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Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk
May 17- August 31, 2008
The burgeoning punk rock and new-wave music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s in East Los Angeles provided an electrically charged, creative climate where performance mixed with poetry and visual culture was defined by an aesthetic and an attitude. Artists and musicians mixed and blurred the lines of actions, documentation, photography, sound and style. Many women were active in this era, developing and establishing new modalities of cultural production while fostering shifts in gender roles and social politics.
Taking its name from the all-ages music club The Vex, once housed within East Los Angeles' Self Help Graphics and Art, Vexing is an historical investigation of the women who were at the forefront of this movement of experimentation in music, art, culture and politics while exploring their lasting legacies and contemporary practices. This documentary style exhibition will include photo, video and audio archives of the era as well as recent studio work encompassing video, painting, installation, writings and performance.
Multiverse
September 20 - December 28, 2008
Multiverse refers to the hypothesis that all of physical reality actually exists within a set of multiple, parallel universes, of which our universe is merely one part. The possibility of many universes raises a myriad of scientific, philosophical and theological questions which have been explored in various branches of theoretical science, disciplines of thought and fiction. The Claremont Museum of Art exhibition Multiverse, features conceptually driven work dealing with physics, cosmology, natural phenomena, mythology, philosophy, and the inner self. Artists continually create a visual vocabulary for themselves that parallels and portrays an idealized, imagined or fantasized reality. Nature and its mysteries provide endless departure points for fictitious imagery that is recognizable enough to have relevance, yet abstract enough to interrupt familiarity and probe deeper into our psyches. From chimera to corporeality, Multiverse delves into alternative outcomes for the universe we believe exists in singularity.
