Annetta Kapon: Proxy Gallery 10 Years
Opening Reception: Saturday August 5th 6pm – 8pm
In her nearly three decades as an MFA professor, Annetta Kapon steadily encouraged her students to create their own conditions to make and show work, regardless of limitations. Out of this spirit her Proxy Gallery was born. It is also out of this spirit that The Floating Gallery was born. It is an honor to present this gallery within a gallery.
Proxy Gallery is a conceptual project that allows a platform for discourse. Though it materially occupies a one cubic foot box, it is treated in all ways as a traditional gallery. The fact that the space is small is neither hidden nor foregrounded. It is not simply a dollhouse for miniature artwork. Instead, the restrictions have been a catalyst for experimentation and questions around the nature of a gallery and an artist’s relationship to it.
Opened on January 13th, 2013, Proxy Gallery has now hosted over eighty-five exhibitions and has shown in Los Angeles, Paris and Athens. Artists have included: Sweet Samson, Katy Cowan, Lari Pittman, Dane Picard, Cindy Bernard, Roger F. White, Ana Rodriguez, Letitia Quesenberry and Marina Genadieva among many others, all of whom have approached the concept in vastly different ways.
Within the walls of The Floating Gallery, Annetta Kapon: Proxy Gallery 10 Years, reflects on all hosted exhibitions to date through photographic documentation. The physical Proxy Gallery itself will also be there with its latest exhibition: I’m Worried About Fitting In by Mirena Kim. We hope you’ll join us for this retrospective of the Proxy Gallery, conceived by Annetta Kapon, an artist who has championed and inspired thousands of emerging artists throughout the decades.
Photo by Antonis Ricos
Opening Reception: Saturday August 5th 6pm – 8pm
August 5th – September 30th, 2023
Gallery Hours:
Fri 12pm – 3pm
Sat 12pm – 6pm
Sun 12pm – 6pm
Or by appointment
info@thefloatinggalleryla.com
