Joanna Beray ingco is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles, Ca

Earning her MFA in Screenwriting from the David Lynch Graduate School of Cinematic Arts, like David, she is a painter first before finding a path in film. Her acrylic on canvas works combine multiple visual textures and contrasting viewpoints in one image; 3D and super-flat clip-art elements, laboriously, completely hand-done to address the over-informed, ultra-produced digital landscape of the modern world while preserving the process and practice of traditional painting. Geared towards salty and sweet, her writing embraces her love for horror and rom-coms, the surreal and nostalgic, to push the boundaries of expectation and dissect the essence of the human condition with a dash of optimism. At CalArts, she studied music, performance, film, production, and dance, with a primary focus on Fine Art. That nurturing environment fortified her conceptual awakening under the guidance of the late Michael Asher, a prominent figure in Modern Art history, celebrated as the patron saint of Institutional Critique, as well as artist, writer, and current co-director of the CalArts Program in Art and a critic in the Yale School of Art sculpture program, Leslie Dick. Her words and work have been featured in MILK, Artillery, and ISSUE Magazine.

DISTANT DESTINY (above)

acrylic on canvas. 48 x 72 x 1.5 inches. 122 x 183 x 4 cm.