In conjunction with the current exhibition, California Bloodlines, RAM is pleased to present a gallery walkthrough with artist Jesse Sugarmann.

Jesse Sugarmann uses video, sculpture, and photography to engage the automotive industry as a manufacturer of human identity, accessing automotive history as an index of both cultural progress and social development. In this presentation, various bodies of work made between 2013 and 2019 hang alongside the duel-screened video installation California Bloodlines (Parts 1 and 2). 

Doors open at 10:30. Coffee and donuts. No RSVP is required.

Jesse Sugarmann has exhibited work in venues such as the Getty Institute, Los Angeles; el Museo Tamayo, Mexico City; the Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Oregon; Human Resources, Los Angeles; Michael Strogoff, Marfa; el Museo de Arte Moderno de Santander, Spain; High Desert Test Sites, Joshua Tree; and Southern Exposure, San Francisco. His work has been written about in publications including Artforum, Art Papers, The Atlantic,  Hyperallergic, Frieze Magazine, the Huffington Post, and The New York Times. Sugarmann lives and works in Bakersfield, California, where he serves as Chair of the Department of Art and Art History at California State University, Bakersfield.