HOMEBASE
June 22nd - August 10th, 2019
For all intents and purposes, HOMEBASE serves as a love letter to Los Angeles. This exhibition’s endeavor is to draw attention to those stories of those Angelenos not seen in everyday media, as well as highlight unnoticed areas in our city. Stories such as homelessness, community, family and everyday struggles to just exist in a city with one of the largest wealth gaps in the United States. Participating artists were challenged to create works that aesthetically capture narratives, moments and settings that embody our internal, localized perception of this city we all love and call home. This exhibition came to fruition through Grand Park’s Our L.A. Voices, held in April of this year, in which Residency Art Gallery participated.
HOMEBASE will feature work from Noah Humes, Kathie Foley-Meyer, Jay Lynn Gomez Jr., Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., Patrick Martinez, Star Montana, Noe Olivas, Devon Tsuno, Raymundo T. Reynoso (EYEONE) and Felix Quintana
Installation Images
Installation Images by Celine Sino-Cruz
About the Artists
NOAH HUMES
Noah Humes was born and raised in Mid-City, Los Angeles, California. Humes graduated from Otis College of Art and Design with a BFA in Communication Arts with an emphasis in Illustration. Noah explores and revisits the convergence of experience, memory, history and expression. Within these happenings he shares his thoughts and interpretation on political and social issues that occur throughout the world around him. He paints sports heroes, friends, family members, celebrities etc. who all of which share personal moments with him as they are recreated through his visual language. Portraiture is a large portion of Noah’s work as they are executed with vibrant, confident, expressive and free techniques. As he reminisces on those experiences and memories, Noah recreates new moments that are destined to live within the canvas.
Kathie Foley-Meyer
Foley-Meyer is a mixed media artist and a graduate in the Visual Studies Ph.D. program at UC Irvine. Her work is frequently inspired by the history of African American life, and explores themes of interconnectedness, memory, visibility and transparency. Two mixed-media artworks, Twelve Voyages (2017) and In The Wake: With the Bones of Our Ancestors (2018) address the loss of generations of human life associated with the transatlantic slave trade and the African diaspora. She was the creator of Project Bronzeville, a multidisciplinary collaboration inspired by the WWII- era period influx of African Americans into the LA neighborhood of Little Tokyo.
Patrick Martinez
Patrick Martinez, (b. 1980 Pasadena, CA) earned his BFA with honors from Art Center College of Design in 2005. His work has been exhibited domestically and internationally in Los Angeles, Mexico City, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Miami, New York, Seoul, and the Netherlands, at venues including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Tucson Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Rollins Museum of Art, the Vincent Price Art Museum, the Museum of Latin American Art, LA Louver, Galerie Lelong & Co., MACLA, the Chinese American Museum and the Euphrat Museum of Art, among others. Patrick’s work resides in the permanent collections The Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA), Rubell Museum, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, California African American Museum, The Autry Museum of the American West, Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Tucson Museum of Art, Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, University of North Dakota Permanent Collection, JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Crocker Art Museum, Escalette Permanent Collection of Art at Chapman University, Manetti-Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis, the Rollins Museum of Art, and the Museum of Latin American Art. Patrick was awarded a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island, FL. In the fall of 2021 Patrick was the subject of a solo museum exhibition at the Tucson Museum of Art. Patrick lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and is represented by Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles.
Jay Lynn Gomez
Jay Lynn Gomez was born in 1986 in San Bernardino, California to undocumented Mexican immigrant parents who have since become US citizens. She briefly attended the California Institute for the Arts before leaving to take work as a live-in nanny with a West Hollywood family, an experience that did much to inform her subsequent artistic practice. Gomez’s work is known for addressing issues of immigration and making visible the “invisible” labor forces that keep the pools, homes, and gardens of Los Angeles in such pristine condition.
Gomez has exhibited at the MCA Chicago, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, LACMA, Denver Art Museum, MFA Houston, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Torrance Art Museum, Cornell Fine Arts Museum, MCA San Diego and Museum of Latin American Art (MoLAA) among others. Gomez’s work has been covered in the Atlantic, the New Yorker, New York Times Magazine, the Washington Post, NPR, the Los Angeles Times, Artforum, Hyperallergic, Huffington Post, and CNN among others. Gomez lives and works in West Hollywood, California and is represented by Charlie James Gallery (LA) and PPOW (NY).
Star Montana
Star is a photo-based artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She was born and raised in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, which is predominantly Mexican American and serves as the backdrop to much of her work. Star’s imagery deals with class, social environment, and identity within the personal, her family. Three dots and Tear drops: a long term project with her family that has dealt with fragmented histories, loss, and the hope of the next generation was on view at the Vincent Price Art Museum and the UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center. More recently, she has begun to work on her themes within a larger scope of Los Angeles residents via portraiture and video which resulted her in most recent solo show I Dream of Los Angeles at the Main Museum. Montana received her BFA from the School of Visual Arts in 2013 and earned her Masters of Fine Art at USC.
Noe Olivas
Olivas is a Southern California-based artist. Through printing making, sculpture, and performance, he investigates the poetics of labor. He considers the relationship between labor as it fits into the conceptions of femininity and masculinity in order to play with and reshape cultural references, narratives, myths, traditions, and objects, ultimately employing a new meaning. Olivas received his MFA at University of Southern California in 2019 and BA in Visual Arts from the University of San Diego in 2013. He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Devon Tsuno
Devon Tsuno is an artist and fourth generation Angeleno. His recent spray paint and acrylic paintings, installations, and public art focus on Japanese American history. Tsuno’s recent work is a yonsei story, a Los Angeles story, indissociable from the complexities of intergenerational and collective trauma, fences and cages, gentrification, displacement, water and labor politics, and how and where we choose to live. Tsuno’s interests have been central to his work with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Topaz Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Hammer Museum, Candlewood Arts Festival, LA Metro, and Gallery Lara in Japan. His work has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, NPR, KCET, Artillery Magazine, and X-TRA Contemporary Art Journal. Tsuno is a 2017 Santa Fe Art Institute Water Rights Artist-In-Residence, is the 2016 SPArt Community Grantee, and was awarded a 2014 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Art. He is represented by Residency Art Gallery in Inglewood, is member of J-TOWN Action と Solidarity and is an Associate Professor of Art at California State University Dominguez Hills.
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr. (b. 1989) is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist. He attended LA Trade Technical College where he studied Sign Graphics. During his formative years, Gonzalez worked on large-scale hand-painted outdoor advertisements that ranged up to 200 feet. These experiences formally fuel his current art practice, where he syntheses the visual vernacular of local working-class neighborhoods. In his paintings, he excavates the surfaces of buildings to understand how these communities interact with one another and the traces they leave. His work has been exhibited at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (Los Angeles), Galeria Javier Lopez (Madrid), Taubman Museum of Art (Roanoke, VA), Maki Gallery (Tokyo), Gamma Galleria (Guadalajara), as well as various other locations in North America, Asia, and Europe. He has organized shows in Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Guadalajara.
Raymundo Reynoso (Eyeone)
Eyeone is an artist and graphic designer based in Los Angeles. His work is rooted in graffiti, printmaking, photography, and punk rock. Often focusing on isolated objects and individuals, his art reflects on themes of alienation, survival, melancholy, resistance, and the myriad experiences encountered while navigating the chaos of contemporary urban environments. Eyeone co-curated and was a featured artist in the SCRATCH exhibition at ESMoA in conjunction with The Getty. Eyeone also co-curated and is featured artist in the Getty Research Institute’s L.A. Liber Amicorum blackbook project, now part of their permanent rare books collection. His work has recently been included in L.A. Heat and Dreams Deferred at the Chinese American Museum in Los Angeles and in the Pasadena Museum of California Art as part of their Street Cred exhibition.
Felix Quintana
Felix Francisco Quintana is an artist, photographer, and educator best known for his experimental photographs of the LA urban landscape. Quintana is a first generation American born and raised in southeast Los Angeles from Salvadoran descendants. He holds a BA in Studio Art from Humboldt State University, and is a current MFA in Photography candidate at San Jose State University. His work has been devoted to building an idiosyncratic language of image-making through visually sampling and remixing the city as a process to reclaim an American experience that often goes unseen. Quintana has exhibited his work nationally and internationally at 111 Minna Gallery, San Francisco; Vox Populi Gallery, Philadelphia; Vincent Price Art Museum, East Los Angeles, LA><Art, West Hollywood, Lancaster Museum of Art and History, Lancaster; San Jose Museum of Art, San Jose; The Dot Project, London, among others. Quintana has served as a teaching artist, teaching photography and digital media underserved youth at Las Fotos Project, Slanguage Studio, Self Help Graphics & Art, artworxLA, and Southern Exposure. He currently lives works in Los Angeles and San Jose, California.