LITTLE GIRL BLUE
The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works
by Emily Ferguson
Opening November 2nd at 7 PM Emily Ferguson will be featured through a Solo Exhibition within The Hill Street Country Club art gallery space. With work resembling the female experience in relation with natural phenomenon her work is vibrant and withholds an essence of storytelling in each piece.
LESS TIME AGING
The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works
by Caitlyn Gaurano
About Gauranos’ work
Gaurano photographs capture people of color as individuals, and focus largely on her millennial identity and navigation through low wages, student loans and fun times. Many of her subjects exhibit individual style influenced by fashion, friendships and social media realities. Less Time Aging, looks at the development of youth culture and the experimental rites of passage towards adulthood.
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.
NORMALIZE RADICAL
The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works
by Johnny Nguyen
Opening Reception: September 26, 27 1pm-7pm
What happened socially which made it apparent you wanted to create this exhibition?
After Trump was elected, we started seeing a lot more blatant racism and white supremacy and fascism. Groups like proud boys, patriot prayer, and far right characters like Milo Yiannopoulos and Joey Gibson and all these other pro Trump characters were gaining mainstream popularity. We even saw white supremacist/neo-nazi rallies like the one in Charlottesville, Virginia which left one protester dead. On this date, the Patriot Prayer far-right group organized a free speech, anti-Marxist rally in Berkeley California. Protesters showed up to ensure that this rally was not going to happen.
Depicted in this photo is a pro Trump character who is known to spew this white supremacist rhetoric online and in-person. He is recording, and his intent is to trigger people so that things can become violent so that he can push a violent agenda upon the protesters. Instead, the protesters fight back with words and with gestures.
This debate is so interesting because it poses the question, ‘can hate speech be free speech’? It’s a double edged sword.
