Upcoming Exhibitions
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Cauleen Smith: We Already Have What We Need
On View: July 15, 2021 - October 4, 2021
Love. Resist. Dream. These rallying cries echo throughout Los Angeles-based artist Cauleen Smith’s works, which remind us to nurture each other and the planet that sustains us.
Cauleen Smith: We Already Have What We Need presents works by the acclaimed Los Angeles-based artist, and features film, video, sculpture, textiles, installation, and drawing. The exhibition emphasizes acts of caring as antidotes to the injustices and inequities that shape our past and present. For over three decades, Smith (b. 1967, Riverside, California) has harnessed acts of imagination and the power of revolutionary thinking to envision a better world. The title of the exhibition—and the expansive video installation at its center—suggests that, in fact, “We Already Have What We Need.”
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The Art of Cruelty
On View: December 14, 2023 - March 25, 2024
The Art of Cruelty is an interdisciplinary exhibition exploring cruelty as a historically relevant form of artistic expression. Inspired by poet and scholar Maggie Nelson’s The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning (2011), a book analyzing representations of cruelty in art of the 20th and 21st centuries, this large-scale thematic exhibition asks, as Nelson does, whether there are certain instances of cruelty that remain productive or worthwhile to consider, and whether such a consideration may allow for more a thoughtful and nuanced examination of a history of violence (both real and symbolic) in art. While Nelson’s book looks across the 20th century, this exhibition takes a more contemporary focus, presenting film, photography, sculpture, painting, performance, poetry, prose, and video by approximately thirty artists from the 1960s to the present, with emphasis on art made over the last thirty years.
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