Thursday, September 26th

Jackson Hunt is an artist working primarily in painting. Hunt’s abstract works utilize a personal archive of images to engage with slippage of memory and image construction as a material process. Combining collage, paint, and mixed media, Hunt examines family histories and representation through an autoethnographic framework and proposes that a painting can contain history with or without legibility.

Jackson Hunt (b. 1988) is a descendant of the Klamath and Modoc Tribes and the Cherokee Nation. He was a resident at the Vermont Studio Center and his work has been featured in New American Paintings. Hunt is a recipient of the 2024 In The Paint Artist Grant. He received his MFA from UC Irvine and is based in Los Angeles.

Thursday, October 3rd

Selene Preciado (she/her) is the Curator and Director of Programs at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions). Prior to this post, she was a Program Associate at the Getty Foundation, where she supported museum and professional development initiatives through Pacific Standard Time and the Getty Marrow Undergraduate Internship program. Preciado has also worked at The Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), the Museum of Latin American Art (MOLAA), Centro Cultural Tijuana, the San Diego Museum of Art, and inSite_05. Preciado’s curatorial practice is research- and history-based, approaching topics such as memory, language, place/diaspora, ritual, and popular culture through experimental perspectives.

Selected curatorial projects include ABUNDANCE, a performance series co-curated with Juan Silverio, presented by LACE at L.A. Dance Project (April 24–26, 2024),
Collidoscope: A de la Torre Brothers Retro-Perspective, at The Cheech Marin Center for Chicano Art and Culture, organized in conjunction with the National Museum of the American Latino (2022–2023, ongoing national tour); Ser todo es ser parte/To be Whole is to be Part, LACE (2020); Desecho, a performance project by Regina José Galindo for Zona Maco, Mexico City (2017), Customizing Language, the inaugural exhibition of the Emerging Curators Program at LACE co-curated with Idurre Alonso (2016); and José Montoya’s Abundant Harvest: Works on Paper/Works on Life, co-curated with Richard Montoya at the Fowler Museum at UCLA.

Thursday, October 10th

Christopher Baliwas (b.1987, Redwood City) received his BA in Music Business from the California State Polytechnic University, Pomona in 2010 and an MFA from the Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts at Bard College in 2022. His central practice of photography is often taken over by other mediums such as sound and sculpture. Concerned with legacies, labor, and figures and histories of the underground, “Skin 2 skin”, his first and most recent solo exhibition at Theta, New York (2024), engaged with these themes in an attempt to inspire alternative senses of the world. Group exhibitions include grunt gallery, Vancouver (2024); Human Resources, Los Angeles (2023); Theta, New York (2023); and two-person exhibition with artist Woojae Kim at Malaspina Printmakers, Vancouver (2022). Under the alias, reallynathan, Baliwas released the album “O” (2020), and co-produced the mix series “Raise the Flag:” (2018) on NTS Radio alongside the artist formerly known as Slauson Malone. His work has been written about in publications including The New York Times and XXL. He currently lives in Los Angeles with his partner, Andrea Sipin, and their 2 children, Naima and Amari.

Thursday, October 17th

Karl Haendel is an artist who makes drawings, installations, films, and public projects. He received a BA from Brown University in 1998 and a MFA from UCLA in 2003, in addition to attending the Whitney Independent Study Program and the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. He will be the subject of solo museum exhibitions at the Kimball Art Center (Park City) later this year and the Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art (Los Angeles) in 2025. He has had solo shows at Human Resources (Los Angeles), Locust Projects (Miami), Museo de Arte de El Salvador, MOCA (Los Angeles), and Utah Museum of Contemporary Art (Salt Lake City). He has been included in the Biennial of the Americas (2015), Whitney Biennial (2014), Biennale de Lyon (2013), Prospect New Orleans (2011), and California Biennial (2008, 2004). His work can be found in the collections of the Art Gallery of Ontario (Toronto), Astrup Fearnley Museum of Modern Art (Oslo), Colección Jumex (Mexico City), Collection Lambert (Avignon), Fogg Art Museum (Cambridge), Hammer Museum (Los Angeles), Henry Art Gallery (Seattle), Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Kunsthalle Bielefeld, Museum of Contemporary Art (Los Angeles), Museum of Modern Art (New York), Pérez Art Museum (Miami), Solomon R. Guggenheim Museum (New York), Walker Art Center (Minneapolis), and Whitney Museum of American Art (New York). He has been the recipient of grants from the Pollock Krasner Foundation and the California Community Foundation. He is represented by Vielmetter, Los Angeles, and Wentrup, Berlin, and lives and works in Los Angeles.

Thursday, October 24th

For over 25 years Jane Callister has exhibited in many notable exhibitions including “Cosmic Lingerie” at Gallerie Anton Weller, Paris, France in 2001; The 1st Prague Biennale at the Veletrizni Palace Prague, Czech Republic in 2003; “Extreme Abstraction” at the Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, New York in 2005; “Step into Liquid” (curated by Dave Hickey for the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design in Santa Monica, CA in 2005; “Space-rocks” at Susanne Vielmetter: Los Angeles Projects and the 2006 California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, CA, as well as exhibitions such “British Invasion” at MOAH (Museum of Art and History), Lancaster, CA 2016; “Art Toronto: Focus on Los Angeles”, 2017. She had recent solo exhibitions at Royale Projects, Los Angeles in 2018 as well as “It Started With a Crocofish: “New Drawings by Jane Callister” at the VITA Arts Center, Ventura, CA in 2019. She was included in the exhibit “Common Ground: Artists reimagining Community” at the William Roland Art Gallery” at Cal Lutherin University, 2022. Callister’s work has also been included in numerous museum and gallery exhibitions in Los Angeles, New York, Mexico City, San Francisco, Chicago, Sweden, Austria, London and Germany.
Callister’s work has been featured in notable publications including: “Vitamin P: New Perspectives in Painting” published by Phaidon Press, 2002; “Abstract Painting: Concepts and Techniques” by Vicky Perry published by Watson & Guptil, 2005 and “LA Artland” by Chris Krauss published by Blackdog Press, London, 2006. Her work is also in numerous private collections as well as The New Museum, New York; The Albright Knox Museum, Buffalo, NY and The Los Angeles County Museum of Art, CA. In 2019 ArtSlant, an online Archive that featured her work, was accepted into the Library of Congress and The NYARC (New York Resources Consortium).

Thursday, October 31st

Matt Savitsky, aka Minty (b. 1982), is a multidisciplinary performance artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from UC San Diego in 2015 and his BFA from The Cooper Union in 2005. His work has been included in exhibitions at; Torrance Art Museum; and Klaus Von Nichtssagend Gallery, New York; Highways, Los Angeles ; Fest Zoco, Tijuana; American University Museum, Washington DC; Commonwealth & Council, Los Angeles; Foxy Production; ATM Gallery, and John Connelly Presents in New York; Vox Populi and Little Berlin in Philadelphia. He produced solo shows at Shoot the Lobster, LA, Cloaca Projects (SF) and has shown his work nationally. His video works have been screened in various programs, including Migrating Forms Film Festival (NY) and have been shown internationally in the Galeria Alternativa Once in Monterrey, Mexico and the Universidad del País Vasco Bilbao, Spain (2014). He has debuted performances at Human Resources and LACE, Los Angeles; NADA, New York; the Orange County Museum of Art; and the ICA in Philadelphia. In 2022, Savitsky received the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artists Award. He was selected to attend performance residencies hosted by Kembra Pfahler (Performance Art 101 and Incarnata Social Club) and La Pocha Nostra (Highways, LA and UABC, Tijuana, MX). Beginning in fall 2024, he will be the artist in residence at the Carolyn Glasoe-Bailey Foundation in Ojai California, where he will produce a solo exhibition slated for 2025. He is a founding member of The Family Room collective, an interdisciplinary group comprised of Todd Moellenberg and Sylke-Rene Meyer. They have created and debuted productions at the Cal State Northridge Gallery and Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles. He currently holds a position as a lecturer of film & video and Photographic Practices at CSU Fullerton and a Visiting Artist Professorship at UC Riverside.

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Thursday, November 7th

Amy Mackay

Thursday, November 14th

Amy MacKay is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles. She earned her MFA from UC Irvine in 2018 and BA from Bard College in 2007. Through an intensive research-based process, she makes paintings based on documentation of site-specific, performative events she stages with people in her life. Her work has been featured in numerous solo and group exhibitions in spaces such as La Beast Gallery, Baert Gallery and the Honolulu Museum. MacKay is also one of the founders of the after hours gallery in Downtown Los Angeles, and the arts initiative Group Practice.

Thursday, November 21st

As an INFJ (Introverted Intuitive Feeling Judging) (Myers-Briggs), Cynthia lives in a world of hidden meanings and is more interested in what is possible than what is actual. She prefers having a vivid imagination over having a strong hold on reality, and her supernormal intuition can take the form of visions or uncanny communications with certain individuals at a distance. Her ARTIST (Dominant Introvert Abstract Feeler) (Spark) aspect allows her to have a rich inner life that often turns the real world into a prison of foolishness and embarrassment. As a Type 4:Artist (Riso-Hudson), she enjoys probing topics like femininity, home decor, and spirituality with open-ended playfulness.  https://www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/moulton/

Thursday, December 5th

Iman Djouini b. Algiers, Algeria, is an artist and educator who works primarily in Print Media, Placemaking, and Typography. Her research-based practice explores gender and postcolonial spatial relations. Her work has been exhibited both nationally and internationally, and featured within multiple civic public art projects. She currently serves as the director of Social Print Lab, a print media civic-design studio based between Baltimore City and Los Angeles. Djouini also designs curricula that nurture a critical dialogue with the next generation of artists, designers and thinkers.