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DECEMBER 30, 2018 @ 5:30 PM PDT
MELLY TROCHEZ
LEO EGUIARTE
BEN EVANS
with host JOHN SEMPER JR.
“Ritual/s”
Two-Person Show
ACE/121 Gallery
121 N Kenwood St
Glendale, CA
Join the artists at the closing reception on January 5th from 5 to 7 p.m.
In their first shared exhibition, Leo Eguiarte and Melly Trochez have chosen to collaborate on a work together throughout the course of the exhibition. By sharing the development of a single artwork as part of their exhibition, the two artists will create and confront their own ritual/s in real time in the space of the ACE/121 Gallery.
MELLY TROCHEZ‘ work embodies personal narratives and observations of those around her with an emphasis on her Latina experience. Trochez graduated from California State Fullerton in 2004 with a BFA, and Loyola Marymount University in 2011 with an MA/MFT and discipline in Art Therapy to practice as an Art Psychotherapist. Her work continues to be an ongoing dialogue around identity and the constructs in our culture that impact how we move through life. She started her career with a focus on painting self portraits 20 years ago. Each depiction of the self has been represented through one of her four series involving social commentary, personal disclosures, epiphanies, and popular culture. Currently, the artist has turned her focus on external experiences. Painting has been a primary medium in which she explores and resolves provocative experiences that others have shared or that she has personally experienced. Her latest body of work remains focused on the experience as a first generation Latina. The work explores standards of beauty in Latina culture, how color, body, hair, and tradition, create discourse and tension in how we learn to embrace ourselves. Melly has also been creating new works about Latino immigrants and the experiences of undocumented youth. Along with her art making for the past seven years she has simultaneously been working as an Art Psychotherapist in community-based settings. This practice has only further enriched her understanding of the arts and its value as it pertains to health and wellness.
LEO EGUIARTE is an American artist born and residing in Los Angeles. California. He received a B.F.A. from Art Center College of Design in 2009, where he mainly focused on painting as his primary practice. He has worked as a muralist, printmaker, art facilitator, and as a teaching artist. Eguiarte’s current work deals with the disconnection people face living in a materialistic driven society, the type of environment that discourages a true bond towards the natural world and replaces it with an addiction to material commodities. With a strong admiration for the natural world and the daunting possibility of an imminent ecological collapse, this dilemma inspires him to make work on man’s role in this critical issue. The work is designed to confront these ideas of influence and desire, and to empower the viewer to consider alternative choices for the ways in which we interact with and participate in the world, encouraging a constantly evolving perspective and reminding us of a shared existence.
BEN EVANS, Program Director/Gallery Curator at ACE/121 – Originally from Washington state, Ben settled in Los Angeles after a decade living abroad. Following a B.A. in Theater Studies from Yale University, he lived in London, Barcelona and Paris, where he earned an M.A. in Theater and Choreography from the University of Paris 8. His work as a choreographer and performer toured across Europe and parts of North and South America, and his more recent work in visual art has been shown in France, Germany, Brazil and Cyprus. He grew up with a strong sense of service and his move to Los Angeles was inspired by a desire to make an impact on a local level. He is elated to work with the residents at ACE/121 in Glendale in creating an innovative model of multi-generational living, art making and community development.
