Opening Reception: Star Montana with Alice Könitz
Opening Reception: Star Montana with Alice Könitz
May 7, 2017
2:00 pm - 5:00 pm

Main Museum
114 W. Main Street, Los Angeles CA 90013


Join us for the public opening reception of Star Montana’s portraiture with Alice Könitz’s experiments in museum seating on Sunday, May 7 from 2 – 5pm!

Admission is free, but please let us know if you plan to join us!

‘Star Montana: I Dream of Los Angeles’
When Star Montana was a student at the School of Visual Arts in New York City, she longed for California sunshine and dreamed of the light and the people of Los Angeles. A Boyle Heights native, she returned home periodically, trips during which she took a number of the photos on view in Beta Main. When Montana moved back to Los Angeles after graduation, the reality—the nightmare—of traumatic events with family and friends awaited her. Despite the circumstances, her dream of Los Angeles continues through her photography practice and is captured in the images in this exhibition.

Many of the subjects in Montana’s photography are strangers she got to know when she approached them in East L.A. or South L.A., engaged them in conversation, and then asked to take their pictures. Some are friends and others she met via an open-call process to add to this body of work as part of her residency at The Main that preceded this exhibition. With honesty and sensitivity in equal measure, Montana endeavors to give visibility to those who are not often represented in art or art institutions.
www.themainmuseum.org/programs/star-montana-i-dream-of-los-angeles

‘Circle Chairs, Triangle Chairs’
Sculptor Alice Könitz was commissioned to develop ideas for new types of museum seating that Beta Main—and soon, The Main—can use permanently in its galleries. Two prototypes were selected for production: Circle Chairs (2017) for the intimate environments they create both for looking and conversation, as well as their sculptural beauty, and Triangle Chairs (2017) for their many possible configurations and ease of use in the space. Könitz’s work, which is oriented in the physical object as well as the social space it creates, values model-making. In siting prototypes within the prototype of Beta Main, the museum has a unique opportunity to learn directly from visitors what may or may not be working in the process of making a museum and, more specifically, to better understand the experience of interacting with the seating in a gallery setting. We invite you to share your feedback by completing a brief survey available at the front desk in Beta Main.
www.themainmuseum.org/programs/circle-chairs-triangle-chairs


114 W. Main Street, Los Angeles CA 90013

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