MADE IN L.A. 2023: ACTS OF LIVING. THE EXHIBITION AT HAMMER MUSEUM
Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of living is the sixth iteration of the Hammer’s biennial exhibition highlighting the practices of artists working throughout the greater Los Angeles area.
The artists’ practices embrace the value of craft, materiality, performance, and collectivity. The biennial situates art as an expanded field of culture that is entangled with everyday life; community networks; queer affect; and indigenous and diasporic histories.
Made in L.A. 2023: Acts of Living takes its title from a quote by the renowned Los Angeles artist Noah Purifoy, which is inscribed on a plaque at the Watts Towers: “One does not have to be a visual artist to utilize creative potential. Creativity can be an act of living, a way of life, and a formula for doing the right thing”. The history of Watts Towers—built by Simon Rodia over the course of 33 years and then preserved by the local South L.A. community, including Purifoy, to become a hub for arts education—embodies this ethos and offers a salient metaphor for this biennial.
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AMBOS, Tension (performance still), 2017
Performed by Jackie Amézquita and Tanya Aguiñiga. Rope, fabric, US-Mexico border fence. Dimensions variable. Photo credit: Gina Clyne
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Chiffon Thomas, Untitled, 2021
Silicone, semi-rigid plastic, wood, split wooden columns, screws, rebar wire ties, rebar wire, oxidized copper nails. Overall: 70 1/2 × 146 × 53 in. (179.1 × 370.8 × 134.6 cm). Hammer Museum, Los Angeles. Purchased with partial funds from Craig and Lynn Jacobson, M. Sherman, and Vinny Dotolo.
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Christopher Suarez, Anaheim Center, 2023
Ceramic. 17 × 28 × 11 in. (43.2 × 71.1 × 27.9 cm). Photo: Ruben Diaz, courtesy of Sebastian Gladstone Gallery
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Emmanuel Louisnord Desir, The Fall of Babylon, 2023
Oil on wood. 48 × 68 × 4 in. (121.9 × 172.7 × 10.2 cm). Private Collection. Photo credit: Joerg Lohse. Courtesy of Emmanuel Louisnord Desir & 47 Canal
Artists participating: Akinsanya Kambon, AMBOS: art made between opposite sides, Chiffon Thomas, Christopher Suarez, Dan Herschlein, Devin Reynolds, Dominique moody, Emmanuel Louisnord Desir, Erica Mahinay, Esteban Ramón Pérez, Guadalupe Rosales, Ishi Glinsky, Jackie Amézquita, Jessie Homer French, Jibz Cameron, Joey Terril, Kang Seung Lee, Kyle Kilty, Los Ángeles Contemporary Archive (LACA), Luis Bermudez, Marcel Alcalá, Maria Maea, Mas Exitos, Melissa Cody, Michael Alvarez, Miller Robinson, Nancy Evans, Page Person, Paige Jiyoung Moon, Pippa Garner, Roksana Pirouzmand, Ryan Preciado, Sula Bermúdez-Silverman, Teresa Baker, Teresa Tolliver, Tidawhitney Lek, Victor Estrada, Vincent Enrique Hernandez and Young Joon Kwak.
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Erica Mahinay, Forthcoming, 2023
Oil on linen. 112 × 144 in. (284.5 × 365.8 cm). Courtesy of the artist and T293, Rome. Photo: Jeff McLane
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Guadalupe Rosales, Dreaming Casually, 2022
Powder-coated steel, glitter washi tape, engraved mirror, two-way mirror, archival pigment prints, decal, bandanna, LED light. 50 1/2 × 50 1/2 × 3 in. (128 × 128 × 8 cm). Photo credit: Ian Byers Gamber. Courtesy of the artist and Commonwealth and Council, Los Angeles, Mexico City
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Jibz Cameron, Me, 2021
Colored pencil and ink on paper. Sheet: 11 × 8 1/2 in. (27.9 × 21.6 cm). Private Collection. Photo courtesy of the artist
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Page Person, Identity Data Points, 2021
Acrylic and rhinestone on linen. 36 x 60 in. Courtesy of the artist
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