Current/Upcoming Events — LA Artcore
Nov
9
to Nov 23

Traces

Traces

Farshid Bazmandegan

Jackie Castillo

Amina Cruz

Rachel Hakimian Emenaker

Jackson Hunt

Exhibition Dates:  November 9 – November 23, 2024 

Opening Reception:  November 9, 2024, 5-8 PM  

Location: LA Art Core, 120 Judge John Aiso St., Los Angeles, CA 90012  


Pictured: 

Jackson Hunt, Untitled, 2024 - Acrylic and Collage on Canvas Wrapped Panel, 12” x 12”

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May
16
7:00 PM19:00

Incubator: Emerging Artist Critique Feat. Jiayun Chen

Incubator is a monthly public program devoted to facilitating critical discussions between artists and audiences at LA Artcore. All are welcome to participate in the artistic and intellectual discourse surrounding a selected emerging artist every month.


This month we will be exploring Jiayun Chen's solo exhibition, "tat skin slip tongue," hosted by orlando, an experimental exhibition space for emerging contemporary artists in Los Angeles.


Critique will be held on:

Thursday

May 16, 2024

7PM


Please RSVP below to attend.

https://forms.gle/piJjx9zmVirszoZS8

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Spring Market
Apr
27
11:00 AM11:00

Spring Market

Join us for an unforgettable celebration of art, craft, and springtime  — explore the unique works of talented local artists as well as the debut of LA Artcore’s Artist Editions!
Event Details:

  • Date: April 27, 2024

  • Time: 11am - 4pm

  • Location: 120 Judge John Aiso St., Los Angeles CA, 90012

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Mar
14
7:00 PM19:00

Stories from Chinatown

Stories from Chinatown

Date and Time

Thursday, March 14th, 7–9:30 pm

7:00 pm Doors open

7:30–8:40 pm Screening (66 min)

8:40–9:10 pm Panel discussion + Q&A (30 min)

Line Up

Pine Street Now and Again (19 min) by Charlotte Zhang

Tracing History (13 min) by Jalena Keane-Lee

Rising (17 min) by Evelyn Hang Yin

The Blessing (5 min) by Ziyao Liu

Wong Sinsaang (12 min) by Eddie Wong

Location

Union Center for the Arts

120 Judge John Aiso St, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Transportation and Parking

- 3 min walk from the Little Tokyo Metro Station

- Parking Lots next door and across the street

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Mar
10
3:30 PM15:30

Incubator

IncubatorOur inaugural emerging artist critique program

Participate in an exchange of feedback and conversation with our inaugural artists, Coffee Kang and Evelyn HangYin, about their current exhibit to draw a house/得運廠.

Date and Time

Sunday, March 3rd

3:30–5:30 pm

Location

LA Artcore, Union Center for the Arts Building

120 Judge John Aiso St, Ste. A, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Transportation and Parking

- 3 min walk from the Little Tokyo Metro Station

- Parking Lots next door and across the street

RSVP is required as spots are limited. Please sign up at: https://rb.gy/nspxkn

14-year-olds and under must be accompanied by a parent or guardian. Please note that spots are limited, and if you can no longer come, please let us know so others can join. Contact info@laartcore.org if you have any questions.

*This program is made possible with support from the Kaman Foundation and the California Arts Council

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Mar
3
12:00 PM12:00

To the Place We Love

To the Place We Love is a free book-making workshop led by Coffee Kang and Evelyn Hang Yin. It is part one of a public programming series that accompanies to draw a house, an exhibition by the two artists at LA Artcore. In this 3-hour workshop, participants are invited to look at photographs and moving images from the VC Archives that showcase stories from Chinatowns. Following an open discussion and interpretation of the archive, participants will create accordion-style books that embody their personal stories about a place that they love, using various techniques including tracing, drawing, cyanotype, and collage. The workshop is free, family-friendly, and open to all ages.

RSVP required as spots are limited. Please sign up at bit.ly/placeloving.

Date and Time

Sunday, March 3rd, 

12–1 pm: optional exhibition walkthrough with artists

1–4 pm: workshop

Location

Union Center for the Arts

120 Judge John Aiso St, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Transportation and Parking

- 3 min walk from the Little Tokyo Metro Station

- Parking Lots next door and across the street

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Dec
7
3:00 PM15:00

Imperial Geographies: How Border Policy, Pollution, and Labor Create the Modern Salton Sea and Imperial Valley at LA Artcore

Saturday, December 9, 2023  

6 - 8 p.m.

Opening Reception

LA Artcore @ Union Center for the Arts

120 Judge John Aiso Street

Los Angeles, CA 90012


December 10, 2023  

2 - 4 p.m.

Artist Talk and Community Discussion

Enjoy a talk by the artist, then participate in letter writing or artistic creation based on either environmental justice issues in the Imperial Valley or your own life. 

LA Artcore @ Union Center for the Arts

120 Judge John Aiso Street

Los Angeles, CA 90012


December 8 - 14 

Thursday - Sunday

12 noon - 4 p.m. and by appointment

Exhibition on view

LA Artcore @ Union Center for the Arts

120 Judge John Aiso Street

Los Angeles, CA 90012

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Alien Race - Envisioning sites of our our future ancestors
Oct
15
to Nov 13

Alien Race - Envisioning sites of our our future ancestors

Alien Race - Envisioning sites of our our future ancestors

Curated by Labkhand Olfatmanesh

October 15th–November 13th, 2022
Opening Reception Saturday October 21st, 2022 from 12-5 pm

Taking place in LA Artcore’s two gallery spaces:

LA Artcore at Union Center for the Arts,
Little Tokyo 120 Judge John Aiso St., Ste. A, Los Angeles, CA 90012

LA Artcore Brewery Annex
at the Brewery Arts Complex in Lincoln Heights
650 South Ave. 21, Los Angeles, CA 90031

Gallery hours - Thursday-Sunday 12-6 pm (in both locations)

Exhibiting artists:

Dove Ayinde, Katayoun Bahrami, Zeina Baltagi, William Camargo, Community Quilting Bee, Shaghayegh Cyrous, Leslie Foster, Vanessa Holyoak, Coffee Kang, Alberto Lule, Yuchi Ma, Felli Maynard, Thinh Nguyen, Luciano Pimienta, Cindy Rehm, Michael Rippens, Jaklin Romine, Jeong (Llyn Stransky), Cedric Tai, Diane Williams


LA Artcore is pleased to present Alien Race - Envisioning sites of our our future ancestors, an exhibit that highlights underrepresented narratives surrounding access and belonging in relation to dominant systems within globalized contemporary culture through video, installation, sculptures, mixed media, photography, performance, ceramics, and textiles.

Through its 21 artists, Alien Race proliferates the uniquely interconnected positions and circumstances of its artists as they mediate realities shaped outside of images of a hegemonic American ideal and transform rigid definitions of a normative American identity. Presented throughout each of its gallery spaces, Alien Race traces lost time as a result of exclusionary systems through strategies of protest, collective care, and renewal.

LA Artcore is a non-profit art space dedicated to the creative exploration, discovery, and expression of the global residents of LA while supporting the careers of emerging and established contemporary artists. Since 1979, LA Artcore reflects the diverse global perspectives of Los Angeles by engaging contemporary artists as the visual and performing conduits of and for the residents and communities in which they live, work and serve.


 

JOINT STATEMENT TOGETHER WITH ALIEN RACE EXHIBITING ARTIST: JAKLIN ROMINE

We have gotten to know the life and work of Jaklin Romine through engaging the artist’s story and artwork within this exhibit. ACCESS DENIED, a work of performance and video by Romine that would otherwise be turned on for this exhibit, has been left intentionally turned off, though its facilitating architecture still remains: A 38 x 52” monitor, and its folded slab of packing foam base.

ACCESS DENIED follows the artist to various art spaces in Los Angeles. Stationed in the middle of the frame with her back turned to us, we see Romine still, but gazing forward as she confronts a flight of stairs as the only access way to enter each space she encounters. The starkness between the artist facing a backdrop of a stairway (or stairwell) is heightened as people move in, out and around her and the tensions become unequivocal. Through this, the stillness is held by Romine, who brings viewers into the range of what can felt. This piece is vulnerable in its confrontation.

In learning about Romine’s life and work, we invited Romine to take part in this exhibit on view here in Little Tokyo. The exhibit also extends to our Brewery Arts Complex space. Having only one space which is accessible to wheelchairs and not the other for the artist to access is regrettable due to a lack of planning and a failure of consideration to the reality of the artist’s life and work.

Our assistive lift, installed at the Brewery on October 15th of this year ultimately was chosen from an able-bodied perspective, and without consultation to the artist or from another dependable source. The Brewery space’s inaccessibility was not announced before or upon inviting the artist to exhibit.

The artist came to find out about the Brewery space being inaccessible during the exhibit, by arriving in the same way that occurs in ACCESS DENIED. In this moment, life and art collided. To lack the foresight and consideration to have not incorporated accessibility successfully into our mission is what caused harm.

Through this experience, we are made to see our own role in inaccessible spaces. It has compelled our organization to take steps toward complete accessibility. We encourage you to reach out regarding our progress to make the Brewery accessible. We apologize to the wheelchair users everywhere and promise to do much better to bridge the gaps of inaccessibility and our role within our ableist culture.

This statement was a generative collaboration, and a generous gesture by the artist, to allow her work to stay in the exhibit, although modified to be turned off, and with the incorporation of this statement. Together, this is an exercise in mutual solidarity toward accessibility and a more accessible future.

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Richard Paske: An Open Door
Sep
27
3:30 PM15:30

Richard Paske: An Open Door

First presented in six hours spread over a long weekend in September, 1982 in a St. Paul, Minnesota storefront, 𝙰𝚗 𝙾𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝙳𝚘𝚘𝚛 celebrates its 40th anniversary in September, 2022 in downtown Los Angeles with a 5-hour performance installation combining electronic and sampled musical instruments, radio transmissions, World musics recorded by Paske at the 1990 Los Angeles Festival, archival recordings from Paske’s 50 years of compositions and improvisations, and a mic out the door providing a sonic bedrock of real-time urban ambience.

In the weeks following the performance Paske will create a series of music nfts from brief excerpts of the live performance recording. All proceeds from sales of these nfts will be donated to social service agencies serving downtown Los Angeles.

𝙰𝚗 𝙾𝚙𝚎𝚗 𝙳𝚘𝚘𝚛 will be performed outdoors from the front portico of Union Center for the Arts.

Audience members will be free to come and go as they please during the performance and refreshments will be served.

Richard Paske is a musician, multimediator, and writer born in Minneapolis and living in Los Angeles since 2004. His current work involves both live performance and the creation of musicvideos and nfts with a hybrid digital music/video system running on two laptop computers. In the mid-1980s Paske was a pioneer in performing in front of a live audience with a MIDI-based digital music system and multi- projector visual system. Since 1971 he has presented his work all over the world – New York City, Paris, London, The Hague, Taipei, Hong Kong, Minneapolis, and most recently Los Angeles. Throughout 2019 he presented his musicvideos at the Los Angeles Center for Digital Art on LA’s Gallery Row. In March, 2020 he performed his Sun Ra-inspired AnnArbor73 live at Live House Hollywood.

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Bianca Nozaki-Nasser: In These Times
Sep
10
to Sep 17

Bianca Nozaki-Nasser: In These Times

In These Times is a personal and communal exercise in wrecking ideas of normative time. Bianca repurposes her own archive of family photos, community conversations, and collected videos, to build a multi sensory installation. With bath towels, meditative prayer, and star gay-zing Bianca maps the multiplicity her own experience of queer, diasporic, neurodivergent, multiracial time.


Every year, Level Ground's Residency Program provides a space of experimentation, collaboration, and mentorship for a new group of emerging artists who have been historically marginalized from the art world. The artists, who create work at the intersections of identity, are provided with resources and guidance over a year-long cycle. The program culminates in what is for many residents their first solo gallery exhibition.

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Art Is In Bloom
Jul
23
1:00 PM13:00

Art Is In Bloom

 LA Artcore's Annual Summer Fundraiser!

Art is in Bloom

Reception & Silent Auction

Saturday, July 23, 2022

11 am to 1 pm

Get your exclusive VIP tickets to preview and bid on over 300 small artworks by L.A. Artists.

Get VIP Tickets Here.

100 VIP tickets are now available and give you early access to the silent auction and private reception where you can view, bid, or buy artwork prior to the public event from 1 to 5 pm.

Tickets are $30 each and you may purchase up to 10 tickets for yourself and your friends.

This is a live, in-person event, and you'll be able to download our Silent Auction app so you can bid online, attend in person, or both!

Refreshments will be served at the live event at LA Artcore’s Union Center for the Arts venue.

The VIP event is strictly limited to 100 tickets. All ticket sales benefit LA Artcore’s exhibit and community arts programs.

General Admission tickets are on sale now!

See you on July 23!

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Jun
10
to Jun 11

Companions in misfortune

Artwork Image By Nicoleta Mureş

Companions in misfortunes is a two-night screening event by De:Formal and LA Artcore at Brewery Annex space in Lincoln Heights. It features a group of international artists working in video and merging the physical and the digital. Taken as a whole, the event mashes up self-described introverts' minds and their intrusive thoughts.

All introverts are invited and extroverts are also welcome to join. Our minds wander into dark places when we are alone at night. Companions in Misfortunes will only open after sundown. Breath in and breathe out. You can smell the darkness and the sweetness in the air. Now, it is in you.

Curators cannot be found during the opening, they are in fact the bartenders serving drinks with AR filters. Featuring AR works by Nicoleta Mureş , Stacie Ant, Pau Jiménez  and Vitória Cribb.

14 Video works by  Carla  Gannis, Stacie Ant, XUXA SANTAMARIA ( Sofia Córdova + Matthew Gonzalez Kirkland ), Sid and Geri, Maya Ben David, Natasha Tontey, Lee Eun-sol, Hana Yoo, Diana Gheorghiu, Bahareh Khoshooee, Libbi Ponce, Yoshie Sakai, Faith Holland and Cultural Policy (Alice Scope and Snizhana Chernetska) 

*This event is RSVP only and tickets are limited*

RSVP Links:

Night 1

June 10th 2022 Friday 8:15 PM (PDT)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/companions-in-misfortunes-night-1-tickets-337749336357

Night 2

June 11th 2022 Saturday 8:15 PM (PDT)

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/companions-in-misfortunes-night-2-tickets-338728214207

Artists

Stacie Ant - @whosthereplease     

Nicoleta Mureş - @nicomures

Pau Jiménez - @urticae

Sid and Geri - @sidandgeri

XUXA SANTAMARIA ( Sofia Córdova + Matthew Gonzalez Kirkland ) - @yagrumo_yal 

Maya Ben David - @thebropercent

Natasha Tontey  - @krazykosmickid

Lee Eun-sol - @kimberlyleee_

Hana Yoo - @hanayoo.oooo

Diana Gheorghiu - @diana_gheorghiu

Bahareh Khoshooee - @khoshooee

Libbi Ponce - @pibbi.lonce

Yoshie Sakai  - @yoshiesakaiart

Carla  Gannis  - @carlagannis 

Faith Holland - @asugarhigh

Cultural Policy (Alice Scope and Snizhana Chernetska) - @culturalpolicy 

Vitória Cribb - @louquai

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Osamu Kobayashi: Hand in Hand
Nov
13
to Dec 18

Osamu Kobayashi: Hand in Hand

Osamu Kobayashi

Hand In Hand

 

Nov 13th–December 18th, 2021

Reception: December 11th, 4-6 pm

Open Thursday–Sunday by Appointment

For press inquiries and appointments, please contact Pranay Reddy at laartcorepress@yahoo.com or at (310) 598-8867

 

 

(Los Angeles, November 13, 2021) LA Artcore is pleased to present Hand in Hand, a solo exhibit of nine paintings on view at LA Artcore’s Little Tokyo’s gallery space by artist Osamu Kobayashi.

 

Within a culture of information overflow and spectacle manufacturing, it is an exceedingly rarified and radical gesture to remain rooted to the traditions of one’s discipline and map new ground, while also resonating a sense of now­­–or beyond. The artist continually foregrounds these opposing forces across ten oil paintings of varying scale on view at LA Artcore in Downtown Los Angeles through December 18th, 2021.

 

Kobayashi decidedly works within the confines of the stretched canvas, and self-consciously synthesizes the medium’s historical lineages and movements while implementing on his own exuberant abstract visual lexicon. Functioning as mechanical and conceptual puzzles, the works’ presenting of a bevy of squiggling lines, shapes, and artificially-hued planes belies their painstakingly planned construction and painterly execution. The works are constructed non-hierarchically in relation to canonical art-historical and New York City-specific art movements, and abstractly position the artist’s everyday musings of life in the city, in relation to the medium’s underlying governing logic and rules. The work’s meanings are activated in the works’ ruptures in perception between planned and improvised formal choices. The works aesthetically confront how choices are rendered visible, what systems govern what is seen and what is obscured, and how human interaction and bodies are in continual dialogue with ordered environments. Kobayashi’s works critique the institution of the medium, metaphorically to one’s relationship within layered constructs of time and social space. Through his painting process, Kobayashi elicits a sense of painterly agency in relation to the spaces one inhabits as sources of both tension and vitality.

 

Osamu Kobayashi (b. 1984) received his BFA in Painting at the Maryland Institute, College of Art, Baltimore, Maryland, and the New York Studio Program in 2006. Kobayashi has had numerous solo and group exhibits including most recently at AplusB Contemporary Art in Brescia, Italy in 2020 and in 2018 at Mindy Solomon Gallery, Miami, Florida. Kobayashi was awarded residencies at Lepsien Art Foundation, Düsseldorf, Germany in 2019 and the Sharpe-Walentas Studio Program in 2017-18. He currently lives and works in Brooklyn, New York.

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Il Sang Yoo: Elastic Ecstatic Organ
Oct
16
to Oct 30

Il Sang Yoo: Elastic Ecstatic Organ

Artist Reception:

October 29th, 2021, 7-9pm

Viewers are invited to explore an immersive environment by L.A.-based artist Il Sang Yoo. Numerous fabrics in varying shape, size, color, and texture are stretched, cut, twisted, torn, knotted, pulled, and woven to produce an immersive environment that interacts with the gallery's architecture. Yoo's installation explores interiority that is echoed by way of the installation's combining heaps of fabric scraps using varied techniques of manipulating fabric. 

On opening night this Friday the 29th between 7-9 pm, the installation will be accompanied throughout its duration by sound from artist Eugene Moon, whose building and use of wooden and stringed instruments are informed by extensive research into classical Korean instruments and music. 

*Refreshments will be served. Please observe social distancing while wearing a mask indoors. We appreciate your help! 

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