Artbound

- Season 2

(2013)

This episode begins at the Mission of San Luis Obispo with members of the San Luis Obispo orchestra performing mission period music arranged by historian and composer Craig Russell. Next, the show explores the work of photographer Mike Miller whose iconic photos of 1990s West Coast hip-hop became genre and generation defining. Heading to Riverside County, the third segment features a guided tour of the Twentynine Palms Marine Base, where artist Hillary Mushkin leads a group "draw-in" as part of her Incendiary traces project, which reflects on the militarized landscape...

Episode Two begins in with artist Nery Gabriel Lemus who draws inspiration from his experiences as a social worker, creating art that comments on race, gender, and domestic abuse. Then in East Los Angeles, artist Shizu Saldamando's paintings explore a punk rock, Chicano/a subculture. Her work begins by photographing her subjects in their natural environments such as backyard parties in East LA, then she paints those works on various surfaces: tablecloths, wood, skin (as tattoos). Artbound then travels to the streets of Melrose to uncover the history of LA's street art...

Episode three begins in Los Angeles where Alexandra Grant constructs a large-scale, site-specific work at 18th Street Arts Center based on an ongoing exchange with the iconic French author, poet, playwright and philosopher Hélène Cixous. Artbound then heads to Riverside, where the exhibit Geographies of Detention: From Guantánamo to the Golden Gulag offers a nuanced investigation into incarceration and its architectures. The exhibit features artists Sandow Birk, Alyse Emdur, and Richard Ross, each of whom explores different aspects of imprisonment. Returning to Los ...