End of a Dream, Forms of the Now Age
Amelia Lockwood, Andrew Cannon, ASMA, and Josh Culberson
PUFFBALL RECIPE
one heaping spoonful of Earth
may have removed its outer core
to present a few anomalies for your viewing pleasure
though it questions transparency,
it actually blocks light out
as if i’m trying to feel sexual about the whole house
and the house begins its furious dancing
In this space,
I’m going to leave a burning star
in front of the window
Its function is a subject of debate
the salient feature
of inhabiting the forest floor
being that our edges
imbricate
it was plants
that kept me alive,
and animals that killed me
and yet this strange taxonomy
still did not suit me
-Manal Kara
Amelia Lockwood (b.1990, Stroudsburg, PA) received her BFA from Syracuse University (2012), completed post baccalaureate studies at the University of Colorado (2016), and received her MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (2020). Selected exhibitions include, Maia’s Pool,Various Small Fires, James Wright Gallery, In Lieu, One Trick Pony, andFive Car GarageGallery in Los Angeles among others. Lockwood lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Amelia’s Work
Andrew Cannon (b.1988, Redlands, CA) received his BA from the University of California, Los Angeles (2010), and attended the Mountain School of Arts in (2014), he received his MFA from Columbia University (2017). Selected exhibitions includeTotal Disbelief, Sculpture Center;Mushroom,Sardine, Brooklyn, NY (2020); (solo) Page Gallery, Ny, Ny (2019),Paradise, Night Gallery, LA, Ca,Harmless Exercise, Gildar Gallery, Denver,Co (2018), (solo) White Columns, NY, NY ,Glass Cat, with Kate Hall, 67 Gallery, NY, NY,Flying Man,Revolved, Dread Lounge, LA, CA,Hot Mud,Jag Projects, Hudson, NY (2017) Cannon Lives and Works in New York City.
ASMA is an artist duo based in Mexico City, formed by Matias Armendar is (b. 1990, Ecuador) and Hanya Beliá (b. 1994, México). The duo focuses on developing work produced exclusively through active collaboration. Their work uses open narratives and architectural spaces exploring formal interrelations between painterly and sculptural expressions. They explore the act of interaction and how things in contact affect one another. In this interrelation, things start erasing their boundaries and begin to fuse, playing with the potential of this process of transformation, both formally and conceptually. Recent solo exhibitions include Janus presented at Embajada (San Juan, Puerto Rico), 2020; Half Blood Princess, Peana, (Monterrey, Mexico), 2019; and Blossoming Carcass,Make Room Gallery (Los Angeles, USA), 2019. The duo also participated in multiple group exhibitions such as Trama, 80m2 Livia Benavides (Lima, Perú), 2021;Theorem X, Rachel Uffner Gallery (New York, USA), 2021;Theorem Y,Mrs. Gallery (New York, USA), 2021;You Sit in a Garden, Centre Clark (Montreal, Canada), 2021; and44 Signs of The Time, Mana Contemporary (New Jersey, USA), 2021.
Joshua Culberson (b. Columbus, OH; 1989) earned his BFA from Columbus College of Art and Design (2012). Current group exhibition at CAL LUPER mobile art platform. Culberson lives and works in Los Angeles, CA