James Coquia; Refuse, Residues and the Useless

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Old Crow Tattoo and Gallery is honored to be showing the new art works of James Coquia in his debut Oakland solo show titled "Refuse, Residues and the Useless." This exhibition marks James' second showing with the gallery; his vision will be expanded to include an outdoor large scale scupltural installation as well as various new artworks inside the gallery. Covering a range of mediums and disciplines James Coquia's art will live inside and outside of the gallery untill September 8th join us for the opening repception on August 18th.

Artist Statement: I explore the ways in which every aspect of a life lived creatively can be considered and incorporated into an artistic practice. Where daily customs, cleansing and harvesting rituals, consumption, masturbation, trauma, collecting, taxonomy, architecture, habitation and subsistence are platforms of pertinent and relevant inquiry.

I look for beauty where there typically is none, mining for it in refuse, residues and the useless. I am drawn to and seek to sublimate the anomalous, uncanny and ugly. At the hub of my making, is the generation, cultivation, mediation and accumulation of objects that are sympathetic with temporality, and largely, investigate the discourse between the immutable and fleeting. Utilizing whatever is at hand, I re-create personal moments that offer a window into what it means to inhabit this body, this time, this place.

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