Mark Chamness | OUTSIDE THE MALL /  by Margaret Hernandez

The Hill Street Country Club presents OUTSIDE THE MALL, recent works by Mark Chamness.

Mark Chamness, a Californian artist based in Oceanside, is exhibiting new works in fibers and what the artist calls “discarded urban plastic” at the Hill Street Country Club from September 2nd to December 9th, 2023. Mark’s work draws from legacies of abstraction, his training as a painter and carpenter, and his daily experiences of the last several years with the ongoing Covid pandemic. 

The last three years have been a time of significant personal and cultural change. Many people have been reexamining the domestic space and reconnecting to labor-intensive hand work. Though Mark’s practice stretches back much farther than that, these new works have evolved to include new materials from 2020 onwards. While supply chain issues and shipping made some materials harder to come by, there has been no shortage of single-use plastic. Mark collects bags caught in bushes or left on the beach, cuts them into strips, and tufts the strips into his needlepoint. Each piece becomes a record of its time, incorporating the stories embedded in the environment around him.

“I deal in fragments. I love things that are stuffed in between the cracks, that are unimportant, things that are tossed aside.” - Mark Chamness

Mark lives as a carpenter by day. He started working with wood in high school and transitioned into art making as funding for woodshop started waning. He eventually entered Cal Arts as a painter in 1992. Blending these traditions is at the core of his practice and allows the work to bounce back and forth between art and craft, structural and decorative, sensual and conceptual. 

Join us for the opening reception on Sept 2nd from 5 pm to 8 pm at the Hill Street Country Club 530 South Coast Highway. Oceanside, CA, 92054.

Andrès Hernandez | Crying on The Blue Line Trolley /  by Margaret Hernandez

Crying on the Blue Line Trolley features Andrés Hernández’s first departure from illustration. It consists of analogue photography that takes from and recontextualizes the visual makeup of San Diego and Tijuana into a series of hybrid landscapes. 

They portray structures of limitation juxtaposed to structures of liberation, furthering the notion of architectural possibility as a response to architectural violence, and inviting us to consider how places existing in separate environments could somehow be unified.  

Seamlessly reframing the border wall and its adjacent fields and estuary alongside the interweaving California highway bridges, Hernández’s first U.S solo exhibition is a daring personal declaration of her commitment to vulnerability and a poetic “fuck you” to the funding and militarization of the Mexcian border.

If Crying on the Blue Line Trolley is a purely audiovisual exercise in the process of encapsulating the melancholic tenderness that lies within the zeitgeist of the border region, My Mother on the Other Side of the Pool, Calling Me Back to Her Wet Arms is her sister, a literary expansion that becomes an explicitly personal autobiography.

This nine-poem collection thrives on its honesty. Hernández narrative is not concerned with the grandiose or the particularly memorable, but rather with the unnoticed and the small. It has no other purpose than to be a diaristic retelling of the poet’s tumultuous relationship with Catholicism, emotional manipulation, sexual assault and a desire to trangress her oppressive surroundings.   

HUMANITY SHOWERS PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION /  by Margaret Hernandez

HUMANITY SHOWERS PHOTOGRAPHY EXHIBITION

The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works

by Jordan Elijah Verdin

About Humanity Showers

Humanity Showers provides FREE accessible water to the houseless community in San Diego County for hygiene care. They are located in a moving trailer creating a mobile and accessible community resource for any individuals and families use.

Janis Selby Jones I INTO THE CURRENT /  by Margaret Hernandez

INTO THE CURRENT

The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works

by Janis Selby Jones

About the Artist

Janis Selby Jones uses vivid color and familiar shapes to challenge exhibit viewers to become more aware of their role in environmental degradation. In this new Hill Street Country Club solo show, Into The Current, Jones highlights marine plastic debris found along North County San Diego shores. She creates photographs and rearranges the discarded items to tell a story of disregard...for the planet and in turn each other.


MIGUEL POSK MONTANO I MIRANDA INCIDENTAL /  by Margaret Hernandez

MIRANDA INCIDENTAL

The Hill Street Country Club presents recent works

by Miguel Posk Montano

About the Artist

Miguel “Posk” Montaño is an artist who resides in Ciudad Azteca, or Aztec City, Mexico. While his roots are in graffiti and street art, ‘Mirada Incidental’ shows how Posk utilizes his metropolitan lens to influence the way he relates to his culture and the rest of the world through photo collages of found objects, accidental sculptures, and the cultural imprint of mankind that’s left of the streets of Aztec City through consumer capitalism. Javier Villegas felt that inviting his mentor to display his work during the last two weeks of his solo exhibition was a fitting full circle moment where he could pay homage and honor the person who guided him and inspired him to be the artist he has become today.