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.
TIME CAPSUL
The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works
by $lave: Ben Horton and J-hon
Time Capsul represents a 10 year retrospect of work produced by the skateboard company $lave featuring artists Ben Horton and J-hon. During this experience Pat Burke was given official recognition as a pro skater for the brand.
TO REACH THE CLOUDS
The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works
by Cheryl Sorg
Q & A artist
Can you go into the meaning / inspiration behind your tape artwork?
I keep becoming more and more and more intensely aware of just how shit the world is - racism, misogyny, sex trafficking, poverty, corruption in power, mass incarceration, etc. etc. etc., all of it. Just shit. And somehow working with the vibrant color injects a bit of cheer (hope?) into all of it for me. It certainly doesn’t improve it, or necessarily generate any change at all, but it gives me pleasure, and as simplistic as this may sound, the hope is that it will do the same for someone else as well.
REAL BIG DEALS
The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works
by Taylor Chapin
Q & A artist
What are your biggest challenges to creating art and how do you deal with them? How do you navigate the art world?
I often find myself pulled in so many directions as a young, emerging artist. It’s easy for me to feel overwhelmed by the amount of feedback and opinions I receive on what I should be doing and how I should be doing it. I am at a point in my career where I have to wear a lot of different hats to make ends meet. I struggle with balancing commissions, feedback from others, and making my own work. Creating my own work is a priority, and this requires a consistent awareness of allocating time. I often feel pressure to please others and to “paint what sells”, and I have to make an active effort to avoid falling into this trap and make sure my own practice is truly and honestly expressing my own interests and desires.
I feel like I’m just starting to learn how to navigate the art world. I am on the front end of my career, so I feel like first and foremost, I am trying to get exposure for my work. This being the case, right now I say yes to every opportunity that comes my way because each opportunity is a chance to learn and share my work with others. I find that through each experience into the various offerings of the art world, I learn a little bit more about how I want to navigate the art world going forward.
SCI-FEMME
The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works
by Dana Trippe
Dana Trippe is a local photographer branching into the Sci-Fi elements of creative expression through photography. Her work has been featured in galleries locally and at the national level, collaborating with musicians more recently for flyers, album covers and more.
Q & A artist
How did you begin working with photography?
My dad was always building me and my sisters the most creative and elaborate things throughout our childhood. The one that always stuck out was the indoor treehouse that took over my sisters entire room. He paper mached the outside so it looked like a real tree. They could sleep up top, and even had a bucket with a pulley system so they could transfer things to the top of the tree from below. That’s just one thing of MANY. He was the coolest dad.
