Oolong Gallery Radio

March 10

install views:
https://conta.cc/431Ta26

reeception images:
https://brentgamos13.pixieset.com/oolonginmarch

Alexandro Segade of My Barbarian and current artist Hiroshi McDonald Mori will host a performance in conversation. Please join us this Sunday at 2pm in the warehouse gallery for the event. Mori and Segade have previously worked together, and the latter also taught Mori at Bard in the MFA program.

Alexandro Segade is assistant professor of art at UCSD. Segade served as cochair of Film/Video at Bard College MFA from 2014-2020, was a distinguished lecturer in New Genres at Hunter College, and has taught at Parsons, The New School, Cooper Union, Columbia, NYC; and University of Southern California, LA. He holds an MFA in Interdisciplinary Studio Art at UCLA.

Oolong Gallery Presents:
Hiroshi McDonald Mori's [4: 画像:Simulacrum] Exhibition
Jan 27 - Mar 10

Encinitas, CA - Oolong Gallery is thrilled to announce the upcoming solo exhibition, [4: 画像:Simulacrum] featuring the innovative and thought-provoking works of artist Hiroshi McDonald Mori. A native of San Diego, Mori recently relocated back home after thirteen years living and working abroad in Berlin, Germany where he produced a large body of salt print, mixed media works on thick aquarelle paper. The works have been shipped overseas to be premiered at Oolong Gallery, located at 687 2nd St, Encinitas, CA 92024, with the opening reception scheduled for January 27, 2024 from 3 - 5 pm.

Hiroshi McDonald Mori's artistic journey is a captivating exploration of material, chemistry, and force, guided by an instinctive trust in desire and a relentless questioning of rationality. In [4: 画像:Simulacrum] Mori delves into the unique process of salt printing, where the interplay of water purity, temperature, pH, UV light concentration, and weather creates variations that mirror the diverse landscapes and moments captured through his lens. Mori's artistic language extends beyond traditional boundaries, framed by his deep contemplation of the world.

Mori's work also draws inspiration from diverse cultural influences, ranging from the post-war artistic movements of Gutai and Bauhaus to ancient crafts and the concept of Japanese iitoko-dori (いいとこ取り), where contradiction is embraced to sustain incompatibilities. The modularity of Mori's salt prints invites active engagement, disrupting conventional viewing experiences and challenging viewers to reassess their perspectives. This intentional disruption is echoed in his commitment to sprezzatura, a studied nonchalance that seeks to balance impact with an understated effort, steering away from the overwhelming labor often associated with the sublime.

Through experimentation and improvisation, Mori seeks to maximize his vocabulary and syntax of material, chemistry, and force. His work embraces an aesthetic that rewards ambivalence and transformation, with the goal of achieving a non-violent iconoclasm. The exhibition's epilogue in the foyer contemplates the concept of Chic, appreciating the ephemeral and acknowledging the power and grace inherent in fleeting moments. [4: 画像:Simulacrum] invites viewers to engage with Mori's unique perspective, questioning the frames that shape their own subjectivity and encouraging a profound consideration of beauty, truth, and change.

About Oolong Gallery:
Oolong Gallery is a contemporary art space dedicated to showcasing emerging and established artists pushing the boundaries of artistic expression. Located at 687 2nd St, Encinitas, CA 92024, the gallery is committed to providing a platform for thought-provoking and innovative works.

https://conta.cc/3SjVRsh
above link leads to press release with links for the two exhibitions:
exhibition views | sd magazine review | kent viewing room | mcphail viewing room

thanks to Brandon Browning of the band SANDS for managing the audio for this live artist talk and polishing the recording, intro music by GAS.

Please join us Saturday, January 13, 2024 from 2 - 4 pm in the ANNEX 1 warehouse gallery, functioning as a kunsthalle, for the sixth Oolong artist talk to conclude the inaugural exhibition on view in Encinitas. The featured moderator this round is Munro Galloway, artist and associate professor of art, who will lead a panel discussion with both current artists present:

Natalja Kent in Kunsthalle · Nick McPhail in Foyer
a two person solo presentation
on view through January 14, 2024
gallery hours Wed - Sun 11 - 5 pm
by appt: info@oolongallery.com

Munro Galloway is an artist and associate professor based in Los Angeles, CA. A solo exhibition of his work will be on view at the University of Redlands, Redlands, CA, in January 2024. Recent exhibitions include a one-person exhibition of paintings at Le Passage in Paris, a two-person exhibition at Basket Books & Art in Houston, Texas, and the exhibition "Dust: Plates of the Present" at the Pompidou Center, Paris, France. Past solo exhibitions include "California House" at The Tack Room, La Verne, California; “Chairs Missing” at Studio 10, Brooklyn, New York; “Four Years” at the University of Redlands Art Gallery, Redlands, California; and “Green River” at Murray Guy, New York, New York. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, Art Press, The Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, The New Yorker, and other publications. He was a co-founder of Soloway, an artist-run gallery in Brooklyn, NY, and is a co-editor and publisher of the zine Modern Pizza. He is an associate professor at the University of Redlands, Redlands, CA.

Natalja Kent is Czech American and was raised in the Washington DC metropolitan area and is now based in LA. In the lineage of the Process Art movement, Kent creates performance constraints for her chromograms. The unique works on view in a major presentation at Oolong Gallery are titled with a process-specific name – chromogram which is a conglomeration of the words chronos (time), chroma (color) and gram (recording / drawing). Kent has been exhibited in the U.S. and internationally: at Tate Liverpool (UK), Carpenter Center for The Visual Arts at Harvard (Boston), Pace Gallery New York (NY), The Berry Art Museum (VA), Hiromi Yoshi Gallery (Japan), The Museum of Museums (Seattle), PS1 and MOMA Queens (NY). In 2021, Kent. was an artist in residence at Google (Mountain View) and Camera Obscura (Santa Monica). Kent’s work has been reviewed or featured in WIRED, ArtNet, Voyage LA Magazine, and Manual/RISD Museum Publications.

Nick McPhail was born and raised in Laingsburg, Michigan and is now based in LA. Nick attended Michigan State University where he studied painting and ceramics, graduating with a BFA in 2006. Since then, he has maintained a consistent practice that has evolved to rely on personal observation and photography as the basis for his intuitive compositions. Recent solo exhibitions include: Reynolds Gallery in Richmond, VA (2023); Massey Klein in New York (2023); Amélie Maison d’Art in Paris (2022); Ochi Projects in Los Angeles (2020); Untitled_1983 in Geneva (2019); and Holiday in Los Angeles (2018). He has completed residencies at Untitled_1983 in Geneva (2019); Ochi Gallery in Ketchum, Idaho (2019); and 100 West Corsicana in Corsicana, Texas (2018). He is a 2023 Hopper Prize Finalist and In 2017 he was awarded a grant to attend a residency at the Vermont Studio Center in Johnson, Vermont. His work is in private collections throughout the United States, Europe, and beyond.

artist talk release: https://conta.cc/3LFeF18

FARBER · BEY · MADOO · RABINOWITZ
COOL SCHOOL (trane of thought)

AUGUST 26 - OCTOBER 7 2023
OOLONG GALLERY
349 N COASTAL HWY 101
SOLANA BEACH CA 92075

recorded in front of a live audience on the gallery terrace with chopper bikes whizzing by on a PCH 101 Saturday, by Brandon Browning of the music band SANDS:

Please join us Sunday October 1 at 2 pm for the fifth artist talk at Oolong. Current painter Adam Rabinowitz and previously exhibited wood sculptor Jason P. David are active participants in the Los Angeles based BOZOMAG art program founded by Danny Bowman. Oolong Gallery welcomes Danny to the San Diego arts community for the first time and as moderator of our artist talk on Sunday. Amanda Farber, Mensah Bey, Ceres Madoo, and Rabinowitz will all be on hand to discuss their work with Bowman and to initiate discourse.
The 20th century LA Cool School worked in a semi-urban abyss between the desert and coast and consisted of a mid-century style that combined both Pop and abstract expressionist influences alongside some homemade ingredients. This predominantly white male art movement produced immense work that has remained inspirational to a myriad of artists working today. Cool School (trane of thought) at Oolong Gallery brings together said new artists and their unique bodies of work, related to a degree but created independently from one another.

Daniel Bowman (b. 1990, Los Angeles) is an art gallerist who founded BOZOMAG in 2017. He received his BA in Fine Arts at the University of California, Los Angeles (2012). Bowman was also co-founder of Gauthier Bowman (a roaming curatorial project in LA & NY), in 2012 & Egyptian Art & Antiques (an art gallery in Beverly Hills) in 2015. In 2016, Egyptian Art & Antiques was named “Best Artist-Run Space in an Unlikely Place” by LA Weekly. BOZOMAG has been featured in ArtForum, BOMB Magazine, Artillery Magazine, Galerie Magazine, KCRW’s Art Insider, Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles (CARLA), & LA Weekly. Since 2022, BOZOMAG has been a member of the New Art Dealers Alliance (NADA).

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press release:
https://conta.cc/3KkQ15d

Please join us August 5 for current artist Minga Opazo at Oolong Gallery, sharing words fresh off her residency at the Bemis Center for Contemporary Arts.
https://www.bemiscenter.org/residents/minga_opazo

· ᴍᴏᴅᴇʀᴀᴛᴏʀ : Justin Duyao
· ꜰᴏᴄᴜꜱ : Minga Opazo
· ᴅɪᴀʟᴏɢ : Christiana Updegraff
· ᴘʀᴇꜱᴇɴᴛ : Peter Stearns

𝕄𝕚𝕟𝕘𝕒 𝕆𝕡𝕒𝕫𝕠 | ℙ𝕖𝕥𝕖𝕣 𝕊𝕥𝕖𝕒𝕣𝕟𝕤
𝘉𝘳𝘦𝘢𝘥 𝘢𝘯𝘥 𝘊𝘩𝘰𝘤𝘰𝘭𝘢𝘵𝘦
through August 12
https://conta.cc/42QWprE

· HereIn Journal review of current show by Duyao
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1rZDq8K18Ks5dZx4suxEL538E1xZoYnok/view?usp=sharing

· statement by Opazo on her work with fungi
https://drive.google.com/file/d/1USmqtPZG9GzKA0iQ4q8s04nLq8Er0I9K/view?usp=drive_link

· Del Mar Times published article
https://www.delmartimes.net/art/story/2023-07-11/new-oolong-gallery-show-explores-textile-waste-uncovers-vista-artists-long-hidden-works

Justin Duyao is an art writer and editor based in San Diego, CA. He holds an M.A. in Critical Studies from the Pacific Northwest College of Art and has been published by Variable West, HereIn Journal, Contemporary Art Review, Los Angeles, Southwest Contemporary, Northwest Review, and The Clackamas Literary Review, among others.

Minga Opazo (b. in Chile; lives and works in Ojai, CA) is a fourth-generation textile crafter who explores the relationship between climate change, contemporary textile production, and Chilean textile history and design. Born in Chile, Minga immigrated to Los Angeles at the age of 16 where she recently completed her MFA at CalArts, following a BFA from UC Berkeley. Opazo questions the textile industry by creating a series of cultural works that explore the idea of solastalgia, a term which describes the mental or existential distress caused by environmental change and living in an era of excess, constantly consuming and throwing away.

Christiana Updegraff is a cross-discipline 3-dimensional artist, born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1979. She completed her MFA from San Diego State University in 2011. She received her BFA in 2007 from Kent State University. Christiana has maintained her studio in Los Angeles and San Diego for the last 15 years. During this time she has been creating and exhibiting work nationwide, as well as teaching Fine Art in higher education in Southern California. >> exhibition pdf from her recent show at Oolong Gallery with Alexandra Carter

Peter Stearns (b. 1945, Woodland, CA; lives and works in North Vista, CA). After 30 years in hiding, Stearns' new figurative paintings explore floating shapes, geometry and rural CA living in surrealist tropes. Peter Stearns' body of work spans four decades and merges autobiography, fantasy, and whimsy with sardonic and spiritual humor, imagery, and themes. As an autodidact painter, the formal possibilities of his art work can be traced back to Second Generation Bay Area Figuration painting — from the influence of Peter's time well spent there at the peak of Haight Ashbury counterculture (1968-1972) but not associated with any formal painting movement.

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press release: https://conta.cc/43MPK3p

many thanks to everyone present 💫 video by Tucker Bass © https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4Uv7MCdFsUc

special thanks to Michael Hanley and Tucker Bass for professional AV recording and post, Margo Yinger for photography and event mgmt

intro / outro music by Aphex Twin 'Bbydhyonchord' on 'Drukqs' (2001)

Alessandra Moctezuma is Gallery Director and Professor of Fine Art at San Diego Mesa College, where she leads the Museum Studies program and teaches courses on Chicano Art. She earned Bachelor of Art and Master of Fine Arts (Painting/Printmaking) degrees from UCLA.

Ms. Moctezuma has extensive experience as a curator, instructor and public art administrator. Besides working as gallery director at San Diego Mesa College, Ms. Moctezuma has curated exhibitions for other art spaces including the Oceanside Museum of Art (Twenty Women: NOW, 2021, Borderless Dreams, 2005 and Through a Lens Sharply, 2006) and unDocumenta (2017) as part of the Getty’s initiative Pacific Standard Time LA/LA and more recently she co-curated a retrospective of Chicana artist Judith F. Baca, Memorias de Nuestra Tierra, for the Museum of Latin American Art, Long Beach (July 2021 – March 2022).

Ms. Moctezuma is actively involved in the San Diego arts community. She represents District 3 in the San Diego Arts Commission. She serves on the board of the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, the Women’s Museum of California and Medium Photography. She is on the advisory committees for the Institute of Contemporary Art San Diego, the Oceanside Museum of Art and the Centro Cultural de la Raza. In past years she has served in the San Diego Foundation Creative Catalyst committee and the City of San Diego Public Arts Committee.

The title Tether alludes to the sensation of being inextricably tethered to the body of others — to their children certainly but also to partners, and to the varying social expectations of artist / mother / woman.

Christiana Updegraff is a cross-discipline 3-dimensional artist, born in Louisville, Kentucky in 1979. She completed her MFA from San Diego State University in 2011. She received her BFA in 2007 from Kent State University. Christiana has maintained her studio in Los Angeles and San Diego for the last 15 years. During this time she has been creating and exhibiting work nationwide, as well as teaching Fine Art in higher education in Southern California.

Alexandra Carter (b. 1985 in Boston) lives and works in San Diego, California. She received an MFA from Goldsmiths University of London in 2015 and a BA from Rhodes College in Memphis in 2009. Recent solo exhibitions include “A Sense of Heat in Her Brain” at Luna Anaïs Gallery Los Angeles (2020), “Berries for Baubo” (2019), and “All gods are hot” (2018) at Radiant Space Los Angeles. Other solo exhibitions include Fusion Gallery (Turin, Italy), Southfork (Memphis), Projecto’ace Foundation (Buenos Aires), and the Memphis Brooks Museum of Art. She has been selected for residency projects nationally and internationally, including the Kone Foundation’s Saari Residence (Mynämäki, Finland), Rogers Art Loft (Las Vegas), KulturKontakt Austria (Vienna), Qwatz (Rome), Graniti Murales (Sicily), Vice~Versa Foundation (Goa, India), RECSIM (Jashipur, India), Galerija-Muzej Lendava (Slovenia), and the Kentucky Foundation for Women (Prospect, KY).

Artist Talk Vol II

Two exhibited artists at Oolong Gallery speak about their practice — in honor of the recent show at the gallery by Claire Chambless.

Exhibition pdf: https://docs.inventory.gallery/1352/lfio5h43/Oolong_BacherChambless_Exhibition.pdf

www.clairechambless.com
www.erinmorrison.com

specials thanks to Christiana Updegraff & Michael Hanley for the production | sound by Vangelis 'Blade Runner Blues' (1982)

Claire Chambless is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist born in Houston, TX and raised in Atlanta, GA. Mostly a sculptor, she also works with sound, video, collage and installation. Claire's recent show at Oolong, ENDGAME, included sculpture and collage works produced between 2020-2023.

Claire Chambless completed her MFA in Art at the California Institute of the Arts in 202), and received her BA from Davidson College in 2012. She has recently exhibited at Sargents Daughters (Los Angeles); MAK Center for Art & Architecture Mackey Apartments (Los Angeles); Oolong Gallery (San Diego); Office Space (Los Angeles); Wonzimer (Los Angeles); Center for the Arts Eagle Rock (Los Angeles); The New Arts Foundation, Spring/Break (Los Angeles); CultureLabLIC/Flux Factory (New York); La MaMa Gallery (New York); M. David & Co. (New York); the New Wight Biennial at the University of California Los Angeles; and the Museum of Contemporary Art of Georgia (Atlanta). Claire has been supported by the City of Atlanta Fulton County Arts and Culture Council, the Walthall Fellowship, and the Lillian Disney Scholarship, among others. Her work has been featured in Artforum online, Artillery, Tzvetnik, LA Weekly, Burnaway and ArtsATL, among others. Claire currently lives and works in downtown Los Angeles.

Erin Morrison (b. 1985, Little Rock, AR) studied painting and sculpture at Memphis College of Art and UCLA, where she received her MFA in 2014. Her work is informed by issues of Social Justice, Reproductive Rights, and the implications of the expansion of Western Colonialism on global relations. Often spanning the languages of abstraction and representationalism, she embraces analog methods of production including gypsum cast bas-relief, printmaking and ceramics as a means of bringing in the viewer to have a physical dialog with the intricacies of her work.

Morrison has acted as co-curator for multiple events including Collect For Choice, fundraiser for The Brigid Alliance hosted by The Binder of Women (2022); LAMMAHOUSE, hosted exclusively by The C.A.D, Hong Kong (2021); Binder of Women exhibitions Heatwave, Guerrero Gallery, San Francisco, CA, and Good Smoke / Good Poke, 0.0LA (2018)

Her work has been featured in publications including: Hyperallergic, The Hong Kong Economic Journal, The Contemporary Art Digest, Juxtapoz, LA Magazine, FLAUNT, The Los Angeles Times, and New American Paintings.


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