Community Quilting Bee

Quilt for Palestine Raffle Kickoff Nov 10 – Entries open until Dec 15 6PST/9EST

Alien Race Co-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.

ΛᒪᎥΣᏁ ᏒΛᑕΣ featuring the 4₮Ⱨ ₳₦₦Ʉ₳Ⱡ ₵Ø₥₥Ʉ₦ł₮Ɏ QɄłⱠ₮ł₦₲ ฿ɆɆ opens at LA Artcore on Saturday (10/15) 12-5pm

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This year we have the honor of participating in LA Artcore’s for Alien Race: Envisioning Sites of our Future Ancestors. This group show “collectively explores our ancestral pasts as a path to reconciling our present and enacting our shared futures.”

  • For our part, this year’s quilt was a meditation on radical ways of remembrances. Together we contemplated:
  • In what ways can the past illuminate the present and guide the future?
  • How are we shaped by the collective memory / How do we shape the collective memory?
  • How can we give new life to what is no longer seen as useful?

Participating Artists: Dav Bell, GK Bigler, Ohan Breiding, Quinn Corey, Ian Cozzens, Mike Knives, Laura DeVeber, Rino Kodama / Weaver, Laub, Martha Laub, Kirsten Mitchell / Gradient, The Revolution School, Eddie Sierra Pollack, Lara Salmon, R. Silver, kayla tange

Special thanks to Pranay Reddy and Jennifer Moon

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