Tuesday, May 19, 2026 at 5:00 PM to 7:00 PM
18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica
**Intersection with Takashi Horisaki** Tuesday, May 19th | 5PM - 7PM 18th Street Arts Center 1639 18th Street. Santa Monica, CA 90404 **Free + Open to the Public** These gatherings are dedicated to gathering our community around good food, conversation, and art. Please stop by for a bite and chat with our community and spotlight artist [Takashi Horisaki.](https://18thstreet.org/artists/takashi-horisaki/) Artist bio Artist portrait 2021. Photo by Yoko Haraoka. © Takashi Horisaki. Takashi Horisaki (b. Japan, based in Los Angeles) draws inspiration from architecture, urban planning, and material culture to examine how the materiality of the built environment intersects with social inequality, community-building, migration, and cultural circulation. Using latex, ceramics, plastic, and other mold-making processes, Horisaki creates and collaboratively collects indexical objects that re-present our physical surroundings by altering the form, rigidity, or color of familiar objects. Combined with storytelling—as recorded in oral histories, photographs, social media posts, or augmented reality apps—Horisaki considers the role our material surroundings play in an arguably de-materializing age.