Natural Encounters – Thu., Sept 5 – Sat., Oct 26, 2024
Opening Reception opens on Thursday, Sept 5th at 5-7pm

Arts
picture of invitation: "NATURAL ENCOUNTERS"

NATURAL ENCOUNTERS

Artists:

  • Ana Andrade
  • Yatzil uc Andrade
  • Carolina Montejo
  • Olivia Utt-montejo

Dates: Thu., Sept 5 – Sat., Oct 26, 2024

Opening Reception: Thursday, Sept 5, 2024 at 5pm—7pm

Artist talk moderated by Carolyn Castaño: Saturday, Oct 19, 2024 at 1—3pm

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Inspired by the Getty’s PST Art and Science Collide,  Natural Encounters delves into themes of ecology and sustainability. This intergenerational exhibition challenges patriarchy and capitalism through collaborative works between mothers and daughters. Ana Andrade and her daughter Yatzil Uc Andrade (6) co-create environments that nurture each other’s imaginations, while Carolina Montejo and her daughter Olivia Utt-Montejo (11) explore the complexities of sustaining life in the anthropocene. Yatzil and Olivia engage in intellectual exchanges with their mothers as co-conspirators in the pursuit of social and environmental change.

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Ana Andrade
Tijuana/San Diego, 1987

Transborder artist and thinker living between Tijuana and San Diego. Her research explores the concept of impermanence such as the migration of human beings between territories, and the transformation of matter that inhabits this universe. Her work seeks to dissolve limits of time and space mixing different levels of memory as sociocultural, geological, ancestral, macro/microcosmic, and genealogical, to create reality-based fictions using time-based media, drawing, installation, and text. Her practice also involves documentary photography and film, she produced and co-directed short films and the documentary Donde los Vientos se Cruzan. During her experiential processes she collaborates with communities, family and more than human species. She earned an MFA in Visual Arts from the University of California in San Diego and was awarded the Young Artists from the Mexican National Endowment of Art and Culture (FONCA) 2011-2012 and 2016-2017. Her work has been presented and shown in Mexico, California, Costa Rica, El Salvador, Colombia, Chile, Guatemala, Italy, Germany. She recently released her book Rio de Agua Viva designed and published by Taller California at Printed Matter’s New York Art Book Fair. 


Carolina Montejo

Carolina Montejo is a Colombian-American artist, filmmaker, and educator. Her films center on nature and ecology, as well as notions of community and justice that are told through experimental and documentary narratives. She has a BA in Communications from Universidad Javeriana in Bogotá, Colombia, and an MFA in Visual Arts from UC San Diego. She is a film studies lecturer at the University of San Diego and a lecturer at Muir College, UC San Diego, teaching in both the Environmental Studies Program and the Writing Program. Montejo’s films have been an official selection for the Berlin International Art Film Festival, the Montreal Independent Film Festival, the San Diego Environmental Film Festival, and the Tokyo Short Film Festival. Her recent films include ‘Coming Clean: A Demand for a Fossil-Free UC’, Rizomas, Femme Vitale, and ‘Eco, Fantasía, Premonición’.

Special thanks to our supporters

  • º£½ÇÉçÇøAssociated Student Body
  • Susan Cully and family
  • º£½ÇÉçÇøReprographics
  • Neil France, º£½ÇÉçÇøPhotography Lab Supervisor
  • Dean, Dr. Janét Hund

Accommodations

 If you require accommodations, please contact Karla Aguíñiga (kaguiniga@LBCC.edu) and Disabled Students Programs & Services (DSPS) at least 72 hours prior to the event at (562) 938-4558 [voice], VP (562)353-4217 or DSPS-staff@LBCC.edu. If you require sign language interpreting services, please contact Karla Aguíñiga (kaguiniga@LBCC.edu) and Stephanie Bonales (sbonales@LBCC.edu) or (562) 938-4918 or VP (562) 353-4217. If you require Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services, please contact Karla Aguíñiga  (kaguiniga@LBCC.edu) and Human Resource Staff (cart@LBCC.edu) at least 5 business days prior to the event. Please note requests are based on provider availability.


STUDENTS ONLY
If you require Sign language interpreting services or Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services , please contact Event Coordinator and Stephanie Bonales at least 72 hours prior to the event at (562) 938-4918 or sbonales@lbcc.edu.

FACULTY AND STAFF ONLY
If you require Sign language interpreting services, please contact Event Coordinator and Rebecca Lucas at rlucas@lbcc.edu at least 5 business days prior to the event.

If you require Communication Access Realtime Translation (CART) services, please contact Event Coordinator and Jaymee Hunt at cart@lbcc.edu at least 5 business days prior to the event. *Please note requests are based on provider availability*