Depicting Capitalism and Displacement
In Conversation: Trenton Brown, William Camargo, and Valerie Mendoza
Monday, November 30, 2020
6:00 - 7:30 PM PST
On Monday, November 30th from 6:00 - 7:30 PM PST SF Camerawork and friends were joined for a conversation with FORECAST 2020 artists Trenton Brown, William Camargo, and Valerie Mendoza. The three artists spoke about their individual work and addressed themes of gentrification, displacement and the commercialized image.
ABOUT TRENTON BROWN
Trenton Brown is 23 years old, and raised in Atlanta Georgia. He was given his first camera in 2015 before attending Georgia Southern University. His work has been featured in the magazines Elegant, Féroce, Shuba, Ondine, Raw, Provacator, and Picton, and exhibited in studios internationally.
Trenton was a winner in the 2018 Atlanta Photography Group "Photo Buckhead", and shared his work Project X at the Buckhead Library. In 2019, he showcased the works Parthenon & Project X at the "56th Annual Juried Competition" at the Masur Museum in Monroe Louisiana, and the piece Wasted in "Environment Documenta," at the Millepiani in Rome Italy.
ABOUT WILLIAM CAMARGO
William Camargo is a photo-based artist, educator and arts advocate. He received his MFA at Claremont Graduate University and his BFA at the California State University, Fullerton. His work has been featured at venues such as Chicago Cultural Center (Chicago, IL), Loisaida Center (New York, NY), University of Indianapolis (Indianapolis, IN), Mexican Cultural Center and Cinematic Arts (Los Angeles, CA), and The Ethelber Cooper Gallery of African and African American Arts at Harvard University (Cambridge, MA). His work has been published in The Chicago Tribune, The Guardian, The New York Times, OC Weekly, TIME, and others.
He was awarded residencies at the Artists’ Cooperative Residency and Exhibitions (ACRE), the Chicago Artist Coalition, Project Art, and at Otis School of Art and Design’s LA Summer Program, and the 2020 Lenscratch Student Prize. He is currently the artist in residence at the Latinx Project at NYU, serving as Commissioner of Heritage and Culture for the City of Anaheim, and the founder and curator of Latinx Diaspora Archives. He works and lives in Anaheim, CA.
ABOUT VALERIE MENDOZA
Valerie Mendoza is a lens-based installation artist, writer and educator. Her work mines the intersections between history, memory, media, cultural institutions, and language, using photographs, video, audio, objects, various forms of information, and personal narrative to create cross-disciplinary dialogue between disparate sources. Her recent work, "Monument: 91 Images of One Vacant Property for Sale," "Our Agents," À Venda" ("For Sale") and "Café Espelho" ("Cafe Mirror") falls within the realm of social practice and addresses the related issues of gentrification, the speculative real estate market, and the housing crisis. A solo exhibition of her work, "O Custo de Vida" ("The Cost of Living") was featured at Galeria do Sol, Porto, Portugal, Nov. 2018. Mendoza's work has been exhibited in France, Ireland, Mexico, Portugal, and venues throughout the United States. Her practice is based in the San Francisco Bay Area where she is an Associate Professor at San José State University.
“Our Agents” is currently on view as a part of the de Young Open, de Young Museum, San Francisco, CA from 10/10/20 - 1/3/21
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