Karena Massengill was born and raised in Ukiah, CA. She has travelled around the world and lived in Canada for 11 years before moving to S. CA. She has a fulltime art practice in San Pedro with a 2500 sq foot studio and art gallery display area. Her education includes an MFA and BFA in sculpture, […]
Jacob Wolff’s work and practice is heavily focused on the interdisciplinary. Specifically taking tropes of 20th and 21st century western art music and distorting and accentuating them using dance, theater, performance or visual art to highlight the strange and corrupt parts of the music. Wolff’s work also analyzes the effects of religion and academia’s effect […]
In a collaboration that has spanned over a decade, Brian Black and Ryan Bulis have developed the team-like persona known as Brian and Ryan. This artistic duo appropriates iconic activities and forms that challenge preconceptions of communication, masculinity, and identity. Their installation-based work is site specific and focuses on engaging the audience with familiar forms […]
Alex Hawthorn (b. 1986) is an artist, composer, and technologist based in Los Angeles and Brooklyn who investigates notions of archive, memory, and time through a variety of methodologies, including both physical and digital pieces. Their work in theatrical sound design has garnered them an Obie award, LA Ovation Awards, and has been heard across North […]
Abacus is the sound making duo of Brian Randolph and Brian Ramisch. The Brians have been collaborating for over 10 years, exploring a wide range of sonic terrain and all manner of instrumentation. From experiments in pure sound to acoustic psych-folk to loose punk/noise rock to dense fields of layered textures, their approach is always improvised, […]
Abigail Johnson is a sound artist based in Los Angeles, California. As a composer she has written for ensembles such as the Aperture Duo, 5th Wave Ensemble, and the Corvus Ensemble. Abigail has participated in the Yarn/Wire, Westben Performer/Composer, Fairbanks Summer Arts, Space City Music, and Fresh Inc festivals, and she is excited to complete a […]
Aught Collective/Hot Tomorrows are a family of disparate South Bay artists including composer/theatre artist Ellen Warkentine, scenic/installation artist Danielle Kaufman, designer/storyteller Robert Edward, and writer/cultural cosmonaut Chris Arnold. Collectively and individually, we are committed to excavating and contrasting the puzzle pieces of mortal garbage, which reveal hidden and forbidden aspects of ourselves and our trajectories […]
Michael Mersereau (b. 1977) is a media and sound artist based in Oakland, California and Montreal, Canada. Mersereau’s work has been exhibited at institutions and galleries both nationally and internationally such as Museo de Arte Contemporáneo de Oaxaca in Ciudad de Oaxaca, The Diego Rivera Anahuacali Museum in Mexico City, and Maison de la Culture Claude […]