Future Forward Armenian American Visionaries April 4 – May 24, 2019 11 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 …
February 22 – March 29, 2019 There’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. …
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, …
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 …
2018 & 2019 Dia 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 …
July 19 – September 7, 2018 reimagining 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 …
June 8 – July 1, 2018 QUEER 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 …
May 11 – June 1, 2018 Neighbors 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 …
April 14 – 28, 2018 Risen 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 …
February 2 – March 25, 2018 Avo 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 …
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