Episode 44: Joe Yorty

Today’s guest is Joe Yorty, artist and co-founder of Best Practice, an alternative art space in San Diego. Joe discusses his background in the Navy, his art practice and the work he is doing with Best Practice which he co-runs with his fellow co-founder, Allie Mundt.

The current show at Best Practice is titled Rosas y Nopales, featuring work by Armando De La Torre. It runs through November 16, 2019. Visit their website at practicebest.org for more information. You can also follow them on Instagram @bestpracticeok.

JOE YORTY
(photo credit – Noé Olivas)
JOE YORTY
Works installed in the MCASD exhibition Being Here with You/ Estando aquí contigo; 42 Artists from San Diego and Tijuana
September 20, 2018 – February 3, 2019
Allie Mundt & Joe Yorty
Cofounders of Best Practice
JOSH TONIES
Songs and Views of the Holocene Garden
installed at Best Practice from February 9 – March 9, 2019
CHANTAL WNUK
I Dreamt of a Perfect Ocean, I Dreamt of Stepping in a Hole
installed at Best Practice from May 4 – June 1, 2019

Episode 36: Omar Lopex

It is Oscars week and so my guest today is Omar Lopex, a local San Diego video artist and now filmmaker. Omar came onto the podcast to discuss his first feature length film titled “Ana, Who They Pulled Out of the River”. We also discuss his previous work which employed analog formats including: wet-plate photography & 16mm / Super 8 film and has exhibited at the San Diego Art Institute, LOW Gallery, La Jolla Athenaeum, San Diego Museum of Art, Oceanside Museum of Art, and Santa Monica Museum of Art.

To learn more about Omar and his work visit his production studio website at www.standardfantastic.com.

You can also visit here to view some of his previous work.

  • Omar Lopex on set. (Image credit: Adrienne Joy)
  • Omar Lopex filming (Image credit: Adrienne Joy)
  • Omar on the set of “The Glorious Hole”, 2016 (Image cred. Matthew Herbert)
  • Still from “So, I was a Child”, 2018
  • Still from “Ana, Who Was Pulled from the River”
  • Still from “Ana, Who Was Pulled from the River”
  • Omar Lopex (Image credit: Tayo Oyekan)

Episode 17: Noé Olivas #2

This week we checked back in with San Diego artist Noé Olivas, who just recently finished an artist residency at the San Diego Art Institute (SDAI) and discussed the residency itself as well as the show that came out of it titled la/el/ellas/ellos/usted quinceañera/o. Noé also shares with us the topics and themes that led to the project. We then briefly discussed his recent feature in the San Diego Union Tribune which be read here.

la/el/ellas/ellos/usted quinceañera/o will be on exhibit til May 3, 2017 at the SDAI Project Space at Horton Plaza in San Diego, CA. To learn more about la/el/ellas/ellos/usted quinceañera/o visit Noé’s website at www.noeolivas.com. You can also follow Noé on Instagram at @calmatetupedo.

Thanks to Richie Cunning (@richiecunning) for providing the intro music.

Episode 5: Noé Olivas

San Diego artist Noé Olivas talks to Louis about his ongoing project “Untitled Space,” an old Chevy bread truck that he’s turned into a mobile sculpture piece. He also discusses how his work investigates the Mexican-American identity while also highlighting the relationship between labor and leisure.To learn more about Noe, visit his website at noeolivas.com. Also follow Noe & his Untitled Space project on Instagram at @calatetupedo & @rollingsculpture.

New intro music by local Bay Area artist, Richie Cunning.