LOS ANGELES
Other Ways of Seeing/Being
Feb 14 - Mar 8, 2026
Opening Reception: Sat, Feb 14, 7-10 pm
Tiger Strikes Asteroid Los Angeles is pleased to present Other Ways of Seeing/Being, a five person group exhibition featuring William Camargo, H. Leslie Foster II, Dulce Ibarra, Gene Aguilar Magaña, and Carol Zou. Bringing together diverse practices across painting, photography, video, and installation, the exhibition asks how ways of seeing shape ways of being in the world.
At a moment when dominant visual and cultural frameworks normalize violence, exclusion, and dispossession, Other Ways of Seeing/Being challenges how perception itself is formed. How do repeated images, narratives, and values wrap around us over time, shaping what we come to accept as reality. How does taste, identity, or aesthetic preference quietly become a tool for categorization, judgment, or distancing? And what alternative forms of attention might interrupt these inherited structures?
Rather than offering a single position, the artists in this exhibition propose speculative and critical reorientations. Gene Aguilar Magaña explores alternative relationships to water, foregrounding questions of use, care, and futurity. Dulce Ibarra examines familial storytelling, myth making, and the layered meanings embedded in objects and spaces. Carol Zou interrogates the Western gaze by reconfiguring the I Ching through language drawn from anti colonial theory. Through photography, William Camargo counters systemic erasure by amplifying local and lived perspectives. H. Leslie Foster II’s video installation emerges from an experimental collaborative film project that challenges authorship, hierarchy, and collective production.
Together, these works invite viewers to consider how perception might be otherwise, and how reimagining ways of seeing could open new possibilities for relation, value, and agency.
Gene Aguilar Magaña
Gene Aguilar Magaña is an interdisciplinary artist living and working on Tongva land(Los Angeles - Inland Empire). Their work contemplates alternative possibilities of water and city planning through earthenware, 3-D modeling, video documentations and sculptural installations.
Through their research into their familial history in labor and landscape, aguilar magaña’s focus is on land remediation projects, earthenware irrigation systems, and creating awareness about water conservation and land restoration according to direct consultation of local Traditional Ecological Knowledge.
They received their Bachelors in Studio Art from California State University Dominguez Hills and is an MFA candidate in Ceramics at UCLA 2026.
@gene__studio
Dulce Ibarra
Live and work on Tongva/Kizh/Payómkawichum/Ivilyuqaletem land.
Dulce Soledad Ibarra (they/them/theirs) is an interdisciplinary artist, designer, educator, and curator with investments and strategies in community arts and opportunity. As a practicing artist, Ibarra reflects on issues and narration of generational guilt, the working class/poor, labor, displacement, injustice, oral histories, and personal lineage as described in drawings, paintings, sculptures, videos, installations, performances, and participatory outreach. With a heightened sense of the vulnerabilities found in craft, the work is fueled by laboring hands, personal and cultural research, and a heavy interest in place-making and narrative-building. The purposive fascination with materiality, such as with the bolsas de mercado, offer iconographic dialogues between what the objects are, how they are transformed, and how their new pictorial descriptions question power, colonial histories, and curative existence. Ibarra has exhibited, screened, performed, and programmed at venues across Southern California and beyond, including Angels Gate Cultural Center, Charlie James Gallery, Consulado General de México en Los Ángeles, Craft Contemporary, Guggenheim Gallery at Chapman University, Human Resources Los Angeles, ONE Gallery in West Hollywood, and Pieter Performance Space, among others. Ibarra holds an MFA from the University of Southern California and earned a BFA in Sculpture from California State University, Long Beach.
Carol Zou
Carol Zou (b. 1988, Hepu, China) is a U.S. based community-engaged artist whose work engages themes of spatial justice, public pedagogy, and intercultural connection in multiracial neighborhoods. They engage durational, process-based collaborations with community contributors using mediums of craft, media arts, and public installation. As a counterpoint to their collaborative work, their writing and conceptual works interrogate questions of conflict and antagonism constitutive of the public sphere. Their style of multi-sector collaboration gestures to an interdisciplinary, liberatory future in which we are all hopefully a little more undisciplined.
Current and past affiliations include: Yarn Bombing Los Angeles, Michelada Think Tank, Trans.lation Vickery Meadow, Project Row Houses with the University of Houston, Asian Arts Initiative, American Monument, Imagining America, US Department of Arts and Culture, Spa Embassy, Enterprise Community Partners with Little Tokyo Service Center, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, and The Hive.
William Camargo
My practice addresses issues of gentrification, identity, Chicanx/Latinx histories, and the systemic erasure of Brown people with counter-narratives that amplify local perspectives.
Through photography, installation, performance, community archiving, and my role as an arts-based educator, I negotiate the legacies and disempowerment of Brown people. I respond to found archives with series-based artworks and strategies that address geographic place.
With hyperlocal histories, legacies, and contemporary news stories, I confront and challenge social constructs rooted in racist policies and ideologies.
H. Leslie Foster II
Leslie Foster (he/they) is an artist based in Los Angeles (occupied Gabrielino-Tongva land) whose work folds experimental film into multi-sensory installations to create pocket universes. His love for storytelling is inspired by a childhood spent in Indonesia, the Philippines, Thailand, and Berrien Springs, Michigan. Leslie uses video art and installation to create beautifully strange contemplative ecologies that explore Black and queer futurity through the lens of dream logic. Much of their practice is rooted in community-building through art-making and collaboration.
Leslie completed his MFA in Design | Media Arts at UCLA in 2022 and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2022. Their work, which was shortlisted for the Hopper Prize in 2020, and awarded the LACE Lightning Fund in 2023, has been exhibited nationally and internationally, including two exhibitions at the Torrance Art Museum, a show at the Craft Contemporary Museum in Los Angeles, an upcoming show with LA Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), and two solo shows. His work has also been exhibited at film and video art festivals around the world, including Outfest, where his four-channel installation Heavenly Brown Body, won a Grand Jury Prize. Leslie is a Lucas Art Residency Fellow at the Montalvo Art Center in Saratoga, CA, recently completed a residency at Headlands Center for the Arts in Sausalito, California, and currently serves as an Assistant Professor of Time-based Media at Cal State San Marcos. He regularly daydreams about running away with a seafaring band of nomadic artists.
Film Anthology collaborators
59.3 was created with dancer, painter, theorist, and minister KC Slack.
59.8 was created with poet Jacqueline Suskin.
59.9 was created with poet Jade Phoenix Martinez.
59.10 was created with photographer and director Sarah London.
photos by Ruben Diaz coming soon