Root Rot
7313 Melrose, Los Angeles, CA
2021
7313 Melrose, Los Angeles, CA
2021
Root Rot is a study of colonial histories in Valencia, CA. Incorporating research from public archives, works range from large-scale, colorfully-rendered citrus labels to graphite drawings of World’s Fairs photographs. These reflect on the legacies of the California citrus industry and its history of indigenous dispossession, erasure of immigrant labor, and privatization of land management practices.
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Press
Art Students Staged Thesis Exhibitions at 7313 Melrose Ave., 24700, 2021
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Five spoons, 2021
William Rogers & Son Sunkist Silverplate Fruit Spoons (c. 1910)
Dimensions variable
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Truth, 2021
Pastel, graphite, crayon, color pencil on matboard; Crate label, “Truth Brand.” Arlington, Riverside Co., CA (c. 1930s)
32 x 32 in.
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Historic Houses, 2021
Mixed media on matboard; Harold D. Eberlein and Cortlandt V. D.Hubbard, Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley (1942); Sunkist Citrus House on Main Street, USA, Disneyland, Anaheim, CA, plans (1960-89)
32 x 32 in.
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Historic Houses (detail), 2021
Mixed media on matboard; Harold D. Eberlein and Cortlandt V. D.Hubbard, Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley (1942); Sunkist Citrus House on Main Street, USA, Disneyland, Anaheim, CA, plans (1960-89)
32 x 32 in.
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Untitled palimpsest, 2021
Graphite on paper; Jasper Cropsey, Evening at Paestum (1856); Bertolt Brecht, Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties (1935); UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Packard Humanities Institute Stoa, Valencia, CA (2015); CalArts Land Acknowledgement (2018-present)
6 × 4 ft.
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Untitled palimpsest (detail), 2021
Graphite on paper; Jasper Cropsey, Evening at Paestum (1856); Bertolt Brecht, Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties (1935); UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Packard Humanities Institute Stoa, Valencia, CA (2015); CalArts Land Acknowledgement (2018-present)
6 × 4 ft.
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Land grants, 2021
Graphite on matboard; Mexican and Spanish land grants, chart (1937)
40 × 32 in.
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Poster by Naveen Hattis
View project archive.
Press
Art Students Staged Thesis Exhibitions at 7313 Melrose Ave., 24700, 2021
Five spoons, 2021 William Rogers & Son Sunkist Silverplate Fruit Spoons (c. 1910)
Dimensions variable
Truth, 2021Pastel, graphite, crayon, color pencil on matboard; Crate label, “Truth Brand.” Arlington, Riverside Co., CA (c. 1930s)
32 x 32 in.
Historic Houses, 2021 Mixed media on matboard; Harold D. Eberlein and Cortlandt V. D.Hubbard, Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley (1942); Sunkist Citrus House on Main Street, USA, Disneyland, Anaheim, CA, plans (1960-89)
32 x 32 in.
Historic Houses (detail), 2021 Mixed media on matboard; Harold D. Eberlein and Cortlandt V. D.Hubbard, Historic Houses of the Hudson Valley (1942); Sunkist Citrus House on Main Street, USA, Disneyland, Anaheim, CA, plans (1960-89)
32 x 32 in.
Untitled palimpsest, 2021Graphite on paper; Jasper Cropsey, Evening at Paestum (1856); Bertolt Brecht, Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties (1935); UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Packard Humanities Institute Stoa, Valencia, CA (2015); CalArts Land Acknowledgement (2018-present)
6 × 4 ft.
Untitled palimpsest (detail), 2021
Graphite on paper; Jasper Cropsey, Evening at Paestum (1856); Bertolt Brecht, Writing the Truth: Five Difficulties (1935); UCLA Film & Television Archive at the Packard Humanities Institute Stoa, Valencia, CA (2015); CalArts Land Acknowledgement (2018-present)
6 × 4 ft.
Land grants, 2021Graphite on matboard; Mexican and Spanish land grants, chart (1937)
40 × 32 in.
Poster by Naveen Hattis