Image: Beck+Col, Rainbow Face! on Vacation, 2017

In conjunction with the exhibit And then there is California., Beach=Culture presents an evening of screenings featuring short artist-created films.

Molly Shea - Someday, 4:43

Kelly Wall + Jessica Dillon- Blue River, 6:35

Hanieh Khatibi - Drawn-In Drawn-Out, 20:38

Stephanie Mei Huang - erasure ii, 8:34

Kelly Wall - Dusty Cheeks, 3:29

Beck+Col - Rainbow Face! on vacation, 6:40

About the filmmakers

Molly Jo Shea is an artist and performer living in Los Angeles. Her work is often an interdisciplinary weaving that attempts to create worlds, characters and interactive engagement. Her video "Someday" is a recreation of the 1960s surf videos from a seasonal depression standpoint. Most recently she has solo shows at Horse and Pony Gallery in Berlin and Monte Vista Projects in Los Angeles. She is available for bachelorette parties, bar mitzvahs and funerals. mollyjoshea.com

Jessica Dillon and Kelly Wall met in 2010 while receiving their bachelors in Fine Art from Otis College of Art and Design. Over the last eight years they have collaborated before pursuing their Masters degree separately, Dillon graduating from ArtCenter in 2018 and Wall currently completing her final year at Calarts. Their work roots from a connection to place and environment as well as a ‘living-art’ practice. Often composed of Video, Performance, Curatorial works, and Relational Aesthetics, Wall and Dillon’s approach to their combined work stems from friendship often cultivating in a “front porch dialogue”. jessicadillon.info

Hanieh Khatibi's works present the notion of precariousness and uncertainty in conditional beings or self-made situations. Alongside a concern with gender and body she seeks an ongoing relationship of human to that which we often call nature, by placement and displacement, formation and transformation through material strategies designed to interrogate and reconfigure the body itself. Hanieh chases the very overlap between restriction and possibility, which is to say that she explores liminal space. She recently received an MFA from the California Institute of the Arts.

stephanie mei huang is a Los Angeles-based interdisciplinary artist currently completing her MFA in Art at the California Institute of the Arts. Her work concerns itself with critical scripts of notions around authority, expansionism, and displacement. She is interested in transversing territories of confrontation between notions of history/expansions and intimate bodily containers. She examines the American West as a repository of all discourses as products of modern diasporas. She is the recipient of a Getty Foundation grant and has taught at non-profits such as the Marfa Studio of Arts and Venice Arts. highstitchedvoice.com

LA-based artist Kelly Wall received her bachelors from Otis College of Art and Design in 2012 and completed her Masters at Calarts in 2019. The subjects of Wall’s work vary as much as the medium in which they are portrayed, but more often than not utilize humor to usher in and make palatable themes of solitude and social performance. Wall’s installations take influence from the occult, mundane realities, and mythologies, creating parallel worlds in which to view everyday normalcies from behind a new filter. A multimedia artist whose work includes sculpture, video, performance, and sound, her work is introspective while leaving ample space for the viewer to enter. kellywall.com

Los Angeles based duo Beck+Col use humor and chaos to examine the crises that emerge from human exceptionalism. Through costume-based performance and video, their work explores alternate universes populated with monsters.The monsters are at once silly, playful and exceptionally brutal. beckandcol.com

About the Exhibit:

And then there is California.

On view May 4, 2019 - August 26, 2019
Curated by Beck+Col

Featuring work by Santiago Acero, Alia Ali, Diego Barrientos, Kira Doutt, Philipp Farra, lydon frank, Hanieh Khatibi, Serena Himmelfarb, Chloe Levaillant, Alicia Piller and Kelly Wall.

There is science, logic, reason; there is thought verified by experience. And then there is California. -Edward Abbey

Approaching contemporary landscapes from unique perspectives, the artists in 'And then there is California.' challenge the way we look at the California coast. The works in the show are a reflection of their interactions with the coastal landscape and a celebration of its intersection with the unique culture of Los Angeles.

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Getting Here: The Beach House is located at 415 Pacific Coast Highway, Santa Monica, CA 90402 on the west side of Pacific Coast Highway. Enter off PCH at the Beach House Way traffic light.

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