One Work: Marianela de la Hoz
Recalling the Mexican ex-voto tradition, De la Hoz’s painting contributes a contemporary take to the historical record of illness.
One Work: Luciano Pimienta
Pimienta entices us to pause and think of the land we stand on, the labor required to live here, and who gets to enjoy this city, to call it home.
One Work: Philip Brun Del Re
In Brun Del Re’s SERVE, every possible association with the word congeals together to form something of a single-word manifesto.
Portfolio: Sylvia Fernández
Fernández explores the boundaries of her own humanness, as an embodied animal whose existence is intertwined with the natural environment around her.
Portfolio: Alexandra Carter
Carter draws on her own past to construct paintings that explore what it means to be a woman and how that identity is separate from, but affected by, her identity as a mother.
Portfolio: Kim Stringfellow
Stringfellow views research as critical to her work, and considers it a responsibility, even a sort of implied obligation, to the site itself and to the viewer/observer/participant.
One Work: Naomi Nadreau
Naomi Nadreau’s vacuity detriment carries ancient knowledge while portending a cyborgian future.
One Work: Juan Miguel Cabrera
Juan Miguel Cabrera uses the traditional medium of watercolor on paper to examine the modern archetype of the commercial break room.
One Work: The De la Torre Brothers
Einar and Jamex De La Torre’s work in blown glass and lenticular imagery signifies the opulent excess of a time that may not last much longer.
Portfolio: Ethan Chan
Chan crafts wearable sculpture that is campy, entertaining, and totally absurd while also offering a pointed critique of the American hero as a social construction.
Portfolio: Andrew Alcasid
On Alcasid’s series, BMT (Blood and Marrow Transplantation), a meditation on time and suffering during the course of aggressive cancer treatment.
Portfolio: Taylor Chapin
Self-aware and humorous, Taylor Chapin examines the ways in which consumerism has reached a point of fetishized ecstasy.
Portfolio: Michelle Montjoy
Montjoy cultivates community and comfort with her large-scale, collaborative weaving projects.
One Work: Janelle Iglesias
Iglesias investigates La Jolla’s colonialist history and present-day utopian image.
Portfolio: Sage Serrano
The familiarity of drawing invites us to question the relationship among the artist, the body, and the chosen materials.
One Work: Kline Swonger
Swonger considers the complicated nature of the relationship between place and home.
Portfolio: Brianna Rigg
Rigg’s work exemplifies the peculiarities of art’s past and future.
One Work: Kaori Fukuyama
In her installation, Shape of Memory, Fukuyama crafts a collective recollection of San Diego’s North Park neighborhood.