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FAR Bazaar Project

LEFTOVERS

Description: "leftovers" is an exhibition of 27 California Institute of the Arts MFA Candidates. A non-themed group show, it displays the wide-ranging practices and processes. Remainders, remnants, a melange of tastes; leftovers nourish, age and spoil.

Location: FA31

Maria Bang Espersen is a multimedia artist working mainly with sculpture and video, but also performance
and storytelling. Prior to her MFA studies at California Institute of the Arts (2017) she received her BA from
The Royal Danish Academy, Bornholm in Denmark as well as did three year technical glass training at
Kosta School of Glass in Sweden. She has exhibited in group shows throughout Europe, and presented solo
exhibitions in Poland, Denmark, Norway and the USA.

Aydinaneth Ortiz, best known as Aydi (pronounced I.D.) received her B.A. in Art at the University of
California, Los Angeles and is currently an MFA Candidate at the California Institute of the Arts. She works
in digital and chemical-based photographic processes as well as traditional printmaking mediums such as
relief, etching and serigraphy. Utilizing documentary, portrait, and street photography, she focuses on
intersections between urban structures, familial relationships, and social contexts. Ortiz has exhibited her
artwork in a wide range of venues, most notably at the Pomona College Museum of Art in Claremont and the
Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA) in Long Beach, where she is now part of their permanent
collection. In 2016 she had her first Solo Exhibition hosted at Avenue 50 Studio’s Satellite Gallery in
Highland Park.

Efrain Torres is a Southern Californian artist that resides and works in Los Angeles. Currently, a Master of
Fine Arts candidate in the Art Program at California Institute of the Arts, Efrain’s current work fuses a vast
range of media. His work explores his experience of identifying as Queer, Hispanic and Catholic, and how
his life has been shaped and influenced by three decades of popular culture. Efrain has exhibited his works
throughout Southern California in Solo and Group exhibitions and held residencies with Lifework Gallery and
Studio in Palm Springs, California, and PermaDirty Project Space in Claremont, California. For more info
visit www.efraingtorres.com

peckingnets is a collaborative partnership between two CalArts MFA candidates (2017). Their multimedia
practice focuses on language interrogation and love-making. More information about peckingnets at
www.peckingnets.social

Max Syron’s practice addresses the construction of truth, the structures that support our opinions, choices,
actions, and how one’s positions are formed. His works meanders through the fields of sculpture,
movement, video, insulation and text. Max received a BFA in sculpture from MassArt and is currently a
candidate in the MFA program in art at CalArts. He has shown in multiple group shows in Europe and the
US, with his first solo show this past summer at BWA SiC! in Poland.

Matt Town lives in Val Verde, California and works in Valencia, California.

Jazmin Urrea: Raised in Compton for 9 years of her life before residing in Watts, Jazmin Urrea attended CSU Long Beach where she obtained a BFA in Photography with a Minor in Human Resources. Urrea’s work is known for having “her face on everything,” because she turns the camera on herself. Her images are not self-portraits; rather she uses herself as a vessel to challenge cultural pressures Latina women face. These events illuminate themes of identity, race, and gender through the use of exaggerated stereotypes in her work. Urrea is currently working in Los Angeles and pursuing her MFA in Photography and Media at CalArts.
Wesley Hicks is a multimedia artist and experimental musician. He works with the ways that authenticity
and genuineness are generated in the synthetic landscape. His work calls out the parallels; blurring the lines
between things viewed as organic and natural, and those considered unnatural and synthetic.

Charmaine Bee is an artist working in sound, sculpture, installation and video. Bee’s work explores racial
terror and its psychological and biological impact using materials charged by histories of building economy
via subjugation of black and non white bodies. She has been awarded the Felix Gonzalez - Torres
foundation travel grant, the Brooklyn Arts Council Community Arts Foundation grant, and the Puffin
Foundation Grant. She has been in residence at Fountainhead Residency (Miami, FL), and 18th Street Arts
Center (Santa Monica, CA.) She is currently an MFA candidate at California Institute of the Art and resides
in Los Angeles, CA.

Alexandra Leon is a poet that stages her own and others' writing through my body and sometimes makes
videos and environments. Her work often deals with dissolution of subjectivities and the failures of
collectivities as a means to investigate diasporic identity and voodoo histories. My practice is macro-logically
invested in the symbolic and material histories of institutional spaces, and their potential to be subverted.
She is currently in the final planning stages of an installation at CalArts (opening January 14), entitled
PARTICIPATION MYSTIQUE, embedded with a piece of Cerritos College’s own pre-demolished
architecture, an iteration of which will be reconstituted/excerpted at FAR BAZAAR to twin them in
time/space/matter within Participation Mystique, which takes its theme (a theme is a question) as a
misunderstanding, from the discredited anthropo-mythic concept dissolving a subject into an object and its
reverse. Specifically, "the subject" being one constructed through and in the institution ("the object"-ifier)
through which material life is defined, for better or worse. This line of thought extends itself via a continuing
on-site engagement with a cluster of panopticon prisons on the Isla de Juventud, an island of an island off
the southern coast of Cuba I've been working in since 2015. Find more but not all of it here:
cargocollective.com/alexandradeleon

Sichong Xie is a Chinese born artist. Her practice deals with issues of identity, politics, cross-culturalism,
and the surreal characteristics of her body in the ever - changing environment. Her current body of work
explores Chinese culture versus American culture, her female gender versus the patriarchy that is reflected
in municipal sculptures in China, and Chinese Communist politics versus the “only one child” generations.
Xie received her B.F.A. in Illustration & Fine Arts at The Columbus College of Art & Design and is currently
an M.F.A. Candidate at the California Institute of the Arts. I n addition, she attended Mildred’s Lane
“HumanUfactorYing Workstyles” Session in Narrowsburg, NY as a fellowship artist in June 2014. She also
attended The Watermill Center Artist Residency in July 2016. She seeks to be a cultural organizer who
utilizes body based sculptural forms (mask/costume/object) and transforms discarded materials and
disregarded spaces by using the tools of humor and absurdity.

John Wu received his BFA in Art at Art Center College of Design, and currently pursuing his MFA at
CalArts.

Luna Galassini was born in Florida. She studied music at Bennington College, and recently moved to
Southern California from Rochester, New York where she was a resident artist at Visual Studies Workshop
in 2016. Her work is based in photography and accident.

Tyler Lumm’s practice reflects a multivalent, patchwork world of content-producers and consistently
curious learners. He hopes to create experiential ruptures of the barrier between the screen and the self by
creating fictional whale/human hybrids, performing always online isolation, and documenting a long distance
relationship mediated through digital telepathy. His work utilizes web design, performance, digital animation,
video, photography and writing to communicate to audiences within physical space and through their digital
devices. He is currently an MFA Candidate at California Institute of the Arts and has exhibited in Los
Angeles, Chicago, New York, and Melbourne.

Jinal Sangoi is a multi-media artist working in the mediums of drawing, sculpture, installations performance
and video. She is pursuing her MFA studies (2016 - 2018) at the California Institute of the Arts and received
her BFA from the Rachana Sansad Academy of Fine Arts and Craft (AFAC), Mumbai (India). With a deep
interest in art teaching, she has taught art in different institutions in Mumbai and is the Founder-Director of
The White Paper Project (TWPP), a space for creative thinking and learning. She has exhibited in galleries,
alternative platforms and public spaces in Mumbai and has participated in the Pune Biennale (India) and the
CRACK International Art Residency (Bangladesh). She also contributes as a Programming Team Member,
Centre for Arts and Social Practice (CASP - India).

Coffee Kang is a Shanghai born artist working with photography, video and performance. Her works
address different social contexts, including gender issues, consumerism, and capitalism. Her works also
show her great interests in abstraction, ways of seeing with different ‘eyes’. Coffee Kang received her BFA
in Creative Media at City University of Hong Kong and is currently an MFA candidate in Photo and Media
program at California Institute of the Arts.

Elizabeth Preger earned a BA in Art from UCLA in 2010 and is currently working towards her MFA at
CalArts. Her practice focuses on ideas of mythmaking as well as photography’s historical relationship to
mortality and place. In 2014 Elizabeth had a solo show at Kathmandu Photo Gallery in Thailand. Her work
has also been included in exhibitions curated by Mark Allen and Anne Ellegwood, published in the LA Times
and LA Weekly, and featured in Photo L.A.
www.elizabethpreger.com

Joshua Evan was born and works in Los Angeles California. His work primarily focuses on painting,
specifically that of the relationship between painting and contemporary culture such as mass media
proliferation and digital technologies, consumerism, and counterculture through the dialogue of abstraction.
He was awarded the William Hyde and Susan Benteen Irwin Scholarship Award while earning his BFA at
the University of California, Santa Cruz in May 2014. His work has been featured in New American Paintings
Magazine, and showcased on blogs such as ContemporaryUntitled, Work2day, Art Land, and Scandale
Project. He is currently an MFA candidate at the California Institute of the Arts.

Jessie Wright is a contextual artist, writer, and filmmaker i ntrigued by how the human body’s materiality
takes form in a set of conditions that allows for its articulation. Her work is particularly concerned with this
articulation in the context of technology -- bodies in relation to intellect, bodies in relation to removed bodies,
and human beings in the space of telematics. Presently, her work takes the form of radio programming,
35mm slide projection (text and photographic-based), multi-channel video installation, performance for
video, arduino-based human interactive programmed objects, and photographic stills. Jessie Wright is
pursuing a MFA Photography and Media at the California Institute of the Arts, with a previous BFA
Photography emphasis, Printmaking emphasis and a BA English, Fiction Writing from Boise State
University.

Shelby Poor received her BFA in photography at The University of Tulsa in 2016 and currently attends
California Institute of the Arts in pursuit of an MFA. She works predominantly in the social documentary
genre and places an emphasis on dismantling traditional conventions within the field as well as utilizing
textual components to establish a narrative. Shelby has employed medium and large format film
photography throughout most of her practice and recently began operating with digital cameras. Shelby has
exhibited her work in a variety of spaces, most recently her work has been published in the Anamesa
Journal, published by New York University and had a solo exhibition at The Tulsa Girls Art School in July of
2016 before moving to Los Angeles, California.

Vickie Aravindhan is multimedia artist from Singapore who explores socio-economic issues in Hoskote,
India and themes around femininity, the body and queer identity through video, installation, sculpture,
photography, text and painting. She received a BA(Hons) in Fine Art at LASALLE College of the Arts in
Singapore, is currently pursuing her MFA in Art at California Institute of the Arts and was also a recipient of
the Winston Oh Travel Award as well as participated at Art Stage Singapore 2014.

Hannah Naomi Varamini was born in Washington, D.C. and received her BFA from Cornell University. She
has exhibited paintings, drawings, installations, and videos in the U.S., Italy, and Namibia investigating
postcolonial histories and social memory. In 2008 she received a Fulbright Scholarship to Namibia, and has
won grants from the DC Commission on the Arts and Humanities and the New York Foundation for the Arts.
She is based in Los Angeles and currently studies at California Institute of the Arts (MFA 2018).

Emily Marchand thrives on working with fellow artists, creating new relationships, and exploring various
techniques to distill her ideas. She practices with food, textiles, and sculptural materials to create art works
centered around survivalism, preservation, and the decentralization of humans in relation to ecology and
nature. Living and working in Los Angeles, Marchand received her BA in Art from UCLA and is currently an
MFA candidate in Art at California Institute of the Arts.

Sydney Mills is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. She received her B.A. in Fine Art from the
University of Southern California in 2010 and is currently an M.F.A. candidate in the Photography & Media
program at the California Institute of the Arts. Using a broad range of photographic modes and styles, Mills
explores the limitations and binaries that (re)define our bodies, our identities, and our environments as they
evolve and fuse with digital technologies.

Yair Agmon is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. Received his Bachelor degree with honors from
Bezalel academy of Art and Design, Jerusalem and is currently a candidate for Master of Fine Arts.