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Center for the Arts,
Eagle Rock
Center for the Arts Eagle Rock’s mission is to present innovative and multicultural arts programming to the communities of northeast Los Angeles. Curator’s Statement In many careers the work of couples sharing the same profession may go unnoticed. In art practices, we can more readily access bonds through visual representation. However, the concept of exhibiting the visual art of couples invites the viewer to navigate a more intimate vantage point of the artists, as the work itself becomes a testimony to compatibility. There is an invisible, yet present, support between them. Despite the differences in medium and subject, much of the couples’ work naturally gravitates to one another. NELA (Northeast Los Angeles) artists have been selected to participate that have their own careers in art to share a space together. Photography, Ceramics, Drawing, Sculpture, Textile Art, Painting and Mixed Media, as well as Digital Art are all represented. Each artist selected has participated in our exhibitions at the Center for the Arts, Eagle Rock at least once over the last 12 years. This showcase of artists as couples will be the first group show of its kind at the Center, an exploration of how the personal and professional lives of artists intersect. Artists include Carl Smith and the late Donald Krieger, Brian and Mary Jean Mallman, Cidne Hart and Kevin Haas, Marcos Lutyens and Yi Ping Hau, Jeff Klarin and Rebecca Johnson, Jamison Carter and Margaret Griffith, Samatha Fields and Andre Yi, John O’Brien and Cielo Pessione. A video produced with each couple at their studio or at the Center will document each artist and how they discovered their artist partner. This will give the exhibition a personal accessibility, as well as connect the artist, their art and make a little more tangible the bond that connects people. In conjunction, during the course of the exhibition, there will be a free discussion with the artists who choose to share their journey and the merging of their path with their partner. Renee Dominique 2011 Funding awarded for the exhibition “The Laws of Attraction” which will focus on the interplay between the works of established and emerging Northeast L.A. artists who are also couples. Scheduled for May - June 2011. |
