Josefina — An Installation by Fabián Guerrero
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAOpening August 29, 6-10pm Screening at 8pm followed by music and drinks Organized by Fabián Guerrero and Clara López Menéndez Josefina is for and about my grandma, Josefina. I wanted to document, in short clips, not only my grandma but also my family: the sounds, movements and the house that I was raised in as […]
RIDDIMS
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CARIDDIMS a solo exhibition of Adee Roberson, organized by independent curator Essence Harden. Opening Reception Wednesday July 3rd 6—9pm Gallery open Thursday—Sunday 12—6pm RIDDIMS Block Party Sunday July 7th 1—6pm BBQ, snacks, and drinks all day. Throw what you want on the grill! Adee Roberson and Essence Harden in conversation 2—3pm Performance by Thurmon Green […]
Look Who’s Talking Now
Opening: Sunday, June 23rd 6-10pm Gallery Hours: Monday, June 24 - Saturday, June 29 12-6pm Performances by Malinche and Figgy DJ Set by Paxico Records The more intricately connected that people are to one another, the more their ideas and projects appear to follow similar patterns. Look Who’s Talking Now focuses on painting as its […]
Brian Getnick: Poem for the community
Poem for the community sculptures and works on paper by Brian Getnick Exhibition dates: Wednesday, June 19—Friday, June 21 Gallery hours: 5pm-9pm or by appointment (call 773.351.1888) In the fall of 2018, artist Brian Getnick presented Punishment's Place—an ensemble performance wherein the shattered pieces of a monument to Prometheus Bound were assembled to the beat of a […]
Stalgia Grigg: is a weapon and we
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAopening reception: fri june fourteen : seven to ten on view sat june fifteen—tues june eighteen : noon to six The ideological ground that Logic and Rationality stand on is slipping away. Liberalism has rallied to defend the sacred ground of "truth," while slowly realizing it may have been a constructed fiction all along. At […]
Echo Park Film Center
On view daily from 2-7 pm Closing potluck party: Thursday, April 25, 7-10 pm, with performances at 8:30 Echo Park Film Center takes over HRLA's galleries for three days and nights—with media installations, performances, and programs of films and videos made by the Film Center's Co-op, as well as artists who have participated in their […]
Public Fiction: Dylan Mira & Sarah Rara
Three-part poems by artists / writers Dylan Mira and Sarah Rara will inhabit opposing sides of a double-sided marquee—the illuminated exterior sign from Public Fiction’s former storefront location in Highland Park (2010—2015)—permanently removed from its original location, now briefly installed inside HRLA's main gallery. Each day, a new section of text will replace the previous […]
The International Expanded Field
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAIn the spirit of transnational dialog in times of heightened fragmentation, competition and isolation, The International Expanded Field brings members of different diasporic communities of Los Angeles for a three day event at Human Resources. With a critical and contemporary look at the late 1960s and 1970s third world solidarity movements, the three day event […]
Church of Art
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAUsing the framing of organized spiritual practice, Church of Art encompasses the work of artists who seek healing and self-actualization through various disciplines. Staged in front of an installation by Veronique d’Entremont, Gregory Barnett will perform an interactive, durational work, before the Sunday Service begins at 5pm. Sermons will be delivered by Veronique d’Entremont and Kim Ye […]
Exquisite Rugs, Exceptional Service: 530 N. Lake Avenue, Pasadena
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAn in-progress installation about Pasadena Rug Mart, established in 1932 and closed in 2017, commemorating this diasporic 20th Century shop as a personal, cultural, business, and social archive of 530 N. Lake Avenue, Pasadena and incorporating documentation and archival materials dating from the 1930s-2000s, as well as books, textiles, ephemera, yarn used to make repairs, […]
2019-Q1
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAWe thought we were going to have to move out, now it seems we don't. We'll be in this space for the foreseeable future, then we'll be in another. Until then, continuous grand finales! Including contributions from: Aarum Alatorre Ace Farren Ford Alexandria Douziech Alex Twomey Alex Zhang Hungtai Alice Cunt Allison Wyper Amanda Horowitz […]
Terror en lo Profundo
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAOpening Saturday 12/8 7—10pm On view through 12/16 Gallery hours Thursday-Sunday, noon-6pm Artistas / Artists: Rosalee Bernabe, Wendy Cabrera Rubio, Juan Caloca, Christian Camacho, Paloma Contreras Lomas, El Pelele, Elsoldelrac, Julieta Gil, Sebastián Gonzales de Gortari, Abraham Gonzáles Pacheco, Cristobal Gracia, Madeline Jimenez, Enrique López Llamas, Morgan Mandalay, Richard Mendtorr, Irak Morales, Jazael Olguín Zapata, […]
Seashell Aesthetics
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CASeashell Aesthetics is an exhibition building upon a 2017 essay of the same name by Martabel Wasserman published in Yes Femmes. It explores catastrophes posed by carbon, plastic, oil and other byproducts of capitalism polluting the ocean. The shell becomes a way to think with a material that eventually decomposes into fossil fuel. It is […]
A grammar built with rocks
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAImage: Cauleen Smith, Remote Viewing, 2009, video still, 15:13 min. Courtesy of the artist, Corbett vs. Dempsey, Chicago, and Kate Werble Gallery, New York. Opening: Saturday, September 29, 7-10pm September 29 - November 4, 2018 Exhibition Carmen Argote, Julien Creuzet, DAAR (Decolonizing Architecture Art Residency), Sandra de la Loza, Regina José Galindo, Adam Khalil, Zack […]
Color Objectivism, Harmonic Distortion and the Illusion of the Noise-Free System, Vol. 2
A series of light and sound performances by Sam Rowell Thursday, September 6th: 8pm & 10pm Friday, September 7th: 2pm, 4pm, 8pm, 10pm & midnight Saturday, September 8th: noon Join in an investigation of the hidden nature of color. Experience the perception of light in the non-visual centers of your brain. Listen to the communal […]
A Motorbike Sunbathes on a Patch of Plastic Turf
Opening Reception: August 24, 6-10pm Exhibition Dates: August 24—September 3, 2018 Gallery Hours: Tuesday—Sunday, 12—6pm A Motorbike Sunbathes on a Patch of Plastic Turf is a series of videos, installations and sculptures by Berlin-based Tra My Nguyen and London-based Annie Mackinnon. Drawing upon family and the artists’ Vietnamese and Chinese backgrounds, the works focus upon […]
One-Two
Gallery Hours: 2pm - 9pm An exhibition by John Dieterich and Carlin Wing With work by Cuauhtli A talk by Leopoldo Peña on pelota mixteca and his photography series Oaxacalifornia @ 7pm on Saturday August 18, 2018 And a performance with Corey Fogel @ 7pm on Sunday August 19, 2018. One-two, give-and-go, pass the ball […]
Poison Remedy Scapegoat
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CABeginning 5pm August 16th Performance and Exhibition Open August 16th and 17th 5pm - 11pm Like a cave made out of purple and dark green walls. I roasted things in the oven and you picked at the vegetables like a bird. You’d squeeze the sponge hard so it wouldn’t sit wet and moldy on the […]
Every Unlikely Story
Image credit: Cameron Coffman, slow crawl, 66" x 22" x 34", wood, clay, resin, glass, ladybug, aphids, waterbug, plants, dirt, plastic, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday, July 28, 7-10pm Exhibition Dates: July 28 - August 11, 2018 Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun, 12-6pm Imagine the chapters in a long book as individual, freestanding fragments. Take this collection of […]
Arc, Wobble, Fade, Fold
Image: Sasha Bergstrom-Katz, Cup and Ball, cast aluminum, 2018 Opening Reception: July 19, 7-10pm Gallery Hours: Thursday - Monday, 12pm-6pm Sasha Bergstrom-Katz Rachel Borenstein Niloufar Emamifar Miranda Javid Kyle Welker Kim Garcia Joshua Ross Eva Słapa Amy Mackay Consider the idea of the fold. It is both a gesture and a mark, a mode of concealment and of […]
Sarah Rara: Alias
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAsolar rays reached the surface without meaning depending on the day the observer melts exactly where the sun rises the heavy sun tethers to hangers-on throws them counter-clockwise the northern axis points in the direction no one yields colors de-saturate in the dark a cylindrical projection graphs the sun rolled for an eye […]
Frau Fiber Vs. the Machines
Frau Fiber Vs. the Machines Gallery will be open noon-6pm, Thursday-Sunday. Opening reception Thursday June 7th 7-10pm The works in this exhibition document Frau Fiber's on-going battle with contemporary apparel manufacturing. In video, photography and artifacts, the exhibition makes space to witness Frau Fiber's attempt to spin yarn, knit a tube sock and knit a sweater as fast as a machine. This series of textile […]
Biquini Wax: A Dangerous Obsession
A Dangerous Obsession (A thriller of plastic moments) May 11th-28th Organized by Biquini Wax EPS A Dangerous Obsession (A thriller of plastic moments) Exhibition Dates: May 11th-28th Opening Reception: Friday, May 11th, 7-10pm Exhibition is open on Saturdays and Sundays, 12-8pm, and by appointment. Organized by Biquini Wax EPS During three weekends in May, writers and artists […]
The Institute of Ceramics and Alliance
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAnna Delgado and Brenda Starks are Southern California ceramic artists whose art examines identity and place. Though their works differ formally, they have overlapping themes that explore heritage, transitional spaces, and the trajectory of clay as an art medium. Together, the artists have dug clay from Los Angeles county to use for their new show, […]
COSM, ORGANIZATION-CONSTRUCTION, SECOND INSTANCE: ANJA WEISER FLOWER
VOLUME and Human Resources are pleased to announce “Cosm, Organization-Construction, Second Instance,” an exhibition of new work by Bay Area artist Anja Weiser Flower, curated by VOLUME member Jared Baxter. The main exhibition space of Human Resources, formerly a movie theater, will be completely darkened, with Flower’s work, a new iteration of an ongoing […]
Alan Nakagawa: Peace Resonance & Conical Sound
WORLD PREMIER of PEACE RESONANCE; HIROSHIMA/ WENDOVER and CONICAL SOUND; ANTONI GAUDI/ SIMON RODIA 3 showings on April 4th, at 12:00 PM, 6:00 PM and 8:00 PM free event Description; Two vibratory sound works and screening of two video documentary shorts Tactile sound experience; the soundscapes are composed for amplification into an interior space utilizing a […]
Alice cunt presents, ¿¡Not another shit show?!
Alice cunt presents, ¿¡Not another shit show?! A two day event featuring performative/ visual arts and an open market place for artist who want to show or sell shit. Day one will start whenever we wake up, probably later after noon or something and end whenever were tired, sometime later in the evening or whatever. […]
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To begin, a structure made of scaffolding and wood that reorganizes and reshapes the internal space of Human Resources. In the course of this reshaping, we hold an exhibition that serves to model dynamic notions of connection, difference, and community, and to reflect the conscious self-creating of a group process. Inspired by notions of empathy and […]
Not All There
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAn unconventional group show that revolves around works of art by local and international artists who use humor to explore serious social and political issues. That said, none of the artworks will be present. Participating artists include: Anna Ayeroff, Amitis Motevalli, Arden Surdam, Claire Titelman, Emmy Bright, Eva Medin, Hazel Haendel, Kristina Wong, Marisa Williamson, […]
A.K. Burns: A Smeary Spot
Opening Reception November 28, 6-10pm On view November 28 - December 17 Gallery Hours Wednesday - Sunday, 12-6pm Video installation curated by Clara López Menéndez ...it was ambiguous, two-faced. What was inside it and what was outside it depended upon which side of it you were on. —Ursula K. Le Guin, The Dispossessed From […]
Por que somos e não somos tropicalistas: Moving image from Recife, Brazil
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAOpening Wednesday November 8th, 7-9pm On View November 9th-19th, Weds-Sun 12-6pm Because we are and we aren't tropicalists presents recent moving image works by artists and filmmakers from Recife, Pernambuco, a city in the north-east of Brazil that is renowned for its film and art scenes. The works depict Recife and the surrounding Pernambucan interior […]
drivers, impulsers
"the boundaries of a living body are open and indeterminate; more like membranes than boundaries..." ... show me a person with both feet firmly on the ground, and i'll show you someone who can't take off their pants. opening reception: saturday oct 21 7-10pm on view through oct 29 gallery hours: Tuesday - Sunday 12-6pm […]
Andrew Norman Wilson – Pretense
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAOpening: Friday October 6 from 6-9 pm On view: October 6-20 Wednesday-Sunday from 12-6 pm Inquiries and Appointments: awilso7@saic.edu Through the use of puppets both computer-generated and hand-made, the recent work of Andrew Norman Wilson stages inescapable narrative scenarios in which rational thought becomes contradictory and human exceptionalism unravels. Drawn from the popular imagination, the videos anthropomorphized […]
MATA PRESENTS – Still Keep Moving
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAGallery open Fri-Sun 10am - 10pm Closing reception Sunday 10/1 11am—6pm Still Keep Moving is a 3-day performance considering and examining the structures of grief that one builds for protection immediately after a loss or trauma and how those structures are torn down and rebuilt as they are processed and lived with. How in reworking […]
Marco Kane Braunschweiler – MONKEY
On view: September 20-24 Hours: 12-6pm or by appointment, contact MonkeyatHR@gmail.com Closing event: Sunday, September 24, 12-4pm MONKEY is a docufantasy, told through shadows, about two people growing close, and two people falling apart. You could say it’s an epic, a buddy movie, a family drama, or, indubitably, a downright freakfest. It takes place in […]
Supercaliforniagilisticexpialibodcious
opening on 8/26 from 7:00 - 10:00pm wednesday-sunday, 12-6pm an exhibition of mostly large paintings, displayed salon style Asher Hartman Ben White Christine Wang Devon Tsuno Guan Rong Iris Yirei Hu Jemima Wyman John Bertel Katie Herzog (with Andrew Choate) Kristin Calabrese Sarita Dougherty Trulee Hall
Sarah Gail – Straight Chillin
Dear World, I am Sarah Gail. I have arrived and I mean business. My heart overflows with love for humanity and the beauties of this world. This love is so precious, so deep, so strong that I invite you to get lost in my vision for the world. A world that can be transformed and […]
Tyler Matthew Oyer – Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAopening reception July 15, 6-10PM gallery hours Wednesday - Sunday, 12-6PM Conquest of the Universe or When Queens Collide is the premiere feature film by Los Angeles-based artist Tyler Matthew Oyer. Originally a stage production by Charles Ludlam’s Ridiculous Theatrical Company from 1967, Conquest marks the first adaptation of Ludlam’s plays into moving image. The […]
A Subsequent Offering: EJ Hill
A Subsequent Offering , 2017. Human Resources, Los Angeles. Courtesy the artist and Commonwealth & Council photo: Michael Piña A Subsequent Offering: EJ Hill Human Resources, Los Angeles Exhibition: June 3 - June 18, 2017 Exhibition will be open Thursday - Sunday, 12-6pm EJ Hill in conversation with Amanda Hunt, Director of Education and Public […]
On The Other Side: 2017 at land’s edge fellows
at land’s edge, in conjunction with Decolonize LA and Human Resources Los Angeles, proudly presents, “on the other / side.” This week-long, culminating exhibition showcases the projects of the 2017 at land’s edge fellowship cohort, exploring issues of race, disability, resistance, history, power, violence, survival, and healing. Wednesday, May 24th – Sunday, May 28th Gallery […]
LESBIAN GULLS, DEAD ZONES, SWEAT AND T.
LESBIAN GULLS, DEAD ZONES, SWEAT AND T. Opening Reception: Thursday May 5th, 7-10pm Exhibition Dates: May 5-21, 2017 Exhibition hours: Wednesday - Sunday, 12-6pm *Gallery will be closed on Sunday, May 14th Free and open to the public. An exhibition of new work by Los Angeles based collaborators Candice Lin and Patrick Staff. LESBIAN GULLS, […]
Indecent Exposure
Indecent Exposure April 12-23, 2017 opening reception 4/12 Gallery Hours: Daily 8pm-midnight “Sex is a gift we are given, and we should all just have fun with that.” -Margie Schnibbe (as Vena Virago) in I Had Sex with a Gigolo on Reality TV (2015) Indecent Exposure is a retrospective of Margie Schnibbe’s sexually explicit videos […]
Fidelity of Nothing
Opening reception: Wednesday, March 29, 8 - 10pm Gallery Hours: Thursday March 30th 12pm - 6pm Fidelity of Nothing is a group exhibition of video installation and sculptures by Lily Yu, Jamie Kim, Michelle Lee. IDLE was shot on 16mm b/w reversal with Arri ex. Hand processed through traditional negative processing and reversal processing. Tinted […]
Making Plans
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAOpening reception: March 18, 7-10pm Gallery hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 12-6pm MAKING PLANS brings together a coalition of artists engaging with issues of labor, access, invisibility, and power through various actions. In the introduction to Working: People Talk About What They Do All Day and How They Feel About What They Do (1974), a transcription […]
Inside You Is Me – Jaqueline Gordon
A dynamic sculpture with moveable walls, multichannel sound pieces, and a staged performance SATURDAY EVENING, featuring FAY and Jon Mandabach. http://jacquelinegordon.net/ HOURS: Saturday Night: 6:00 - 8:00 Visiting Hours 8:00 - Jon Mandabach 9:00 - FAY Sunday: 11:00 - 5:00 Visiting Hours FAY: FAY will be premiering her new record "Deal" (release date: February 24, […]
Yann Novak: Repose
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAOpening Reception: February 10, 7 – 10pm Closing Performances: Rebecca Bruno, Sarah Rara, & Geneva Skeen, February 18, 8 – 10pm Gallery Hours: February 11 – 12 & February 15 – 18, noon – 5pm Curated by Suzy Halajian Repose is a solo exhibition of new work by Yann Novak that explores how context changes […]
Statues And Attitudes
STATUES AND ATTITUDES An imagined feminist vision Jade Gordon and Megan Whitmarsh with guests FRI FEB 3 - Opening Event 7pm-10pm SAT/SUN FEB 4/5 - Exhibition Open to the public 1pm-8pm plus WORKSHOPS, SCREENINGS, and PERFORMANCES (see below for details) Open during all exhibition hours: A Wider Net, reading room curated by F.L.O.W. (Feminist Library […]
Rocket Rain موشک باران
The first solo exhibition of Iranian, Los Angeles-based artist and writer, Gelare Khoshgozaran. The exhibition borrows its title from the second chapter of the Iran-Iraq War, known as “The War of the Cities” that Iranians refer to and remember as موشک باران mooshak-baran: “Rocket Rain.”
Femmebit
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAFestival and Showcase dedicated to L.A.-based female artists working in Video Art and related technologies.
John Wiese: Battery Instruments
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CABATTERY INSTRUMENTS 4-channel video/4-channel sound (2016 version) *Debut 4-channel video/2-channel sound (2012 version) 8-channel sound (2009 version) Open from noon to 9pm. Reception from 7 to 9pm. Free Editions available at the event. More info TBA. The cinema of pure means: John Wieses Battery Instruments as history lesson. Bruce Russell John […]
Seduction of a Cyborg
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAExhibition Dates: October 7-23, 2016 Opening Reception: Saturday, October 8, 7-10pm Seduction of a Cyborg explores intimacy, sex, and desire as related to technocratic fantasies of futurity, (re)production of bodies, and fractured selfhood in the digital age. The fictional and the virtual intersect, exposing narratives that activate, transform, and deconstruct our understanding of the networked and […]
Jakob Brugge
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CALaoshou Mountain in southwestern China was quarried for more than two decades. Shortly after the quarry's closure, the Funnin County Forestry department decided to reconcile the barren mountainside with its surrounding foliage. The conclusion they reached was to paint the mountain. Workers sprayed the section of land a bright, vaguely chemical green, tracing the exact […]
Lina Hermsdorf “A Biologically Immortal Living Being Can Still Die”
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAPerformed by Henry Babbage Performance September 27th, 8pm Exhibition on view from September 28th—2nd October (12pm-6pm daily) Hydras never die of old age. In the ancient Greek myth, the Hydra is a multi-headed serpent, with a specific organic talent. As soon as one of its heads is decapitated, the serpent regenerates the missing body part. Hydra […]
Noon Tran & Hannah Mjølsnes: Road River Gust
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAfter driving for hundreds of miles, past mountains, cliffs, boulders, and gravel dust, you will find a field of white dunes surrounded by blue mountains. Currents of wind move through this landscape, continuously shaping and rearranging it. When lakes and rivers dried out due to climate changes, the wind swept up the exposed bottom sediment […]
9/11 Fifteen Years
9/11 Fifteen Years A one-night exhibition happening on the fifteen year anniversary of September 11, 2001. A paradigm shift. Airplanes as weapons. America attacked. In the immediate aftermath, we saw people rush to hospitals to donate blood, and strangers talking on the street to figure out what was going on. People wanted to help. But, […]
Internet Discount Bedroom 2
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAOpening Saturday, September 3rd at 9pm, the exhibition will be on view for the duration of 24 hours, closing Sunday, September 4th at 9pm. Contributing artists include: Matt Damhave, Emma Kohlmann, Dennis Wornick, Shay Semple, Suzanna Zak, Cali Thornhill DeWitt, Madison East, Elijah Funk, Taylor Doran and ”Prank Line" from Local Outreach (Van Robinson & […]
Nikki Darling – Temple of the Dawg
An exhibition of art therapy works by Nikki Darling, Temple of The Dawg includes 26 works on paper and a video installation.
Apeirophobia / Aporia
Organized by Sohrab Mohebbi and Miljohn Ruperto, With: Michel Auder, Julie Becker, David Bernstein, Jennifer Bolande, Cliff Borress, Quynh Dong, Shahab Fotouhi, Ulrik Heltoft, Joel Holmberg, Hassan Khan, Laura Owens, Maria Taniguchi, Asha Schechter, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Alice Wang, Brent Watanabe
Exit Interview
Group exhibition highlighting the dialogic dimension of two years of thinking and working in relation to one another. Acknowledging the paradoxical quality of institutionalized art education, the show is conceived as a field of interferences and counterpoints, the aftermath of a vital encounter and commitment to critical discourse.
The Distance Plan – Climate and Infrastructure
The Distance Plan: Climate and Infrastructure brings together work by 10 practitioners whose works address major infrastructural forms of the present—energy generation, digital frameworks and mass transport networks—in relationship to future alternatives.
Too Much Information
Please join CLOSING for a week of presentations that invite 8 artists to play with form of public address and take on the task of communicating a substantial amount of information to an audience.
LACHSA: NEX(T)US
Works by Seniors in the Visual Arts program at L.A. County High School for the Arts. Opening Reception: Fri, May 20 5:30 - 8:30pm with gallery hours Sat, May 21 noon-5pm
James Gamboa: 50/50
50/50 presents the question, given the chance to peer into the future of your health, would you opt in or out? Using the artist’s personal screening and diagnostics, 50/50 examines and abstracts the predictive genetic screening process, and brings the private experience into a public space.
DecolonizeLA
Between May 3 and May 11th, HRLA will host an exhibition of work from artists who applied to the DecolonizeLA call for proposals. The work will be shown in the lobby, and second floor space.
Telémachos Alexiou: The Culture of Refusal
EXHIBITION HOURS
Thursday, April 14, 6-9pm
Friday, April 15, 12-6pm and 8-11pm
Saturday, April 16, 12-6pm
SCREENING: Queen Antigone followed by conversation between Alexiou and Zackary Drucker
Friday, April 15, 8-11pm
alice wang
Opening Reception: Friday March 25, 2016 7-10pm Hours: Weds - Sun 12-6pm or by appointment
Ruth Angel Edwards “Derivatives and Futures”
"I'd just like to point out that if anybody cares to look at the video evidence, at no point was my bare backside revealed. So therefore the fact he says he's seen it totally negates the credence of what he said in the previous part of the answer....I'm glad I've got that off my chest – it's been bothering me, that."
Martine Syms “Black Box”
An exhibition of sixty new and recent videos by Martine Syms.
On View February 6 - 27, Wednesday thru Sunday 12-6pm or by appointment
Sille Storihle: ONE MAN SHOW
ONE MAN SHOW is Berlin-based artist Sille Storihle’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The show centers on two documentary shorts, The Stonewall Nation (2014) and The Tomorrow Show (2015). Drawing on archival material from the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, the exhibition examines the performative potential of archival documents.
JEFFZILLA WORLD
Jeffzilla presents JEFFZILLAWORLD, a three-night installation and performance series that will transform HRLA into a fantasy fun house from beyond the pumpkin. Jeffzilla, aka Jeff Galvan, is an an LA based multi-disciplinary artist, musician and co-founder of the infamous Coolworld Party LA. **** *A queer little pumpkin, a jolly fat fellow, Stood close to his […]
Mark Golamco: Ghostlight
Mark Golamco founded and hosted a monthly performance cabaret called Ghostlight at the infamous (and now shuttered) Cafe Dancer bar in New York City. Ghostlight is an eclectic night of performance featuring exceptional artists and DJs. Each night is grounded by an intimate solo performance by Golamco self-accompanied on the viola. Ghostlight has now become […]
The Closer I Get To The End The More I Rewrite The Beginning
Project curated by Suzy Halajian
with Basma Alsharif, Doa Aly, Gilda Davidian, Mariah Garnett, David Horvitz, Hiwa K, Mark Leckey, Klara Liden, Christine Rebet, Julie Tolentino, Erika Vogt, and Hanna Wildow, texts by Doa Aly, Janine Armin, Shoghig Halajian, and Litia Perta, & a video program organized with Clara López Menéndez
Sabrina Chou
An exhibition of new work by Sabrina Chou consisting of backdrops, equipment, furnishings, and clothing. The exhibition proposes an ambiguity around these objects, and how they might oscillate between aesthetic proposition, functional use, and absurd adaptation.
It’s Just the Beginning
Hong Kong Forum Los Angeles presents a multi-disciplinary exhibition of the Umbrella Movement in Chinatown. The exhibition serves both as a reflection and a projection of Hong Kong’s struggle for democracy. It highlights moving moments from the protests, and the feverish creativity that blossomed throughout the strikes and occupations. It also offers an opportunity for the LA HK community to process and raise awareness about what is happening in our city collectively.
“Let it Mellow” Keith Rocka Knittel
The work in Let it Yellow is process driven - performances build objects creating a syntax as gestures break down their materiality, starting the process over again. Art objects exist equally as both a means of representing the present and a remnant of the past, both combined to reflect upon the future.
“What It Means to Learn” Johanna Jackson & Dana Dart-McLean
“What It Means to Learn” Johanna Jackson & Dana Dart-McLean September 4th—September 6th, 2015 Opening Friday September 4th 7-9pm At the opening, Peter Hernandez, Busy Gangnes, and Nickels Sunshine will dance in a collaboratively choreographed piece, using sculpture by Dana and Johanna. In addition to their individual work, Johanna Jackson and Dana Dart-McLean have used […]
“A Man of Average Means” group show organized by Thomas Torres Cordova and Eric Kim
A Man of Average Means Opening Reception: August 2nd 4-7pm with a performance by Dawn Kasper at 5:30PM Closing Party & Performance: Viola Yesiltac + Kathleen Kim 7:30PM In 1978, frustrated by his country’s inability to produce quality films, North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il embarked on a plan to appropriate proven foreign resources. […]
Johanna Breiding “Epitaph for Family”
Opening reception: Sunday, June 28, 2015 Exhibition: June 28-July 19, 2015 Gallery hours: Thu-Sun 12-6pm Events staged during this exhibition include: FRI JULY 3: Your Motion Says: Dance to Arthur Russell: Christopher Argodale, Shade Theret, Peter Hernandez, Eydie Mcconnell & Nika Kolodziej, Tatiana Lubovski-Acosta, and Emily Jane Rosen 9PM FB TUE JULY 7: tir talk (1): conversation with Johanna […]
Chilean Miracle, Milagro Chileno
Chilean Miracle examines the transformations Chile witnessed since the 1970s, following Augusto Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship and the arrival of neoliberalism’s no less ruthless global capitalism. Using theorist, curator, and art historian Andrés Grillo’s and Angie Saiz's curatorial texts as a jumping-off point, artists Sergio Acevedo, Mario Z, Francisco Huichaqueo, María José Rojas, Hugo Leonello, Angie Saiz and […]
Jamie McMurray: Above Snakes
Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14 7PM-10PM Exhibition Dates: May 13 - May 21, 2015 Performance: Thursday, May 14 8PM sharp Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun, NOON-6PM (or by appointment) In an extensive showing of installations and materials from his most recent conceptual art projects and performances, JAMIE McMURRY (Los Angeles) brings his solo exhibit, ABOVE SNAKES, to […]
BULK TROUBLE
The text tho OMG IS EVERYONE WORKING RIGHT NOW? Maybe one of you guys can work on the images w/descriptions we could make it a PDF?? is this allowed? a pdf? I can mess with it rn They don't want a PDF they want individual jpg files but anyways I work on it but it […]
Emily Joyce Famous Potatoes and Other Related Works
https://vimeo.com/121561175 Opening Reception: Saturday March 21 7–10 pm Human Resources is pleased to announce Emily Joyce: Famous Potatoes and other related works. Joyce’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Famous Potatoes and other related works features an on-and-off-the-wall installation of kinetic, optical, and symbolic abstract paintings. The exhibition is comprised of new works from three ongoing projects, including: free-standing mixed media paintings […]
The Border, Again
Curated by Kelman Duran, The Border Again showcases artists who work in Tijuana and artists from Los Angeles who have made work in Tijuana and/or consider it as a context. The show is comprised of an exhibition, a film/video screening, and an Open Forum. The exhibition will also feature a text by Luisa Fernanda Martínez and Reuben Torres. […]
Michael Parker, Juicework
Opening: February 6th, 7pm-10pm Exhibition hours: Feb 7th-10th, 12pm-8pm Performance by Chris Corsano: February 10th, 8pm Michael Parker's Juicework is a five-day installation, inviting visitors to juice. Visitors entering the gallery are welcomed to wash their hands using a stoneware sink (pictured here, in the background). The basin is supported by three redwood legs joined […]
LACHSA student show
Primary Selected works by LACHSA Visual Arts students Opening reception Friday, January 30th, 2015, 5-8pm Curated by Sarah Russin, director of LACE gallery HRLA gallery will also be open Saturday, January 31st, 12-5pm
Tiger Munson
Human Resources Los Angeles presents artist Tiger Munsons Numinous Rupture: An exploration of the individual and collective relationship we have with atomics, our nuclear world, and cataclysm. The exhibition consists of artist Munsons photographic fabric light installation, performances by his portrait subjects, and an afternoon symposium. January 17th to 25th Opening reception and performances: January […]
Johnnie Jungleguts: After Ken Sugimori
Who is Ken Sugimori? "Who is Ken Sugimori?" is an installation consisting of nearly 800 drawings of every Pokemon and mega-evolution in the Nintendo canon. It's taken artist Johnnie JungleGuts over a year to complete these drawings and they represent a culmination of his work within the Pokemon fandom. This opening at Human Resources also […]
Fayçal Baghriche: Walk the Walk
“A globe spinning so fast the continents can no longer be made out, flags wrapped around themselves, showing only their red colour, a video reversing the course of time – starting from the formulation of a hypothesis, the works of Fayçal Baghriche undermine our most familiar points of reference by staging fundamental actions. Playing on […]
Carmen Argote – My Father’s Side of Home
HRLA is proud to present My Father's Side of Home, an installation project by Carmen Argote. Carmen Argote "Manta" (2014) (image courtesy of the artist) Preview: Nov 14, 12-6 Opening: Nov 15 7PM-10PM Schedule: Nov 16-22 12PM-7:30PM, with nightly film screenings beginning at 6PM Closing Event: THE 16 HOUR EXPERIENCE November 22th 7PM - November […]
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Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAart must be perfect. life has to make mistakes. evolution favors mutations.
Warren Neidich: NSA-USA Sound as Prophecy (Complete Unabridged Version)
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CANSA-USA: Sound as Prophecy is an elaboration and embellishment of an installation and performance work that takes as its point of departure the recent scandal arising from the secret surveillance activities of the National Security Agency’s upon private citizens and politicians in the United States and abroad.
Cake And Eat It: Strike Halls
Opening Night & Reception, September 18th With performance/discussion by Cake and Eat It at 8:00pm Closing September 30th, till late Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 1pm - 9pm Cake and Eat It will spend as much time in the gallery as possible. For additional hours, please see updates here, event details and on the exhibition's Facebook page. Feel free to reach […]
Now Open 24 Hours: Audrey Wollen + Cali Thornhill DeWitt
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAWhat we wear is often shorthand for who we are, or who we want to be. The codified manner in which we dress signals positions of power through public and private spheres, specifically the public notions of meaning and private hierarchal structures of inclusion and exclusion. Fascination with cultural identity is both the means and the end: fashion, like art, engages a public desiring insight on culture from seeing itself reflected back on a critical, yet consumable scale.
Krysten Cunningham: Under/Over — closing reception and performance
PERFORMANCE: Sunday, June 22nd, 3-5pm Flora Wiegmann and company Attire: fall/winter fashion by Nancy Stella Soto Ligthing design: Claude Collins-Stacensky For Under/Over's closing reception on June 22, 3-5 Weigmann and company will perform the choreographic instructions “in spurts” between the spaces of “Tapestry X.” Dancers will be adorned in the Fall/winter fashion line by Nancy Stella […]
Krysten Cunningham: Under/Over – workshop
WORKSHOP: Saturday, June 7th, 2-4pm “Coincidences in Space-Time” with Michelle Lai rsvp to krystenc@gmail.com Space is limited. A free workshop on relativity and the body This playful workshop is based on the idea that not many of us understand Albert Einstein’s Theory of Relativity, and the curvature of space/time, despite its profound effect on science […]
Krysten Cunningham: Under/Over
KRYSTEN CUNNINGHAM “UNDER / OVER” June 5th - June 22nd https://www.hatchfund.org/project/under_over OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, June 5th, 7-10pm Cunningham will present two large-scale textile sculptures that also serve as performative tableaux’s -- “Tapestry X” and “Loom for Minkowski.” “Tapestry X” is a work of hand dyed and woven tapestries that hang in formation from the ceiling. […]
John Knuth: Fading Horizon
The floor of the gallery will be covered with Mylar thermo blankets, light bulbs and mounds of sugar. As the light bulbs heat the sugar, the sugar caramelizes and creates small volcanoes which mark the blankets underneath.
BASE : Session I
BASE is a series of choreography exhibitions. These Sessions incorporate performance, workshops, video, and material research. Featuring work by Niv Acosta, Gina Dell’Amico, Nick Duran, Lauren Davis Fisher, Madeline Hollander, Arley Marks, Temra Pavlovic, Mårten Spångberg, and Sylvie Spencer.
Interval / Habitat, Byron Westbrook
Memory can play as much of a role in the experience of a moment as the immediate elements that form the moment. The filmic “cut” is an increasingly present element in our lives, causing constant intervallic shifts in perceived environment and mental states. Interval/Habitat considers the idea of the interval as a quality of environment, […]