Artist In Residence
Our Partners: FWB (Friends With Benefits) & Superchief
This season’s artist residencies in Palm Springs are presented by co-curators Friends With Benefits, or FWB, and Superchief. FWB is a new cultural institution growing the adoption of emerging technology in pursuit of a better internet. Superchief is an international gallery exploring untapped possibilities for the NFT as an artist’s tool. Their curation shines a light on three artists who capture the surreal psychedelia of LA’s desert milieu, and one more to be selected via open call and voted on by the FWB community.
Erika Weitz
Erika Weitz is a multidisciplinary artist living and working in Los Angeles. Through her work with a historic photographic process called Wet-Plate Collodion, she has pioneered new techniques to merge analog and digital images into physical forms, creating a new and evolving form of chemical light painting.
FWB and Superchief are running an open call for this residency slot. Submissions will open in September. For more information, sign up to the FWB newsletter at https://www.fwb.help/
Terrell Jones
Influenced by manga, film and fashion, Terrell Jones is the architect of a style he calls “Pop-Precisionism,” which draws upon the hallmarks of painting movements like Pop Art, Precisionism and Realism. By rendering Pepe the Frog and other internet icons in this style, he places meme culture in dialogue with an art historical lineage.
Lázaro Sánchez
Originally from the Coachella Valley, Lázaro Sánchez, aka Anta52, is a multidisciplinary artist who renders his desert upbringing in a contemporary Pop idiom. By portraying skulls, cacti and other critters in both urban and naturalistic settings, he tells the story of a life stuck between the desert and the city.