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Made In L.A.: Fiona Connor, 8/60

Made In L.A.: Fiona Connor, 8/60

Made In L.A. is coming to the Hammer, Barnsdall Park, LAXART, and billboards around town on June 2 and will showcase sixty emerging, under-recognized Los Angeles artists–one of which will be voted to win a $100,000 prize. In order to help you make an educated vote this summer, we’re counting down to Made In L.A. by showcasing each artist participating in the biennial.

Fiona Connor is an artist whose work is about imitating experience in a way that sometimes makes it so you cannot experience something. She very often lands in the world of sculpture and installation as she is obsessed with replicating a feeling or environment or item in order to call attention to what the item really is.

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Made In L.A.: Sarah Conaway, 7/60

Made In L.A.: Sarah Conaway, 7/60

Made In L.A. is coming to the Hammer, Barnsdall Park, LAXART, and billboards around town on June 2 and will showcase sixty emerging, under-recognized Los Angeles artists–one of which will be voted to win a $100,000 prize. In order to help you make an educated vote this summer, we’re counting down to Made In L.A. by showcasing each artist participating in the biennial.

Sarah Conaway is a photographer getting at much more than subjectivity. She is less about the subject being portrayed as a “subject” and is more about “a sense of objectness,” the object in the photo being much more than it actually is.

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Made In L.A.: Sarah Cain, 6/60

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Made In L.A. is coming to the Hammer, Barnsdall Park, LAXART, and billboards around town on June 2 and will showcase sixty emerging, under-recognized Los Angeles artists–one of which will be voted to win a $100,000 prize. In order to help you make an educated vote this summer, we’re counting down to Made In L.A. by showcasing each artist participating in the biennial.

Sarah Cain is a space artist. Her work bends how art on the wall and art in a room become a part of the room, transcending dimensions, becoming something more.

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Made In L.A.: Scott Benzel, 5/60

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Made In L.A. is coming to the Hammer, Barnsdall Park, LAXART, and billboards around town on June 2 and will showcase sixty emerging, under-recognized Los Angeles artists–one of which will be voted to win a $100,000 prize. In order to help you make an educated vote this summer, we’re counting down to Made In L.A. by showcasing each artist participating in the biennial.

Scott Benzel is an interdisciplinary artist who dwells in the visual world but seems to be preoccupied with the audial world. He creates fairly conceptual visual works that are not singular but immersive and installed into a space, very similar to his performances which are always a group effort.

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Made In L.A.: Math Bass, 4/60

Made In L.A.: Math Bass, 4/60

Made In L.A. is coming to the Hammer, Barnsdall Park, LAXART, and billboards around town on June 2 and will showcase sixty emerging, under-recognized Los Angeles artists–one of which will be voted to win a $100,000 prize. In order to help you make an educated vote this summer, we’re counting down to Made In L.A. by showcasing each artist participating in the biennial.

Math Bass is a very, very mysterious figure. She is nearly untraceable, even with a name like “Math Bass,” but we’ve been able to discern that she is mainly a performance artist whose work is centered on ritual. She’s worked with Lora Reynolds in Austin as well as the cool folks of Sunset’s Overduin And Kite.

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