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Not Los Angeles Kitty Chester Curator’s Lab project curated by Zachary Kaplan & Aandrea Stang September 26 - November 28, 2009
Unique in both its assertiveness and the breadth of its proliferation, Los Angeles has attracted a genre of scholarship from Reyner Banham to Mike Davis, from ecologies to fortresses, that exists to divine the city’s essential meaning. While this has produced...
PARTICIPATING ARTISTS, BIOS, AND DOCUMENTATION
Read about the participating artists, their projects, and, as the exhibition progresses, expect photographs, video, and more.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
As a key element of the Not Los Angeles, each of the artists has been asked to present, at some point during the exhibition’s run, a unique public project reflective of the images of Los Angeles in their work. The schedule can be found below.
previous events
Saturday, October 17
7am, meet at Topanga Canyon Boulevard and Pacific Coast Highway
5:30pm, same
Join Lita...
Lita Albuquerque
BIOGRAPHY
Lita Albuquerque, who was born in 1946, is at the forefront of the generation of the celebrated California Light and Space and Ephemeral Installation artists who emerged during the 1970s. She has exhibited around the world and has major public works in the USA, Japan, Egypt, the UAE, and Canada. Her ephemeral installations have been seen in locations as diverse as the Washington...
Brian Boyer
BIOGRAPHY
Brian Boyer is a Southern California native and has been actively involved in the arts community since 1996. He was a founding member of Edward Giardina Contemporary Art, a five year curatorial partnership in Santa Ana, California. His work has been exhibited throughout Southern California and has been included in various international exhibitions, includingMiniature, at Ginza-Kyubidou...
Alexandra Grant
BIOGRAPHY
Alexandra Grant is a text-based artist who uses language and networks of words as the basis for her work in painting, drawing and sculpture. Her work has been the subject of shows at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, the Contemporary Museum (Baltimore), and galleries in the US and abroad. Grant has explored ideas of translation, identity, and dis/location not only in...
Joel Kyack
BIOGRAPHY
Joel Kyack was born in Pennsylvania. He received his BFA from the Rhode Island School of Design in 1995 and his MFA from the University of Southern California in 2008. He participated in the 2008 California Biennial at the High Desert Test Sites and was a 2009 resident at The MacDowell Colony. Kyack currently lives and works in Los Angeles.
Joel Kyack, Errquake, 2009
With...
Kyungmi Shin & Todd Gray
BIOGRAPHY
Todd Gray attended Cal Arts in the late 1970s and in the late 1980s returned to receive his MFA working primarily with Allan Sekula. Gray’s work explores and transmogrifies his experience of pop culture and imagery into a dark and conceptually challenging vision. Fluent in cultural iconography, driven by introspection, and steeped in issues of corporate politics and racial...