10/23/2022
Urban Artists
at
The Brick Room Gallery
11/4/2022 5:00-8:30pm
From August 1st – 10th, The Hundredth Hill hosted 5 young, urban artists
In 10 days of fully-funded residency in the Indiana countryside. For a couple of them,
this was the first trip away from an urban landscape, and proved to be an inspiring
and collaborative experience. Their styles are all different, as are their perspectives and choices of medium, and this residency, followed by exhibit at The Brick Room, is the first of its kind for any of them. The project was in collaboration with Arte Mexicano en Indiana, a non-profit arts organization run by Eduardo Luna in Indianapolis, focused on giving voice and opportunity to artists of color. The exhibit will include works completed during the residency!
Find info at: http://www.thehundredthhill.org
Artists:
Lauren Castillo, Cincinnati – Digital Art, Graduate of Art Academy of Cincinnati
London Heist, Indianapolis – Mixed Media, Graduate of IU School of Fine Arts
Nasreen Kahn, Indianapolis – Wood Burning/Paint, Graduate of Seton Hall University
Samuel Penaloza, Indianapolis – Acrylics Painter, Self-Taught
Schuyler Smith, Cincinnati – AI Assisted Digital Animation, Graduate of Art Academy of Cincinnati
Artist Statements/Samples:
Lauren Castillo is best described as being a fistful of clay with teeth in it. The artist can be found haunting cabinets above your sink waving around a cool stick. Lauren's interests lie in the detonation of the human body, specifically how the addition of objects and visual noise create a sense of unease and wrongness of the human form. What happens when these detonated pieces hit the dirt? When they are picked up and put back together with chewing gum and spit?
London Heist – London’s studio practice is constant exploration: incorporating both a geographic exploration with found materials and an in-studio exploration of their physical limits. Whilst being heavily sculptural, she considers these finished works paintings. Recently, she’s begun a journey with ceramic sculpture. She explores work that revolves around the discomfort of contortion—stretching, pulling, pinching, stuffing, and forcing material into shapes that gravity and reality fight against. This places the audience in a physical representation of
deeply personal exploration within her own emotional landscape, illuminating how the act of
reexamination can warp our perceptions of memory/reality.
Nasreen Khan grew up in Indonesia and Senegal in a religious boarding school. Her father is Afghan and Russian and mother is Filipino/Chinese with Black indigenous roots. She is an Indianapolis-based immigrant artist whose art is grounded in her cultural experience as a young, brown, q***r immigrant mother. She draws the most inspiration from the clash of the natural world and the urban landscape that she inhabits. Much of her work focuses on the margins--the margins of respectability, of race, of culture, and of sexuality. She uses hyper local materials like wood scavenged from the White River or urban trees that she mills herself. She finds prophetic revelation and inspiration in the continued work of the confluence of ecology and artistry.
Samuel Penaloza Is the child of Mexican immigrants who uses art to explore his feelings and philosophies as he straddles two disparate cultures. Using these sources as inspiration he’s able to channel raw emotion in his paintings - raw emotion that he wants to challenge the viewer to feel, standing face to face with his art. He is self-taught and works primarily in acrylics, though he is continually explores new media.
Schuyler Smith is a multidisciplinary artist from Cincinnati, Ohio. Her work varies greatly in medium and most often is a product of collaboration. As a member of the band "FrogHole?" she produces music, sound installations, video projections, and performances. They like to pull at the threads separating technology from the divine. Most recently Skye has been working on a series of animated Tarot cards with imagery generated by machine learning.
Urban Artists
at
The Brick Room Gallery
11/4/2022 5:00-8:30pm
From August 1st – 10th, The Hundredth Hill hosted 5 young, urban artists
In 10 days of fully-funded residency in the Indiana countryside. For a couple of them,
this was the first trip away from an urban landscape, and proved to be an inspiring
and collaborative experience. Their styles are all different, as are their perspectives and choices of medium, and this residency, followed by exhibit at The Brick Room, is the first of its kind for any of them. The project was in collaboration with Arte Mexicano en Indiana, a non-profit arts organization run by Eduardo Luna in Indianapolis, focused on giving voice and opportunity to artists of color. The exhibit will include works completed during the residency!
Find info at: http://www.thehundredthhill.org
Artists:
Lauren Castillo, Cincinnati – Digital Art, Graduate of Art Academy of Cincinnati
London Heist, Indianapolis – Mixed Media, Graduate of IU School of Fine Arts
Nasreen Kahn, Indianapolis – Wood Burning/Paint, Graduate of Seton Hall University
Samuel Penaloza, Indianapolis – Acrylics Painter, Self-Taught
Schuyler Smith, Cincinnati – AI Assisted Digital Animation, Graduate of Art Academy of Cincinnati
Artist Statements/Samples:
Lauren Castillo is best described as being a fistful of clay with teeth in it. The artist can be found haunting cabinets above your sink waving around a cool stick. Lauren's interests lie in the detonation of the human body, specifically how the addition of objects and visual noise create a sense of unease and wrongness of the human form. What happens when these detonated pieces hit the dirt? When they are picked up and put back together with chewing gum and spit?
London Heist – London’s studio practice is constant exploration: incorporating both a geographic exploration with found materials and an in-studio exploration of their physical limits. Whilst being heavily sculptural, she considers these finished works paintings. Recently, she’s begun a journey with ceramic sculpture. She explores work that revolves around the discomfort of contortion—stretching, pulling, pinching, stuffing, and forcing material into shapes that gravity and reality fight against. This places the audience in a physical representation of
deeply personal exploration within her own emotional landscape, illuminating how the act of
reexamination can warp our perceptions of memory/reality.
Nasreen Khan grew up in Indonesia and Senegal in a religious boarding school. Her father is Afghan and Russian and mother is Filipino/Chinese with Black indigenous roots. She is an Indianapolis-based immigrant artist whose art is grounded in her cultural experience as a young, brown, q***r immigrant mother. She draws the most inspiration from the clash of the natural world and the urban landscape that she inhabits. Much of her work focuses on the margins--the margins of respectability, of race, of culture, and of sexuality. She uses hyper local materials like wood scavenged from the White River or urban trees that she mills herself. She finds prophetic revelation and inspiration in the continued work of the confluence of ecology and artistry.
Samuel Penaloza Is the child of Mexican immigrants who uses art to explore his feelings and philosophies as he straddles two disparate cultures. Using these sources as inspiration he’s able to channel raw emotion in his paintings - raw emotion that he wants to challenge the viewer to feel, standing face to face with his art. He is self-taught and works primarily in acrylics, though he is continually explores new media.
Schuyler Smith is a multidisciplinary artist from Cincinnati, Ohio. Her work varies greatly in medium and most often is a product of collaboration. As a member of the band "FrogHole?" she produces music, sound installations, video projections, and performances. They like to pull at the threads separating technology from the divine. Most recently Skye has been working on a series of animated Tarot cards with imagery generated by machine learning.
