Mother Memory
Curated by Toti O’Brien
Opening Reception: 5-10pm Friday August 15th, 2025
Exhibition Dates : August 15th, -September 12th, 2025
Gallery Hours: 12 pm–7 pm, Wednesday – Sunday.
Wonzimer Gallery, 341 S Avenue 17, Los Angeles 90031
Anita Getzler
Gina Lawson Egan
Peter Liashkov
Marina Moevs
Nadege Monchera Baer
Toti O’Brien
Melinda Smith Altshuler
Nancy Kay Turner
J Michael Walker
“Mother Memory” is a group art exhibit organized by contributing artist Toti O’Brien. The exhibit explores both memories of mothers, mothering, and motherhood, as well as the idea of memory (our human faculty to recall, revive, and reinvent what is no longer accessible to the senses) as a matrix.
In what ways does memory mother us? To what extent does it create us, shaping who we are and what we do? Does it nurture us? Protect us? Can it heal us? Can it instruct and guide us? “Mother Memory” features work by nine Los Angeles-based artists, each bringing their unique perspective to the chosen theme through a variety of artworks. These pieces expand the core concept, introducing echoes of legacy, ancestry, motherland, mother tongue, and — last but certainly not least — the present and future of our wounded Mother Earth.
The exhibition is complemented by a poetry-and-performance event that will take place at Wonzimer Gallery on Friday, August 22nd, from 7pm-9pm. The event will showcase a performance (“Sound Shadows”) by artists Cindy Rinne and Katia Hage, a video performance by artist Anita Getzler, and a combination of live and remote readings by seven poets.
Cynthia Anderson
Katerina Canyon
Shahé Mankerian
Toti O’Brien
Alexis Rhone Fancher
Miriam Sagan
Kathabela Wilson
