Safe Passage (for Sheila) on view at the Santa Monica Film Festival Virtual Screening on XOLO, January 24 – 31, 2023!
Excited to share that two of my early films made at 2 artist residencies in 2013 are available on Vimeo On Demand: Dance in the Face of Various Deaths and Remembering & Forgetting
- Prep for Santa Monica Film Festival online video introduction screening
- Honorable Mention at Paris Shorts (France)!
- Winter Night Forest in grey with a scent blend of cedarwood, vanilla, and spiced cloves.
- Candle making workshop at Banter + Bliss in Pasadena
- My candle
- Santa Clarita International Film Festival Live at the Laemmle Theater in Newhall, December 11, 10am block
- Color Vision Photography Exhibition at Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR. Photo: Dad
- My print in the Color Vision Photography Exhibition at Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR. Photo: Dad
- Mom at the Color Vision Photography Exhibition at Black Box Gallery, Portland, OR. Photo: Dad
- To Reach the Seventh Mountain on the historic marquee of The Hayworth Theater on Wilshire Blvd hosted by Dynasty Typewriter!
- Interview in The New Current for the Barcelona International Short Film Festival, November.
- BARCELONA!
- Honorable Mention at Black Panther International Film Festival, India!
- To Reach the Seventh Mountain goes up on Central Ave/Route 66 in Albuquerque, New Mexico with Friends of the Orphan Signs!
- NEW work
- Naked Mountain in NYC Oct 22!
- Gold winner for Experimental Short! Focus International Film Festival
- LA PUNK Film FEST!!
- Road trip to Tucson, AZ for the Arizona Underground Film Festival screening –poster signing.
- Safe Passage (for Sheila) wins Best Experimental Short Film!!
- A Life On The Farm & Dress A Cow & Safe Passage (for Sheila) screen together twice at NHDocs at the Bow-Tie Criterion Cinemas in downtown New Haven, CT in October!
- Jiffy Louvre II: Leave Worry Behind (Again), Short Shorts WhiteSpace Gallery in Atlanta!
- SILICON BEACH Film Festival screening at the historic TCL Chinese Theater in Hollywood 9/14, 6pm sharp!!! Two minutes late and Safe Passage (for Sheila) is over. I’ll be dressed up + hiding in the back.
Honored to have Safe Passage (for Sheila) screen at Toronto Tamil Film Festival, 9/10-11 at York Cinemas 115 York Boulevard Richmond Hill, ON L4B 3B4
- Wallachia Interview
- NYC!!!
- Finalist with ZTV and party this month in Brooklyn, NY!
- Finalist at Lane Doc Fest for Best Short – Humanity!
- Win for Best Super Short Film in ROME and loosely associated with FELINI!
- Safe Passage (for Sheila) wins another award!
- Fluxus Buck! It’s time for me to send it home after being the last mail artist to make her mark on it’s journey through the post
- Best Short Documentary in VENICE!
- Honored to be loosely associated with Bunuel!
- Eastern European Premiere in Wallachia, Bucharest, Romania– home of the original tale of Count Dracula!
- SOUTH AMERICAN Premiere in Uruguay!! Thursday, July 7th, at 6:15 PM at Cinebaar
- Win in SINGAPORE!!
- Indie Short Fest Los Angeles!
- NEW DELHI!
- Indie Shorts Mag!
- ROSHANI!
- Safe Passage (for Sheila) won Best Short Film in Moody Crab Fest in Moga, INDIA!
- Safe Passage (for Sheila) in Vancouver, B.C. CANADA
- Look out, Berlin! GRRL HAUS Telephone ’22. Twenty-one of us respond to each other’s video in a row for a final piece. Mine’s coming last in September
- Colette Fu + I catching up after 10 years on a video call for 3 hours for my Getty News piece: An Artist’s Travel Pop-Up Book Series Colette Fu on making We are Tiger Dragon People
- Black Box Gallery catalog for Black + White exhibition Portland, OR
- Mail art for Voci e Immagini di Cura show, Italy
- Building that once was the Los Angeles Woman’s Building in Duachrome. Wrapped the digitization project on the WB at the Getty Feb 22
- Full Program for Linda Mary Montano’s birthday performances/screenings
- Performance for Linda Montano on her 80th birthday with Franklin Furnace/ Grace Exhibition Space
- Supporting AIDS research, Postcards from the Edge auction
- Showing in Rome, Italy with LoosenArt
- Dance in the Face of Various Deaths in Rome with LoosenArt
- Playing with glass @ Bullseye Glass plate workshop
- I Echo You Across Time + Space / Space + Time in Rome, Italy
- PⒶW in Malta @ Kinemastik International Short Film Festival
- “Safe Passage (for Sheila)” at the 27th Annual Brainwash Drive-in/Bike-in Movie Festival where George Kuchar screened at the first one
- Dave BRAINWASH Doyle, CA
- BRAINWASH Doyle, CA
- Sheila’s debut at the Brainwash drive-in
- ‘PⒶW’ at RIFF
- Humanism @ BIOS, Athens, Greece
- BIOS Athens, Greece
- Humanism @ BIOS, Athens, Greece
- BIOS Athens, Greece
- Humanism @ BIOS, Athens
- BIOS Athens, Greece
- Listening event @ Craft Contemporary
- Safe Passage (for Sheila) receives award
- Materials & Applications Radio launch
- ‘PⒶW’ selected for 67th International Film Festival Oberhausen
- No Movement 1930s style sign by Greg Gonzalez @gregogonzosigns
- No Movement @ Adams Square Mini Park gas station 6 week run all day, all night with LED lights
- Public park views night radio for No Movement 24/7
- No Movement 24/7 on Valentine’s Day
“How’s the weather here there?”
From January 1st to December 31st of 2020, I orchestrated a postcard exchange art project called, “How’s the weather here there?” as a way to create connections, a space for anyone to participate in an art practice, and make an abstract record of the year.
I did not know what an incredibly historic year it would become and how the importance of connecting to others in this way would carry me through the socially distanced reality of the pandemic. The instructions were to describe your current inner and outer landscape (physical space, emotional state, whatever that means to you) on a postcard and mail it to me and I would respond with one if a return address was provided.
People responded. I received about 430 postcards from 16 different countries around the world. Postcards came from all kinds of different people sharing art and thoughts and feelings with me. A few came from friends but most came from strangers. Many people remained anonymous. I had postcards from children as well as well-known organizations and accomplished artists, writers, and professionals in their field. Several people became pandemic penpals who I hope to meet in real life one day.
These small, personal documents cover some things that happened to us in 2020. The overarching event being the coronavirus pandemic with its many issues such as the loss of loved ones, racism against Asian and Asian-American people, the toilet paper shortage, isolation, anxiety, depression, working from home, and having kids schooled at home. Other major events that are documented in the collection are the Black Lives Matter movement, Portland protests, the wildfires on the U.S. west coast and in Australia, U.S. postal service funding issues and delays, everything surrounding issues with the Trump presidency leading up to the election and post-election results, Brexit, the SpaceX launch, the deaths of John Lewis and Ruth Bader Ginsburg, and the great planetary conjunction on the winter solstice. Not to mention the hopes and fears of everyday living.
The next portion of the project is to exhibit the collection in its entirety and to publish a selection of these as a book where a portion of the proceeds will support organizations assisting people who are experiencing homelessness, who do not have an address to participate in a project like this one to continue the exchange in generosity and connection.
The exhibition planned was unfortunately canceled due to the global pandemic, but I am committed to sharing the work publicly in the future when it works. Thank you to everyone who participated and those who have inquired about the next phases of the project!
The bulk of this was originally published in Canvas, Vol. 40, No.1 (Winter 2021) by the Art Libraries Society of North America, Southern California Chapter.
International Contemporary Ensemble · The World Wide Tuning Meditation: March 28, 2020
- Los Angeles Drive-Thru show, pandemic style
- High Beams
- High Beams Drive Thru @ the Bendix
- High Beams Drive-Thru @ the Bendix
- LOIMBY with Maiden LA + OPaf
- MAIDEN LA
- LOIMBY @ Other Places Art Fair , San Pedro
- Tailgate @ Monte Vista Projects
- Tailgate @ Monte Vista Projects
- Tailgate @ Monte Vista Projects, LA
- Tailgate @ Monte Vista Projects
- 3TON Cinema archive found footage remix @ Coaxial with Shadow Kitchen
- Ace 121 gallery exhibition
- Ace 121 gallery
- Ace 121 exhibition
- There Is No End to Her, Ace 121
- 10 artists, 10 minutes each @MotherDitch Los Angeles
- SPREAD 6.0 Artists SITE Santa Fe
- Emergency INDEX, Ugly Duckling Presse
- Sheri Crider found my print in an ABQ city building
- Artist talk: Deep Waters, Thin Places @ Sanitary Tortilla Factory
- Desert Longings @ Ocotillo Room / Mood Salon
- Photo Paysage @ UNM
- Walking the Solar System with John Reid
- ABQ City purchase
- Work with Manny Rettinger @ Graft Gallery
- SubPhono Sway
- Tamarind Institute exhibition
- SITE Santa Fe
- SITE Scholars
- From Suzanne Sparge @ 516 Arts, Albuquerque
- Land Arts of the American West exhbition
- Archival exhibition @ Center for Southwest Research
- Center on Contemporary Art, Seattle, WA
- Screening in Seoul, Korea
- My gift for the Chief of Abetenim Village, Ashanti Region, Ghana
- Drummers from Abetenim Village School for Remembering and Forgetting, Ghana Artist / Cultural Immersion Residency
- Dancers from Abetenim Village School for Remembering and Forgetting, Ghana Artist / Cultural Immersion Residency
- Christina making fufu, Abetenim, Ashanti Region, Ghana
- Friends! Abetenim Village, Ashanti Region, Ghana Artist / Cultural Immersion Residency
- Stoked at Penland winter lithography residency holding the Patience Stone