Angeline Rivas and Christina Catherine Martinez – Artist Talk and Reception

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swirling and circular lines of different bright colors

Angeline Rivas, Suboptimalist Manifesto / Birth of Venus (detail), 2025, acrylic, gouache, and graphite on panel, 84 x 60 in. Courtesy the artist and Chris Sharp Gallery. Photo: EG Schempf


Join us at the Nerman Museum on Wednesday, March 11 for an artist talk and reception for Angeline Rivas: I Had a Dark Night of the Soul and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt. Angeline Rivas and Christina Catherine Martinez will engage in an open conversation from 6-7 p.m. with a reception to follow.

This event FREE, RSVP is requested.

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Angeline Rivas (b. 1981) was born and raised in Kansas City, MO and is now based in Los Angeles, CA. Rivas earned her MFA in 2022 from the ArtCenter College of Design, Pasadena, CA and her BFA in 2005 from Otis College of Art and Design, Los Angeles, CA.

Christina Catherine Martinez lives and works between Los Angeles, Mexico City, and New England. Her practice is a marriage of her experience as a freelance art critic and her background as a classically trained clown. Christina has written for The Eric Andre Show and Women Wearing Shoulder Pads, the first ever Spanish-language show on Adult Swim.

Angeline Rivas: I Had a Dark Night of the Soul and All I Got Was This Lousy T-Shirt will be on view in the Nerman Museum’s Kansas Focus Gallery, First Floor, through May 3, 2026.