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.
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.
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.
THE RE-USE PROJECT
The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works
by CSUSM Art Students
About the Artists
The Re-Use Project is a collaborative group experience consisting of all CSUSM Art Students. In efforts to bring attention to the global environmental crisis through creating artwork using all pre existing materials such as plastic, aluminum and cardboard. After completing the exhibition in The HSCC, Head curator, Dinah Poellnitz saw potential to coordinate an on going organization which has now been running for over a year under the supervision of the gallery.
STUBBORN / DREAM LOVING
The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works
by Alofa Gould
Alofa Gould is a local artist and educator in North County San Diego with work featured in the gallery space using colored pencil representing the feelings which come with love. She has been a constant collaborator with The Hill Street Country Club through beginning our Book Club and working as a teacher for The Mobile Arts Workshop.
