USC

Website:http://roski.usc.edu

--

FAR Bazaar Project

UNTITLED

Description: Presenting works by curent MFA students at the USC Roski School of Art and Design

Location: FA51

Participating Artists: Julia Orquera Bianco, Joshua Rains, Marton Robinson, Assaf Shaham

Julia Orquera Bianco was born in Argentina and currently lives in Los Angeles. She is a first year MFA student at USC Roski School of Art and Design. She had an early education in Art. For three years, she attended to Escuela de Arte Fotográfico de Avellaneda, where she specialized in Photography. In 2011, Julia earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts with an emphasis in Drawing and Painting from Universidad del Museo Social Argentino (Buenos Aires, Argentina). For the last 6 years she built expertise as an Art Teacher, in the fields of Graphic Design, Art History and Drawing. Former faculty member of the Fine Arts program at CUC, Universidad de Guadalajara, Puerto Vallarta, Jalisco (Mexico). She participated in projects with international artists such as Deborah Aschheim, Fallen Fruit (David Burns and Austin Young), and Iván Puig. Her current work explores materiality while addressing migration, gender and class, from her unique perspective as an Argentinian artist living in L.A. 

Joshua Rains is an MFA student at the University of Southern California’s Roski School of Art and Design. His work investigates sex, sexuality, class, value, destruction, decomposition, hope, and hopelessness through object-based performance, stop-motion video, and conceptual drawing. His work has been shown at ACRE Projects in Chicago, IL, Bodi Gallery in Evanston, IL, and Griffin’s Modern in Lexington, KY.
www.drawjoshdraw.com

Marton Robinson Born and raised in San José, Costa Rica, has an interdisciplinary background informed by his studies in both Physical Education and in Art and Visual Communication. His prior studies have included completing an MA in Integral Health and Human Movement at the National University of Costa Rica. The result is a multi-media art practice, which investigates modes of communication and translation – of history, culture, and identity – that challenge popular culture’s representations and assumptions. Robinson’s work exposes the nuances present in the Afro-Latino experience that deepen the critical discourse of works in the contemporary African Diaspora. Robinson has participated in solo and group exhibitions in and out of Costa Rica in spaces such as: The Getty Center, Los Angeles, California; Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo (MADC), San José, Costa Rica; Fundación Ars TEOR/éTica, San José, Costa Rica; Eastside International, Los Angeles, California; X Bienal Centroamericana, Costa Rica; The Claremont Graduate University, Los Angeles, California; and others. He received an Honorable Mention in video and new digital media creation at the Eighth Edition of Inquieta Imagen (ii_2015), from the Museo de Arte y Diseño Contemporáneo, and also participated as an artist in residence at Alter Academia 2016 at TEOR/éTica. As an International Artist Fellow, he will pursue a Master of Fine Arts degree in the Roski School.

Assaf Shaham lives and works in Tel Aviv and Los Angeles. Shaham graduated with honors in 2011 from the Department of Photography program at the Minshar College for Arts, Tel Aviv-Yafo, Israel. In 2016 he participated in Maumaus an Independent Study Program in Lisbon, Portugal. Shaham was awarded The Constantiner Photography Award for an Israeli artist from The Tel Aviv Museum of Art in 2012. In 2015 he received the Israeli Culture Council for the Arts Grant, and in 2011 The Shpilman Institute for Photography Scholarship for excellence in photography. He has had solo shows at the Tel Aviv Museum of Art; Braverman Gallery, Tel Aviv; Yossi Milo Gallery, NY; Tempo Rubato Gallery, Tel Aviv and has participated in group exhibitions both in Israel and worldwide. In 2012 he was invited to participate in an artist-in-residence at the Schir Residency@Berlin.