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CHARRETTE
Shagha Ariannia, Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack, Thomas Linder, Mike Nesbit, Jenny Rask, 2019
Los Angeles, CA

An architecture of complexity and accommodation does not forsake the whole.  In fact, I have referred to a special obligation toward the whole because the whole is difficult to achieve.  And I have emphasized the goal of unity rather than of simplification in art “whose…truth [is] in its totality.” 

- Robert Venturi, Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture (New York: The Museum of Modern Art, 1966) 88.
 
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MN:  Hey, how does everyone feel about calling the show Charrette?
SA:  Is that the thing u were explaining earlier?
MN:  Types into google…   
 
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SA:  Do people think of it automatically as conflict?
MN:  No they don’t, or shouldn’t within this context.
MN:  Sends wikipedia link …
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TL:  Seems like it’s a positive thing, about problem solving.
SA:  “…The word charrette may refer to any collaborative session in which a group of designers drafts a solution to a design problem.” Cool, do we have any other options?  Just brainstorming here, I’m ok with this one just don’t know how to pronounce it lol…
MN:  Ha, yeah damn French words.
TL:  It goes well with Shagha … Shagha Charrette, name change.
SA:  We came up with – charrette nights’ aka Club Shagha, lol Thomas :)) I’m on board with giving up my club name and sticking to Charrette :))
DL:  Think it will get confused with Charades?
​SA:
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Photos Courtesy of Taiyo Watanabe
GAME DAY: A happening by Tomas Koolhaas:
Video Courtesy of Tomas Koolhaas
GAME DAY by Tomas Koolhaas:
Video Courtesy of Tomas Koolhaas

About the Artists:
Shagha Ariannia is an interdisciplinary visual artist who was born in 1984, in Tehran, Iran. Her work has been exhibited at 18th Street Art Center, KCHUNG TV as part of Made.In.LA 2014, Commonwealth and Council, Art Platform, Co/lab and the Torrance Art Museum, all in Los Angeles, and at the Galarie der Hochschule in Braunschweig, Germany. Ariannia holds a MFA from CalArts and a BA from the University of California, Irvine.
www.shaghaariannia.com

Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack's performances are concerned with ideas of hierarchy, Negro Formalism, and dissociation. He applies installation and destruction in his art as an aesthetic technique for creating new forms of perception related to disorder in society, trafficking bodies and economic crisis. His own paintings and ready-mades become material for the installations that Gaitor-Lomack uses or destroys during his performances, challenging the value of time-honored beliefs that art must be an intrinsically stable aesthetic object. 
www.danieltgaitorlomack.com

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Thomas Linder’s artistic process as a sculptor utilizes wood and fiberglass to create paintings and modular sculptures that interact with their setting’s light sources to activate, reflect, and project translucent planes of color. ​Linder’s recent body of work explores the imagery of his past in the Midwest with materials and colors of Southern California. ​Thomas Linder was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota in 1986. He lives and works in Los Angeles, California and is the co-founder of BBQLA.
www.thomaslinder.com

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Mike Nesbit is a fine artist based in Los Angeles.  With a background in architecture, his multidisciplinary trajectory greatly informs his artwork, allowing Nesbit to explore areas between art and architecture with a focus on technique, repetition, and representation. Nesbit has participated in solo and group shows throughout the United States.  He received a Bachelor of Architecture from the Southern California Institute of Architecture in Los Angeles and played four years of professional baseball with the Seattle Mariners.
www.mikenesbit.com
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Jenny Rask is a multidisciplinary artist who began her creative career as a graphic and motion designer from MTV and VH1.  She received her BA from the University of Oregon in 1993 and is currently an MFA candidate in sculpture at California State University, Long Beach.  Rask has an intimate fascination with materiality and form.  Her studio practice includes a mixture of sculpture, installation, ceramics, drawing, and photography.  Rask's creative process uses an economy of material; discarded urban, textile, and natural waste fround in the surrounding areas of Los Angeles.

www.jennyrask.com
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  • ABOUT
    • BOARD OF DIRECTORS
    • THE SPACE
  • EXHIBITIONS
    • SEASON 8 (2025) >
      • PICTURES OF NOTHING
    • SEASON 7 (2024) >
      • THE SILENCE OF LIGHT
      • SEASONS
      • HOME ON THE RANGE
      • DE STIJL TRANS AM
      • SITE WORK
      • FOR RICHER, FOR POORER
      • MATTER SHIFTING SHAPE
    • SEASON 6 (2023) >
      • OPEN STUDIO V
      • NEBRASKAFLAT
      • WORDS HAVE GONE TO SLEEP INSIDE...
      • EN SILENCIO
      • SHOW AND GO
      • OPEN STUDIO IV
      • POST FACADE
      • GANDZASAR AT HIGHLAND
    • SEASON 5 (2022) >
      • WHO KNOWS WHAT WILL HAPEN
      • VENTURING MIDWEST
      • OPEN STUDIO III
      • BROKE EVEN WHEN I BET THE FIELD
      • HARMONY AND DISSONANCE
      • OPEN STUDIO II
      • THE FADE
      • SPIRALING SOLITUDE
      • IMPROVISE
      • OPEN STUDIO
    • SEASON 4 (2021) >
      • Automatic Composition
      • This Will Get Us Somewhere
      • CRUISE CONTROL
      • Off Alondra and Hickory
      • DIG
      • Unfamiliar Appearing
      • Floral Rodeo
      • Shiny Side Up
      • Expecting Snow
      • FORWARD
    • SEASON 3 (2020) >
      • EMPTY SPACES
      • Winter Saturdays are for Spring
      • A High Disregard
      • Between the Void
      • 12:38
      • Precarious as Obtained by Entreaty or Prayer
      • A Morning in Little Italy
      • Past Grounded in Nature
      • Silence and Intimacy
      • Highway Hypnosis
      • Between Nonchalant and Relaxed
      • The Fickle Crowd
      • High Peak Monocacy
      • 251,000 Trees
      • Textured Sound
      • The Room and The Landscape
      • VERNACULAR
      • MOVEMENTS
    • SEASON 2 (2019) >
      • FOUNDATION DRAWINGS
      • DANIEL IN OMAHA
      • SHED
      • Little Italy Abstracts
      • CHARRETTE
      • The Hand and The Arm
      • A Surfer's Time
      • Los Angeles Sunsets and Quiet Landscapes
      • Perspective BLUE
      • No Road Most Traveled
      • POST-NOVIS
      • Pairings
    • SEASON 1 (2017-2018) >
      • KATHY
      • Above The Silos
      • THE BLUES
      • To Be Pigeon Holed
      • The Fool's Journey
      • Wall Assembly
      • The Map and its Porcelain Goat
      • Loose Landing
      • Long Ago, Far Away
      • Victories Over The Sun & Campus Stories
      • Perspective Flood
      • Falling Vertical
      • Textured Blue
      • FLOOD
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