March 2018
The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE
Curated by Matias Viegener with Exhibition Design by Jeff Cain March 15, 2018- Ongoing The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE is a Project Room installation that pulls from material found in LACE’s archive that either highlights or disputes our conceptions of LACE’s history. Accumulated over 40 years, it has no organizing system beyond what LACE staff considered worth saving. It enfolds many stories about the space, less woven than overlaid and amassed. This exhibition is a conversation about our expectations of the…
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SOUND OFF: Silence + Resistance
January 8 - March 15, 2020 Curated by Abigail Raphael Collins, LACE's 2020 Emerging Curator Opening Reception: January 8, 7-10 pm Workshop with Kameelah Janan Rasheed: February 29, 12-2 pm 2020's Emerging Curator Exhibition engages silence as a tool of resistance. The exhibition, SOUND OFF: Silence + Resistance, fifth in the Emerging Curators series, opens in January 2020 Interdisciplinary artist Abigail Raphael Collins, selected by jury, explores silence as an expression of political resistance. Works by artists and activists engage…
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Particularly Evasive (workshop by Kameelah Janan Rasheed)
February 29, 2020 2-4pm rsvp@welcometolace.org This workshop/performance is part of SOUND OFF: Silence + Resistance exhibition curated by Abigail Raphael Collins In Zora Neale Hurston's anthropological collection, Mules and Men (1935) she writes, “he Negro in spite of his open faced laughter, his seeming acquiescence, is particularly evasive All right, I’ll set something outside the door of my mind from him to play with and handle. He can read my writing but he sho’ can’t read my mind.” This workshop will…
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LACHSA Visual Arts Dept. Annual Spring Exhibition
March 28 - April 5, 2020 Opening Reception: March 28, 5-8 pm Los Angeles County High School for the Arts is a tuition-free, award-winning public high school (9-12) providing college preparatory academics and pre-professional, conservatory- style arts education for promising young artists in Los Angeles County. Founded in 1984, LACHSA is located on the CSULA campus and is recognized as one of the premiere high schools in the nation. Curated by Barry Markowitz.
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On Seeking Authenticity Through Fictions: Ghesseh Pari Dar Jangale (A Fairy’s Tale in the Forest)
April 8 - April 15, 2020 Project organized by Ana Briz and Alexandre Dorriz On Seeking Authenticity Through Fictions: Ghesseh Pari Dar Jangale (A Fairy’s Tale in the Forest) is a survey exhibition with pedagogical programming surrounding the contents of Mary Apick’s A Fairy’s Tale in the Forest (Ghesseh Pari Dar Jangale), a children’s sing-a-long puppet show from the 1990s that was conducted in Farsi. In 1993, a VHS videotape of the show began circulating for sale around major North…
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