Angels Gate Cultural Center (AGCC) will bring together two curators for the third quarter of 2019’s Curatorial Takeover with an opening reception on July 13th. Marcia Moore’s On the Brink will be featured in the downstairs gallery in Building A, while and Jared Baxter’s Todo en ti fue naufragio will be featured upstairs.
On the Brink, curated by Marcia Moore
Angels Gate Cultural Center helped to inspire Moore’s exhibition, as the center sits “on the brink” both literally and figuratively, perched on a hilltop overlooking the Pacific, and breaking new ground in the arts. On the Brink showcases the work of two artists, Angel King and Everett Babcock, both of whom explore the edges of tension, trauma, beauty and social consciousness.
Primarily a sculptor, King works with found materials that some might view as trash to construct work that is deeply personal and considered. Babcock, a multi media artist, creates drawings, photographs, and small sculpture as well as video pieces that are visually compelling and refined in their construction.
Todo en ti fue naufragio, curated by Jared Baxter
Todo en ti fue naufragio is a group exhibition which will be presented in the upstairs galleries at AGCC. Taking its title from a line from a Pablo Neruda poem, which translates to “everything about you was shipwreck,” the show will examine both literal and figurative vessels, and their relationship to rupture and remembrance, disaster and struggle. Featuring new and previously-exhibited works by a range of LA-based, national and international artists, the artworks on display reveal narratives of life and death on the water, allowing for reflection on the cataclysm of the present moment, as a kind of siren song and prophetic mourning.
The artists featured in this exhibition include:
Sarah Cain, The Distance Plan with Oliver Kellhammer, Greg Lindquist, K. Flint, and Gabriela Salazar, Patricia Fernández, Liz Glynn, Amy Howden-Chapman, Olga Koumoundouros, Karen Lofgren, Matana Roberts.
Angels Gate Cultural Center is open to the public Monday – Friday from 10am to 4pm and Saturdays from 1pm to 5pm. Admission is always free.
