09/10/2026
noé olivas
TIERRA Y CIELO
September 12 - October 17, 2026
OPENING RECEPTION
SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12th
5pm to 8pm
Gallery Hours
Tuesday - Sunday
11am - 4pm
BEST PRACTICE is pleased to present Tierra y Cielo, a solo exhibition of recent works by Southern California-based artist noé olivas. Through sculpture, painting, video, and installation, the exhibition reflects on migration, memory, and belonging, while calling upon our deepest selves, our ancestors, and the divine for guidance during these tumultuous times.
noé olivas is a multidisciplinary artist, cultural worker, educator, and cofounder of Crenshaw Dairy Mart, a community art space centered on ancestry, abolition, and healing. Raised in a working-class, first-generation Mexican family, olivas grounds his practice in the lived realities of labor, migration, and intergenerational knowledge. Working across sculpture, installation, painting, drawing, printmaking, video, performance, and archival research, he explores what he calls the Poetics of Labor: the socio-political and spiritual dimensions of labor, lineage, and liberation.
Through collaborative and community-based projects, olivas examines the often-invisible labor that sustains everyday life while tracing its circulation between Southern California and the U.S.–Mexico border. Rooted in the Chicanx tradition of Rasquachismo and informed by the Black Assemblage Movement, his work transforms found and everyday materials into acts of collective remembrance, healing, and resistance, asserting that creativity is inseparable from community and that art-making can function as a form of spiritual repair.
