Here Nor There

Adriana Barrios & Barbara Justice

An exhibition of experimental prints and photographs

NO LAND
54 1/2 E. San Francisco St. #7
August 19-October 1, 2017

Opening Reception: Saturday, August 19, 6-9 pm
Special Reception | Readings from Here Nor There: Friday, September 22, 7-9 pm

Like many early career artists, Barbara Justice and Adriana Barrios have blazed a trail with quite a few switchbacks. Since meeting at the University of Texas-San Antonio, they’ve lived in far-flung places, from Santa Fe, New Mexico to Madison, Wisconsin and Florence, Italy. This summer, Justice and Barrios return to New Mexico for a show of experimental prints and photographs. Both artists reflect on presence and displacement, competing forces that they must contend with as emerging artists. Here Nor There opens at No Land, Strangers Collective’s art space, on Saturday, August 19th from 6-9 pm. A special reception hosted by Katie Johnson and featuring readings from nine local writers will take place on Friday, September 22 from 7-9 pm. Featured writers include Austin Eichelberger, Melinda Freudenberger, Juro Gagne, Steffen D. Garcia, Bucket Siler, Stephanie Thompson, Michael J. Wilson, and Marina Woollven. Here Nor There is on view through Sunday, October 1st. 

Justice and Adriana Barrios are used to creating and exhibiting artwork together – this is their fourth duo show, and they have been a couple for almost ten years. They were married in Santa Fe last July. While studying art for their undergraduate degrees, they were involved in San Antonio’s art community, even running a gallery together for four years in a downtown 1,100-square-foot warehouse. “It was an exhibition space, studio space, and also our living space,” Justice says. Somehow they found the time to put on a new exhibition every month.  But as the rent went up, and the area became more and more gentrified, they decided to move to New Mexico – Justice is from Las Cruces – and they settled in Santa Fe for three years in an attempt to focus on their own artwork (this was from 2012-2015).  Since then, they both completed seven-month artist residencies in Italy, and Barrios was accepted into the MFA program at University of Wisconsin-Madison, which led them to their current location up north. 

Currently pursuing her MFA in printmaking, Barrios’s artwork in Here Nor There combines landscape-based cyanotype photography with patterns of intaglio-printed signs and symbols that play with repetition, variation, and layering. She began creating her ethereal images several years ago while she was completing her artist residency in Italy. “I was pulling out aspects of the landscape and trying to highlight others,” she says. “I’m interested in the lack of relationship that we have with the world around us, and looking at the way that this affects us all.” These one-of-a-kind prints are the result of a complex process that involves drawing, printmaking and photography, through techniques that span the historical and the cutting-edge. “Printmaking continues to change with technology,” Barrios says. “In that sense, past and present are always right there in the studio with you.” 

Justice is a photographer, and her large-format work in Here Nor There plays with double-exposed film. In her photographs, nature-based imagery is juxtaposed with what she calls ‘visual landmarks’ – momentary glimpses within her current urban setting that register to her as extraordinary.  Her time living in Madison has at times consisted simply of a search for the space and quiet that she remembers as being so bountiful in New Mexico: “It’s the space,” she says. “Where I am now, I can’t just go out to a desert where there’s nobody else around.”  Fittingly, when she goes out on a film shoot, she makes sure to do it in the early mornings, when it’s just her and the landscape. Even though her vividly colored double-exposures evoke a sense of overlap between two simultaneous realities, they also serve as a means of grounding herself in her current one, earnestly depicting her reflections on what it means to be present in an environment.  

Adriana Barrios

Artist Statement

Altered Landscapes: Over the years I have had the opportunity to spend time in many unique places: Diablo Canyon, Canyon De Chelly and the Black Place, all of which are located in the southwestern United States. For each of these visits, my initial reaction was an intense amount of excitement and fear as I was confronted with something which I recognized as much bigger than myself. I think these reactions were in part due to the vastness, overwhelming beauty, and sense of strength and power from the scale of these environments in comparison to my own body. I attempt to highlight these experiences through printmaking in hopes that they are more than documentations but rather a set of aesthetic experiences that emphasize a larger context. The act of making is an important aspect of my work: utilizing skill and interest in techniques I used printmaking and alternative photography processes to make this body of work. I stated with photographs and drawings that serve as notes and documentation of these experiences, then begin working in the darkroom and printmaking studio. Combining as interest in semiotics and geology I use repetition and layering as a way of formulating content and context. While making these prints, I took into consideration basic fundamental art principals such as form, space and color. I am also very interested in experimenting with composition and how it can impact the outcome of the work. The prints are often worked and reworked again and again until they have reached a point of completion.

Bio

Adriana Barrios was born and raised in San Diego, California. In 2009 she graduated from the University of Texas at San Antonio where she earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree with an emphasis in printmaking. In 2015 Adriana attended an international artist residency in Florence, Italy at Santa Reparata International School of Art. Currently, she is pursuing a Master of Fine Arts Degree at The University of Wisconsin-Madison where she is a recipient of the Education Graduate Research Fellow Scholarship. Her work has been exhibited regionally in Texas, New Mexico and Wisconsin and internationally in Italy and Mexico. Her most recent work involves her revisiting the coastal landscapes of her upbringing. She is interested in exploring the ways we observe, interact and respond to land in which we live in. She uses printmaking, photography and video to explore these ideas.

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Barbara Justice

Artist Statement

Be Excellent To Each Other is a visual collection of my experience in Madison, Wisconsin. I document surroundings of my new city by photographing details that have become familiar to me on a regular basis. These subjects have become guides for me; they are reference points, in my new environment, and with them I have established a sense of familiarity and comfort. Rather than looking outward into a vast desert southwest landscape of my upbringing, I am now focusing on a place that is new, and therefore attempting to characterize my connection to Madison. I photographed all of the images with a Mamiya RB67 ProS medium format camera and have carefully rewound and reused rolls of film to create double exposures. Although this is somewhat experimental in technique, the pairings of the images are deliberate and planned out. The results of two layered images reveal a visual metaphor for the time I have spent here, covering and uncovering relevant details that play a role in the discovery of my new home.

Bio

Barbara Justice (b. 1975, El Paso, TX) is a southwest native, who grew up in southern New Mexico and west Texas. At a young age, she discovered that making photographic images was her passion and thus completed a Bachelor of Fine Arts Degree in Photography from The University of Texas at San Antonio in 2009. While living in San Antonio she created Justice Works Studio, and over the course of four years she exhibited emerging and established artists of south Texas. In 2015, Justice completed a seven month artist residency at Santa Reparata International School of Art in Florence, Italy.  Her series On The White Sands was published in PRYME Magazine, a quarterly publication dedicated to instant film. She is a member of Film Shooters Collective an international collective of film photographers.  Her work has been exhibited in Oregon, Tennessee, Pennsylvania, Louisiana and Texas.

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Ruminations & Remnants

A pop-up exhibition of illustrations & prints

by Kat Kinnick & Zahra Marwan

NO LAND
54 1/2 E. San Francisco St. #7
July 22-August 6, 2017

Opening Reception: Saturday, July 22, 6-9 pm
Closing Reception: Sunday, August 6, 6-9 pm with Lone Piñon

Kat Kinnick and Zahra Marwan met just a few months ago, and exhibited together for the first time in late June. The joint show was in a red barn at the Rio Grande Community Farm in Albuquerque, with illustrations and prints hanging from the rafters and pinned to alfalfa bales. In a new version of the pop-up exhibition, Kinnick and Marwan travel from the humble farm to a gallery on the Santa Fe Plaza. Though they’ve landed in a more traditional art venue, the artists maintain a down-to-earth philosophy about their work. Both of them blend natural imagery with personal narratives, seeking to connect with diverse audiences. Ruminations & Remnants opens at Strangers Collective’s No Land on Saturday, July 22 from 6-9 pm. The show’s closing reception on Sunday, August 6 features Albuquerque acoustic trio Lone Piñon. 

“It started at the farmer’s market,” says Kinnick. That’s where Marwan sells her illustrations, and Kinnick’s partner Jordan Wax sometimes performs with his band Lone Piñon. “Zahra saw an album cover I designed for Lone Piñon, and reached out to me to do a show,” Kinnick recalls. “She told me that she makes art as her living. I was like, ‘How does this person do this?’” They became fast friends, and have supported each other in their early careers as professional artists.“Kat calls herself an ‘in the closet’ artist, but since we did the last show she’s been making a lot more work,” says Marwan. “She’s inspired me a lot in so many ways as well.”

Kinnick grew up in Albuquerque, and her parents restore Navajo rugs. She studied art at the Maryland Institute College of Art in Baltimore. Even in her time away from the high desert, she made paintings of New Mexico’s flora and fauna. Now living in Santa Fe, she continues to depict the natural world with the intention of bringing viewers back in touch with the wild. She works in watercolor and gouache to bring plants and animals to life on paper and board. “Creating culture is like creating a value system,” she says. “My work represents my heart and my values. I feel like if we knew animals and plants better, and were more connected to them, then we’d live in a healthier world.”  

Marwan was born in Kuwait, and moved to Albuquerque with her family when she was a child. Now an American citizen, she has traveled back and forth several times in the past few years to visit family. Her watercolor-and-ink illustrations capture everyday moments in both places, highlighting differences and similarities between the two cultures that Marwan moves between. Other drawings feature charming portraits of her friends, or scenes from her travels across the world. “I search for certain things that I remember, and invent things as well,” Marwan says. “I blend together real experiences with things that I imagine. Drawing helps gets these things out.” 

When it comes to selling their work, both artists prioritize accessibility. “At the market, some people are like, ‘You shouldn’t be selling your art at a place like this!’” Marwan says. “I’m like, ‘Why can’t it be sold like tomatoes?’”  

At the show’s closing reception on Sunday, August 6, Lone Piñon—who helped connect Kinnick and Marwan—will provide music. The group has revived and updated the Chicano stringband style that once flourished in New Mexico, bringing a devoted and explosive musicianship to Northern New Mexican polkas and chotes, virtuosic Mexican huapango and son calentano, and classic borderlands conjunto. Jordan Wax, Greg Glassman and Noah Martinez are the band’s members. 

Marcus Zúñiga: YA VEO

NO LAND
54 1/2 E. San Francisco St. #7
April 8 - June 11, 2017

Grand Opening | Saturday, April 8, 6-9 pm
Artist Talk | Saturday, April 15, 6 pm
Closing Reception | Saturday, June 10, 6-9 pm

Strangers Collective’s NO LAND art space transforms into a futuristic planetarium for its inaugural exhibition. In his solo show Ya Veo, Marcus Zúñiga incorporates cosmic imagery into new media projections and sculptures, opening windows into the universe by manipulating footage that he captures through a telescope. Mapping the constellations has helped Zúñiga trace his Mexican-American roots—and tell a story that traverses human history. Ya Veo, meaning “I see” in Spanish, is an invitation to viewers to ponder their place in the universe.

The debut of the show on April 8 coincided with the grand opening of NO LAND on Saturday, April 8 from 6-9 pm, and it runs through June 10, 2017.  Zúñiga conducted an artist talk at NO LAND on Saturday, April 15, 6 pm. The exhibition's closing reception (June 10, 6-9 pm) coincides with the opening weekend of the Currents New Media Festival 2017. The two-week festival features new media art from across the world, and partners with art spaces around Santa Fe to present satellite shows and events. 

“My work is about perception of the universe,” says Zúñiga. “It’s part of a conversation that spans millennia, and can’t be resolved with a simple yes or no.” He first tuned into this cosmic exchange as a child growing up in New Mexico. Zúñiga was born in Silver City, and his family lived in seven different towns throughout the state during his youth. “I would win science fairs with projects about the solar system, and watch eight-hour documentaries on the chemical compositions of stars,” Zúñiga says. He was excited to learn that his Aztec ancestors were equally attracted to studying the stars. Perhaps cracking cosmological mysteries could help him understand his own DNA. 

In 2009, Zúñiga enrolled at the University of New Mexico to study video art. “I never pursued astronomy seriously because it always seemed too dry to think about it in a very scientific way,” he says. “Through art, I could experience concepts of the universe—and create those experiences. That’s what set me off.” Near the end of his time at UNM, he created a video collage of a hawk in flight overlaid on the sun. The piece felt like a breakthrough, and he tried to replicate its success after graduating with his BFA in 2013 and taking an internship at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Tucson. It wasn’t until he moved to Santa Fe in summer 2014 that his first body of work started to take shape. After completing an internship with SITE Santa Fe, he took a job at Peters Projects, and connected with new media artists who became his mentors. 

“Peters had this five-monitor installation by Steina Vasulka,” he says. “It was an electronic, monumental piece with a very Fluxus feel to it. The fact that a gallery was supporting experimental art, that showed me new possibilities.” Another new media work by Lita Albuquerque inspired him to study her efforts to bring serious scientific conversations into the art world.

By summer 2015, he was spending his evenings with a camera pressed against the viewfinder of a telescope. He would capture cosmic events and send them spinning into the digital world, editing the imagery and inserting fragments of computer code to aesthetically communicate specific scientific concepts. “The technological aspect of video is, to me, what keeps the medium I work with so relevant to the world,” he says. “Video is so important to how we receive information every day.”

Ya Veo, Zúñiga’s first solo exhibition, represents two years of astronomical exploration. The eight works in the show include videos, photographs and new media sculptures. High quality prints will also be available for purchase. “Strangers Collective’s goal with the NO LAND project is to spotlight emerging artists who are ready for the next phase of their careers,” says Kyle Farrell, co-director of NO LAND. “Marcus showed us this rich, diverse body of work that is conceptually rigorous but also captures unbridled wonder.” He is currently in preparations to participate in the Art Center College of Design Graduate Art MFA program in Pasadena, CA for the fall 2017 term. Zúñiga has appeared in two Strangers Collective group shows: Narrows at Santa Fe Community Gallery in spring 2016, and Long Echo at Center for Contemporary Arts in fall 2016. 

To title his works, Zúñiga incorporates Spanish and Nahuatl (Aztec) words and phrases. It’s a nod to the highly personal experience of viewing the sky, which connects to a universal human experience. “This is what the moon is called in Spanish, or Nahuatl,” Zúñiga says. “It might feel foreign at first, but everyone has an experience of the moon. If we start thinking about the cosmos in ways that Egyptians or Chinese or Indigenous people think about it, all of these narratives converge. It just becomes this world in the sky.” 

For more information and high resolution images, please contact NO LAND co-directors Jordan Eddy, Alex Gill and Kyle Farrell at strangersartcollective@gmail.com. 

LONG ECHO

 Center for Contemporary Arts
1050 Old Pecos Trail
October 28-January 15

Opening Reception:
Friday, October 28, 5-8 pm

An echo is a fragment of the past, but also a new moment in the present. This fall, Strangers Collective orchestrates a chorus of contemporary reflections at the CCA Cinematheque Lobby Gallery. The local arts group is excited to announce Long Echo, an exhibition of emerging artists and writers that is designed to send ripples through Santa Fe’s creative landscape. The show opens Friday, October 28 from 5-8 pm, and features a series of gatherings that will challenge visitors to rethink the role of emerging visual art, writing, music and dance in the broader community. Long Echo runs through January 15, 2017. 

“Long Echo comes at a time when many of us are delving into past experiences,” says Strangers co-director Alex Gill. “These conceptual and aesthetic elements are ringing out again in clearer and stronger ways.” The exhibition will feature diverse artwork, including paintings, sculptures, drawings and new media works. Strangers Collective’s writers will present a fresh array of zines, along with Strangers Volume I, a journal of collected writings and images from the group’s past events. “It’s not about nostalgia, it's about ruthlessly hacking away at what you’ve done,” says Strangers cofounder and co-director Kyle Farrell. “How do you concentrate your creative power?” 

In addition to the opening reception in late October, Strangers Collective will host a series of events titled Echo Chamber during the 11-week run of the show. These will include a series of performance installations, a panel discussion and a round table gathering. “The events challenge audiences to participate, and to experience the art in visceral ways,” says CCA visual arts curator Angie Rizzo. “Strangers Collective is asking the community to join them in reimagining what an art show can accomplish.” Long Echo aims to foster new links in the creative community that reverberate long after the exhibition’s closing date. 

Participating artists include Ona Yopack, Sarah Palmeri, Dion Valdez, Drew MC, Alex Gill, Kyle Farrell, Marcus Zuniga, Florence Cunningham, David O’Brien, Austin Eichelberger, Ben Putnam and Stephanie Thompson. Participating writers include Bucket Siler, Katie Johnson, Acacia Ryan Barnett, Sarah Weisberg, Jordan Eddy, Daniel Bonhorst, Elliot Jackson, Juro Gagne, Kendyll Gross, Ariana Lombardi, Kelly Skeen, Max Walukas and Shannon Latham. Emmaly Wiederholt and Tara Khozein will debut a performance piece titled Hot Air and Rain during the opening reception, at 5:30 pm. View images from the opening reception here. 

NARROWS

Santa Fe Community Gallery
201 W. Marcy Street
May 20-June 10, 2016

Opening Reception: Friday, May 20, 5-8 pm
Zine Workshop: Saturday, May 28, 1-4 pm
Artist Talks with Santa Fe Art Tours: Wednesday, June 1, 6-8 pm

Santa Fe, NM— There’s revolution in the air in Santa Fe this spring, as emerging and alternative art projects by young creatives take the spotlight. New art districts are forming on Baca Street, Hickox Road and Siler Road, fostering experimental art spaces and collectives. In May, Strangers Collective will stage a daring takeover of Santa Fe’s downtown arts district. Narrows, an exhibition of 35 local emerging artists and writers, opens at Santa Fe Community Gallery on Friday, May 20 from 5-8 pm. 

“We’ve seen a significant shift in the community since the collective formed, and it has emboldened us,” says Strangers co-founder Jordan Eddy. The art group started in fall 2014 as a grassroots effort to build a supportive network of emerging artists and writers. Living room salons quickly grew into full-fledged exhibitions, with showings at ART.i.factory Gallery and Wheelhouse Art in 2015 and events at Caldera and David Richard Gallery this year. “Santa Fe is waking up to the fact that young artists are ushering in a radical new era of contemporary art here,” says Eddy. “We’re carving out space in this scene, and there’s no going back.” 

Narrows is Strangers Collective’s fourth public exhibition, featuring visual art in diverse mediums by 17 artists, and zines by 16 writers. The show’s title is a reference to the small apartments and studio spaces where the artwork takes shape, and the process of ferrying emerging art into the public sphere. Narrows is an examination of this invigorating and at times perilous voyage. During the three-week run of the show, Strangers will host a zine workshop on Saturday, May 28 and artist talks with Elaine Ritchel of Santa Fe Art Tours on Wednesday, June 1. 

“It’s such a diverse group,” says co-founder Kyle Farrell. “We have artists who grew up here, and people who came from all across the country. One thing that unites us is the battle to be heard. We’re moving from private spaces onto much larger stages, and it’s invigorating.” Featured artists include A. Jason Coleman, Kyle Farrell, Alex Gill, Julia Haywood, Erikka James, Shannon Latham, Katherine Lee, Drew Mc, David O'Brien, Sarah Palmeri, Leah Devine Pokrasso, Stephanie Thompson, Ben Putnam, Dion Valdez, Emmanuelle John, MaryEllen Whitmoyer, Marcus Zuniga and Rebecca Waldron. Participating writers include Daniel Bohnhorst, Jordan Eddy, Austin Eichelberger, Juro Gagne, Kendyll Gross, Elliot Jackson, Ariana Lombardi, Chris Quintana, Elaine Ritchel, Bucket Siler, Kelly Skeen, Rachel Miller-Howard, Maxwell Lucas, Sarah Weisberg, Emmaly Wiederholt, Mariah Romero, Darnell Thomas, and contributors to Genghis Culture and 1905 Magazine.

CABIN FEVER

A Strangers Collective Pop-Up
Caldera
411 West Water Street
Santa Fe, NM
March 4 - 13, 2016

Shack up with Strangers Collective and SCUBA at Caldera Gallery for this three night pop-up. Artwork by Sarah Darlene Palmeri, Marcus Zuniga, David O'Brien, Dion Valdez, Leah Devine Pokrasso, Shannon Latham, A. Jason Coleman, MaryEllen Whitmoyer, Kyle Farrell and more. Craft by Mod Tribe Design. Zines by  Julia Haywood, Jordan Eddy, Austin Eichelberger, Juro Gagne, Daniel Bohnhorst, Elliot Jackson, Elaine Ritchel, Rachel Miller-Howard, Bucket Siler, Chris Quintana, and Kelly Skeen. Opening Friday, March 4th from 5 to 7pm.

Weekend events: 

Saturday, 3/5, 5-7 pm- Readings by Strangers. Featuring Max Walukas, Austin Eichelberger, Bucket Siler, Stephanie Thompson and Juro Gagne. 

Sunday, 3/6, 5-7 pm- Closing reception. Banjo performance by Sam Armstrong-Zickefoose, 5-5:30 pm.

NO LAND

Wheelhouse Art
418 Montezuma Avenue
October 16-28, 2015

Opening reception:
Friday, October 16, 5-9 pm

This autumn, local art collective Strangers will take part in the final chapter of a beloved Santa Fe gallery. Wheelhouse Art, known for its trailblazing exhibitions of conceptual and experimental artwork, will host the group for a provocative show before closing its doors. Strangers Collective’s NO LAND exhibition runs October 16-28, and rallies Santa Fe’s emerging art community to fight for new territory in a competitive market. 

“Wheelhouse stood by artists who went against the grain in Santa Fe, and that’s a huge risk,” says Strangers co-founder and sculptor Kyle Farrell. “For the last show, we wanted to honor that ethos by asking some big questions about our community’s future.” 

A group of friends started Strangers in 2014, mounting a series of private exhibitions in a Santa Fe living room. The collective threw its first public art and zine show this summer at ART.i.factory Gallery on Baca Street, creating a new platform for young creatives with powerful perspectives to share. NO LAND is the group’s largest exhibition yet, with 13 visual artists—including painters, filmmakers, sculptors and collage artists— and more than a dozen writers involved. 

“The ‘NO LAND’ title is a reference to that feeling of isolation young artists can get in this very established scene,” says Strangers co-founder and writer Jordan Eddy. “So many artists have already planted their flags here. How do we carve out our own niche and tell some new stories?”

The visual artists featured in NO LAND include A. Jason Coleman, Dion Valdez, Freedom Hopkins, Alex Gill, Ben Putnam, Stephanie Thompson, Drew Mc, Erikka James, MaryEllen Whitmoyer, Freyr A Marie, Julia Haywood, Kyle Farrell, Shannon Latham and Leah Devine Pokrasso. Participating writers include Andrea Vaca, Annie Siegel, Ariana Lombardi, Kelly Skeen, Austin Eichelberger, Bucket Siler, Chris Quintana, Elaine Richtel, Elliot Jackson, Jordan Eddy, Juro Gagne, Rachel Miller-Howard and a number of Knack Magazine contributors. 

STRANGERS

ART.i.factory
930 Baca Street
July 18- August 31, 2015

Opening Reception:
Saturday, July 18th, 5:00- 9:00 pm

The Strangers art collective started in a Santa Fe living room. A small group of artists and writers, all without representation, came together for a secret pop-up show. Ten months and two exhibitions later, the collective will expand out of residences and into the Art.i.fact consignment shop in the Baca District south of the Railyard, debuting a powerful new vision for Santa Fe's art scene. The STRANGERS pop-up art and zine exhibition opens in the ART.i.factory gallery on Saturday, July 18th from 5:00-9:00 pm, during the inaugural Baca Street Bash.   

“We had two big revelations: that Santa Fe’s most dynamic young artists were one link away from us, and that they weren't exhibiting anywhere," says Strangers co-founder Jordan Eddy. “We were living in a town of like-minded strangers, and we had to bring them together.” In October 2014, Eddy teamed up with local artists Kyle Farrell and Erikka James to throw the first of several private art exhibitions. What began as a salon-style gathering of friends grew into a full-fledged collective with over 20 dynamic young artists and writers. 

Not long after STRANGERS united, Art.i.fact co-owners Jennifer Rowland and Michael Gullberg launched their own creative endeavor. They built the ART.i.factory gallery in the back of their consignment shop in winter 2014, and began searching for guest curators to populate its walls with thought-provoking artwork. 

The exhibition, also titled Strangers, will introduce young artists and writers working in a wide range of media. Visual artists Alex Gill, Dion Valdez, Kyle Farrell, Tailinh Agoyo and Drew Mc utilize everything from photographs to encaustics to oil and acrylic paints. Writers Ariana Lombardi, Jordan Eddy, Austin Eichelberger, Rachel Miller-Howard and Kelly Skeen pen meditations on contemporary life, art, identity, poetry, language, grief and joy. 

The artwork of the Strangers Collective is diverse, but it all possesses an underlyingcurrent of passionate rebellion. “The art scene goes to bed at 7 o’clock," says Farrell. “It's time to start talking about serious art after dark, and the Baca Street Bash is where that conversation begins.” The Baca Street Bash, an evening of art, music and food, is a collaboration between numerous Baca Street businesses. It will coincide with the Strangers opening on July 18th.