Gap, Mark, Sever and Return
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAMPA Fiona Connor Mandla Reuter Erika Vogt curated by Chiara Giovando A note on series: In our current incarnation we are held discrete by time and space. Our bodies retain individuality through these physical properties, without which we would melt back and into one another as primordial ooze. “All that is or ever was or […]
Performances of Breaking and Entering
Artist Arjuna Neuman will present a gallery installation in response to an original text conceived by Kestrel Burley that explores the relationship between war, sexuality and pornography.
Teenage Wasteland for the Arts
Teenage Wasteland of the Arts is an artist collective for teens aged 14-19. The collective was founded by both teens and adults in September of 2011. Since January this year , members of the collective have met once a week for 2 hours at a time, at Human Resources, preparing work for this show. All the work in the show is made by teen members of the collective.
Karl Haendel: Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality
Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality
a Solo Show by Karl Haendel
My Barbarian’s Broke People’s Baroque People’s Theater
Human Resources presents My Barbarian’s Broke People’s Baroque Peoples’ Theater, a residency in the form of a gallery installation that includes new videos, sculptures, and a performance environment. The project highlights the paradoxes of an art practice founded in critique, which nonetheless relies on economic forces that are worthy of serious criticism. In this time of spectacle and disparity, excess and poverty, the baroque figures as an ornate frame that contains all of these extremes. My Barbarian performs a variety of styles within this frame; camp drag, baroque opera, communist drama, countercultural performance and world theater all accumulate into a set of narratives that assimilate too much information. Enacting this accumulation, the group developed characters such as “Shakuntala DuBois” and “Cassandra Wasserstein Shakespeare,” masked figures who are trapped within cyclical forces they can foresee but cannot change.
Jedediah Caesar & Shana Lutker – The Trap Door
The Trap Door Jedediah Caesar and Shana Lutker Exhibition Dates: November 23 – December 8, 2011 Reception with the artists: Friday, December 2, 2011 8 – 11 pm Featuring DJs Joey Kotting and Aram Moshayedi and special guests D3 Human Resources is pleased to present a display of large art-related items that were previously exhibited […]
Essential Document
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAIan Stanton Chris Hanke Kaitlyn Fong Ashley Blakeney Brandon Jardine Yrneh Gabon Brown Devon McDonald-Hyman This document is essential. We propose that the artworks in this exhibition function as individual documents; they are essential in and of themselves. If, how or why they utilize the photographic medium, they all respond, in one way or another, […]
Molly Larkey – The Lost Alphabet, Pants That Fit, and Other Implausible Disguises
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 22nd, 2011, 7pm-10pm Human Resources is pleased to present Molly Larkey: The Lost Alphabet, Pants That Fit, and Other Implausible Disguises In her new body of work, Larkey continues to investigate the boundaries between the self and the world, by looking at the ways the individual is both hidden and revealed […]
Plain Brown Wrapper
Sophie Lee Anne McCaddon Allison Miller Yunhee Min Opening Reception: Saturday, October 22nd, 7-10 pm A plain brown wrapper is used when something is too valuable - or too subversive - to reveal to the world. It’s a strategy of concealment, so that the treasured object isn’t immediately recognized for what it is. It’s also […]
Eros and Civilization
Eros And Civilization September 16 – October 7, 2011 Opening reception: Friday, September 16, 7-10 PM Heather Cantrell Dawn Kasper Tricia Lawless Murray Davida Nemeroff Amy Sampson Curated by Benjamin Lord Eros And Civilization gathers together the work of five female artists based in Los Angeles who use photography to explore the relationship between desire, power, […]
mal-dis-tri-bu-tion – Scott Benzel
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAmal-dis-tri-bu-tion
n. Faulty distribution or apportionment, as of resources, over an area or among a group. Maldistribution is a term generally applied to economic disparity: It most often refers to
the inequal distribution of resources or capital.
It is a term that also suggests ‘bad’ distribution- a common complaint of producers of cultural artifacts: records, films, mass-produced objects. In this context, it refers to a lack of wide commercial availability of a specific product, usually through the fault of the distributor. Maldistribution has poor consequences for mass-produced objects and good consequences for their opposite in the realm of distribution: objects of art.
Queering Sex
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAQueering Sex is a performance and video exhibition that features the work of artists who are dealing with gender and sexuality. This cross-generational, trans-historical video program explores sex and sexuality via ideas and actions related to performance, and thereby highlighting a relationship between performativity and identity. The exhibition includes the participation of over 40 artists from Los […]
NewVillager’s Temporary Culture – Residency and Performance
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAAN INSTALLATION AT HUMAN RESOURCES GALLERY DESIGNED FOR LIVING, SLEEPING, PERFORMING, AND AN INSTALLATION AT HUMAN RESOURCES GALLERY DESIGNED FOR LIVING, SLEEPING, PERFORMING, AND GOING THROUGH STAGES OF CULTURE.
Say You’re An Artist – Mark Roeder and Johnnie Cochran Middle School Artists
Human Resources is pleased to present Say You’re an Artist, an exhibition of new and recent work by art students from Johnnie L. Cochran, Jr. Middle School. Organized by artist and teacher Mark Roeder, the exhibition will feature a collaborative installation process.
Paul Pescador
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAPaul Pescador May 14-June 1, 2011 Opening May 14, 7-10pm. Film will screen promptly at 9pm. In 1, 1 1/2, 2, the space will be used as a theater, art gallery, and screening room simultaneously. The show explores the relationship between live events, performances, everyday objects, and their photographic documents. These photographic documents are then used as the source material for the […]
Vessel: Suzanne Wright and Tony Payne
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAArtist Curated Projects is pleased to present the work of Tony Payne and Suzanne Wright. Each artists' work is inherently concerned with the body though their approach to the subject is vastly different.
Using text, Tony Payne’s work explores both the actual letterforms and their various levels of context - the text / image is rendered in a painterly fashion - using hand made materials (pigment) with elements directly related to the body (it's host, the interior), saliva, blood, semen. Words (often parts of lyrics, found text or elements of the artist's dreams) subconsciously emerge to become subjects. The letters somehow both stand for, and come from the body, mirroring the struggles (the elation, the power) within.
Divine Violence
Human Resources LA 410 Cottage Home, Los Angeles, CAWhy are we attracted to violence? Why are we repulsed by it?
Can we find representations of the sort of invisible, systemic, “objective” violence that Zizek articulates in his book Violence? Does that help anything? Is the “dialectic of concealment and revelation,” as Maggie Nelson writes, crucial to our understanding (and mitigation) of violence?
Is some form of violence helpful or even necessary to achieve social or political change? In other words, can violence ever be justified (something Walter Benjamin does under the aegis of Divine Violence)?
Encounters I May Or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin: A 16mm Installation by Mariah Garnett
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAMariah Garnett at Human Resources 510 Bernard St, Los Angeles, CA, 90012. October 8-19, 2010. Opening Reception: October 8, Closing Reception: October 19 info@humanresourcesla.com 213-290-4752 Gallery hours are 12-6 pm, Thursday through Saturday and by appointment Human Resources are pleased to host: Encounters I May Or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin a 16mm […]
The Birth Of Satan – a solo exhibition by Gustavo Herrera
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAFOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Human Resources 510 Bernard St. Los Angeles, Ca 90012 Opening Reception: Saturday August 7th, from 7pm-11pm Human Resources is pleased to host: The Birth of Satan a multimedia interactive art installation by Gustavo Herrera. The installation ruminates on specific cause and effect relationships pertaining to the conceptual allure of such figures as […]
The Mystics Circle – Group Exhibition
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CAThe Mystics Circle June 19 - July 29 curated by Spencer Douglass and Devin McNulty Human Resources hosts The Mystics Circle, an exhibition of video works by Skip Arnold, Brian Bress, William E. Jones, Hilja Keading, Mike Kelley, Candice Lin, Davida Nemeroff and Margie Schnibbe. Coinciding with the summer solstice the show’s titled alludes to […]
SISTER MANTOS
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QUALIA
Human Resources on Bernard St. 510 Bernard St., Los Angeles, CACurated by Dawn Kasper, Human Resources hosts a group exhibition with works by Asher Hartman and Skylar Haskard and Jason Yates. The theme of the show is qualia. Qualia is a term used in philosophy to describe the subjective quality of conscious experience; defined as a property as it is experienced as distinct from any […]