art of the here & now
All tagged Pandemic
Beta Epochs is an unapologetically unpolished, collaborative adventure. We organize aspirationally in the spirit of basement punk shows and unsanctioned apartment galleries. The first eponymous exhibition, in October 2020, brought together work from twenty eight artists in a 4,200-square-foot warehouse situated between downtown Los Angeles and Echo Park Lake.
While in graduate school in Texas, California-born artist Evelyn Contreras studied the human-made landscape of her home state via the lens of the Internet. Then, when the COVID-19 pandemic limited her ability to travel back to Texas for a residency at the Rockport Center for the Arts, she reversed the direction of her digital gaze to Rockport’s post-Hurricane Harvey streetscapes from her desk in Santa Barbara. This virtual sojourn culminated in works featured at the Atkinson Gallery, Santa Barbara City College in 2022.
