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SUMMARY:LA TIME | Matt Savitsky exhibition
DESCRIPTION:Reception: Friday\, June 13\, 5-7pm (Note: HRLA is in the curfew zone\, quite close to the perimeter; curfew starts at 8pm.) \n\n\n\nPerformance: Friday\, June 20\, 7-8pm \n\n\n\nGallery Hours: Wed-Sun 12-6pm & by appointment \n\n\n\nLA TIME uses live performance and video to reveal the space between headlines and lived experience.  \n\n\n\nBy using physical copies of the LA Times front pages\, stripped of images and held up to the Los Angeles landscape\, artist Matt Savitsky creates “picture windows” through which performers intervene in familiar public spaces. Here\, the news becomes a frame for queer expression\, with gestures that range from subtle (such as crossing a construction site) to bold (like stretching 200 feet of red fabric along a line of palm trees on a hilltop). \n\n\n\nStarted in 2021\, the project was developed in response to a lack of public space in contemporary life to grieve the atrocities carried out against our communities and locales. This work holds very special significance as it marks a return to public space after the pandemic and charts Savitsky’s reconnection to his community through performance work. This first staging at Human Resources will feature three of the project’s seven video works. \n\n\n\nThis project was funded by the Foundation for Contemporary Arts Grants to Artist Award\, New York\, 2022. FCA Artist Profile
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/la-time-matt-savitsky-exhibition/
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SUMMARY:Arthur Cooke: Saudade Into Light
DESCRIPTION:Saudade Into Light is an exhibition of Arthur Cooke’s (b.1996-2020) prolific image-making and multidisciplinary photography practice. The presentation of works at Human Resources includes a selection of his artist prints\, self-published books\, video works\, hand sewn clothing and fabric prints. Alongside this impressive archive\, a selection of photographs have been posthumously printed by his family to be shown in the exhibition.  \n\n\n\nBorrowing its name from one of his books on view\, the show’s title Saudade Into Light\, incorporates the Portuguese word “saudade” – a word that is untranslatable in English for its complexity of feeling but references what Cooke writes as “…the love that remains when someone is gone.” In the description of his book with the same name\, which explores family archives\, Cooke continues “…this project consists of images and words based around the realization of ‘a missing\,’ in this case a person\, and the stages of recognizing\, coping and discovering through this sense of a void.” As the family of the artist organizes this exhibition\, the title assumes new meaning – through honoring and curating Cooke’s brilliant body of work\, they are tasked with finding the light within grief. \n\n\n\nAs the title suggests\, Cooke’s practice is steeped in an intuitive poeticism. His photographs read like visual poems\, mixing analogue and digital photography\, then further manipulating the photographs in post-processing\, either through effects or application of text. Through this process of editing and re-editing\, Cooke would confuse the image at every layer\, abstractly interrogating photography as a form. His photographs were often reused in his video and clothing works\, continuously changing the format of the medium he was working in.  \n\n\n\nIn an enduring search for meaning and connection in the digital age\, his work remains steadfast in its intention of capturing and exploring specific feelings through image. This ethereal sensibility characterized his digital practice – applying a combination of layering\, blurring and convoluting qualities to images he had previously taken. Oftentimes\, the original subject is natural\, like a rose\, with the photographic image then transplanted into the digital space\, removed from its logical environment and obscured into a symbol. The work becomes something that transcends its natural place and lives on\, forever changing.  \n\n\n\nBorn in Venice\, California\, Cooke formed his artistic vision at an early age. Cooke began working with images as abstractions at seventeen in class at Venice Arts\, a photography mentorship program for low-income youth. He was then awarded the prestigious National YoungArts Silver Award in photography in 2014. He went on to be accepted to NYU Tisch School of the Arts with the largest scholarship ever given in the Photography & Imaging program. He would graduate from the university in 2018 and moved back to Los Angeles shortly after. At the time of his passing\, he was working on several video and hand sewn clothing works that he was excited to debut once the pandemic ended.  \n\n\n\nHe is remembered by all who have encountered his work for its strikingly singular and evocative vision. Cooke’s images continue to evolve while staying distinctly his; marked by their foregrounding in a deep and complex emotional landscape and his applied alchemical process of transforming feeling into being through imagery.  \n\n\n\nSaudade Into Light is organized by Nicole Cooke\, Elna Cooke and Michael Cooke. \n\n\n\n \n\n\n\nGallery Hours: Thursday to Sunday\, 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. and by appointment \n\n\n\nOpening Reception: Saturday\, August 9th from 6 p.m. to 9 p.m. \n\n\n\nThe Cooke Family would like to thank: Lee Baxter\, Benny & Irina Chan\, Claire Dorfman\, Roni Feinstein\, Kate Kelley\, Rachael Knotz\, Scott Oshima\, Roxanne Reicheg and Issa Sharp. \n\n\n\nAdditionally\, the Cooke Family would like to thank: Arthur’s friends and those close to the family who have supported this exhibition. \n\n\n\nAbout the Cooke’s: \n\n\n\nNicole Cooke is an LA-based artist\, working in performance\, clothing design and soft sculpture. Sewing live with a Singer sewing machine that she’s converted into a musical instrument\, Cooke has previously performed at Murmurs Gallery and Los Angeles Contemporary Archive. She earned her bachelor’s degree in Design | Media Arts at UCLA. \n\n\n\nElna Cooke is an artist\, seamstress and clothing designer from Cleveland\, Ohio. At eighteen she attended the renowned AndersonRanch Arts Center and went on to earn degrees in art studio and fashion design. For almost two decades she taught fashion design at SMC and FIDM and has currently resumed a practice in oil painting. \n\n\n\nMichael Cooke is an accomplished actor\, writer and musician. Born and raised in New York City\, he studied under the greats; jazz piano with the legendary Walter Bishop Jr. and acting with the acclaimed Peggy Feury. Cooke has worked extensively in theater\, television and film – most notably playing Herb in David Lynch’s Mulholland Drive. 
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/arthur-cooke-saudade-into-light/
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SUMMARY:Howl
DESCRIPTION:a collective unsilencing\, a divine portent\, a wail\, an omen\, a refusal to cower in the face of attempted erasure\, a call to our ungovernable animality\, a convening of artists using their voices and creative agency to resist intimidation and summon alternative worlds where transness is holy and bodily autonomy is sacrosanct\, a portal built of rage and grief and glimpses of euphoria\, an experiment in collaborative methods\, kinship\, and open process where shared labor becomes a form of care and the gallery becomes a staging ground for the battles we did not ask to fight \n\n\n\nFULL PRESS RELEASE \n\n\n\nfeaturing: Nicki Green\, Ashton Phillips\, Edgar Fabian Frias\, Badly Licked Bear\, Umi Hsu\, Sadie Greyduck\, Leslie Foster\, Salvador De La Torre\, Nina Sarnelle\, Alystair Rogers\, Wesleigh Gates\, Beatrice Gosse\, Tanner Pfeiffer and 8TPS\, Jynx Prado\, Elizabeth Frances Folk\, Johanna Hedva\, Pau Pescador\, and Luce de Lire  \n\n\n\nGallery hours noon-6pm\, Thursday September 18-Sunday September 21  \n\n\n\nSchedule of Events \n\n\n\nSeptember 14th \n\n\n\n2-3pm Procession of Divine Portent joule bricks from AutomataArts (504 Chung King Rd\, Los Angeles\, CA 90012) to Human Resources \n\n\n\nSeptember 18th \n\n\n\n7-9pm Opening of Howl with live performance by Umi Hsu at8pm and flash tattoos from Salvador de la Torre 7-9pm \n\n\n\nSeptember 19th  \n\n\n\nMobile Sewing Station activation by Badly Licked Bear during gallery hours  \n\n\n\n8pm Los Angeles premiere of Breath Work by Nina Sarnelle \n\n\n\nSeptember 20 \n\n\n\n2-4pm Mobile Sewing Station activation and participatory patchmaking session with Elizabeth Frances Folk \n\n\n\n5-6pm Open.Rehearsal with Tanner Pfeiffer and 8TPS choir \n\n\n\n7- 9pm Live performances and readings\, including choral performance by Tanner Pfeiffer and 8TPS choir; an original movement piece by Beatrice Gosse; a site-specific grappling hook performance by Sadie Greyduck; non-linear lecture performance on trans horror by Wesleigh Gates; Xina Xurner. \n\n\n\nSeptember 21 \n\n\n\n2 – 3pm artist panel on strategies for resisting silencing anderasure and cultivating resiliency in an age of fascism with Salvador de la Torre andEdgar Fabian Frias \n\n\n\n3 – 4pm: tactical magic workshop by Edgar Fabian Frias \n\n\n\ncurated by Ashton S. Phillips
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SUMMARY:CAREROTICS: on giving and taking
DESCRIPTION:Panteha Abareshi at Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) \n\n\n\nPress Preview: Friday\, October 31\, 2025\, 7–9pmExhibition Opening: November 1\, 2025\, 12–6pm (gallery hours)\, 7–9pm (opening reception) \n\n\n\nGallery Hours: Wednesday–Sunday\, 12–6pm or by appointment \n\n\n\nLOS ANGELES —  Human Resources Los Angeles (HRLA) presents CAREROTICS: on giving and taking\, a solo exhibition by Panteha Abareshi that examines how the disabled body is relegated to the fringes of visibility and yet made into a spectacle\, bringing a complex duality to the nature of disability as performance. For Abareshi\, the absence of autonomy makes room for fetishism to blossom\, as the disabled individual is made into a tool for the able-bodied viewer to use as linguistic metaphor and/or as sexualized fetish object. In their work\, the disabled body becomes a vessel for the taboo corporeal fears and desires of the able-bodied audience.  \n\n\n\nPanteha Abareshi’s artistic practice is rooted in their existence as a chronically ill/disabled body contending with multiple medical illnesses\, at the foundation of which is sickle cell zero beta thalassemia— a genetic blood disorder that causes debilitating pain and bodily deterioration\, both of which increase with age. Their work explores the complexities of living within a body that is highly monitored\, constantly examined\, and made to feel like a specimen\, critically interrogating the sick/disabled body’s place within medical institutions.  \n\n\n\nCAREROTICS: on giving and taking is curated by Jennifer Doyle\, Caroline Ellen Liou\, and Jeanne Vaccaro. Major support for the exhibition is provided by the Mike Kelley Foundation for the Arts and the English Department at the University of California\, Riverside. We are also grateful to Miguel Barragan and his students at ASU Herberger Institute for Design & the Arts\, and to Alpha Medical Resources. \n\n\n\nExhibition Programs \n\n\n\nExhibition Walkthrough with Panteha Abareshi and Jeanne VaccaroSunday\, November 2\, 2025 | 2–4pm | Human Resources\, Los Angeles (HRLA) \n\n\n\nReading by Panteha Abareshi\, moderated by Johanna HedvaSaturday\, November 8\, 2025 | 7–8:30pm | Human Resources\, Los Angeles (HRLA)Panteha Abareshi shares the intimate\, the hyper-personal\, and the crip-theoretical in this reading of unreleased writing. Beginning with fictive pieces of an autobiographical nature\, the reading will also include the recitation of the poetics featured in the exhibition\, as well as new written work around the pieces presented in CAREROTICS: on giving and taking. Followed by a Q&A with writer\, artist\, and musician Johanna Hedva. \n\n\n\nFetish Material and Pornographic Screening and LectureFriday\, November 14\, 2025 | 7:30–9pm | Whammy! Analog Media\, 2514 Sunset Blvd. Los Angeles\, 90026Join us for a screening/sharing of pornographic and fetishistic materials collected and examined by Panteha Abareshi over the course of their research. The artist will lead a lecture-based discussion around the sick/Crip body’s representation in these explicit materials. This program will be an exploration of how the disabled body is made into and used as [sex] object\, and an interrogation of consent\, control\, pleasure and power through a close examination of a slew of porno vids\, fetish pics and kinky JPEGs.  Please note: 𝗧𝗛𝗜𝗦 𝗣𝗥𝗢𝗚𝗥𝗔𝗠 𝗜𝗦 𝗡𝗦𝗙𝗪 & 𝟭𝟴+\, bear in mind that we will be watching and discussing explicit pornographic material\, and some of these may be difficult and challenging to view. This program is first and foremost a safe space of non-judgement\, but also one dedicated to pushing into what is most taboo\, unknown and uncomfortable as a means of expanding how we know\, see and image the sick/Crip subject. \n\n\n\nExhibition Walkthrough with Panteha Abareshi and Ron AtheySunday\, November 16\, 2025 | 2–3pm | Human Resources\, Los Angeles (HRLA)
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/carerotics-on-giving-and-taking/
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SUMMARY:Acacia Marable: trash flag
DESCRIPTION:Found matter elicited a certain detachment from the object itself. It could be sold for asong\, traded\, or given away but also could be returned to the streets\, to the land\, or to thejunk pile. Sometimes it was left to ripen\, and sometimes it was just left.—Kellie Jones\, South of Pico: African American Artists in Los Angeles in the 1960s and 1970s (2017) \n\n\n\nOver the course of several months\, Acacia Marable gathered discarded objects and slowlytransformed them through assemblage\, reconfiguration\, and sculptural improvisation. Thisprocess was at once devotional and absurdist: he cleaned\, sealed\, and\, in oil\, painted each itemred\, white\, and blue—the palette of nationalism\, shared identity\, and soft power. Ranging frombanana peels to a grand piano\, the trash-objects were primarily gleaned from the streets betweenMarable’s house and studio or generated by the artist himself. Across these sculptural paintings\,the American flag repeats: at times it is reproduced in full\, at others it is fragmented\, skewed\, orreduced to its basic compositional elements\, rendered abstract. \n\n\n\ntrash flag builds on the Afro-Atlantic legacy of Yard Shows\, intricate installations of scavengeditems created by Black Southerners primarily in the wake of the Civil Rights movement.Through these exhibitions\, objects deemed valueless or otherwise obsolescent were transfiguredinto expansive assemblages with spiritual\, subversive\, and testimonial significance. Through therepetitive\, ritualistic acts of remaking and undoing the flag across the refuse of daily life\,Marable creates space for objects to belong in ways they were not intended to. Rupture isvisible—or possible—only in relation to pattern\, to a recursive act. Here\, broken\, cast-off\,jettisoned\, discarded matter is reclaimed in the form of a vast\, all-over painting\, its multifacetedsurface at turns coalescing and dissolving its primary loaded symbol. \n\n\n\nOpening Reception\, December 5  \n\n\n\n· 6–9 PM \n\n\n\nArtist Walkthrough & Cookout\, December 14• Walkthrough begins at 1 PM• Cookout from 2 PM until closing \n\n\n\nGallery HoursWednesday–Sunday · 12–6 PM
URL:https://www.h-r.la/event/acacia-marable-trash-flag/
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