Monte Vista Projects
Artist walk through: Chris Rivas
Monte Vista Projects is hosting artist Chris Rivas who will be opening at their gallery on Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020. He’ll be doing a walk through or studio visit virtually earlier that day.
The title of Rivas’ show, 40 Days and 40 Nights, is a phrase used by many groups to refer to a long amount of time. In this case it signifies the Covid-19 pandemic and the quarantine that seems to have no end. As such, the exhibition examines the home as a space used to contemplate current social political issues and reflect on our constant desire to preserve dissipating cultures. As globalism and technology accelerate art consumption across our world’s borders, cultures are forced to adapt or die.
Durden and Ray
Daytime event: Personal Contacts #3
A six-part series of exhibitions that explores novel approaches to community curation. Every two weeks, four different members of Durden and Ray will invite their selections to join in. For PC3, Arezoo Bharthania is paired with and Yasmine Diaz; Joe Davidson with Samantha Fields; Valerie Wilcox with Michael Provart; and Alison Woods with Maria Agureeva (pictured). Personal Contacts is on view Saturday, Sept. 5, 2020, from 11am-5pm. There is also a 3D virtual walkthrough component on Durden and Ray’s website.
Durden and Ray
On view: Bedlam by Dani Dodge & Alanna Marcelletti
The idea of home can vary for its occupants as a place of refuge or terror depending on their experiences. This time of quarantine has amplified that perception of home as people have been sequestered indoors during the COVID-19 pandemic.
In Bedlam, Dani Dodge and Alanna Marcelletti construct a tower of elegantly encased detritus ranging from the banal to the ironic culminating in an exploration of fragility stacked upon fragility. Pillows stuffed with rubber duckies, empty wine bottles, and deconstructed foam cushions are carefully encased in sheer feminine fabrics exposing the ugliness inside. They rest in a pile of nylon limbs that take shape over a body of women’s underwear erecting a monument to the quarantine bed. Box spring gestures, battered by the desert wind and passing semi-trucks into crumpled figures, twist around the frail structure in a pathetic embrace that attempts to find the romance in our temporarily shared experience.
Track 16
Daytime Virtual Program: Camilla Taylor
Join Camilla Taylor in her studio as she makes a two part press mold clay sculpture, and previews her solo exhibit "Your Words in My Mouth" on IG Live.
To watch, visit Taylor's Instagram on Saturday, September 5th at 2pm.
Taylor's upcoming Track 16 exhibition opens on September 12, 2020.
Track 16
Exhibition: Debra Broz
Track 16 will present Fur-niture an installation of new work by Debra Broz that combines found furniture and thrift-store, stuffed animals. Through these sculpture, Broz considers the life of objects by asking what makes them status markers, and what makes them undesirable and “used.” She swaddles the trashed furniture with the used comfort objects, and within the transformation both objects become cared for again.
Track 16
On view: Rakeem Cunningham
While at High Beams you can watch Cunningham's video work ME, PART 3 as it's rear projected above in Track 16's window on Saturday, September 5th at 8-10pm
Cunningham's video has been playing nightly as part of his 2 person exhibition "Installation #000000" currently at Track 16 — viewable by appointment or online.
515
On view: Inadvertent Protagonists by HK Zamani
515 is pleased to host Inadvertent Protagonists a one person exhibit of works by HK Zamani. Conflating three-dimensional and two-dimensional forms is a recurring theme in Zamani’s work of the last three decades, with sculpture representing the body and painting representing the immaterial. His new works, Inadvertent Protagonists focus on the idea of coexistence in their imageries: the paintings actively converse with their sculptural counterparts.
Inadvertent Protagonists is on view from July 11 - Sept. 5, 2020 by appointment only. Special viewing 1-10 pm on Saturday, Sept. 5.