False Cast presents: Garden Universal
Featuring the work of: Daniel Evan Long, Annalise Neil, Charles Snowden, Margaret R. Thompson, and Hayley Quentin.
Opening August 6th, 12-4pm
La Mesa, CA
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False Cast explores new placements and perspectives in our first installation within a domestic setting. Utilizing mid century architecture perched atop the hills of La Mesa CA, this is a space where the natural and manmade converge and coalesce. The human relationship to nature is palpable as you circumnavigate the landscape and pass between the structure and gardens. A choice is made to make a garden, to build a home, to make an artwork; this show asks us to appreciate the magic of creation.
The artists we've selected are fluent in the communication of the biological and the esoteric. Each connects to the unseen worlds of life just beyond the sight of daily experience digging deeply into the earth and the air to discover the alchemy of the elemental. Garden Universal is the summation of looking deeply with humor, joy and childlike wonder.
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Daniel Evan Long
is a visual artist that explores the spectrum of human experience with themes of intimacy, partnership, pleasure, and connection that lives deep inside of queerness. Working primarily in painting, Long’s creative practice also includes an array of output including apparel, print editions, and sculptures. His studio practice functions as a way to celebrate the act of painting and provides a stage of permission to celebrate. It is a context and situation for celebration itself. Long received his MFA in Visual Studies from Pacific Northwest College of Art in 2013 and BFA from Memphis College of Art in 2006. He has shown at NOON Projects, Artist Curated Projects and Panel LA (Los Angeles), Nationale and PMoMA (Portland, OR). Long currently lives and works in Portland, Oregon.
I Had Missed the Morning, 2021
Acrylic and Flashe on Paper
28 in. x 42 in.
Framed
Sweeping, 2020
Acrylic and Flashe on Paper
28 in. x 42 in.
Framed
Five Hours Go By, 2021
Acrylic and Flashe on Paper
18 in. x 22 in.
Framed
Annalise Neil
lives and works in La Mesa, CA. In 2006, she received a BFA in Printmaking from the College of Saint Rose in Albany, NY, with a minor in Art History (summa cum laude). She participated inan Artist Residency in Motherhood from 2016-17, and in 2021 completed independent art study courses with the NYC Crit Club. She is a member of the Art Alliance at the Oceanside Museum of Art and the San Diego Watercolor Society. Annalise has exhibited her paintings, fine prints, and cyanotypes in numerous juried shows throughout the United States over the last 15 years, obtaining several awards by notable jurors. She has been featured in publications such as ArtMaze Mag, On Being, Emergence Magazine, All She Makes, and New Visionary Magazine. Her work resides in public and private collections across the U.S. and in Europe.
Expansive Embrace, 2022
Watercolor and cyanotype on Hahnemuhle Platinum Rag
8 in. x 16 in. Framed
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San Diego/Sequoia National Forest/Cleveland National Forest: Chandelier Drops, Salp, Velvetleaf Pods, Wood Knot, Son, Sierra Tiger Lily, Corn Lily, 2022
Watercolor and toned Cyanotype on Fabriano Artistico paper, mounted on wood panel
11 in. x 14 in.
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Yellowstone National Park/San Diego: Hot Spring, Knife Acacia, 2022
Watercolor and toned Cyanotype on Arches Aquarelle paper
5 in. x 7 in. Framed
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Oyster Mushrooms, Bee, Red-Belted Conk, Asparagus Fern, Pepper Tree, Southern California Legless Lizard, 2021
Watercolor on Cyanotype, mounted on wood panel
5 in. x 7 in.
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Extermophile Corridors, 2022
Watercolor and Cyanotype on Hahnemuhle Sumi-e paper, mounted on wood panel
11 in. x 14 in.
State Change, 2022
Watercolor and Cyanotype on Arches Aquarelle paper, mounted on wood panel
10 in. x 10 in.
Hayley Quentin
attended Otis College of Art and Design, receiving a B.F.A. cum laude in 2008. She is a current MFA candidate at Otis College of Art and Design (2023). Quentin’s work has been shown at multiple venues in Los Angeles including the Irvine Fine Arts Center, Lava Projects, Big Pictures Los Angeles, and Soft.Core at the Museum of Broken Relationships. Quentin’s first solo exhibition, Myth, opened in 2019 at Ro2 Art in Dallas, TX. Her work has also been featured in various art publicationsincluding Artillery, MATH Magazine (The Art Issue), and Full Blede. Hayley lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
A Thread, 2022
Colored pencil on canvas
12 in. x 9 in.
On Hold
After Saeculum, 2022
Colored pencil on canvas
12 in. x 9 in.
I’ve Loved And More, 2022
Colored pencil on canvas
12 in. x 9 in.
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Charles Snowden
is a Los Angeles based artist working in ceramics, sculptures and videos that use symbolically loaded information to illustrate how culture constructs the body in relationship to gender, sexuality, age, death, and nature. While remaining tethered to the sociocultural and sociopolitical through research, the work is often a forensic endeavor, not diagnostic, nor prognostic. Re-staged rituals recall historical imagery as a vehicle for understanding identity and its meaning. “I imagine possibilities within the relationships between the human, non-human and by extension non-living world to cultivate experiences that feel regenerative and playful, yet melancholic.” Born in Vista, California, Charles Snowden currently lives and works in Barcelona, Spain. He holds a BA in Studio Art and Art History from Humboldt State University and an MFA in Fine Art from UCLA.
First Wrest (Hierarchy of Needs), 2022
ceramic, glaze
21 in. x 9 in. x 6 in.
Snake, 2022
ceramic, glaze
Snail, 2022
ceramic, glaze
Apple, 2022
ceramic, glaze
Wrung Wraith, 2022
ceramic, paracord
26 in. x 6 in. x 4 in.
Margaret R. Thompson
is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Santa Fe, New Mexico. Filtering reality through her own mythology, she weaves narrative oil paintings, ritual performance films, andsculptural artifacts into fantastical worlds where the spirit reigns. Margaret’s work possesses an expressionist quality, documenting life through emotion, color, wonder, and complete freedom. Inspired by elements of the symbolist movement and magical realism, she channels dreams, visions, and the associative powers of the imagination into her practice. Margaret’s work explores both the artist’s and viewer’s perception of the soul, the heart, resilience, and the mysteries beyond our physical realm. She is a co-creator of Abstract Picnic, an art collective for emerging artists in Santa Fe.
Seven Sisters, 2022
Oil, raw pigment, gel medium on canvas
60 in. x 62 in.
Sea Garden, 2022
oil on linen
39 in. x 27 in.
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Earth Garden, 2022
oil on linen
39 in. x 27 in.
Fire Garden, 2022
oil on linen
39 in. x 27 in.
Sky Garden, 2022
Oil and wax on panel
50 in. x 40 in.
