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Catch CC Flea + Art Market at The Union

Join the FIRST ever Flea + Art Market at the newly renovated YMCA! Over 30 vintage curators and artists will exhibit their clothing, art works, and more at CC Flea + Art Market in Pomona, CA.

CC Flea + Art Market Saturday, September 28, 2024

Mark your calendars for Pomona’s first-ever Flea + Art Market on Saturday, September 28th! Hosted by AVVEBO, Union on Garey, The Cathedral Pomona, and Consumption Collab, this exciting event will take place at the newly renovated YMCA in Pomona.

CELEBRATING LOCAL CREATIVITY

Consumption Collab, a Latina-owned event production and design agency, has been championing local artists, musicians, and creators since its inception in Pomona in 2018. Our mission is to create safe spaces that allow local creatives to thrive while fostering economic growth and building community connections.


SUSTAINABLE FASHION WITH A PURPOSE

A standout feature of the Flea + Art Market is our Clothing Swap Experience. For just $10, attendees can bring a bag of clothes and take home another bag, all while promoting a meaningful effort to combat fast fashion. At Consumption Collab, we advocate for sustainable alternatives like swapping, thrifting, and mending to help reduce consumption and minimize the fashion industry's environmental impact, which ranks as the second largest global polluter after oil. We encourage conscious consumerism, inviting participants to explore eco-friendly options while wearing what they already have.

Live Performances by:

TIWU (@jbtiwu)
Dead by Sunday (@deadbysundaymusic)
Outer Blues (@outerbluesmusic)

Held at The Cathedral Pomona, a historic 1921 building reimagined into a cutting-edge music venue, the Flea + Art Market offers a unique space for the community to come together and celebrate local creativity, music, and sustainable fashion.Don’t Miss Out!Explore the market, enjoy live music, and support local artists while being part of a movement toward sustainability.

For more information, contact:
Veronica Gutierrez
Co-Founder, Consumption Collab
626.665.8752 | Veronica@avvebo.com |
Consumptioncollab@gmail.com

Saturday, September 28th, 2024 | 10 AM - 2 PM
Union on Garey | 350 N Garey Ave, Pomona,
CA Free Entry

Acid-Free Los Angeles Art Book Market at Blum & Poe

ACID-FREE is pleased to announce the return of the Los Angeles Art Book Market & Bazaar, a three-day event produced by a programming committee of LA-based publishers, librarians, and curators, hosted by Blum & Poe Los Angeles.

Following the success of our inaugural Market in 2018 and our temporary installation at Frieze Los Angeles, join us November 1–3 for the 2019 Acid-Free Los Angeles Art Book Market. A–F ⅠⅠ provides a platform for 80+ West Coast and international exhibitors presenting new publications and projects alongside film programming by Now Instant Image Hall and La Collectionneuse, an archival exhibition curated by Guadalupe Rosales, music by Pacoima Techno, and a full schedule of ongoing discursive programming and signings.

Market Hours
June 16-18 , 11AM – 7PM

Opening: June 16 6PM – 9PM

Full programming schedule and Information:
http://acid-free.info

Free and open to the public.


LIST OF EXHIBITORS

2nd Cannons Publications
6 Decades Books
69
A4D
Art Catalogues
Art Metropole
Art Paper Editions
Artbook
Atelier Éditions
Bad Dimension Press
Blum & Poe
Brain Dead
California Poets
Canyon Booksellers
Carla
Casa Bosques
Cashmachine
Cassandra Press
Catalpa
Coloured Publishing
Colpa
David Kordansky Gallery
Days
Deadbeat Club
Dominica Publishing
DoPe Press
East of Borneo
ECU Press
Eggy Press
F Magazine
Fillip
Five Nine
The Fulcrum Press
GAGARIN
Gagosian
Gas Gallery
Gato Negro Ediciones
Golden Spike Press
Hat & Beard Press
Heinzfeller Nileisist
Hesse Press
High Desert Test Sites
The Ice Plant
Inventory Press
Information Office
Karma
Kiito-San
Kodoji Press
Kopeikin Gallery
Kramers Ergot
Libby Leshgold Gallery
Libraryman
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Marta
Mirrored Society Books
Mister Green
Monograph Bookwerks
Morel
Motto Books
Mount Analog
The Nazraeli Press
New Documents
Nicodim Gallery
Now Instant Image Hall
OOF Books
Ooga Booga
Other Books
Paper Chase Press
Plant Material
Primary Information
Printed Matter, Inc
Publication Studio Vancouver
Rakish Light
RE/Search
READ Books
Risotop Verlag
Semiotext(e)
Silent Sound
Sming Sming Books
Southland Institute
Spectacle Box
Spiritual Objects
Tan & Loose Press
These Days
The Underground Museum
Unity Press
Vacancy Projects
Virgil Normal
Wendy's Subway
Wolfman Books
Women's Center for Creative Work
X Artists' Books
X-TRA
Zolo Press

Food by:
David Potes
Earth Pizza
Shreebs Coffee

Media Sponsors:
Frieze
Hyperallergic

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Ontario Museum of History and Art: 'We the People: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow' Exhibit to Question the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution

LP Aekili Ross, Silent Voices, 2016
Courtesy of Ontario Museum of Art

By The Pomonan
Published January 6, 2023 10:28 Am PST

We the People: Yesterday, Today, and Tomorrow,” a group exhibition that interprets the Preamble to the U.S. Constitution, is now on view at the Ontario Museum of History & Art.

"We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."

Guest curators Riea Owens and Patricia Jessup-Woodlin selected 61 artworks is now on view in three of the museum’s galleries. The artworks question and interpret the Preamble’s complexities and contradictions. This is an excellent opportunity for the museum audience to view a vast diversity of art and artists representative of We the People”, said guest curator Dr. Patricia Jessup-Woodlin.

This exhibition intertwines a diverse artistic approach, including site-specific installations, multimedia works, and traditional media such as painting, photography, sculpture, printmaking, and collage, to challenge and engage the viewer on these political issues. Through the power of art, the exhibition hopes to inspire empathy, understanding, and a sense of shared purpose among its audience as we work together to create a more just and equitable society for all.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS
Allyson Allen, Bill Anderson, A.S. Ashley, Christen Austin, Donna Bates, Jean Brantley, Gloria Cassidy, John Chang, Mary Chen, Mary Cheung, Rosy Cortez, Liz Covington, Jessica Cruz, Rick Cummings, Deserai Davis, Otha “Vakseen” Davis III, Mellyssa Diggs, Pam Douglas, George Evans, Karen Fiorito, Kathi Fox, Stefanie Girard, Stephanie Godoy, Sophia Green, T. Faye Griffin, Beihua Guo, Diana Elizabeth Hernandez, Jessus Hernandez, Linda Kaye, Won Sil Kim, Leah Knecht, Chad La Fever, Eileen Oda Leaf, Rose Loya, Julian Lucas, Cindy Macias, Victoria NaserSaravia, Riea Owens, Ann Phong, Mike Pitzer, Theresa Polley-Shellcroft, Hannah Raykhenberg, Humberto Reynoso, Natalie Rios, Phillip Risby, Bart Ross, LP Ækili Ross, Shira Seny, Amy Smith, S.A. Smith, Linda Ternoir, Sharon Terry, Lisa Tomczeszyn, Maryam Crogman, Kat Trevino, Ricardo Tomasz, Jerry Weems, Christopher J. Wesley, Dr. Patricia Jessup-Woodlin.

The artist reception will open Saturday, February 18, from 6 PM to 9 PM. In addition there will be a moderated conversation on March 4, 2023, from 2 PM to 4 PM, with guest curators Riea Owens and Dr. Patricia Jessup-Woodlin, and artists featured in We the People. The discussion will focus on artistic practices and perspectives about the Preamble’s phrase “We the People.” The Museum’s programs are held on-site and are free to the public.


About the Ontario Museum of History & Art

The Ontario Museum of History & Art The Ontario Museum of History & Art is located at 225 S. Euclid Avenue, Ontario, California 91762. Gallery hours are Thursday and Friday, Noon to 4 PM, and Saturday through Sunday, 11 AM to 5 PM. Admission is free. For more information call (909) 395-2510, email at MuseumInfo@ontarioCA.gov, or visit www.OntarioMuseum.org. The Ontario Museum of History & Art is a public-private museum operated by the City of Ontario with support from the non-profit Ontario Museum of History & Art, Associates.



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Jeffrey Deitch Gallery Los Angeles - Wonder Women, Curated by Kathy Huang

Image: Susan Chen, Chinatown Blockwatch, 2022.
Photo by Genevieve Hanson

Wonder Women, Curated by Kathy Huang
September 3–October 22, 2022
925 N. Orange Drive

I look at them and wonder if
They are a part of me
I look in their eyes and wonder if
They share my dreams

  • Excerpt from “Wonder Woman” by Genny Lim

Genny Lim’s poem “Wonder Woman,” first published in 1981, follows the reflections of a narrator who observes the everyday lives of Asian women—across generations, countries, and socioeconomic backgrounds—wondering if their experiences reflect her own. The poem centers Asian women as its protagonists and ponders what commonalities exist between these women.

First exhibited at Jeffrey Deitch’s New York gallery in May 2022, Wonder Women, curated by Kathy Huang, presents Asian American and diasporic women and non-binary artists responding to themes of wonder, self, and identity through figuration. Described by Hyperallergic writer Jasmine Liu as a “landmark show,” the exhibition underscores a commitment to keeping “the field of Asian American figuration an open-ended one without a coherent narrative for as long as possible, to preserve its historical contingency and arbitrariness.” While some artists explore wonder as it relates to mythology and legend, others depict the heroines in their lives, offering works that highlight family, community, and history. Several of the works in Wonder Women address colonial and patriarchal structures in the West.

In September, an expanded version of Wonder Women will be presented at Jeffrey Deitch’s Los Angeles gallery, featuring forty Asian American, Pacific Islander, and diasporic women and non-binary artists. “The increasing violence against Asian Americans, particularly against Asian women and the elderly, emphasizes the need to tell our own stories. Figuration allows the artists to present themselves, their communities, and their histories on their own terms,” says Huang. The resulting works offer a cross-section of experience that celebrates difference and points of connection at the same time.

Several of the artists in Wonder Women are friends and collaborators across cities such as New York, Los Angeles, Austin, Detroit, and Montréal.

Curator Kathy Huang is Managing Director, Art Advisory & Special Projects at Jeffrey Deitch.

The artists participating in the Los Angeles iteration of Wonder Women are:

Joeun Kim Aatchim
Amanda Ba
Bhasha Chakrabarti
Susan Chen
Daieny Chin
HyeGyeong Choi
Milano Chow
Dominique Fung
Chitra Ganesh
Bambou Gili
Shyama Golden
Sasha Gordon
Sally J. Han
stephanie mei huang
Jeanne Jalandoni
Melissa Joseph
Cindy Ji Hye Kim
Hannah Lee
Tidawhitney Lek
Zoé Blue M.
Gisela McDaniel
Nina Molloy
Tammy Nguyen
Catalina Ouyang
Maia Cruz Palileo
Anna Park
GaHee Park
Rajni Perera
Jiab Prachakul
Sahana Ramakrishnan
Anjuli Rathod
Hiba Schahbaz
Kyungmi Shin
Su Su
Mai Ta
Nadia Waheed
Chelsea Ryoko Wong
Lily Wong
Zadie Xa
Livien Yin

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Yiwei Gallery Presents: Mind Body Soul

 
 
 

Yiwei Gallery is pleased to present Body Mind Soul, a group photography exhibition featuring Rezeta Veliu, Chi Haibo, and Jeffrey Sklan.

Opening Reception with the Artists
Sunday, July 17th, 2:00 - 6:00 pm

1350 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, Venice, California 90291

Courtesy of Yiwei Gallery

Los Angeles based photographer Rezeta Veliu was born and raised in Pristina, Kosovo. In 1999, at the age of 14 she fled Kosovo as a war refugee and moved to New York. Her curiosity for cultures led her to live in Japan, Mexico City, Venice Beach, and Joshua Tree, and this nomadic lifestyle has fueled her creative journey as a photographer. This series Woman Is Stronger Than A Rock (Njëriu Është Më I Fort Se Guri ) was inspired by the hardships that women have endured and overcome and their bond to the unwavering natural landscape. Shooting on film, Rezeta captures the adversity and resilience of both subjects. She seeks to celebrate the strength of women by delving into the beauty of female liberation through the connection to Mother Earth. She also explores the symbiotic relationship between human vulnerability and the effortless acceptance of nature as a hopeful embodiment of our future on this planet.

Chinese photographer Chi Haibo finds his inspiration for Plant Poem ( Feng Ya) in Shijing, “Classic of Poetry”, which is the oldest authenticated anthology of poems in China spanning from the 11th to 7th centuries B.C. The poems reference more than a hundred kinds of plants and were chanted and sung both in humble fields and imperial courts. In keeping with the tradition of Shijing, Chi utilizes photography as his way of paying tribute to and celebrating plant life. This series is influenced specifically by two sections of Shijing, the “Feng” and the “Ya” which symbolize atmosphere and elegance, respectively. He aims to capture plants’ genuine state at one moment in time and reflect his own interpretation of pictorial aesthetics free from the bounds of traditional photography rules. The series of works can be experienced as a whole, and yet each photo can also stand on its own.

Courtesy of Yiwei Gallery

ELEGY is American photographer Jefferey Sklan’s collection of photographs paying tribute to lives lost in the epidemic of mass killings worldwide. Each image represents a discrete event.The series intentionally uses a rich color palette, as a nod to the classical painters who were Jefferey’s early heroes. The images were created as the viewer sees them, with neither artifice nor gimmickry. The collection begins with “A Lily for Orlando / Pulse Nightclub”, and ends with “A Lily for Nipsey”, a white lily on a blue field for the LA rapper and community activist, Nipsey Hussle.

The artist reception will be held on Sunday, July 17th, from 2 to 6pm. There will be live music performed by artists from CalArts, and a tea tasting experience provided by Tea Wave. Tea Wave is a company that sources single origin teas from high character, high quality, award-winning suppliers in Fujian, China. The founders, Michael and Joey, hope their teas can help you find calm in this crazy world. Parking can be found on the streets or in the neighborhood.

Courtesy of Yiwei Gallery

About Yiwei Gallery

Curating Meaningful exhibitions of local and global artists from our gallery in the heart of Venice, California. Open to all, our gallery focuses primarily on emerging and established women artists

From Los Angeles to Shanghai and beyond, we are dedicated to increasing exposure in international art markets for our Asian and other artists 

Artist and Urban Activist Theaster Gates and Adjaye Associates Unveil the Serpentine Pavilion 2022

Black Chapel, the 21st Serpentine Pavilion, designed by Theaster Gates Photography Iwan Baan 2022

The Pomonan
Published 6-07-2022 5:17pm PST

London— The Black Chapel pavilion at the Serpentine Gallery is the 21st of a sequence of pavilions built in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, London.

It investigates the link between art, architectural design, and spirituality, according to the designers, in an effort to reconnect London's populous with spiritual environmental experiences. The Black Chapel is a vessel and receptacle for those who desire to assemble.

Gates is the first artist that isn’t an architect to be award the commission, to design and build the pavilion , although it was executed with the help of architect David Adjaye and associates.

The pavilion is a black cylinder design constructed of lightweight wood and materials sourced sustainably. Seven suspended panels within the pavilion pay tribute to Gates' late father's profession as a roofer. A bronze bell salvaged from St. Laurence, a historic Catholic Church on Chicago's South Side, rests at the entryway.

Theaster Gates, a Chicago based artist is known for repurposing buildings and communities with through art. Gates' work focuses on space theory and land development, as well as sculpture and performance. Gates reclaims abandoned sites by drawing on his passion and experience in urban planning and preservation. Projects include but not limited to the Stony Island Arts Bank, Dorchester Art Housing Collaborative, in addition to the Rebuild Foundation.

Gates is also a professor at the University of Chicago in the Visual Arts department. In addition, Gates also serves as the Senior Advisor for Cultural Innovation and Advisor to the Dean. Gates is Director of Artists Initiatives at the Lunder Institute for American Art at Colby College Museum of Art. Gates also was a 2018/2019 Artist-in-Residence at the Getty Research Institute.


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Yiwei Gallery Presents "I Am My Family" by Christian Fuchs

Christian Fuchs
I Am My Family
May 7 - June 19, 2022
Artist Reception: Saturday, May 7, 4-7 pm

Photography Christian Fuchs | Courtesy of Yiwei Gallery

“The tree is alive within me. I am the tree. I am my entire family.”

–– Alejandro Jodorowsky

Yiwei Gallery is pleased to feature Peruvian photographer, Christian Fuchs, who recreates images of his ancestors through self-portraiture. Christian takes on the role of his ancestors as a way to connect to his family, celebrate them, and help them live on. He has a part of everyone within his being and his family tree is still alive within him.


Christian Fuchs has been fascinated with his family since a young age living with his grandparents in Lima. He has memories of writing to his great grandmother in German who told him stories about her great grandmother. This fascination and desire to connect with his family and ancestors only grew stronger when he was introduced to five generations of family portraits. Christian recalls that, “As a child I looked at the portraits and played with them. If I didn't know the names of the characters, I invented them. I remember watching them for hours and feeling that they were watching me back. Sometimes I would talk to them, and that led to my reinterpretations of them.” After growing up and studying law, Christian found himself returning to the portraits of his ancestors again and again. In 2012 he began his lifelong project Transgenerational recreating an image of his fourth great grandmother, Luise Friederike Charlotte Eleonora Chee.

Photography Christian Fuchs | Courtesy of Yiwei Gallery

Fuchs's great-great-great-great-grandmother, Luise Friederike Charlotte Eleonora Chee, was his first recreation


When we look at Christian’s photographs, it is easy to mistake them as paintings due to their painterly quality and authentic look, but they are, in fact, photographs. The process for creating them is intensive, as Christian takes it upon himself to completely immerse in the person. From their clothes to their jewelry to their personality, he becomes the person––even using backdrops, makeup, and prosthetics to portray a truly accurate likeness.

Photography Christian Fuchs | Courtesy of Yiwei Gallery

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Jeffrey Deitch Gallery Los Angeles - Nadia Lee Cohen: HELLO, My Name Is

Image: Nadia Lee Cohen, Violet, Hollywood (2020).

May 22– August 13, 2022
925 N Orange Drive, Los Angeles

HELLO, My Name Is opens at Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles on May 22, and will mark British photographer Nadia Lee Cohen's first major solo exhibition in the United States.

The gallery will present a thematic showcase of Cohen's photographic works from both of her sold-out monographs (Women and the recently published HELLO, My Name Is), in addition to an immersive installation featuring never-before-seen video works.

The one hundred works presented under the title Women were created between 2014 and 2020; a six-year-long project made in secret, self-funded through Cohen’s commercial work in music video and fashion photography. The photographs are narrative works, and Cohen is a storyteller with the eye of a cinematographer. In each image there is a tangible sense of events before and after the moment captured in the pictures. Jeffrey Deitch will show, for the first time, the accompanying film works in which the subjects of the photographs inhabit the scenarios of the pictures. They are presented as a triptych with three clocks above the screens; London, New York, and Los Angeles. The geo-tags remind us that Cohen is not creating a fantasy world or parallel universe - hers is a heightened, magical, fictionalized realism, but the world depicted is most definitely one we all live in.

Cohen creates the characters of her subjects before she makes portraits of them. She is drawn to models who can take on roles and play their parts, as well as subjects who have developed and created their own identities. Cohen works in much the same way with her own image. In the photographic works, everything and everyone is a creation of Nadia’s, or of themselves, or both in collaboration. And it is all true, what you see in the pictures - only it takes all the tools of cinematic, fictional creation: lighting, make-up, costume, and even prosthetics; to reveal that truth.

The photographs in Women are successful in creating an aspirational form of a relatively down-to-earth reality through their mise-en-scènes. There is a dramatic tension to the pictures; the characters have depth and the scenes have meaning. How Cohen sees and understands the world through her cinematic eye, masterfully aligns with how her subjects want to be seen and understood through their own form of self-expression.

Any evidence of struggle, suffering, boredom, alienation, desperation is dignified by Cohen’s lens and made cinematic - as if worthy of being filmed. Every setup appears to be a part of a story, and every individual could be a character in a film. These people are important, Cohen is telling us, and the lives they lead are significant.

On the surface, Cohen's second monograph HELLO, My Name Is can be considered a collection of self-portraits. But while it is remarkable that she herself is portraying each and every one of them in their varying genders, size, and age, these are not intended as portraits of the artist. She is not exploring herself. She is using herself as a tool alongside the hair and make-up, costume, and prosthetics to create them. When they exist, they are photographed alongside the still-lives of their imagined belongings. They are fictional characters further populating Cohen’s world. And in sharp contrast to the Facetune, filters, and Photoshop self-portraits of social media, Cohen adds lines and shadows, and double-chins and love handles to her subjects; coloring in the pain and loss and heartbreak of their lives. You need not be considered shallow or superficial to hold fiction as valid as fact, or to think of oneself and others as characters in a film, Cohen tells us, you just want to make sure that the film you are in is a great one.

"I say this with irony: there's more than a hint of obsession in what she does," says Paul Reubens (aka Pee-Wee Herman). "A lot of thought has gone into the creation of these people...when I look at every one of these portraits, I want to know what drew her to each of these characters. You and I can read lots of things into these people, but what does the artist know about them that she's keeping secret? Besides what she's shown us, how much more does she know that she's not telling? What isn't she giving away?"

The answer to this question can be found in the dark theater featured in the back of the gallery. Here guests will bear witness to several television monitors showcasing never-before-seen footage of Cohen in various character from HELLO, My Name Is, sharing the intimate stories and truths behind each character.

Nadia Lee Cohen (b. 1992, London) attended the London College of Fashion, where she received the highest honors in BA and MA fashion photography. Cohen's photographs and films, heavily inspired by Americana and Britain in the 1950's, 60's and 70's, are veritable visions of saturated, surreal dreamscapes. Drawing upon the duality of the female form, Cohen explores the paradoxical standoff between strength and fragility with a forceful body of work that sees strong characters shot through an otherworldly lens. As a film director Cohen has worked with Tyler the Creator, Kali Uchis, and A$AP Rocky amongst others. Commercially, she has worked in fashion with some of the world's most exciting brands: Balenciaga, Gucci, MAC Cosmetics, Maison Margiela, Miu Miu, Playboy, Schiaparelli and Valentino. She has been interviewed by Vogue and Interview Magazine, and had her work featured in AnOther Magazine, i-D, Dazed & Confused, and New York Magazine.

The exhibition space for HELLO, My Name Is was designed in collaboration with Nadia Lee Cohen’s Art Director Brittany Porter, to create an immersive world where elements from Cohen's films and photographs become three dimensional objects that inhabit and breathe life into the space.

Image: Nadia Lee Cohen, Violet, Hollywood (2020).

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Yiwei Gallery Presents - New Order by Pei Pei Li

Artist PeiPei Li

The Pomonan
Published 1-1-2022 6Am PST

Yiwei Gallery is pleased to present PeiPei Li: New Order, an exhibition  inspired by the detrimental effects of our fashion-conscious consumerist society. Today, fashion trends and style turnover are heavily influenced by   consumerism. Because fashion brands have an incentive to make as much money as possible for shareholders, they must quickly respond to the trends of today by making more clothes. 

One reason why fast fashion brands are so successful is that they use the fast-paced cycling of trends as a tool to put pressure on people to keep up with our rapidly changing times, look the most fashionable, and have the newest items. This pressure caused by consumerism feeds into a cycle of vanity (and insecurity) that makes people feel anxious, stressed and self-conscious.   

The artist Peipei Li explores these ideas by covering everything in sight with heavy, almost gluttonous layers of clothing in order to make people feel consumed and oppressed by consumerism. We hope that through experiencing New Order, observers will reflect on the vanity and burden of our society’s consumer obsession with fashion and keep these negative effects in mind when making future fashion buying decisions.

The zine New Order published on the Occasion of the exhibition New Order Yiwei Gallery, Venice, CA
April 8-April 30, 2022 (Curious Publishing)

Opening Reception: Friday, Apr 08, 2022, 5-8 pm
Duration: Apr 08 - Apr 30, 2022
For inquiries, please contact info@yiweigallery.com 


On View - ‘Time, Love and Gravity’ The Progress Gallery

‘Time, Love and Gravity’
On View through February 12, 2022
Opening Reception February 12 5 - 9p
The Progress Gallery

‘Time, ‘Love and Gravity’, an exhibition featuring the work of 22 artists and curated by Southern California artists Brandon Monk Munoz, Melinda Hagman, Michael Magoski & E.E. Jacks. This work explores a wide range of mediums, from painting to mixed media, film installation to neon, ceramic sculpture and large scale woodwork pieces. They were completed between the beginning of 2020 and 2022, a season of many questions and much introspection.

This exhibit is simply a momentary rest stop during our ongoing search for the timeless truths that connect us all.

We are born here on earth to die one day. The life we live in between is our art for others to interpret as we all add shape and form to the never ending narrative of Time, Love and Gravity.

Exhibition Statement here

Curators
Brandon Monk Munoz - Fine artist, woodworker, furniture builder, mentor, curator.
Melinda Hagman - Fine artist, painter, and curator.
Michael Magoski - Director of the Magoski Arts Colony, Fine Art Photographer, curator, writer and poet.
E.E. Jacks - Fine artist, painter, curator, juror, writer and poet.

Progress Gallery
The Progress Gallery is a non-profit art gallery in the Pomona Arts Colony, located in the basement of the 1931 Art Deco building that formerly housed the Progress Bulletin. The gallery features regional and collegiate level of emerging and established artists, and is available for use by colleges and qualified artists.

300 S. Thomas St.
Pomona, California
(415) 961-1855

Gallery Hours
Tuesday: 11am-5pm
Wednesday: 11am-5pm
Saturday: 5pm-9pm
Sunday: 11am-5pm
www.theprogressgallery.org
momo@theprogressgallery.com

"Knot" A Group Exhibition at MIM Gallery Los Angeles will Include a Series of Performances

Knot
October 1st – November 27th,
Opening on Friday, October 1st from 6-9pm

Group exhibition, “Knot”, including a series of performances
Press Photos
here

“Knot” denotes a cluster of persons or things, a group, a protuberant lump or swelling in tissue.

Iva Gueorguieva’s 25 ft. tapestry suspended on concrete and rebar runs the length of the gallery space splitting it in two, evoking the silhouette of a long dinner table; although the loose tapestry lacks rigidity, and a wine glass would instantly tip over and spill its nurturing contents. Gueorguieva has invited four artists: Elena Dorfman, John Emison, Josephine Wister Faure and Georgina Reskala to gather around this improbable table.

The work of this group of artists is intensely focused on physical manipulation and the disruption of surface. Through the act of interruption, the visual experience opens to the haptic, the historical and the metaphysical realms. Dorfman and Reskala crumple, prick and interfere with the photographic surface in various ways, each seeking, through intervention in materiality, evidences, echoes, whispers and glitches that marry the past with the present. Emison uses letter carving techniques to incise images in the flesh of found rocks, which are already sculpted and rounded by rivers and wind. Wister Faure pierces a wall with eyes that weep. Gueorguieva attempts to knot multiple iterations by which to visualize incomprehensible time, loss and memory. In each artist’s work, an oscillation of meaning is inherent, as are the ephemeral, the receding and the unwitnessable. The collective artworks offer suggestions through method, proximity, juxtapositions, reversals and repetitions.

K. N. O. T.
T. O. N. K
N O. T. K
K. O. N. T

-G.R

Notes on artists: 

Elena Dorfman crumples, nails, tears, punctures and physically alters the paper as a means to decorate, distort, or decimate. Looping continuously through analog and digital processes, Dorfman’s crumpled original objects are also preserved, though their state of precarity is visible. The evidence of destruction is in our hands but who, ultimately, is responsible?

John Emison painstakingly adds information. Self-taught, he carves into the surface of found boulders in order to contemplate life and death. Evoking round bellies, the surfaces he engraves seems to heave and breathe. The carefully incised and painted strips of geometric patterns are reminiscent of body piercings and flesh markings.

Josephine Wister Faure made Weeping Wall in 2015, in response to the terrorist shootings in her native Paris. The wall sheds tears that trickle silently down, a surrogate portrait, an impotent witness. Despite the artifice the rhythm of the holes’ insistent production is potent enough, a contradiction able both to condemn and to incite empathy.

Georgina Reskala conceals and reveals information by reducing legibility in the printing process through multiple impressions, mimicking the act of remembering and forgetting. Crumpling the paper prior to exposure further deforms the terrain. When Reskala prints on linen and unthreads, she re-enacts the way history gets passed on (adding, omitting), mixing absence for presences.

List of performers:

We have scheduled several performances during the 7-week course of the exhibition, providing further opportunities for shifts in focus, attention, and interpretation. With each happening the atmosphere will inevitably change, affecting the ambient qualities of the space, engendering varied and revived experiences around the works assembled in the exhibition.

October 1st:

Evening Star

A durational performance by Alison D’Amato in collaboration with John Emison
https://imaginedtheatres.com/the-sacred-something/

Bitch

Bitchcraft
https://bitchmusic.com/

October 23rd:

Net that Caught a Man

A performance by Barry Del Sherman and Jennifer Stefanisko

Sherman and Stefanisko explore the complications of wrongdoing remembered in a piece written by Wesley Walker

Michele O’Marah, Tim Jackson and Jonesy, film screening of Faustus’s Children (2006)
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Dave Cull, poetry/ essay reading

Kelly Marie Martin and Erin Schneider folk duo

October 30th, 2021

Music and video screenings by Unthem collective

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Artist Select Biographies:

Elena Dorfman (Born 1965, Boston, MA, ) has had her photographs and video installations exhibited in both the U.S. and worldwide at venues, including the Fondazione Prada, Milan, Italy; Palazzo Strozzi, Florence, Italy; the Triennale di Milano, Milan, Italy; MoMA, New York, NY; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, MN; Williams College Art Museum, Williamstown, MA; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, San Francisco, CA, and The Canadian Center for Architecture, Montreal, Canada. Her work is held in numerous collections including the Denver Art Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Cincinnati Art Museum, Palm Springs Art Museum, Newcomb Art Museum of Tulane University, Williams College Art Museum, and the Bass Art Museum. She was a finalist for the BMW Prize, Paris Photo. Her work is the subject of three monographs, “Empire Falling” (Damiani, 2013), “Fandomania: Characters & Cosplay” (Aperture, 2007), “Still Lovers” (Channel, 2005).

www.elenadorfman.com

 

John Emison (born 1987 in New Orleans, LA; raised in Northern California) studied art and anthropology at Colgate University (BA 2009) and Brandeis University, and sculpture at Tyler School of Art and Architecture, Temple University (MFA 2014). Solo exhibitions include SPRING / BREAK Art Show, Los Angeles, CA; Ms Barbers (with Jamie Felton), Los Angeles, CA; and Central Park, Los Angeles, CA. Group exhibitions and projects include Dan Graham 3.0, Los Angeles, CA; Monte Vista Projects, Los Angeles, CA; PAM, Los Angeles, CA; Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles, CA; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, PA; and 808 Gallery, Boston University, MA. In 2019 he received the Central Park Artist Award.

www.johnemison.org

 

Joséphine Wister Faure (born 1973, Paris, France) graduated from the Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Beaux Arts of Paris. She has had several solo exhibitions at Until Then, Paris; Keystone Art Space, Los Angeles, CA; Denk Gallery, Los Angeles CA and Silencio Club, Paris. She has also taken part in various group exhibitions at Fondation d’Entreprise Ricard, Paris; Locust Art projects, Miami FL; Torrance Art Museum, Torrance CA, Brand Library Art Center, Glendale CA; Centre Pompidou, Paris; Central Academy of Fine Arts, Beijing and Neues Museum, Berlin.

www.josephinewisterfaure.com

 

Georgina Reskala (born in Mexico City, Mexican-Lebanese) Shortlisted for the Hariban Award in Kyoto Japan, 2017. Solo exhibitions include: PDX CONTEMPORARY ART, Portland, OR; K.OSS Contemporary Detroit, MI; The Meyer Simpson Library, Oakland, CA; Contornos, Mexico City; Quotidian, San Francisco, CA. Public collections: The Portland Art Museum; the Frye Art Museum (Seattle, WA); The Jordan Schnizter Museum of Art, University of Oregon; Cassilhaus Collection, Chapel Hill, NC and Museo Comunitario de Arte, Zacatecas, Mexico.

www.ginareskala.com

 

Iva Gueorguieva (born 1974, Sofia, Bulgaria) has had solo exhibitions and projects at UTA Artist Space, Los Angeles; Miles McEnery gallery, New York, NY; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles, CA; ACME, Los Angeles, CA; Pomona Museum of Art, Claremont, CA. Her work is included in the collections of Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA; Minneapolis Institute of Art, Minneapolis, MN; Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, CA; Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA; University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach, CA; Art, Design and Architecture Museum at UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA; Tang Teaching Museum, Saratoga Springs, NY and Benton Museum of Art, Claremont, CA. She was included in Variations: Conversations in and around Abstract Painting, curated by Franklin Sirmans, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Los Angeles, CA. She lives and works in Los Angeles.

www.ivagueorguieva.com

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Self Sovereignty - A Group Exhibition Curated by Jina Imani Celebrating Juneteenth

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Juneteenth is a celebration of the commemoration of the ending of slavery in the Unitedly States. To honor the lives of those who have come before us and those who are here.

Self Sovereignty a group art exhibition curated by Jina Imani in collaboration with Music Changing Lives and Catalyst Cares will feature 12 talented artists the Inland Empire and other areas of Southern California.

The Juneteenth celebration will take place on Friday, June 18th from 5-9 with a Block Party and Saturday, June 19th from 11am to 4pm with a festival thrown by the city of Long Beach. Works of art will be on view both days. There will be live music, face painting, arts and crafts and fun for the whole family, all ages are welcome. Music Changing Lives and Catalyst Cares invite you to celebrate Juneteenth with us! Sign up now on eventbrite.com/e/self-sovereignty.


Participating Artists

Mariah Green @mariahgreenarts
Jonah Elijah @jonah.elijah
Juwaun Mccary @jaavreates
Duan Kellum @duan_and_only
Orson Woodcock @artwork_by_orson
Amina AmXn @aminaamxn
Xavier Williams @yo_zay
Sara Edwards @sarasunshines_
Alexandra Yvonne @alexandrayvonne
A’Kailah Byrd-Greene @artbyakailah
Leila A. @Leilaa.creates
Jina Imani @jinaimani
Dj- @naythan2it

Yiwei Gallery Presents For the Sake of…the Artifice!

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Yiwei Gallery is pleased to present the American debut exhibition of Oakland-based Chinese artist Zhang Mengjiao. This exhibition includes two latest photography series from Zhang, Flat Power, and We Don’t Speak the Same Language, along with a unique sound installation. 

Investigating how beauty was portrayed in traditional Chinese archives, and how it is conceived in Chinese social media today because of globalization, Zhang realizes that the gaze and constraint on women have remained the same. In Flat Power, Zhang makes masks from materials that represent the idea of beauty and transforms this performance into a 2D photograph.  By presenting beauty as a constructed idea, she asks the question of how one can subvert the dominant discourse. 

Brought back to a zoo by her childhood nostalgia, Zhang did not feel the same about these idealized human-constructed habitats for animals anymore. In We Don’t Speak the Same Language, Zhang turns the lens to the artificial landscapes in a zoo and explores deeper how artifice emerges from a photographic process.

Zhang Mengjiao received her MFA degree from San Francisco Art Institute in 2020. She works with photography, sculptural installation, and performance video. Zhang’s practice often looks inward at her own identity as a woman of color, Chinese immigrant,  artist, and human, and outward at social issues. 

Yiwei Gallery Presents
For the Sake of…the Artifice!
June 18 - July 3, 2021

Curated by Yiwei Lu

Kylin Gallery
8634 Wilshire Blvd,
Beverly Hills, CA 90211



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For inquiries, please contact YiweiGallery@gmail.com