High Beams #3: Laser Snake
Saturday, April 17, 2021, 8-10pm
414 E. 12th St., Los Angeles
Chiho Harazaki: Buddha, 2019, fluorescent gaffer tape on corrugated panel, 9 x 20 feet (with Level Ground)
Not ones to let a little thing like a global pandemic get in the way of an art show, the curators of High Beams will kick off their third drive-through art exhibition on Saturday, April 17, in the parking lot and adjacent alleyway east of the Bendix Building.
Playfully titled Laser Snake, the COVID-safe exhibition will prove to be the most exuberant and mystical yet, with live performances from art clowns, wheat threshing, painters erasing musicians from view, and at least three pyramids, each with a different meaning and aesthetic. The title was inspired by the first High Beams show, when a queue of 150 cars formed a “laser snake” as it meandered through a rooftop parking lot.
Tom Dunn: Floating Downstream, 2021, oil on canvas (with Museum Adjacent)
Rob Brown, Ricardo Harris-Fuentes, and Jorge Mujica: CONSPIRITUALITY, 2020, acrylic on canvas and , wood with site-specific projections, variable dimensions (with TSALA)
Sean Noyce: They Will Always Haunt Me, 2020, acrylic, serigraph, and custom code on polyester and mylar, with nylon rope and candles, 80 x 60 x 30 inches (with Noysky Projects)
Stephanie Sherwood and Carly Chubak (with Acceptable Risk LA)
Scott Froschauer: Innerstate NOW and UROK, 2020, sheet aluminum with adhesive plastic coatings mounted on metal post , 24 x 30 inches (each) (with 515)
Max Presneill: WEB, 2021, motorcycle exhausts, netting, plastic joints, duct tape, bungy cord, helmet, fake security camera, disco ball, dimensions variable (with Durden and Ray)
Marina Heintze: The Glow Up 01, 2019, glow in the dark stickers, shooting Target paper, glow eyeballs, glow moons, glow tape, vinyl stickers, adhesive, 38 x 86 inches (with Level Ground)
Serena JV Elston: Jubilee, 2021, deodar cedar, 51 x 51 x 36.5 inches (1 megalithic yard)
Carly Chubak: Interpolations I-V, 2021, fabric, thread, polyfill on Vladimir Kagan sofa, variable dimensions
Hagop Najarian, right, with his daughter, Evy. They will performing “Visual and Musical DNA” while Surge Witrön and Tom Dunn will be live painting on a plastic window that will eventually obscure the musicians from view.
Participating Galleries
Participating Artists
Rob Brown
Centrifuge Arts
Carly Chubak
Chris Collins
Tom Dunn
Serena JV Elston
Scott Froschauer
Jamie Hamilton
Chiho Harazaki
Ricardo Harris-Fuentes
Marina Heintze
Hannah Hughes
Jorge Mujica
Hagop Najarian
Sean Noyce
Max Presneill
Kari Reardon
Kyle Patrick Roberts
Stephanie Sherwood
Steven Soto
Beverly Siu
Surge Witrön
Curatorial committee
High Beams #3 is part of a series of ongoing exhibitions organized by a curatorial group of Bendix Building artists including:
TSALA
Carl Baratta
Jordynn Nusz
Beverly Siu
Level Ground
Coffee Kang
Chance Calloway
Rebekah Neel
O’ Project Space
Louise O’Donnell
Durden and Ray
Dani Dodge
Alanna Marcelletti
Acceptable Risk LA
Katie Shanks
Carly Chubak
Noysky Projects
Katya Usvitsky
Sean Noyce
Museum Adjacent
Hagop Najarian
Last Ditch
Hannah Hughes
515
Chelsea Boxwell
HK Zamani
Special thanks
Sean Meredith (360 photography)
Sponsors
Artillery Magazine
Bendix Building