Tucker Neel is an artist, writer, curator, and educator living and working in Los Angeles, CA. Neel’s work investigates the apparatuses, actions, and contradictions ideology renders invisible for allegiances to congeal and truths to take hold. He is particularly interested in the objects, texts, and rituals that stand in for or alter individual and collective presence and memory. His project-based, heterogenous works explore a range of topics and phenomena, including voicemail services, political campaign ephemera, YouTube concert documentation, internet conspiracy theories, gentrification and boosterism, memorials and monuments, false memories, hook-up apps, souvenir postcards, and museum display systems.
He holds an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design and a BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Occidental College. He has exhibited work in venues such as The MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Samuel Freeman, Control Room, and various site-specific exhibitions and actions in public spaces. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, The L.A. Weekly, and Art Week. As a curator, he has organized exhibitions for CB1 Gallery, The Tom of Finland Foundation, Highways Gallery in Santa Monica, and GATE Projects in Glendale, CA. Neel is an Associate Professor in the Liberal Arts & Sciences department at Otis College of Art & Design. He is also a contributing editor for Artillery Magazine in Los Angeles, CA. His additional writings and reviews have appeared in publications such as X-Tra, ART LIES, Artpulse, and The Los Angeles Alternative Press.
Neel is also the founder and director of 323 Projects, a project space that exists solely as a voicemail system and website. Audience members visit the gallery by calling a phone number to hear works of art, often engaging in participatory actions by leaving sounds of their own to be gathered and remixed by exhibiting artists, who then create new works. 323 Projects exists to provide a dispersed, peripatetic, and always accessible venue for artists of all kinds who seek to explore issues important to their respective practices. The artists involved with 323 Projects provide, create, or perform works that can be appreciated in bits and pieces, and at more than one time, in both public and private spaces, by an unseen, yet omnipresent, local and international audience. More info at 323projects.com
He holds an MFA from Otis College of Art and Design and a BA in Art History and Visual Arts from Occidental College. He has exhibited work in venues such as The MAK Center for Art and Architecture, Samuel Freeman, Control Room, and various site-specific exhibitions and actions in public spaces. His work has been reviewed in Artforum, The Los Angeles Times, The L.A. Weekly, and Art Week. As a curator, he has organized exhibitions for CB1 Gallery, The Tom of Finland Foundation, Highways Gallery in Santa Monica, and GATE Projects in Glendale, CA. Neel is an Associate Professor in the Liberal Arts & Sciences department at Otis College of Art & Design. He is also a contributing editor for Artillery Magazine in Los Angeles, CA. His additional writings and reviews have appeared in publications such as X-Tra, ART LIES, Artpulse, and The Los Angeles Alternative Press.
Neel is also the founder and director of 323 Projects, a project space that exists solely as a voicemail system and website. Audience members visit the gallery by calling a phone number to hear works of art, often engaging in participatory actions by leaving sounds of their own to be gathered and remixed by exhibiting artists, who then create new works. 323 Projects exists to provide a dispersed, peripatetic, and always accessible venue for artists of all kinds who seek to explore issues important to their respective practices. The artists involved with 323 Projects provide, create, or perform works that can be appreciated in bits and pieces, and at more than one time, in both public and private spaces, by an unseen, yet omnipresent, local and international audience. More info at 323projects.com
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