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Gender and Its Multiples

May 14, 1993 This festival featured experimental videos that challenged normalcy in personal experience, media representation and traditional filmic narratives. The program included: Alethiea by Tran ... [Read More]

Filed Under: LACE, Screening, Video Tagged With: 1993, Anson Mak, Azian Nurudin, Chuleenan Svetvilas, Ellen Pau, experimental, festival, film, Gender and Its Multiples, Kym Rajusa, Madhavi Rangachar, Maria T. Rodriguez, May Fung, Maya Chowdhry, Meena Nanji, Ming-Yuen S. Ma, music, music video, Pablo Tapay Bautista, Ritsuko Uchido, Screening, Soo Jin Kim, Tran T. Kim-Trang, Video, video festival

Quartet for Deafblind

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January 8 - February 7, 1993 Quartet for Deafblind is in the collections of the National Gallery of Canada and the Museum of Modern Art. Norman Cohn has been making experimental non-fiction video ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1990-1994, Exhibition, LACE, Video Tagged With: 1993, Exhibition, experimental, Norman Cohn, Quartet for Deafblind, Video

Seventh Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival

April 10 - May 2, 1992 An ongoing six-week program featuring documentary as well as experimental and performance art video pieces dealing with issues ranging from identity and culture to conflicts ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1990-1994, LACE, Screening, Video Tagged With: 1992, Anna Seeto, documentary, experimental, festival, film, film festival, Mako Idemitsu, Mark Kwok-Wah Tong, performance art video, Rii Kanzaki, Screening, Seventh Annual Los Angeles Asian Pacific Film and Video Festival, Shikha Jhingan, Valerie Soe, Video

Joseph Paul Taylor / Living Television Jim Staley, Bill Frisell, Ikue Mori / Mumbo Jumbo Leroy Jenkins

April 22, 1988 A presentation in collaboration with ICA, LACE and Meet the Composers/California of new and experimental music by many of the nation's most significant composers and composer ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1985-1989, LACE, Performance Tagged With: 1988, Bill Frisell, experimental, Ikue Mori, Jim Staley, Joseph Paul Taylor, Joseph Paul Taylor / Living Television Jim Staley Bill Frisell Ikue Mori / Mumbo Jumbo Leroy Jenkins, Leroy Jenkins, music, performance

Shelley Hirsch

February 19, 1988 Experimental vocalist Shelley Hirsch improvised with opera, country music, extended vocal technique, parody, characterization, movement and objects. ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1985-1989, LACE, Performance Tagged With: 1988, experimental, movement, music, opera, performance, Shelley Hirsch

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The works selected for “A Tender Excavation” d The works selected for “A Tender Excavation” depart from personal, familial, or historical photographic archives which ultimately are recontextualized through installation, collage, painting, film, video, sculpture, or mixed media, reimagining and reconnecting lost fragments to speak about personal and collective resilience, constructing new possibilities for an interconnected futurity.

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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