Notes on Intimacy
B. Anele, Sterling Hedges, Clifford Prince King, Alima Lee
November 2, 2019 - Extended through March 1, 2020
Opening reception: Saturday, November 2, 2019, 7-10 pm
3315 West Washington Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90018
Organized by Alima Lee
Image: Clifford Prince King, growing export, digital video, color, sound, TRT 00:05:21 (video still)
B. Anele is a Los Angeles based transdisciplinary artist. Delving into imaginative topography, their work transforms familiar symbolism and commonplace objects into provocative prototypes. An organic nature encompasses the work in its entirety concerning materials/mediums in conjunction with essence. Being mainly self-taught, their work maintains a sense of purity, untouched by canonical confines. Their perspective is inherently complex; filtered through Nigerian roots, blackness, and queerness. Simultaneously haphazard and considerate, their practice is an ongoing experiment in producing physical evidence from a metaphysical exploration of existence. Working in an uninhibited range of mediums from performances involving 30 bananas and a jug of water to 10 foot long hypnotic paintings, B. explores their own progressive narrative within each facet of their work in ambitious effort to proliferate acquisition of broadened consciousness. B. Anele has exhibited work in group and solo shows in Houston, Austin, Oakland, Los Angeles, Portland, and New York City.
Sterling Hedges (b. 1992, Los Angeles, USA) received a BFA in Art History in 2014 from University of Arizona, Tucson and is working toward a MFA in Art and Technology from California Institute of the Arts, Santa Clarita. Recent performances and exhibitions include: Forward Motions at Coaxial, Los Angeles; 🌀at Te Extraño, Mexico City; Nazela at Leiminspace, Los Angeles; 👼 at Antes De Cristo, Mexico City; Graphite Journal Launch Exhibition at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; An Ephemeral History of High Desert Test Sites: 2002-2015 at High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree; good boy (solo exhibition) at Everybody, Tucson.
Clifford Prince King (b. 1993) is a visual artist who uses photography and filmmaking to celebrate black queer identity. King recently opened his second solo exhibition and is continuing to create photographs in LA.
Alima Lee is a transdisciplinary artist from New York and is currently based in LA. Her work explores themes of identity and intersectionality. Currently a Frieze LA x Ghetto Film School Fellow and Co-Host of a monthly show, "Rave Reparations" on NTS. Her film work has been presented at the Tate Modern, MOCA, Smithsonian African American Museum, Gavin Brown's Enterprise, and ICA Boston to name several of many US locales.