ARTIST TALK Valentin Goppel/Adali Schell/ Miles Bitton

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<h2>ARTIST TALK: Valentin Goppel, Adali Schell, and Miles Bitton</h2>Join us for an inspiring in-person artist talk featuring Valentin Goppel, Adali Schell, and Miles Bitton. This event offers a unique opportunity to hear directly from these talented artists about their creative processes and artistic journeys.Date and Time: June 28, 2026 at 1:00-3:00 PM(Pacific Time)Don't miss this exciting chance to engage with contemporary voices in art and explore new perspectives!

Valentin Goppel was born in 2000 in Regensburg, Germany. Since 2019, he has been studying documentary photography in Hannover. In his work, he approaches broad societal issues by reflecting on his own experience. The work thus serves as a subjective report, combining document and expression.For his first major project “Between the Years,” Valentin photographed friends and acquaintances in both found scenes and arranged portraits, trying to capture the diffused feelings of growing up in times of the pandemic. The work was published as a photobook in 2024 by British publisher GOST. It won the Leica Oskar Barnack Newcomer Award and the Visa pour L’image Urban Newcomer Grant.Since 2023, Valentin has been working on his second major project “False Prophet Radio,” a personal exploration of contemporary America. Traveling alone through the United States, he draws from his own sense of displacement to construct a portrait of today’s America.

MILES BITTONLost In Space Artist Statement: In my college years, living in upstate New York, I would often find myself called down to the concentrated cosmos in the middle of west 3rd between 6th and Macdougal. I bore witness to countless irreplicable moments in this dark little room. Interchanging instruments. Unexpected appearances. Colliding genres. I often operate in unpredictable environments. This, by far, is the least predictable. Nothing to control other than my own camera. I go where I can, anticipate the action. Create my own calm amidst the clash of brilliant musicians. Everything happens here. The Blue Note Jazz Club, which by name alone carries more than a hundred years of history, has welcomed me with open arms since I was an eager college freshman. The club remains constant. Every Autumn, I count on its embrace. When I walk through those swinging doors, I feel as I always did... enamored by the neon lights, the low ceilings, the crowded bar. The photographs, a visual history of the venue lining the entryway walls. This is an alternate history. A band which never existed as presented here: yasiin bey on vocals, Robert Glasper on keys, Chris Dave on drums, Keyon Harrold on trumpet, Vicente Archer on bass, Jaleel Shaw and Marcus Strickland on saxophone.

Adali Schell (b. 2001, Los Angeles, CA) is a photographer from Los Angeles, California. He explores themes of identity and memory through his upbringing in Southern California and family roots in rural Ohio. He received his BFA from the UCLA’s School of Arts and Architecture, has exhibited internationally at les Rencontres d’Arles, the Museum of Warsaw and Leica Gallery Los Angeles, and has been published in numerous publications, including The New Yorker, The Guardian and The New York Times.

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