In February, LA-Artist went to visit Heriberto F. Luna in his studio space, shared with Pola Lopez, at the 2 Tracks/Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park.
A canvas is spread across the wall of his studio. In its beginning stages, it is a representation of “The Universal Game,” a Mayan story about the elevation of [...]
1980 marks the year of Rika Ohara’s arrival in the U.S. from her native Japan. At eighteen, she left the place that had been her home to pursue what would become a prolific career in the arts, unfolding and taking shape in all kinds of graceful, messy, and unexpected ways.
Our third episode, on artist Rika Ohara, is currently in the editing room. Oliver and I are collaborating on this edit, which at the moment looks great! Meanwhile, Oliver is working on a new LA-Artist trailer that includes our first four episodes (only two of which have been released). The group of artists that comprise the LA-Artist Documentary Project’s first four episodes are: Lucas Aardvark, Sarah Sitkin, Rika Ohara, and Heriberto F. Luna.
Last Friday, Oliver and I sat down with the artist of an upcoming episode, Rika Ohara, a filmmaker whose most recent work The Heart of No Place sparked a conversation among us about the meaning of “home”, “in-between” spaces, celebrity, assumption, technology, personal history, migration, movement, and food.
The road that winds to Raphael Matias’ house is the kind of road you don’t know about if you’ve never stayed around LA very long. It’s also the kind of road you love if you’ve lived here. The streets and houses are formed between the dry grassy earth of the wild lands in and around [...]
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