FOG 2025

Painted with airbrush on wood panel and canvas, the works of Angeline Rivas are vast, yet compact crucibles of a unique form of western Americana. To wit: the transcendentalist imagery of Agnes Pelton, cults, Light and Space and Finish Fetish, extraterrestrial life, the work of Carl Sagan, inter-dimensionality, Star Trek, the Pynchonian tendency toward paranoid, but ultimately plausible conspiracy theories (MKUltra), the flamboyance of Judy Chicago, spiritualism, crystals, et alia. When all is said and done, these paintings can be read as oblique allegories of California in its historical capacity to engender and hold extreme experimental modes of both living and thinking at once. On the one hand, you have The Esalen Institute and on the other, Heaven’s Gate. It is precisely this space of paradox, where the utopian meets the dystopian, which fascinates and motivates Rivas in her formal and ethnographic investigations.

The paintings themselves formally reflect this contradictory radicality through an almost hypnotic magnetism which also repels through their bracing excess of detail (think Bridget Riley on some particularly potent LSD) and fluorescent palette. By no means just pretty images, they seek to challenge not only the viewer, but also painting itself through their unique use of airbrush technique. Unlike typical airbrush painting, Rivas' works have a way of disclosing, as opposed to effacing, facture via imperfections, pieces of tape, and small moments of graffiti, making it such that the work has carved out a singular space for itself both on a formal and a conceptual level.

Valles Marineris - largest canyon in the solar system on mars

Project SUNSHINE - clandestine CIA project to ascertain the impact of radioactive fallout American citizens.

Zenosparadox.com - Zeno's paradoxes of motion are a series of philosophical arguments that use the idea of infinity to challenge the reality of motion. The paradoxes are based on the assumption that space and time can be divided infinitely.

NO-THING - as explained by David Lynch / transcendental meditation NO-THING is the absence of all things from which all things arise. Deepest state of consciousness that can be accessed through meditation. The unified field that connects the universe. David Lynch's speech at Meditate America 2024 : r/davidlynch

Divided by Zero - A "divide by zero error" occurs when a computer program attempts to divide a number by zero, which is mathematically undefined and results in an error message because it cannot perform the calculation; essentially, you can't split something into zero parts. When a program tries to divide a number by a value that is zero, it will usually throw an error, often called a "ZeroDivisionError" in many programming languages. Boundaries of math edge of math some people interpret as an example of infinity while others disagree

IS-NESS - Isness is the quality of being, or the state of existence. It can also refer to the state of things as they are.
In philosophy and spirituality
• Isness is the recognition of the fact of existence, and the concrete reality of being.
• It is the space of awareness, and the space of all possibilities.
• Isness is the space that transcends thoughts, and is the ground of all that arises.