Exhibits - fineartcomplex1101

Rigo Flores drawings show us the political extremes of how bodies are subject to systemic violence by both cartels and government officials. His images are pictures of people that have vanished and body bags that conceal the atrocities of so many lives cut short by circumstances that were not of their own making.

Lisa Von Hoffner: Afterglow

The works of Lisa Von Hoffner enter the discourse of contemporary art by producing a very conflicted notion of space, or rather, they gain their critical purchase by playing with affective delights, subverting bodily pleasures and upending historical references.

Rossitza Todorova: Transluminal

With the debut of Rossitza Todorova's newest project we are entreated to think about the dialogic contradictions of living in this time and place as it is evidenced through the mixing of motifs, like desert sands and salts, folding forms and connective structures, inverse geometries and multiple horizon lines.

Erika Lynne Hanson: wave,

The works of Erika Lynne Hanson are composed from a symbolic language that is bound up in historical references to the landscape while being completely contemporary in their own right. Woven together from abstract indices that slide between signifying pyramids and mountains, sequins and suns, horizon lines and patterned designs...

Peter Bugg: Once Removed

The works of Peter Bugg are engaged with the critique of celebrity, the cult of personality, and the mass aesthetic of consumerism. Through the use of re-appropriated imagery and incisive interventions in form and content, Bugg acts as a surgeon of pop culture caché.

Janet Diaz: Field Riders

The work of Janet Diaz takes on one of the most important issues in cultural and politics today, and that is the concept of the undercommons and the all-too-common exploitation of our most vulnerable laborers.

Mikey Foster Estes: Private Rainbows

Mikey Foster Estes work is focused on time, politics and privacy. Referencing the history and struggles of the LGBTQplus community, his serendipitous imagery touches on where the personal gestures and larger symbolic acts come together to create new, more inclusive models of meaning-making.

Jonathan Marquis Earth Eaters

Marquis's work addresses both the peaks and valleys of art history as well as what it means to live life in the afterglow of peak oil, with so many growing valleys left dry by erosion and rapid climate change stretching out before us.

Far East of Eden draws on the story of Senator James Duval Phelan, the first popularly elected California Senator. Noting a disturbing parallel between Senator Phelan’s nativist views and the ethnic and religious intolerance that has gained currency in our contemporary political discourse, Bruce Yonemoto and Karen Finely were inspired to utilize the events of yesterday to examine the policies of today and affect change for tomorrow.

RJ Ward: Apocalypse A-Go-Go

The recent video works of RJ Ward use different cinematic tropes as their raw working material, which are than transposed into various forms of real-time digital abstraction.

Hollis Cooper: World Without End

The paintings, installations and video works of Hollis Cooper are invested in the haptic and the optic construction of space in a way that privileges neither while questioning both.

Sean Deckert: Reflective Properties

Sean Deckert has been creating photographic works that capture something of our changing relationship to energy on a personal, global and cosmological scale. By using recombinant methods, such as time-lapse exposures, a sense of simultaneity and pictorial superimposition, Deckert has made a dynamic catalog of work that addresses the role that photography can play in documenting what exists at the limits of the visible.

Malena Barnhart: Video Works 2012-2015

The video works of Malena Barnhart offer us a cartographic look at the hidden presuppositions that structure gender identifications and their attending expectations.

Emily Ritter: Habitual Consumption

Emily Ritter's work is performative, accumulative, and subversive for engaging in a politics of anesthetization around what many people would consider to be an act or actions that are habitually associated with the greatest degree of disinterested feelings, i.e., the regime of disposable objects.

Shiva Aliabadi, Abshar: Cascade

The newest works by Shiva Aliabadi forward a long history of critical projects that are invested in touching on the limits of ephemeral experience, challenging the temporal coordinates of presentism, and creating the conditions that allow us to see and feel the world around us, otherwise.

Molly Koehn’s art practice consists of working with the uncomfortable, the comedic and the artist as a figure of concern. What is uncomfortable in Koehn’s work is that she returns us to looking at the immediate problems in our surrounding environment with a fresh eye, whether in the urban terrain or the greater world of nature.

Micah White Speaks!

Micah White, the head of Occupy Wall Street and the founder of the Activist Graduate School, speaks about art, the Post-Occupy condition and his new book, The End of Protest: A New Playbook for Revolution.

The Curators of the Mexi-Cali Biennial talk with Daniel Ruanova live!

Ed Gomez speaks with Daniel Ruanova about the controversy his piece caused on four major news stations, the premise behind the exhibition This Machine Kills________, and the state of American politics in the wake of the election of the 45th president.