noé olivas “It is with good eyes” Performance with robyko Saturday November 23rd, at 3pm at CJG2
Charlie James Gallery will host a performance of noé olivas’s It is with good eyes with robyko at CJG2 on Saturday November 23rd, beginning at 3pm. No RSVP required.
noé olivas: la jornada is a multimedia exhibition that explores the intersections between labor and liberation through collective spiritual work. The exhibition centers the implements and aesthetics of the toolshed, bringing together shears, clippers, buckets, and shovels in tender constructions that bridge the gap between this world and the next. olivas calls upon ancestors by transforming materials passed down through his family into references from the Ifá tradition and ritual. With this body of work, olivas hopes to create space for the kind of spiritual and communal labor needed in this divisive moment.
noé olivas (b. 1987, San Diego, California—occupied Kumeyaay land) lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from the University of Southern California in 2019, and his BFA from the University of San Diego, California in 2013.
His work has been exhibited at the Crenshaw Dairy Mart, Inglewood, California (2024); Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles (2023, 2024); UCSD: Mandeville Art Gallery, La Jolla, California (2023); Candlewood Festival, Borrego Springs, California (2022); Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, California (2022); Community College Long Beach, CA (2022); The Front Arte Y Cultura Gallery, San Ysidro, California (2021); Napa Hall Gallery at the California State University Channel Islands, Camarillo (2020); Residency Art Gallery, Inglewood (2019); La Jolla Historical Society, San Diego, California (2018); and The New Children’s Museum, San Diego, California (2015 - 2016).
www.noeolivas.com Instagram: @calmatetupedo
Based in San Diego, California, robyko is a collaborative duo: Robert J. Sanchez (rob) and (y) Emiko René Lewis-Sanchez (ko). As anti-career artists, they use low-tech aesthetics to create enigmatic critiques of contemporary society. Most of their work is part of one endeavor: The Alchemy Project (TAP). TAP began in 2004 when they developed nineteen action statements that serve as titles and concepts for rituals. Since then, they have been investigating, analyzing, documenting, and archiving their process of inventing a poetic science of flesh and bone to create "alchemy." TAP has a vast archive of irrational experiments: performances, installations, videos, photos, sculptures, paintings, and drawings. Approximately one-fourth of the work has been shared with the public. Previously, they were part of the following collaborative groups: BAW/TAF, Los Anthropolocos, La Pocha Nostra, Corner Liquor Store, The Infinity Lab, and Mobile Toy Theater.
www.robyko.wordpress.com Instagram: @robykoinfinity
