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Author: Jaushua Rombaoa

Jaushua Rombaoa is Associate Director of ROSEGALLERY in Santa Monica. He has worked as a Curatorial Assistant at the Museum of Art & History in Lancaster CA and as Curatorial Intern at the de Young Museum in San Francisco. His work has been published in the Fine Arts Museums of San Francisco’s ‘de Young Museum 125’. Along with his professional endeavors, Jaushua continues to develop his curatorial and artistic practices.
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We Vessels of Existence: Jesse Mockrin at Night Gallery

  • by Jaushua Rombaoa
  • Posted on June 23, 2022June 23, 2022

Religious images question the multifaceted nature of human lives.

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New voices on West Coast art: exhibition reviews, artist interviews, and more

  • Love Letter to Ben Cuevas
    by Jaelynn Walls
    August 11, 2022
    Fiber sculptures explore gendered constructs, feminist ideologies, and the restraints of the body.
  • VW Sticker Contest!
    by Variable West
    August 8, 2022
    We're making stickers and want your art!
  • The Casual Intimacy of Women Caring for Women: Anne Buckwalter at Friends Indeed and Rebecca Camacho Presents
    by Danica Sachs
    August 4, 2022
    In the two-venue exhibition, Buckwalter’s domestic scenes have a revolutionary proposition: what would a world of care and support for the needs of all women look like?
  • The Power of Discrete Things: Ricki Dwyer at Anglim/Trimble in San Francisco
    by Maddie Klett
    July 29, 2022
    Ricki Dwyer's vast textiles and small sculptures examine the gravity of human relationships.
  • An Invitation Into Intimacy 
    by Luiza Lukova
    July 26, 2022
    Stelo + Variable West Art Writing Resident Lusi Lukova considers the radical potential for care in text-based art.
  • Traveling West: Art and Cars in the 2022 Whitney Biennial
    by Brandon Sward
    July 19, 2022
    LA-based artists bring West Coast car culture to New York City.
  • John Baldessari and Bad Photography
    by Natalie Krick
    July 14, 2022
    Seattle-based photographer Natalie Krick on making her own rules about good photography.
  • Flirting With the Uncontrollable: Peter Gronquist at Winston Wächter Fine Art in Seattle
    by Sharon Arnold
    July 7, 2022
    Felted wool, steel, river rocks, and sound combine to illustrate the vulnerability of all life.
  • An Endless Pursuit to Describe the World in Watercolor
    by Alexa Grambush
    June 29, 2022
    Artist Alexa Grambush uses painting to understand the world and its complexities.
  • We Vessels of Existence: Jesse Mockrin at Night Gallery
    by Jaushua Rombaoa
    June 23, 2022
    Religious images question the multifaceted nature of human lives.
  • A person with long brown hair and markings all over their face, representing the plans of a plastic surgeon, lifts their cheeks with their hands. The words "Make Me Look Natural" are above their face in paint.
    Who Do I Think I Am? Lynn Hershman Leeson at Altman Siegel
    by Max Blue
    June 7, 2022
    A multi-media artist on the West Coast gets up close and personal with their viewers, unsettling the notion of a fixed identity.
  • Balancing Buoyancy and Desolation: Emily Kepulis at Lolo Pass
    by Jeff Alessandrelli
    May 31, 2022
    A painter meditates on the impending and preventable horror of environmental destruction.
  • On a wall, overlapping sheets of paper with sketches of hands—clutched together, held, curled closed—are pinned.
    Support, Opportunity, and Liberation: Month of Sundays at Eugene Contemporary Art
    by Chelsea Couch
    May 26, 2022
    An ambitious group exhibition steps in to show the world that liberation requires both trouble and quietude.
  • A painting with surreal, hyper-saturated colors of a group of young women, sitting on pedestals, some wearing crows. Behind them, an enormous US flag waves in the wind.
    Surreal Society: Marika Thunder Interviewed
    by Kathy Battista
    May 19, 2022
    Class, tradition, gender roles, race, and celebrity take center stage in Marika Thunder's exhibition at de boer gallery in Los Angeles
  • Asian Futures, With Asians: Astria Suparak and Everything Everywhere All at Once
    by May Maylisa Cat
    May 17, 2022
    May Maylisa Cat considers how Asian people and cultures have been continuously erased from film and TV.
  • In the bottom of the frame, multiple individuals in a dark room hole up their phones to take photos of a painting of a person's face projected on a far wall.
    Immersive Frida Kahlo & Starbucks Unicorn Frappuccino
    by Renée Reizman
    May 12, 2022
    What do blockbuster immersive art exhibits and junk food have in common?
  • an ellipse followed by an exclamation point in a bold black font.
    Aaron Shurin’s Poetic Punctuation
    by Douglas Weissman
    May 10, 2022
    A writer discusses how an unlikely combination of punctuation changed his writing forever.
  • Sponsored Connection | Christine Miller: Syrup on Watermelon at Portland Art Museum Reviewed
    by Ruby Joy White
    May 5, 2022
    Portland artist Christine Miller turns historical racist imagery into tools for Black liberation and love.
  • Sponsored Connection | Diedrick Brackens & D’Angelo Lovell Williams: The Quick at lumber room Reviewed
    by Ella Ray
    May 5, 2022
    Two artists collaborate to explore kinship, multigenerational learning, and community.
  • Mixed Feelings for Strange Fruit: Genevieve Gaignard at Vielmetter Los Angeles
    by Gabrielle Lawrence
    May 3, 2022
    A daring but imperfect exhibition challenges notions of racism and colorism.
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