Contemporary Art

The Broad is pleased to announce Desire, Knowledge, and Hope (with Smog), an exhibition drawn entirely from the Broad collection, showcasing works by Los Angeles-based artists. Drawing its title from a John Baldessari work, the exhibition includes reflections on L.A. as a city in flux, and on societal issues that extend far beyond it. The show includes the work of 21 artists across varying generations who were raised in the Los Angeles area, or relocated to the city.

 

Tuesdays, Wednesdays & Fridays – 11:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.,

Thursdays – 11:00 a.m. – 8:00 p.m.,
Saturdays & Sundays 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m.

Bahia Reverb: Artists and Place presents the work of ten former fellows at the Sacatar Institute in Bahia, Brazil, all from North America and of African descent, to reflect on how Bahia, an epicenter of the African diaspora, has fueled their work and changed their understanding of themselves.

Artists include Gerald Cyrus, Juan Erman Gonzalez, Mark Steven Greenfield, Karen Hampton, Rik Freeman, Francis Tre Lawrence, Germaine Ingram, Sandra Brewster, Precious Lovell, and Tim Whiten.

Bahia Reverb: Artists and Place is organized by the California African American Museum (CAAM) and Art + Practice (A+P). The exhibition is curated by Bia Gayotto, independent curator, artist, and writer. CAAM at A+P is a five-year collaboration.

Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market is inspired by Akira and Sachiye Shiraishi’s small neighborhood market (1957–1970) in East Los Angeles. Created by artist Glenn Akira Kaino (Akira’s grandson and namesake), the exhibition explores the transgenerational trauma from the World War II Japanese American incarceration experience through the stories of Kaino, his family, and the community. It is also an interrogation of the American practice of displacement—collapsing almost 100 years of cultural subjugation into a spiritual, exploratory space from which the building blocks of peace might be discovered.

The exhibition draws from the life of Kaino’s grandfather, Akira Shiraishi, a legendary high school football player who was unable to realize his dreams of attending Occidental College when he was incarcerated at the Heart Mountain concentration camp in Wyoming. Upon returning to East LA after the war, he and Sachiye dedicated their lives to building their market on the corner of Blanchard Street and Geraghty Avenue—a multicultural anchor that served the Japanese and Hispanic communities.

Kaino only knew his grandfather through family stories. To recreate the market, he pulled from his artistic toolkit and used his skill of unlocking past memories through layered conversations (as in his work with historical figures like Olympian, Tommie Smith). He used this methodology to draw out family memories and paint a full picture of the place they called “The Store.”

Through a virtual reality recreation of the store and an installation of related works, Glenn Kaino: Aki’s Market is an exhibition about collective memory where the archival bleeds into the imaginary and where the most advanced technology serves the most personal past.

MATERIAL RECOVERY: Printmaking with Recycled Materials is a group exhibition by LYNK Collective.

Works by: Yeansoo Aum • Elisabeth Beck • Andra Broekelschen Alexandra Chiara • Christina Yasmin Fesmire • Karen Fiorito • Carole Gelker • Bill Jaros • Nguyen Ly Diane McLeod • Jared Millar • William Myers • Marina Polic • Vera Polic-Lakhal • Francisco Rogido • Olga Ryabtsova Laura Shapiro • Tracy Loreque Skinner • Mary Lawrence Test • Paula Voss • Zana Zupur Guest Artists: Karen Feuer-Schwager • Kim Kei Wendy Murray • Jackie Nach • MJ Rado  • Victor Rosas • Fred Rose • Marianne Sadowski  • Jillian Thompson • Katie Thompson-Peer

Curated by Christina Yasmin Fesmire and Jared Miller.

The works in Material Recovery reclaim common materials such as cardboard, plastic, and wood – the very products that flow through the nearby Port of Los Angeles destined for landfills. As printmakers, the members of LYNK Collective have a vested interest in the ongoing recovery and reduction of waste. The paper on which they print— “rag” paper—was traditionally made from scraps of recycled cotton rags. Material Recovery: Printmaking with Recycled Materials is an expression LYNK Collective’s values, as ecologically conscious artists inhabiting a shared earth, producing artwork made from recycled rather than raw materials.

Exhibition Programming

Print Workshop with LYNK Collective (RSVP required) February 10th and 17th: http://tinyurl.com/mr4afwjz | Closing and Artist Talk March 23rd, 2-4pm: http://tinyurl.com/57m4rzv7

AGCC Gallery Hours: Thursday — Saturday, 10am to 4pm
(Please note that the AGCC Gallery will close early at 1pm on January 27th).

Learn more and plan your visit: angelsgateart.org

Established in 2017, LYNK Collective is a group of two dozen artists from the Orange County and Los Angeles area who collaborate on projects and exhibitions through the medium of printmaking. LYNK Collective has been featured in The Hand, Pressing Matters, and the Los Angeles Printmaking Society blog, Press On.

This exhibition is supported by Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, California Natural Resources Agency for the Museum Grant Program under the California Cultural and Historical Endowment, and Perenchio Foundation.

Seven Visions × Seven Artists presents the work of the 2023 artist cohort of the MRH Fund for Artists grant. This program follows Southern California artists on a year-long cohort that fosters the development of their professional artist practice.

Featuring works by: Cesar Garcia • Trinh Mai • Rebekah Mei • Nguyen Ly • Jas Parker • Edwin Vasquez • Patricia Yossen

Established by Georgia Freedman-Harvey in honor of her late mother, patron of the arts Marian Harvey, the MRH Fund for Artists was created to provide artists with direct financial support to expand their creative reach through the realization of a defined art project. The artists selected each year are nominated by Southern California arts organizations recognizing deserving artists in their local communities. The 2024 exhibition, Seven Visions × Seven Artists, highlights the second established cohort of the MRH Fund for Artists program in which the following artists were selected from a competitive pool of nominees:

Cesar Garcia, nominated by Arts Connection, San Bernardino Arts Council

Trinh Mai, nominated by Arts Council for Long Beach

Rebekah Mei, nominated by Angels Gate Cultural Center

Nguyen Ly, nominated by Angels Gate Cultural Center

Jas Parker, nominated by HOLA Heart of Los Angeles

Edwin Vasquez, nominated by AIR Art in Residence

Patricia Yossen, nominated by HOLA Heart of Los Angeles

EXHIBITION PROGRAMMING
Artist Talk and Closing Reception February 24th, 2-4pm: tinyurl.com/yyzvdzcv

AGCC Gallery Hours: Thursday — Saturday, 10am to 4pm

**Please note that the AGCC Gallery will close early at 1pm on January 27th**

Learn more and plan your visit: angelsgateart.org

This exhibition is supported by Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture, California Natural Resources Agency for the Museum Grant Program under the California Cultural and Historical Endowment, and the Perenchio Foundation.

Artwork image: Nguyen Ly, Altered Faces XII, 2023.

Drawn from the collection of Sandra and Bram Dijkstra, Art for the People explores paintings created in the United States between the 1929 stock market crash and World War II. The exhibition focuses on federal Works Progress Administration artists of the 1930s and early 1940s who were employed by the government to help stimulate the post-Depression economy. More than 10,000 artists participated, creating works that represented the nation and its people and seeking to express fundamental human concerns, basic democratic principles, and the plight of the dispossessed.

 

Sundays, Mondays, & Wednesdays  – Saturdays 10:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.

This landmark exhibition presents a range of works from Charles Bibbs’™ personal art collection as well as the artist’s original paintings and drawings. Through Sacred Spaces, Bibbs seeks to not only share this artistic journey but also send a message about the power of art in everyday life. He believes in a vital connection between the art that people see in public spaces and the lives they live in the spaces they inhabit every day. Sacred Spaces brings together these concepts in the hope that visitors will experience a connection with art that they take back into the sacred spaces of their own homes.

 

Riverside Art Museum is proud to present the second West Coast solo exhibition of Rico Gatson’s work. An interdisciplinary, Brooklyn-based artist, Gatson grew up in Riverside, California. His work is bold and graphic with art historical references to Russian Constructivism and Op art, while his wholly unique style highlights the complexities of Black life and its impact on American popular culture.

The exhibition is on view from Saturday, November 18, 2023 through Sunday, April 7, 2024 at the Riverside Art Museum in the Art Alliance Gallery.

 

Renowned American artist Betye Saar’s large-scale work Drifting Toward Twilight—recently commissioned by The Huntington—is a site-specific installation that features a 17-foot-long vintage wooden canoe and found objects, including birdcages, antlers, and natural materials harvested by Saar from The Huntington’s grounds.

 

“Betye Saar: Drifting Toward Twilight” transforms an entire room in the Scott Galleries into what the artist calls a “cocoon-like environment.” The walls are painted in an oceanic blue gradient, featuring a poem by Saar and phases of the moon. Shifting lighting effects in the gallery emulate phases of daylight to twilight, evening to night, and night to dawn. Inside the canoe, Saar positions mysterious “passengers,” including antlers in metal birdcages, children’s chairs, and architectural elements—all drawn from the artist’s ever-evolving collection of found objects. The space beneath the canoe is illuminated by a cool neon glow, highlighting plant material.

 

Betye Saar (b. 1926) is one of the most significant American artists. Over her six-decade career, she has created assemblage works exploring themes of racial oppression, mysticism, the occult, family, memory, and identity. She fashions her assemblage artworks from found objects, antiques, and family heirlooms that she collects. Emerging as an important artistic voice during the feminist and Civil Rights movements, Saar is a pioneer of Black feminist art who connected the personal with the political, taking on such subject matter as the legacies of enslavement and the impacts of racism.