Category: Panel & Artist Talks

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RECONSTITUTION at LAXART

 
RECONSTITUTION
Apr 23 – May 27, 2017

Opening Reception: 

April 23, 2017, 4pm—7pm

Reconstitution is a group exhibition that is an update and recasting of the 1987 exhibition Constitution originally organized by the art collective Group Material. The exhibition will include work by: Kathryn Andrews, Shagha Ariannia, Gretchen Bender, Dawoud Bey, Mary Ellen Carroll, Ching Ho Cheng, Tseng Kwong Chi, Sonya Clark, Joeff Davis, Sid M. Duenas, Melvin Edwards, Ridykeulous (Nicole Eisenman & A.L. Steiner), Rafa Esparza, Lauren Davis Fisher, Arshia Haq, Rachel Harrison, Sharon Hayes, Edgar Heap of Birds, Brendan Fowler/Election Reform, Gronk, Anish Kapoor, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Kang Seung Lee, Zoe Leonard, Steve Locke, M (aka Michael Chow), Van McElwee, Harold Mendez, Mike Mills, Jenny Perlin, Jefferson Pinder, Christina Quarles, Umar Rashid, Marie “Big Mama” Roseman, Peter Saul, Augustus Sherman, Maryam Taghavi, Mark Themann, Danh Vo, Christine Wang, Timothy E. Washington, Lawrence Weiner, and the AIDS Memorial Quilt.

LAXART Text installation by Oscar Magallanes with assistance by Aaron Estrada, Alfreda Diaz and Adrian Alfaro.
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Crossing Borders Exhibition

October 22 – December 4, 2014
Opening reception: October 22, 2014
Conversation with the artists, October 22, 6 p.m.

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Guest curator Eric Almanza ‘04, a CSUDH alumnus and painter whose works will also be on display. He has selected the following artists whose work focuses on migration and immigration: Nery Gabriel Lemus, Oscar Magallanes, Antonio Pelayo, Eric Almanza and San Jose pure-fiber artist Consuelo Jimenez Underwood.

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Artist talk with Joel “Rage” Garcia from SHG

Self Help Graphics & Art has a long history of producing art that speaks out about many societal issues long before making it to the supreme court or prime time television. Civil Rights, farm workers rights, discrimination, discrimination due to sexual orientation and other issues in the LGBT community, women’s rights here in the U.S. and abroad, gentrification, the concentration of wealth, police brutality. These are just a few of the issues that have been addressed in the thousands of prints produced by some of the most important Chican@, Latin@ and Political artist at SHG in the past 40 years. I am honored to be part of such an important East LA institution, archive and to be exhibiting along side such great artist.

I will be participating in an artist talk along with Joel “Rage” Garcia, a fellow artist and Program Manger for Self Help about art and politics moderated by Crewest Gallery owner Man One.

 

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Affair of the Art

I’ve been participating in this art sale and fundraiser for I believe 6 years now and it is always a great event. All proceeds go to Ryman Arts. It is held at the beautiful home and garden of Marty & Leah Sklar. Here is the info

Set Sail with Ryman Arts

Twenty Second Annual Art Show and Sale

Benefitting Ryman Arts Core Programs

Saturday – September 24, 2011

7:30 – 10:00 p.m.| $100 per person

Includes hors d’ouevres and cocktails

Patron Event: Dreaming Big

5:00 – 7:30 p.m.| $300 per person

Includes pre-event reception, viewing, and purchase opportunity.

How BIG did KARL HOLZ, JOE LANZISERO and Walt Disney Imagineers dream? So big that The Disney Dream – the Disney Cruise Line’s third iconic ship – has been sailing the Caribbean since January with 4,000 passengers aboard, hosted and pampered by a crew of 1,500 in the quintessential cruising experience.

Join us to see the design concepts and hear the behind-the-scenes stories of The Dream from Joe Lanzisero and Karl Holz.

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Miles MacGregor, Emory Douglas and Oscar Magallanes at the US/Mexico border in Arizona.
NEW YORK — A delegation of more than 50 acclaimed writers, visual artists, and filmmakers will gather in Tucson and Phoenix, Arizona September 10-16 to kick off a major national arts-based campaign challenging punitive, anti-immigrant laws and longstanding federal immigration policies.
A coalition of artists, CultureStrike, will come together in Arizona–epicenter of the immigration crisis–to launch a national initiative to produce visual, written, video and other works designed to educate the public about the devastating effects of our nation’s current policies toward immigrants, while mobilizing communities to fight against punitive and discriminatory immigration laws nationwide.
Among the delegates are a number of award-winning writers including National Book Award winner Maxine Hong Kingston and National Book Award finalist Jessica Hagedorn, New Yorker Magazine “20 under 40″ writer Daniel Alarcón, a Tony Award winner, two MacArthur Fellows, four American Book Award winners, and a Yale Poetry Prize winner. The group also includes notable visual artists such as Emory Douglas, former Minister of Culture of the Black Panther Party; El Mac, prominent street artist and painter; and Tania Bruguera, interdisciplinary artist and 1998 Guggenheim fellow.
“We believe Arizona represents the epicenter in a major civil rights battle of our time,” saidFavianna Rodriguez, a visual artist and a founder of CultureStrike. “As artists and writers, we have come together to stand against a growing anti-immigrant climate, enabled by hatemongers like Pearce and Arpaio, as well as Obama’s failed and repressive federal immigration policy.”

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Zocalo’s Street Art Panel Discussion

Had a good week. On Thursday went to the Fowler Museum for Zocalo’s Street Art panel discussion with a friend. Before we went in I ran into Shervin Shahbazi from Morono Kiang a great gallery in downtown LA. Also had a good talk with Carol Wells from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.

The talk itself was nothing great. Had it not been for my good friend Retna and Man 1 from Crewest gallery the talk would have lacked in substance and been a bit boring. It would have been nice if the moderator, Jori Finkel from the LA Times would have brought up the topic which was “does street art humanize cities.” Also seems as if no one wanted to talk about the elephant in the room, censorship or more specifically the removal of Blu’s antiwar mural from MoCA. Perhaps they did not want to offend Jeffery Deitch who was in the audience.

The reception proved interesting with LA Raw setting out a long print of Blu’s mural before it’s removal as well as an image of the whitewashed wall. They also handed out some condom’s reading “Don’t be blu Deitch, Practice safe art.

My friend and fellow board member at Self Help Graphics, Rudy Espinoza and I got to chat a bit with Deitch but he seemed a bit frazzled and anxious to get out of there. Go figure.


*Photos by Aaron Salcido.