LA ART NOW
I just got back from a two week trip to Los Angeles to visit family and friends. It was such a relief to get out of the cold!!
While I was there, I reconnected with some of my good friends from my undergraduate art program at UCLA. I made it down to UC Irvine on Thursday, February 17th for the MFA second year reception of “Ne me quitte pas.”
Aaron Valenzuela created an awesome sculpture “Gross over site” installed over the wall of the gallery space:
The sculpture consists of white vinyl that is hand cut, sewn, and layered to contour the entire wall from front to back. Insane!!!
AND each blob is filled with shredded pieces of clothing! Aaron’s work deals with representing and/or changing the body into an object that is used to express a relationship between fashion, space, culture, identity, and gender. To see more of Aaron’s work, click here.
Across town at a downtown artists run gallery space Control Room, Valerie Green has a piece up in a group show, ” 7 minutes in Heaven”
“An Untitled Cloud”
Valerie uses Sintra board and hand cut and bent each piece to compile a “cloud” of the blank document icon as seen on a Mac computer. Her work deals with commercial consumption and the way we relate to technology through our use of film, computers, and mobile phones. Valerie is currently finishing her MFA at CalArts – To see more of Valerie’s work, click here.