SaveArtSpace presents Cosmic Shift a public art and gallery exhibition in Los Angeles, CA starting April 25, 2022.

The Cosmic Shift selected artists are Alphachanneling, angelfire, Dang Olsen, Ellie Pritts, Judy Ostro, Krisztina Lazar, Lala Abaddon, Maalavidaa, Marcelo Pinel, Nicole Buffett, Remi Emdur, and SPACEFILLER. Curated by Jen Stark.

A Cosmic Shift in consciousness, in direction, in optics or energy, has the power to inspire exploration. It can help unlock the mysteries of the universe, shedding light upon the role of variety, evolution, and multidimensionality.

Whether engaging with the unexplored regions of our own consciousness or the infinite expanse beyond, our means of perception are impacted by a spectrum of systems and forces that govern everything from the microscopic to the macrocosmic aspects of our natural world. 

The public exhibition of Cosmic Shift aims to draw attention to the infinite coexisting vibrancies all around us, generating a myriad of lenses through which to examine, connect, and challenge our methods of perceiving ourselves, our minds, our environments, and the intricacies of our existence. 

The selected artists were exhibited on billboards in Los Angeles, CA, starting April 25, 2022 for at least one month.

The original art work was also on view at Gabba Gallery 3126 Beverly Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90057 with an opening reception on Saturday April 30th, 6p-9p.

Selected Artists

Location: W 8th St & S Westmoreland Ave, Los Angeles, CA

Marcelo Pinel is a Brazilian artist graduated in Visual Arts from the Federal University of Minas Gerais. He addresses themes such as symbolism, anthropology, archetypes, and makes art as a connection with the inner world and the inner child. Recently he works with digital art and sells his works in the form of NFT.

Connect with Marcelo on Instagram @pinel.marcelo or on Twitter @cybermistic

Location: Beverly Blvd & W Temple St, Los Angeles, CA

Maalavidaa is Alycia Rainaud, a French Canadian Graphic Designer and Digital Artist based in Montréal. Her highly saturated abstract aesthetic finds its inspiration in Jungian therapy, color therapy, and meditation. Alycia's work aims to explore the complexity of emotions through creative introspection as a path to increase emotional intelligence and mental health sensitivity. With these intentions as a work thread, she also founded Heal The Deal, Metaverse’s first emotional support club, a safe space driven by creativity and empathy, as well as a gateway to a new path in Alycia’s art journey

“An ode to the pursuit of relief, washing away the past and sustaining the future.”

Connect with Alycia on Instagram @maalavidaa and Twitter @maalavidaaa

Location: Wilshire Blvd & S Western Ave, Los Angeles, CA

Krisztina Lazar believes that art has the ability to change, to open and to illuminate. My art is the expression of the internal through external spectacle, rituals, created or performed, that seek to highlight meaning in the mundane. My images come from memory, mythology, and visionary experience that are mediated by history, science fiction and the now. It is a dialogue between the ritual of imagery, the process of form and texture, and the performance of creation.      

Ancient ideas are transmuted today and masquerade in pop culture. The tapestry of history is an organism onto itself, breathing, changing and growing. We see it in its nowness, its current incarnation, as it lives and thrives around us and in our collective unconscious. What are our symbols? What are the beings that live in our collective imagination? These are the questions I attempt to harness with my imagery. Each piece is a cell in a larger system, a single thought in an evolving idea, that paints a picture of the change and growth we experience in our day to day interior and exterior lives.

Connect with Krisztina on Instagram @krisztina_lazar_art

Location: Santa Monica Blvd & N Gower St, Los Angeles, CA

Remi Emdur is an artist who creates works of art to honor the sacred. She uses color and imagery as if musically to sing an invisible song of vibration to activate and awaken cellular participation. Tapping the viewer from the inside with the intention of connecting to the miraculous human body. 

Remi received her BA in Fine Arts and Masters of Teaching at MICA in 2004. Since then has taught children, began personal cheffing, provides energy healing support, sound healing, designs personal healing meals for clients going through life-changing experiences, and provides birth doula support for expecting parents. 

She is also an internal farmer who has been learning how to tend the land of this human experience while having a foundation rooted in Wisdom Healing Qigong,  a healing art and technology that inspires her to create. During this season of her life, she is creating works of art to spark a light in the viewer to awaken to their own creativity. These invisible visible realms are works of art that guide us back to the preciousness in each and every one of us.

Connect with Remie on Instagram @remiemdur

Location: Sunset Blvd & Descanso Dr, Los Angeles, CA

Ellie Pritts is a renowned multi-disciplinary artist whose work explores reinterpreted nostalgia via recursive analog and digital processes. Ellie started her creative path as a classically trained cellist who went on to study film photography at Columbia College when she was 14. In 2016 she was named one of TIME's top photographers to follow. Her work has been featured by the likes of Harper's BAZAAR, The Times and WIRED and has been exhibited throughout the world. Commercially she has been commissioned by brands like Apple Music, Levi's and Hyatt.

Connect with Ellie on Instagram @elliepritts

Location: N Virgil Ave & W Temple St, Los Angeles, CA

Alphachanneling’s artwork is a holistic exaltation of sexuality, it is carnal, explicit and provocative, but in the most gentle, graceful and reverential way. The artist’s mythical world of the Utopian Erotic has charmed an international audience through exhibition, publication and a massive and enthusiastic following on Instagram. Pleasure is central to the intention and inspiration driving Alphachanneling’s work. “It is the compass that points me towards what is alive and activating, both in my life and my art making. Pleasure is the overwhelming state of being in harmony, where for a moment, the boundary of what is internal and external dissolves.”

Connect with Alphachanneling on Instagram @alphachanneling

Location: N Virgil Ave & Marathon St, Los Angeles, CA

Alexander Miller is an artist, educator and programmer from Seattle, WA. He creates playful visuals, interactive experiences and performances using code that explore features of computation, such as the emergence of order and structure in algorithmic systems, or the inevitable decay and waste of physical computers. He performs and shows art with collaborators under the shared moniker SPACEFILLER. His work has been featured by the Seattle Art Museum, the Seattle Symphony, Jimmy Kimmel Live, the Henry Art Gallery, Seattle Borealis Festival, Photographic Center Northwest, Glass Box Gallery, Specialist Gallery, and Lusio Light festival. He has taught at the University of Washington in Seattle and the School for Poetic Computation in NYC.

Connect with Alex on Instagram @space.filler.art

Location: N Western Ave & Clinton St, Los Angeles, CA

angelfire is a visual artist & dj currently residing in the 3rd dimension. she likes to portray entities she wishes to encounter someday, preferably in the 6th dimension. this piece is inspired by the infamous don bailey, king of flooring and advertisements in Miami, as well as her partner's love of melons.

Connect with Cynthia on Instagram @angelfir.e

Location: W 3rd St & S Mariposa Ave, Los Angeles, CA

Dang Olsen was Born and raised Toledo, Ohio hayseed now a groovy self taught illustrator/musician living with my wife and daughter in Pasadena, California where I draw and paint pictures inside the closet of our apartment. I'm into layers.

Connect with Dang on Instagram @dangwayneolsen

Location: Melrose Ave & N Vermont Ave, Los Angeles, CA

Lala Abaddon seeks to examine the dual nature of binary relationships with parallels that give shape to their physical existence. She creates work that is a physical representation of the web that connects all beings of the Multiverse.

In her hand-woven photographic work she integrates many components in her process, capturing her unique images multiple times through repetitive sequence methods, then arranging the large format prints into precise and deliberate pairings. She continues on to intricately and painstakingly hand cut each print into hundreds of strips and then hand-weave the prints with unique undulating and complicated patterns designed to convey a specific feeling, eventually leaving us with images within images and compelling the viewer to experience alternate realities or states of being. This process can take weeks depending on the complexity of the images and weave structures.  Many times her work is mistaken for a digital manipulation, and the discovery of its true nature by the viewer is integral to the understanding of her process and purpose; to disrupt order, reconstruct historical notions of photography and weaving, and challenge what it means to create something solely for the purpose of creation. 

Connect with Lala on Instagram @lala_abaddon

Location: N Virgil Ave & W Temple St, Los Angeles, CA

For over 50 years, Judy Ostro has worked as a professional artist, creating pieces that have been shown and sold across the United States and internationally. Judy’s professional career began in the late 1960s and attracted attention from high-profile patrons like Paul Newman and Joanne Woodward. She is best known for her acrylic on canvas abstract paintings of surreal landscapes and human forms. During her career, Judy also worked as a public school art teacher, inspiring youth and mentoring young artists. Now in retirement, she volunteers in an assisted living home, engaging the residents in the creation of original work. Judy currently resides in Los Angeles, California.

Connect with Judy on Instagram @judyostroart

Location: Lincoln Blvd & Grant Ave, Los Angeles, CA

Raised by a family of visionaries, bohemians, and renegades, Nicole Buffett feels that being an artist is a part of her natural legacy. Having been exposed to Buddhism and Eastern psychology at an early age, Nicole realized the connection between art making and spirituality. These modalities of consciousness led Nicole to experience art itself as a form of prayer. 

The resulting work is a visual system of cosmic thought including mandalas, sacred geometry, and elemental topographies. Nicole’s diverse practice intertwines her training as a traditional painter alongside an apprenticeship in Rajasthan, India working as a textile designer early in her development as an artist.

Buffett was born in Los Angeles in 1976 and received an MFA from The San Francisco Art Institute in 2004. She has exhibited her work in both national and international galleries since 2004. Buffett has appeared on a multitude of media platforms including: Oprah, Marie Claire Magazine, The Wall Street Journal, MSNBC, NPR, Forbes, Fortune magazine and was featured in the controversial documentary, ‘The One Percent’. 

Buffett has recently been named in Fortune Magazine one of the top 50 Influencers in the NFT space and has been a female pioneer utilizing her work to support ecological and social causes.

Connect with Nicole on Instagram @nicolebuffettart and on Twitter @Buffett_Nicole

Curator

Location: Beverly Blvd & N Detroit St, Los Angeles, CA

Visual artist Jen Stark transforms complex ideas about fractals, evolution, color theory, topography, sacred geometries, and patterns of the universe into approachable and engaging works of art. Drawing upon an ever expanding use of material and technology, Stark allows her aesthetic to transcend all forms of media, ranging from paintings and sculptures, animations and installations, to interactive projections and NFTs.

Recently included as one of Fortune's "NFTy 50," Stark made history in March 2021 as the first female artist to make Foundation's top 10 highest selling NFT creatives. Over the course of her career, Stark's work has been exhibited globally, with major shows and public art installations in New York, Los Angeles, Miami, Chicago, Thailand, and Canada. Her work is currently held in the collections of the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the West Collection, Crystal Bridges Museum of American Art, NSU Art Museum, and MOCA Miami, among others. Stark lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Connect with Jen Stark on Instagram at @jenstark.

Participating Organizations

Founded in 2015, SaveArtSpace is a non-profit organization that works to create an urban gallery experience, launching exhibitions that address intersectional themes and foster a progressive message of social change. By placing culture over commercialism, SaveArtSpace aims to empower artists from all walks of life and inspire a new generation of young creatives and activists.

Open since 2012, Gabba Gallery is a contemporary art gallery in Los Angeles showcasing work by emerging and established artists from around the world. We believe art is for everyone and strive to make our gallery a welcoming place for all artists and art lovers. We also love bringing art out of the gallery and sharing it with our community through Gabba Alley Project.

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