Photography

CommArts Joy presents: A presentation by Ken Gonzales-Day

Ken Gonzales-Day’s interdisciplinary and conceptually grounded projects consider the history of photography, the construction of race, and the limits of representational systems ranging from the lynching photograph to museum display. In 2017, Gonzales-Day received a Guggenheim Fellowship in Photography. His work has been widely exhibited at venues including The J. Paul Getty Museum, LAXART, The Skirball, LACMA, The Generali Foundation in Vienna, and Thomas Dane Gallery in London, among others.

Paul Hutchinson (b. 1987 in Berlin, Germany) received his B.F.A. from the University of Arts in Berlin and his M.F.A. from the Central Saint Martins College of Art and Design in London, UK.

Born in Montréal in 1967, David Hartt lives and works in Philadelphia, where he is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Fine Arts at the Weitzman School of Design, University of Pennsylvania.

Hartt creates work that unpacks the social, cultural, and economic complexities of his various subjects. He explores how historic ideas and ideals persist or transform over time.

Please join Otis College of Art and Design's Undergraduate Fine Arts Department in welcoming Patty Chang to the Visiting Artist Lecture Series for Spring 2021.

Zen Sekizawa has been working as a photographer, director, and artist for over two decades in her hometown of Los Angeles, CA. She is second-generation Angeleno and fourth-generation Japanese-American. Her childhood was spent at The Atomic Cafe, a Los Angeles punk rock institution, owned and operated for over four decades by her family in Little Tokyo. Raised in and surrounded by creativity, chaos, music, dark humor, and the inclusivity of the cafe, she has formed a surreal, funny, and beautifully subversive aesthetic that is all her own.

Dean Sameshima is a Berlin-based, American artist whose work explores the history of gay male histories, subcultures, and pleasure through the lens of documentary photography, painting, video, and installation and is currently in a group show at O-Town House, Los Angeles, titled "Pathologically Social," organized by Mark Verabioff.

Phil Chang received his MFA from The California Institute of the Arts and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. Solo exhibitions include The Suburban (2019), M+B (2017 and 2014), Praz-Delavallade (2015), The California Museum of Photography at UCRARTSblock (2015), and LAXART (2012). Chang’s work has been included in group exhibitions at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the George Eastman Museum, and Transformer Station.

Arthur Ou is an artist based in New York.