Hi-Dose
In collaboration with Tamara Gonzales and Roxanne Jackson
Hi-Dose
August 23 - October 11, 2025
Opening reception Saturday August 23 from 5-7pm.
The Pit Los Angeles
The Pit is pleased to present Hi-Dose, a group exhibition organized in collaboration with artists Tamara Gonzales and Roxanne Jackson. The exhibition includes 30 artists working across multiple disciplines. The exhibition will be on view at The Pit Los Angeles from August 23 - October 11, 2025 with an opening reception on Saturday August 23 from 5-7pm.
~ Sprung from the forehead of Athena (and Tamara Gonzales and Roxanne Jackson) ~
“Get strong with bare feet on the ground and with everything that is born from it. Get smarter every day by listening to your intuition, looking at the world with the eye of your forehead...always remember: you are the medicine.” María Sabina, Mazatec curandera and poet from Oaxaca, Mexico (1894-1985)
Hi-Dose is an exhibition of psychonauts, witches, and dreamers — artists who vigorously explore the depth of human realities through paint, clay, textiles, crystals, wax, wood, feathers, photography and glitter. With various practices embracing craft, surrealism, abstraction and maximalism, the selected artworks may function as screenshots into portals and hallucinations, glimpses of transcendence and profound changes in perception. In a world obsessed with social media, on the brink of a climate apocalypse and continually overwhelmed by the tragedies of war, these artists go inward. Like the monkey who ate the magic mushroom, heightening human senses and hastening human evolution — we are reminded of the earliest tools that can teach us new truths and lead us into a new way of being. Popular culture’s palpable embrace of the mind-expanding movement has also piqued our interest. Beginning with Michael Pollan’s #1 New York Times best-selling book, How To Change Your Mind, to the more recent Netflix series, Nine Perfect Strangers, to the trends of style icons such as Marc Jacobs, bringing fashion fungi to the runway, to memes of Garfield taking LSD, we welcome in this new zeitgeist with open arms and open chakras.
- Roxanne Jackson
We are the medicine. Let that sit for a minute. Returning to the idea of dosages and the difference of a medicine and a poison residing in the balance of side effects, good vs bad, I’d like to explore the role of humanity in the evolution of consciousness on this planet. Where do we view ourselves in the larger cosmic picture? Are we the medicine here, or the poison? I concur with the idea that the universe is artful. It is artistic. A work of art. My psychedelic experiences reinforce the idea of a cosmic order that unfolds in spirals, fractals, and waves. Ingesting certain plants gives me extra sensory experiences. Human brains seem to have evolved to readily make use of these molecules: a super charged glimpse of possibilities, reminiscent of childhood. Art also has the ability to heighten our senses and perceptions, and I hope to broadcast to anyone listening (ourselves included) that we are capable of making as much beauty in the world as destruction. Sometimes the culture needs a return to order, sometimes an expansion towards chaos. Sometimes both simultaneously. I know of no way we can as a species sustain this universe unless we become the medicine. Let’s leave behind some flowers, let’s leave behind some songs.
- Tamara Gonzales
Artist List: David Altmejd, Polly Apfelbaum, Gina Beavers, Melissa Brown, Kari Cholnoky, Erik Frydenborg, Tamara Gonzales, Joanne Greenbaum, Bendix Harms, EJ Hauser, Roxanne Jackson, Robin Kang, Caroline Larsen, Guadalupe Maravilla, Chris Martin, Sana Musasama, Ruby Neri, Liz Nielsen, Heidi Norton, Bruce Pearson, Vincent Pocsik, Allison Schulnik, Michelle Segre, Jim Shaw, Lauren Silberman, Cammie Staros, Michael Thorpe, Fred Tomaselli, Marnie Weber, and Nicole Wittenberg.
For further information, please contact the gallery at info@the-pit.la.
Erik Frydenborg, daxk unifonn, 2025, Acrylic on basswood, 38 x 61 x 5 in
Cammie Staros, Concha clavata, 2021, Earthenware and porcelain, 27 x 26 x 32.5 in
Chris Martin, Egyptian Funk #7, 2015 - 2016, Oil and glitter on foil mounted on canvas, 58 x 49 x 2 in
Vincent Pocsik, Foot, Cereus, Ears, 2025, Walnut, 35 x 11 x 16 in
Marnie Weber, The Welcome Home Farm, 2012, Collage and acrylic paint on panel, 66 x 36 in
Polly Apfelbaum, Barn Face (Blue Nose), 2021, Glazed terracotta, 20⅛ x 20⅛ x 1⅝ in.
Guadalupe Maravilla, 12/12/24, 2024, Oil on volcanic rock, 13 3/8 x 13 3/8 x 4 1/8 in
Fred Tomaselli, Untitled, 2024, Acrylic, photo collage, resin on panel, 30 x 24 in.
Nicole Wittenberg, Untitled, 2022, Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in
Marnie Weber, The Raccoon, 2007, Wood, foam, aqua resin, surfacing veil, plastic, acrylic paint, caster wheels and rope, 19.5 x 9 x 11.5 in
Ruby Neri, Easter, 2023, Ceramic with glaze, 11 3/4 x 7 3/4 x 6 in
David Altmejd, C-MantiX-v66, 2025, Epoxy clay, epoxy gel, resin, foam, steel rods, acrylic paint, pencil, colored pencil, glass, glass rhinestones, human hair, metal wire, metallic foil, 34 x 34 x 42 in
Heidi Norton, Between the Eye and the Earth, 2025, Wax, dried flowers, glass, wicks, mica powder, moss, plasticine, candles and aluminum stand, 18 x 12 x 4 in.
Joanne Greenbaum, Untitled, 2025, Acrylic and oil on canvas, 60 x 50 in
Melissa Brown, Silver Lake Seduction, 2025, Flashe, acrylic, oil on dibond panel, 42 x 34 in
Liz Nielsen, Morning Glow Stone Arch, 2024, Analog Chromogenic Light Painting on Fujiclear and mounted on Acrylic, 30 x 40 in
Allison Schulnik, Pegasus Pot , 2024, Glazed porcelain, 31.5 x 8 x 8 in
Caroline Larsen, Rainbow Wavey Flowers Arrangement, 2025, Oil on Canvas over Panel, 43 x 43 in
Tamara Gonzales, Not Yet Titled, 2025, Acrylic and watercolor on paper collage., 51 x 40 in
Kari Cholnoky, Nuclear Option, 2025, Acrylic, faux fur, polar fleece, epoxy putty, paper pulp, wire, 34 x 55 x 11 in.
Robin Kang, Iglesia de la Amazonia, 2024, Handwoven cotton, iridescent lurex, chenille, natural dyes, mixed media, canciones de medicina de Alonso del Rio, 75 x 55 in
Bendix Harms, MY Sun, 2018, Oil on canvas, 59 x 51⅛ in.
Lauren Silberman, Tecopa Trompe L'oeil, 2024, Archival Pigment Print, 27 x 33 in
Michael Thorpe, Translation is as Direction, 2025, Tapestry, quilting cotton, batting and thread, 84 x 52 in
Roxanne Jackson, Black Flamingo Vase , 2025, Ceramic, glaze and luster, 28 x 16.5 x 13 in
EJ Hauser, Sasha’s Lab, 2025, Oil on canvas, 20 x 16 in
Bruce Pearson, Soon enough, 2017, Oil and acrylic on styrofoam, 36 x 36 in
Michelle Segre, Alternative Entries, 2025, Cement, metal, yarn, acrylic polymer, canvas, pastel, and other mixed media, 95 x 72 x 8 in