In conjunction with the exhibition High, Low, and In Between, RAM is pleased to present a gallery walkthrough with artist Jesse Sugarmann.

Sugarmann works across video, sculpture, and photography, engaging the automotive industry as a site of human identity. Drawing on automotive history as an index of cultural progress and social development, this new body of work examines how sound, mobility, and public infrastructure convey cultural and political meaning across contexts.

Doors open at 10:00. 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.