SUMMER RESIDENCY 2026
In Drew Dodge’s paintings, part human part canine figures often take part in suggestive activities, bathed in moonlight, in desert landscapes or perhaps in the setting of a ranch. An impression of tenderness and a peculiar eroticism emerge from the physical relationships between beings and objects. By softening the bristly texture of his colorful creatures, Dodge summons a balance between chaos, ecstasy, pleasure and pain. His masterful works bring together three artistic traditions: Religious painting from the European Renaissance and its powerfully structured pictorial spaces and intertwining bodies; American desert mysticism and its powerful symbolism; the cartoon, with its strange and seductive mix of animal and human characters.
Drew Dodge (b. 2001, Monterey, California, USA) lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. He recently graduated as a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Rhode Island School of Art and Design in Providence. His already acclaimed work has featured in several exhibitions in the USA and Europe.
SUMMER RESIDENCY 2026
Antonio Vidal is a painter born in Mexico City (1996), currently he lives and works in New York City.
Vidal's work encompasses a temporal breadth that is reflected in his pictorial process, applying several layers of acrylic paint that he dilutes and allows to slowly drip onto the canvas, creating textures that blur the boundaries between planes and bodies. A post-extractivist logic could associate these material incidents in the paintings with acid rain, fossil fuel spills, the appearance of greenhouse gases, and a disappearing biosphere.
His work has been featured in group exhibitions in Mexico, Italy, and the United States, including the VI JA Monroy Biennial at the University of Guadalajara (2022), Arte Vivo at the Museum of Modern Mexican Art (2023), REA Art Fair, Milan (2023), Hidden Narratives at Wonzimer (MODA) in Los Angeles (2024), and Currents at SK Gallery in New York (2024), among others. Antonio had his first solo exhibition in the US at MAMA Projects in New York (2024) and presented his first solo exhibition in Mexico at General Expenses in 2025.
Antonio Vidal holds a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and Drawing from the California College of the Arts in 2020. There he received the Creative Achievement Award (2016) and the Curator's Award (2020). Antonio's work has received a number of publications and awards, including the Innovate Grant (2023) and the Hopper Prize (2024). He received a Frankenthaler Award at Columbia University, where he earned his Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in 2025.
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
