Li is an artist whose playful and fiercely optimistic work questions geographic and cultural boundaries and defines identity on her own terms.
Castañeda H’s Ayyy Hermanas is a virtual reality hospital-night club. Let’s take a tour.
Asa Mendelsohn on Dillon Chapman
With her rephotographs, Chapman is building an index of looking that intercepts historical, queer relationships between artist and model.
Lara Bullock on Joe Yorty
In Yorty’s work, we encounter the freedom offered up by a “queer space” that exists in the present and that allows us to move past fixed notions.
Anthony Graham on Angie Jennings
Jennings explores visibility, embodiment, and the unseen forces at work in contemporary systems of power.
One Work: Naomi Nadreau
Naomi Nadreau’s vacuity detriment carries ancient knowledge while portending a cyborgian future.
Portfolio: Taylor Chapin
Self-aware and humorous, Taylor Chapin examines the ways in which consumerism has reached a point of fetishized ecstasy.
One Work: Janelle Iglesias
Iglesias investigates La Jolla’s colonialist history and present-day utopian image.
Evan Apodaca with HereIn
Apodaca talks with HereIn about the histories that the world chooses to remember and those it chooses to forget.
Matthew Bacher with HereIn
Unsettling and funny, Matthew Bacher’s paintings direct attention to the tortuous absurdity of living in the human body.