July 18. Eve Wood
Rochelle Botello
Eve Wood
Image: "Horse Tears," 2019. Rochelle Botello
KAMIKAZES 2019 at PØST
THURSDAY, JULY 18, 6- 9 PM
PØST @MiM Gallery, 4654 W. Washington Blvd., LA, CA 90016
TENUOUS CONNECTIONS
New work by Julie Adler, Rochelle Botello and Eve Wood
Curated by Eve Wood
Tenuous Connections
All connections are by their very nature, tenuous, hesitant, unreliable, yet it is our human
conundrum that we insist on forging connectivity constantly to everything in our lives. Indeed, we
are driven by the need to understand our relationship to the living world and our place in it.
Connection presupposes the notion that two disparate things are attached in some way, but these
points of connection could also be points of fractured experience, the exact spot where breakage
can occur, therefore allowing that the moments that define our human experience are tenuous at
best. In the end, all that we do is informed by these connections whether or not they are whole or
shattered. We rely on them. We need them. We constantly and inevitably seek them out.
- Eve Wood, July 2019, artist & curator
Left wall (clockwise from entrance):
It’s Time to Go, acrylic, charcoal and pastel on canvas, 36x48”, ©2019 Julie Adler
The Fuck You Bird, acrylic and graphite on canvas, 28 x 30”, ©2019 Eve Wood
That Ugly 70's Couch, gouache and graphite on paper, 24 x 30” ©2019 Eve Wood
The Exchange, acrylic and graphite on canvas, 30 x 48”, ©2019 Eve Wood
Right wall (clockwise from back):
Untitled Self, charcoal on canvas, 30 x 40”, ©2019 Julie Adler
Self Annihilation, acrylic, charcoal and pastel on canvas, 36x48”, ©2019 Julie Adler
Coming and going, acrylic and charcoal on paper, 36x48” ©2019 Julie Adler
On floor:
All sculptures by Rochelle Botello
My Last Memory of You (black and white), cardboard, wood and tape, 2’ x 2’ x 2’ ©2019
Horse Tears (pink on pink), cardboard, wood and tape, 2’ x 2’ x 2’ ©2019
Fat Chance (yellow), cardboard, wood, tape and paper, 3’ x 3’ x 3’ ©2018
Julie Adler is a LA based interdisciplinary artist whose mediums include performance, music
composition, video, painting, sculpture and installation. She has created and performed numerous
works in Los Angeles at REDCAT, Cal State Long Beach, Cal State Fullerton, Side Street Projects,
Armory Center for the Arts, Highways, Beyond Baroque as well as exhibited her visual work at The
Situation Room, Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, JAUS and as well as in VICE Magazine.
She has an MFA in Visual Arts and Music from California Institute of the Arts and BFA from Cooper
Union, NY.
http://julieadler.com
Instagram: juladler
jla@julieadler.com
Rochelle Botello is a Los Angeles based visual artist working across mixed media, sculpture and sitespecific
installations. Her work has been exhibited in the United States and internationally,
extending Japan, Berlin and South Korea. She has exhibited with Holter Museum of Art, Torrance Art
Museum, Jaus, Launch, Coagula Curatorial and Eastside International to name a few. Her exhibitions
have also been reviewed in the LA Times, The Huffington Post, Whitehot magazine, Artillery
Magazine and Coagula Art Journal. Botello holds a MFA from Claremont Graduate University and a
BA in Sociology with an emphasis in Social Psychology from University of California, Santa Cruz.
www.rochellebotello.com
Instagram: rochellebotello
rochellebotello@gmail.com
Eve Wood is both an artist and critic. She was represented for six years by Western Project and
before that at Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects. She has exhibited her work at numerous
galleries and museums including Angles Gallery, Huntington Beach Museum of Art, Vincent Price
Museum, Western Carolina University Museum and the Weatherspoon Museum of Art. She most
recently had an exhibition of her drawings at Ochi Projects in LA. Her art criticism has appeared in
many magazines including Flash Art, Artnet.com, Tema Celeste, Flavorpill, White Hot Magazine,
Artillery, Art ltd. New York Arts, Angelino Magazine, Art Papers, Bridge, ArtUS, Artweek, Latin
Arts.com, Art Review and Bomb. She is also the author of five books of poetry published by various
university presses. She is an associate professor at CSUN.
http://evewood.net
Instagram: evewoodstudio
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