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SUMMARY:Carlos Agredano: Smog Check
DESCRIPTION:Gallery hours: Wednesday through Sunday\, 12 – 6pmOpening: Saturday\, October 7\, 7 – 9pm \n\n\n\nSmog Check is an exhibition of new sculptures and research by Carlos Agredano about the air-quality around Chinatown\, which sits adjacent to the Harbor (I-110) Freeway and is the location of Human Resources Los Angeles.  \n\n\n\nThis exhibition focuses on the legacy of two discriminatory housing practices – racially restrictive covenants and redlining.  These two interlocking private and federal practices aided in the development of Los Angeles’ public freeway system in the 20th century and systematically destroyed and polluted racially diverse communities such as Bunker Hill\, Chavez Ravine\, Boyle Heights\, and Chinatown.  \n\n\n\nAgredano’s sculptures actively document Los Angeles’ air pollution and respond to ongoing environmental racism in the city. For this exhibition\, Agredano placed a canvas on the rooftop of HRLA for exactly one month to collect the ambient air pollution that exists in the neighborhood. He also engaged with the community of Chinatown by trading readymade objects such as window air conditioners and street vendor parasols\, objects which collect polluted air particles on a daily basis. By rolling balls of clay around different streets in Chinatown\, Agredano created single-layered stones coated in debris left behind by vehicles and humans alike. Flanking the entrance of the gallery are two Corsi-Rosenthal Boxes\, DIY air purifiers that aid in cleaning indoor air.  \n\n\n\nOther works reside outside the gallery space. Installed on the facade of HRLA is a nylon flag\, part of the Federal EPA Air Quality Flag Program\, which is designed to inform the public about the air quality in the local area. On the nearby I-110 freeway\, a vinyl banner reads “Keep Los Angeles Beautiful” designed after a Los Angeles initiative to clean and “beautify” littered and polluted neighborhoods. On various telephone poles and freeway exit ramps are blank “music” posters\, coated with an adhesive designed to collect debris and reveal a gradient of Los Angeles’ pollution.   \n\n\n\nThese process-based and ready-made sculptures all function as evidence of the environmental conditions that Chinatown is subject to on a daily basis due to its proximity to the Harbor I-110 Freeway.
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/smog-check-carlos-agredano/
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SUMMARY:Zori Swanegan: In suspension\, otherwise
DESCRIPTION:dubious lift-off (2023)\, pastel and graphite on yupo paper\, 5” x 7”.\n\n\n\nOpening reception: Friday\, October 27\, 6 – 9pmOpen hours: Saturday\, October 28th and Sunday\, October 29th 12 – 6pm \n\n\n\nA collection of drawings\, prints\, and one animation serving as windows before intangible subjects abbreviated in space. \n\n\n\nZori Swanegan (b. 1996\, Kansas City\, MO) is a visual artist based in Los Angeles\, CA. She earned her BA from UCLA in 2018. Her practice consists primarily of drawings that explore the association between an established visual plane and objects which aggrandize or invalidate it. Her work has been shown in Los Angeles at PSLA\, Punto Lairs\, and Human Resources.  \n\n\n\n* \n\n\n\nZori Swanegan at Human Resources \n\n\n\nDrawing is a mysterious act in which a two dimensional field meets the artist’s conscious and unconscious self. The plane on which the drawing occurs presents itself as neutral ground\, but it is not. It is charged and prepared for transformation. Zori Swanegan leans into these dormant spaces\, both in digital and physical realms\, to conjure the appearance of forms. \n\n\n\nSimple lines and shapes are summoned to create playful constellations in Swanegan’s drawings. At times these suspended forms are brought down to depict a landscape or settle in a stage-like arrangement. Some forms are gently rendered and pushed to the foreground as protagonists\, while others accompany them or outline the surrounding scape. \n\n\n\nThese drawings are simple and abstract\, they oscillate between complete ambiguity and suggestive interactions of pictoric components. The most descriptive work is perhaps the animated image that anchors the exhibition. Here\, a mountainous form glides in space as two shapes hover above casting shadows. The two floating shapes function like clouds\, but they come to a point on each side and are transparent against a black background. These are not clouds. Like much of Swanegan’s work\, they are indefinable but allude to the world. \n\n\n\nMany of the images in the exhibition were made digitally\, defying materiality in their making while mimicking physical mark making. In some ways digital spaces work the way human minds do\, storing away information\, ready to be pulled into consciousness when drawn out. The source of the drawings comes from within the digital apparatus as from within the artist. \n\n\n\nSwanegan’s digital prints\, handmade drawings\, and animation effortlessly compose forms into scenes. They speak both the language of contemporary illustration and abstract painting\, refusing to surrender fully to either. Forms act as characters and gestures in open\, untouched fields. In this suspended world of soft pinks\, reds\, and yellows – lines\, scratches\, blobs\, and cloud-like figures meet to render a parallel reality. In this alternate domain\, each mark embodies a unique role and follows a logic of its own. – Luz Carabaño
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