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GET TICKETSEXHIBIT CURATOR ARTISTS Video Press BENEFACTORS sp[a]ce PREVIOUS EXHIBITS CONTACT Exhibit Curator Artists Benefactors sp[a]ce Archive ContactIMMERSIVE REALITY EXPERIENCESCurated by Mark Todd and Aaron Smith Exhibition Ongoing Hey There Projects is located near the entrance to Joshua Tree National Park. Initiated by intrepid artists and old friends Mark Todd and Aaron Smith, the gallery showcases emerging and established artists in a setting surrounded by vast natural splendor. Curators Mark Todd is an artist, teacher and curator living in Los Angeles. For this exhibition he has brought together a cohesive and eclectic group of local artists whose work signifies the current climate of modern mark making. Much like The Post It Show that he curates each year at Giant Robot Gallery, Mark’s curating style is immensely creative, with a vision for inviting artists and viewers into a space that is as fun as it is insightful and provoking. Aaron Smith creates thick, colorful oil portraits based on vintage photographs from the Victorian and Edwardian era, which has long fascinated him. For years he has collected vintage photographs of men of the period. To him, these men represent a masculine ideal, if largely a constructed one. Their bearded faces and distinguished attire are spectacular, while their stiff poses and serious expressions belie an existential vulnerability. In each of Smith’s impasto portraits, woozy colors and aggressive surfaces act as a foil to the sitter’s stoic pose, reflecting a giddy ambivalence to nostalgia. This work has found support from a convergence of interrelated subcultures including Neo-Dandyism, Bear Culture, as well as Beard and Mustache Enthusiasts. The artist shares a desire to revel in the exaggeration of masculinity’s archetypes, mining past forms of male identity in an attempt to free them of any heteronormative constraints. Purchase artwork from Hey There Projects: in sp[a]ce VIEW EXHIBIT GET TICKETS Curator Milo Talwani is a composer and curator. They live in Los Angeles but spend a lot of time in and around virtual realities. They work with the Sundance Film Festival’s New Frontier section, the Tribeca Film Festival’s Tribeca Immersive section, and sp[a]ce gallery to make it easier for other people to spend a lot of time in and around virtual realities, too. Curator Paisley Smith is a Canadian filmmaker and virtual reality creator based in Los Angeles, California and Vancouver, British Columbia. Smith is the director of Unceded Territories , a "fun, weird, and totally gorgeous" (ScreenAnarchy) collaboration with First Nations artist Lawrence Paul Yuxweluptun, that explores the connection between climate change and colonization by pitting a destructive "Super Predator" versus the environment. Unceded Territories had its World Premiere at the Tribeca Film Festival Immersive 2019, and was made with support from Creative B.C. the Sundance Institute, and the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. Smith is also the director of Homestay (National Film Board of Canada, Jam3) an interactive VR documentary that deals with cultural understanding and loss. Homestay is nominated for "Best XR for Change" at the 2019 Games for Change festival. Homestay has screened internationally at IDFA DocLab, Expanded Realities at the Open City Doc Fest (London), Reel Asian International Film Festival (Toronto), and the Vancouver International Film Festival’s Immersed 2018, where it won the BC Spotlight Audience Award. She holds an MFA from the University of Southern California’s School of Cinematic Arts, which she attended on a Fulbright scholarship. She received her Bachelor of Arts Honours in Film and Media Studies and Art History from Queen’s University in Kingston, Ontario.Benefactorssp[a]ce is a non-profit project organized to benefit Art Center College of Design’s mission is to educate artists and designers to make a positive impact in their chosen fields, as well as in the world at large. Dedicated to being an agent of influence in today’s world by using creativity to help communicate ideas and inspire positive action, Art Center benefits from sp[a]ce gallery through scholarships for non-privileged students. Innovate Pasadena is a nonprofit, community-driven organization with the vision of creating a vibrant ecosystem of art, technology and science in our own neighborhood of Pasadena. Support from sp[a]ce gallery bolsters IP’s focus on helping support sustainable economic growth for our community. California Institute of the Arts is an internationally renowned performance art school and Hybrid Incubator for Visionary Entrepreneurs (HIVE). Focused on bringing out visionary creative talent, CalArts benefits from sp[a]ce gallery’s support for entrepreneurial graduate students. City of Hope, a cancer research institute, is transforming the future of health by turning science into practical benefits, and turning hope into reality. Through innovative research and cutting-edge science, City of Hope is focused on eliminating cancer and diabetes, funding for which is provided by sp[a]ce gallery. About sp[a]ce Three years in the making, sp[a]ce is a Kunsthaus project for showcasing the work of progressive local and international artists. With an environment created by Corsini Stark Architects, the exhibits are complemented by a vision of architecture that reflects a seamless integration of building and site, form and space, light and material, and style and use. Located in beautiful Old Pasadena, sp[a]ce provides a venue for discovery, interaction and inspiration. Contact sp[a]ce | spaceinfo@ayzenberg.com | 626.584.4070 Follow Us on Social While limited parking is located at the west side of the building, we ask that visitors park in the nearby St. Andrews Catholic Church (aka Diamond Parking) lot, located on Raymond Ave, just North of Walnut Street . Enter through doors adjacent to parking area at: 39 E. Walnut St. Pasadena, CA 91103 Subscribe Your Name (required) Your Email (required) © 2017 . All rights...