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The Eastern Star Gallery presents our first show of the school year, Night Shift - Time Shift - Light Shift. This show features the work of two Los Angeles based artists, Anna Liza De Leon Evangelista and Joey Scher. The intersection of their practice meets at a place of critique.  Scher presents five videos dissecting the institution and the Eurocentric history of art making whereas Anna Liza’s work aims to reclaim the colloquial term 'Filipino Time.' She believes the solar calendar precedes the Gregorian calendar and uses the sun to measure time reflected on her brown body.

  Anna Liza De Leon Evangelista is a Filipino-American artist from Van Nuys living and working in Los Angeles. Anna Liza attended The School of the Art Institute of Chicago for her BFA.  She is now a graduate student at Loyola Marymount University in the Marriage and Family Therapy / Art Therapy Program. In these selected works, Anna Liza explores how the acronym CPT, which stands for 'Colored People Time,' is interchangeable with the phrase 'Colonized People Time.'  Through processes like tracing shadows and sun-bleaching brown construction paper, Anna Liza is not only manipulating tangible material, she is also actively considering the duration in which paper fades, the size and direction a shadow tells one about time, and how her skin gets darker when working in the sun. 

Joey Sher is  a cook, artist, and educator based in Los Angeles.  The work featured in this show is from her time at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. These videos are expressions of the comedy/tragedy trope. She uses the concept of humor to dissect and critique academic institutions and the Eurocentric history of art making. Joey currently throws food pop ups, teaches Photoshop at New Roads School, and makes jewelry for her business Joey Shares.