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Go experience my daughter Avery’s multimedia installation at the Little Gallery, UCLA. Open a few more days. #artist #uclaarts #newgenres

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I’ll be performing @feministcenterforcreativework for a special book drive for LA county jails May 24th @ 6:00pm. ***important guidelines for books in slides*** $5 Donations will also be taken at the door to support orgs, no one will be turned away for lack of funds!!!!

✨proceeds from the event will go to:

@homeboyindustries
@antirecidivismcoalition
@apiriselosangeles
@c_c_w_p

The event features so many amazing artist, speakers, organizers and vendors that all center support and love for those incarcerated and formally, and who are working to build and uphold spaces that center an understanding of dismantling the prison system

Please show up and out for this very important event. Thank you all who organized and @carefulbeetle for inviting me 🫶🏽

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A very grateful summer 🌞

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Lucky to have been around a lot friends and art these past two weeks

Thank you for coming to the first curated/organized undergrad UCLA art show. Me and some amazing people got to curate that space full of amazing artist! Open for two more weeks!

Thank you @articlesofandrea for curating a beautiful black and brown art space <3

Much love to everyone🫶🏽

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Don’t talk too much this beat is sick 🥰

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COAXIAL YEAR IN REVIEW:

Our September Artist-in-Residence was Ron Athey (@ronathey_4). Athey presented his two-part show ‘Our Lady of the Spasm’

Between a solo performance and a group ‘Modular Theater’ performance, sections included a vocal but non-lingual litany, fountain action, and first attempts to develop a supernatural lighting installation. Expanding, but also restricting a pivotal action to an 8 x 4-foot rectangular box (bigger than a coffin smaller than a stage).

Ron Athey invited 4 artists to make work that is both autonomous but modular to this concept: Karen Lofgren (@karenlofgren), Micaela Tobin (@white_boy_scream), Christos Tejada (@christttoss), Avery Collinsbyrd (@avery_collinsbyrd), & André Atkins (@andre.atkinss).

To help sustain Coaxial and keep the doors open for more work like this, please consider donating or joining as a member at the link in our bio. We are nearing the end of our Winter Fundraiser and need extra support to reach our goal of $12,000 dollars.

~~~Support now at the link in bio!~~~

📷 Photo credit Amina Cruz (@aminacruz.studio)

Athey’s residency was supported by the National Endowment for the Arts (@neaarts) and the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (@culture_la).

ID: a photo of Athey naked except for a studded leather harness. He is carrying a number of large wooden sticks on his back, the ends of which are shaped like penises.

ID2: a photo of performer Christos Tejada, seated cross-legged, mostly naked, with a piece of fabric draped over their face.

ID3: a circular window opening to performer, Karen Lofgren, who is mostly naked and whose skin is shimmering gold.

ID4: a photo of Micaela Tobin seated, performing with a microphone held up to her mouth.

ID5: a photo of performer André Atkins wearing a leather harness and a large black respirator with goggles.

ID7: a photo of Avery Collinsbyrd performing in a white lace dress. Their long braided hair extends below their torso.

ID8: a photo of Ron Athey from behind hunched over with the large wooden sticks with penis heads on his back.

ID9: an image of Micaela Tobin (@white_boy_scream) performing at Coaxial. ID: a photo of Athey naked except for a studded leather harness. He is carrying a number of large wooden sticks on his back, the ends of which are shaped like penises.

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Thank you @ronathey_4 and @coaxialarts for having me ❤️

And of course thanks @andre.atkinss for the enchanting music

Enjoyed performing so much Friday night along side the amazing @christttoss @white_boy_scream and @karenlofgren

Thank you love for support and costume support @julia__zahra

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Friday night full of sacred modules, gloryholes, antesoundbath, Salome, Pan and the Oracle: final night of OurLady residency at @coaxialarts

Thank you @andre.atkinss @avery_collinsbyrd @christttoss Tejada and @karenlofgren for making work as a part of these events!

Extra big appreciation to @zeina_baltagi and everyone who attended or supported through the fundraiser, this was a valuable, affirmative project for me, both as a maker, presenter and producer.

🫧🔮🫧🕳💗

📸 by the fantastic @aminacruz.studio

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TONIGHT 9/30 7:30PM - Modular Sacred Theater

Featuring:
Karen Lofgren @karenlofgren
Micaela Tobin @white_boy_scream
Christos Tejada @christttoss
Avery Collinsbyrd @abyrd__ performing w/ André Atkins @andre.atkinss

Special thanks to the support team:
Karen Lofgren’s studio assistant Sylvie Lake
Ron Athey’s studio assistant facilitated via @bosswitchproductions
Graphic Design by Mario Luna @marioluna___
& Coaxial Arts Foundations staff.

Thank you to Ron Athey’s fans that purchased a limited-edition Ron Athey X Coaxial Arts T’ and original artworks still available with the link in our bio.

Coaxial Arts Foundations Artist in Residency program is made possible with grants from @nea__arts__ @culture_la

ID:
1. A portrait of Christos Tejada in performance holding a gauntlet and hadn gently to their face.

2. A portrait image of Micaela wearing a white mesh shirt with fabric folds on the chest, a turtleneck collar is covered with white pearls. Micaela gaze is direct. She has large circular nose and ear rings, dark brown eyes, eyebrows, and hair. Micaela stands in front of a clear blue desert sky.

3. The images features Avery is lying down immersed in multiple figure projections on to the body including plaster castings. The work is in collaboration with Lilah @lilah.rose.s

4. A photo depicting artist André Atkins lying in the grass. The photo is rotated so that the ground is towards the top of the frame and Atkins’ head and body enter from the upper-lefthand corner.

5. A b&w photo of Karen seated backwards on a chair with elboes up. She is looking downward in her studio surrounded by her hanging sculptures. A window is behind with a window air conditioner & foliage peeking through. Photo by: Shayan Asgharnia

6. The square image is in b&w grey scale t'shirt featuring a portrait of Dolores: Our Lady of the 7 Sorrows. In small text reads, Ron Athey & Coaxial Arts Presents, larger gothic style text reads, Our Lady of the Spasm. Modular / Sacred / Theater is at the bottom. The square image has a grey grit with the t'shirt open faceing on top of abstracted imagery of circles and upward implied lines, lending the eye to t'shirt in the center of the square.

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2/4 Our Lady of the Spasm, sacred modular theatre live event Sept 30th reservations at @coaxialarts

I invited 4 artists to make work under certain themes and restrictions, with a small commission I’m still busking for! I was contacted by Avery Collins-Byrd to see her work and possibly work together. They showed up for the Long Beach Opera Film Fest screening of a Pasiphäe and walked the snake god look for me! Super thrilled to dig in deeper for Coaxial! Bio:

work.

Avery Collins-Byrd is a Los Angeles based artist attending UCLA to obtain their bachelors in art. Avery explores the ways in which sound, light scape and video aid to the intersectionalities of the complex idinties of nature, spirituality, blackness, and queerness. Focusing on the mediums of light sculpture, sound sculpture, and video installation they achieve the goal of storytelling. In 2021 they presented works including Araneidae spiders (Orb weavers), Theridiidae (cob weavers), and Atracinae (funnel weavers) exploring light in a solo show Untitled (World-wide web) sound and structure through spider webs found in nature. @avery_collinsbyrd

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Our Lady (dark lady) tees are online with the indie campaign, link in bio. Raising funds for my @coaxialarts residency which starts next week and has performance dates set for Sept 25 and 30, details on that soon!

I’m cheering on my own DIY spirit for funding projects like this, “don’t fucking wait” especially if you’ve got fire under your ass!

Huge thanks and admiration to @_marioluna for these t-shirt and additional designs, deeply up my alley! And @zeina_baltagi and @coaxialarts for wanting more 🖤🖤🖤

More deets coming on participants - 4 artists plus collaborators - and how the material is taking form! In the meantime help campaign with contributions, buy a $40 tee or other perk, or reshare if you feel this spirit!

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So excited to finally announce my very first solo show at UCLA on the New Genres floor
✨Location: Room 2145, Broad art center
🕷Dates: opening- June2 6-8pm
Week days- June 3,5,6,7 11am-5pm

A piece with @lilah.rose.s will also be featured!!!

🕸If you like spider webs, spiders, light sound, video, cool sculptures come check it out!!! (Triggers will be posted outside of door as needed)

Thanks @cr0chet_cowb0y for the poster graphics! Poster for Avery’s art solo show dates for opening June 2 6-8pm week days June 3 5 6 7 11am-5pm

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