Archive Machines
The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) are pleased to present ARCHIVE MACHINES, an online-only juried exhibition that brings together recent works by Southern California artists. Due to the rapidly shifting nature of present events, this exhibition is conceived as a response in both form and concept to the COVID-19 crisis and the uncanny experience of collective life on pause that the Safer-at-Home directive has initiated.
The current crisis upended routine daily life. This sudden interruption brings a rare opportunity for many to pause, and a cultural institution is not different, and can pause as well. At LAMAG, curatorial staff took this period of rumination to archive over sixty years of artistic activity that impacted Los Angeles. Revisiting the 1979 group exhibition 鈥淭he Artist as Social Critic鈥� curated by LAMAG鈥檚 inaugural trailblazing director, Josine Ianco-Starrels (1926-2019), LAMAG鈥檚 current curatorial team found inspiration in a past exhibition supporting practices of social critique and presenting diverse voices challenging issues of their time. Through this new exhibition, LAMAG will engage with various modes of artistic production to explore the ways in which archival structures and materials are interpreted, appropriated, and interrogated.
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The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) are pleased to present ARCHIVE MACHINES, an online-only juried exhibition that brings together recent works by Southern California artists. Due to the rapidly shifting nature of present events, this exhibition is conceived as a response in both form and concept to the COVID-19 crisis and the uncanny experience of collective life on pause that the Safer-at-Home directive has initiated.
The current crisis upended routine daily life. This sudden interruption brings a rare opportunity for many to pause, and a cultural institution is not different, and can pause as well. At LAMAG, curatorial staff took this period of rumination to archive over sixty years of artistic activity that impacted Los Angeles. Revisiting the 1979 group exhibition 鈥淭he Artist as Social Critic鈥� curated by LAMAG鈥檚 inaugural trailblazing director, Josine Ianco-Starrels (1926-2019), LAMAG鈥檚 current curatorial team found inspiration in a past exhibition supporting practices of social critique and presenting diverse voices challenging issues of their time. Through this new exhibition, LAMAG will engage with various modes of artistic production to explore the ways in which archival structures and materials are interpreted, appropriated, and interrogated.
Artists on show
- Ahree Lee
- Allison Stewart
- Amir Saadiq
- Arezoo Bharthania
- Audrey Leshay
- Boz Deseo Garden
- Camille Wong
- Carla Jay Harris
- Caroline Clerc
- Danny Jauregui
- David Kelley
- Dina Kelberman
- Evelyn Hang Yin
- Farrah Karapetian
- Felix Quintana
- Helen Chung
- Helena JinAh Min
- Jamie Adams
- Jody Zellen
- Julie Orser
- Keaton Macon
- Keith Walsh
- Kyle Tata
- Lenard Smith
- Leticia Velasquez
- Malisa Humphrey
- Maura Murnane
- Natalie Delgadillo
- Nick Flessa
- Nova Jiang
- Ohan Breiding
- Rachel Zaretsky
- Sarita Zaleha
- Sasha Bergstrom-Katz
- Silvi Naçi
- Stephanie Mei Huang
- the2vvo
- Tianyi Sun
- Tom Comitta
- Tyler Matthew Oyer
- Wesley Larios
- William Camargo
- Woohee Cho
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