SUMMER RESIDENCY 2025
Zoe Koke is a Canadian artist based in Los Angeles.
Her recent body of work traces the gradation of light as day gives way to night.
Grounded in touch and guided by intuition, her process unfolds as a conversation between material and perception. The paintings evolve through chance and serendipity, allowing form to emerge rather than be imposed. For Koke, painting is both intimate and vulnerable, a practice of stillness and surrender within the flux of
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Influenced by a childhood spent in nature and by the independent women in her family, a lineage of curiosity spanning geology, archaeology, and theology, her work carries a quiet reverence for the natural world and the unseen forces that shape it. Koke’s paintings become meditations on consciousness and transformation, offering spaces where light, memory, and awareness converge, and where the viewer is invited to linger in the unfolding of perception itself
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Zoe Koke (b. 1989, Calgary; lives and works in Los Angeles) received an MFA from the University of California, Los Angeles (2019), and a BFA from Concordia University, Montréal (2013). Solo exhibitions have been held at Smart Objects, Los Angeles (2024); April April, New York (2024); and Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich (2023). Selected group exhibitions have been held at 12.26, Dallas (2025); Roberts Projects, Los Angeles (2024); Sarah Brook Gallery, Los Angeles (2024); Mai 36 Galerie, Zurich (2024); Franz Kaka, Toronto (2024); Room 3557, Los Angeles (2023); Alice Amati, London (2023); Lindon & Co, London (2023); Smart Objects, Los Angeles (2023); Patel Brown, Toronto (2020); Ochi Projects, Los Angeles (2020); and Washer and Dryer Projects, Salt Lake City (2019).
ZOE'S WORKS AT CASA PEQUENA
SUMMER RESIDENCY 2024
Juana Subercaseaux is a Chilean artist based in Mexico City. Her latest works intertwine a feminine perspective with the intimate, the mystical, the ephemeral, and the spiritual aspects of nature. She combines abstract forms with organic symbols, emerging from a deeply personal realm and blurring the boundaries between the tangible and the imagined.
Through her works, Juana explores the evocative and subjective power of an ambiguous nature, suggesting something more: a sign, a state of transition, a delicate sensation of transience, mystery, or reverie, raising questions not meant to be answered.
Her international exhibitions include OMR, Mexico city (2024), MAPA, Argentina (2023), Instituto Telearte, Chile (2023), Troy Art House, United Kingdom (2023), among others.
JUANNA'S WORKS AT CASA PEQUENA
SUMMER RESIDENCY 2024
this is the text that needs to be written: Elmer Guevara is a Los Angeles–based artist with Salvadoran heritage. His parents came to the United States in the 1980s, seeking refuge from the war in El Salvador. Guevara’s work engages deeply with family history, drawing on memories of childhood and early adolescence to explore identity, belonging, and the quiet rhythms of daily life.
Through painting, mixed-media, and drawing, he evokes the tenderness and imagination of everyday moments, including family holidays on the beach, the small excitement of new sneakers, and gatherings with the family. His work carries a gentle nostalgia for a not-so-distant past, honoring the gestures, rituals, and bonds that quietly shape home and community.
Elmer Guevara (b. 1990, Los Angeles) has had work exhibited at Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA; Muzeo Museum and Cultural Center, Anaheim, CA; Lyles & King, New York, NY; Taubman Museum of Art, Roanoke, VA; Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA; PM/AM Gallery, London, UK; M+B, Los Angeles, CA; and Barbati Gallery, Venice, IT; among others. His work is held in the public collections of California State University Long Beach, Long Beach, CA and Crocker Art Museum Permanent Collection, Sacramento, CA. Guevara lives and works in Los Angeles.
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ELMER'S WORKS AT CASA PEQUENA
WINTER RESIDENCY 2023
Born and raised in Houston, Texas, currently lives and works in Los Angeles, California. Recently, Casella’s work was the subject of solo presentations at The Marfa Invitational with F2T gallery, Harper’s Chelsea, and Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami. He has shown extensively within the United States and Europe, having been featured in solo and group shows in Los Angeles, Miami, New York City, Milan, and Seoul.
His works deal with perception and the relationship/commonality we share with form and patterns, the influence colour has on us, and the reality we perceive. Likewise, it explores painting as a means of language to express the inherent and unknown, and finding a universality through the re-articulation and synthesis of traditional gesture through colour, shape, and pattern.
JONATHAN'S WORKS AT CASA PEQUENA
"Wet Sisters"
oil and acrylic on panel
20x18 inches
