Boys Of $ummer
Boys Of $ummer is a gang.
Boys Of $ummer is friends till the end.
Boys Of $ummer is blood, sweat, and tears.
Boys Of $ummer is in alphabetical order; Mark Batongmalaque, Chet Glaze, Ryan Perez,
Conrad Ruiz, Kristofferson San Pablo, Emilio Santoyo.
Boys Of $ummer is for the children.
Members: Chet Glaze, Conrad Ruiz, Ryan Perez, Kristofferson San Pablo, Emilio Santoyo, and Mark Batongmalaque
Website: None
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FAR Bazaar Project
LOVE AFFAIR: AN EPHEMERAL EXPRESSION OF ADOLESCENT SEXUALITY
Description: Group effort installation/destruction. Mostly New Stuff, Old Ideas.
Location: 32B
Participating Artists: Mark Batongmalaque, Chet Glaze, Ryan Perez, Conrad Ruiz, Kristofferson San Pablo, and Emilio Santoyo
Mark Batongmalaque was born, raised, and make works in Southern California. His work explores the idea
of loneliness coexisting with loving, and figuring out what it means to be a man in
light of all of the history that preceded him. He received his MFA from UCSB in 2007.
Select Exhibitions: 2016 Complex Con Vacancy Projects Booth Long Beach Convention
Center, fresh stART HOLA Baker Hanger, 2015 Second Wave UCR ArtsBLOCK, 2014 Home as
Art Deasy/Penner & Partners, 2013 Electric Ghost CAVAD Gallery, ADAYAWAY Slow Culture,
2012 LPP Feature Little Paper Planes, 2011 Boys Of $ummer: SLAMSOCKS People’s Gallery,
Boys Of $ummer: Centerfold Freakcity, 2010 Boys Of $ummer: New Empire Raid Projects
http://www.marklb.com
Chet Glaze’s (B. 1976 Fontana, CA) work explores sustained relationships between disparate venues
and their subsequent collapse into one another. He received his MFA from UCSB in 2006.
Chet is currently represented by Patrick Painter INC, Santa Monica Ca. Recent exhibitions:
2016 Complex Con Vacancy Projects Booth Long Beach Convention Center, Lost With Alice,
Patrick Painter Inc, Santa Monica, CA, Truth Syrup, Guggenheim Gallery, Chapman University,
Orange, Ca.
http://www.cargocollective.com/chetglaze
Ryan Perez (b.1982) playfully acknowledges the figure-ground relationship as a means to better
understand the image as a societal sense of "self and other". His practice includes
the use of photography, video, and sculpture; while his subjects tend to find balance
within the formal space of the irrational.
Perez received his BFA from Art Center College of Design in 2008 and his MFA from
the University of California Riverside in 2012. He has exhibited individually at Yautepec,
Mexico City (2012 and 2015); C24 Gallery, New York City (2014); and LACMA Special
Projects, Los Angeles (2012), among others. Perez’s recent group exhibitions include
Shaky Towns, Alter Space, San Francisco; Second Wave: Aesthetics of the 80’s in Today’s
Contemporary Art, UCR Sweeney Art Gallery, Riverside; Gray Grey, Vacancy, Los Angeles;
INPUT/OUTPUT, FotoFocus Biennial, Cincinnati; and Apollo TBD, Samuel Freeman Gallery,
Los Angeles. He teaches photography at Art Center College of Design and Citrus Community
College. Perez lives and works in Los Angeles.
Conrad Ruiz's multi-faceted work combines elements of abstraction, hyperrealism, popular culture, and visual illusion. His work explores the intersection between topics that artists began to investigate during the 1980s: identity and the body. Ruiz touches on the visual representation of machismo, which can be seen as the epitome of Latino male strength and intimidation. Through his juxtaposition of hard and soft, Ruiz is able to highlight the vulnerability and insecurities woven into Latino male gender roles into his paintings and sculptures. Conrad Ruiz received his MFA from the California College of the Arts. He has exhibited at institutions such as the Museum of Contemporary Art in Santa Barbara, Silverman Gallery in San Francisco, Yautepec Gallery, Mexico City, the Torrance Art Museum, Steve Turner Gallery and the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Kristofferson San Pablo's work, inspired by diverse sources such as humor, politics, history, underground music, and working-class artistic expression often examines class and gender issues as well as issues of normality, criminality and perversion. San Pablo received his MFA from Art Center College of Design in 2010 & has exhibited internationally in Los Angeles, New York, Tokyo & Taiwan and is also the co-founder of Vacancy Projects, a design studio specializing in artist made goods, collaborations & curatorial projects. He currently lives & works in Los Angeles, CA. "I don't know who you are. I don't know what you want. If you are looking for ransom I can tell you I don't have money, but what I do have are a very particular set of skills. Skills I have acquired over a very long career. Skills that make me a nightmare for people like you. If you let my daughter go now that'll be the end of it. I will not look for you, I will not pursue you, but if you don't, I will look for you, I will find you and I will kill you." —Liam Neeson, Taken
Emilio Santoyo (Los Angeles-based) boldly colors the world for us in his work. Taking past experiences
and current misadventures Emilio demonstrates the life that is growing up in California.
Emilio’s hometown is reflected in the palette he uses, the emotion each piece projects,
and the love and romance in each simple object that is sometimes taken for granted.
Emilio received his BFA from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California.
Select Exhibitions: 2016 ComplexCon - Vacancy Projects Booth Long Beach, CA, 2015
Second Wave UCR ArtsBLOCK - Riverside, CA.
http://www.emiliospocket.com
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