2022 MFA Thesis Exhibition: Leo Alas

	Leo Alas Bathhouse Rules 2022 carved and burned wood.
	Leo Alas Community Archive 2022 3' x 4' photos from loved ones in plexiglass
	Leo Alas Community Archive 2022 3' x 4' photos from loved ones in plexiglass
	Leo Alas Community Archive 2022 3' x 4' photos from loved ones in plexiglass
	Leo Alas How Can I Help You? 2022 3' x 4' x 2' wood, tile, fabric, found objects, candles
	Leo Alas Bathhouse Walls 2022 2'x3' and 2'x 6' wood, tile, marker
	Leo Alas Bathhouse Walls 2022 2'x3' and 2'x 6' wood, tile, marker
	Leo Alas The Babies 2022 size variable. ceramic, soil, sand, chamomile, ivy
	Leo Alas Community Archive 2022 size variable. resin, ceramic, eucalyptus, foam, and found objects

About the Installation

Bathhouse Rules is an immersive installation that models a vision for collective care as our hope for the future, featuring collaborations and performances by Leo Alas, Cesar Alas, Kai Chan, Xixi Edelsbrunner, Sophie Roessler, and more. The Bathhouse is an anti-utopia, anti-time proposition towards regeneration and a political ethic based in love.

LEO ALAS (b. 1995) is a research-based interdisciplinary artist based in Los Angeles exploring themes around care work and grief, through a Marxist-Feminist lens. They contemplate where care exists in family structures, at work, in a community, who performs care, and who receives care. Their practice journeys into world building and Queer political imagination, exploring what is possible, what is potent, and what is beautiful, in an effort to find healing and joy in late-stage capitalism. Leo studied Fine Arts and Sociology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and received their MFA in Fine Arts at Otis College of Art and Design. Leo is a co-founder of Queer Spa Network, an artist-in-residence at Level Ground Co. in Los Angeles for 2021-2022, and a bathing enthusiast.