Saturday, May 11, 11 am – 12 pm PST, @ LACP, 252 S. Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
LACP is thrilled to host an Artist Talk featuring Expand and Contract’s Brian Van Camerik for Homosocial and Diane Meyer, moderated by Dr. Rotem Rozental.
About the Artists
Homosocial is a multimedia project created by Brian Van Camerik. The project is a collection of found photographs of homosocial images that guide Van Camerik’s artistic practice. As principal artist for the project, Van Camerik works in a variety of media, from mat board sculptures constructed into reliquaries to contemporary photography. These objects are all meant to enshrine the images Van Camerik has collected and created for Homosocial.
Van Camerik earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with honors in 2014. In 2014, he was recipient of the Henry Schiedt Memorial Travel Scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He and Homosocial are currently based in the LA area. View Website Here
Diane Meyer received a BFA from New York University and an MFA from the University of California, San Diego. She currently lives in Los Angeles where she is a Professor of Photography at Loyola Marymount University.
Solo exhibitions include those at Klompching Gallery, NYC; the Griffin Museum of Photography, Massachusetts; 18th Street Art Center, Santa Monica; AIR Gallery, NYC, Society for Contemporary Photography, Kansas City; the Encontros da Imagem Festival, Portugal and Gryder Gallery, New Orleans. Her work has been included in numerous group shows in the US and abroad including those at the George Eastman Museum, Rochester; Robert Mann Gallery, NYC; Regina Anzenberger Gallery, Vienna; The Brattleboro Museum of Art, Vermont; The Hood Museum, NH; Diffusion International Photography Festival, Wales; Schneider Gallery, Chicago; Field Projects, NYC; Fotogalerie Friedrichshain, Berlin; Galerie Huit, Arles; Susan Laney Contemporary, Savannah; Marshall Contemporary, Los Angeles and Flowers Gallery, London. Her work is in the permanent collections of the George Eastman Museum; the Hood Museum, and the Museum of Contemporary Photography, Chicago. View Website Here
About the Moderator
Dr. Rotem Rozental
Rotem Rozental, Ph.D, is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Between 2016-2022, she served as Chief Curator at American Jewish University, where she was also Assistant Dean of the Whizin Center for Continuing Education and Senior Director of Arts and Creative Programming. Her upcoming book, Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement will be released by Routledge Publishers in March 2023, and was named recipient of the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Award by the Association for Jewish Studies. Rotem is a lecturer at USC Roski School of Art and Design Critical Studies Department. She mentors artists worldwide and contributes regularly to magazines, journals and exhibition catalogues. Her writings about contemporary art and image-based media, as well as Jewish and Israeli art, were published in Artforum.com, Photographies, Jewish Currents, Tablet and Forward, among other outlets.
