “A Midmorning Garden Dream” at LAX, Los Angeles, Flow, Blue at Rockford College Art Museum in Illinois, Still Chambers at Mackey Gallery in Houston, New Works at Jean Albano Gallery in Chicago, Swimming Rooms at the Miami-Dade Department of Cultural Affairs in Miami, Into the Blue at 180 Grados de Arte Contemporaneo in Buenos Aires, Argentina and Visual Fields at TaiKoo Place, Hong Kong. She has participated in numerous gallery and museum group exhibits and art fairs in the United States, Latin America and Europe. Abait’s works are held by private, public and corporate collectors from the United States, Europe, Latin America and East Asia. Some of these are: Florida State University, University of Miami, Miami- Dade Public Library, Lehigh University Museum and West Collection in Pennsylvania, Sprint Corporation in Missouri, Flint Art Institute in Michigan, the Federal Reserve in Washington D.C. and Swire Properties in Hong Kong.
Raul Baltazar, The Absurd Victory from The Bunny House Project, Mixed Media Installation,
2011.
Raul Baltazar
Raul Paulino Baltazar lives and works in Los Angeles and Mexico City. He received his BFA in Sculpture and New Genres at Otis College of Art and Design. Locally, hev has exhibited at g727, Slanguage, Monte Vista, Barnsdall Municipal Gallery, Angels Gate, SPARC, Self Help Graphics, 18th Street Arts Center, Palm Springs Museum, and various underground art spaces like Regeneracion. Internationally he has exhibited/ performed in Colima, Nezahualcoyotl, Mexico City, Chiapas, Merida, Mexico and Tai nai City, Japan. Baltazar has competed several public murals, installation, sculpture commissions at various schools, drug rehabilitation centers, public parks and juvenile halls. He is currently researching contemporary mythological and archetypical characters and performing them such as Tochtli 7 (the Aztec Bunny).
Martin Durazo in collaboration with Vidal Herrera, Untitled, Coffin Stack, 2011.
Martin Durazo
In Collaboration With
Vidal Herrera
Martin Durazo is an LA-based multi-media artist, curator, and writer whose work is concerned with the intersection between elements of high-design and the aesthetic of the illicit. He is known for creating large scale installations combining painting, sculpture, ready-made objects, video, sound, light, and performance. He holds a Master of Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles. He has exhibited at Luis De Jesus Los Angeles, CB1 Gallery, Mark Moore Gallery, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Galería MDF in Mexico City, Harris Art Gallery at the University of La Verne, as well as White Box, New York City, Art Forum Berlin, and Art Basel Miami Beach. His work has been written about in Flash Art International, the LA Times, The NY Times, LA Weekly, Art Ltd, Art week, and Art Review.
Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, Drift, Interactive Dutational Performance Installation, 2011.
Marcus Kuiland-Nazario
Marcus Kuiland-Nazario was contributor to the LA WEEKLY, one of the Founding Artists of 18th Street Arts Center, Highways Performance Space and Clean Needles Now (a street based harm reduction program), former co director of Crazy Space Gallery, co producer of Max10 performance laboratory, curator and producer of the critically acclaimed (and over a decade old) performance series Pop Tarts. He has also been guest curator twice for the REDCAT’s Studio program. A seasoned street outreach worker and health educator MKN has been confuting and confusing his art life and lived life to the consternation and appreciation of audiences everywhere. His performance works have been featured in Los Angeles Times, LA WEEKLY, Los Angeles Magazine, Life and Times (Los Angeles PBS affiliate), High Performance Magazine, Frontiers, IN Magazine, Hoy, The Advocate and Traffic Report. His performance have been featured in both national and international festivals. Venue highlights include: L.A.C.E (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions), The Mark Taper Forum, REDCAT at the Disney Concert Hall, USC, UCLA, Highways Performance Space, P.S.122, The 18th Street Arts Center,The Knitting Factory, ICA LONDON (twice), Platinum Oasis (curated by Ron Athey and Miss Vaginal Cream Davis) and the Rompeforma festival in San Juan Puerto Rico. He has taught at Otis College of Art and Design, Highways Performance Space and Beyond Baroque Literary Foundation. Currently his visual art is part of the exhibit 1,000 Journals Project at the Skirball Cultural Center and is participating in SMMOA’s prestigious annual auction, INCOGNITO.
Marcus, through his position as Community Liaison at Community Arts Resources, produced the procession for the Splash Festival, which was part of the Mami Wata exhibit at the Fowler Museum at UCLA - working with Dr. Henry Drewal. He also produced the Mardi Gras parade accompanying the Carnival! exhibit also at the Fowler Museum, was on the GLOW production team for the City of Santa Monica, produced the main stage At FIL in Guadalajara working with artists including,Wayne Shorter, Los Lobos, Diavolo and Ozomatli, and works in all aspects of programming and program development. His responsibilities include copy writing, programming, staff hiring and supervision, community outreach and development of art education activities. As a founding artist of Highways Performance Space and the 18th Street Arts center in Santa Monica, he continues to contribute as Artist Adviser and sits on the City of Santa Monica’s Performing arts committee.
Ichiro Irie, The Marker Series (MOCA), 9" x 12", Lambda Prints, 2011.
Ichiro Irie
Born in Tokyo and raised in Los Angeles, Ichiro Irie received his B.A. from University of California, Santa Barbara and his M.F.A. from Claremont Graduate University. In 2001, Irie went to Mexico City on a Fulbright fellowship, and has maintained an active relationship with the visual art community in Mexico. Irie has exhibited his work internationally in galleries and museums such as Bank Gallery in Los Angeles, CSW Museum in Warsaw, and Museo Carrillo Gil in Mexico City. In the past two years has had solo shows at Sam Francis Gallery in Santa Monica, CA, Casa del Tunel: Art Center in Tijauna, MX, CAM Contemporaneo in Guadalajara, MX, and Yautepec Gallery in Mexico City. Between January and March 2011, he will be featured in group exhibitions at Hendershot gallery in New York City, Museo del Chopo in Mexico City, and Torrance Art Museum in Torrance, CA. As a curator he has organized over 30 exhibitions at venues such as JAUS Gallery, 18th Street Arts Center, and Raid Projects in Los Angeles; Art & Idea and MUCA Roma in Mexico City; and Kyubidou Gallery in Tokyo.
Irie currently lives and works in Los Angeles, teaches at Santa Monica College and Oxnard College, and is an artist in residence at the 18th Street Arts Center.
Vincent Ramos, Tierra Justicia, Mixed Media Installation (with performance & sound
component), 2011.
Vincent Ramos
Vincent Ramos was born in Santa Monica. He received his BFA from Otis College of Art and Design in 2002 and his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2007. He has participated in numerous group exhibitions, most recently “All Time Greatest” at FOCA, Los Angeles (2009), “Post-American L.A.” at the 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica (2009), and “NY/LA: Artists from New York and Los Angeles” at GBK Gallery, Sydney, Australia (2008). He had a solo exhibition entitled, “Motown Took Us There and Motown Brought Us Back” at Crisp London Los Angeles in 2008. He will participate in a two-person exhibition at Las Cienegas Projects in Los Angeles next spring and is currently in the process of curating a group exhibition entitled, “8/29/70” for the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College that will open in the fall of 2011. His work has been written about in X-TRA, Art Week, and the Los Angeles Times. Ramos is a 2010 recipient of the California Community Foundations Emerging Artist Fellowship. He was raised,lives and works in Venice.
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