Rituals

I am a Mexican American artist that resides in Long Beach. Most of my work is figurative and depicts Mexicans from el Rancho existing in North America.

Exhibition: Rituals

Genavee Gómez (b. 1996) is a painter originally from Wilmington Ca., now residing in San Pedro, Ca. She received her BFA in Drawing and Painting from California State University Long Beach. Her body of work focuses on confidence and the comfort in one’s own skin. Growing up as a young Mexican American girl, she reached an age where displaying “flaws,” that many in her own Mexican and American cultures did not find appealing or attractive, were ideas that she both struggled with and found beautiful. This became the subject she wanted to speak about most in her paintings.

Exhibition: Rituals

Marcus Cota is a Queer Chicanx visual artist who utilizes the use of traditional printmaking practices and contemporary technological processes to create visual representations of restorative justice.

Exhibition: Rituals

Exhibition: Rituals

Bianca Argueta (she/her) is a Salvadoran descendant artist who resides in Los Angeles, California. Argueta received her Painting and Drawing BFA degree from Cal State Long Beach. Her artistic practice investigates inner city life and intergenerational trauma caused by war and a dysfunctional home. In recent work, Argueta samples images from various sources, recollecting memories from childhood that coexist with cartoon characters. Her artistic influences include Jean-Michel Basquiat, Jenny Saville, and Kerry James Marshall.

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Kadie DiCarlo currently practices at Icehouse Arts Complex in Long Beach, California.

Kadie’s affinity for finding effective color combinations with oil and acrylic paint largely sums up her studio practice. She enjoys creating smaller works that later become larger mental landscapes to therapeutically release her mental battles with chronic obsessive-compulsive disorder. Kadie uses her cerebral experiences to create images and atmospheres that are endlessly tangled.

Alongside her art practice, Kadie is a multi-instrumentalist and has performed under the moniker, Jagged Jein. Her band performs locally and produces new music regularly.

Exhibition: Rituals

I am an interdisciplinary L.A. based artist that works with paintings, print media, digital media, and artist books. My work embraces the art tradition from Mesoamerica to explore how historical events are interconnected and reverberate into the present. My work blends pre-Columbian iconography, Catholicism, generational myths, oral folklore, and contemporary pop culture to collapse the centuries separating the different artforms. My palette, depiction of the human body and surreal environments are influenced by the surviving pre-Columbian codices, murals, and ceramic figurines to affirm my presence as a Chicano in the United States and to reclaim my indigenous history.

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Julie Beloussow draws from contemporary visionary art and psychedelic aesthetics in her paintings, which feature iridescent pigments and unconventional materials like holographic foil and marbled papers. Through her work she explores themes of perception, neurodiversity, and identity.

Living with conditions such as ADHD and autism, Beloussow reflects her experience of navigating the world as neurodivergent. Fasciation, a genetic anomaly affecting the appearance of plants, frequently appears in her work as a symbol of neurodiversity. Her art is a deeply personal and introspective narrative motivated by the desire to bring visibility to an often-invisible community.

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Michael is a Vietnamese artist based in LA/OC. His work focuses on the yearning and the frustration of wanting a lover. Roses and thorns are turned into a double edge sword.

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Molly Champlin is an artist and educator living and working in San Gabriel. Her process is generative–modeling and collaging curious digital debris to animate her oil paintings, video, and installation work. Employing glitches, abstraction, and a painterly love of light and color, she searches for traces of the metaphysical in virtual and real landscapes. Her work has been featured in group shows in the Bay Area, Los Angeles, and Japan. She has been the recipient of the Kleefeld Scholarship, Nell O. Fog Endowed Scholarship, and the Cal Alumni Association Leadership Award. She has a BA in English from UC Berkeley and an MFA in Drawing and Painting from CSU Long Beach.

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Sarah Brown (b. 2000, lives and works in Southern California) is a realism oil painter. Her work acts as a diary of the beauty in everyday life. Working out of her grandmothers 1930’s home, she finds inspiration from the memories and history that the house holds and captures it with her own contemporary spin.

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Derick Edwards is an artist from Central Coast California who graduated with his BFA in drawing and painting from California University Long Beach. With over 10 years of drawing and painting experience, he has had work shown in Central Coast California, Long Beach, Los Angeles, and New York. He utilizes figures to help tell narratives centered around time, memory, and nostalgia.

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Ash Anderson is an illustrator and graphic designer based in West Hollywood, CA. His illustration practice explores biology and its connection to human culture and experience, with a particular focus on folklore. He received his BFA in illustration from California State University, Long Beach.

Exhibition: Rituals

Kristen Huizar is an artist born and raised in Commerce who has recently graduated, earning her BFA in Drawing & Painting at CSULB. She works with ink, wax pastels, acrylic paint, thread, and graphite on a variety of surfaces. The texture and surfaces she uses as ground encompass what makes up her environment. Derived from time spent with close friends, new and old, intimacy is depicted through routines and patterns presented through objects and figures embedded in real-life environments. Her work is implicitly autobiographical by elevating the small, everyday moments of fleeting life.

Exhibition:  Rituals

Exhibition: Rituals