TETRAPODS
2/18/23 - 3/12/23
865 N Virgil Ave, Los Angeles, CA 90029
Opening Reception 2/18/23 12-8 PM
Group show featuring
Adam Ianniello / @adamianniello
Adam Ianniello (b. 1987) is an American landscape photographer currently based in Los
Angeles, California. His photographs have been featured in various publications such as
American Chordata, C4 Journal. Def Greif and Vogue as well as widely exhibited, most
recently in Mark Steinmetz and Irina Rozovsky’s group show ‘When in Athens’. In 2020, he
co-founded the imprint Smog Press. Ianniello was born and raised in Brooklyn, New York,
and studied art history and photography at Baruch College and the School of Visual Arts.
Anthony Espino / @anthonyreyespino
Anthony Espino is an LA based UX Designer, Engineer, and Visual Artist
focusing on the horizon of intelligent eco-systems.
Helen Chung / @heleninorbit
Helen Chung was born in South Korea and currently live and work in Los Angeles. She worked as an international shoe designer for 2 decades before returning to make art in 2009. Her work consists of painting, sculpture and photography, designated by each project.
Her practice can be divided into two types of cognitive processes: one that takes many months involving research, rigorous planning and designing, as well as engineering skills; the other relies solely on intuition and spontaneity, although the subject matters or concept of the work may have been contemplated before the actual physical work. The seemingly disparate genres in my practice have an undercurrent that deals with deconstruction and reconstruction, physically and psychologically, at least that is my intention.
Her real-time portrait painting series titled, “lunch Portraits” (a tribute to Frank Ohara’s Lunch Poems) that started in 2015 – in which she tries to level the stereotypes by mixing the real with imagined background – is a platform where she documents their community in an organic and spontaneous manner, offering a place of dialogue and warmth in a cold market driven art world.
Isabel Beavers / @isabelbeavers
https://www.isabelbeavers.com/
Isabel Beavers is a transdisciplinary artist and creative producer based in Los Angeles. Her work explores ecologies, examines environmental histories and postulates about climate futures through multimedia installation + new media.
Beavers’ work has been presented, exhibited, and screened nationally and internationally at Helsinki Design Week (2022), Last Frontier NYC (2022), Real Artilleria de Sevilla, Spain (2022), Heidi Duckler Dance (2022), Museum of Design Atlanta (2021), New York Hall of Science (2020), CultureHub LA (2020), SUPERCOLLIDER Gallery (2020), MIT Museum (2019), Humbolt-Universität zu Berlin Thaer-Institut (2018), Mountain Time Arts (2017) among others. They have held workshops at the Hammer Museum (2020) and the Institute of Contemporary Art/Boston (2019). She holds an MFA from the SMFA at Tufts University and a BS from the University of Vermont. She was the 2021 AICAD/NOAA Fisheries Art + Science Fellow, 2022 Creative Impact Lab Amman Lead Artist with ZERO1, and is the Artistic Director of SUPERCOLLIDER LA.
Jayes Caitlin / @jayescaitlin
Jayes Caitlin (b. 1988) is from Portland, OR and currently practicing in Los Angeles
With a graphic arts practice somewhere between art and design, Jayes Caitlin creates abstract work in service of those with an affinity for non objective saturated colors and forms, improvisational compositions, and graphic tactile textures.
Alternating between working by hand and digitally Caitlin draws, screen prints, paints, sews, cuts paper, glues, scans, and collages.
Caitlin is creating a visual language for archival editions, paintings, installations, and design commissions in a body of work to define a graphic artists and abstraction’s role in an evolving contemporary visual culture.
Jung Yun / @jungyunart
https://www.tetrapodgallery.com/
Jung Yun (b.1992, Philadelphia) is a Korean-American multimedia artist based in Los Angeles, CA.
He started Tetrapod gallery in 2021 to build a creative community in Virgil Village.
Laura Watters / @laurawatters
Laura Watters lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Her studio is based in DTLA and also works as a curator across various galleries in the city.
Marley White / @marleywhiteunderwater
Marley White is a multidisciplinary artist currently based in Los Angeles, CA. Her work has been exhibited nationally and internationally at venues such as Carpenters Workshop Gallery Paris, FR, The Zuiderzee Museum, NL, Legnica Jewellery Festival, PL, and The Baltimore Jewelry Center, USA.
Mich Miller / @michmillerprint
Mich Miller (b. 1992, New York) is a Los Angeles based painter, printmaker, muralist and installation artist. Mich’s practice is informed by a commitment to abstraction and investment in color theory, printmaking, painting, graphic design, queer histories and queer theory. Mich earned their BFA from School of the Artist institute of Chicago in 2015 and received an MFA in Painting&Printmaking from Yale University in 2021. Mich’s works employ saturated color, gradients, shapes, symbols and text -referential of scientific, environmental, and cultural metaphors relevant to their trans identity. Mich’s abstractions place an emphasis on color, pattern and vibration. Their designs push for a playful ambiguity while developed through a personal and in depth research practice. In 2018 they co-founded The Print Shop LA—a collaborative printmaking studio in Los Angeles, which offers internship opportunities, collaborative studio access and artists-in-residence programs. Mich has exhibited work in both solo and group shows nationally, including Lyles & King, New Image Art Gallery, Super Chief Gallery, All Star Press Chicago and Ladies Room. Their work has included collaborations for major media brands such as Pitchfork Music Festival, Vans Skateboarding, Psycho Bunny, and Facebook (through their artist in residency program) .
Mich''s suggestive forms, in relation to hard-edged geometric abstraction, continue to develop a vocabulary of shapes and color relationships- referential to landscape, architecture, the body, light, in between spaces, earth, and the universe.
Rebecca Shippee / @rebeccashippee