MCASB | Call for Entries Winners 2025-2026!
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| This year, our jury received an impressive number of thoughtful applications from artists across California, from Los Angeles to the San Francisco Bay Area.
We are deeply grateful to everyone who submitted their work this year. The level of creativity and dedication made the selection both inspiring and challenging.
With only two exhibition windows available for the 2025 – 2026 cycle, the jury faced a difficult decision. After careful and thoughtful review, we are happy to announce our two artists selected for the 2025-26 exhibition cycle! |
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| Godofredo Astudillo & Dannah Mari Hidalgo
Their exhibition will be on view at our satellite location, The Riviera Beach House. We look forward to share their powerful and evocative work with the public. |
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| Born in Los Angeles, Godofredo is a Filipino-American artist whose practice centers on figurative painting. His work is profoundly shaped by his formative years growing up in 1980s and 90s Los Angeles, a period that imbues his canvases with a distinctive sense of place and an acute understanding of human interaction.
A profound personal reckoning, marked by a period of significant health challenges, served as a potent catalyst for his artistic evolution, transforming painting into a critical means of processing memory, resilience, and identity.
Through evocative portraiture and explorations of the human form—often featuring figures drawn from lost or imagined connections—Godofredo’s canvases navigate themes of intimacy, transformation, and the elusive nature of human connection, striving to capture the fleeting emotion of a moment.
His work powerfully re-examines personal histories, transforming ephemeral sentiments into enduring visual metaphors.
Godofredo’s solo show will be on view at the Riviera Beach House October 2025 – April 2026. More information reagrding the exhibition’s opening reception coming soon! |
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Dannah Mari Hidalgo (1994.) is a Filipina-American artist based out of California, and Oahu, Hawai‘i where she was born and raised. Hidalgo obtained a Bachelor of Fine Arts (Painting) and a Bachelor of Arts in Psychology at the University of Hawai‘i at M?noa in 2019. Hidalgo has also attended the Lorenzo de’ Medici Institute in Florence, Italy in 2015 and in 2016. Hidalgo recently received her MFA in Studio Art from the University of California, Santa Barbara in 2024. Hidalgo is a proud graduate of Leilehua High School, a Hawai‘i public school.
Hidalgo creates cacophonic narratives through a collage-like technique, identified as “double image.” Two images simultaneously existing on one surface, while still attempting to maintain distinction, compels the viewer to alternate between the individual and collective -recognizing one in the context of another. The concept of double image reinforces dichotomous relationships: abstract and representational, seriousness and humor, depth and flatness, and resolve and tension.
Within the intersections of patriarchal and colonial structures of domestic spaces, servitude of the matriarch, and thus consequentially, of the daughter, is reflected upon in Hidalgo’s recent works, through the lens of the mundane and domestic. These structures condition women from early on to be self-sacrificing and dismissive of their individuality, personal interests, and pursuits, existing to bear the weight of domestic labor and servitude. The lineage of designated and assumed stewardship of domestic spaces is questioned, as well as the weight of maintaining communal spaces at the expense of the self.
Dannah Mari’s solo show will be on view at the Riviera Beach House April 2026 – October 2026. More information to come. |
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