Ian James, Joshua Schaedel, & Laura Schawelka
Searching the Source

June 29 - July 31

Ian James is an artist primarily working in photography and sculpture who lives and works in Los Angeles. He has presented solo exhibitions at Timeshare (LA), Et Al (SF), Five Car Garage (LA), The Fulcrum (LA), Hernando’s Hideaway (Miami), Vacancy, and Self Actualization (Houston), as well as group exhibitions at Roberts Projects, The Indianapolis Museum of Contemporary Art, the UNLV Barrick Museum, REDCAT, and Holiday Forever (Jackson, WY), among others. James was recently an artist in residence at AIR Sandnes, Norway, SÍM in Reykjavik, Iceland and The Wassaic Project (Wassaic, NY). He has an upcoming monograph to be published with The Fulcrum Press & Special Effects in July 2025. His work is held in the permanent collection at LACMA and he is an adjunct professor at Otis College of Art & Design, Art Center College of Design, and Pasadena City College.

Joshua Schaedel (b. Huntington Beach, CA) is an artist, curator, publisher and educator based in Los Angeles. Schaedel holds an MFA from UC Riverside (2021) and a BFA from Art Center College of Design (2014). He is the founder and director of The Fulcrum Press and Gallery in Los Angeles’s Chinatown. Schaedel's work has been reviewed in Artforum, Hyperallergic and Carla, W Magazine and has been exhibited at Left Field, Gatto Pardo, Seasons LA, Webber Gallery, PSLA, No Moon LA, Leroy’s Happy Place, Outback Art House and Aperture Foundation. Schaedel has maintained a commercial photography practice since 2005. His forthcoming monograph, Conversations with my Father is slated to be released by Deadbeat Club in late 2025.

Laura Schawelka is a Berlin-based artist who uses photography, video, and installation to explore the paradoxical nature of visual representation and the seductive power of media. She graduated from Städelschule Frankfurt and received her MFA from the California Institute of the Arts in 2015. Her awards include a studio grant at the Cité des arts Paris and the Q21 Eikon Artist-in-Residence Prize Vienna. Solo exhibitions of hers have been held internationally, including at Storage, Bangkok, The Fulcrum, Los Angeles, Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen, Goethe-Institut Paris, Galerie FILIALE, Frankfurt, fiebach, minninger, Cologne, Zeller Van Almsick, Vienna, and Villa Heike, Berlin. A comprehensive catalog was published in early 2019 for her first institutional solo exhibition at the Wilhelm-Hack-Museum Ludwigshafen, and a major feature on her work was published in Camera Austria at the end of last year.