Los Angeles

Indivisible, 11 SEPT - 3 OCT 2024 /  by Wendy Murray

INDIVISIBLE, Curated by Karen Fiorito

Curated by Karen Fiorito, political activist, artist, and curator, this exhibition explores fragile democracy, its flailing institutions and the threat of an authoritarian nightmare. By partnering with Swing Left Fiorito hopes to engage the public through live political poster printing, voter registration opportunities, panel discussions, and other community events. Fiorito is simultaneously exhibiting a solo collection TAG’s West Gallery space. This exhibition of her political activism, Sign Language, will feature miniature billboards alongside photos of actual billboards she has designed over the past 20 years.

Fiorito states, “These exhibitions are a celebration of Artivism, which is a combination of Art and Activism. Artivism opens dialogues, creates change and encourages growth through awareness and empathy for others, which leads the public towards the greater good.”

VIP Reception with live poster printing: Friday, September 13th, 2024: 5 - 8 PM
Public Opening Reception: September 14th, 2024: 5 - 8 PM
Panel Discussion: TBA

Featured Artists include Barbara Kruger, Barbara Carrasco, Malaquías Montoya, Robbie Conal, Guerrilla Girls, Guillermo Bert, Winston Smith, Gee Vaucher, Marianne Sadowski, Lilli Muller, Nguyen Ly, The Qwiett, Wendy Murray, Curtis Bartone, and Karen Fiorito

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Center for the Study of Political Graphics is an educational and research archive that collects, preserves, documents, and exhibits posters relating to historical and contemporary movements for social change. Using its more than 90,000 human rights and protest posters and prints, CSPG creates traveling and online thematic exhibitions, and publications, advancing the power of art to educate and inspire people to action.

Swing Left is a progressive political group with Hybrid PAC status in the United States. It was created following the election of Donald Trump in 2016 with a goal of gaining a Democratic majority in US legislatures. 

Hollywood Debris /  by Wendy Murray

Hollywood Debris, 2024

Wendy Murray, in collaboration with Lesley Wheeler
Printer: Wendy Murray Studios
Dimensions: 48 x 16 in
Medium: 22 paper stencil layers (serigraph / stencils) on cotton rag
Edition:10

Hollywood Debris is part of a collaborative series responding to the artist Paul DeLongpre, a French painter of flowers who lived in Hollywood just as Hollywood became Hollywood. Poet Lesley Wheeler and I saw in him mystery—an artist who made a (opulent) living solely from his ability to paint extremely realistic, beautiful flowers, who drew thousands of people to his home and gardens to see where the magic happened. But now, where his mansion once stood is a city block. We have been drawing, printing, and writing and have plans for a site specific installation. Hollywood Debris is a riff on a DeLongpre painting – the trash replacing the DeLongpre immigrant garden flowers, the helicopters replacing butterflies and bees. Created from a drawing and 22 paper cut stencils, the work was printed in Murray’s tiny Silver Lake garage studio. 

Material Recovery /  by Wendy Murray

MATERIAL RECOVERY: PRINTMAKING WITH RECYCLED MATERIALS

Please join me for the opening reception of Material Recovery on Saturday, January 20th from 2pm - 4:30pm at Angels Gate Cultural Center. 

Curated by Christina Yasmin Fesmire and Jared Millar, this group exhibition reclaims material through the transformative practice of printmaking, with works by LYNK Collective members: Yeansoo Aum, Elisabeth Beck,  Andra Broekelschen,  Alexandra Chiara,  Christina Yasmin Fesmire,  Karen Fiorito,  Carole Gelker,  Bill Jaros,  Nguyen Ly,  Diane McLeod,  Jared Millar,  William Myers,  Vera Polic-Lakhal, Marina Polic,  Francisco Rogido,  Olga Ryabtsova,  Laura Shapiro,  Tracy Loreque Skinner,  Mary Lawrence Test,  Paula Voss, Zana Zupur and guest artists: Karen Feuer-Schwager,  Kim Kei,  Wendy Murray,  Jackie Nach,  MJ Rado,  Victor Rosas,  Fred Rose,  Marianne Sadowski,  Jillian Thompson  and  Katie Thompson-Peer.

Material Recovery is on view at AGCC through March 23rd, with open gallery hours Thursdays, Fridays and Saturdays, 10am to 4pm. The gallery is located in Building A on Leary Merriam Drive, in San Pedro, California.

Wendy Murray View Series

The View series has been developed by screen printing through stencils made from junk mail envelopes. The drawings and prints in this series capture the artists journey to and from the Los Angeles Printmaking Society archives at the Print Shop L.A in a rideshare car.

Upcoming Exhibition Events:
January 20th, 2pm-4:30pm: Public Opening Reception
February 10th, 2pm-4pm: Printmaking Workshop with Lynk Collective Part 1, rsvp required.
February 17th, 2pm-4pm: Printmaking Workshop with Lynk Collective Part 2, rsvp required.
March 23rd 2pm: Closing & Artist Talk with Catalog Release
Learn more and rsvp for future events at https://angelsgateart.org/exhibitions/material-recovery/