FELIX ART FAIR 2020
February 13th - 16th, 2020 // RM1206
Felix is a contemporary art fair co-founded in 2019 by Dean Valentine, Al Morán, and Mills Morán. The innaugual edition of the fair will take place February 13th - 16th, 2020 at The Hollywood Roosevelt Hotel. OUR FIRST ART FAIR! We can't begin to tell you how overjoyed we were to have participated in Felix Art Fair 2020 in our hometown featuring all new work from: Alanna Fields, Devon Tsuno, Devin Reynolds, Bradley Ward, Patrick Martinez, Alfonso Gonzales, Texas Isaiah, Noah Humes, Fredo Diaz, Aaron Estrada, Yasmine Diaz and Elmer Guevara ✌🏾🌴.
Works Featured
Installation Images by Elon Schoenholz
About The Artists
Patrick Martinez
Patrick Martinez, (b. 1980 Pasadena, CA) earned his BFA with honors from Art Center College of Design in 2005. His work has been exhibited domestically and internationally in Los Angeles, Mexico City, San Francisco, Minneapolis, Miami, New York, Seoul, and the Netherlands, at venues including the Studio Museum in Harlem, the Smithsonian National Portrait Gallery, the Tucson Museum of Art, the Albright-Knox Art Gallery, the Rollins Museum of Art, the Vincent Price Art Museum, the Museum of Latin American Art, LA Louver, Galerie Lelong & Co., MACLA, the Chinese American Museum and the Euphrat Museum of Art, among others. Patrick’s work resides in the permanent collections The Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles (MOCA), Rubell Museum, Smithsonian National Museum of American History, California African American Museum, The Autry Museum of the American West, Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art, Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture, Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), Tucson Museum of Art, Pizzuti Collection of the Columbus Museum of Art, University of North Dakota Permanent Collection, JPMorgan Chase Art Collection, Crocker Art Museum, Escalette Permanent Collection of Art at Chapman University, Manetti-Shrem Museum of Art at UC Davis, the Rollins Museum of Art, and the Museum of Latin American Art. Patrick was awarded a 2020 Rauschenberg Residency on Captiva Island, FL. In the fall of 2021 Patrick was the subject of a solo museum exhibition at the Tucson Museum of Art. Patrick lives and works in Los Angeles, CA and is represented by Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles.
Alanna Fields
Alanna Fields is a lens-based mixed media artist and archivist whose work investigates and challenges representations of Black queer identity and history through the lens of photography. Fields' work has been featured in exhibitions including Felix Art Fair, LA, UNTITLED Art Fair, Miami, MoCADA, and Pratt Institute. Fields is a Gordon Parks Foundation Scholar, 2020 Light Work AIR, and Baxter St. CCNY Workspace AIR. She received her MFA in Photography from Pratt Institute and has given talks at the Aperture Foundation, Stanford University, NYU Tisch School of the Arts, Parson's New School, Syracuse University, and Rutgers University. Fields lives and works in New York City
Noah Humes
Humes was born and raised in Mid- City, Los Angeles, California. He graduated from Otis College of Art and Design with a BFA in Communication Arts with an emphasis in Illustration. Noah explores and revisits the convergence of experience, memory, history and expression. Within these happenings he shares his thoughts and interpretation on political and social issues that occur throughout the world around him. He paints sports heroes, friends, family members, celebrities etc. who all of which share personal moments with him as they are recreated through his visual language. Portraiture is a large portion of Noah’s work as they are executed with vibrant, confident, expressive and free techniques. As he reminisces on those experiences and memories, Noah recreates new moments that are destined to live within the canvas.
Devin Reynolds
Devin Reynolds is a painter based out of New Orleans, and received his BA in Architecture from Tulane University in 2017. Originally from Venice Beach, California he grew up working as a deckhand on The Betty O, a local sport fishing boat. He was raised between flea markets, yard sales and the beach. His early childhood memories are filled with times setting up his mother's booths at antique shows, surfing and fishing up and down the coast. Devin’s first encounters with art making came in his early twenties in the form of graffiti. His obsession for graffiti took off when he began painting his assumed alias on the sides of freight cars that traverse the railroads of North America. Devin’s art practice finds itself at the intersection of graffiti and his love for nostalgic Americana design and sign painting, through the lens of his biracial upbringing in Los Angeles. Speaking on the cultural duality of his household he says, “Growing up with a quote-un- quote black dad and white mom, I lived in two different worlds. In my mom’s world it was like Fleetwood Mac’s album Rumors and my dad’s was Tupac’s album All Eyez on Me.” Devin’s work investigates personal experience in these two worlds and their mutual relationships to social and political practices in America.
Bradley Ward
Studio artist from Houston, TX, Bradley Ward, a Texas Southern University alum and Pratt Institute MFA recipient explores the modalities and poly-characterization of survival within the Black experience through a multitude of media. Emphasizing domains in which rhythm has matriculated through the Black body, often in labor, there is also space for the extraordinary in the confluence of Black leisure. Often using sports and performance to reinforce this median within Black life. Currently focusing on the magic of Black harmony and resonance to illustrate this fraternal complexity through portraiture.
Fredo Diaz
Alfredo Dominguez Diaz born and raised in South Central Los Angeles. Identifies as an indigenous person with roots in Oaxaca, Mexico. Attended Los Angeles City College from 2006 to 2014. Transferred to the University of California, Los Angeles in 2014 with the UCLA Blue and Gold Scholarship, graduating in 2016 with a BA in Fine Arts. Recently received his MFA in Sculpture from Yale University School of Art in 2019, received the Alice Kimball English Traveling Fellowship, H.Lee Hirsche Dean’s Merit Prize and the George R. Bunker Award. A member of the 3B Collective, a collective of LA Based artist who work on large- scale site-specific installations, public art commissions and murals as a form of addressing social inequities by creating public works, sharing resources, and providing peer support of young artists of color. The 3B Collective have installed work in Texas, Oaxaca, and all over the Los Angeles area, collaborating with galleries like LAXART, L.A.C.E , The Mistake Room, and UCLA on multiple occasions.
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.
Alfonso Gonzalez Jr. (b. 1989) is a Los Angeles-based multidisciplinary artist. He attended LA Trade Technical College where he studied Sign Graphics. During his formative years, Gonzalez worked on large-scale hand-painted outdoor advertisements that ranged up to 200 feet. These experiences formally fuel his current art practice, where he syntheses the visual vernacular of local working-class neighborhoods. In his paintings, he excavates the surfaces of buildings to understand how these communities interact with one another and the traces they leave. His work has been exhibited at Jeffrey Deitch Gallery (Los Angeles), Galeria Javier Lopez (Madrid), Taubman Museum of Art (Roanoke, VA), Maki Gallery (Tokyo), Gamma Galleria (Guadalajara), as well as various other locations in North America, Asia, and Europe. He has organized shows in Los Angeles, Mexico City, and Guadalajara.
Yasmine Nasser Diaz
Yasmine Nasser Diaz is a multidisciplinary artist whose practice weaves between culture, class, gender, religion, and family. She uses mixed media collage, immersive installation, fiber etching, and video to juxtapose disparate cultural references and to explore the connections between personal experience and larger social and political structures. Born and raised in Chicago to parents who immigrated from the rural highlands of southern Yemen, Diaz is interested in complicated narratives of third-culture identity and their precarious invisibility/hyper-visibility. Diaz is a recipient of the Harpo Visual Artists Grant and the California Community Foundation Visual Artist Fellowship and has works included in the collections of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The University of California Los Angeles, and the Arab American National Museum. Her work has been featured in HyperAllergic, Artsy, and Artillery Magazine. She lives and works in Los Angeles.
Elmer Guevara
Elmer Guevara (b.1990) was born and raised in Los Angeles and is currently working bicoastal in New York City. In the 1980s, his parents fled a civil war-torn El Salvador finding refuge in the City of Angels. Along with the city exposure in South Central and the culture his parents brought to the US with them, he became inspired to depict images about his upbringing and exploration of identity. Furthermore, he depicts observations of encountered struggles from his own and neighboring immigrant families, who dealt with issues of marginalization and inequality. Through his teenage years he met with friends, commuting throughout the city on public transit becoming obsessed with exploring the city’s crevices and buildings while favoring the late nights to paint on walls and highways. Without much thought, this obsession later ventured into an appreciation for painting and an education in the arts. In 2017, he received a BFA in Drawing and Painting from Cal State University Long Beach and is currently an MFA candidate at Hunter College in New York. He has recently exhibited with Residency Art Gallery at The Felix Art Fair this past year in Los Angeles and took part at Taubman Museum of Art in Roanoke, Virginia for A Very Anxious Feeling, group show.
Aaron Estrada
Aaron Douglas Estrada (b.1994) is an artist whose work examines the body in space, moments of play, and decolonization. He is an auto- ethnographer that documents materials and the energy in them through collective memories and stories. He incorporates songs, sayings, and cultural signifiers that contain a layered history. He is creating repositories for memory through which he honors/questions the material.
He is a first generation Los Angeles Salvadoreño native. He incorporates growing up in Los Angeles and his exposure to different cultures, languages, and lifestyles in his work. He is also a member of 3B, a collective of Los Angeles-based artists and designers who create site- specific installations, public artworks, and murals. 3B’s works reflect their commitment to providing an inclusive platform that encourages pride and recognition of the different facets of their communities. Their works make the arts accessible by addressing the social inequalities, creating public works through shared resources, providing peer support, teaching and mentorship.
Aaron was also included an Artists You Should Know List in the Latinx Art: Artists, Markets, and Politics by Arlene Davila. His work has been exhibited internationally in Spain, El Salvador, and Mexico. He has a BA in Fine Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles and received his MFA in Sculpture + Extended Media from Virginia Commonwealth University.
Texas Isaiah
Texas Isaiah [He/They] is an award-winning, first-generation visual narrator born in Brooklyn, NY, and currently residing in Los Angeles, CA. In 2020, Texas Isaiah became one of the first Trans photographers to photograph a Vogue edition cover (Janet Mock, Patrisse Cullors, Jesse Williams, and Janaya Future Khan) and a TIME cover (Dwayne Wade and Gabrielle Union-Wade). He is one of the 2018 grant recipients of Art Matters and the 2019 recipient of the Getty Images: Where We Stand Creative Bursary grant. He is currently a 2020-21 artist in residence at The Studio Museum in Harlem.
In 2012, he created "BLACKNESS," a visual project that documented and celebrated the African diaspora's diversity across the spectrums of gender, sexuality, and ethnic heritage. At this time, he began to evaluate the broad visual needs of Black people, specifically Black trans, non-binary and gender-expansive individuals, within the larger photographic canon. As Texas Isaiah found himself photographing individuals who thought they didn't have a place as a sitter within photography, his approach began to prioritize a more thoughtful and compassionate visual world. He not only believes everyone has a right to be photographed if they consent, but he believes photography can be a healing mechanism despite the historical violence it has inflicted on communities. Although he has worked in a studio and various indoor settings, his interest in photographing individuals outdoors comes from personal curiosity and connection with nature.
Devon Tsuno
Devon Tsuno is an artist and fourth generation Angeleno. His recent spray paint and acrylic paintings, artist’s books, community projects and print installations focus on Japanese American history. Tsuno’s recent solo exhibition Shikata Ga Nai is a yonsei story, a Los Angeles story, indissociable from the complexities of intergenerational and collective trauma, fences and cages, gentrification, displacement, water and labor politics, and how and where we choose to live. Tsuno’s interests have been central to his work with the Museum of Contemporary Art, Topaz Museum, Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, Hammer Museum, Candlewood Arts Festival and Gallery Lara in Japan. He is a 2017 Santa Fe Art Institute Water Rights Artist-In-Residence, is the 2016 SPArt Community Grantee and was awarded a 2014 California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Art. Tsuno is a member of J-TOWN Action と Solidarity and currently is an Assistant Professor of Art at California State University Dominguez Hills.