ECHO ECHO (CULT Bureau, Oakland)
Rachel Bridges and Ivan Bridges
March 2 - August 5, 2023
Artist Reception: Thursday, March 2, 6-8 PM
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CULT Aimee Friberg is pleased to present Echo Echo, a two-person exhibition of works by Los Angeles based artists Rachel Bridges and Ivan Bridges. Echo Echo opens on March 2 and runs through August 5th, 2023, with an artist reception on March 2 from 6-8 PM. Echo Echo is located at CULT’s space in Oakland’s Temescal Alley: CULT Bureau (482-D 49th Street).
Rachel and Ivan Bridges share a studio in Los Angeles, and in Echo Echo reflect on their mutual influence and support. This exhibition showcases new works on canvas by both Rachel Bridges and Ivan Bridges.
Rachel Bridges is a first generation Filipino American artist born in San Francisco, California. Her work addresses themes of collective memory, death, transcendence, and trauma. Bridges’ large scale paintings reference lesser told historical narratives and her own familial origins, especially the impact of Colonialism. She utilizes a rigorous application of dense oil paint to infuse emotion and ethos, depicting strong heroines and figures caught in challenging moments of transformation and defiance. Bridges infuses her paintings with ancient spiritualism and ideology from indigenous cultures of her matrilineal line.
Ivan Bridges makes cinematically-inspired paintings that showcase raw emotion though the least gestures possible. The paintings play on the boundary between familiar and unfamiliar, utilizing false narrative and a fictionalized appropriation of images from a variety of sources including cult cinema, literature, Instagram screenshots, AI, and fashion. Bridges seeks out the uncanny— images that elicit a strong emotional response, evoking themes of addiction, desire, memory and control.
Rachel Bridges' work has appeared in group exhibitions in Los Angeles at Sade, Tlaloc Studios, Spring Break Art Fair and at Vama Gallery at Los Angeles City College, and as a solo exhibition at Sade Gallery in 2022. Bridges earned a BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute in 2011.
Ivan Bridges was born in the Pacific Northwest, and raised in New Orleans, Louisiana. His work has been exhibited at Tlaloc Studios, Spring Break Art Fair, Fun Gal, Ground Floor Contemporary and Sade, where he also had a solo exhibition in 2021. Bridges studied at the Chelsea School of Art in London in 2009 and earned a BFA from San Francisco Art Institute in 2011.
Image credits: (from left) Rachel Bridges, Concealed / Burned, 2022, Acrylic, oil, and oil pastel on canvas, 56 x 40 inches; Ivan Bridges, Lavender, 2022, Oil, acrylic, oil stick on canvas, 26 x 20 inches
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JESSICA JANE CHARLESTON: Nightsong
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ANNA SIDANA: Sentient Colorations
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NICKI GREEN: Eye of the Fountain
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AMY NATHAN: Compass Rose Hips
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RUXUE ZHANG: Alien Life
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Last Light: Luz Carabaño, Sophronia Cook, Cross Lypka, and Aidan Koch
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ECHO ECHO: Rachel Bridges and Ivan Bridges at CULT Bureau, Oakland
March 2 - August 5, 2023
RHONDA HOLBERTON: Two Handfuls Of Silver Dust
April 27 - June 17, 2023
LEGACY: Binta Ayofemi, Adrian L. Burrell, Rachel Bridges, Ivan Bridges, Masako Miki, and Jean Isamu Nagai
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ZHIVAGO DUNCAN: Measuring Consciousness
September 15 - December 10, 2022
CULT Bureau: Gaze Interrupted
September 17 - November 19, 2022
AMY NATHAN: Slipknot Loophole
May 14 - August 26, 2022
REBEKAH GOLDSTEIN: Welcome Home Stranger
March 19 - May 7, 2022
Sapiens / Stories at CULT Bureau
November 10, 2021 - April 30, 2022
Physics & Fiction
January 20 - March 12, 2022
CHRIS FALLON: Irresistible Deception
October 15 - December 18, 2021
Sapiens / Stories on 8-Bridges
October 7 - November 3, 2021
MASAKO MIKI: New Mythologies
June 16 - October 12, 2021
Tales of Metamorphosis: Rebekah Goldstein, James Perkins, and Amy Nathan
June 3 - 30, 2021
Janus II - CULT's 7 Year Anniversary Exhibition
April 9 - May 20, 2021
TROY CHEW: Yadadamean
October 17 - December 12, 2020
We’re all in this together
August 14 - October 10, 2020
Beyond Words
June 26 - August 29, 2020
Ritual of Succession
January 10 - March 28, 2020
Record of Succession at fused space
January 13 - March 27, 2020
AMY NATHAN: Glyph Slipper
September 13 - December 7, 2019
FEMALE TROUBLE 2
June 28 - August 3, 2019
RUXUE ZHANG
April 20 - June 15, 2019
MASAKO MIKI: Shapeshifters
January 12 - March 23, 2019
JASKO BEGOVIC (SKO HABIBI): HUMAN_E.T.
November 30 - December 14, 2019
REBEKAH GOLDSTEIN: See You On The Flipside
September 8 - November 25, 2018
FEMALE TROUBLE
June 9 - July 28, 2018
TERRI LOEWENTHAL: Psychscapes
March 2 - May 19, 2018
VECINOS
October 27, 2017 - January 20, 2018
RHONDA HOLBERTON: Still Life
January 10 – March 4, 2017
REBEKAH GOLDSTEIN: Release Me
October 21 - December 10, 2016
NO SHOW MUSEUM: Yves Klein, Maria Eichhorn, Daniel Knorr, Etc.
One Night Only: Monday, October 17, 2016
DESIRÉE HOLMAN: Selected Works
September 17 - October 8, 2016
SHE MOONAGE DAYDREAM:
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PABLO DÁVILA: Ladies & Gentlemen,
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May 13 - July 9, 2016
MASAKO MIKI: Conversations with Fox, Feather, and Ghost
March 4 - April 30, 2016
SUZY POLING: Total Internal Reflection
January 15 - February 27, 2016
DAN GLUIBIZZI: You Don’t Have to be Alone Tonight
November 6 – December 19, 2015
FRANCESCO IGORY DEIANA: Haptic Render
September 11- October 31, 2015
SEXXXITECTURE: Daniel Gerwin, Rebekah Goldstein,
Roman Liška, Max Maslansky, May Wilson & Jake Ziemann
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ADAM SORENSEN: In Situ
May 1 - June 27, 2015
KLARA KÄLLSTRÖM & THOBIAS FÄLDT: Village / High Hills
February 27 - April 25, 2015
PRINCE RAMA: How To Live Forever
January 25 – February 21, 2015
JOSEPH DUMBACHER & JOHN DUMBACHER: Divert (Out of Line)
November 7, 2014 – January 16, 2015
REBEKAH GOLDSTEIN: Passenger
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A PATTERN LANGUAGE: Michelle Grabner, Angie Wilson & Lena Wolff
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MICHELLE BLADE: Gathering Into Being
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MIGUEL ARZABE: /*Reject Algorithms*/
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JACQUELINE KIYOMI GORDON: Drawings
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FRITZ CHESNUT: Purr Valley
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UNSEEN: Miya Ando, Miguel Arzabe, Chris Duncan, Klea Mckenna & Dean Smith
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Past Off-Site Exhibitions
RHONDA HOLBERTON: Still Life 2
April 7 - May 26, 2018
LAS COSAS QUE PINTAN / PAINTING IN AN EXPANSIVE FIELD
Works by Miguel Arzabe & Juan Sorrentino
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EBB: Gina Borg and Chris Russell at Loczi Design
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