Past Exhibitions
Liquid Light
October 16, 2021 – February 5, 2022
In their latest exhibition and collaborative research project, artists Javier Tapia and Camilo Ontiveros, in collaboration with Nicolas Garcia, Ruben Díaz and Steve Rioux, trace the movement of water across the United States and Mexico to raise poignant questions about water scarcity, climate change, and human disruptions to local ecologies.
Tamara Rosenblum: Paraíso
October 16, 2021 – February 5, 2022
In the 4-channel video installation Paraíso, Tamara Rosenblum directs her father, Gregorio Rosenblum, a Chilean theater actor and director, in a performance of archetypes: cowboy, scarecrow, clown, Italian widow, aging actor, ship captain, as well as other characters he occupied during her childhood, revealing intimate and humorous exchanges between father as performer and daughter as audience.
Golden Hour: California Photography from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art
October 16, 2021 – February 5, 2022
In the 4-channel video installation Paraíso, Tamara Rosenblum directs her father, Gregorio Rosenblum, a Chilean theater actor and director, in a performance of archetypes: cowboy, scarecrow, clown, Italian widow, aging actor, ship captain, as well as other characters he occupied during her childhood, revealing intimate and humorous exchanges between father as performer and daughter as audience.
IMAGES OF THE DIVINE IN EVERYDAY MEXICO: EX-VOTOS AND RETABLOS FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION
November 7, 2020 – October 1, 2021
Selected from the museum’s permanent collection, this group of votive paintings from Mexico spans the early 19th to the mid-20th centuries. Known as ex-votos (meaning “from a vow” in Latin) or retablos (meaning “behind the altar” in Latin), these small…
A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas
April 22, 2017 – July 22, 2017
Drawing from the hemispheric context of the Americas, and broad questions of civilization and culture, A Decolonial Atlas: Strategies in Contemporary Art of the Americas presents recent works by artists from the United States and Latin America grappling with continued questions of colonialism and postcolonialism in an effort to locate “place” in contemporary society.