Los Angeles: Anabel Juárez, Lee Alexander McQueen

Los Angeles

May 25, 2022 • View in browser

Anabel Juárez’s Castles of Wonderment

By enshrining her memories into sculptural form, Juárez celebrates her emotional pilgrimage through the growing pains of childhood to adulthood. | Jenny Hata Blumenfield

The depth in which Juárez has honored her personal history through drawing and sculpture in Recordar Es Vivir demands a recalibration of the ways in which we might take in our own personal histories of what we have left behind, what we continue to hold, and the space we define for our respective futures.

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Alternate Realities: Altoon, Diebenkorn, Lobdell, Woelffer Opens at the Norton Simon Museum

Now on view in Pasadena, this exhibition explores how four artists challenged the limitations of gestural abstraction by exploiting the resonance of figural forms. Learn more.

WHAT TO SEE THIS WEEKEND

The Jet Propulsion Laboratory in the upper Arroyo Seco and San Gabriel Mountain foothills of Pasadena and Altadena, Southern California (image courtesy Wikimedia Commons)

American Artist: Shaper of God
Roy and Edna Disney / CalArts Theater, opening May 28

Taking acclaimed science fiction writer Octavia E. Butler as its starting point, American Artist: Shaper of God is inspired by both her novels and her life to explore the elements of science fiction shaping the history and mythology of Los Angeles — Pasadena, to be exact. Here, curator Adam Kleinman connects Butler’s narratives to the fact and fiction of another Pasadena institution: Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL). Whether tied to science or fiction, the show promises to ground Butler’s universe within the realities of Los Angeles, and conversely, unearth the fantasies embedded in the making of the city.

Archival Intimacies: Queering South/East Asian Diasporas
ONE Archives at USC through May 29

Hayao Miyazaki
Academy Museum of Motion Pictures through June 5

Pipilotti Rist: Big Heartedness, Be My Neighbor
Geffen Contemporary at the Museum of Contemporary Art through June 6

MORE FROM HYPERALLERGIC

How Lee Alexander McQueen Spun History Into Fantasy

Drawing from a wide range of personal influences, McQueen deconstructed myths and facts and refashioned them into his desired story. | Anne Wallentine

As Hate Crimes Soar, Dozens Rally for Black, Asian, and Trans Solidarity in LA

Through jubilant performances and speeches, the city’s first-ever Blasian March connected the large but disparate communities. | Renée Reizman

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ON VIEW IN MUSEUMS & GALLERIES

Sonya Clark, “Confederate, surrender” (2022), Mixografía® print on handmade paper, edition of 30, 43.5 x 24 in. (photo by Milo Smolin, image courtesy the artist and Mixografía, Los Angeles)

how we are in time and space: Nancy Buchanan, Marcia Hafif, and Barbara T. Smith
Armory Center for the Arts through June 12

Ebon: Fear of a Black Planet: A project by Black Kirby
Culver Center of the Arts through June 19

Anabel Juárez: Recordar Es Vivir
Carolyn Campagna Kleefeld Contemporary Art Museum, California State University Long Beach through June 25

Kevin Beasley: On site
Regen Projects through June 25

Sonya Clark: Confederate, surrender
Mixografía through July 2