Elephant

Elephant is a contemporary artist-run space in Glassell Park, Los Angeles. Elephant houses six working studios, a central exhibition space and an outdoor event area. the studio artists collaborate to provide outside curators and artists a physical location for exhibitions, events and gatherings.

Members: Astri Swendsrud, Bianca D'Amico, David P. Earle, Jason Kunke, Matt MacFarland, Quinn Gomez-Heitzeberg

Website:http://www.elephantartspace.com/

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FAR Bazaar Project

THE BACKYARD

Description: Elephant will temporarily transform its space at Cerritos College into a surrogate for the Elephant backyard. The yard's signature concrete block walls, succulents and BBQ will be activated by performances from artists who have previously shown or curated work at Elephant.

Location: FA40A

Participating Artists: Malisa Humphrey, Steven Bankhead, Jen Bruce, Inner Dinner (Andrew Choate, Chris Niemi and Janne Larsen), A.J. Collins, Greg Curtis & Kim Calder, DS Estrada & Gozi Roberson Estrada, Sonja Gerdes, Malisa Humphrey, Kiki Johnson, , Dominic Quagliozzi & Zack Kleyn (with many surprise special guests), Steven van Dyck, Matt Wardell

Malisa Humphrey was born in Berkeley, California and currently lives and works in Los Angeles. Her work has exhibited and screened at the Armory Center for the Arts, the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Hammer Museum, the Museum of Contemporary Art, La Jolla, the Oakland Museum of California and the Banff Centre for the Arts. She received her MFA from the University of California, San Diego and her BA from the University of California, Berkeley.

Steven Bankhead is an artist living in Inglewood, CA. His work has been exhibited widely including
solo exhibitions at Andreas Binder in Munich, Germany; Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles, CA;
Emma Gray HQ, Los Angeles,CA; The Armory Center for the Arts, Pasadena,CA; Circus Gallery, Los
Angeles,CA; Country Club, NADA, Miami, FL; as well as selected group exhibitions including Angles
Gallery, Los Angeles, MAK Center, West Hollywood, CA; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA; Andrew
Rafacz Gallery, Chicago, IL, and Tiroler Kunstpavillon, Innsbruck, Austria.

Jen Bruce is an LA based artist working in performance, textiles and design. She is a participating organizer for the Eternal Telethon and her collaborative work has been shown at Human Resources, Elephant, Center for the Arts Eagle Rock and Machine Project.

Andrew Choate is the author of "Stingray Clapping," "Language MakesPlastic of the Body," "Too Many Times I See Every Thing Just the Way It Is" and, most recently, "Learning." As "The Unwrinkled Ear," he hosts a radio show on KCHUNG every other week and curates a concert series devoted to the international world of improvised music. As@saint bollard he photographs and organizes performances around bollards. He won the award for Best Visual/ Performance Art and the Warwick Broadhead Memorial Award at the 2016 Dunedin Fringe Festival.

Janne Larsen is an artist and set designer living in Los Angeles. She has designed theater, opera, dance throughout Los Angeles and New York and has exhibited her artwork locally and internationally. Her work has been seen at Symphony Space, Pomona College, Cal State L.A, Caltech, CalPoly, Horsetrade Theater, Los Angles Municipal Gallery, Workspace, Weekend Gallery, Telic Art Exchange, and Outpost for Contemporary Art, The Municipal Gallery of Assisi, The Washington Museum of Art and elephant Gallery.

Chris Niemi is an artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her MFA from Cranbrook Academy of Art in 2012. She is co-curator of Outside Gallery in Lincoln Heights.

AJ Collins (b. 1988) is a multimedia artist who often leans to collaboration and coincidence in order to extend his ideas and politics to unforeseen attempts at stimulating a lust for the Poetic and empowering aspects of the "human experience".

Greg Curtis’ works in photography, video, installation, and sound have been exhibited and performed at Monte Vista Projects, The Institute of Jamais Vu, Weekend, Elephant, Cirrus Gallery, Land of Tomorrow, Dan Graham, Blythe Projects, Fellows of Contemporary Art, Sea and Space Explorations, and Orange Alley Projects, among others. He recently curated the exhibition In Chambers at Ms Barbers. He received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts and lives and works in Los Angeles.

Kim Calder studies contemporary American literature at the University of California, Los Angeles. Her work has also appeared in The Los Angeles Review of Books Quarterly, Unsaid Literary Journal, The Volta, and Jacket2. She is currently working on a nonfiction manuscript entitled The Nervous System.

Gozi Roberson Estrada is a life long pursuer of food, affirmation, and companionship. This would be her second performance with Estrada, her first being for Eternal Telethon 2016 at Human Resources. Roberson explores the world in a unique way- with her nose. For her, all smells and scents provide a story. One of her goals is to pursue the story till it is sufficiently inhaled. Roberson is self-taught, but gets regular feedback from DS Estrada.

DS Estrada is an artist that normally exhibits under the name Diana-Sofia Estrada. Estrada has exhibited her own work widely and is a show curated by Vincent Ramos at Nan Rae Gallery at Woodbury University titled Neighborhood Watch, Jan 21-Feb 27th. She received her BFA cum laude in Painting/Drawing and BA cum laude in Psychology from the University of North Texas. In 2008, she received her MFA in art from the California Institute of Arts. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including Diaspora Vibe Gallery (Miami), Alice Yard Space (Trinidad), Box 13 (Houston), and at Artlab the Smithsonian Hirshhorn Museum in Washington D.C. She runs the online artist project www.ourprimeproperty.org She teaches art and bicycles around Los Angeles. Estrada’s practice encompasses installation, video, drawing and painting, performance, and online media to question everyday expectations.

Sonja Gerdes was born in Germany. Studied at University of the Arts Berlin and was co-director of the artist run non-profit space Infernoesque, Berlin. She has shown internationally including at Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, The Pit, Los Angeles; Ballroom, Marfa; Maraya Art Park, Sharjah/Dubai; Blackbridge Offspace, Beijing; District, Berlin; Scriptings, Berlin; Gallery Syster in Lulea, Sweden; Kavi Gupta, Berlin; Elephant, Los Angeles; and Galerie Gebr.Lehmann, Berlin, among others. She currently lives and works in Los Angeles.

Kiki Johnson received her MFA from Yale University in New Haven, CT in 2012 and her BFA from the California Institute of the Arts in Valencia in 2007. Her work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, CA, Houston, TX and Halifax Canada. Kiki has been an artist-in-residence at Vermont Studio Center.

 

Dominic Quagliozzi lives and works in Los Angeles. His practice autobiographically references living with Cystic Fibrosis, a terminal genetic disease affecting the lungs. His most recent series of work chronicles the process of waiting for, receiving, and recovering from a double lung transplant, which happened in June of 2015. He graduated with an MFA in Studio Arts from Cal State Los Angeles in 2012. He has exhibited in Los Angeles, New York, Boston, Providence and Philadelphia.

Zack Kleyn is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work is an examination into the ways in which ideologies weave themselves into the tapestry of a human personality. His projects have been shown at the Torrance Art Museum, the New York Center for Art and Media Studies in New York, Cirrus Gallery, as well as Espace Curtat Tunnel in Lausanne, Switzerland. His writing has been published in The Art Book Review and Notes on Looking, and his artwork has appeared in several literary journals, including LIT, VLAK, and SPECS. He received his MFA from CalArts in 2010.

Matt Wardell seeks to prolong a sense of wonder and place the viewer in a lingering position of active assessment. He is interested in how we choose to live and introducing work that facilitates these investigations. Wardell enjoys walking on fences, answering wrong numbers, and giving directions to places he does not know. Uncomfortable laughter, confusion, and irritation tend to be by-products of Wardell’s works. He has exhibited at venues throughout the US and Mexico, including the Museum of Modern Art in San Francisco (SFMOMA), Claremont Museum of Art in Claremont, and at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), REDCAT, PØST, Human Resources, Black Dragon Society, Mark Moore Gallery, and Commonwealth and Council, all in Los Angeles. Wardell is a founding member of the artist collective 10lb Ape.