Art Lives Here by Evangeline Barrosse
Meet the artists who live, work and play at The Brewery WATCH
A sixteen acre industrial building just off the Los Angeles freeway was once used to brew beer. Now, new ideas are brewing as a community of painters, printmakers, sculptors, and musicians create and connect within its concrete walls.
In 1982, Los Angeles’ “Artist in Residence Program” allowed the use of formerly industrial spaces as live-work spaces. Standing tall in Lincoln Heights, one of the oldest neighborhoods in the city, the Brewery has become much more than a work studio. It is now a beloved home for this tight-knit network of artists who live and breathe art together.
Good music is fuzzy, hard to discern until it lands softly. I wanted to gift a paraprosdokian to a fellow writer, but failing that, I want to make clear how wondrously illuminating this debut EP from Evangeline truly is. While not your typical TikTok nubile by any standard, the promise of this work is unassumingly brilliant, a poetic statement, revealing storytelling cordially nuanced with xylophones, bright guitar chords, and draped by wet, wave-like rhythms.