Event Info

Join us for a gallery talk between Kristofferson San Pablo and Jennifer Frias about the artist’s For All The Ghosts exhibition. The accompanying catalog for For All The Ghosts will also be related on this day!

Kristofferson San Pablo describes ghosts as the people, images, and places that linger in memory. They include family and friends, the landscape of Southern California, and the passing images and stories that crowd our screens.

The boundary between online and offscreen life has all but vanished. Our content feeds, shaped by algorithms, bring us moments of humor, joy, grief, and violence in the same breath. These are at once personal and shared, local and global. Working across painting, drawing, installation, and sculpture, San Pablo explores the intersections between our shared culture and personal experience to explore the absurdities, contradictions, and histories hidden within.

For All the Ghosts is Kristofferson San Pablo’s first solo exhibition in the Inland Empire, the region where the artist grew up. For All the Ghosts is a homecoming, and home is never without its ghosts.

Bios

Kristofferson San Pablo is a Filipino artist based in Los Angeles. San Pablo’s work moves between the autobiographical (portraits of the people and places around him) and observations of the world through his lens as an observer/participant in pop culture. In his work, scenes of everyday life evoke ideas about identity, beauty and humor but are met with ideas about authority, classism and piracy. To San Pablo, those oppositions serve as a way to create a type of light-hearted but also critical narrative that illustrates his experience growing up in California.

Jennifer Frias is visual arts curator and educator whose multidisciplinary experience spans curatorial practice, museum education, community engagement, and collections management. She currently serves as Director/Curator of the College of the Arts Galleries at California State University, Fullerton (CSUF). Prior to her role at CSUF, Frias was Director of Education and Academic Programs at UCR ARTS / California Museum of Photography, where she co-founded OFF THE BLOCK, an award-winning summer intensive for high school filmmakers. Films from the program have been recognized by PBS SoCal, the Palm Springs International Film Festival, and Sundance. She previously held curatorial positions at UCR’s Sweeney Art Gallery and Culver Center of the Arts, and worked in the art collections at The Huntington Library, Art Museum and Botanical Gardens. Her curatorial projects focus on artists practices and processes, marginalized narratives, and the intersections of art and technology, often bridging contemporary visual culture with classroom curriculum and broader community engagement.