Jennifer West, Dawn Surf Jellybowl Film (16mm film negative sanded with surfboard shaping tools, sex wax melted on, squirted, dripped, splashed, sprayed and rubbed with donuts, zinc oxide, cuervo, sunscreen, hydrogen peroxide, tecate, sand, tar, scraped with a shark's tooth, edits made by the surf and a seal while film floated in waves- surfing performed by Andy Perry, Makela Moore, Alanna Moore, Zach Moore, Johnny McCann - shot by Peter West - film negative sanded by Mariah Csepanyi, Andy Perry and Jwest), 2011, 8 minutes, 15 seconds, Courtesy MARC FOXX

Home Show, Revisited

Piero Golia, Evan Holloway, Bettina Hubby, Florian Morlat, Kori Newkirk, Jennifer Rochlin, Ry Rocklen, Kirsten Stoltmann, Stephanie Taylor, and Jennifer West Alongside Michele O’Marah’s Video Portraits exhibition, CAF’s Executive Director and chief curator, Miki Garcia, asked O’Marah to co-curate Home Show, Revisited. For this wide-reaching program the curators invited 10

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Michele O’Marah, Pattern Piece, 2011, Mixed media installation, Dimensions variable, Commissioned by Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Courtesy the Artist. Photo: Wayne McCall

Video Portraits

Michele O’Marah presents her well-known video portraits of Los Angeles-based artists, musicians, and friends, inspired by Andy Warhol’s Screen Tests (1964-66). At CAF, O’Marah will create a full-room, multi-channel installation of these videos that reads as a larger than life portrait of her community. O’Marah's oeuvre explores the effects of

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Penelope Gottlieb, Antignon Leptopus, 2010, Acrylic and ink over Audubon print, 14 x 12 in.

Eating Apples in Paradise

Macduff Everton, Elizabeth Folk, Nancy Gifford, Penelope Gottlieb, Saul Gray-Hildenbrand, Kimberly Hahn, Cyndee Howard, Hank Pitcher, Warren Schultheis, Steven Soria, Jonny Troyna, and James Van Arsdale Santa Barbara is a paradise; Disneyland is a paradise; the U.S. is a paradise. Paradise is just paradise. Mournful, monotonous, and superficial though it

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