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David Wojnarowicz: A Fire in My Belly

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  Thursday, 4 October 2010 LACE is thrilled and honored to host Cynthia Carr, author of Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz, for a presentation and reading from the ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 2010-2014, LACE, Performance Tagged With: 2010, 2011, A Fire in My Belly, David Wojnarowicz, Echo Park Museum of Art, EPMoA, installation, performance, Public Interest, Public Interest Initiative, workshop

Public Interest: Projects and Prototypes

November 13, 2010 9:30 - 4 pm Expand your thinking of public art in this Los Angeles-centric look at the burgeoning field of arts-based public projects and practices. Fourtenn artists and ... [Read More]

Tagged With: 2010, Carol Stakenas, Dick Hebidge, discussion, Elysian Park Museum of Art, event, FEAST, Krista Caballero, LA Urban Rangers, lecture, Llano del Rio Collective, Los Angeles Poverty Department, Lucy Lippard, Matthew Slaats, Otis Public Practice, panel, Portable City Projects, Projects and Prototypes, Propeller Group, Public Interest, Public Interest: Projects and Prototypes, Public Matters, Rori Knudtson, Sara Daleiden, Sonja Hinrichson, the Watts House Project, workshop

Not Content: Performance 2

with Douglas Kearney, Vanessa Place, and performance conceived by Divya Victor. Join us for readings by writers-in-residence Douglas Kearney and Vanessa Place and a Feral-Cat Attack as ... [Read More]

Tagged With: 2010, Amina Cain, Anna Joy Springer, Coverage, Danielle Adair, Divya Victor, Douglas Kearny, FERAL-CAT ATTACK, HELLOCAST, Jemima Wyman, Kim Schoenstadt, Les Figues Press, Mathew Timmons, Not Content, Not Content: Performance 2, Painted Over/Under, Public Interest, Statement of Fact, Tanya Rubbak, Teresa Carmody, Vanessa Place

PUBLIC INTEREST: STATE OF THE UNION

June 21, 2010 - September 26, 2010 This 31-print installation by New York-based artist Robert Ransick focuses on the thirty-one U.S. states whose voters have amended their constitution to define ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 2010-2014, Exhibition, Installation, LACE Tagged With: 2010, Exhibition, installation, print, Public Interest, Public Interest: State of the Union, Robert Ransick

PUBLIC INTEREST: ULTRA MARINE

Ultra Marine installation

            June 21, 2010 - September 25, 2010 ULTRA MARINE? LACE commissioned murmur's Heather Roberge, a Los Angeles architect and educator, to ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 2010-2014, Installation, LACE Tagged With: 2010, fabric installation, Heather Roberge, installation, murmur, Public Interest, Public Interest Initiative, Public Interest: Ultra Marine, Ultra Marine

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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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