LOOKING WEST
February 17 - May 21, 2023
Gretchen Andrew | Casey Baden | Daniel Canogar | Joachim Castañeda | Dhiren Dasu | Feldsott | Brett Foraker | Jessica Goehring | James Hayman | Bob Landström | Tom Pazderka | Lindsey Price | Max Rippon | Nathan See | Daniel Sackheim | Philip Vaughan | Siebren Versteeg | Tatiana Wills | Russell Young | Jody Zellen
Looking West brings together 20 artists working on the West Coast, inviting them to exhibit a diverse array of work concerned with how we look at each other, our world, and the act of art-making. These concerns, drawing from traditional and new media practices, demonstrate incredible range: Russell Young’s silk screen printings examining the mythologies of the Wild West; Tatiana Wills’s collaborative portraiture highlighting the artist behind the artwork; Siebren Versteeg’s generative artwork memorializing real-time moments on the Internet; Jessica Goehring’s kinetic paintings that mimic holograms; Dhiren Dasu’s surreal-tinged collages sourced from travel photographs accompanied by augmented reality; Daniel Sackheim’s cinematic rendering of street photography in Los Angeles; and much more.
Together, these artists add an evolving and important regional voice to the conversation about contemporary art in California.
Looking West is curated by Gretchen Andrew, Aubrie Wienholt, and Tom Venditti.
More About the Artists in
Looking West
Gretchen Andrew
Co-curator and exhibiting artist
Gretchen Andrew is an interdisciplinary artist who became known for her vision boards and associated performative internet manipulations of art world institutions like Frieze Los Angeles, The Whitney Biennial, The Turner Prize, and The Cover of Artforum. She trained in London with the artist Billy Childish and has exhibited internationally. She is currently the artist in residence at the National Gallery X London.
Casey Baden
What we love about Casey Baden's work:
Unique way of bringing figuration and textiles and working with handmade and industrial materials with equal delicacy.
Casey Baden is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily between painting, textiles, and installation. She was born and raised in Houston, TX, and completed her BFA at New York University, and her MFA at California Institute of the Arts.
Joachim Castañeda
What we love about Joachim Castañeda’s work:
Bold negative spaces extend and continue Robert Rauschenberg's tradition. Unlikely materials are perfectly harmonized.
Joachim Castañeda is a California born, multidisciplinary artist. He studied fine art at SFSU, and later spent time in Spain where he studied at the University of Barcelona.
Daniel Canogar
What we love about Daniel Canogar’s work:
Reclamations of discarded technologies from junkyards and recycling centers to examine the short life expectancy of consumer electronics that are so readily cast away.
Daniel Canogar is a multidisciplinary artist who works in photography, video, sculpture, and installation. His most recent sculptural installations are constructed with discarded electronic materials: computers, telephones, and electric cables, thousands of burnt-out bulbs, meters of videotape, old slot machines, celluloid, DVDs. Canogar is represented by bitforms gallery.
Dhiren Dasu
What we love about Dhiren Dasu’s work:
Themes of colonialism and surveillance are literally masked behind anthropomorphic depictions of spaces transformed by collage and augmented reality.
Dhiren Dasu, under his moniker Shapeshifter7, has been making art since 1996. He works in photography, collage, film, animation, drawing, poetry and music. He was a contributor to the XR panel for The Art Newspaper and reviewed VR, AR and immersive digital fine arts.
Feldsott
What we love about Feldsott’s work:
Raw, Neo-expressionist paintings that unveils the inner architecture of archetype and human behavior.
Feldsott is a painter and sculptor who has been creating art for over five decades. He has exhibited at SFMOMA, Bolinas Museum, Hyde Park Art Center, Minnesota Art Museum, and many art galleries around the United States.
Brett Foraker
What we love about Brett Foraker’s work:
Abstract photography that takes a painterly approach to simulating modern life and technology.
Brett Foraker is an award-winning photographer and commercial director whose photographic work focuses on gesture-based forms of image making and abstraction.
Jessica Goehring
What we love about Jessica Goehring’s work:
Kinetic integration and laying of materials spur a new consideration of painting in the digital age.
Jessica Goehring is a Los Angeles-based artist who uses digital tools and AI to formulate her pieces that are kinetic in nature. Drawing from the Light & Space Movement, Goehring merges digital with analog creating holographic works that activate the space they are in.
James Hayman
What we love about James Hayman’s work:
Humanist approach to street photography spanning time and locations around the world.
James Hayman is an Emmy Award-nominated director, producer, and photographer. His photographic work spans decades around the world, informed by his photojournalist and cinematic roots. Hayman studied photojournalism at The American University and film at University of California, Santa Barbara.
Bob Landström
What we love about Bob Landström’s work:
Deeply earthy, hand-made materials come together to create playful worlds looming between figuration and abstraction.
Bob Landström is an artist who primarily works with crushed, pigmented volcanic rock. Landström studied fine art at Carnegie-Mellon University, and at the School of the Museum of Fine Arts at Tufts University in Boston, Massachusetts. His work has exhibited extensively and can be found in public, private, and corporate collections around the world.
Tom Pazderka
What we love about Tom Pazderka’s work:
Ash combined with oil paint that interrogates ideology, cultural mythos, and the natural world.
Tom Pazderka is a painter, installation artist and writer whose work interrogates ideology and our desire to escape it, the built and natural worlds, cultural mythos and a society perpetually on the precipice. He holds an MFA from the University of California, Santa Barbara where he was a Regents Fellow and Artist in Residence.
Lindsey Price
What we love about Lindsey Price’s work:
Seamless aesthetics between her notable digital art and painted works bring the viewer into worlds that feel both complete and endless.
Lindsey Price is an artist and designer, whose current artistic practice concentrates on collage, design, and animation. She received her BFA in Photography and Digital Media from California Institute of the Arts.
Max Rippon
What we love about Max Rippon’s work:
Virtuosic painting paired with a one of today's most interesting social media performance projects this work comments on imperative topics related to news while being painted in a timeless fashion.
Max Rippon is a multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores the impact and nuances of textual communication through language, forms, and symbols. He founded the Artist News Network in January 2020.
Nathan See
What we love about Nathan See’s work:
Decadence and strangeness make the the viewer feels as if they've walked in on a mystery they are already part of and possibly implicated in.
Nathan See has exhibited his work in a number of notable shows, including "Suspended, Unsited" at Foyer-LA, which was named a must-see by Artforum, and at the Spring/Break Art Fair LA. See received his BFA from the Art Institute of Chicago and was enrolled in the master's degree program at Hunter College in New York.
Daniel Sackheim
What we love about Daniel Sackheim’s work:
Cinematic street photography inspired by a decorated career in television and passion for film noir and the ambiguity of time.
Daniel Sackheim is an Emmy Award-winning film and television director and producer, whose photographic body of work brings together his cinematic sensibilities inspired by the nature of nostalgia, film noir, and street photography.
Philip Vaughan
What we love about Philip Vaughan’s work:
Presented in neons and paintings, as playful as they often are intimidating, these works make you want to get close while looking dangerously satisfying. L'appel du vide in the form of lines.
Brought up between two countries, Philip Vaughan was born in France to English parents, and eventually relocated to Los Angeles where he lives and works today. His body of work is diverse, ranging from sculpture to paintings to public art commissions.
Siebren Versteeg
What we love about Siebren Versteeg’s work:
Playful interactions with constructed identities and painterly abstraction through the use of code.
Siebren Versteeg is known for his painting and video works created through digital processes. His multivalent practice responds to the technology of our time and the way we consume and deploy those technologies. Versteeg is represented by bitforms gallery.
Tatiana Wills
What we love about Tatiana Wills’s work:
Photography that turns portraiture into a collaborative endeavor, revealing the artists behind the art they create.
Tatiana Wills is a Los Angeles-based artist whose current photographic work highlights the personalities of other interdisciplinary creatives. She has photographed the likes of Shepard Fairey, Mister Cartoon, Lucinda Childs, Kyle Abraham, and many others.
Russell Young
What we love about Russell Young’s work:
Silk screen paintings imbued with physicality and form a timeless examination of cultural icons, the mythology of the “Wild West,” and the souring of the American Dream.
Russell Young is a British-American artist best known for his silk screen paintings that have exhibited internationally in numerous galleries and museums. His work is included in many prominent private and institutional collections, including The Getty Collection in Los Angeles and The White House Collection in Washington, D.C. His works have crossed the auction block at all of the world's major auction houses, including Sotheby's, Christie's, and Phillips.
Jody Zellen
What we love about Jody Zellen’s work:
Joyful and curious in its forms and formalism, her energetic practice spans mediums with a bouncing enthusiasm.
Jody Zellen is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist who makes interactive installations, app art, net art, drawings, paintings, photographs, public art, and artists’ books. Zellen received a BA from Wesleyan University, a MFA from CalArts, and a MPS from NYU’s Interactive Telecommunications Program.