> ## Content Index > Fetch the complete content index at: https://hyperallergic.com/llms.txt > Use this file to discover other available public pages before exploring further. # The Spring/Break Art Show Fills Up an LA Warehouse With Eccentric Visions - URL: https://hyperallergic.com/spring-break-art-show-fills-up-an-la-warehouse-with-eccentric-visions/ - Published: 2022-02-17T22:57:00.000Z - Updated: 2025-11-24T15:03:06.000Z - Description: This year’s theme, Hearsay/Heresy, allowed curators and artists to play with dissent, nonconformity, and truth versus fact. - Author: Samanta Helou Hernandez - Tags: Art, Art Fairs, Featured, Los Angeles, Photo Essays, Spring/Break Art Show, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-large, #Import 2025-11-24 09:22 (2021, 2022, part 2) LOS ANGELES — The [Spring/Break Art Show](https://www.springbreakartshow.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), a quirky cousin of the more traditional art fairs, returns to Los Angeles this week in a Culver City warehouse filled with 54 booths of ceramic sculptures, paintings, tapestries, and even a life-sized hellmouth-inspired passageway. This year’s theme, *Hearsay/Heresy*, allowed curators and artists to play with dissent, nonconformity, and truth versus fact. [Francisco Donoso](https://www.franciscodonoso.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), an Ecuadorian-American artist, is showing his 2021–2022 series *Undocumentedness: An Ecology of Dancing Fences*. The paintings depict deconstructed and colorful fences in movement. This playful take on a structure that’s often forbedoing, and even violent, subverts mainstream narratives of undocumented people shown in constant suffering and without joy. Donoso instead rescues a childlike imagination to allow for a scary object to take on a different life. Metal worker [Gabrielle Shelton](https://www.instagram.com/sheltonstudiosinc/?hl=en&ref=hyperallergic.com) presents sculptures of staircases with candy paint jobs inspired by [LA's lowriders](https://hyperallergic.com/cruise-night-lowrider-culture-kristin-bedford/). The artist, interested in the metaphorical meanings of stairs throughout time — as, for example, symbols of growth or reaching higher levels of consciousness — positions her sculptures in nonfunctional ways that don’t lead anywhere. [Meg Lionel Murphy](https://meglionelmurphy.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com), an artist based in Wisconsin, created a room of medieval-inspired paintings, but instead of the Eurocentric themes, the narratives center women as larger-than-life heroes with swords, mythical deities, and feminist allegorical figures. At the center of the room lies an altar for these beings. Unlike other art fairs, Spring/Break feels more immersive; visitors are on a journey into each artist’s mind as they weave in and out of booths enveloped by the eccentric visions of both artists and curators. ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2022/02/img_2778.jpg) Francisco Donoso, *Undocumentedness: An Ecology of Dancing Fences*, curated by Erika Hirugami ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2022/02/img_2965.jpg) Gabrielle Shelton's stair sculptures, curated by Evan Snyderman ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2022/02/img_3262.jpg) Meg Lionel Murphy's room of medieval-inspired paintings, centering Black women, curated by the Untitled Space ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2022/02/img_2724.jpg) "Silver Rabbit no. 01" by Jerry Gogosian ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2022/02/img_2654.jpg) *Hot Spring*, curated by Mike Chattem, featuring art by Debbi Kenote, Mike Chattem, and Jared Hoffman ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2022/02/img_2734.jpg) *Desert Angels*, curated by Ambre Kelly and Andrew Gori, featuring artists Alia Shawkat and Maria Paz ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2022/02/img_2668.jpg) *we will all be well*, curated by Zahra Sherzad, featuring work by Monica Canilao and Xara Thustra ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2022/02/img_2840.jpg) *Kneel Before Dog,* curated by Ambre Kelly and Andrew Gori, featuring artists Sarah Bereza, Will Bates, and Ken Heitmueller ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2022/02/img_2856.jpg) *Kneel Before Dog,* curated by Ambre Kelly and Andrew Gori, featuring artists Sarah Bereza, Will Bates, and Ken Heitmueller ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2022/02/img_2702.jpg) *Ronan Day Lewis: See Through*, curated by Rebecca Bird ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2022/02/img_2968.jpg) *BANG! SPIT! SNAG!* by Jamie Clyde ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2022/02/img_3066.jpg) Stuart Lantry, "Me Means Meaning," curated by Shona McAndrews ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2022/02/img_3114.jpg) Berfin Ataman and Christopher Oleary, "Sympathetic Motion Series, 'Making Room,'" curated by Leila Anna Wahba and Selin Çamli Anjel ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2022/02/img_2790.jpg) *Illuminated Body,* curated by Katie Hector and Adam Sabolick, featuring artists Larissa De Jesús Negrón, Collin J. Radcliffe and Fred Smith ![](https://storage.ghost.io/c/51/f8/51f871d8-b6be-4a73-b958-0ca4fff0110a/content/images/hyperallergic-newspack-s3-amazonaws-com/uploads/2022/02/img_3034.jpg) Allison Baker, "Cigarette 3," curated by Abigail Ogilvy Gallery [*The Spring/Break Art Show* ](https://www.springbreakartshow.com/?ref=hyperallergic.com)*continues at 5880 Adams Boulevard (Culver City*) *through Sunday, February 20.*