Hayley Barker was raised in Oregon. Her psychological self-portraits revolve around a daily process of drawing in bed, “beddrawing,” wherein the stuff of dreams, lingering mundane thoughts and desires, and the spirit world overlap. From this practice comes frenetic, gestural, intimate mixed-media drawings and oil paintings on panel that include text. Barry Schwabsky has observed that Barker’s “visionary paintings are relentless storms of mark-making that always have a face; it might evade your glance or stare you down.” Since moving to Los Angeles in 2015 Barker has shown at venues such as The Pit, Abode, Big Pictures LA, and Bozo Mag. In January 2018 she released the second edition of Vintage Self Help (2017), her first book of essays, focusing on trauma, healing, art, and shamanism, published with Williamson + Knight in Portland, Oregon. Her solo show shows have been reviewed and featured in Art in America, the Curate LA blog, the L.A. Weekly, and Visual Art Source Online. Her flat file project, The Barker Hanger, debuted at Odd Ark LA in April 2018, showing the work of more than 55 local and national artists, and introduced a casual ritual revolving around sharing works on paper. Her work is currently on view as part of The Divine Joke, curated by Barry Schwabsky, at Anita Rogers Gallery in New York. Barker lives in East Hollywood and paints in Glassell Park. hayleybarker.com

Darya Diamond is an object maker whose practice is rooted in methods of reproduction through plastics, ceramics, video, and photography. Her work investigates structures of relationality and the female body as a site for pleasure, power, and labor. She has exhibited at Leiminspace, the Honey Trap, and the Roach Motel and Casino, Los Angeles; Main Gallery, Amherst, Massachusetts; and Brick Gallery, Holyoke, Massachusetts. Diamond received her BA from Hampshire College and will complete her MFA at Goldsmiths University of London in 2020. daryadiamond.com

Jules Gimbrone is a New York–based artist and composer who investigates how social performance is codified, captured, and transmitted. Gimbrone uses a variety of recording and amplifying technologies, in addition to materials like glass, clay, ice, mold, and processes of decomposition, to investigate how sound travels through space, bodies, and language; to explore sublimated gendered systems; and to expose the multiple queerings of the performative and pre-formative body. Gimbrone’s performances and installations have appeared at SculptureCenter, ISSUE Project Room, the Rubin Museum, MOMA PS1, and Stellar Projects, New York; Human Resources and Park View Gallery, Los Angeles; Vox Populi, Philadelphia; and Théâtre de l’usine, Geneva, Switzerland. Gimbrone received an MFA in music composition and integrated media from CalArts in 2014. julesgimbrone.com

Ian James is an artist based in Los Angeles, working primarily in photography. He holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts. He has participated in exhibitions at the Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art; Holiday Forever, Jackson, Wyoming; Self Actualization, Houston; the UNLV Barrick Museum, Las Vegas; and Roberts & Tilton, vacancy, and REDCAT, Los Angeles. He has been an artist in residence at SÍM in Reykjavik, Iceland, and the Wassaic Project in New York state. James is an adjunct assistant professor at Otis College of Art and Design and adjunct faculty at Art Center College of Design and Pasadena City College. ianjamesinternetwebsite.com

Young Joon Kwak is a Los Angeles–based multidisciplinary artist working primarily through sculpture, performance, video, and collaboration. Kwak’s work aims to change how we view our bodies by reimagining their form, functionality, and materiality—from static and bound to pre-inscribed power structures, to an expanded sense of bodies and their environs as mutable and open-ended. Kwak is the founder of Mutant Salon, a roving beauty salon/platform for experimental performance collaborations with her community of queer, trans, femme, POC artists and performers, and the lead performer in the electronic-dance-noise band Xina Xurner. Kwak has had performances and exhibitions at the Hammer Museum, the Broad, REDCAT, and ONE National LGBT Archives, Los Angeles; Regina Rex and Smack Mellon, Brooklyn; Southern Exposure, San Francisco; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Denver; the Museum of Contemporary Art Chicago; and Pavillon Vendôme Centre d’Art Contemporain, Clichy, France. Kwak and Mutant Salon will present an exhibition at LACE, Los Angeles, as the organization’s artist+collective-in-residence this summer. Kwak was recently awarded the Rema Hort Mann Foundation’s Emerging Artist Grant and Artist Community Engagement Grant, and the Art Matters Grant. She holds an MFA from the University of Southern California, an MA in humanities from the University of Chicago, and a BFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago. youngjoon.com

C. Lavender is a sound artist, educator, and healer based in Hudson Valley, New York, whose work spans live performance, recording, installation, and workshops. She seeks to create an immersive aural landscape for the listener, an experience that is intensely physical, emotional, and ultimately cathartic. The Village Voice has called her performances “downright iconic, charged with meaning and transgression.” C. Lavender has hosted sound-based workshops at the Rubin Museum, New York; MoMA PS1, New York; the Brooklyn Botanic Garden; and RPI University, Troy, New York. In 2016 she taught a ten-week class for children about the scientific and artistic aspects of sound. Her 2017 full-length album Vanishing Light was recorded in a semi- abandoned school turned county mental health center in Hudson, New York. clavender.net

Sarah Manuwal transmutes memories and mystical experiences into physical matter through her films and sculptures. Using her own psycho-spiritual alchemical processes, which involve automatic writing, dream interpretation, astral projection, and channeling/trance, she weaves ancient mythologies with modern-day personal experiences. Manuwal holds an MFA from California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from New York University Tisch School of the Arts. She has exhibited at Ballroom Marfa, Texas; REDCAT, Human Resources, Arturo Bandini, Charlie James Gallery, and Panel L.A., Los Angeles; and the Cannes Film Festival, France. She lives and works in Los Angeles. sarahmanuwal.cool

SoftCells is a curatorial platform presented by and using the body of Agnes Bolt as exhibition space, or tool for dissemination and recontextualization of artwork. Begun in January 2018, SoftCells has thus far collaborated with Sonja Gerdes, David Horvitz, Nicolas Lobo, and Ethan Tate. Bolt is a Los Angeles–based artist and curator, and a founding member of the Institute for New Feeling and Blue Ruin. Her work has recently been shown at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles; Ballroom Marfa, Texas; the Museum of Modern Art, New York; Istanbul Modern; MAAT, Lisbon; Whitechapel Gallery, London; the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; Akademie Schloss Solitude, Stuttgart, Germany; Recess, New York; and M Woods, Beijing, among other venues. www.instagram.com/soft__cells

Saewon Oh is an herbal medicine maker, artist, teacher, and founder of Sun Song, a line of herbal remedies designed for meditative and earth-based healing practices. She teaches workshops, guides tea ceremonies, and offers herbal consultations in Los Angeles. She is also a member of Nine Herbs Charm, a multidisciplinary artist collective engaged in an ongoing, process-based collaboration with nine specific plants. saewon-oh.com

Amanda Vincelli is an artist from Montreal living and working in Los Angeles, where she cofounded NAVEL. Her installations, videos, photographs, audio, artist’s books, websites, and livestreams trouble conceptions of the “real,” the “original,” and the “natural,” pointing to the possible disruption of normative social structures and human biology through the power of culture and technology. Her works explore this contemporary cyborgian reality as a site of both transformation and control, examining the control mechanisms at play in the digital space, their origins, and their ramifications, for instance how the internet’s technical architecture and systems of governance proliferate neoliberal ideology and inequality, and streamline the commodification of corporeal and personal experience. Vincelli recently completed her MFA in photography and media from California Institute of the Arts, and holds a bachelor’s degree in strategic design from the New School, New York, and a degree in health sciences from André-Grasset College, Montreal. Recent exhibitions include Respite, California Institute of the Arts, Valencia (2018); Corpus Alienum, Hunter Shaw Fine Art, Los Angeles (2017); Clothing Optional, Night Gallery, Los Angeles (2017); The Public Space: Regimen, Studio XX, Montreal (2017); and Body of Research, Sloan Projects, Los Angeles (2016). amandavincelli.com