Anansi and Salima sit cross legged in the sunny grass after days of intense rain. They sip on butterfly pea flower tea across from each other.
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Can machine learning algorithms accurately reproduce the subtle nuance of emotional expression present in traditional dance forms? This is just one of the questions artist, performer, data scientist, and tech entrepreneur Faith "Aya" Umoh explores in her technological-meets-anthropological Level Ground residency show. Raised in Miami in a Nigerian-American family, Aya earned a Master's from Boston University in Biostatistics and Public Health, and she's on a mission to use AI to tell stories in ways that we rarely see.
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For artist Gemma Jimenez, moving through Los Angeles is not a passive act.
The person who commutes by bus for hours each day to clean houses for work will experience a much different Los Angeles then the person who drives from their house, to work, in their Tesla.
That's the crux of Jimenez’s first solo show at NAVEL, ‘From A to B and Everything in Between.’
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Level Ground Collective Artist Chance Calloway is a limitless talent—as a screenwriter, author, director and musician, his artistry and the influences that have shaped it are staggering.
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Painter, musician, curator and all-around creative Langston Alimayu is chiefly concerned with honesty—in creativity, in community building, and within the art world as a whole. A self-taught native of Los Angeles, Langston pours that very energy of jovial, whimsical originality into every piece of work they bring to life.
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Level Ground staff artist Rebekah Mei—a mother, sister, daughter, activist and familial archivist—is in an active state of creative unification. Unification, that is, in the linkages between lineage and domestic life, matriarchy and art, and feminine labor and motherhood.
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Writer. Actress. Filmmaker. No single label can constrain the artistic expression of Angeleno artist, Jade Phoenix. Now Jade is taking on the role of director in her newest short film JAMIE, about a transgender Filipinx woman who comes to reconcile with her family on the night of Manny Pacquiao’s last fight. Is there anything more Filipino or femme queer rage than the boxing ring?
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