About the L.o.A. Collective
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The L.o.A. is a collective of artists, curators and educators dedicated to creating an accessible, dynamic and independent space for creatives. Our personal practices interweave various media, while maintaining a commitment to community and collaboration.
Our members believe in the importance of an interdisciplinary, experimental art space--and we are devoted to the development of a vibrant, artistic conversation. We also aim to create dialogue through participatory formats. Our objective is to cultivate opportunities for individuals locally, while providing a space for creative capabilities to expand and serve as a catalyst for positive growth and social exchange. The L.o.A. also works as a creative team, developing projects and performances within and beyond the fourteenfifteen gallery space. Our members are: Amanda Dannae Romero, Cristine Posner, John Morgan, Beth Hansen, Kait O'Brien, and Ren Adams. |
Member Bios
Amanda Dannae Romero
Amanda is an experimental artist and musician currently based in Albuquerque, NM.
Amanda grew up in Santa Fe where she enjoyed exploring the vast landscapes and culture of New Mexico. She has always had an interest in the way that humans, technology, and environments are interconnected. For example, the ways in which sound can enhance a specific environment or how an environment can create a home for sound to reside. She has done extensive research and practice in various art modalities and the way in which they can be implemented as mechanisms for change and healing in individuals as well as those who have varying forms of trauma and disability.
Her affinity for social practice and the progressive nature of the relationship between humans, technology, and environments has allowed her to create a dialogue on these parallels. Specifically her work with hospice patients has involved a personalized treatment plan that implements music as well as sound therapy. She uses her background in music, photography, coding, sound, and video in such a way that permits her to explore these relationships.
As well as interpersonal parallels, Amanda's work is geared around social practice and the way that art and sound can be used as mechanisms of healing in both natural and self-generated environments. Her affinity towards the recurrently progressing connection between humans, technology, and environments has shaped her work and created a commentary on the spectra of these interactions.
Beth Hansen
Beth Hansen is a multimedia artist who works in video, experimental cinema, installation, performance, illustration, audio/sound/music, painting and graphic design. She often plays with the language of the uncanny, embracing weird trash, kitsch, ephemera, cultural artifacts and the fiber of time (and memory) itself. In addition to her own experimental art practice, Hansen is an educator and frequently teaches film workshops, sharing her knowledge and creativity with eager audiences of all ages.
She received her BFA in Cinematic Arts/Art Studio from the University of New Mexico in 2012.
Hansen is the Vice President of Basement Films, a local non-profit, volunteer-run organization that supports experimental, independent, and under-represented forms of film and videomaking. As one of Basement’s main coordinators, Hansen has been pivotal in the development of educational events, preserving the Basement Films archive, and managing a host of events, including the annual Basement Films A/V Show, the Experiments in Cinema festival workshops, and other (ongoing) projects.
A member of GRAFT Collective, she co-ran GRAFT Gallery for three years with fellow members Jazmyn Crosby, Cecilia McKinnon and Jessica Chao, in the space that is currently fourteenfifteen gallery. GRAFT Collective continues to create collaborative work outside of the gallery, though installations and performances via long-distance relationship.
Cristine Posner
Cristine Posner is an artist whose practice utilizes performance, installation, sculpture, and craft to investigate all types of relationships from intimate personal human-to-human relationships such as familial to the larger global relationship of humans to the Earth. Each piece or series is unique to its process, which results in visual and thematic diversity within her larger body of work.
In addition to her individual practice, in 2016 Posner co-founded Point Guild, a collective based on an interdisciplinary model of field research and production. Together, artist Staci Page and Posner engage in research expeditions to explore ecological relationships and shared environmental questions.
Posner received her a Bachelors of Fine Art from New Jersey City University in 2011, and a Masters of Fine Art from University of New Mexico in 2016. Posner has participated in various artist residencies as an individual artist, such as the Wonder Woman Residency in Jersey City, NJ, and SOMA Summer in Mexico City, Mexico, and as a collaborative artist through Point Guild, attending the Ucross residency in Ucross, WY last fall.
Taking from her experience as a participating collective artist at _gaia Studio in Jersey City, NJ from 2011-2013, Posner was excited to engage with other local artists and curators of Albuquerque, NM to form the League of Acquaintances (L.o.A) in 2018, sharing in the development and programming of the fourteenfifteen gallery. In the coming year, Posner is committed to helping the L.o.A build relationships with artist run spaces in cities across the country to help bring fresh emerging artists to our communities and find possibilities for our local artists to show their work to new audiences.
John Morgan
While John Morgan claims to be a “guy who fell off the side of the earth… who’s been slowly making his way back,” he’s actually a dynamic writer, performance artist, curator and exhibition coordinator devoted to producing culturally relevant (and thrilling) creative engagements.
As a writer and performer, Morgan often works with hard-hitting, socially-cutting issues, re-wiring and mutating folklore to critically expose hidden meaning. He examines the space between innocence and experience, fantasy and reality, the sacred and profane, submission and implication. Heavily poetic and craftily narrative, Morgan spins words and performance together to create moving audio-visual events.
As a curator, Morgan is devoted to giving voice to emerging and underrepresented artists and creatives, with an eye for cutting-edge exhibition design and spatial transformation. Morgan has been known to build (and destroy) walls, paint them red and source strange objects to ensure an artist’s vision comes to life.
His recent performances and collaborations include A Message from the Hidden, Unearthing (with the L.o.A. Collective; creator, performer), The Children of Franecker (writer, director, performer), Face me in this Ruin (collaborator and performer), and Monologue for Two Voices: A Message from the Hidden (writer, director, performer). Morgan has a number of large scale projects in the works for 2019 and 2020.
Morgan is a co-founding member of the L.o.A. collective.
Kait O'Brien
Kait O’Brien (she/her) is a visual artist and poet based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Working in a variety of mediums and modalities, Kait explores the idea of place, political geography and the subconscious through topographical maps, photography, encaustic, collage, and poetry.
As the climate changes, so will our relationship to the land. Kait’s work explores the often intertwined grief layers of the deeply personal and intimate to the sense of global loss stemming from our climatic crisis.
Ren Adams
Ren Adams is an intermedia artist who works with video, experimental photography, installation, performance and sound. Her concept-heavy bodies of work often deal with the relationship between media, memory and trauma—and she is interested in the deconstruction of self as it encounters media, especially the wonderful, terrible sublime of remixed anxiety and media avatars.
She has an MFA in Visual Art from Lesley University College of Art & Design (Cambridge, MA) and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of New Mexico. Adams exhibits internationally and regularly publishes art, poetry and critical writing. She's also a UC Berkeley Alumni Scholar, a frequent visiting artist, lecturer and juror, and a professor of Fine Art at Southwest University of Visual Arts. In addition to fourteenfifteen gallery, Adams actively participates in collaborative projects and also co-hosts the Mad Lab experimental cinema/video art night at Guild Cinema with Beth Hansen.
Her recent solo exhibitions and video/audio collaborations include do you recall with James Lawrence, Will you (ever) Remember us? and June Haunting with audio by Dave Parley of Prayers, Space Prom with audio by KAREN, Will You Remember us (in this Half-Life)? (2019), Twilight Sleep (2018), Channeling – Televisual Memory and Media Séance, Zero Hour, and Poppy Receding (2017) and Whitespace-Bluespace - Televisual Memory and the Implied Catastrophe (2016). Recent performances include: A Message from the Hidden with John Morgan, Unearthing, Face me in this Ruin (multiple) and Watch us Get Hurt (multiple) (2018-19). Recent group exhibitions include: Altar, the Basement Films 15h Annual A/V Show, Mad Lab Experiments 1 - 3, BigTiny 2019, Resilience Colloquium 4, New Electron Salon, Memory (Ruin), Fun-a-Day (2019), Fragments, the Basement Films 14th Annual A/V Show, Flatline – 2D & the New Depthiness, is that a photograph?, BigTiny, Print is Dead, Print (Matters), Fun-a-Day, Vestigial – art about Obsolescence, Electron Salon, One Year Down, ABQ Abstracts (2018), 3rd Global Print, Axis Mundi, HereThere: Poetics of Place, Electron Salon, Group 6, Showcase of Contemporary Art, When I was your Age, and Prints by Southwest (2017). Recent publications include: Process, The Bombay Gin, e-ratio, The Hand Magazine, Fickle Muses (2017-19).
Adams is the former president, coordinator and publicist of several local arts organizations and she received a merit award from the Art Institute of Boston (2013).
Adams is an active member of the New Media Caucus, Basement Films, and a co-founding member of the L.o.A. collective.
Amanda is an experimental artist and musician currently based in Albuquerque, NM.
Amanda grew up in Santa Fe where she enjoyed exploring the vast landscapes and culture of New Mexico. She has always had an interest in the way that humans, technology, and environments are interconnected. For example, the ways in which sound can enhance a specific environment or how an environment can create a home for sound to reside. She has done extensive research and practice in various art modalities and the way in which they can be implemented as mechanisms for change and healing in individuals as well as those who have varying forms of trauma and disability.
Her affinity for social practice and the progressive nature of the relationship between humans, technology, and environments has allowed her to create a dialogue on these parallels. Specifically her work with hospice patients has involved a personalized treatment plan that implements music as well as sound therapy. She uses her background in music, photography, coding, sound, and video in such a way that permits her to explore these relationships.
As well as interpersonal parallels, Amanda's work is geared around social practice and the way that art and sound can be used as mechanisms of healing in both natural and self-generated environments. Her affinity towards the recurrently progressing connection between humans, technology, and environments has shaped her work and created a commentary on the spectra of these interactions.
Beth Hansen
Beth Hansen is a multimedia artist who works in video, experimental cinema, installation, performance, illustration, audio/sound/music, painting and graphic design. She often plays with the language of the uncanny, embracing weird trash, kitsch, ephemera, cultural artifacts and the fiber of time (and memory) itself. In addition to her own experimental art practice, Hansen is an educator and frequently teaches film workshops, sharing her knowledge and creativity with eager audiences of all ages.
She received her BFA in Cinematic Arts/Art Studio from the University of New Mexico in 2012.
Hansen is the Vice President of Basement Films, a local non-profit, volunteer-run organization that supports experimental, independent, and under-represented forms of film and videomaking. As one of Basement’s main coordinators, Hansen has been pivotal in the development of educational events, preserving the Basement Films archive, and managing a host of events, including the annual Basement Films A/V Show, the Experiments in Cinema festival workshops, and other (ongoing) projects.
A member of GRAFT Collective, she co-ran GRAFT Gallery for three years with fellow members Jazmyn Crosby, Cecilia McKinnon and Jessica Chao, in the space that is currently fourteenfifteen gallery. GRAFT Collective continues to create collaborative work outside of the gallery, though installations and performances via long-distance relationship.
Cristine Posner
Cristine Posner is an artist whose practice utilizes performance, installation, sculpture, and craft to investigate all types of relationships from intimate personal human-to-human relationships such as familial to the larger global relationship of humans to the Earth. Each piece or series is unique to its process, which results in visual and thematic diversity within her larger body of work.
In addition to her individual practice, in 2016 Posner co-founded Point Guild, a collective based on an interdisciplinary model of field research and production. Together, artist Staci Page and Posner engage in research expeditions to explore ecological relationships and shared environmental questions.
Posner received her a Bachelors of Fine Art from New Jersey City University in 2011, and a Masters of Fine Art from University of New Mexico in 2016. Posner has participated in various artist residencies as an individual artist, such as the Wonder Woman Residency in Jersey City, NJ, and SOMA Summer in Mexico City, Mexico, and as a collaborative artist through Point Guild, attending the Ucross residency in Ucross, WY last fall.
Taking from her experience as a participating collective artist at _gaia Studio in Jersey City, NJ from 2011-2013, Posner was excited to engage with other local artists and curators of Albuquerque, NM to form the League of Acquaintances (L.o.A) in 2018, sharing in the development and programming of the fourteenfifteen gallery. In the coming year, Posner is committed to helping the L.o.A build relationships with artist run spaces in cities across the country to help bring fresh emerging artists to our communities and find possibilities for our local artists to show their work to new audiences.
John Morgan
While John Morgan claims to be a “guy who fell off the side of the earth… who’s been slowly making his way back,” he’s actually a dynamic writer, performance artist, curator and exhibition coordinator devoted to producing culturally relevant (and thrilling) creative engagements.
As a writer and performer, Morgan often works with hard-hitting, socially-cutting issues, re-wiring and mutating folklore to critically expose hidden meaning. He examines the space between innocence and experience, fantasy and reality, the sacred and profane, submission and implication. Heavily poetic and craftily narrative, Morgan spins words and performance together to create moving audio-visual events.
As a curator, Morgan is devoted to giving voice to emerging and underrepresented artists and creatives, with an eye for cutting-edge exhibition design and spatial transformation. Morgan has been known to build (and destroy) walls, paint them red and source strange objects to ensure an artist’s vision comes to life.
His recent performances and collaborations include A Message from the Hidden, Unearthing (with the L.o.A. Collective; creator, performer), The Children of Franecker (writer, director, performer), Face me in this Ruin (collaborator and performer), and Monologue for Two Voices: A Message from the Hidden (writer, director, performer). Morgan has a number of large scale projects in the works for 2019 and 2020.
Morgan is a co-founding member of the L.o.A. collective.
Kait O'Brien
Kait O’Brien (she/her) is a visual artist and poet based out of Albuquerque, New Mexico. Working in a variety of mediums and modalities, Kait explores the idea of place, political geography and the subconscious through topographical maps, photography, encaustic, collage, and poetry.
As the climate changes, so will our relationship to the land. Kait’s work explores the often intertwined grief layers of the deeply personal and intimate to the sense of global loss stemming from our climatic crisis.
Ren Adams
Ren Adams is an intermedia artist who works with video, experimental photography, installation, performance and sound. Her concept-heavy bodies of work often deal with the relationship between media, memory and trauma—and she is interested in the deconstruction of self as it encounters media, especially the wonderful, terrible sublime of remixed anxiety and media avatars.
She has an MFA in Visual Art from Lesley University College of Art & Design (Cambridge, MA) and a BFA in Studio Art from the University of New Mexico. Adams exhibits internationally and regularly publishes art, poetry and critical writing. She's also a UC Berkeley Alumni Scholar, a frequent visiting artist, lecturer and juror, and a professor of Fine Art at Southwest University of Visual Arts. In addition to fourteenfifteen gallery, Adams actively participates in collaborative projects and also co-hosts the Mad Lab experimental cinema/video art night at Guild Cinema with Beth Hansen.
Her recent solo exhibitions and video/audio collaborations include do you recall with James Lawrence, Will you (ever) Remember us? and June Haunting with audio by Dave Parley of Prayers, Space Prom with audio by KAREN, Will You Remember us (in this Half-Life)? (2019), Twilight Sleep (2018), Channeling – Televisual Memory and Media Séance, Zero Hour, and Poppy Receding (2017) and Whitespace-Bluespace - Televisual Memory and the Implied Catastrophe (2016). Recent performances include: A Message from the Hidden with John Morgan, Unearthing, Face me in this Ruin (multiple) and Watch us Get Hurt (multiple) (2018-19). Recent group exhibitions include: Altar, the Basement Films 15h Annual A/V Show, Mad Lab Experiments 1 - 3, BigTiny 2019, Resilience Colloquium 4, New Electron Salon, Memory (Ruin), Fun-a-Day (2019), Fragments, the Basement Films 14th Annual A/V Show, Flatline – 2D & the New Depthiness, is that a photograph?, BigTiny, Print is Dead, Print (Matters), Fun-a-Day, Vestigial – art about Obsolescence, Electron Salon, One Year Down, ABQ Abstracts (2018), 3rd Global Print, Axis Mundi, HereThere: Poetics of Place, Electron Salon, Group 6, Showcase of Contemporary Art, When I was your Age, and Prints by Southwest (2017). Recent publications include: Process, The Bombay Gin, e-ratio, The Hand Magazine, Fickle Muses (2017-19).
Adams is the former president, coordinator and publicist of several local arts organizations and she received a merit award from the Art Institute of Boston (2013).
Adams is an active member of the New Media Caucus, Basement Films, and a co-founding member of the L.o.A. collective.
