COORDINATES: ICE PAC

38.56858818026328 – 121.48851783164906

March 4 – 26, 2022

1629 S Street, Sacramento CA

Curated by: Liv Moe, Faith J. McKinnie, Molly Stroud, and Genesis Torres

Coordinates are transitory exhibitions that bring attendees to vacant and underutilized spaces to experience creative inquiry outside the traditional institutions of the art world. Coordinates: ICE PAC was presented in the former PACSAT satellite news broadcast headquarters. The project featured site-responsive installations from thirty-five architects and visual artists working in the Sacramento region. The invited artists were given one month to reclaim and transform the .73-acre lot into an immersive art experience before the building was demolished for new development.

My installation, #sacramentoartists was an homage to Sacramento artists destined to live here for unassailable reasons. Despite the region's lack of critical dialogue, robust collectors, and a thriving gallery scene, Sacramento and environs is home to serious artists committed to their work. The objects suspended from the thread and nail hashtag are material proxies of the Coordinates: ICE PAC artists – the scraps and outtakes that I collected from their individual sites.

Julia Couzens

Julia Couzens