2nd Story is pleased to present Cleansing of the Sentinels, an exhibition of new work by Israel Campos, a Los Angeles-based artist who utilizes pre-Columbian imagery and contemporary depictions of Chicano culture to highlight the impacts of climate change.

Join us for the opening celebration on April 20, 2024 from 5:00 to 8:30 PM at 2nd Story, 522 W Short Street.

Doors open at 5:00
Artist talk at 5:30, with reception to follow

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Artist Bio

Israel Campos is a Los Angeles-based, Chicano artist and master printmaker. He received his BA from the University of California Santa Cruz (2011) and an MFA from the University of Wisconsin‐Madison (2015).

His work is in the permanent collections of the Kohler Art Library, University of Wisconsin, Madison; Digital Art Research Center, University of California, Santa Cruz; Zuckerman Museum of Art, Kennesaw State University, GA; the Oregon College of Art and Craft, Portland, OR; and Digital & Graphic Art Research Center, Universidad de Vigo, Pontevedra, Spain.

Campos has exhibited his work in venues including the Oakland Museum of California (2023); The 3110 Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023); South Gate Museum and Art Gallery, South Gate, CA (2022); Emily Davis Gallery, Akron, OH (2022); Trout Museum of Art, Appleton, WI (2022); Nara Kasugano International Forum, Nara, Japan (2021); ArtHelix Gallery, New York, NY; the Ronna and Eric Hoffman Gallery of Contemporary Art, Portland, OR, among others.

He is an active member of the Vox Pop printmaking artist collective and the California Society of Printmakers. He also runs and operates Chayote Press, a collaborative printmaking studio in the Pico Union neighborhood of Los Angeles.