SEASONS
Seasons is an artist-run contemporary photography gallery started in 2024 in Los Angeles, California. It is currently located in Chinatown at 422 Ord St on the 2nd Floor.
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Seasons 05: Alex Delapena and Patrick Gookin Anchor Points
10/18/25-11/09/25
Artists
Alex Delapena // Patrick Gookin
Statement
Anchor Points brings together two artists who understand photography as a recursive space where physical action and observation converge. Alex Delapena and Patrick Gookin use the camera to probe what remains of the medium’s descriptive power when gesture becomes material and material becomes subject.
Their work creates a dialogue between object and translation, fabrication and distortion, clarity and doubt. The images appear as notes rather than resolutions; tracing something coherent within systems built to fail. Anchor Points hangs in the balance of what gives and what holds, revealing forms that insist on being seen.
Bios
Alex Delapena is an artist who is hearing impaired and uses hearing aids. He was born in the Philippines, and raised in Honolulu, Hawai’i. His art practice beings with curiosities and playful improvisations to question how multiple gestures will be shown together with photography. He merges drawing, painting, and sculpture to perform for the camera. His investigations and research lead into exploring cultural histories and iconographies to influence his work.
Delapena lives and works in Los Angeles, California. He is currently an instructor for Chaffey College and Pasadena City College. Delapena received his MFA (2022) from the University of California, Riverside
and his BFA (2015) at the University of Hawai’i at Manoa. He was an artist in residence at the Center of Photography at Woodstock,Kingston, NY (2023) and 3331 Arts Chiyoda, Tokyo, Japan (2020). His most recent exhibitions include: Radical Geographies: Possibilities of the Imagined Landscape, Wignall Museum of Contemporary Art, Rancho Cucamonga, CA, Shipping and Receiving, Escolar / The Fulcrum Press, Santa Rosa, CA, and Float On, Hō’ikeākea
Gallery, Pearl City, HI (2024).
Patrick Gookin (b. 1983, Lawrence, MA) is an artist living and working in Los Angeles. He received his MFA from the University of Hartford in 2019 where he was awarded the Hannes Wanderer Prize. Gookin’s work has been exhibited in Los Angeles, New York City, and Berlin and featured or reviewed in publications including Hyperallergic, Der Greif, Self Publish Be Happy, Humble Arts, and The Village Voice. He is a co-founder of Seasons, an artist-run gallery in Los Angeles.