I hosted a collaborative exquisite corpse drawing workshop @ the Benton Museum of Art in Claremont on April 6th for DRAW JAM 2024.
Video screening curated by Cindy Rehm to coincide with her book release at Heavy Manners Library, Los Angeles, CA, 2024
Artists include Tricia Avant, Ursula Brookbank, Camille Cléant, Georgie Flood, Guta Galli, Angie Jennings, Ibuki Kuramochi, Elizabeth Leister, Aleksandra Murawska, Shana Robbins, Anne Lesley Selcer, Nataša Prosenc Stearns, and Eija Temisevä
Caterpillar & Sphinx, 2024
Digital collages, 10 x 13 inches each
Background images for the collages are from Beatrice Gildersleeve’s plein air oil paintings from the 1920s in the desert house
Birthstones, 2023
Round archival pigment prints from original watercolors – agate, amethyst, aquamarine, diamond, garnet, jadeite, jasper, opal, ruby, sapphire, topaz, and turquoise, 11 x 17 inches each
dEE-lie-LA, Poderosa, The Healers: An Exploration of Wellness, 2023
Installation view with works by Claudia Huiza, Kristin Bauer, Alicia Piller, Micol Hebron, and Tricia Avant (left to right), photo by Martin Durazo, 2023
dEE-lie-LA, Poderosa, The Healers: An Exploration in Wellness was curated by Martin Durazo and was part of the 7th SUR:biennial, Harris Gallery, La Verne, CA
Gathering: an artist book in a box, 2023
A collaboration between Amanda Maciel Antunes, Tricia Avant, and Cindy Rehm. The box contains four works by each artist and a booklet, 6x9x2. Published through HEXENTEXTE, Los Angeles, CA
Tingling Crystals (you just can’t shake ’em), 2022
I’ve been obsessed with Hilma af Klint’s works since I read Daniel Birnbaum’s 2013 Artforum article about her exhibition in Sweden. Inspired by af Klint, I have created a set of conditions from which my works were to be made. These were based upon geometric elements found in art and nature and from alchemical practices and their relationship to the body.
Five alchemical elements, Fire, Earth, Water, Air, and Aether, form the basis of the works. I designated each with a color derived from desert sunsets that I have experienced for the last decade: vermillion, yellow, aquamarine, violet, and copper. The rounds of repurposed wooden disks each represent one of the five alchemical elements. Painted on them are the colors of the elements with an overlay of copper gouache in the pattern of a hexagonal crystal structure.
These disks were used in a performance in which they were placed on the ground with crystals associated with each of the collaborators in the performance. There were three parts to the performance: the placement of the objects, performing around each of them, and then playing a card game. A collaborator decided we would use the cards like a tarot deck pulling two cards for past and future. In reading the cards, we told how they conjured memories of our history and projected future possibilities.
Always working in component parts, I find it hard to limit myself to a single medium when putting a body of work together. I find an engaging mix of mediums by highlighting hybrid practices of painting, collaborative performance, card-making, sculpture, and assemblage. The synergy of various elements is much more satisfying as the parts generate a theater of sorts, a cabinet of curiosities, and a repository for memories.
Works in Tingling Crystals (you just can’t shake ’em) include two foot round repurposed wooden disks with watercolor, gouache and crystals, 54 deck playing cards, collaborative performance, equinox display with sage and feather from my garden, clamshell shore debris, ring of copper, crystals, poster, zine, watercolors, and eight inch elemental watercolor rounds.
