PRESS RELEASE
Please join me on Sunday April 10, 2022, 3-7pm for the opening reception of Bathhouse Rules. Bathhouse Rules is an immersive installation that models a vision for collective care as our hope for the future, featuring collaborations and performances by Leo Alas, Cesar Alas, Kai Chan, Xixi Edelsbrunner, Sophie Roessler, and more. The Bathhouse is an anti-utopia, anti-time proposition towards regeneration and a political ethic based in love.
LEO ALAS (b. 1995) is a research-based interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles exploring themes around care work and grief, through a Marxist-Feminist lens. They contemplate where care exists in family structures, at work, in a community, who performs care, and who receives care. Their practice journeys into world building and Queer political imagination, exploring what is possible, what is potent, and what is beautiful, in an effort to find healing and joy in late-stage capitalism. Leo studied Fine Arts and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and received their MFA in Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design. Leo is a co-founder of Queer Spa Network, an artist-in-residence at Level Ground Co. in Los Angeles for 2021-2022, and a bathing enthusiast.
You can find more information about Leo's practice and their work at leo-alas.com
The Bolsky Gallery, Otis College of Art and Design, 9045 Lincoln Blvd. Los Angeles CA 90045
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The Bolsky Gallery is open Monday through Sunday, 8:00am – 7:30pm. All visitors to the Bolsky Gallery must pre-register via the following link no less than 24 hours prior to the selected event date and time. Registered visitors must be vaccinated against COVID-19 and be masked for the duration of their visit. Those with medical or religious exemptions need to present a negative COVID-19 test taken within 24 hours https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mfa-fine-arts-thesis-exhibition-leo-alas-tickets-310086736777
RSVP for the Opening Reception
Opening reception is on April 10rth from 3:00pm – 7:00pm. All visitors to the reception must pre-register via the following link no less than 24 hours prior to the selected event date and time. Registered visitors must be vaccinated against COVID-19 and be masked for the duration of their visit. Those with medical or religious exemptions need to present a negative COVID-19 test taken within 24 hours https://www.eventbrite.com/e/mfa-fine-arts-thesis-exhibition-leo-alas-opening-reception-tickets-310090036647