Maddy Peters at Other Places art fair (OPaf) 7

Saturday, September 27, 2025

11 am - 6 pm

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Other Places art fair (OPaf) 7
Battery Leary-Merriam

Angels Gate Cultural Center

3601 S. Gaffey St.

San Pedro, CA 90731

Free Admission (suggested $5 donation)

839 is excited to announce its participation in the seventh annual Other Places art fair (OPaf), taking place at Angels Gate Cultural Center in San Pedro on Saturday, September 27. The gallery will feature a solo presentation by Los Angeles-based artist Maddy Peters.

Peters is a prolific creator of independent comic zines, often featuring absurd characters under duress. Her self-published titles like You Have Committed the Cardinal Sin of Being a Customer, Exposure Therapy, and The Baby Man explore humor, horror, and social critique. 839’s space at OPaf will function as a kiosk for Peters’ work, with a curated selection of books alongside two framed, editioned prints. 

Don’t Be a Wreck, a 2025 screenprint, was on view at 839 in the group exhibition Summer 25. The other, debuting at OPaf 7, is A Long Time After (2025), a single-page, comic-style inkjet print in Peters’s signature yellow-and-orange palette, portraying a giant X chromosome looming over a bleak, post-extinction landscape in which AI chatbots talk only to each other, and the new, basic building blocks of life again require creative and recreational pursuits like painting, basketball, and stand-up comedy.

Drawing inspiration from artists such as the Hairy Who, María Medem, Michael DeForge, Royal Robertson, and Gary Larson, Peters also finds amusement in the illustrations that accompany old biology textbooks. The OPaf presentation highlights the power of lo-fi, irreverent image-making as a tool for both refusal and solidarity. This project marks 839’s second time exhibiting at OPaf, following last year’s Bestial Burdens, a presentation of sculpture by Andrés Janacua.

Maddy Peters (b. 1996, Vancouver; lives in Los Angeles) writes and draws comics exploring surreal derailments of the status quo. Alongside her personal sequential work, she has created posters, comics, and illustrations for organizations like the Los Angeles Tenants Union, People's City Council, NOlympics, Solidarity and Snacks, and Albert Corado's 2020 LA city council campaign. Her work has been published by Zine-O-Matic, Midcult, and Junior High LA. She has participated in Comic Arts Los Angeles, LA Zine Fest, San Francisco Zine Fest, Bay Area Queer Zine Fest, Orange County  Zine Fest, Vancouver Comic Arts Festival, and she will appear at Los Angeles Comic Con on Friday, September 26, with Tyler Danna. Her comics can be found at Silver Sprocket (San Francisco), Sour Cherry (San Francisco), Golden Apple (Los Angeles), Chevalier’s Books (Los Angeles), and Lucky’s Books (Vancouver). A 2018 MICA graduate, she will debut her first gallery solo at 839 in January 2027.

About OPaf
Fluid in definition, bonded by an intention to operate in other places outside the traditional art gallery systems, OPaf (Other Places art fair) features participants presenting site-specific booths encapsulating their projects and programming. Representing the growing movement of hard-to-define art spaces, OPaf provides an alternative art fair structure designed specifically for these unconventional projects.
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