Care Is Essential - Autumn Breon & Rick Garzon (PF26)
Artist Autumn Breon joins NFTuesdayLA with gallerist Rick Garzon to discuss her multidisciplinary artistic practice that invites audiences to use care and beauty as both tools for civic engagement and antidotes to harmful systems. Her recent performance Still Here debuted at Garzon’s Residency Art Gallery and was the culmination of Breon asking Inglewood residents what they hope never changes about the city. Breon is an alumna of Stanford University where she studied Aeronautics & Astronautics and researched aeronautical astrobiology applications. She is a 2023 recipient of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart Fellowship for Abolition & the Advancement of the Creative Economy. At this NFTuesdayLA, Breon will announce her newest project for the 2024 election, The Care-Van. The evening will open with a "A Meditative Pause for the Heart," a sound meditation featuring Jenn and Mik Raibon of The Inner Victory. ABOUT AUTUMN BREON
Autumn Breon is a multidisciplinary artist that investigates the visual vocabulary of liberation through a queer Black feminist lens. Using performance, sculpture, and public installation, Breon invites audiences to examine intersectional identities and Diasporic memory.
Autumn Breon imagines her work as immersive invitations for the public to join in the reimagining and creation of systems that make current oppressive systems obsolete. Breon has created commissions for Art Production Fund, Frieze Art Fair, and the ACLU of Southern California. Breon’s performance history includes Hauser & Wirth, the Walt Disney Concert Hall, and the Water Mill Center.
She is an alumna of Stanford University where she studied Aeronautics & Astronautics and researched aeronautical astrobiology applications. Breon is a recipient of the Crenshaw Dairy Mart Fellowship for Abolition & the Advancement of the Creative Economy. ABOUT RICK GARZON
Garzon is currently the Gallery Director at Residency Art in Inglewood, CA. Born and raised in Inglewood, Garzon saw that there was a dearth of commercial art spaces in South Central that centered artists’ of color and provided a platform for their work. This led to the formation of Residency Art, which is committed to celebrating contemporary artists that continue to make projects for communities of color. Before his work in the art space, Garzon worked in advertising and media planning as Media Director at the Publicis Groupe in Los Angeles and New York. Garzon has served on the Young Professionals’ Advisory Board of InnerCity Arts and the LA County Department of Arts and Culture public art selection committees. Garzon has curated several noteworthy exhibitions including The New Contemporaries 1&2, Vaguely Political by Devin Reynolds, 1992: An Examination of the Iconography from the '92 LA Rebellion and Atmosphere of Certain Uncertainty by Devin B. Johnson. He has also led curatorial efforts for Felix Art Fair, Art Basel Miami and Our LA Voices at Grand Park.
