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Destino Elei vía Tiyei

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Destino Elei vía Tiyei
25 de octubre – 13 de noviembre, 2019
Curado por Selene Preciado y Daniela Lieja Quintanar
Esa exposición fue presentado en CECUT Centro Cultural Tijuana, Mezanine
Tijuana, Mexico

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) es un espacio independiente y experimental en el corazón de Hollywood en Los Ángeles, California, fundado en 1978 a partir de la iniciativa de un grupo de artistas cuyos valores fundamentales fueron dedicar este espacio al arte de su tiempo enfocado en la libertad de expresión, a la experimentación de ideas, materiales y nuevas formas y de contenido complejo, político y de compromiso social. Este fue y sigue siendo un momento crucial en la historia de Los Ángeles, ya que entre los trece artistas que lo fundaron se pueden nombrar importantes figuras feministas como Nancy Youdelman o artistas Chicanos como Harry Gamboa Jr., Gronk y Robert Gil de Montes. Esta colaboración entre artistas Chicanos y anglosajones y personajes de la escena punk, queer y feminista es histórica y no se ha repetido en la misma magnitud. El archivo de más de 40 años en LACE es una acumulación de historias, intercambios y de encuentros que hacen eco de su origen y su aún importante presencia y voz en la escena del arte contemporáneo angelino e internacional, así como localmente dentro de Hollywood.

En 2018, año en que LACE cumplía su cuadragésimo aniversario, se presentó la exposición The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE (El impulso de archivo: 40 años en LACE), bajo la curaduría de Matias Viegener. El mismo año, el Instituto de Investigación Getty (Getty Research Institute/GRI) adquirió el archivo de LACE, el cual reúne correspondencias, documentación, afiches, folletos, objetos y diapositivas entre muchos documentos desde sus inicios en las calles del Downtown en 1978 hasta el presente.

Las líneas de investigación y trabajo curatorial de Daniela Lieja Quintanar, curadora de LACE y Selene Preciado, curadora independiente, se funden en su interés por explorar la historia y analizar el presente y futuro de este espacio artístico a partir de una lectura sobre colaboraciones e intercambios de la comunidad artística de Los Ángeles con artistas Latinx y Latinoamericanos.

Esta exposición forma parte de el programa, Se habla español. Para ver mas proyectos bilingües, click aquí.

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LACE is thrilled to introduce three of the artists featured in the exhibition...

✷ Mercedes Dorame (@mercedes.dorame)  is a multi-disciplinary artist who calls on her Tongva ancestry to engage the problematics of (in)visibility and ideas of cultural construction and ancestral connection to land and sky.

✷ Leah King (@leahkinglive) is a multimedia artist working in collage, sound, film, and performance. Her intricately layered visual and sonic works explore race, gender, and power through a futurist lens.

✷ Ann Le (@annsgood) is a LA based artist and Senior Lecturer of Photography and Fine Arts at Loyola Marymount University. Her photomontages explore identity, family history, the diaspora, and the space in between becoming Vietnamese-American.

Join us at the opening reception on Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 2–5 PM at CSULA’s Luckman Gallery. Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP at the link in our bio.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the Teiger Foundation.
⭒ We are excited to welcome Jason Villegas to th ⭒ We are excited to welcome Jason Villegas to the LACE team as our 2025 Hisako Terasaki Intern! ⭒

Jason is currently a student at Los Angeles City College studying animation. He is a Mexican American artist making work about queer identity and bear subculture, inspired by indigenous art, pop culture, and consumerism. Jason makes ceramic sculptures, paintings, comics, and enjoys swimming, sci-fi, collecting toys, and his cats.

Join us in welcoming Jason to the team!
“A Tender Excavation” centers identities that “A Tender Excavation” centers identities that have been systematically excluded from mainstream narratives and representations of not only American art but of representing an “American” identity.

LACE is thrilled to introduce 3 of the artists featured in the exhibition...

⋆ Star Montana (@starmontana) is a photo-based artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She was born and raised in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, which is predominantly Mexican American and serves as the backdrop to much of her work.

⋆ Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai (@prima_jalichndrsakntbhai) is a transdisciplinary artist, working across performance, video and installation, based in Los Angeles. Born in Thailand in 1989, they grew up in Europe before moving to the US in 2011.

⋆ Arlene Mejorado (@ari.mejorado) is an artist from Los Angeles who works through analog and digital image-making processes to contemplate ideas around memory, landscape, and placemaking. Often working intuitively, Mejorado’s practice ranges from traditional documenting to staging scenes that merge elements of installation, performance, and studio photography.

Join us at the opening reception on Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 2–5 PM at CSULA’s Luckman Gallery. Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP at the link in our bio.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the Teiger Foundation.
LACE’s new group exhibition “A Tender Excavati LACE’s new group exhibition “A Tender Excavation” curated by Selene Preciado opens at the Luckman Gallery at CSULA on Saturday, November 1! Join us for the opening reception from 2–5 PM. Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP at the link in our bio.

“A Tender Excavation” approaches research-based artistic practices through propositions of alternative histories, bringing together a group of artists that work with historical and familial photographic archives as a point of departure to construct new narratives and elicit transformation. Artists featured in the exhibition include Zeynep Abes, Susu Attar, Jamil Baldwin, Mely Barragán, Artemisa Clark, Arleene Correa Valencia, Mercedes Dorame, Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, Leah King, Tarrah Krajnak, Heesoo Kwon, Ann Le, Arlene Mejorado, Star Montana, and Camille Wong. “A Tender Excavation” is on view from November 1, 2025–February 21, 2026.

“A Tender Excavation” is made possible thanks to our friends at The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Teiger Foundation.
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