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Sinks

Self Help Graphics & Art, Sinks: Places We Call Home, presented at the Luckman Gallery, Cal State LA: a project in which artists, who are partnering with communities and scientists, examine the impact of toxic manufacturing sites on communities near Self Help Graphics & Art in East LA.

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Sculpted Light

With a keen eye for ambiance and atmosphere, Brian Zamora’s work transcends conventional use of lighting, weaving together intricate patterns, colors, and textures to evoke emotive responses and enhance architectural landscapes.

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Spooky Action at a Distance

Raymundo T. Reynoso’s work reflects on the fabric of the city and present narratives of resistance, resilience, and existence that are evident yet often unseen. Incorporating paintings and prints on found surfaces, Spooky Action at a Distance explores the intersections of migration, labor, and urban life.

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Two boys with earnest expressions, one resting his head on the other's shoulder, share a moment of camaraderie in a stark, monochromatic setting.

Hidden

California-based photojournalist Cristina Salvador Klenz brings a collection of rare, intimate photographs featuring the Roma families living along the West Coast. Beginning in 1990 and working as a staff photographer for the Press-Telegram, Salvador Klenz spent nearly 30 years earning the trust of a number of families belonging to various “nations” of Roma and documenting their lives on black-and-white, 35mm film.

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Ying Ming Tu in a dark tunic sitting cross-legged on a vibrant blue carpeted floor with a hat placed beside him, while another person stands in the background looking at framed portraits on the wall.

Tu-2: i to I, Mind to Heart

The Luckman Gallery is pleased to present Taiwanese-American artist Tu-2. This exhibition includes a small survey of Tu-2’s early Mao-ology work, selections from his 108 series of blue and silver portraits made through “meditative mark-making” using only one silver pencil on blue paper, and selections of his new work. A large section of the gallery has been transformed into a meditation refuge where viewers and students alike are invited to stay and practice mindfulness as well as learn about meditation practices.

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Bruce Yonemoto: Screening and Book Launch

Please join us for a special screening of Bruce Yonemoto’s Sounds Like the Sound of Music (2005) and Papa (The Original Potato Eaters) (2006), plus the book launch of Bruce Yonemoto: Imaginary Line Around the Earth. The book was published on the occasion of the 2017 exhibition The Imaginary Line Around the Earth at Luckman Gallery which surveyed artwork inspired by his research in South America between 1992-2017.

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Immersive art experience: a visitor engrossed in a captivating visual projection by The Propeller Group in a dark gallery space.

The Propeller Group

Established in 2006, Propeller Group is an artists’ collective based in Vietnam working in film, photography, sculpture, and installation. Merging the sophistication of an advertising firm, the pragmatism of a production company, and the experimentation of an arts co-op, Propeller Group refers to itself as a platform for collective thinking and coordinated action. This exhibition will feature work seen in Los Angeles for the first time, including the film The Living Need Light, The Dead Need Music (2014), a project created for the New Orleans Biennial.

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Recelebration

Recelebration is a group exhibition of recent acquisitions from the Luckman Permanent Collection. 

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Ethan Russell

Presented in conjuction with his stage show entitled The Best Seat In The House, a retrospective exhibition of acclaimed photographer Ethan Russell’s prolific career will be on display in the Luckman Gallery.

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Pacific Standard Time: La/LA

How to Read El Pato Pascual: Disney’s Latin America and Latin America’s Disney is an attempt to engage with the idea that there are no clean boundaries in art, culture, and geography, and to deconstruct how such notions are formed and disputed. For over seventy-five years, the Walt Disney Company has continuously looked to Mexico, the Caribbean, and Central and South America for content, narratives, and characters, beginning with Donald Duck’s first role in the Mexican-themed Don Donald (1937). The 1971 text by Chilean scholars Ariel Dorfman and Armand Mattelart—Para leer al Pato Donald—considered Disney comic books as a form of cultural imperialism, and the curators have used its arguments as a starting point to show that Disney cannot be seen as something simply exported to the rest of the Americas, and passively received. Like any other cultural force or mythology in Latin America, Disney imagery has always been quickly reinterpreted, assimilated, adapted, cannibalized, syncretized, and subverted in popular culture and the fine arts.

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M.L. Dodge & Jay Lizo: Permanent Score

The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA is proud to present Permanent Score, an exhibition featuring new works by M.L. Dodge and Jay Lizo. The exhibition showcases the intersection of the two artists with distinctly contrasting approaches and concentrations in their processes. Focusing on the image/idea of the crate, Dodge and Lizo venture into different trajectories in what the standard shipping crate can transform into, what it can contain, where it might go, or what it might imply.

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An intricate white symmetrical sculpture featuring multiple levels of trumpets with golden details, emanating from a central point to create a visually striking radial pattern.

Kara Tanaka

This first survey exhibition of Los Angeles based artist Kara Tanaka spans her work from 2005-2011. The exhibit will feature a cross section of Tanaka’s work, which has often explored the central themes of transcendence through her own aesthetic synthesis that merges the primitive with the futuristic.

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A contemporary art exhibition featuring a video projection and illuminated sculptural installations in a gallery setting, with framed artworks on the walls in the background.

The Long-Lasting Intimacy of Strangers

the long-lasting intimacy of strangers is a group exhibition that engages principles of co-evolution. Looking at nature and the social meanings we make around origins and inter-species interactions, the works in the exhibition bring out the fantastical dormant within the seemingly ordinary objects that surround us: stones, plants, animals and bacteria. The artists in the exhibition probe our ideas around animacy, collaborating with monstrous rocks, extinct flowers, and alchemical microbes. The group exhibition is curated by Los Angeles-based artist Candice Lin.

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