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Rainbow Shift
June 4, 2022 @ 4:00 PM - July 16, 2022 @ 5:00 PM
About
Opening: June 4th 4pm – 7pm
In celebration of Pride month in Los Angeles, this unique exhibition presents each artist’s individual visionary constructions in the context of the changing social and legal landscape, and is a select opportunity for queer, visual, performing, and literary artists to meet each other, plug their projects, and collaborate.
“Rainbow Shift” was created to fuse art with social justice and explore notions of aspiration, socialization, and representation within the LGBTQ community through artists employing thread-based craft materials, visual illustrations, paintings, sculptures, and photography techniques.
About the Artists
Collete Von
Collete Von
Colette von is a self-taught, visually impaired artist. She has a degenerative retinal disease called Cone Dystrophy, which often presents as material in her pierces. Her work focuses traditionally features high contrasting figures or expressions with limited color palettes, accentuating the subject.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Tiger Munson
Tiger Munson
I am an artist, photographer and educator living in Los Angeles. Documenting, expressing, creating communities, history, justice, sustainability, wonder, beauty and radness.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Rebekah Villacorta
Rebekah Villacorta
Rebekah Villacorta was born in Los Angeles, they studied art at the University of California Irvine with a focus in new genres using writing, performance, and photography. Currently they work and live in Los Angeles. Their practice focuses on dysfunction, futility, and the ever-growing anxiety weighing on us all.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Tim Nguyen
Tim Nguyen
Tim Nguyễn is an LA based queer artist who explores the human form with minimal lines and expressive colors. He hopes to draw and paint larger pieces to celebrate all body types and sexual identities. Every body is beautiful.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Darious Hart
Darious Hart
I paint to relieve stress. It’s the only thing that keeps me alive. All of my work is an expression of stress and navigating through it. I hope my work helps you get through something you’re going through.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
David Jester
David Jester
I believe we are living in a time where being visible and proud is more important than ever. Pools for me are metaphor rich environments. This current series of paintings of men in swimming pools is a world that exist next to and yet a part of the broader world, much like the gay community.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Leopoldo Villegas
Leopoldo Villegas
Leopoldo was born in the border city of Mexicali, Mexico and lived on both sides of the border until he moved to LA at age 18. He grew up going to thrift stores with his parents and started collecting vintage magazines and books at an early age. At some point in his life he started cutting out images and texts from these books to create designs, a process that he maintains to this day. His designs are all handmade using vintage images, a typewriter, photocopies and screenprints.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Joan Scheibel
Joan Scheibel
Joan Scheibel is a contemporary abstract painter currently living and working in Los Angeles. Scheibel received a full scholarship from the prestigious Otis/Parson College of Art and Design and would later study Illustration at Platt College of Design. Scheibel established a prominent career in graphic design owning a business that was at the forefront of album packaging, branding and advertising.
Turning her attention inward for a more personal form of expression, Joan has pursued a fine art career for nearly a decade. Her work quickly earned acknowledgment from collectors, peers, and galleries throughout California, New Mexico, Seattle, Baltimore, Washington D.C., and New York. Ms. Scheibel is a consistent winner of the juried ArtSlant Showcase awards given to emerging and mid-career artists that exhibit both great potential and commitment to their practice.
“My Shadow appeared and I started painting. Guess we can never escape ourselves.”
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Kelly Perez
Kelly Perez
Kelly Pérez is a Venezuelan-born artist, CG Animator and Director currently living in Los Angeles, CA. Her unique style captures an inherent sense of motion wrapped up in vibrant colors, and the result is unbridled visual eye candy for any viewer. Abstract expressions of emotion, to be interpreted and felt uniquely by each individual, are at the core of her artwork.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Doug Domonkos
Doug Domonkos
My art is a product of the industrial and media saturated world we live in. From my earliest memories, I remember TV commercials and manufactured toys. In my work, I explore the relationships between technology, media and human emotion.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Hootnannie
Hootnannie
Annie Hong is a self-taught Visual Artist currently based in Los Angeles, CA. Hong’s insatiable curiosity in all things beautiful and creative has led them to be a jack-of-all-trades in the arts, leading them to explore the worlds of murals, canvas painting, body art, installations, digital illustration, and more. Their drive for creation lies in their passion for community and representation for the underrepresented, which is fueled by their own lived experience as a queer, gender-nonconforming, first generation Korean American artist.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Seda Saar
Seda Saar
Seda Saar is an International artist and designer, working in the field of themed environment design, painting, sculpture, mixed media and installation. After a successful career as an award winning themed entertainment designer for major Hollywood studios, she focused on interactive experiential works incorporating materials that reflect, refract and explore light transmission and transform the environments, and our perception of form and space. She often experiments with multiple media including real and virtual sculpture, NFTs and moving images, painting and theatrical set design using innovative technology.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Johnny Naked
Johnny Naked
Johnny Naked is a multi-talented artist with a long, established career in the visual arts. He began his artistic endeavors while growing up in the city of Philadelphia, independently honing his photographic & storytelling skills through numerous personal projects.
Naked currently resides in Los Angeles, California, making his living as a visual media artist through the crafts of: filmmaking, photography, writing, and acting.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Reem
Reem
Born and raised in Damascus, Syria. Drawing in LA for the past 10 years, trying to escape commercial art and do my own thing.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Distranged Design
Distranged Design
Jacob Root (DistrangedDesign) is a self taught 22 year old stencil Artist / Street Artist from New Zealand. His work touches on themes of Happiness, Sadness, Love, Heartbreak and other themes that he sees all around him in his coming of age years.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
C. Jean
C. Jean
C. Jean is a career artist whose love of nature and ecology are a substantial part of their practice. Reuse, and creative incorporation trash is more common in recent works. C. thinks about how each project is composed, carefully building stories through semiotics.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Toban Nichols
Toban Nichols
Toban Nichols, is a visual artist & filmmaker whose work has been seen in film festivals & galleries in LA & around the world. He was also featured in Pop Rally at The Museum of Modern Art in New York City.
After earning a Bachelors degree in painting, he studied at the San Francisco Art Institute where he received an MFA in New Genres. He has been granted a residency with the Experimental Television Center in NY, & awarded the Juror’s Pick at the ArtHouse Film Festival. In the past eight years Nichols launched a line of textiles, created a photo app for mobile devices worldwide and published his first photo book titled ‘MY TWIN’.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Melissa Horn
Melissa Horn
Melissa Horn is stargazing coddiwomplin’ solivagant who emerged under an Aquarius sun in Pennsylvania. She is a self taught artist who dabbles in various genres of photography but is especially fond of tossing them all together into a piping hot pot of proverbial soup to create surreal works for all to savor. Best enjoyed with a pinch of salt.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Krista Moy
Krista Moy
Krista Moy (she/her/hers) is a multi-disciplinary artist residing in Los Angeles. She is a writer and comedian, though finds her first love of storytelling was painting. Her paintings tell the story of the self’s journey with the divine feminine.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Stenzel
Stenzel
I work in a variety of mediums including wood, metal and canvas. I am also a digital/photography artist.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Darlyn Susan Yee
Darlyn Susan Yee
Darlyn Susan Yee creates fiber-based socially engaging figurative sculptures and installations to engage the viewer to explore the relationship between materials and form. She re-contextualizes the more feminized traditions and practices of fiber art inverted through the use of industrial materials to explore issues of gender identity, sense of place and purpose, and cultural identity and commonality. Her recent focus is on repurposing and up-cycling materials, and using traditional fiber techniques to create installations of exaggerated clothing, and temporary public art displays.
Darlyn has created the outsized sweaters to convey home, warmth and comfort. And she has chosen the very deliberate acts of knitting, crocheting and stitching to deliver the unsettled themes of our times and to underscore the timelessness of their sentiments. These slogans heard in the past year have now become a part of the fabric of her life.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Talya Coviello
Talya Coviello
I am a fine art/conceptual self portrait photographer from Los Angeles. My art focuses mainly on mental health; the ups and downs that come with depression and the fear that comes with anxiety. But with that said, my photography is also an escape from those things. I turn my dreams into something others can see. My art is about learning to live and learning to heal. I have a background in film production, where I worked as a production designer and art director briefly- that is when I discovered my passion for photography and photo manipulation. I currently work as an associate producer in the beauty industry.
Exhibition: Rainbow Shift
Coolprettyfreak
Coolprettyfreak
Jina Chae is a Los Angeles-based artist who was born and raised in Korea, where she earned her BA in Textile & Design from Chung-Ang University. She has worked as a fashion designer for 10+ years in Seoul and LA.
Longing to fulfill her dream of becoming an artist, she searched for a way to blend her design skills and experience with her passion for the arts. Her first foray into the art world came in 2018, working as a creative director for an art gallery in Seoul, where she curated multiple exhibitions featuring emerging artists. Now living and working in LA as an artist under the name ‘Coolprettyfreak’, she hopes to empower other women and immigrants to explore the arts.
Exhibition: There From Here, Rainbow Shift
Amy Smith
Amy Smith
Amy Smith is a self-taught contemporary artist always evolving. Her artwork includes murals, stencils, collage work, illustrations, digital graphic design, paint, and spray paint, all to create one-of-a-kind pieces that reflect both her passions and fury, juxtaposed through the lens of imagination. While some of my work is driven by political, social, and environmental injustice, most reflect my deeply-rooted optimism and belief in the power of the feminist spirit, unity and love.
Exhibition: Spring Benefit and Art Auction, Rainbow Shift
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