BIOGRAPHY
Gabie Strong is an artist, musician, and educator exploring spatial constructions of drone and decay as a means to improvise new arrangements of emotive, self-reflexive meaning. Forms take shape through amplified noise performance, collage, assemblage, photography, printmaking, and video. Strong invokes chance operations, improvisation, and non-linear tactical methodologies for creating critical work.
Strong explores concepts of noise and feedback to explore the distress felt from solastalgia, focusing on decay and degradation as a way to play with the uncanny duality of banality and atrocity inherent in late capitalism. In contrast, her teaching pedagogy emphasizes using art and design methodologies to create embodied placemaking and community representation.
Strong additionally acts as an organizer to create community art, including performances, radio broadcasts, festivals and exhibitions. She is interested in the process of collaborative actions using assemblage methodology as a means to imbue everyday objects with multiple meanings through related adjacencies. Strong is the founder of Crystalline Morphologies community imprint dedicated to releasing unclassifiable and improvised sound work by underrepresented women, trans and gender non-conforming artists whose contributions are often overlooked in the context of avant-garde music and art. She co-lead KCHUNG Radio from 2011-2019 to promote community accessible radio broadcasting, participated in the notorious 90's Silverlake pirate radio station KBLT, and was an original organizer of riot grrrl LA from 1992-1994.
Her work has been presented by Lines of Flight, EPOCH Gallery, The Tapeworm, LAMOA DS#3 at Commonwealth & Council, LAND AND SEA OAKLAND+BAMPFA, The UCLA Hammer Museum, MOCA, Current LA, Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts, Knowledges at Mount Wilson Observatory, Sierra Nevada College, Pitzer College Art Galleries, University Art Gallery UC Irvine, LAXArt, Printed Matter’s LA Art Book Fair, Art Los Angeles Contemporary, Human Resources LA, SASSAS, LACE, High Desert Test Sites, LACMA, the MAK Center for Art and Architecture, and Jabberjaw.
She has collaborated with artists and collectives including Sameer Farooq, Pamela Jorden, strom|morts, Drøne, Pauline Lay, Michael Morley (Gate, The Dead C., The Never Quartet), Christopher Reid Martin (Shelter Death, Rotary ECT, CGRSM), John Pearson, Joe Potts/LAFMS, Joseph Hammer, Anna Homler, Jorge Martin, Liz Harris/Nivhek, Ted Byrnes, Raquel Gutiérrez, Tom Watson, Jared Stanley and Matthew Hebert, Save Music in Chinatown, dublab, and KCHUNG Radio, among others.
Gabie Strong performing at the UCLA Hammer Museum “In Real Life: Performance” series, Oct 1 2016. Photograph by Todd Cheney.