MCASD La Jolla's summer exhibit, "Here Not There: San Diego Now," features work by contemporary artists living and working in San Diego County. The museum just announced the list of participating artists (see below). The show opens June 6th. Lots of interesting artists on this list - and some we at Culture Lust are excited to learn more about.
The museum solicited submissions from local artists in the Fall of 2009 and received over 230 submissions. MCASD Associate Curator Lucía Sanromán also conducted studio visits and tapped into networks of local artists to flesh out the list.
In the end, Sanromán selected 43 artists and collectives to participate. Here's the list (note that Ricardo Dominguez, the UCSD professor whose art projects have become the subject of recent controversy is on the list):
David Adey
Agitprop
Adam Belt
Susannah Bielak
Brian Black and Ryan Bulis
Kelsey Brookes
Sheldon Brown
Micha Cárdenas and Elle Mehrmand
Brian Dick
Ricardo Dominguez
Tom Driscoll
Kelly Eginton
James Enos
Steve Gibson
Brian Goeltzenleuchter
Matthew Hebert
John Hogan
Jeff Irwin
Glenna Jennings
Wendell Kling
John Oliver Lewis
Lev Manovich
Heather Gwen Martin
May-Ling Martinez
Jessica McCambly
Gretchen Mercedes
Patricia Montoya
Ingram Ober
Christopher Puzio
Andy Ralph
Marisol Rendon
Allison Renshaw
Jason Sherry and Matt Hoyt
Tristan Shone
The Border Corps (Armando de la Torre, Anthony Vasquez, Endy, Perry Vasquez, and Shondra Dawson)
Stephen Tompkins
Michael Trigilio
Robert Twomey
Zlatan Vukosavljevic
Vicki Walsh
Allison Wiese
From the press release:
"'Here Not There' does not aim to reach definitive conclusions about the nature of artistic production in San Diego County, nor draw a single narrative illustrating notions of identity or regionalism. The main objective is to chart as straight a trajectory as possible: from the artist's studio to the exhibition space. From this investigation, the exhibition emerges as a site of multiple overlapping thematic lines, encircling around disparate communities with their own gravitational centers, each defining a "here" that nearly touches another."
