Adapta Project

     Adapta Project is a curatorial duo that shows art whenever, however and wherever we can.  Since 2007, we’ve shown in downtown warehouses, a metal-fabrication workshop, The San Diego Children’s Museum, a hallway in CECUT (the Tijuana museum of art), a mansion outside of Playas de Tijuana and a small gallery in North Park.In short, we take over spaces for the purpose of showing art. We were sick of sitting around complaining about the Tijuana/San Diego art scene, so we did something about it: We started producing the quality shows we wanted to see. One show led to another and now there doesn’t seem to be a foreseeable end in sight.               

     We’re not an official nonprofit yet, nor are we independently wealthy (quite the opposite, in fact), so our resources are few, but somehow, someway, we manage to put together museum-quality shows that exhibit a clear curatorial vision, purpose and intent. We tend to lean toward young emerging artists working in all mediums, but we’ve been known to show established mid to late-career artists, too.  If the work is good and fits with our idea for a particular show, we show it.  There’s no pretension or politics involved when it comes to our curatorial process.               

     The duo is Kinsee Morlan and Jorge Tellaeche. Kinsee is the arts and culture editor for San Diego CityBeat, an alt weekly, and Jorge is a fulltime painter and graphic designer. Both reside in Tijuana, but often leap back and forth between San Diego and TJ.