County Lifeguards is a strikingly expansive work whose magnifying presence draws us into this gathering of warm and somewhat skeletal figures. Chase Hall, originally from Saint Paul, Minnesota, moved to Los Angeles with his family when he was in his teens. Upon first arriving in Los Angeles, Hall was drawn to the city’s surfing culture, however, he faced intense violence and micro-aggressions in those spaces. In Los Angeles, he worked as a Starbucks barista, where he began to consider using coffee, a product cultivated throughout Africa, as an artistic medium. Working on cotton canvases, the materiality of Hall’s pieces reflects his biracial identity. He examines the "hybridity between those two spaces" and what it means to mix them. This work, made as a reflection on the hate he experienced as a teen, depicts the first all-Black team of lifeguards in Los Angeles.