So I guess the Program 12 exhibition in Los Angeles is actually happening. My work was sent by FedEx last night and should have arrived this morning. Though the show has been loosely planned for a while, I was not given actual dates in time to get a plane ticket at a reasonable cost, so I won’t be able to attend the show.

I will be exhibiting a total of 13 photos in two groups. This is the first time I’ve exhibited the utility box photos, which I’ve been working on for the past year. All of these images were taken in Irvine, within a few miles of the house I grew up in. Once you notice these boxes, the visible landscape turns out to be littered with them.

Below are the instructions for how the work will be installed. If you get a chance to see the show, let me know how they did hanging them.

Utility Boxes: Irvine (1). (vertical grouping)

Utility Boxes: Irvine (2). (horizontal grouping)

By the way, those are the titles. Vertical photos are 329 x 447mm (13 x 17.625 in.), horizontal photos are 329 x 440mm (13 x 17.325 in.). Currently, these are groupings, and should be labeled as such. The overall dimensions of the vertical group (1) is 1.24 x 1.59m (49 x 62.625 in.) The photos are digital inkjet prints on plastic and mounted on T-pins and floating from the wall.

Individual photos can be referred to as attributes of the whole using the following syntax: “Utility Boxes: Irvine (2)(3)” would be the third photo from the left in the horizontal group. “Utility Boxes: Irvine (1)(5)” refers to the center photo of the vertical group.

Other artists in the show include Gilbert Flores, Heins Kim and Rojelio Cabral. Gilbert, Heins and I were in 581, all four of us went to Art Center in Pasadena and now live and work in New York City.