Lydia Takeshita Legacy Exhibit Series: 4July 9th–August 21, 2021
In-Person Opening: Wednesday, July 21th, 6-8 pm
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Lydia Takeshita Legacy Series: 4 at LA Artcore, Union Center for the Arts Building, Little Tokyo
Exhibiting Artists
Desi J, Lynne McDaniel, Geoff Mitchell, Toti O’Brien, Meltem Saricicek
LA Artcore is excited to announce its 4th Legacy Exhibit that is couched within the organization’s growing artist-outreach implementations. The exhibit continues in balance with its past commitments to artists and its broadening network of artists in dialogue with LA Artcore. The exhibit highlights artists whose disciplines span a diverse range of conversations, media, and formats. The exhibit cumulatively highlights the diverse way in which artists are currently producing work, and what questions push these artists to investigate further their development. The exhibit also invites viewers to build connections between artworks, and discover what distinguishes them.
Some information about the artists include in Lydia Takeshita Legacy Series Exhibit:4
Desi J – Lives and works in Long Beach, CA. J also works extensively with street mural projects as seen on her Instagram feed at @officialdesij. She is currently a student in Long Beach Community College’s department of sculpture.
Lynne McDaniel – Lives and works in Pasadena, CA. McDaniel uses the landscape to explore current events and depict the changes caused by natural disasters, human intervention, and the passage of time. McDaniel is widely exhibited in the U.S. and Europe and has been written about in the L.A. Times, and The Huffington Post. McDaniel was awarded the Dohrn Zachai Fellowship, a Hemera Foundation fellowship, the Jane Friend Award, and was a 2015 finalist for the Williams Prize in drawing.
Geoff Mitchell – Lives and works in Santa Ana, CA., is a co-founder of the Museum of Make Believe in Santa Ana, CA., and has exhibited extensively in Southern California, including his current work currently on view at Kelsey Michaels Fine Art in Laguna Beach, CA.
Toti O’Brien – Lives and works in Eagle Rock, CA. O’Brien is a multimedia artist that produces poetry, prose, dance, and music. O’Brien is active in the Pasadena Folk Dance Coop, the Gypsy Folk Ensemble, and is also an accordionist. O’Brien has recently published books of poetry including An Alphabet of Birds (Moonrise Press, 2020), and Today in the Forest (Moonrise Press, 2021) in Collaboration with Cindy Rinne.
Meltem Saricicek – Lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Saricicek completed her undergraduate studies in photography at the Parsons School of Design. Saricicek is a multimedia artist who works with photography, video, performance, and textiles to investigate her hybrid identity as a Turkish-American woman.
The Lydia Takeshita Legacy Exhibit Series honors 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.