WHEN
Opening: Saturday, October 3, 10:00 AM–4:00 PM
Closing Dance: Saturday, October 10, 7:00 PM–12:00 AM
WHERE
SCHOOL
234 E Ave 33
Los Angeles, CA 90031
SCHOOL, a contemporary arts project space housed in an abandoned school in Lincoln Heights, presents its inaugural exhibition, Homecoming.
Opening Saturday, October 3, from 10 AM–4 PM, in conjunction with Los Angeles Design Weekend, Homecoming presents over twenty artists spanning disciplines and mediums, from emerging to established.
Built in 1903 as the Florence Critchley School for Wayward Girls, and later a charter high school, what remains are the bones of a building primed for new life, still echoing with its history.
Emptiness wants filling. So we inhabit, activate, make space real with our objects and bodies, make bodies real with objects and space. We fill the space with things of interest. Opportunities for attention. Past and future edging softly against the now, inhabited, fulfilled.
Is it haunted?
It is now.
Nostalgia may be tempting, but the beauty of memory is all that remains. Actual return to the cherished moment, a building in disrepair, the half-dreamt remembrances of youth—impossible. They always tell us you can never go home. So our Homecoming is a return to self, the self that was and the self that will be. It is a nature, a character of being, rather than a place, to which one can always go home.
Here, in the hollowed-out classrooms, hung on the auditorium walls, throughout the hallways with their echoing linoleum, painting, sculpture, ceramics, film, and sound, and poetry, along with less readily classified installations, will be on view by appointment through October 10, culminating in a closing dance that evening.
Curated by artists Logan Criley and Allison Baar, Homecoming presents work by:
Alexis Oliver
Allison Baar
Anna Bane
Ari Salka
Ben Borden
Carrie Cook
Christopher DeLoach
Cyril Kuhn
Dakota Higgins
Daniella Vuvjovik
Erin Calla Watson
Esteban Shimpf
Francy Graham
Jessalyn Brooks
Joe Sola
Jon Seaton
Logan Criley
Logan Wolfe
Lydia Ren / 99 Warehouse
Milan Aguirre
Nichole Fitch
Nick Flessa
Raghvi Bhatia
Skye Chamberlain
Sophie Lattu
Victoria Stöcker
Zoe Koke
