ARTISTS IN RESIDENCE
QUINN EMANUEL SELECTS THREE NEW ARTISTS FOR INNOVATIVE RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Artists receive stipend, law firm office space to use as studios and exhibit support from global litigation firm
LOS ANGELES – Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP, the world’s leading business litigation firm, today announced that its latest artists-in-residence program will host three artists instead of the customary two: Multimedia artist Edmund Arevalo, photographer Paloma Dooley, and textile artist Carmen Mardonez. The firm – whose offices overlooking the Crypto.com center in Downtown Los Angeles will serve as the artists’ studios – has increased its financial commitment to the program, extending grants and stipends in support of the four-month residency.
“At first thought, traditional visual arts like painting might seem to have nothing in common with litigation and dispute resolution. Litigation, however, is a creative exercise. Litigators have to decide what the story of a dispute is, who the core storytellers are, and how to build the case around that story,” said Founder and Chairman John B. Quinn. “In litigation, as in anything else, there is always a risk of falling into a rut, even if you’ve been successful. The challenge is always to figure out how to do it in a new and different way. I look forward to receiving inspiration from these three artists and learning how they work to achieve their visions and execute their ideas.”
Quinn conceived of the program in 2021 to create opportunity for and bring visibility to emerging and mid-career artists in the greater Los Angeles area.
The program commenced today, on March 1, 2023, with each artist receiving a $20,000 stipend and the use of an office as a studio. In Summer 2023, the residencies will culminate in a three-person exhibition of the new work the artists have created. Quinn Emanuel’s Director of Art and Outreach and Curator of the program, Alexis Hyde, will facilitate studio visits and other artistic and exhibition-related support.
L to R: Edmund Arevalo, Paloma Dooley, Carmen Mardonez
Edmund Arevalo (b.1981, Bangued Abra, Philippines) is a first-generation Filipino-American artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. His paintings, sculptures, and installations tell the stories of colonial histories, familial stories, and the Filipino diaspora. Edmund combines portraits of family and archival materials to retell and challenge traditional narratives of Filipino migration and cultural assimilation. Edmund Arevalo received his BA at California State University Dominguez Hills (2023). Selected group shows include Charlie James Gallery, South Gate Museum, Residency Art Gallery, Torrance Museum, Avenue 50 Studios, and Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. He is also a recipient of the Not Real Art Grant.
Paloma Dooley (b. 1993, New York City) lives and works in Los Angeles, where she uses photography to look at tenderness, vulnerability, and absurdity in the built landscape of Southern California. She earned a B.A. in Photography from Bard College in 2015 and completed a monthlong residency at the Vermont Studio Center in 2016. Her work has been included in publications and in shows at home and abroad. In addition to her practice as an artist, she shoots exhibition and documentary photography for artists, galleries, and museums.
Carmen Mardonez (b. 1988, Chile) is a Chilean textile artist who has lived in Los Angeles since 2017. Her artwork seeks to radically reimagine intimate spaces of memories, dreams, and discovery, exploring variations around traditional embroidery by combining oversized formats, textile sculpture, and the recovery of textile waste. Carmen studied History and Arts at the Catholic University of Chile and earned a master’s degree in Community Psychology at the University of Chile. Her work has been exhibited in Building Bridges Art Exchange and Craft Contemporary among others and has received the support of several grants, scholarships, and art residencies.
QUINN EMANUEL SELECTS TWO NEW ARTISTS FOR GROUND-BREAKING RESIDENCE PROGRAM
Artists to receive stipends, law firm office space to use as studios, and exhibit support
Photo of Clarisse Abelarde
Photo of Erin WrightClarisse Abelarde and Erin Wright are Quinn Emanuel's Artists-in-Residence
LOS ANGELES – Continuing its ground-breaking initiative marrying the creative energies of visual art and the law, Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP has announced the next round of participants in its artist-in-residence program. Quinn Emanuel – the world’s leading business litigation firm – established the residency in 2021 to champion and bring visibility to emerging and mid-career artists in the greater Los Angeles area. This will be the program’s third residency, which has successfully supported the work of four previous Angeleno artists.
The firm has named Los Angeles artists Clarisse Abelarde and Erin Wright as their next Artists-in-Residence.
“At first thought, traditional visual arts like painting, may seem to have nothing in common with litigation and dispute resolution. Litigation, however, is a creative exercise. Litigators have to decide what the story of a dispute is, who the core storytellers are, and how to build the case around that story,” said leader John B. Quinn. “In litigation, as in anything else, there is always a risk of falling into a rut, even if you’ve been successful. The challenge is always to figure out how to do it new and differently. I look forward to receiving inspiration from these two artists—artists who literally start with a blank canvas—and learning how they work to achieve their visions and execute their ideas.”
The program commences on September 1, with each artist receiving a $20,000 stipend and the use of a partner office as a studio within Quinn Emanuel’s offices in Downtown LA over the course of four months. In January 2023, the residencies will culminate in a two-person exhibition of the new work the artists have created. Curator Alexis Hyde will facilitate studio visits and other artistic and exhibition-related support
Clarisse Abelarde is a current BFA student in CSU Long Beach specializing in drawing and painting. As an immigrant from the Philippines, she is incredibly influenced by adaptation and the changes that occur when assimilating to a culture foreign to her own upbringing. Displacement and disorientation are two prominent themes in her paintings as she attempts to pinpoint her place in society. Her work deals with issues of identity and representation. As she develops her more recent work, Abelarde’s paintings echo the visceral impact of the abstract expressionist movement as she is drawn to their physicality and raw emotion. Combining the techniques and skills she has accumulated throughout the years, she sees a balance between chaos and structure.
Erin Wright is a painter and curator living in Los Angeles, California. They received a BFA from The School of the Art Institute of Chicago and an M.Arch from The University of California. In addition to their painting practice, Wright is currently an adjunct professor of Architecture at Woodbury University and is co-founder of Winston’s Los Angeles, a curatorial project based in Southern California.
Artists Tony De Los Reyes and Francisco Palomares selected for the second edition Of Quinn Emanuel’s artist-in-residence program
Photo of Tony de los Reyes by Aurora de los Reyes
Photo of Francisco PalomaresLOS ANGELES, CA, February 15, 2022 – Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP – the world’s leading business litigation firm – has announced the recipients of their next artist-in-residence program, established to create opportunity for and bring visibility to emerging and mid-career artists in the greater Los Angeles area: Tony de los Reyes and Francisco Palomares. The firm’s offices, located in downtown Los Angeles, will now serve as the artists’ studios for their 4-month residency. In addition to the studio spaces, grants and material stipends are extended to both artists to further support their time in residence.
“At first thought, traditional visual arts like painting, may seem to have nothing in common with litigation and dispute resolution. Litigation, however, is a creative exercise. Litigators have to decide what the story of a dispute is, who the core storytellers are, and how to build the case around that story,” said leader John B. Quinn. “In litigation, as in anything else, there is always a risk of falling into a rut, even if you’ve been successful. The challenge is always to figure out how to do it new and differently. I look forward to receiving inspiration from these two artists—artists who literally start with a blank canvas—and learning how they work to achieve their visions and execute their ideas.”
The program commenced on February 14 and will culminate in a two-person exhibition mid-June. . Curator Alexis Hyde will facilitate studio visits and other artistic and exhibition-related support.
About the Artists:
Tony de los Reyes (Los Angeles, CA.), work has been exhibited internationally, and is included in such permanent collections as the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, the New Britain Museum of American Art, and the New York Public Library. Recent gallery and museum exhibitions include On the Move: A Century of Crossing Borders, at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Fifth Bienal Ciudad Juárez-El Paso Biennial at the El Paso Museum of Art, and Walls: Defend, Divide and the Divine at the Annenberg Space for Photography. He is a recipient of the City of Los Angeles (COLA) grant and California Community Foundation Fellowship. Reviews and articles include Artforum, Art in America, X-TRA, Modern Painters, and the Los Angeles Times. He received an MFA in painting from the San Francisco Art Institute.
Francisco Palomares Los Angeles CA) has used art to overcome the socioeconomic obstacles of his East LA neighborhood since his youth. He converted these disadvantages into opportunities in which he saw each street as visual narratives emanating the challenges and beauty of an ever-changing environment. As a young artist, he studied the fundamentals of drawing and painting. Francisco’s practice would allow him to train at Ryman Arts and earn a Bachelor of Fine Arts from California State University, Long Beach. He later flew to Florence, Italy and Guangzhou, China to study art. After his travels, he relocated his studio PalomaresBLVD, to his neighborhood of Boyle Heights. In this space, Palomares paints the clashing streets and diverse BLVD’s of the city’s urban landscape. PalomaresBLVD invites the viewer to take a walk in the shoes of the artist to understand—through the complex images documented in his paintings—what it truly means to work, live, and play in the City of LA.
Quinn Emanuel announces artists Edgar Ramirez and Molly Segal for our inaugural artist-in-residence program launched on August 30, 2021.
LOS ANGELES, CA, August 31, 2021 – Quinn Emanuel Urquhart & Sullivan, LLP – the world’s leading business litigation firm – has today announced that its inaugural artist-in-residence program, established to create opportunity for and bring visibility to emerging and mid-career artists in the greater Los Angeles area, will host not one but two painters in its first run: Edgar Ramirez and Molly Segal. The firm—whose offices overlooking the Staples center in Downtown Los Angeles will now serve as artists studios—has thus doubled its financial commitment to the program, extending grants and stipends to two artists in support of their 3-month residency.
Photo of Edgar Ramirez by Charlie Engelman
Photo of Molly Segal by Trần Việt Văn“At first thought, traditional visual arts like painting, may seem to have nothing in common with litigation and dispute resolution. Litigation, however, is a creative exercise. Litigators have to decide what the story of a dispute is, who the core storytellers are, and how to build the case around that story,” said leader John B. Quinn. “In litigation, as in anything else, there is always a risk of falling into a rut, even if you’ve been successful. The challenge is always to figure out how to do it new and differently. I look forward to receiving inspiration from these two artists—artists who literally start with a blank canvas—and learning how they work to achieve their visions and execute their ideas.”
The program commences on August 30 and will culminate in a two-person exhibition after the four-month residency. Curator Alexis Hyde will facilitate studio visits and other artistic and exhibition-related support.
Edgar Ramirez (b. 1989. Los Angeles, CA.), a native Angeleno, is a painter who works primarily with themes related to commerce, commodity, labor, geographical territory, and identity. Ramirez holds a BFA from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA (2018) and an MFA from ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA (2020). He lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
Molly Segal (b. in Oakland, CA) She received an MFA from The School of The Museum of Fine Arts (SMFA) in 2013. Her paintings have appeared at galleries and institutions across the country including Charlie James Gallery, The Museum of Fine Arts Boston, Northeastern University, and Zevitas Marcus. She presented a solo exhibition at Luna Anaïs Gallery in Los Angeles in 2021. Segal’s work and writing have been featured in publications such as Whitehot Magazine, Artillery, Venison Quarterly, Beautiful Decay, and Lapham’s Quarterly. Segal has taught painting and drawing at CSU Long Beach, Tufts University, SMFA, Golden West College. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.
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