One Work: Philip Brun Del Re
In Brun Del Re’s SERVE, every possible association with the word congeals together to form something of a single-word manifesto.
Portfolio: Sylvia Fernández
Fernández explores the boundaries of her own humanness, as an embodied animal whose existence is intertwined with the natural environment around her.
Portfolio: Alexandra Carter
Carter draws on her own past to construct paintings that explore what it means to be a woman and how that identity is separate from, but affected by, her identity as a mother.
Portfolio: Kim Stringfellow
Stringfellow views research as critical to her work, and considers it a responsibility, even a sort of implied obligation, to the site itself and to the viewer/observer/participant.
One Work: Naomi Nadreau
Naomi Nadreau’s vacuity detriment carries ancient knowledge while portending a cyborgian future.
One Work: Juan Miguel Cabrera
Juan Miguel Cabrera uses the traditional medium of watercolor on paper to examine the modern archetype of the commercial break room.
One Work: The De la Torre Brothers
Einar and Jamex De La Torre’s work in blown glass and lenticular imagery signifies the opulent excess of a time that may not last much longer.
Portfolio: Ethan Chan
Chan crafts wearable sculpture that is campy, entertaining, and totally absurd while also offering a pointed critique of the American hero as a social construction.
Portfolio: Andrew Alcasid
On Alcasid’s series, BMT (Blood and Marrow Transplantation), a meditation on time and suffering during the course of aggressive cancer treatment.
Portfolio: Taylor Chapin
Self-aware and humorous, Taylor Chapin examines the ways in which consumerism has reached a point of fetishized ecstasy.
Portfolio: Michelle Montjoy
Montjoy cultivates community and comfort with her large-scale, collaborative weaving projects.
One Work: Janelle Iglesias
Iglesias investigates La Jolla’s colonialist history and present-day utopian image.
Portfolio: Sage Serrano
The familiarity of drawing invites us to question the relationship among the artist, the body, and the chosen materials.
One Work: Kline Swonger
Swonger considers the complicated nature of the relationship between place and home.
Portfolio: Brianna Rigg
Rigg’s work exemplifies the peculiarities of art’s past and future.
One Work: Kaori Fukuyama
In her installation, Shape of Memory, Fukuyama crafts a collective recollection of San Diego’s North Park neighborhood.
Portfolio: Bilal Mohamed
Mohamed embraces disruption to make work about cycles, disorientation, and the perception of self.
One Work: Kevin Vincent
Vincent’s installation activates wood and rope to uncover the charges of historical context they carry.