April 7–May 23, 2021
Virtual Opening: Thursday, April 29th, 7 pm
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SHARON LOUISE BARNES, MARLA FIELDS, TERESA FLORES, SETSUKO HAYASHI, RODRIGO LOPEZ, ALAN JOSEPH MARX, CINDY RINNE, EVELYN HANG YIN
LA Artcore continues into the spring with its third exhibit in a series of 8 exhibits honoring the legacy of LA Artcore’s late founder and director Lydia Takeshita (1926-2019). Consisting of 22 solo and tandem-solo exhibits, Takeshita’s exhibition schedule is reconstituted into a series of group exhibits, and invites previously unscheduled artists into each of its exhibits. In its reconstitution, the Lydia Takeshita Legacy Exhibit Series aims to celebrate an increasingly broad scope of artists living and working in L.A. and beyond. This exhibit’s discursive framework is organized as a series of transitions where thematic connections are fostered between artworks. LTLES: 3 finds coexistences between diverse artistic strategies across disciplines, perspectives, and techniques.
In the exhibit’s Central and East galleries Rodrigo Lopez (Long Beach), Evelyn Hang Yin (Alhambra), and Alan Joseph Marx (Hollywood) engage landscape through photography, video, sound, and painting. Their works navigate between political struggle, historical events, social movements, colonial legacies, racial divide, labor, and ritual in their reimagining of possible futures.
The works in the South, West, and North galleries, Sharon Louise Barnes (Ladera Heights), Setsuko Hayashi (Downtown L.A., Little Tokyo), Cindy Rinne (San Bernardino), and Teresa Flores (East Los Angeles) are created with tactile processes, techniques, and materials. Through painting, silk dye, drawing, mixed media, sculpture and textiles, the artworks enact a claiming of individual agency, cultural symbols, and mythological frameworks.
In the North and East Galleries, ambivalent psychological and emotional states are explored in the paintings of Alan Joseph Marx (Hollywood) and Marla Fields (Northridge). The works locate vulnerability through visual rupture, stream-of-conscious figuration, raw materiality, and visual duality.
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