HB2: SPF 405
Torrance Art Museum, Torrance, CA
Daniel Cummings: TAM1, 2021, site-specific installation with painted tires and gravel, dimensions variable (with Last Ditch)
Opening
Saturday, July 17, 2021
Noon- 3pm
Location
Torrance Art Museum
3320 Civic Center Drive
Torrance, CA
As part of a larger festival called Ultra!, sponsored by the Torrance Art Museum and the City of Torrance, High Beams #4 brings together works from 16 prominent artist collectives spanning Los Angeles, Northern California, and Colorado. The first daytime iteration of High Beams unfolds as SPF 405, featuring longtime participants Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Durden and Ray, and Last Ditch, alongside newer arrivals such as MOTOR, SF Artists Alumni, and Hyperlink.
Though the projects are as varied as the artists themselves, shared threads emerge including social justice concerns, the ongoing reverberations of life in a post-COVID world, and the ever-present hum of LA car culture, where mobility, identity, and spectacle are inseparable.
Many works directly engage the lingering aftershocks of 2020: Durden and Ray offer a poolside elegy to the summer that never arrived; Level Ground channels the ambient unease of post-COVID anxiety; ARLA traces the intimate contours of domestic life under lockdown; and Technicolor Skies constructs a triumphal detritus arch, a tongue-in-cheek monument to pandemic “victory” and its uneasy aftermath.
Elsewhere, MOTOR, Hyperlink, and LA Backyard turn vehicles into roaming exhibition sites, transforming a trailer, a station wagon, and a pickup truck into makeshift galleries, display systems, and performative objects in their own right, blurring the line between artwork, transport, and public encounter.
“The impromptu group that formed to create an art show on the roof of a parking garage in September weren’t ready to say ‘Uncle’”
— Alanna Marcelletti, organizer
Exhibition Images
Participating Project Spaces
Participating Artists
Susan Amorde
Theresa Anderson
A.S. Ashley
Emily Babette
Raphaele Cohen-Bacry
Shima Taj Bakhsh
Claire Bernson
Holly Boruck
Casey Brown
Daniela Campins
Karla Ekatherine Canseco
Megan Carpenter
Steven Chen
Brenda Reyez-Chavez
Chantal Cherry
Anna Cho
Jinseok Choi
Stevie Choi
Michael Chomick
Ricardo Cisneros
Dave Clark
Amber Cobb
Mya Correa
Andrés Cortes
Daniel Cummings
Jireh Deng
Bree Diaz
Dani Dodge
Pam Douglas
Tobias Fike
Ian Fisher
Don Fodness
Elizabeth Folk
Peter Foucault
Dellis Frank
Ricardo Harris-Fuentes
Rema Ghuloum
Chiho Harazaki
S.P. Harper
Matthew Harris
Josh Hashemzadeh
Shelley Heffler
Gina Herrera
Jeff Iorillo
David Otis Johnson
Alberto Keossian
Lina Kogan
Anita Kucharczyk
Bessie Kunath
Taryn Lee
Cara Levine
Galia Linn
Heather Lowe
Adam Otto Lutz
Alanna Marcelletti
Monica Marks
Alistair Maskell
Karena Massengill
Daisy McGowan
Rebekah Mei
Aryana Minai
Jorge Mujica
Marisa Murrow
Angela Nguyen
Toban Nichols
Jordynn Nusz
Margaret Oakley
Joshua Oduga
Gozie Ojini
Jean-Guerly Pétion
Alice Marie Perreault
Eddie Sierra Pollock
Kyle Patrick Roberts
Kristine Schomaker
Daniel Schubert
Katie Shanks
Ruoyi Shi
Laura Shill
Karim Shuquem
Beverly Siu
Peggy Sivert
Alan S. Tofighi
Derrick Velasquez
Summer Ventis
Shea Vititow
Kim Weller
Stacey Wexler
Tessie Whitmore
Kathryn Wingard
Ashley Williams
Alison Woods
Dajin Yoon
Ben Zask
Xi Zhang
Judy Zhu
Jeff Zilla
Curatorial Committee
TSALA
Carl Baratta
Katya Usvitsky
Durden and Ray
Dani Dodge
Alanna Marcelletti
Sean Noyce
Hagop Najarian
Level Ground
Labkhand Olfatmanesh
O’ Project Space
Louise O’Donnell
Shoebox Projects
Kristine Schomaker
SOLA Contemporary
Peggy Sivert
LAST Projects
Ilona Berger
Andrew Wingler
Acceptable Risk LA
Katie Shanks
Hyperlink
Tobias Fike
Don Fodness
Technicolor Skies
Jordynn Nusz
Beverly Siu
Last Ditch
Hannah Hughes
515
Chelsea Boxwell
SF Artists Alumni
Toban Nichols
Judy Zhu
MOTOR
Jinseok Choi
Adam Otto Lutz
Alberto Keossian
Alan S. Tofighi
Sponsors
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Torrance Art Museum
