5.15.14 (6pm) Kate Gilbert//art school opening performance
Thursday, May 15 through Thursday, May 29 2014
EXPOSING THE ARTIST MYTH & TWO TACKY PAINTINGS:
LA Lesbian Kate Gilbert Goes Back to “Art School”
Chinatown arts venue Human Resources presents “Art School”, an exhibition by LA-based artist Kate Gilbert
Gilbert originally conceived the idea for “Art School” in a conversation with Human Resources programming committee member, Oscar Santos, over tea.
“Oscar seemed determined that I hold classes during my exhibition. He really indulged me. We talked about esoteric geometry and he was down for that, but I’m no expert. I dropped out of art school back in the 90s, but it seemed feasible enough for me to try my hand at being an amateur teacher, or a makeshift Dean, or perhaps with prompting, an art evangelist. Oscar prompted me. It seemed slightly less crazy than proposing I could time travel, or predict the future, both of which I’ve attempted.
Part of what I am offering at HR is something of an artist exposition, where people can come and observe artists making work in their “natural” habitat. I think it is useful to observe process, and a number of the artists I have invited to participate, namely Gregory Barnett and Kate Hoffman, are working in the gallery for several days as a type of performance. Direct observation, in my opinion, is one of the most powerful ways to learn.
Of course, it is a tricky thing to render what we do in solitude (‘If a tree falls in a forest…’) and scientifically impossible once we have invited guests. For my own work in the show, I am challenging my own sense of what it means to be radical and queer, and furthermore how my identity reads and exists publicly. I am pushing myself to collaborate more courageously and hopefully taking advantage of the potential of Human Resources as the community arts venue that it is.”
Gilbert will open the exhibition with the performance “Everything I Own Up to Now” in which she uses all of her worldly possessions as a medium. Her closing exhibition, “Tacky Paintings”, centers around her attempts at creating two massive glitter paintings on paper for which she received funding from the Center for Cultural Innovation earlier this year.
Schedule of events as of Monday, May 12, 2014:
May 15: 6-9pm
Opening Exhibition and performance:
Kate Gilbert “Everything I Own Up to Now”
May 15 – 29:
Haircuts by appointment
Rafa Esparza
Contact the artist: toltekatl13ollin@yahoo.com
May 16: One Archives Screening
May 18: Castelar Elementary Fundraiser
May 19-22: 10am-6pm
Kate Hoffman “Make It Work”
May 19-24: 10am – 6pm
Gregory Barnett "If This Were Any More Camp You Would Need A Tent/ This Is What I Want/ Our Technicolor Dream Dance"
(Closing performance May 24: 10pm – 3am)
May 24-26:
Veronique d’Entremont “What Trickles Down, What Accumulates” with Aloni Bonilla, Cake and Eat It, Kim McGill, Amitis Motevalli and “City of Lost Angels” featuring youth from FREE LA High School, the Youth Justice Coalition and LA County Juvenile Halls
Stencil-making workshop with Amitis Motevalli May 24: 5pm
Opening reception May 24: 5 – 8pm
May 25: LA Composer's Collective
May 26: 4-7pm
Memorial Day Workshop
Kate Gilbert “Throwing Books: Baseball and the Cadavre Exquis (A Slap-dash Course in Animation)”
Contact the artist to register: kategilbert@yahoo.com
May 29: 6-9pm
Closing Exhibition:
Kate Gilbert “Tacky Paintings”
Other artists/events TBA
For further details, including current events and times, please visit:
www.artschool2014.wordpress.com
General press enquiries: kategilbert@yahoo.com
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