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RECENT ARTICLES & EVENTS

FEATURE ON LA TIMES FOR NATURAL SELECTIONS

STRANDS AT THE CULVER CITY ART WALK 2017

New work “clouds” on view through December @theboxjelly 📷 @nanciamaka • Spatial Dysplasia Artists: Amabelle Aguiluz | Kat Kazlauskas | Kevon Schiessel | Juvana Soliven Butoh Dance: Directed by Lori Ohtani, performed by Joy Agner, Willow Chang, Jen Hastings, Gary Higashida, Tammie Kim, Sheryl Nicholson, Lori Ohtani & Rex Vicek Curated by: Kóan Jeff Baysa
Spatial Dysplasia on view through December 2018 @theboxjelly Thank you for the love and support! • The inspiration from this show is ultimately derived from the medical term ‘proprioception’ that some identify as the sixth or seventh human sense. It is the ability of the body to locate itself in space. Its antonyms are dislocatability and displacement, and its medical analog dysplasia, alluding to a misalignment or dysfunction, metaphors for the current crises of migration over borders fueled by racism and divisiveness and the degradation of memory in neurodegenerative conditions like Alzheimer's. As individual works of art, they locate themselves in space in relation to the viewer, relating as empty signifiers: celebrated presences or vacated embodiments. • • Artists: Amabelle Aguiluz | Kat Kazlauskas | Kevon Schiessel | Juvana Soliven Butoh Dance: Directed by Lori Ohtani, performed by Joy Agner, Willow Chang, Jen Hastings, Gary Higashida, Tammie Kim, Sheryl Nicholson, Lori Ohtani & Rex Vicek Art Director: Nanci Amaka Curated by: Kóan Jeff Baysa
Spatial Dysplasia on view through December 2018 @theboxjelly Special thanks to @nanciamaka & @metacurator for putting together the artist talk. ☁️ • Artists: Amabelle Aguiluz | Kat Kazlauskas | Kevon Schiessel | Juvana Soliven Butoh Dance: Directed by Lori Ohtani, performed by Joy Agner, Willow Chang, Jen Hastings, Gary Higashida, Tammie Kim, Sheryl Nicholson, Lori Ohtani & Rex Vicek Curated by: Kóan Jeff Baysa
Thank You KJ Baysa @metacurator @theboxjelly and @nanciamaka for creating space for this work to exist. • Spatial Dysplasia Artists: Amabelle Aguiluz | Kat Kazlauskas | Kevon Schiessel | Juvana Soliven Butoh Dance: Directed by Lori Ohtani, performed by Joy Agner, Willow Chang, Jen Hastings, Gary Higashida, Tammie Kim, Sheryl Nicholson, Lori Ohtani & Rex Vicek Curated by: Kóan Jeff Baysa
Excited to be included in this exhibition. Wishing I was in Honolulu to celebrate! #Repost @nanciamaka ・・・ I'm so honored to have been part of bringing this exhibition together. Please join me @theboxjelly this Friday 9/28 at 5:30pm for the opening of 'Spatial Dysplasia'. There will be a performance at 6:30 by a butoh dance group. Butoh, for those unfamiliar, is an avant garde dance form that developed in Japan post World War II. *** Artists: Amabelle Aguiluz | Kat Kazlauskas | Kevon Schiessel | Juvana Soliven Butoh Performers: Joy Agner, Willow Chang, Jen Hastings, Gary Higashida, Tammie Kim, Sheryl Nicholson, Lori Ohtani & Rex Vicek Curated by: Kóan Jeff Baysa
A new installation I made will be part of a group exhibition ‘Spatial Dysplasia‘ curated by KJ Baysa @metacurator Opening on Friday, September 28 at the WhiteBox in Honolulu, Hawaii.