Have you ever dreamed of playing soccer with Trump’s head? Art activists, artists, weirdo artists, and radicals, punks and metal heads gathered this past weekend for FREEDOM KICK art Exhibition, hosted by INDECLINE and SUPERCHIEF. It was a night brimming with creativity and defiance, as teams kicked the oversized Trump head to score goooaals while a DJ spun old-school electro music, creating a vibrant atmosphere.
Text & Snapshots Julian Lucas
“Photography does not sell!” Well, that is an old myth that has lived within this region for far too long. And last weekend the exhibition titled “Shooters” headed by the young Marlon Del Rio known by his Instagram name @the.dirtbag killed that old-tired ass myth.
The exhibition held at the Enterprise Building in San Bernardino consisted of San Bernardino photographers, including photographers from the Pacific Northwest and the east coast. The photographic works on display featured an array of subject matter. From west coast car culture, portraits of beautiful people, images of the mundane, and my favorite subject protest images from the Northwest. “Shooters” drew a crowd of at least 300 or more photography enthusiasts, family, and friends.
Julian Lucas, is fine art photographer, photojournalist, and creative strategist. Julian also works as a housing specialist which, includes linking homeless veterans to housing. Julian has lived in Chicago, Inglewood, Portland, and the suburbs of Los Angeles County including Pomona.
Ni de aquí, ni de allá, opened this past weekend at Charlie James Gallery. The group exhibition organizers included Charlie James and Ever Velasquez and featured works by 23 artists from LA, NY, Chicago, and the United Kingdom, and included Patrick Martinez, Narsiso Martinez, Shizu Saldamando, and Gabriella Sanchez.
“The show seeks to highlight work that explores the threshold spaces between cultures that exist largely unrepresented in broader cultural expression.”
NI DE AQUÍ, NI DE ALLÁ
by Charlie James and Ever Velasquez
August 28, September 20, 2021.
Julian Lucas, is fine art photographer, photojournalist, and creative strategist. Julian also works as a housing specialist which, includes linking homeless veterans to housing. Julian has lived in Chicago, Inglewood, Portland, and the suburbs of Los Angeles County including Pomona.
Introduction & Photos Julian Lucas
The Exhibition “On Becoming”, presented by Proud Asian Women+ explores prejudices and discrimination and increased violence towards Asian Americans and Pacific Islanders, especially women. Through multidisciplinary artistic focus, each artist draws in the viewer to challenge and provide an alternative way we see. The included exhibition consisted of, photographic studies, sculpture-textile, mixed media, poetry. The exhibit is on view at Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park. On Becoming runs through June 12th, 2021.
ABOUT
“All this time I told myself we were born from war—but I was wrong, Ma. We were born from beauty. Let no one mistake us for the fruit of violence—but that violence, having passed through the fruit, failed to spoil it.” Ocean Vuong, On Earth We’re Briefly Gorgeous
Proud Asian Women+ is honored to present “On Becoming” a multidisciplinary group show exploring the radical acts of simply being seen and becoming free.
A longstanding history of xenophobia in America has kept the voices of Americans from the Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora pushed to the margins. Racist tropes and narrow representation have shaped the American consciousness and the psyches of Asian American Pacific Islander (AAPI) women. The hateful and scapegoating rhetoric of the past four years under the Trump administration stoked a 150% increase in hate crimes against Asian-Americans, which led up to the racially motivated mass murder of six Asian women by a white supremacist on March 16, 2021. AAPI women have one of the highest depression and suicide rates of all racial ethnic groups in the US and yet are 3x less likey to seek help than white Americans. Despite this lack of representation, Americans from the Asian and Pacific Islander diaspora have continued to break through harmful stereotypes and defy old assumptions of agency.
“On Becoming ” is a 4-week exhibition coinciding with Mental Health Awareness Month, Asian-American Pacific Islander Heritage Month, and LGBTQ Pride Month. We asked artists to examine our occupation of liminal spaces, in which we are invisibilized or subject to the white gaze or male gaze, and what it means to become free – mentally, physically, and spiritually. The show challenges viewers to see us in all of our complexity and stand in solidarity with us until we all get free…together..
Proud Asian Women+ is a community-based collective that supports Asian-American creative expression as forms of radical healing, advocacy, and joy.
Julian Lucas, is fine art photographer, photojournalist, and creative strategist. Julian also works as a housing specialist which, includes linking homeless veterans to housing. Julian has lived in Chicago, Inglewood, Portland, and the suburbs of Los Angeles County including Pomona.
Text and Photos Julian Lucas
This past weekend four artists participated in “Connecting Perspectives”, curated by Momo (Yuntong) Wu, held at Progress Gallery in conjunction with Sasse Museum, in the city of Pomona.
Artists, Alex Jansen, Brandon Monkwood, Brandon Monkwood, Evelyn Hang Yin, and Lisa Sega incorporated their theories of artistic practice, which included sculpture, drawing, poetry, reading, photography, and furniture and instrument making were among the works on display in diverse forms, highlighting the relationship between specific disciplines.
According to the press release, the works of art have been consolidated in various analyses and approaches, and that the artwork challenges the concept of the art limit. This exhibition investigates the conventional expectations of fine art as well as the importance of formal education. Artists possess multidisciplinary perspectives which demonstrate the relationship between extensive research and practice, as well as the scope, breadth, and diversity of art.
