Studio 203 is pleased to present new works by Los Angeles-based artist Hector O. Hernandez in My America Is Not Your America. This exhibition is a visual timeline that shares Hernandez’s renderings of current events. Through printmaking, drawing, sculpture, and a community-based art project, My America is one artist’s response to the deeply distressing events currently affecting our community.
About Studio 203
Studio 203 is an artist-run space in Los Angeles. Located in a unique commercial building, the Studio operates as a white-walled gallery in the front and a working studio in the back. Our vision is to support fellow artists by providing an affordable platform in Los Angeles to help them follow their dreams. We collaborate with forward-thinking individuals to create exhibitions, host workshops and shape culture. Founded by Aneesa and Grant Zizzo, and is the current site of Aneesa Shami Studio.
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About Hector O. Hernandez
Hector O. Hernandez was born and raised in South LA by two Mexican-born parents. He grew up gravitating towards art from an early age, admiring and copying his older brother, and being interested in all kinds of visual imagery – especially video games, comics, and animation. Hernandez holds a BA in Art Practice from the University of California, Berkeley in 2009 and a MFA in Drawing & Printmaking from Washington State University, Pullman in 2011. He has organized and taught introductory printmaking workshops under Aguacate Press at the Hawthorne Arts Complex since 2016. Hernandez is currently living and making art in Los Angeles, CA.
www.hectoromarhernandez.com/
@hector.o.h
@aguacate.press
