Exhibitions
Devin Reynolds // Vaguely Political
August 1st - November 7th, 2020
Vaguely Political is an extension of Reynolds’ first L.A. solo show, titled Vaguely Familiar in 2019. Reynolds continues to reference hand painted signage, narrative mural painting techniques and material application on board and canvas. The work in this exhibition depicts the imagery of his blue-collar upbringing in Venice, CA in the early 90s.
FELIX ART FAIR 2020
February 13th - February 16th, 2020
Felix is a contemporary art fair co-founded by Dean Valentine, Al Morán, and Mills Morán.
Devon Tsuno // Shikata Ga Nai
February 8th - May9th, 2020
To yonsei, like Devon Tsuno, shikata ga nai is synonymous with camp. We learned to call it camp—the noun not modified by internment or incarceration or concentration—just camp. To our issei and nisei elders, camp couldn’t be helped. Post-camp, the sansei navigated between their parents’ intense desire to assimilate and the radical awakenings of the 60s and 70s.
Then: An Historical Survey of The Collective
The Collective
The Collective is an historic, Los Angeles Arts Organization, formally in existence from 1999 through 2006. The Collective is significant to the rich history of Los Angeles artists, arts organizations and arts activism, and specifically to the history of black artists and arts professionals working in the City and County of Los Angeles, and black-owned galleries and community spaces of that time.
Devin B Johnson // The Atmosphere of Certain Uncertainty
September 21st - November 16th, 2019
The work presented in The Atmosphere of Certain Uncertainty was created in response to Frantz Fanon’s 1952 novel “Black Skin White Masks”, in which Fanon attempts to break down and conceptualize the contemporary black male psyche. Johnson metaphorically reinterprets the “white mask” as white socks that serves as a reminder of that assimilation we walk into everyday just as much as the mask, as implied by Fanon.
Mappings
In noting geography as a spatial practice which highlights ways of seeing and unseeing, this exhibition asks how these artists works become a type of absorptive cartography offering realms of inimitable sight and place. These are maps of imaginings wherein the elements of here are strategies of placemaking.
Deep Waters
Deep Waters is group exhibition exploring the here and now as liminal space. Situated between the wounded histories of our ancestors and a collective memory of a future shaped by our hand. Works included in the exhibition by JEM, Andre Keichian, Karla Ekatherine Canseco, Savannah Wood, Ellie Lee, Noe Olivas and Maria Maea.
Plain Sight
This exhibition features work by artists both established and emerging, who are seeking a nuanced understanding of history through an intimacy with the natural world. Using research, ritual, and close observation, these artists make work that questions authoritative reality and shapes new ways of seeing Southern California.