Your Art Los Angeles 4

SaveArtSpace presents Your Art Los Angeles 4 a group public art exhibition on billboard ad spaces throughout Los Angeles, CA. Curated by Parker Day. Selected artists are MISS PRYS, Hobbes Ginsberg, Tiffany Saint-Bunny, Sasha Gransjean, V & V, Sara-Anne Waggoner, Lizzie Klein, Nas Nixx, Kevin Moore, and Parker Day. On view starting February 24, 2020, for at least one month.

Selected Artists

Public Art Location: 369 N Western Ave Los Angeles, CA 90004

BIO: "Prisms of light", "Neon Splendor", "Radical Rainbows", "Bubblegum-pop crystalline visions". These are just a few of the phrases that have been used to describe Miss Prys’ artistic vision.

She has done promotional work, wedding photography, product shots, and more, but is known by most for capturing the most magical of moments in her experimental portrait work. 

Prys graduated from the Fashion Institute of Design and Merchandising and has infused the world with many cosmic creations, some of which were awarded & published, over the course of her career as a full time artist and adult entertainer.

Statement: Created in August of 2019 at my foot-themed birthday party—“Footsies”—where we decorated & honored one another’s feet—an act of pure love & joy. I built these little sets for guests to place their fancy feet for glamour shots. This specific image features my toe-tally awesome pal, Lala Del Maj*, who decadently lavished her sweet feet in 90s arcade prize nostalgia holo stickers & tribal tats, a googly eye or two, glue sticks & a heavy rain of chunky glitter...this is not your mother’s pedicure, but it IS the pretty Petty Cure we all needed. 

*Lala is currently in a cast & wheelchair with an ankle on the mend. She’s broken it since the submission of the photo...so it’s precious for us to share this piece with the world, a HEELing act of magic! “

You can connect with MISS PRYS on Instagram at @miss_prys.

Public Art Location: 615 E 8th St Los Angeles, CA 90014

Bio - hobbes ginsberg is a lesbian photographer and filmmaker based in new york city, making vulnerable, hyper-saturated work about the evolution of self.

once called a "shabby, self taught formalist", hobbes’ photos are candid, mythical, and ask important questions: “who am i? why am i here? do u love me bb?”

Statement - still alive is a celebration of making it through another year without killing myself and learning to navigate my struggle with mental illness. meandering through the story of an ever changing self, these selfies question ideas of grandeur, of being an icon, and our relationship to our constructed environments. vulnerable and hyper-saturated DIY tableaus explore what it means to find stability and self sufficiency, to become an “adult” and what it looks like to survive as a queer person.

You can connect with Hobbes on Instagram at @hhobbess.

Public Art Location: 1610 N Gower St, Los Angeles, CA 90028

Tiffany St. Bunny is a tall, long-hair butch trans woman that was born and raised in rural Oklahoma, receiving her BA from Oklahoma State, before moving to Bloomington, Indiana to complete her MA. Using frameworks she developed in her Cultural Geography studies, she became an organizer within the Trans Justice movement, but more importantly, she became a photographer/documentarian of the queer/trans community that she inhabits. She currently lives and works in Oakland, CA where she creates work based on her experiences growing up poor, queer, and trans in the rural South/Southwest.

Thematically, her body of work sabotages traditional symbols of patriarchy, masculinity, and manhood. Landscapes, ideas, and brands monopolized and weaponized by the straight, white, all-american man are wrenched from the security of their hegemonic grasp by hypergender(ed)(less) homos. The “Sacred Rural Masculine” is forcibly perverted, and the resultant decadent divinity is (re)claimed, paving a path towards a place of healing and beauty.

She is a resident artist at Eternal Return, and her current projects include Truckslutsmag, Western Springs, and Eternal/Endless. Creating a lasting visual archive of her radical queer and trans freak family is the foundational underpinning of her artistic practice.

You can connect with Tiffany on Instagram at @truckslutsmag & @zima_warrior_princess.

Public Art Location: 4539 W Washington Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90016

Artist statement for the Trashy Selfies series that the Beach Selfie work was selected from: 

Posing the cheeky question of how our relationships with the creative content we consume affect our desires of consumption, Trashy Selfies explores the "art selfie" in a way that simultaneously pokes fun at the importance of artwork and the constant demand for new content that is readily shareable. In this new economy of selfies, how long will it be before all that is left to share is the waste of consumerism?

Artist bio:

Sasha Gransjean is an artist and award winning filmmaker, currently based between Los Angeles and Shanghai. Working with various forms of visual media, current works explore the idolization of consumerism and the concept of digital vs. physical trash. 

Quote:

Trashy Selfies started at the same time I began living between LA and Shanghai. Seeing the hyperconsumerism at work in China and also experiencing the desire to connect through personal photos online are partially why I use @_hypeseas as an Instagram handle. The way the concept started to develop was based around the idea that the natural progression of selfies and art was going to inevitably be mixed with trash and what we do with it. I wanted to make it high fashion enough for a runway show and still cheeky enough to be humorous for the casual observer. 

You can connect with Sasha on Instagram at @_hyperseas.

Public Art Location: 10833 National Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90064

Bio: Shiva and Vishnu had children and threw them in the Los Angeles River.

Artist Statement: V & V is a creative duo bent on hysteria and destruction.  Destruction, that is, of the cycles that deny our world its greatness.  Hysteria, that is, for pitch-perfect design - for it’s only in creation that we may destroy. The most heated debates today are the same ones that have been burning for ages.  Humans just can’t get past them; each new generation is forced to repeat the words of the last.  All while conditions erode and our world quietly falls apart.  With Class of 2029, we hope to shine a light on just how critical it is that change must happen - and just how late we are for school.

You can connect with V & V on Instagram at @cancerrebellionthefilm.

Public Art Location: 4051 Leimert Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90008

Artist Bio: Sara-Anne Waggoner is an artist living and working in Chattanooga, TN. In 2019, she graduated from The University of Tennessee at Chattanooga with a BFA in Photo Media Arts. She works with the mediums of photography, filmmaking, installation, and set design. In her work, themes of surrealism, time, multiple realities, and beauty creates a juxtaposition between distress and confusion, nostalgia and memory, past and present.

Artist Statement: I am interested in blurring the boundary between reality and fiction through video and photography. Through a narrative approach to photography and filmmaking; I create hyper saturated environments that present a surreal vision of the everyday. I am interested in the juxtaposition between beauty and the grotesque– subverting the ideals of perfection within the context of fashion and beauty. Recently I have started constructing my own set designs, creating artificial environments for my photographic work.

You can connect with Sara-Anne on Instagram at @sunlovesthemoon.

Lizzie Klein * .☆ﾟ ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ  happy to be here ˁ˚ᴥ˚ˀ ☆ﾟ. * & Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ ✿ A Passenger! ✿ Ƹ̵̡Ӝ̵̨̄Ʒ

Public Art Location: 1515 Sawtelle Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90025

Lizzie Klein is a digital artist based in Los Angeles. Her work explores possible realities and crafting identity through current trends in fashion and tech. She moves mostly between photography and CGI; and uses social media platforms including IMVU, Twitch, and Instagram to share her work. Lizzie just received her BFA from Art Center College of Design in 2019. 

You can connect with Lizzie on Instagram at @bratmitzvah.

Public Art Location: 1637 N Cahuenga Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90028

Nas Nixx is a photographer based in South Pasadena, a Cal Arts alum who dives deep into fantastical imaginations that range from dark and depressing to mystical and childish in nature. Nas Nixx at the young age of 21 is building a universe of her imagination for us to explore.

I imagine all my work as stills in a narrative, for this piece “Center of Attention” I wanted to capture the vulnerability and unintended affects of wanting to be the life of the party. Be careful what you wish for.

I would like to thank Bunny (@zombiee_bunnie) for make up, Orchid (@orchidsatallite) for styling, and Shef (@shef.studio) for set design.

Models (left to right): Elle Alexander, Drew Quishenberry

Support my work through my prints and merch at nasnixx.com

You can connect with Nas Nixx on Instagram at @nasnixx.

Public Art Location: 5900 Melrose Ave Los Angeles, CA 90038

Artist statement: "Inspired by film and femininity, my work explores character, narrative, and identity. Investigating self-portraiture, I ask viewers to consider their own responses to queerness as they see it. By utilizing my own identity and queer experience, I hope to engage the viewer in an unfamiliar set or circumstances. The photos ask, can we live comfortably outside the norm? How do these characters challenge societal ideas of masculinity? Driven by emotion and intuition, I produce a melodrama that reflects ideas of visibility, and invisibility, what is acknowledged and what is not, questions that remain relevant in today's politics."

You can connect with Kevin on Instagram at @_kevinbennett.

Public Art Location: 700 N Cahuenga Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90038

Parker Day is a portrait photographer based in Los Angeles, California, whose work deals with the expression and perception of identity. She emerged with a series of 100 colorful character portraits shot on 35mm film called ICONS, which had its debut solo show at Superchief Gallery LA in 2017. She has since had solo shows at Superchief Gallery Miami and New York and Peyer Fine Art in Zurich, Switzerland. Group shows she’s participated in include the Every Woman Biennial, FRONT Triennial in Cleveland, Spring/Break Art Show in New York, and the Juxtapoz Clubhouse in Miami during Art Basel. Her work has been featured in Vogue Italia, Juxtapoz, Vice, i-D, Paper, and Dazed, among others. Not a Cult published her monographs ICONS and Possession.

You can connect with Parker on Instagram at @heyparkerday.