2023-24 Platform Gallery Exhibition: Imagining California

The 2023-24 Platform exhibition engages with the IHC’s public events series theme, Imagining California, which addresses the contradictions and contestations that define California. How have California dreams informed the state’s past? How can new imaginings inspire its future?

Artists

Carmen Araujo
UC Santa Barbara

Jesús Balandrano Ramírez
UC Santa Barbara

Elena Cardona
Soka University of America, Language and Culture Program

Moxie Bright Evan
UC Santa Barbara

Kaylee Heartman
UC Santa Barbara

Maiza Laurent Hixson
UC Santa Barbara, Department of Theater and Dance

Erik A. Mondrian
UC Santa Barbara, Media Arts and Technology

Andrew Nim
UC Santa Barbara

Theo Schaefer
Santa Barbara, CA

Carmen Araujo
California.Updated
Watercolor, acrylic markers, and ink
2023

Jesús Balandrano Ramírez
Greener Futures
Linocut
2021

Elena Cardona
“Orphanage Dreams,” “Pacific Behind,” and “Caribbean Murmur” from Murmur
Photography and Video Composite Collage
2020

Moxie Bright Evan
Ili and Skye
Oil on Canvas
2022

Moxie Bright Evan
Small Comforts
Oil on Canvas
2021

Kaylee Heartman
Garden Grown
Oil paint
2023

Maiza Laurent Hixson
“View of the Left Side,” from Affordable Housing in California
Performance, text, painting, sculpture, site-specific installation, research archive, digital imagery
2019–23

Erik A. Mondrian
that famous golden glow and submersion
Digital art, virtual photography
2021

Erik A. Mondrian
of the waves beneath our feet and where turns the sea and sky
Digital art, virtual photography
2021

Andrew Nim
Creating California’s Future
Digital art
2023

Theo Schaefer
Thomas Fire
Digital photography
2017

Theo Schaefer
Santa Barbara Breakwater
Digital photography
2018

Theo Schaefer
Venice Composition
Digital photography
2022