Luis De Jesus Los Angeles will present From Observation, A Search Party, a curated presentation at UNTITLED San Francisco 2018, featuring new paintings by Elizabeth Huey, large-scale cyanotypes by Lia Halloran, and new videos and photographs by Julie Weitz. The works explore the formation of identity and subjectivity through the study of forgotten or overlooked feminist, scientific, technological, and healing histories.

Elizabeth Huey's paintings explore human connection, advancement, and healing contextualized by proto-feminist visionaries and communities. Her historical research delves into the complexities of group labor, experimentation, recreation, and rehabilitation. Myriad forces - nature, architecture, culture, history - are at work on Huey's protagonists. Surprising spatial arrangements and scale shifts support a hypnagogic sense of seeing from the inside out, as she creates dynamics that allow the viewer to reconsider these histories through a new framework. 

Julie Weitz's videos explore the psychology of embodiment in the digital realm. Weitz combines B-horror, psychedelic, and anti-CGI aesthetics to create works that intentionally blur the boundaries between sensory perception and subjectivity. Weitz is inspired by Audio Sensory Meridian Response (ASMR) videos commonly found on YouTube, describing them as "sensory experience through a digital mechanism". Weitz mirrors and complicates this pseudo-scientific social phenomenon marked by crinkling plastic, dramatic whispers, and alleged head orgasmic sensation, though her version of ASMR includes critical references to Greek theater and other myth making aesthetics.

Lia Halloran's series Your Body is a Space That Sees references the discoveries of a group of under-recognized female astronomers that worked at the Harvard Observatory in the late 1800s, known as the 'Harvard Computers'. These women made significant impacts in the field of astronomy by setting up classification systems that are still used today to measure the distance, heat and chemical content of stars. Halloran identified specific glass plates that the women studied which serve as a reference and inspiration for her own large-scale paintings on film and cyanotypes on paper, creating a poetic galaxy of forgotten feminist histories. 

UNTITLED. San Francisco

The Palace of Fine Arts | Booth C23

3601 Lyon Street

Press / VIP Preview: 

Thursday, January 11th, 3-9 PM

Open to the Public: 

Friday, January 12th, 12-8 PM

Saturday, January 13th, 12-8 PM

Sunday, January 14th, 12-6 PM 

For previews, sales inquiries, or questions, please contact: gallery@luisdejesus.com.