Kang Seung Lee, Untitled (Derek Jarman’s Garden), 2018. Graphite on goatskin vellum, 5 x 7 inches. How can we move beyond the territorialized and rigid formation of traditional identities to speak instead of unfolding identities engaged in multiple simultaneous processes of collective becoming? How does migration contribute to the construction of new and unfolding imaginaries of …
Join us for the opening of the third annual Office Hours exhibition. Enjoy an evening at the museum with a hosted bar, music, and community. Each fall since opening in 2016, The Main Museum has hosted Office Hours, a program that invites fifty Downtown L.A.–based artists to meet one-on-one with Allison Agsten, director of The …
Writer-in-residence Travis Diehl presents parts of his essay on “The Snake,” a soul song from the 60s that has become a right-wing spoken word hit at Donald Trump’s rallies. A great book take on this subject. Diehl’s analysis of “The Snake” winds through the weeds of our polarized politics, drawing in particular on the swampy edges …
Sid M. Dueñas was born in Saipan 1973, and moved with his family to Los Angeles at the age of 4. He lives and works in Los Angeles and makes regular trips to Saipan for research. Dueñas’ artistic output disperses recurring themes within his areas of interest (i.e. corporeality and experience as photography, “peaks”, absorption as …
Sunday, February 25, 20182–5pm Tongva blessing begins at 2:30pm. All Beta Main programs are free.114 W. 4th St., Los Angeles, CA 90013 Join us for the opening of Dora De Larios: Other Worlds and Rigo 23: Ripples Become Waves. The afternoon will begin with a ceremonial blessing by Tongva Elder Michael Whitehorse Aviles. Enjoy DJ sets by Vinyl …
Artist Rigo 23 began work on a statue of prominent Native American activist and political prisoner, Leonard Peltier, in 2016. Before the statue was installed at American University, Rigo took its feet to sites of Native significance across the U.S., including Alcatraz Island, the Pine Ridge Indian Reservation, and the Standing Rock Indian Reservation. He then invited …
In this intimate gallery talk, Star Montana will share the stories behind her portraits of friends, acquaintances, and strangers in East L.A. and South L.A. RSVP here. About Star MontanaStar Montana (b. 1987) is a photo-based artist who lives and works in Los Angeles. She was born and raised in Boyle Heights in East Los Angeles, a predominantly …
A Semantic Survey of Emotions spans the artmaking and neuroscience practices of Marcos Lutyens and Richard Cytowic to inform the development of The Main Museum. By completing a survey (or two), each about a minute in length to finish, participants will not only supply data to the museum that will inform its future organizing, building, and …
Los Angeles incarcerates more people than any other city in the United States, which imprisons more people than any other nation on Earth. In her book, 1965,Professor Kelly Lytle Hernandez (UCLA)marshals more than two centuries of evidence to explain how the City of Angels became the capital city of the world’s leading incarcerator. In so doing, she …
Miércoles, septiembre 20 | 7:30 –9:30 p.m. Lugar: Beta Main | 114 W. 4th St., centro de Los Ángeles, 90013. La entrada es gratis; no se requiere RSVP En conjunción con la actual exposición del Beta Main, Star Montana: I Dream of Los Angeles (Sueño con Los Ángeles), acompáñenos a una noche de poesía, música y fanzinesque celebran a la comunidad chicana de Los …
Applications for The Main’s 2018 Artist-in-Residence program are now closed. Selected artists have been notified of their acceptance to our Artist-in-Residence program. Thank you to all that applied. We received over 600 applications to the program, and unfortunately, due to the extraordinary amount we are unable to provide specific feedback about applications. No phone calls …
In this intimate gallery talk, Star Montana will share the stories behind her portraits of friends, acquaintances, and strangers in East L.A. and South L.A. Admission is free but RSVP here in advance.Earlier Event: August 12Vulnerability, the Birthplace of Creativity: A Workshop Led by Star MontanaLater Event: September 20 Poetas Potion: a night of poesía y palabra
Organized by students enrolled in the Public Practice MFA program at Otis College of Art and Design, FEMINISM 4D explores ideas around contemporary feminist aesthetics through conversations on food, self-care, language, and the future. In addition to presentations that will challenge the form a symposium can take in a feminist context, participants will also be …
When Star Montana walked me through her exhibition Tear Drops and Three Dots at the Vincent Price Art Museum last year, I was as struck by the stories she told me about the types of photographs in the exhibition as I was by the work itself. So, when it came time to consider the presentation of her …
Every fall, The Main Museum hosts Office Hours, a program that welcomes fifty Downtown L.A. artists to her desk discuss their work one-on-one with Allison Agsten, director of The Main, on a first-come, first-served basis. At the culmination of each appointment, artists are invited to hang their art, or documentation of it, as part of …
Exhibition to feature work by Mexican American L.A. artist and will celebrate De Larios’s recently commissioned permanent installation at the museum’s entry; Other Worlds will inaugurate The Main’s new 2,750-square-foot mezzanine gallery On view at Beta Main, the test site for The Main Museum February 25–May 13, 2018 Dora De Larios in her Culver City studio (photos …
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Experience a site-specific dance performance that embodies Carolina Caycedo’s River Serpent Book, a recently completed publication that encompasses five years of research on the significance and impact of damming rivers. Using the book as both a score and prop, the performance incorporates ideas about fluidity, water, containment, and environmental justice through African Diasporic dance practices. Along with …
Maps are abstract and partial representations of space. They do not accurately represent a place but redefine it and place value on it. What makes up the city of Los Angeles for each one of us? and How can we represent it on paper? Join The Main’s artist-in-residence Beatriz Cortez in collaboration with Yansi Perez, …
Beta Main’s first commissioned project, Performance Lessons: Suzanne Lacy Teaches Andrea Bowers Performance Art, centers on the profoundly influential trajectory of performance art in California between 1968-1980, reanimating and contextualizing this rich artistic history through durational performance, conversations with practitioners and theorists and inquiry on politics and pedagogy. Performance Lessons follows the photographic artists’ durational installation at …
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Experience an afternoon of music and poetry, as artist Micah James brings together performers who explore the Black queer existence through a multitude of lenses. Participating artists are Eddington Again, Bapari, Black Gatsby, Brandon Drew Holmes, Micah James, Thed Jewel, Amanda-Faye Jimenez, Naeem Juwan, and Adee Roberson. Quiet Isn’t Kept: Amplifications in Black Queer VoiceCaptured by Pablo Simental Micah James is an artist working in LA, making songs, stories, …
Experience the creative process as Mecca Vazie Andrews, Artistic Director of the MOVEMENT movement, prepares for Title X V. 1, a site-specific performance taking place at Beta Main on The Main Sunday, July 16, 2017. Over the two days leading up to Title X V. 1, visitors are encouraged to drop-in, watch, and engage with Andrews as she …
Mecca Vazie Andrews, Artistic Director of the MOVEMENT movement, activates Beta Main’s gallery space through dance and multimedia performance. Responding to the artworks currently on view, Star Montana: I Dream of Los Angeles as well as Alice Konitz’s Circle Chairs and Triangle Chairs, Andrews engenders a conversation between both that explores migration and connectivity in a new cultural age. Seating …
This article is archived from it’s original text themainmuseum.org Edgar Arceneaux: Library of Black Lies ON VIEWSaturday, February 4 – Sunday, March 26, 2017Wednesday – Sunday11am – 7pm For more ceramics art guides and tips read these articles Heat Treating Oven Best Metal Clay Kiln Best Slab Roller Best Clay Extruder Best Clay for Sculpting …
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This article is archived from the original text themainmuseum.org When Star Montana was a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, she longed for California sunshine and dreamed of the light and the people of Los Angeles. A Boyle Heights native, she returned home periodically, trips during which she took a number of …
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This article is archived from the original text themainmuseum.org Dr. Robert King and Albert Woodfox are the two surviving members of the Angola 3, the world-renowned trio of prison reform activists (Herman Wallace, died on October 4th, 2013, three days after his release) exonerated after enduring decades of solitary confinement at Louisiana State Penitentiary—the largest maximum-security prison in …
Rigo 23 (b. 1966, Portugal), a Los Angeles-based Portuguese artist known for large-scale outdoor murals, is considered part of the first generation of the San Francisco Mission School art movement, which emerged in the city’s Mission District in the early 1990s. For nearly three decades, his socially engaged work has focused on addressing injustices, notably …
This article is archived from the original text themainmuseum.org Dora De Larios: Other Worlds highlighted the work of L.A. native and ceramist Dora De Larios, one the city’s most vital, yet under-recognized artists. Dora De Larios: Other Worlds showcased work from the artist’s six-decade-long career and inaugurated the new 2,750-square-foot mezzanine gallery, marking one in a series of …
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This article is archived from the original themainmuseum.org Star Montana (1987) is a photo-based artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She was born and raised in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, which is predominantly Mexican American and serves as the backdrop to much of her work. Star’s imagery deals with …
In conjunction with Beta Main’s current exhibition, Star Montana: I Dream of Los Angeles, join us for an evening of poetry, music, and zines that celebrate Los Angeles’s Chicana community. This article is archived from the original text as published themainmuseum.org For photography guides and tips read these articles: Best Camera with Mic Input Best Camera …