Bloom 2013 < Return to Exhibitions May 11 - June 29 SuperCallaFragileMysticEcstasyDioecious: Cole Case, Amir H. Fallah, Penelope Gottlieb and Roland Reiss Sharon Suhovy: Ambrosia Elena Manferdini Jennifer Vanderpool/ Patrick Melroy: Astro Flowers Kathleen Elliot: Living Flame Janice Tieken: Orchid Requiem Susan Sironi: Nothing Domestic Rebecca Niederlander: We are Stardust, We are Golden. And We Have to Find our Way Back to the Garden Penelope Gottlieb Susan Sironi Kathleen Elliot Rebecca Niederlander Janice Tieken Learn More Case Niederlander Vanderpool Manferdini Elliot Tieken Suhovy SuperCallaFragileMysticEcstasyDioecious: Cole Case, Amir H. Fallah, Penelope Gottlieb and Roland Reiss SuperCallaFragileMysticEcstasyDioecious highlights the work of four Los Angeles artists who synthesize artistic and ecological concerns through the painting of flowers. Cole Case, Amir H. Fallah, Penelope Gottlieb and Roland Reiss bring disparate painting approaches and varying cultural associations together as an artistic response to the world’s concentrically dizzying spin. “Whereas older traditions of botanical art and still life painting involved calm, studio-bound reflections of natural beauty and visual order, a new paradigm seems appropriate in the more fragile condition of the world in the early 21st century. We’re in a state of accelerated change, possibly teetering on some sort of apocalyptic brink.” -Penelope Gottlieb Sharon Suhovy: Ambrosia Sharon Suhovy sculpts sumptuous three dimensional paintings with cake-frosting utensils. Her sculptures may reflect structures that are familiar in historical architecture and almost always include the use of classic flowers like the rose as a metaphor for beauty. Elena Manferdini Elena Manferdini’s site specific installation is a new addition to the MOAH permanent collection. This acquisition was made possible with funds from the Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation. Jennifer Vanderpool/ Patrick Melroy: Astro Flowers This site specific installation recontextualizes the historic propaganda of the Cold War Space Race, imaging an alternative history that subverts patriarchal, nationalistic imagery with botanical iconography – the rocket ship for the flower. Thematically, the work acknowledges Lancaster’s role in space technology, while in a tongue and cheek manner suggesting the beautification of space is as worthy a goal as manifest destiny of unknown galaxies and global dominance. Kathleen Elliot: Living Flame Kathleen Elliot lives in two worlds: the “real” one of luscious flora, fruits and vegetables and in her own Garden of Eden. Her works in glass exhibited at MOAH arose from a great love of plants, their life cycles, the beauty of all of their parts – leaves, seed pods, flowers, bark, etc – and the spiritual connection she feels when she is in nature. Janice Tieken: Orchid Requiem California photographer Janice Tieken’s series Orchid Requiem focuses on the beauty of orchids and other flora after their life cycle is finished. This body of work won the International Silver Prize for Art and Science of Color. Susan Sironi: Nothing Domestic Susan Sironi’s altered garden books are fantastical botanical dioramas. Leftover cuttings from the altered books form the basis for Sironi's "Garden Collage" series of mixed-media wall work. Romantic looking floral bouquets are overlaid with Sironi's handwritten stream of consciousness texts which are modified -- leaving us to ponder the poetic content. Rebecca Niederlander: We are Stardust, We are Golden. And We Have to Find our Way Back to the Garden As an artist, Rebecca Niederlander’s practice is founded in the relationship of the individual to the larger whole. Her art contains an aesthetics of multiples, a commitment to the singular element and how it fits into a larger balanced context of many. Her works invite the viewer to participate on an active level by creating pieces of their own within the installation that add to the whole of Niederlander’s work. Rebecca Niederlander is the Community Engagement Artist working in conjunction with sculptor Brad Howe on the new Los Angeles County Multi Ambulatory Care Center scheduled to open in Lancaster in 2014. Sironi View or Download the Bloom 2013 Exhibition Catalog by clicking on the cover image or here.

< Back Mother Comes to Venus North Gallery Zackary Drucker Zackary Drucker is a Los Angeles-based independent artist, cultural producer, activist, and filmmaker. Drucker utilizes photography, performance, and video to break downs pre-conceived notions of gender, sexuality, and identity. Drucker’s work explores potentialities for queer and trans futures, utilizing both narrative and non-linear storytelling to imagine new modalities of queer and trans representation. Drucker uses her experiences as a trans woman and those of her collaborators to showcase nuanced and varied accounts of trans existence. Drucker’s photography often accompanies her film practice, functioning as a figurative nexus of her performance and video work. Her photographic practice includes highly personal portraits that explore themes of voyeurism, intimacy, and personal history. Drucker often collaborates with trans matriarchs to explore models of queer motherhood. Her film Mother Comes to Venus, 2018, portrays a fictionalized post-gender Hollywood, envisioning a world where queer and trans people control their own narratives. Powerhouse agent, Venus Allen, grapples with her newfound power and responsibility towards representation and is visited by her spiritual “mother” for guidance. Drucker’s film Unison, 2013-2017, explores multi-generational queer identity. The film’s cast includes the late Mother Flawless Sabrina, a drag queen and queer activist, as well as Drucker’s real-life mother, and Van Barnes, a trans woman and frequent collaborator with Drucker. Dreamlike non-linear sequences of these figures evoke a visual depiction of trans and queer identity over the course of a lifetime. Previous Next

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back to list Sean Banister Sean Banister is an artist from Riverside, California. While growing up in Southern California as a young painter and envisioning an adult life in the art world, Sean’s early years in college steered him from a life in the arts and towards a degree in English and a career in teaching. As he approached 15 years as an English teacher, Sean began working his way to earning a second credential in teaching Art, coinciding with a return to painting as a main priority in his life. Sean’s art education has been a self guided patchwork of sources: foundational classes at Riverside Community College, various workshops in Southern California, along the wealth of online resources have all been woven into his approach to his paintings. Sean reprioritized art in his life in 2019, and by the end of the year he had garnered the attention of gallerists and collectors alike through juried open submission shows and portfolio reviews. This opened the door to working with Thinkspace Gallery in 2020 for his first solo show, and several group exhibitions.

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< Back to ACTIVATION 1/18 Mark Steven Greenfield A Survey, 2001-2021 January 22 - April 17, 2022 Mark Steven Greenfield is a native Angeleno. Born into a military family, he spent his early years in Taiwan and Germany, returning to Los Angeles at the age of 10. Entering into an American adolescence after being abroad gave Greenfield a unique look at the negative stereotyping of African Americans like himself, sparking his interest in the complexities of the Black experience both historically and in contemporary society. Greenfield’s creative process is based on research that delves into topics of Black genealogy, heritage, and cultural representation. His artwork is anchored in aspects of Black history that have been buried, forgotten, or omitted. Mark Steven Greenfield studied at what is now the Otis College of Art and Design and went on to receive a Bachelor’s degree in Education from California State University, Long Beach in 1973. To support his artistic practice, he held various positions as a visual display artist, park director, graphic design instructor, and police sketch artist before returning to school to earn his Master of Fine Arts degree in painting and drawing from California State University, Los Angeles in 1987. Since then, Greenfield has been a significant figure in the Los Angeles arts scene, serving as arts administrator for the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, director of the Watts Towers Arts Center and the Towers of Simon Rodia, director of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and as a board member for the Downtown Arts Development Association, the Korean Museum, and The Armory Center for the Arts — to name a few. Greenfield has been teaching painting and design courses at Los Angeles City College since 1997. Previous Next

back to list Christopher Minsal Christopher Minsal is a Pearblossom artist whose murals can be seen on Pearblossom Highway, the Keppel School District, and Palmdale Blvd. He has also worked for a company called A-MAZE-D installing educational mazes, games, and labyrinths in institutions throughout the nation.

Gabriela Valiente < Back Reborn, Here By Gabriela Valiente Light miniature leaves sprout out of the ground, as one is fallen in the sea of dust and another is swept in dismay, the wind blowing and hushing planting the seed, in a land far away In the darkness of the tainted sky with flashes of white of distant stars that shine at night, may I not be reborn and rejoice in my own delight? In the light of a new day, of a new sun, of the new morning air, like the dew on my leaves which tranquilize me with a light glare. Will I not rejoice in my own fight? I grow and grow in this desert of land, find the skittles and sudden stops of rustling animals in the dry grass, and there I stand, tall and mighty as a trunk that surpasses the storm, so rare and so bold. When the dry season comes, the air becomes an acid that burns down my walls, leaving me weak and wilted. My interior rejoices as the warmth of the water particles surge within me, in the echoes of my stem. Should I not rejoice for the season that brings me mellowie air? All around me, the vast land, glistens like the sunlight on ripened grain, or like the moonlight night reflecting its glow over the horizon of the waters, or like the crystal gleams on snow. I too, glow, with an olive-drab colour, like the multiple feathers of greenie highlights of the birds picking at the dust, The dust picks back with the dry taste of dirt, in cases Picking at small ants coming out of their small homes. The more I live through the seasons, the more I appreciate this nature, Will I not rejoice in the death of my life? Will I not be again reborn into tiny sprouts each time more and more? Thankful I am to nature, Thankfully I live in this far away land. Previous Next

back to list Jayson Bascos Jayson Bascos, also known as “State”, is a local artist whose preferred medium is spray paint. Bascos likes to explore realism and lettering for his subject matter but is never afraid to try different styles. Bascos majored in Chemistry in college, so all his artistic skills were self-taught, with some guidance from his artistic peers. Bascos has been painting for 12 years and is currently working as a tattoo artist and muralist.

back to list Sasha Swedlund Sasha Swedlund is an artist and designer specializing in painting, textiles , and fashion. Her love for art started as a kid after she took a strong interest in calligraphy and hand lettering. As a teenager, she started working as a mural apprentice and then moved to Southern California to study Fine Art at CalArts. During her time there, she perfected her painting skills in various mediums ranging from acrylics and oils to mixed mediums, surface treatments , and fabric manipulation. She then studied abroad at Parsons In Paris and learned about digital printing on fabrics, batik , and other surface treatments. After her undergrad, she worked professionally as a sign artist specializing in freehand lettering and illustration for almost a decade until returning to school to attend FIDM in textile design. While at FIDM she was selected for the school's specialty classes like Mimaki and Chairing Styles. She was most recently selected for the Debut Program (Advanced Fashion Design) reserved for the premier students of the school, to create and produce a small collection from concept to runway.

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