EDIT: This show has been postponed until April, when hopefully we will find ourselves with some viable vaccines! Let’s hang out by the (heated saltwater) pool in Palm Springs then, yeah? :)

Re-imagined fragments of California on Fire in a solo video art show at the Ace Hotel in Palm Springs. There will be no opening, but you can walk onto the property and take it all in. More details as they emerge.

The New York Times T-List recommends Implied Scale at Mana Contemporary.

“California on Fire,” [is] a frighteningly vibrant and intimate look at the environment…”

7/16 SHOW EXTENDED TO AUG 28TH!

7/01 Implied Scale Recommended by the New York Times T-List!

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Working together, artists and scientists have the ability to imply the scale and effects of climate change, while informing the public on how we can start to reverse it.

FEATURING JAMES PROSEK, ZARIA FORMAN, JEFF FROST, TED KIM, CATHERINE CHALMERS

Curated by Kele McComsey (formerly Pace Gallery)

Sanctuary of the Aftermath Opens virtually, Saturday, April 10th

Gallery appointments are to be determined.

Curated by Jason Jenn and Vojislav Radovanović, Sanctuary of the Aftermath investigates how art can create new channels for connection, even during prolonged periods of physical separation and quarantine. Site-specific installation art, video art, and auditory art are highlighted within an immersive atmosphere, which invites safe engagement to explore the issues and make personal discoveries. The artists’ paths uncover the universal in a therapeutic process and invites viewers to share in their experience through immersive art. During a time of intense socio-political injustice, environmental disaster, rapid technological changes, prolonged physical isolation, and anxiety - art can be a remedy.

Artists include Nica Aquino, Joseph Carrillo, Jeff Frost, Anita Getzler, David Hollen, Jason Jenn, Ibuki Kuramochi Rosalyn Myles, Vojislav Radovanović, Alison Ragguette, and Kayla Tange.

My first NFT has been minted and the auction on Foundation will begin tomorrow (3/24) at 10am PST. The auction will last 24 hours after the first bid is received. A portion of the proceeds will be donated to the National Parks Conservation Association and The AAPI Community Fund to #StopAsianHate

Sands of Time fig2 pt2

A moon shot model for the transformation of capitalism

BY MARIANA MAZZUCATO
PHOTOGRAPHS BY JEFF FROST

In print & online

WWW.ARTINTHEPLAGUEYEAR.COM

Ghosts of the Future (working title) is a video-art, time-compression project that mirrors and embraces the harrowing mess of humanity on the brink through layered visual metaphors.

This work in progress and will receive substantial updates throughout the exhibition. Return here to watch the evolution. Once updated, old versions of the film will not be viewable.

Proposed update schedule:

• Jan 9th - v2.2

• Feb 1st - v2.3

• Mar 1st - v2.4 - DELAYED TO MARCH 10TH

• Mar 11th - v3.0 - Completely reworked and expanded. Additional Graffiti by Ryan Campbell, Sofia Enriquez, Laia Torres

• TBD - v3.x - The world is waking up and I’m getting a bit overloaded! The film is far from finished, but I hear the show is extended. I am still shooting & editing this project.

This isn’t an event; I just wanted to call attention to this guest blog I wrote for Standford University’s MAHB Blog. I worked very hard on it (with help) and I think it’s worth your time.

https://mahb.stanford.edu/blog/orange-i-think-we-need-to-see-other-colors

EDIT 7/17/2020: RESCHEDULED FOR OCTOBER 16 - 25

EDIT 4/02/2020: RESCHEDULED FOR SEPT

California on Fire’s Belgium Premiere!!!

Schedule:

http://www.festivalmillenium.org/schedule

California on Fire will be screened online as part of this festival for independent music & film in Ireland!

More info as it comes:

https://indiecork.com/buy-tickets/

New painting work in progress debuting ONLINE for this show examining the Anthropocene. Working title, ‘Ghosts of the Future (Now What?)’

See it here: http://www.torranceartmuseum.com/rewilding-structures

The artwork presented in this exhibition, when viewed through a transhumanist interpretation, provides a mediation on what will be left when we are all gone. Rewilding Structures asks viewers to consider how our consumption patterns are redefining the natural forces of entropy and decay.

Artists: Jeff Frost, Lawrence Gipe, Jack Henry, John Hudson, Ashton Phillips, Sandy Rodriguez, Matt Taylor, Domingos Tótora, Kylie White

Four large California on Fire prints will be in the Environmental Impact show curated by David J. Wagner. It will tour through 2023 and travel to at least seven venues. Some will also screen California on Fire.

More details as they come.

EDIT: 08/28 - updated dates & show extended

https://sternberg.fhsu.edu/upcoming-exhibitions-2/

CALIFORNIA ON FIRE has been selected for the Leiden International Short Film Experience festival!

California on Fire & GO HOME will both be a part of this online video art festival geared towards contemporary art & experimentalism.

http://www.laartdocuments.com/videoartfestival/

L.A. Art Documents presents: L.A. Mise-en-scène Video Art Festival, an online exhibition featuring experimental video art works curated by the producers of L.A. Art Documents, Jason Jenn and Vojislav Radovanović. The title and conceit of the show uses the film industry and its terminology “mise-en-scène” to create a cohesive through line for the varied works. Mise-en-scène is a film-making term that translates originally from French to “placing on stage”. It is used academically to describe the arrangement of everything that appears in the framing of the camera – actors, lighting, décor, props, costumes. Together these elements convey the important visual storytelling aspects of cinema.

California on Fire will be screened at 3PM PST on Sunday, August 30th online for festival attendees.

SCHEDULE: https://www.themoviecrush.com/schedule-2020

California on Fire will be screened as part of this (now online) film festival!

Tickets & showtimes: https://www.themoviecrush.com/

California on Fire makes its Croatian debut in the Veliki Tabor Castle! (Unless it doesn’t and it’s online? I’m not sure). Also, this is California on Fire’s castle debut as well. My apologies to the festival’s logo designers, but I just had to post a picture of the castle itself because it’s so beautiful. How much do we all wish we could go hang out there for a weekend together?!

Check with their website for details: https://taborfilmfestival.com/en/home-english/

CALIFORNIA ON FIRE will make it’s Russian premiere at this unique film festival!

Kinodot was created to support and distribute new experimental films, and to inspire filmmakers to experiment in their own way. We promote freedom of ideas, formalism, simplicity and self-restriction as oppose to the secondary film production and self-censorship of high budget festivals. We believe that a great film can be created with very basic means, without special education or expensive equipment. We also believe that creating and following a strict set of formal rules can have a liberating effect on every artist. 

http://kinodot.com/eng/

EDIT 04/26/2020 WINNER! Special Jury Mention Award

EDIT 04/02/2020: This festival is moving online! By attending the festival virtually you can watch California on Fire in your underwear on the couch. How great is that?! Stay tuned for more details.

California on Fire will be screened at this film festival in Paris!

ÉCU has expressly established itself and is often referred to as the Sundance of Europe. As such, we are the perfect venue for bold and visionary filmmakers to present their work to the cinema-loving public who are actively seeking alternatives to commercial-hungry major studio projects.

http://www.ecufilmfestival.com/

GO HOME’s Seattle premiere!

California on Fire will have its own screening theater on the main floor for Facing Fire: Art, Wildlife and the End of Nature. I am incredibly lucky to be exhibiting alongside fire photographers Stuart Palley & Noah Berger for this show. They are both the real deal and incredible artists! Not to be missed!

Curated by Douglas McCulloh

EDIT 05/02/2021 SHOW IS PHYSICALLY OPEN MAY 13TH AND EXTENDED THROUGH JULY!!!

EDIT 03/01/2021
This show has been extended to 8 weeks past when museums are able to open!

GO HOME video installation and several prints from Circle of Abstract Ritual (!!!) featured in, Landscape: Awe to Activism. Curated by Jeff Nathanson.

EDIT 06.10 The museum will be opening back up! Stay tuned. Here’s their website:
https://museumsc.org/

GO HOME video installation for the Light & Space exhibition. This short video art piece recently won Best in Show at the International Time Lapse Film Festival. The show will also feature incredible work by Jay Mark Johnson, Laddie John Dill, and Shana Mabari. Curated by Andi Campognone.

California on Fire will be screened from sunset to midnight in this experimental contemporary videoart installation series! Send me photos if you go to it.

From the Werkleitz website:

In cooperation with the Burg Giebichenstein University of Art and Design, Werkleitz runs a video window into the city with the video grid, in which we regularly present contemporary video art. The video rama is located at the front of our office at Schleifweg 6.