Los Angeles
November 23, 2022
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HIGHLIGHTS THIS WEEK
Don Ed Hardy / Laurie Steelink: Evidence of Things Unseen
Nov. 5–Dec. 17
Track 16 Gallery, 1206 Maple Avenue, #1005, Downtown (track16.com)
Evidence of Things Unseen juxtaposes the work of Don Ed Hardy and Laurie Steelink who have been friends for 30 years. Hardy is best known for his role in bringing tattooing into the mainstream but he has been focused on his own art practice since retiring from tattooing in 2008. Steelink, who is featured in the current California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art, explores her own complicated identity as a Native American raised by an adoptive White family.
Margaret Garcia: Arte para la Gente
Jul. 22–Jun. 11, 2023
LA Plaza de Cultura y Arte, 501 North Main Street, Downtown (lapca.org)
Arte Para la Gente is a career retrospective of the work of influential Chicana artist Margaret Garcia, whose paintings offer an intimate, honest portrayal of her city, community, and family. With nods to Fauvism and Impressionism, Garcia’s paintings range from street scenes of her Boyle Heights neighborhood to portraits of her circle of friends and collaborators, and reinterpretations of Mexican Catholic religious imagery.
Narsiso Martinez: Rethinking Essential
Ongoing
Museum of Latin American Art, 628 Alamitos Avenue, Long Beach (molaa.org)
Narsiso Martinez draws and paints portraits of farm workers directly onto produce boxes, making visible the often unseen labor that brings food from the fields into our homes. His installation Rethinking Essential at MOLAA depicts these essential laborers, their eyes looking out from behind masks and hats, with dignity and respect, heir to an art historical lineage that weaves through the Mexican muralists and Millet’s “The Gleaners.”
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