Lauren Bon
Lauren Bon is an environmental artist whose work engages land, infrastructure, and memory. Through Metabolic Studio, she develops regenerative frameworks that transform systems of extraction into systems of care.
Collaborators
Milli Macen-Moore
Milli is at the heart of Metabolic Studio’s FarmLab, our vibrant mycorrhizal network of soil-based practitioners, wild water tenders, plant guardians, community scientists, and seed harvesters. Grounded deeply in her Los Angeles roots and Indigenous Mixteca heritage, Milli centers traditional ecological knowledge. She coordinates our commitment to community stabilization in and around the LA River and the Arroyo Seco. At Counterpublics, she brings an evocation of all living systems into our shared spell-casting, weaving together land-based wisdom and a vision of mutual care.
Alex Tanasi
Alex Tanasi, a principal artist of Metabolic Studio’s a Mano division transforming raw clay from the LA River floodplain into vessels, instruments, and objects that carry community stories. A ceramicist rooted in both craft and experimentation, his work at Counterpublic highlights making as a social practice—connecting people to land, history, and one another through shared creation.
Corazon del Sol
Corazon del Sol is a third-generation Los Angeles-based artist whose work has been shown both domestically and internationally. Her practice is rooted in collective exploration and sense-making through conversation, movement, video, sculpture, and other experimental forms. At the core of her work is the belief in art as dialogue, where meaning emerges through shared process. Her work explores how the personal and the political are bound together, inviting shared reflection on how this entanglement might open pathways for repair and reimagining.
Patrisse Cullors
Patrisse Cullors believes in the power of alchemy. The artist and abolitionist from Los Angeles, California has long been drawn to the unseen, and is inspired by the beauty of freedom found in different planes and dimensions. “The art that I’m making asks the viewer to witness the whole of their humanity,” Cullors says. Over the last two decades, Cullors’ art and performances have been featured at cultural institutions across the globe, to include The Broad, The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, LTD Gallery, Crystal Bridges Museum, The Fowler Museum, Frieze LA, The Hammer Museum, Vashon Center for the Arts, Langston eHughes Performing Arts Center, and Southern Guild. Her work also will be featured as part of a major exhibition at LACMA during fall 2024.
