Upcoming Exhibitions

December 9, 2017 – January 6, 2018Quiet Please Pop-up Curated by Glendale-based artist Leo Eguiarte, Quiet Please Pop-Up is an ongoing rotating art installation started by Leo Eguiarte and Melly Trochez at the Inn Gallery in Los Feliz in December 2016. It has since gained popularity and the Quiet Please initiative has has also shown at Avenue 50 …

February 2 – March 25, 2018Avo This solo exhibit of over 20 paintings represented a new body of work for the internationally exhibited artist Avetis Krtikashyan, who is also a resident at ACE/121. During the course of the exhibition, Avo transformed the gallery into his studio, painting live during gallery hours. Avo was born and educated in Yerevan, Armenia. He …

April 14 – 28, 2018Risen Curated by ace/121 resident artist, Margarita Simonian, Risen presented work in various mediums that collectively addressed the theme of the Armenian genocide of 1915. Rather than focus on the hardship of this dark history, Simonian chose instead to propose a show that offered an alternative look into this darkness – one of survival …

May 11 – June 1, 2018Neighbors What makes a community? What are the forces that draw us together? How do we work as neighbors to create community? Neighbors takes as its central focus a genuine interest in the people living next door: what is their story? What is the journey that brought them here? How is …

June 8 – July 1, 2018QUEER QUEER was a multi-venue event presented at the following venues in Glendale:ace/121 Gallery“A word becomes a slur becomes a culture. For some ‘Queer’ remains too painful to embrace.  For others, it’s a culture that extends beyond the LGBT community, allowing for broader inclusiveness. In LGBT normative Century 21, what …

July 19 – September 7, 2018reimagining AMERICA The personal is political, a slogan used in the 1960s by the student movement and 2nd wave feminism emphasizes the connections between personal experiences and socio-political structures. It can be argued that all art is political and reimagining AMERICA takes an interest in where these intersections take place …

2018 & 2019Dia de los Muertos For two weeks near the end of October, ace/121 Gallery welcomed the public to contribute to a community altar designed by resident and curator CandyJoe Dahlstrom or create their own to honor loved ones who have passed.“Write a note, bring copies of photographs, mementos and fall food offerings to place on our communal Day of …

November 17, 2018 – January 5, 2019 RITUAL/S Leo Eguiarte’s ongoing series delves into a world of symbolism and graphic imagery, reflecting Eguiarte’s interests in signs and everyday ritual. While much of the work suggests esoterism and metaphysical states or landscapes, Eguiarte’s approach is particularly subtle, focusing on the unspoken customs that particular groups or …

January 19 – February 9, 2019 Open House: Common-Unity Open House is a House dance and music community in the greater Los Angeles area. We aim to support and build a haven for dancers and music lovers of all ages, race, color, or creed to get together and share the knowledge of House dance, music, …

February 22 – March 29, 2019There’s No End to Her Twentieth century landscape painting pictorially introduced the world to the concept of “Manifest Destiny.” The images of the Hudson River School illustrated the ideal of western expansionism, implying it was the right of men to colonize and appropriate all of nature across the Americas. The …

Future Forward Armenian American Visionaries April 4 – May 24, 201911 Steps Ahead While the original Italian Futurists applied their aesthetics and social practices of technology and the industrial city to diverse artistic mediums in order to emphasize a movement of youth and the “new,” futurism as a term has since been tied to other …

June 1 – July 13, 2019glendaleOUT glendaleOUT is a multi-venue intergenerational LGBTQIA-based show that will do two things:Announce to Glendale its queer population exists, is visible, is viable, and is part of Glendale’s narrative.Share with Glendale and each other the stories of our coming out – either to ourselves, to our friends, to our families, …

September 27 – November 8, 2019The Art Spirit Over the course of the summer of 2019, four professional artists visited the Babajanyan Art Academy in Glendale to share their knowledge, experience and passion for the arts with the young artists training there. The Art Spirit showcased the work that came out of these workshops. These artistic …

November 22, 2019 – January 3, 2020Voice of Nature Voice of Nature featured work by artists who live in the ACE/121 artist community. The gallery’s inaugural exhibition, Civitas, opened in May of 2017, introducing the vibrant inter-generational community of ACE/121 to the city of Glendale as a permanent fixture in its contemporary cultural fabric and artistic …

Living in Dystopia January 17 – March 13, 2020What She Said Throughout time and across all cultures women have held the role of prophet, oracle, seer and diviner.  Their stories warned us where our society was heading. In exchange for their wisdom they have been banned and burned, but also revered and channeled.  She never stopped …

[online exhibition] June 19 – July 31, 2020 Post Pride From archival work that found new relevance to new works produced since the pandemic, the artists represented in Post Pride rose to a call of considering when and how we can reimagine a world amidst COVID-19 during – and after – Pride, forever intertwined with …

[online exhibition] September 24, 2020 – January 6, 2021Feedback Loop This piece is dedicated to all cyberpunks/ hackers/ code kids/ black hat/ white hat/ programmers/ etc. In this digital era it is either program or be programmed. This video was made in memory of hackers/hacktivists like Aaron Schwartz, who went to the grave with the …

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Susan Arena Glendale Arts presented “Apologizing For My Wild”: New Work by Susan Arena 2024 at ace/121 Gallery in celebration of Women’s History Month. The solo exhibit was on view from February 28-March 30, 2024. An Artist Reception was be held on Saturday, March 2 from 6:00-8:00pm. The reception was free and open to the …