FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Join us for the opening reception on
Saturday, March 29th, from 6-9 PM
Torrance Art Museum Exhibition:
Body Counts
Opening reception on
Saturday, March 29th, from 6-9 PM
Torrance Art Museum (TAM) is thrilled to announce three exhibitions, opening March 29th and running through May 24th, 2025. The exhibitions focus on the intersection of the body, technology, environmental justice, and the human experience.
Body Counts
Body Counts explores how figurative art reflects issues of representation, trust, group dynamics, alienation, and social capital. In a time of political uncertainty and social inequality, these artists use the body as a medium to explore the individual’s expression and the collective needs of a community.
Featured artists include:
Duane Paul
Alison Blickle
Danie Cansino
Amir H. Fallah
Lanise Howard
Justine Otto
Jose Sanchez III
Meghan Smythe
Haena Yoo
The exhibition invites viewers to reflect on the pleasures and pitfalls of human interaction, from isolation to empowerment. Torrance Art Museum: https://www.torranceartmuseum.com/
Founded in 2005, Torrance Art Museum is the premier visual art space to view contemporary art in the South Bay. The museum encourages all people to develop and increase their understanding and appreciation for contemporary art via exhibitions, artist talks, lectures, and symposia.
Through its emphasis on contemporary artistic expression in Southern California and globally, Torrance Art Museum brings together visual artists and community members; fosters experiences in the arts to strengthen creative and critical thinking skills; and builds bridges between the visual arts and other disciplines in the humanities and sciences.
Torrance Art Museum is a program of the City of Torrance Cultural Services Division of the Community Services Department.
Museum Hours:
Tuesday - Saturday, 11:00 am- 5:00 pm
Admission to the Torrance Art Museum is Free
TAM Torrance Art Museum
Instagram: @torranceartmuseum
(310) 618-6388
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Jorin Bossen
Assistant Curator
(310) 618-6388
JBossen@TorranceCA.gov
QUEERING DIGITAL EXHIBIT - OPENING MARCH 14 — 6:00 -9:00 PM
Please join us for an opening reception on March 14 from 6-9PM
West Hollywood Pacific Design Center
5th Floor - B-504
8687 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood, CA 90069
Co-curators Steve Galindo and Jamison Edgar are pleased to present: Queering Digital. The exhibition features fifteen artists who collaborate with and against their accelerating digital landscapes. Resisting co-opted narratives of simple LGBT visibility, the exhibition charts an alternative path that wrestles with the complex ways that digital queerness shapes broader social structure online and IRL
West Hollywood Pacific Design Center
5th Floor - B-504
8687 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood, CA 90069
QUEERING DIGITAL is supported in part by an arts grant from the City of West Hollywood
Artists:
Duane Paul
Jenna Caravello
Amina Cruz, Nat Decker
Andres Payan Estrada
Edgar Fabian Frias
Vita Kari
Ibuki Kuramochi
Marsian De Lellis
Phil Tarley
Thanos Valentine
Sammie Veeler
Devin Wilson
Kira Xonorika
Ruby Zarsky
Opening Reception: March 14, 2025, 6-9 PM
Exhibition Dates: March 14 - March 30
Location: Pacific Design Center: Blue Building
8687 Melrose Ave, West Hollywood, CA 90069
QUEERING DIGITAL is supported in part by an arts grant from the City of West Hollywood
Out of Bounds
an exhibition curated by Baha H. Danesh,
on view in our main gallery from
March 1 through May 17, 2025.
Sept 12th - 5-8pm
LOS ANGELES TIMES / ENTERTAINMENT & ARTS
Deconstructed bodies and protection sigils: How LGBTQ+ artists are commanding space
Duane Paul
“I’m combining my photography work, my painting work and my sculptural work into one presentation of ideas that explore gender, sensuality, sexuality, race — sometimes just playing with shape and composition — which always leads me back to whatever I’m experiencing in the world,”
Exhibit, Curated by
Steve Galindo @TheStyleGuyde and Arushi Kapoor @ArushiKapoor1
@latimes @barnsdall @Culture_LA
Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Artist Talk with Duane Paul and Kyungmi Shin
Duane Paul, detail of LANDSCAPE OF SOIL AND BONE...,2023.
Images are courtesy of the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs / Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. Photos by Jeff McLane.
Arushi Kapoor Presents Emerging & Mid Career Trans, Non Binary and Queer Artists in ‘Decoding Americana's Queer Sensibilities’ Exhibit, Curated by Steve Galindo
Opening July 26th, 2023
Private Residence, Los Feliz
6-10 PM
In a mesmerizing convergence of creativity, a group of multi cultural visionary queer artists embarks on an extraordinary endeavor. With resolute determination, they reshape the traditional domains of Americana with multicultural queer influences to sculpture, painting, and photography, breathing new life into the very essence of Americana. In parallel to the indomitable spirit of the queer, trans, and non-binary community, the fabric of this nation is woven with multicultural queer diversity, ingenuity, and ancestral legacies that shape its cultural tapestry.
Through a curated selection of multi cultural queer artist’s artworks, this exhibition becomes a kaleidoscope of craftsmanship akin to the vibrant hues of a rainbow. It celebrates and magnifies the joys, excellence, and barrier-breaking nature of the queer, trans, and non-binary communities. Within these contemporary masterpieces lie the profound imprints of queer legacies, influences, and future visions, all interwoven in a rich multi cultural reinterpretation of Americana.
Here, quilting, weaving, painting, sculpture, collage, photography, and mixed media converge, offering glimpses into the myriad ways in which these artists unravel the complexities of multi-cultural American identity. Their artistic expressions become the conduits through which narratives of heritage, resilience, and metamorphosis are channeled. The classical mediums, now reborn through the lens of these multicultural queer trailblazing artists, reflect the evolving spirit of a nation in constant transformation.
As you immerse yourself in this exhibition, prepare to witness the tangible manifestations of queer artists' profound connections to Americana. Their works radiate with a potent blend of craftsmanship, innovation, and deep-seated emotions. With each stroke of the brush, every chiseled form, and the captured essence of a moment, they guide us on a thought-provoking voyage, urging us to reimagine and reinterpret the very fabric of our shared American identity including queer and multi cultural sensibilities.
Within these hallowed halls, traditions are shattered, boundaries are expanded, and the vibrant spirit of inclusivity thrives. Here, the intersection of cultures, art, queer sensibilities and Americana intertwines, inviting us to explore the diverse narratives that have shaped and continue to shape our collective journey. This exhibition is an invitation to embrace the power of queer artistic expression as a catalyst for change, renewal, and a celebration of the ever-evolving mosaic that is the American identity.
Participating artists:
Evangeline Adalyrion, Alannah Farrell, Stuart Sandford, Little Ricky aka Ricky Sension, Mia Weiner, Sara Sandoval, Duane Paul, Naruki Kukita, Sophia Gasporian, Joey Brock, Miguel Reyes Angel, Ruben Esparza.
About Arushi
Arushi Kapoor is an Indian-born, LA-based, art dealer, collector, philanthropist and author of the book “Talking Art by Arushi Kapoor”. As the director of Arushi Arts, USA, Arushi Arts, UK and Arushi Arts, India, Arushi has hosted previews and exhibited in art fairs in Hong Kong, Paris, New York, Los Angeles, Miami, London, Paris, Bombay, and New Delhi. As an art consultant, she has simulated emotionally engaging environments in the residential, hospitality and institutional settings. She is on the South Asian Acquisitions Committee and on the board of BAFTA. She recently joined the board of UNICEF Next Gen, Curators Circle at LACMA and Young Collectors Board at ICA Miami. She is a passionate philanthropist and recently hosted a live auction for Christies x UNICEF Next Gen.
About Steve Galindo
Steve Galindo at THESTYLEGUYDE is an emerging, multi-media Los Angeles-based artist and curator. Galindo is the former Director of The Lost Warhols Collection and currently works within The City of West Hollywood’s Arts Division. Most recently, he graduated from the West Hollywood Artist Bootcamp 2021 cohort, was awarded an Emerging Black Gallery grant by Artsy in 2022 and spent the last five years collaborating with prominent artists, curators and gallerists in the private sector formulating an artistic and curatorial philosophy steeped in a desire to express unifying truths about the human experience. THESTYLEGUYDE Gallery stands to “Unite Communities through the Language of Art, Photography, Mixed Media Manipulation, Painting and Sculpture in hopes of driving conversation of change for marginal communities of BIPOC and LGBTQAI in Los Angeles.
Media Sponsors:
Orange Barrel Media partners with Curator Steve Galindo at THESTYLEGUYDE and
Arushi Kapoor to highlight Decoding Americana's - Queer Sensibilities emerging talent in lieu of Pride with a digital billboard at the Chinese Theater on Hollywood Blvd., as a stance of solidarity and support to the queer, trans and non binary community.
The digital billboard runs through June 30th and individual artist spotlights will run through July leading up to the exhibition @orange_barrel_media
For press inquiries, please contact:
Pernille Kjeldsen
Pk@pkpublicity.comLos Angeles Municipal Art Gallery is thrilled to announce the opening of COLA 2023
on July 13 with an opening reception from 6-8 pm.
Exhibition, July 13 through September 16, 2023.
COLA 2023 features artists that are recipients of this year’s City of Los Angeles Individual Master Artist Project (COLA IMAP) in Visual Arts awarded by the Department of Cultural Affairs (@culture_la).
COLA 2023 presents new artworks from #DuanePaul @duanepaul, #PatriciaFernández @pforpaint, #WakanaKimura @wakanakimurastudio, #MichaelMassenburg @mmassenburg, #ElysePignolet @epignolet, and #KyungmiShin @kyungmi_shin_gray.
Follow us @lamagbarnsdall and stay tuned in the coming weeks for behind the scenes looks into the installation of the exhibition, and make sure to sign up for our mailing list to stay updated on COLA 2023 and LAMAG! #LAMAGallery #COLA2023atLAMAG
City of Los Angeles Individual Master Artist Project 2022/23 Artists Announced.
DCA’s Grants Administration Division has announced the recipients of the
City of Los Angeles Individual Master Artist Project (COLA-IMAP) grants for 2022/2023.
The ten COLA-IMAP recipients are:
· Duane Paul,
· Michael Massenburg,
· Daniel Corral,
· Patricia Fernandez,
· Wakana Kimura,
· Alia Mohamed,
· Jasmine Orpilla,
· Elyse Pignolet,
· Kyungmi Shin,
· David Ulin.
These master artists will produce a new body of work with grants of $10,000 each to be premiered by the City of Los Angeles in one or more group presentations (catalog, exhibition, or performance showcase) in Spring 2023. The COLA-IMAP grant program was recently expanded to include accomplished avant-garde artists (actors, dancers, musicians, visual designers, or writers). COLA-IMAP honors the synergetic relationship between Los Angeles, its creative fields, the spectrum of local talent, our collective cultural history, and LA’s stature as an international center for creative entrepreneurship.
Click right to see the artists exhibiting at Transformative Arts!
Adornment ⏐ Artifact
Opening Night
Saturday - November 19th 6-9pm
Transformative Arts
410 S Spring St, Los Angeles
RSVP LINK BELOW:
https://www.adornmentartifact.org/
Exhibition dates: October 15, 2022 - March 5, 2023
Experience ancient Nubia through the eyes of contemporary L.A. Artists
Adornment | Artifact is a multi-venue art experience that celebrates ancient Nubia through contemporary art, events, and conversations. Housed at five sites across the city,
Adornment ⏐ Artifact investigates how contemporary artworks made in Los Angeles by LA-based artists engage and express the traditions, objects and materials that shaped the cultures of the Nile River Valley. Curated by jill moniz.
EXHBIT VENUES / GALLERIES
The Getty Villa
Transformative Arts
Eastern Projects Gallery
Baldwin Hills Crenshaw Plaza
Band of Vices
7500 N. Glenoaks Blvd
@nanrae.gallery
Art Share Los Angeles,
Artists In The Exhibition: Duane Paul, Michael Massenburg, Chelle Barbour, Samira Idroos, Cody Bayne, Rosalyn Myles, Mark “Bit”Savage, Amy McCormac, Isaac Pelayo, Antonio Pelayo, Prime K2S, Chantal Barlow, Jessi Jumanji, Craig Schultz (b4flight), Daniela Garcia, Carmen Mardonez, Amoura Gonzales, Leigh Barbier, Leigh Salgado, Miriam Kruishoop.
Artists In The Exhibition:
The exhibit will be on view to the public from
A STICKING TO, 2019, Duane Paul. Digital Photo. Courtesy of and © Duane Paul
https://www.getty.edu/visit/cal/events/ev_3306.html
The Poetics of Portraiture taking place on May 6, 2021.
How can photography investigate and liberate the visual language of Black identities? In this conversation, Glen Wilson moderates a conversation with April Banks, Duane Paul and Rikkí Wright to discuss their diverse, emancipatory work that focuses on portraiture.
This is the second of four talks complementing the forthcoming exhibition Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA.
Join our friends @gettymuseum on Thursday, May 6, 2021 for a live conversation with @aprilbanks_art, @duanepaul and @rikkwright to discuss their diverse, emancipatory work that focuses on portraiture. Moderated by Glen Wilson / @dubarts, this is the second of four talks complementing the exhibition “Photo Flux: Unshuttering LA.” These four Los Angeles-based artists offer individual and collective acts of refusal and reimagination to map freedom in public and private spaces.
This program is free and advance sign-up is required:
#gettymuseum #gettycenter
#losangeles #art #Photography
#duanepaul #selfieimperfectduanepaulduanepaul
aprilbanks_art
#rikkwright
We are excited to share a new series of sculptures by one of DCA's 2021 Cultural Trailblazers, Duane Paul. In these works, the artist uses repurposed denim, which the artist patches, sews, and mends, along with wood, paints, and pigments, to construct an abstract body that melds memories, cultural artifacts, and oral histories together. The artist marks these surfaces with what he calls "tribal scarification," representative of ancestral histories and experiences. Through these layers of materials and treatments, Paul looks at the Black body, and what, as a Black gay man, can be absorbed and endured; what negotiations are necessary and possible.
Ronald H. Silverman Fine Arts Gallery at California State University,
Los Angeles. Exhibition Dates: August 24 to October 9, 2020
Mojo Rising - It is great pleasure to announce this important and the most-timely relevant exhibition “Mojo Rising” curated by Dr. jill moniz highlighting one of Betye Saar’s longest and most developed series and her influence and inspiration on generations of L.A. artists in R
LAUNCH LA
We are here.
Here we are.
CALIFORNIA AFRICAN AMERICAN MUSEUM / Los Angeles
LA Blacksmith
Complete list of artists:
Metropolis: A Snapshot of Art Making in Los Angeles
Serpentine Fire
Quotidian presents Serpentine Fire featuring LA?s standard bearers in iconoclasm who push boundaries, developing new techniques, modalities and aesthetics. This community of makers feeds artistic and cultural curiosity, realizes visions and sustains itself through their work. Serpentine Fire, based on the song of the same name by Earth, Wind & Fire, captures a group of artists who have radical art practices, much like the band?s early music.
From his early classes with James Jarvaise to his time at CalArts, and throughout his career in Los Angeles, Taylor demonstrates his maverick sensibilities with compositions that richly layer painterly brushstrokes with a rigorous passionate attention to aesthetic narratives.
Pretty Big Things, Curated by Brenda G. Williams
WIND AND RAIN ARRANGEMENTS
EXTENT
EXTENT artists develop visual language that provocatively investigates the tension between painting and object, narrative and form, and weight and weightlessness, emphasizing scope, scale and the relationship between sculptural materiality and loss. This exhibition puts Shelton's historically foundational works in conversation with new works never exhibited in Los Angeles, to create a composition that challenges perceptions of absence and mass.
REVIEW: ART AND CAKE
Gallery South Bay Contemporary SOLA
South Bay Contemporary Gallery in conjunction with Michael Stearns Studio 347 presents
Diaspora here translates to experiences and the authority that comes with those experiences.
Opening Reception for Duane Paul and Brad Killam
Echo Location
The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs
Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It?s real information,
FASHION MEETS ART: DUANE PAUL & BERNHARD WILLHELM
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Boston Court presents its 8th Annual Art Exhibition featuring the debut of work reimagined for Boston Court Performing Arts Center by artist/sculptor Duane Paul who is the 2015 Pasadena MiniGrant recipient.
California African American Museum - CAAM
HARD EDGED:
Reviews
DUANE PAUL'S COMMISSION /INSTALLATION -
Three Forms to Incite Rain is a site-specific installation featuring four large sculptures comprised of plywood, paint, and rope. At the center of the display case, three wall-mounted sculptures, whose title and cloud-like shapes reference Californias severe drought, feature intersecting forms that are reminiscent of the regions highways, symbolizing the continuous connective tissue of urban Los Angeles. Using repetition and vivid color, Paul takes multi-colored plywood bands, and strips from them layers of paint to evoke a velvety-worn surface that has endured wear and tear. He shapes the bands into clustered and crisscrossed curved arrangements, and adds coils of dyed rope that fall pooling at the floor of the case. Of this ensemble, the artist says, I envisioned these three sculptures as talisman objects that represent elements of nature: earth, sky, and water. Together, these objects embody our collective desire for rain.
ART INSTALLATION EMBODIES LAs CONNECTIVE TISSUE
About the Los Angeles International Airport Art Program. The mission of the LAX Art Program is to enhance and humanize the travel experience by providing diverse and memorable art experiences throughout the airport. The art program includes temporary exhibitions, permanent installations, and cultural performances. With an emphasis on local and regional artists, the Art Program provides access to an array of contemporary artworks that reflect and celebrate the regions creative caliber.
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Lyons Wier Gallery // NEW YORK
Murray states, Unlimited Potential is what each piece in this show is about. The works evidence the back and forth, the constant Q and A between artist and artwork. Each artist is searching for something; be it the sublime, the metaphor, the spiritual, and/or the communion and sometimes an artwork hits that sweet spot. The thing with ?Unlimited Potential is that theres always more than one answer to a question, and more than one painting or sculpture that hits that sweet
Opening Reception
California African American Museum Collection (CAAM)
Miami Art Basel 2013
Miami Beach / December 5-8, 2013
ARTILLAEY MAGAZINE REVIEW OF - Duane Paul
Reginald Ingraham Gallery is pleased to announce that the Duane Paul "Speaking Tongues"
The Gallery is open Wed-Sat, 12noon-6:00pm and by appointment.
"Speaking Tongues" (The material of communication)
Reginald Ingraham Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new work by Duane Paul. This exhibition will be the gallery's first solo exhibition of the artist.
Please join us in welcoming Duane Paul at the reception of his first solo show, Duane Paul "Speaking Tongues" on Saturday, Sept 7th, 6:00pm-10:00, at the Reginald Ingraham Gallery,
Bergamot Station, Build G8a
REGINALD INGRAHAM GALLERY