Jackie Amezquita and Danie Cansino in “Landshapes” at Mt. San Jacinto College Art Gallery August 18 – September 11, 2025

Mt. San Jacinto College Art Gallery Presents...
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

Landshapes
August 18 – September 11, 2025

 Reception: Thursday, August 21, 4 - 6 pm

 Gallery Hours: Monday - Thursday, 10 - 4pm

MSJC Art Gallery
1499 N. State St. Building 1400
San Jacinto, CA 92583
www.msjc.eddu/artgallery
Jknuth@msjc.edu

The MSJC Art Gallery, Landshapes a group exhibition of Southern California artists who have contemporary takes on landscape painting by Jackie Amézquita, Danie Cansino, Jennifer Coates, Petra Cortright, Kayla Mattes, and Aaron Morse.  These works range from oil paintings to woven rugs.

This is a dynamic exhibition that challenges historic notions of landscape paintings.  The world is a changed and changing place and these artists are reacting to it.  Our ever-evolving relationship to land, perception and human experience is expressed through a contemporary lens.  Landshapes presents climate change, urban expansion, displacement, memory and the digital world.

Jackie Amézquita (b. 1985, Quetzaltenango, Guatemala) holds an AA in Visual Communications from LAVC, a BFA from ArtCenter College of Design, and a MFA from UCLA. Amézquita has exhibited with The Hammer Museum, LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) CA, LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) CA, 18th St Art Center CA, The Armory Center of the Arts CA, Vincent Price Art Museum CA, The Annenberg Space for Photography CA, Human Resources Los Angeles CA, MAD (Museum of Art and Design) NY, amongst others. She is the recipient of the Mohn Land Award (2023), Andy Warhol Foundation for the Arts Los Angeles Art Fund (2022), and National Performance Network Fund (2022). Amézquita has been featured in the Los Angeles Times, hyperallergic, Walker Art Center magazine, and many other publications.

 Danie Cansino holds a Master of Fine Arts degree at the University of Southern California, and is an Adjunct Professor of USC Roski School of Art and Design. Cansino's work has been featured in ArtForum, Artillery, and ArtNews magazine. Her work resides in the collections of the Rubell Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Xiao Museum of Contemporary Art, AltaMed, in addition to numerous private collections. She has exhibited in the Rubell museum, Long Beach Museum of Art, Muzeo museum, Vincent Price museum, UCLA, AMOCA, UTA Artists Space, Felix Art Fair, Human Resources Gallery, The Mistake Room, USC Roski, Tlaloc studios and Charlie James Gallery. Danie Cansino is represented by Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles.

 Jennifer Coates lives and works in Brooklyn, NY and Lakewood, PA. Jennifer was the 2021 recipient of the John Koch Art Award in Painting from the American Academy of Arts and Letters; a 2021 NYFA Award in painting; a 2019 Fellowship at the Civitella Ranieri Foundation; and a Sharpe Walentas Studio residency (2018-2019). Most recently, her work was included in the “Brooklyn Artists Show” at the Brooklyn Museum. Coates will be featured in the forthcoming book published by Brepols, “Nature into Art: Then and Now” edited by art historians Marcia Hall and Dana Prescott. Her 2024 solo exhibition “Edge Effects,” spanned two galleries in NYC at High Noon and Chart. Her work has also been written about in publications such as the Brooklyn Rail, Hyperallergic, Two Coats of Paint, Bomb Magazine, the Huffington Post, Art News, and Smithsonian Journeys.

 Petra Cortright has exhibited at institutions including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, California; Ullens Center for Contemporary Art (UCCA), Beijing; Lab for Emerging Arts and Performance (LEAP), Berlin; CCA: The Center of Contemporary Arts, Sante Fe, New Mexico; Espai Cultural Caja Madrid, Barcelona; Chelsea Art Museum, New York; Museum de Arte Latinoamericano de Buenos Aires (MALBA) Argentina; Kunsthaus Langenthal, Switzerland; Kunstlerhaus Bremen, Germany; MCA Chicago, Illinois; and Walker Art Center, Minnesota, among many other international gallery exhibitions. She has released several publications and has participated in online exhibitions including televised broadcasts for MOCA, Los Angeles, and Frieze Art Fair, London. Cortright participated in the 10th Biennale de Lyon and the Venice Biennale’s Internet Pavilion in 2009, and The New York Underground Film Festival in New York in 2008. In 2015, she was awarded Rhizome’s Future-Proof award with Paul Chan & Badlands Unlimited.

 Kayla Mattes (b. 1989, Los Angeles, CA, USA) received her BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2011 and her MFA from University of California Santa Barbara in 2019. She has exhibited her work nationally and internationally including Eli & Edythe Broad Museum (Michigan), Charlie James Gallery, (Los Angeles), Asia Art Center (Taipei and Beijing), Jordan Schnitzer Museum of Art (Portland, OR), Torrance Art Museum, Richard Heller Gallery (Los Angeles), and Collaborations (Copenhagen). She is one of twenty weavers included in the 2018 book, Weaving: Contemporary Makers on the Loom and her work has been featured in Artnet, MacGuffin Magazine, New American Paintings, and i-D Magazine. She lives and works in Los Angeles, CA.

Aaron Morse (b. 1974, Tucson, AZ) received his BFA from the University of Arizona (Tucson, AZ) and his MFA from University of Cincinnati (Cincinnati, OH). Aaron Morse’s recent and upcoming solo and group exhibitions include, “Sea and Land” Philip Martin Gallery (Los Angeles, CA); "If the Sky Were Orange: Art in the Time of Climate Change,” Blanton Museum of Art (Austin, TX); Hammer Museum (Los Angeles, CA); Berkeley Art Museum/Pacific Film Archive (Berkeley, CA); Santa Barbara Museum of Art (Santa Barbara, CA); Contemporary Arts Museum (Houston, TX); Nerman Museum of Contemporary Art (Overland Park, KS);