Studio Soup
A quarterly series of candid conversations about process, featuring guest artists who share their experience and practice. A closer look at the unique ways artists move from original impulse to finished piece – how their work comes to be.
Join the conversation with local artists Ben Cuevas and Jynx Prado, two visionary artists whose works converge at the intersection of materiality and identity. With a shared mission to challenge boundaries and reimagine conventional norms, Cuevas and Prado invite audiences to delve into their diverse narratives.
Tuesday, September 26, 6:30pm – 8:00pm PT
Eventbrite registration is required for this free, virtual event.
Los Angeles-based artist Ben Cuevas’ work is rooted in concepts of otherness, inspired by their queer, non-binary, HIV-positive, Latinx identity. As intersectionality informs their practice, their work is naturally interdisciplinary — involving textiles, photography, sculpture, installation, and more. A central part of their artwork is based in fiber, underscoring queer/feminist ideologies within the gendered history of women’s work.
Born and based in Los Angeles, Jynx Prado critiques and questions the natural and artificial elements within cultures, nature, and human existence, and their coexistence through an interdisciplinary practice with material ranging between found objects, fibers and the artist themself. Through humor, irony and symbolism, Prado creates sculptures, performances and visuals that intertwine queerness, their Latino/a/x/e community, and historical and mythological texts.