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The Ellsworth Artist Residency Program Annual Exhibition
May 11 - June 29
About
Ellsworth Artist Residency Program Annual Exhibition
Art Share L.A.’s annual Artists in Residence: Ellsworth Artist Residency Program exhibition opens May 11, 2024 at our Legacy Benefit + Art Auction!
Art Share L.A. is showcasing artists from our Ellsworth Artist Residency Program’s 3rd, 4th, and 5th cohorts in our perimeter gallery. The Ellsworth Artist Residency program is dedicated to creating an accessible studio space for artists and is a dynamic opportunity for emerging artists to work and develop their visual art practice. The residency includes professional development opportunities including studio visits with curators, critics, scholars and artists as well as inclusion in a group exhibition in Art Share L.A.’s gallery. A selection committee, consisting of professionals in the field, including curators, scholars, and artists, reviews all the submitted applications.
Featured artists:
Pável Acevedo
Estefania Ajcip
Erik Barrios-Recendez
Andrés Janacua
Sara Janti
Bea Lamar
Victoria May
Michael Shaw
Ramón Vargas
Opening: May 11, 2024 | 6PM-10PM
On view: May 11 – June 29, 2024
Art Share L.A. perimeter gallery
801 E 4th Place, Los Angeles CA 90013
Gallery hours: Tues – Sat, 1PM – 5PM
Artwork is available for acquisition online now.
The Ellsworth Artist Residency is supported in part by a generous grant from the Eastside Arts Initiative.
Additional support provided by Prince Street Pizza
About the Artists
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Michael Shaw
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Michael Shaw
Michael Shaw is a Los Angeles-based artist and activist. Shaw is also the creator and host of The Conversation Art Podcast, launched in 2011. His work was most recently included in the exhibitions Sociality at LA Tate gallery in 2023, and It’s My House! at the Porch Gallery in Ojai, CA, in 2022, and has been exhibited throughout the U.S. He is the recipient of a Puffin Foundation Grant and the Rauschenberg Emergency Grant in 2022, the Center for Cultural Innovation’s Quick Grant in 2021, and the New Student Award at Hunter College, where he received his MFA. He has been a member of the LA Tenants Union since 2019, where he advocates for tenant empowerment, helps guide tenants in crisis and attempts to address the more egregious threats that further gentrification. You can learn more about his work in his recently published, “Urban Theater in Plain Sight: The Drama and Ceaseless Advancement of Gentrification in Los Angeles,” in Space on Space magazine.
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Pável Acevedo
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Pável Acevedo
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Victoria May
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Victoria May
Victoria May works primarily with textiles in conjunction with other humble found materials, creating unusual mergings that reflect the tension between calculated human efforts and random forces. Her work is fueled by an intense curiosity about putting disparate things together and working with surplus items and unwanted materials that come across her path. Combining raw and refined motifs and processes, these material explorations question a societal obsession with newness and appearances. She frequently uses layering, exposing deeper strata or a surprising interior. The works attempt to pull back and find beauty and tenderness in the imperfect or even the abject, but also in the absurdity of human endeavors. May has taught a wide range of art classes in college and workshop settings. She is an avid advocate for material reuse in art and community.
Her work has been exhibited at art institutions in the Bay Area and more locally at the Maloof Foundation, Craft Contemporary, Roberts Projects, Quotidian and other Los Angeles galleries. She has had residencies at Jentel Arts in Wyoming, Kala in Berkeley, California, the Lucid Art Foundation in Inverness, California and the Camera Obscura Art Lab in Santa Monica, California. She received a Santa Cruz County Rydell Fellowship and was named a Silicon Valley Artist Laureate.
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Bea Lamar
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Bea Lamar
Born in Beirut, Lebanon, on soil infused with ancestral knowledge, Bea Lamar’s earliest memories shimmer in candlelight, sketching alongside her father. This intimate haven laid the foundation for her lifelong dedication to art, advocacy, and storytelling.
Immigrating to the United States, her initial focus on aeronautical engineering shifted towards a more spiritually resonant journey that combines science and art. Lamar’s work explores the seen and the ‘felt’ yet-to-be-seen, capturing a delicate equilibrium between the mystical and the pragmatic, the individual and the collective.
As an artist, seeker, and advocate, her interdisciplinary art practice employs a diverse range of mediums to dissect urgent global issues like climate migration and societal inequality. Works such as “Silence” and “Absence Speaks” navigate the intersection of the personal and the political, utilizing art to delve into topics like PTSD, incarceration, and environmental challenges.
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Estefania Ajcip
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Estefania Ajcip
Estefania Ajcip is an artist based in Los Angeles, California. Through painted portraiture, she explores childhood experiences and the absence of a father figure. Throughout the art-making process, she uses hopeless letters that she wrote as a little kid to her father and photographs of her nieces to compensate for the past she never had with him. These letters would contain wishes and promises like any other child and father will do to endure the absence of a loved one. While reading, she noticed that immigration played a key part in her letters. They tell the disrupted yet fragile story of a father and a little girl who lived miles away from each other. Estefania works with 3D, and mixed media. The 3D objects have an emotional connection to the past, and the rich color to her Mayan culture. Part of her process involves the use of child-like drawings symbolizing the dualities of looking into the past and present. Although the letters are a constant reminder of the melancholic passage of memory, it took a mother, and two little girls to adjust to life without a husband and a father, a journey her family shares with millions of other immigrants who seek better opportunities and living conditions. Every letter, and every effort was a beautiful journey, it was a way of getting closer to Papi (dad).
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Andrés Janacua
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Andrés Janacua
Weaving provides a direct link to Andrés Janacua’s Indigenous past with the currents of cultural politics today. Echoing the patterns and textiles within his P’urhépecha community, they have become formative vehicles for him to exercise weaving as symbols of Indigeneity and its discontents. Janacua is invested in the conditions of subjecthood through means of tradition and how this may frame contemporary identities. “That is, if by working in a customary means anchors Indigeneity to the past, how will we ever be contemporary?”
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Erik Barrios-Recendez
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Erik Barrios-Recendez
Erik Barrios-Recendez, also known as E. Barrios, is a Chicanx LGBTQIA+ artist from Los Angeles whose artistic journey is a testament to the transformative power of art aimed at rewriting and complicating narratives that historically excluded LGBTQIA+ voices. Committed to unearthing hidden stories shrouded by the passage of time, Barrios celebrates the resiliency of the creative spirit to overcome adversity. Drawing inspiration from archives, art history, and realms of joy and desire, Barrios crafts non-linear forms of storytelling that rebel against traditional patriarchal structures. Their work transcends mere expression, catalyzing open conversations and fostering understanding of our contemporary world’s diversity through collage, sculpture, video, and painting.
A recent Berkeley Art Practice undergraduate program graduate, Barrios has made outstanding contributions, earning a place in the UC Berkeley Art Practice Honors Program 2023 cohort. E. Barrios’s art has been showcased at esteemed venues such as the Berkeley Art Museum and Pacific Film Archive, Worth Ryder Gallery, and Vincent Price Art Museum. Their recent acceptance into the Spring 2024 Ellsworth Artist in Residency cohort at Art Share L.A. marks another significant milestone in their artistic journey.
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Ramón Vargas
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Ramón Vargas
Los Angeles artist Ramón Vargas makes paintings that draw from his own life experiences to amplify and investigate the cultural realities of Brown communities. His figurative paintings blend realism with a surreal sense of color and place, often incorporating heavy symbolism, repeating patterns and flat geometrical elements. Utilizing a representational approach, Ramón alternately celebrates and subverts prevailing concepts of identity, tradition and interpersonal relationships. Throughout his career, he has held arts-related administrative, faculty and consulting positions for non-profit and grassroots organizations, and is a known mentor for arts education and community outreach in Los Angeles and Orange County. In addition to painting, he is also a muralist and printmaker and has shown his work in Los Angeles, New York and throughout California.
Exhibition: Inner Links
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Sara Janti
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Sara Janti
Born in Tehran, Iran, Sara Janti is a mixed media artist and jewelry designer who currently lives and works in Southern California.
Sara has always had a deep connection to creating objects, her recent works tell her stories of life and own experience as an Iranian woman who is living in diaspora.
Influenced by the recent movements in Iran and the role of Iranian women leading the movement, by mixing images from old Iranian artifacts and self portraits, she has unveiled a series of works that describe Iranian women who are fighting for their own basic human rights. Her mixed media pieces are a reflection of the current status in what is happening and how it is affecting lives.
Exhibitions: There From Here, Inner Links
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