Badger, California
The Hatchery Art Spaces
The Hatchery was situated in a rural, remote environment approximately four and a half hours from both Los Angeles and the Bay Area. The property’s natural beauty is compromised by the detritus of failed human endeavor, giving it an oddly decayed urban feel.
Located at Sequoia Resort in Badger, California, in the foothills of the southern Sierra Nevada, Hatchery exhibitions were staged in a large airplane hangar built as such and later used as a community center and school. The property was first developed by Synanon, a drug-rehab organization which was progressive in its time for its culture of racial integration, but fell into disrepute as its founder became delusional and authoritarian. The property was subsequently re-purposed as a Muslim religious community and boarding school for children from Oakland’s worst neighborhoods, but was abandoned after 9 / 11 amid accusations of fraud.
Four exhibitions were mounted at the Hatchery:
2011 Free Range (artist collective)
2012 East of Fresno (curated by Bill Doherty, Anné Klint, Bachrun LoMele, and Tom McGlynn)
2014 God Will Not Have His Work Made Manifest By Cowards (curated by Astri Swensrud and Quinn Gomez-Heitzeberg)
2016 Fortress (curated by Bill Doherty, Anné Klint, and Bachrun LoMele)
The Hatchery: Fortress
In 2016, The Hatchery: Fortress exhibition was linked to a world- wide, nearly simultaneous art event, and conceived of as an International City Tour by its founding organization, the Urban Arts and Media Organization, based in Munich, Germany. The Hatchery was selected by UAMO for the Fortress event as the sole USA site in the tour, along with alternative venues in ten international cities, including Berlin, Amsterdam, Zurich, Athens, Mexico City, and more. Two Hatchery artists, Glen Farley (Canada/Norway) and Rob Divers Herrick (San Francisco), were chosen to have their work exhibited in UAMO’s culminating City Festival in Munich in April 2016 (along with selected artists from the other cities in the tour), as well as video and photo documentation of the entire Hatchery exhibition. Hatchery artist David Sanchez Burr (Chicago) participated in a live performance during the Munich event.
Participating artists
Anné Klint
Bachrun LoMele
Myra Margolin
Glen Farley
Rob Divers Herrick
The Hatchery: East of Fresno
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God Will Not Have His Work Made Manifest By Cowards
In 2016, The Hatchery: Fortress exhibition was linked to a world- wide, nearly simultaneous art event, and conceived of as an International City Tour by its founding organization, the Urban Arts and Media Organization, based in Munich, Germany. The Hatchery was selected by UAMO for the Fortress event as the sole USA site in the tour, along with alternative venues in ten international cities, including Berlin, Amsterdam, Zurich, Athens, Mexico City, and more. Two Hatchery artists, Glen Farley (Canada/Norway) and Rob Divers Herrick (San Francisco), were chosen to have their work exhibited in UAMO’s culminating City Festival in Munich in April 2016 (along with selected artists from the other cities in the tour), as well as video and photo documentation of the entire Hatchery exhibition. Hatchery artist David Sanchez Burr (Chicago) participated in a live performance during the Munich event.
The Hatchery: Free Range
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