Still on the highest high from selling my illustrations at the Bill Murray Art Show this past Saturday at the Syrup Loft in Downtown Los Angeles, I am proud to announce my next art show at The Lab in San Francisco on Thursday, March 19.
The Lab is a not-for-profit arts organization and performance space, located in San Francisco’s historic Redstone Building right next to the the 16th and Mission BART station.
I haven’t been to the Bay Area in a while so it’ll be good to get some fresh air, see old friends, meet new friends and collaborate on art projects. Bay Area here I come!
For the majority of 2014, I’ve participated in many Los Angeles art markets, but this is my real first art show of the new year. I am especially looking forward to collaborating with video and performance artists for a thoughtful one-night art event that revolves around the idea of epiphany.
Epiphanies: regardless of your field, your background or general outlook on life, we all experience these powerful ‘AHA’ moments when that cliche light bulb turns on. All complications fade away like a bad dream, allowing us to bask in the warm light of simplicity. These moments of enlightenment are rare and fleeting and if you think about it, visual artists turn these epiphanies into tangible experiences.
I had one of these moments about a year ago when I saw a harmonograph for the first time at the Inner City Arts. I was awestruck, hypnotized. I thought to myself: “What a perfectly beautiful and simple way to visualize momentum and gravity. Science is cool!” I then decided to make two harmonographs. This is my 2-pendulum harmonograph, her name is 2-pendi.
Before I was introduced to the harmonograph, I struggled needlessly with my identity as a classically trained visual artist and a science lover (who shied away from anything ‘math-y’ from a young age). When I saw the harmonograph in motion this struggle dissipated, replaced with a feeling of ‘oneness’ with the world around me. Hippy dippy, I know, but I have no other way to describe the feeling.
So with my two-cents about epiphanies, here’s the mission statement for the upcoming show at The Lab. Cheers and stayed tuned for more!
THE EUREKA MOMENT
“We are a collective of creative and progressive girls living in the Bay Area. We aim to illuminate emerging and underrepresented local artists in a one-night-only art experience at the Lab. Using the notion of epiphany as a starting point, we are asking artists to explore and collaborate.
In addition to creating an alternative art event, our project aspires to challenge the political landscape of the art establishment. As an experimental art space, the Lab is essential to the realization of our project. Due to its position outside the conventional art institution it offers a platform for critical dialogue that questions norms and the commonplace status quo.
For this project, we are calling on artists from diverse backgrounds and practices to translate their idea of epiphany. This experiment explores this singular moment where ideas and experiences from the past and present collide in an unexpected manner, to create a new understanding or significance. This moment brings information from the unknown into the known, making the invisible visible.
Epiphany cannot be predicted or controlled: it is unknown whether this experiment will create a moment of epiphany or a persona of the word. Thus our project emphasizes interaction among the artists, art, and audience, encouraging new dialogues.”