Taylor Chapin moderates Sylvia Fernández & Christina Hendershaw in the Oolong Gallery warehouse 6.3.24

press release and installation views: https://conta.cc/3wJ895z Taylor Chapin was born and raised in Encinitas, California. She received a BFA in Painting from San Francisco Art Institute in 2016, and graduated with a MFA in Visual Art from University of California, San Diego in 2022. She has shown her work throughout southern California including solo shows with Quint Gallery, ICA San Diego, the Oceanside Museum of Art, and The Hill Street Country Club. Her work has been included in group shows with Oolong Gallery, the San Diego Library, and False Cast Gallery. She has also recently created public-facing murals in Leucadia and Oceanside as well as the UCSD campus. Chapin lives and works in Oceanside, California. Sylvia Fernández was born in Lima, Perú in 1978, Sylvia Fernández graduated with a gold medal from Escuela Superior de Arte Corriente Alterna in 2002. Her work has been exhibited locally and internationally, including recent shows such as "Dream Syndication" at La Loma Projects in Los Angeles, CA (2024), "Shape Shifting" at Two Rooms in San Diego, CA (2023), and "New Islands" at Tyger Tyger Gallery in Asheville, NC (2023). Since moving to San Diego in 2022, Fernández continues to explore the abstract boundaries of the mind and body in relation to nature. Christina Hendershaw was born in 1983 and raised in San Diego, Christina Hendershaw now lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She holds an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles (2012) and a BFA from The School of The Art Institute of Chicago (2006). Hendershaw’s work has been exhibited in numerous solo and group shows, including solo shows: • "Between, next to and in front of," Ice Gallery at Bread and Salt, San Diego, CA (2014) group exhibitions: • 'Leucadia' Oolong Gallery x the Brown Studio Encinitas, CA (2024) • Tryst Art Fair for Artist-Run-Spaces and Collectives, Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA (2023) • "The Body Is The House We Live In," The Floating Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023) • "All My Friends Are Architecture," Modest Common, Los Angeles, CA (2022) • "Still Figuring Out a Title," Private Residence, Los Angeles, CA (2018)