"Passing Through" was cancelled.
Upcoming Private Exhibition
Passing Through
Jennifer Boysen, Vanessa Chow, Jane Mulfinger, Camilo Ontiveros, Christopher Ulivo and Stephanie Peach Washburn
February 17 - March 17, 2018
Private Opening Reception: February 24, 7-10 PM
featuring performance by Rebecca Comerford
Jennifer Boysen, Vanessa Chow, Jane Mulfinger, Camilo Ontiveros, Christopher Ulivo and Stephanie Peach Washburn
February 17 - March 17, 2018
Private Opening Reception: February 24, 7-10 PM
featuring performance by Rebecca Comerford
Passing Through, an exhibition including work by: Jennifer Boysen, Vanessa Chow, Jane Mulfinger, Camilo Ontiveros, Christopher Ulivo and Stephanie Peach Washburn.
Harry Dean Stanton, the actor you should know from the movies Paris Texas, Repo Man, and Blue Velvet, died this past September. He was 91, smoked a ton, believed in predestiny and was a crossword puzzle addict. He did the puzzles in pen after carefully reading all of the clues. Well, he’s dead now. And perhaps he would prefer that rather than saying passed away, we say he has passed through.
The artists included in this exhibition make use of imagined borders between worlds. These borders are material, spatial, acoustic, gendered and political. A nomadic piece of earth, a painting that can’t stay flat, the clang of bells in a courtyard, a gathering of women warriors the size of your palm and made of teabags.
The private opening reception and an evening performance of Weimar era protest songs by Rebecca Comerford on Saturday, February 24, 2018, 7-10 PM (by invitation only).
Passing Through will be on view at AWOL February 17 through March 17. AWOL hours Saturday 2-6 PM during exhibition and by appointment.
About the artists
Jennifer Boysen received her MFA from Hunter College, CUNY, New York in 2002. Her paintings, often irregularly shaped, hover somewhere between painting and sculpture, with meditative surfaces that evoke both illusion and presence. She has exhibited on both coasts as well as in France and Italy. Boysen currently lives and works in Ventura, CA.
Vanessa Chow was born in Hong Kong. She moved to the United States as a teenager. She received her B.A. from Connecticut College in 1999 and her M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003. She moved to Los Angeles right after graduate school in search of sunshine and surf. She continues to develop work that is low tech, human scale, profoundly handmade and all things sustainable to the environment. Her work is hugely influenced by her travels. She currently lives and works in Santa Monica, CA.
Jane Mulfinger makes photography, sculpture, installations, and performances as time-based, phenomenological constructs. Her work addresses the contemporary urban environment, in particular, the relationship between architecture, memory, and the human body. With objects and text, she posits the sociological, political, and formal/spatial contexts of architecture and history. Reviews of her work have been published in Flash Art, Art and Design, Contemporary Visual Art, Art Monthly, Untitled, The Economist, The Times(London), The Guardian, La Stampa, and the Los Angeles Times. Mulfinger is a Professor of Art at the University of California Santa Barbara specializing in site-specificity and sculpture. The work for Passing Through is in collaboration with artists and site researchers Vanessa Ayala, Brenda Morales and Fernando Tapia.
Camilo Ontiveros is an artist whose work moves between multiple mediums--installation, sculpture, video, photography, sound, text, and intervention-- in an ongoing exploration of the questions of migration, value, and political economy as they intersect with US-Mexico relations. Born in Rosario, Sinaloa, México, in 1978, Ontiveros immigrated to Southern California in 1992, the same year that bilateral discussions between the US and Mexico concerning the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) were completed. Ontiveros situates his practice within this history with much of his work asking toward the question of borders and the effect of neoliberal economic policy on the land, resources, and people of the global south.
Ontiveros has founded several alternative spaces and artistic platforms to facilitate the international exchange of artists between US-Mexico. He co-founded Lui Velazquez (Tijuana, Mexico), Salon Proceso (Los Angeles, CA), as well as several platforms with alternative exhibition formats including Nomart, Exchange/Alteration, and Proyecto CUBO. Ontiveros has had solo exhibitions at Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena, CA); Steve Turner Contemporary (Los Angeles, CA); and the Vargas Museum (Manila, Philippines). He has participated in group exhibitions at California Biennial, LACE, REDCAT, the Getty Center (Los Angeles, CA); National Mexican Museum of Art (Chicago, IL) ; Exit Art (New York, NY); CECUT (Tijuana, Mexico) ; Centro de la Imagen (Mexico City, Mexico)) ; BMOCA (Boulder, CO) ; Centro Fotografico Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Oaxaca, Mexico); Sesto Senso (Bologna, Italy); and Art Laboratory (Berlin, Germany), among others.
Ontiveros holds a BFA in Art from the University of California, San Diego and an MFA in New Genres from the Department of Art from the University of California Los Angeles. He lives and works between Los Angeles and Nayarit, Mexico.
Christopher Ulivo was born in Brooklyn, NY. A would-be fortune-hunter if not for the risk and athleticism required, Ulivo decided to focus on imagining and depicting his love of adventure instead. The pioneering spirit in his painting is tempered by human sentiment and humor that acknowledges the gulf between history, imagination and reality. Ulivo currently lives and works in Ventura, California. There he focuses his energy on creating dense narrative paintings while being distracted by Krav Maga and amateur telescope making.
Stephanie Peach Washburn lives and works in Ojai, CA. Washburn received her BA from Wesleyan University, CT and her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Recent exhibitions include MCA Santa Barbara, ACME Gallery, Claremont University, and Fellows of Contemporary Art. Her work has recently been published in Harper’s Magazine and the Los Angeles Review of Books. It is in the collections of MCA San Diego, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Agnes Gund Foundation.
Rebecca Comerford has performed as a concert soloist in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fischer Hall/Lincoln Center, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Symphony Space, The Orpheum Theatre Memphis, Vienna Staastoper and Aspen Music Festival. Her latest one-woman show, "Songs of Resistance and Rebellion," recently made its debut at New York City's iconic Neue Galerie as part of the Café Sabarsky Cabaret Series, with collaborator and Broadway Music Director, Anna Dagmar on the piano. In addition to her original compositions and librettos, Rebecca co-founded Ojai Youth Opera Company in 2014, the first autonomous youth opera theatre in America, dedicated to telling original stories with a socially conscious message for youth.
Harry Dean Stanton, the actor you should know from the movies Paris Texas, Repo Man, and Blue Velvet, died this past September. He was 91, smoked a ton, believed in predestiny and was a crossword puzzle addict. He did the puzzles in pen after carefully reading all of the clues. Well, he’s dead now. And perhaps he would prefer that rather than saying passed away, we say he has passed through.
The artists included in this exhibition make use of imagined borders between worlds. These borders are material, spatial, acoustic, gendered and political. A nomadic piece of earth, a painting that can’t stay flat, the clang of bells in a courtyard, a gathering of women warriors the size of your palm and made of teabags.
The private opening reception and an evening performance of Weimar era protest songs by Rebecca Comerford on Saturday, February 24, 2018, 7-10 PM (by invitation only).
Passing Through will be on view at AWOL February 17 through March 17. AWOL hours Saturday 2-6 PM during exhibition and by appointment.
About the artists
Jennifer Boysen received her MFA from Hunter College, CUNY, New York in 2002. Her paintings, often irregularly shaped, hover somewhere between painting and sculpture, with meditative surfaces that evoke both illusion and presence. She has exhibited on both coasts as well as in France and Italy. Boysen currently lives and works in Ventura, CA.
Vanessa Chow was born in Hong Kong. She moved to the United States as a teenager. She received her B.A. from Connecticut College in 1999 and her M.F.A. from the Rhode Island School of Design in 2003. She moved to Los Angeles right after graduate school in search of sunshine and surf. She continues to develop work that is low tech, human scale, profoundly handmade and all things sustainable to the environment. Her work is hugely influenced by her travels. She currently lives and works in Santa Monica, CA.
Jane Mulfinger makes photography, sculpture, installations, and performances as time-based, phenomenological constructs. Her work addresses the contemporary urban environment, in particular, the relationship between architecture, memory, and the human body. With objects and text, she posits the sociological, political, and formal/spatial contexts of architecture and history. Reviews of her work have been published in Flash Art, Art and Design, Contemporary Visual Art, Art Monthly, Untitled, The Economist, The Times(London), The Guardian, La Stampa, and the Los Angeles Times. Mulfinger is a Professor of Art at the University of California Santa Barbara specializing in site-specificity and sculpture. The work for Passing Through is in collaboration with artists and site researchers Vanessa Ayala, Brenda Morales and Fernando Tapia.
Camilo Ontiveros is an artist whose work moves between multiple mediums--installation, sculpture, video, photography, sound, text, and intervention-- in an ongoing exploration of the questions of migration, value, and political economy as they intersect with US-Mexico relations. Born in Rosario, Sinaloa, México, in 1978, Ontiveros immigrated to Southern California in 1992, the same year that bilateral discussions between the US and Mexico concerning the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) were completed. Ontiveros situates his practice within this history with much of his work asking toward the question of borders and the effect of neoliberal economic policy on the land, resources, and people of the global south.
Ontiveros has founded several alternative spaces and artistic platforms to facilitate the international exchange of artists between US-Mexico. He co-founded Lui Velazquez (Tijuana, Mexico), Salon Proceso (Los Angeles, CA), as well as several platforms with alternative exhibition formats including Nomart, Exchange/Alteration, and Proyecto CUBO. Ontiveros has had solo exhibitions at Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts (Pasadena, CA); Steve Turner Contemporary (Los Angeles, CA); and the Vargas Museum (Manila, Philippines). He has participated in group exhibitions at California Biennial, LACE, REDCAT, the Getty Center (Los Angeles, CA); National Mexican Museum of Art (Chicago, IL) ; Exit Art (New York, NY); CECUT (Tijuana, Mexico) ; Centro de la Imagen (Mexico City, Mexico)) ; BMOCA (Boulder, CO) ; Centro Fotografico Manuel Alvarez Bravo (Oaxaca, Mexico); Sesto Senso (Bologna, Italy); and Art Laboratory (Berlin, Germany), among others.
Ontiveros holds a BFA in Art from the University of California, San Diego and an MFA in New Genres from the Department of Art from the University of California Los Angeles. He lives and works between Los Angeles and Nayarit, Mexico.
Christopher Ulivo was born in Brooklyn, NY. A would-be fortune-hunter if not for the risk and athleticism required, Ulivo decided to focus on imagining and depicting his love of adventure instead. The pioneering spirit in his painting is tempered by human sentiment and humor that acknowledges the gulf between history, imagination and reality. Ulivo currently lives and works in Ventura, California. There he focuses his energy on creating dense narrative paintings while being distracted by Krav Maga and amateur telescope making.
Stephanie Peach Washburn lives and works in Ojai, CA. Washburn received her BA from Wesleyan University, CT and her MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara, CA. Recent exhibitions include MCA Santa Barbara, ACME Gallery, Claremont University, and Fellows of Contemporary Art. Her work has recently been published in Harper’s Magazine and the Los Angeles Review of Books. It is in the collections of MCA San Diego, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and the Agnes Gund Foundation.
Rebecca Comerford has performed as a concert soloist in such venues as Carnegie Hall, Avery Fischer Hall/Lincoln Center, The J. Paul Getty Museum, Symphony Space, The Orpheum Theatre Memphis, Vienna Staastoper and Aspen Music Festival. Her latest one-woman show, "Songs of Resistance and Rebellion," recently made its debut at New York City's iconic Neue Galerie as part of the Café Sabarsky Cabaret Series, with collaborator and Broadway Music Director, Anna Dagmar on the piano. In addition to her original compositions and librettos, Rebecca co-founded Ojai Youth Opera Company in 2014, the first autonomous youth opera theatre in America, dedicated to telling original stories with a socially conscious message for youth.