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After the success of the inaugural There Goes the Neighborhood, a group exhibition that coincided with sixspace's move from downtown to Culver City in 2005, we decided to make it an annual event. In its first installment, TGTN was intended to celebrate and introduce the gallery to its new arts district. As the series continues, the goal of TGTN is to discover and promote new artists in an unconstrained manner. Therefore, There Goes the Neighborhood: Part Deux follows this same premise - an un-curated exhibition debuting five artists, featuring differing mediums and concepts, who have never before shown at sixspace.

Christofer Chin/Tofer (lives Los Angeles, CA)
Rooted in stenciling and street art, Christofer Chin's paintings depict abstracted landscapes and fantasy environments. Blurring the line between nature and architecture, Chin's rendering of the landscape is represented by geometric shapes of color that create a parallel to the shapes inherent in architecture. With the primary aesthetic influence being an "altered state of consciousness" combined with usage of unnatural vibrant colors and the geometrical devices, the paintings give off a psychedelic dream-like quality where abstract shapes become mountains, roller coast tracks, or large zig-zag lines transform into tree leaves.

Christofer Chin received his BFA from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles in 2002 and was included in Otis' 2006 exhibition Otis LA: Nine Decades of Los Angeles Art at the LA Municipal Art Gallery, Barnsdall Park. Chin has exhibited his work in galleries in Los Angeles, San Francisco, Brooklyn, Melbourne (Australia), and Barcelona (Spain). A book of his photography, Finger Bang!, was released in 2006 with book signings at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles and POP in Sao Paulo, Brazil. Publications such as the Los Angeles Times, Anthem Magazine, Nylon, and Rojo Magazine have featured his work. Chin is featured on the cover in the November issue of Flaunt Magazine.

Summer Cooper (lives Los Angeles, CA)
Summer Cooper's graphite and charcoal on paper pieces depict constructed moments of nature and landscape. With images gathered from sources such as the news, travel magazines, and nature programs combined with material pulled from her personal family archive, Cooper pieces together a hybrid space that exists somewhere between fantasy and reality. These landscapes are often inhabited by stray human figures (the nomad, the explorer, the traveler) who have wandered into this artificial scene. Creating a safe distance between the landscape and the viewer in an almost theatrical way Cooper says, "I find myself hovering between the role of the journalist, gathering information which is then formed in to a cohesive unit, and the failed composer of an orchestral symphony in which the individual units of a song don’t quite add up."

Summer Cooper is currently in the BFA program at the Art Center College of Art and Design, Pasadena.

David Lloyd (lives Los Angeles, CA)
David Lloyd's works include an array of mediums creating figures, text, formulas, and grids that punctuate, connect, and divide the image plane. Expansive and engaging, these works combine nature with science and images with text in such a way that the eye roves and darts between the dispersed scenes. His combination of words, collage, drawing, painting, and paper mounted onto large-scale panels have a solid base in his previous abstract paintings. Lloyd's transition to the narrative creates a sweeping composition where one can read the depicted elements like a complete sentence. In an upcoming feature in H2O Magazine Alex Weinstein states, "…these works have a cartographic quality that suggest multiple views. They are at once outsider/insider; microscopic and macroscopic. Known and unknown."

David Lloyd received his MFA from the California Institute of the Arts (1982-1985). He has held exhibitions in Los Angeles, Sao Paulo, New York, Washington DC including solo shows at Margo Leavin Gallery and group exhibitions at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (American Drawings Since 1960: Selections from the Collection) and Newport Harbor Art Museum. Publications that have written about his work include the Los Angeles Times, LA Weekly, New York Times, The Surfer’s Journal, Artweek and the upcoming issue of H2O Magazine features the article “Metaplasmic: the Art of David Lloyd” by Alex Weinstein.

Asuka Ohsawa (lives Brooklyn, NY)
Asuka Ohsawa's goauche on paper pieces deal with contrasts. With a basic clean line as well as immensely detailed elements (fabrics, hair, garments) she weaves together a narrative that mixes the absurd with reality and the naughty with sweetness. Influenced by both Japanase woodcuts and giga (meaning "humorous pictures") she largely features animals as main characters projected into very human environments. Ohsawa's new work includes people interacting with her anthropomorphic characters and this juxtaposes the tension and bonding between the differing species. She utilizes storybook characters such as Snow White to ground the viewer in something familiar before she dismantles our perceived reality and confronts us with social issues.

Asuka Ohsawa (born Torrance, CA) received her MFA from the School of the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in 2002 and her BA from California State University, Long Beach in 1998. Her work has been shown in New York, San Francisco, Boston, and will be included in the Traveling Scholars Exhibition at the Museum of Fine Arts, Boston in early 2007. Ohsawa's work has been reviewed and featured in Artweek, New York Times, Art on Paper, and the Boston Globe.

Hilary Wilder (lives Brooklyn, NY)
Hilary Wilder's work revises mundane personal narratives, investing them with a sense of drama and importance by making reference to Victorian design strategies, contemporary decorative motifs, and the history of painting. Through fictional constructed composite narratives, Wilder exposes and blurs the boundaries of the personal and historical - a recent series explored how the ideal/romanticized of certain people, places, lifestyles, and aesthetics highlights the dullness of our own everyday existence. Her acrylic paintings can be based both from photographs and from pure imagination. In this way, they are constructed similarly to memories as they conflate known facts with what wishes to be true.

Hilary Wilder received her MA and MFA from the University of Wisconsin, Madison in 2000 and 2001 respectively. In 2004 she completed prestigious CORE Program at the Glassell School of Art, Museum of Fine Arts in Houston, Texas. Recent solo exhibitions include Courting Disaster at the Atlanta Contemporary Art Center and Sail to Bequia, Evening at Turtle Dove in Houston. This year Wilder was also a recipient for the John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship.