About
Co-founders Matthew McGaughey and Jamison Edgar live and work in Los Angeles. They first met as graduate students at Carnegie Mellon University where they studied the history and artistic traditions of social practice, video, performance, and installation art.
After school, J + M continued to work in the studio but found themselves splitting their energy between projects that fueled their creative research and gigs that enabled them to live in the second most expensive city in the country.
During these years, M freelanced as a music producer for film and television. J accepted a job as the Director of Honor Fraser Gallery. Between 2022 and 2024, the two regularly met for coffee to share rough cuts of works in progress, threads of unrefined research, and—most importantly—to share which artists in Los Angeles were inspiring their work. During these caffeine-fueled rendezvous, they started to pick up on a familiar pattern:
Some of the most exciting artwork in the city never leaves the studio—either because galleries are unwilling to take risks on provocative work by emerging artists, or because the artists themselves are too consumed by their "other art jobs" to fully develop projects for exhibition.