ANTICUADO ANTIQUATED
The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works
by Javier Arreguin Villegas
What does your exhibition mean to you?
This is what I want my family to see and the next generation of my family to see. I want my lineage and Kianna’s and my brother’s to see that we have the power of creating our own vision and that to me is antiquated.
AUGMENTED REALITIES
The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works
by Chitra Gopalakrishnan
What is a large inspiration to your self portrait artwork within the exhibition?
Motherhood brings with it immense joy, wonder and love, along with an equal share of vulnerability, pain and fragility. This self-portrait uses botanical analogies to explore ideas of isolation, pain, fear and the resilience in modern motherhood, as seen through a personal lens. My inspiration for this work comes from the conversations with the mothers in my life. Modern American motherhood is an isolating experience and I hope to create a dialog about community and inter-dependence through my work.
EXODUS FROM INIQUITY
The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works
by Tijera Williams
About the Exhibition
Exodus From Iniquity explores a couple in the throes of uncertainty, and Black people reimagined in classical scenes journeying through ecstasy and anguish. Williams’ work as a multidisciplinary artist explores the true to size Black body in space and in relation to other Black bodies. Prior to the pandemic Williams imagined the pieces would have been paintings. The exhibit instead takes a deep dive into how the artist’s narrative style translates into photography. As a Black woman in the world of photography, Tijera Williams is carving space for her voice and her experience outside of the pressures of any expected gaze. The Hill Street Country Club’s co-founder Dinah Poellnitz notes the importance of creating this kind of space for artists to explore in non traditional messy ways. “Art is personal, for Black artists the work itself is a story-tool used to highlight our experiences”- Dinah Poellnitz. Using diverse mediums, reclaiming our bodies, and taking up space The Hill Street Country Club celebrates Black History Month our own way. In this, our 9th year, we are proud to curate shows that live outside of expectations, and outside of norms - a new kind of Black history being created right here in Oceanside.
REMEDIO CASERO
The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works
by a Group of Selected Artists
Why did you all choose ‘Remedio Casero’ as the title?
‘Remedio Casero’, or Holistic Remedies, was chosen as the title of our show as it encompasses the artist’s use of photography as a holistic remedy which uplifts our intimate representations of our identity, culture, and family life. ‘Remedio Casero’ was borrowed from the title of our cover photo by Jezabeth Roca, one of our participating artists.
Featured Photographers (in no particular order):
・William Camargo: @billythecamera
・Jezabeth Roca Gonzalez: @el_archipelago
・Beto Soto: @betosotophoto
・Angelica Grijalva: @divinefrequenciez
・Magdalena Ramirez Cerda: @fulanita.d.talecita
・Ricky Gutierrez: @guttypuma
・Juan Charlie Beaz: @juancabeaz
・Javier Arreguin: @javier.anticuado
・Lissa Corona
・Isabel Pichardo
Curated by: @av_alejandro
Flyer design: @juancabeaz
Organized by: @strawb.unny
HIJO DE LA CHICHARRA
The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works
by Juan Beaz
Can you expand on your piece ‘Waiting on a Transmission’?
Waiting on a Transmission is based on the notion of longing for a signal from somewhere distant or unreachable. Sometimes all you can do is sit around and wait, so you’ll do it from the highest point you can reach.
Like the majority of the pieces in ‘Hijo de la Chicharra’, this piece was created using cardboard cutouts, inking them, and applying them onto a surface in the same way you would with any other relief-printing process. Beaz creates with sustainability and practicality in mind. His minimalistic approach to art making translates his honest, simple, and demonstrative view of the human experience.
