Join us on Friday, June 5 from 12 – 1:00 PM for a conversation with Katie Grinnan, Andrea Hidalgo and Fay Ray moderated by Heavy Metal curator Nancy Meyer.
Katie Grinnan’s practice investigates the body as both instrument and site of perception. Fascinated by kinaesthesis, vision, and cognition, she examines how these finely tuned systems shape subjective experiences of reality, emotion, and self. Her work engages altered states of consciousness, including meditation and dreaming, to explore the mind’s expansive capacities.
Katie Grinnan received an MFA from University of California, Los Angeles and a BFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Selected solo exhibitions include Commonwealth and Council, LAXART, DiverseWorks, Hammer Museum, Aspen Art Museum, and Whitney Museum of American Art. Group exhibitions include presentations at Nevada Museum of Art, Kunstverein Rosa-Luxemburg-Platz, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery, and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Grinnan is the recipient of awards including a Creative Capital grant and a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Her work is held in the collections of the Hammer Museum, Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, and Virginia Museum of Fine Arts.
Andrea Hidalgo’s practice examines representations of love, lust, sex, pleasure, sexuality, gender, and power. Using scale, materials, objects, images, and cultural references, Hidalgo constructs environments that invite viewers to navigate what is suggested or implied. Familiar forms become layered with multiple meanings, encouraging reflection on how these subjects are shaped by social expectations and personal perception.
Andrea Hidalgo received an MFA from California Institute of the Arts in 2013 and a BA from University of California, Riverside in 2011. Recent exhibitions include Open Call: Apophenia at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (2024), curated by Nancy Meyers and Hugo Cervantes, as well as group exhibitions at Eastern Projects, POST, and Antenna Gallery. Solo exhibitions include Are You Thinking What I’m Thinking? No, I’m Thinking What I’m Thinking (2013) and There’s A Million Ways To Go You Know That There Are (2012) at California Institute of the Arts.
Fay Ray’s metallic sculptures explore the fetishization of objects, the construction of female identity, and the abstraction of natural forms. Her high-contrast, monochromatic collages and monumental three-dimensional works assemble cast aluminum, volcanic rock, wire, chain, and organic materials into suspended sculptural masses.
Fay Ray received her MFA from Columbia University and her BFA from Otis College of Art and Design. Recent solo exhibitions include Portals at Museum of Contemporary Art Tucson (2024), Viscera at The Soraya Art Gallery at California State University, Northridge (2023), and exhibitions at Compound (2025), Nazarian / Curcio, Fierman, and James Fuentes. Ray’s work is held in major institutional collections including Los Angeles County Museum of Art and Palm Springs Art Museum.
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