CA53776V2.gallery Exhibiton #3
300 Block of W. Anapamu St.
WORKS:
Marisa de la Peña
Marisa de la Peña
JULM Studios (Jason Urban & Leslie Mutchler)
Max Spitzer
Marisa de la Peña is an artist, researcher and whose current work revolves around the role of horror in art and media and its power to subvert settler colonialism. From reappropriating the tropes that have rendered Indigeneity invisible, to engaging Xicane and Yoeme methods of storytelling by creating edible sculptures on conversations about dispossession and consumption, her practice hopes to haunt and nourish audiences involved. Her work has been published and featured by Taschen Books, Harper Collins, UO and DC Shoes. De la Peña received her BFA in Textiles from the California College of the Arts in 2012 and is currently a second year master's sudent in the Department of Art at the University of Californa at Santa Barbara, where she is an active member of UPROOT Artist coalition.
JULM Studios (Jason Urban and Leslie Mutchler) have been working collaboratively since 2012; they live and work in Brooklyn, New York. Currently, through their interdisciplinary, research-intensive practice, they explore facts and fictions of pedagogy. With a shared background in traditional and digital printmaking, they employ a kind of pseudo-bibliology through the utilization of books, printing and publishing. Photographs, video, and sculptural objects serve as facsimiles for research, experience, and exploration. Their projects investigate the evolving meaning of printed matter and the "sacred spaces" print occupies in the context of analog and digital technologies. The pair has had solo exhibitions at Monaco (St. Louis, MO), the Delaware Contemporary (Wilmington, DE), NARS Foundation (Brooklyn, NY), Grizzly Grizzly (Philadelphia, PA), The Print Center (Philadelphia, PA), Centre for Fine Print Research (Bristol, UK), Space Gallery (Portland, ME), Atelier Circulaire (Montreal, Canada), among others. They have been awarded numerous residencies including Edition/Basel in Basel, Switzerland, Cork Printmakers International Visiting Artist Residency in Cork, Ireland and Dieu Donne Workspace Residency in Brooklyn. Both are affiliated with Pratt Institute where Mutchler is Chair of the Foundation Program and Urban teaches publishing courses in the Communication Design program.
Max Spitzer is a sculptor and educator based in Pittsburgh, PA, where he teaches at The Environmental Charter School. He received his BFA in sculpture from the Rhode Island School of Design, and his MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Prior to moving to Pittsburgh, he taught kindergarten-ninth grade art at Berkshire Country Day School in Stockbridge, MA, and worked as the Education Program Manager at Omi International Arts Center in Ghent, NY. His work has been exhibited internationally in museums, galleries, classrooms, and parks.
CA53776V2.gallery is an exhibition space organized by Alex Lukas on the dashboard of a 2007 Ford Ranger. Expanding on a cultural understanding of the dashboard as a place of public display, CA53776V2.gallery exhibits contemporary artistic practices that explore intimacy, touch, and craft on, in, and around the American road space. Initiated during the Covid-19 pandemic while the Ranger sat largely unused, CA53776V2.gallery positions the truck’s passenger cab as a glass vitrine, usually parked on the 300 block of West Anapamu Street in Santa Barbara, California. The display rotates whenever the truck moves, most frequently for street cleaning (Wednesdays on the odd side of the street, Thursdays on the even side) and occasionally for trips to the grocery store.
Exhibition guides are available on the passenger side of the gallery.
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CA53776V2.gallery is organized by Alex Lukas
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