Art Talks at Brand with Miguel Nelson

Art Talks at Brand is a monthly conversation that invites contemporary artists to discuss their work and the issues surrounding it. This talk features Miguel Nelson.

Art Talks at Brand is a monthly conversation that invites contemporary artists to discuss their work and the issues surrounding it, followed by a moderated Q&A with Brand staff member, artist, and writer Jennifer Remenchik. Artists are selected to reflect the diversity of the art scene of the greater Los Angeles area.

Miguel Nelson is a conceptual artist, designer, and developer who has created art and experimental social spaces for over twenty-five years. His interests have included projects as varied as multi-element, immersive art performances to developing urban oases as private event spaces to an ongoing venture dedicated to the re-vitalization of the Desert Island Country Club in Palm Springs. Now he is focused on a large-scale collaborative art project, “The Spirit of Rudy Caballero”, in which Nelson invites other (credited) contemporary artists to create work under the fictional artist’s name. This project manifests not only as discrete art objects but also as pop-ups, exhibitions, and recorded conversations, incorporating many experiential facets in this gesamtkunstwerk. “The Spirit of Rudy Caballero” recently presented an exhibition of sketches at LOOT Gallery in Mexico City during Zona Maco, and is slated for upcoming presentations at Frieze New York and London. 

The series is sponsored by the Brand Associates and is free and open to the public.

For more information on Art Talks at Brand and the other programs in the Spring 2025 series, please visit our website: BrandLibrary.org/Art-Talks

Images: Rudy Caballero Volume 1 - Preamble | Anacapa Chart (detail); Artist portrait. Images courtesy of the artist.

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Ample free parking is available in Brand Park. An accessible entrance and accessible parking for cars with a disabled parking placard or license plate is located on the East side of Brand Library.

For additional information about this event, please contact Brand Library & Art Center at (818) 548-2051 or send us an email at Info@BrandLibrary.org.

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