We’ve been working on two really exciting exhibitions at Angels Gate that open this Sunday (2-4pm, come on down!). The first, Sojung Kwon’s Planning A Year: Mondays and Sundays, is a solo show in our main gallery that will display all the documentation of the daily “Actions” carried out on Mondays and Sunday during her two-year performance project. It’s a linear narrative of videos, drawings, artifacts and records of 2/7 of 730 days of planning and actions. For a preview of the whole project, check out planningayear.com. That’s Sojung at top, measuring and installing.
Some, but definitely not all of the work laid out on the floor. Most of the work was framed in Korea and shipped over.
The Plexiglas on the pieces that were framed in Korea came with their protective coating still on. I kind of liked the layering effect, but I think that might just be part of my exaggerated case of “curator’s disease”, which causes me to find high levels of aesthetic meaning and interest in moments from the process of installing a show. Come see the show in person to see the work sans covering!
Downstairs, we’re presenting the first exhibition of a new program, the Community Gallery. The Community Gallery is a new effort by the Center to provide access and exhibition opportunities to all kinds of local amateur artist organizations, school groups and also to showcase our various on and off-site educational programs. For this first show, we’re using the whole downstairs, and the show is Things That Can’t Be Unseen, which is an exhibition of works by and organized by students in Michael Lewis Miller’s gallery management and portfolio development class at El Camino College. These students are the future of the South Bay, and it’s a real pleasure to give them the experience of installing their work in a real gallery.
Above, students work together to lay out the show. This is the hardest part, making decisions on how to fit all the work into the gallery. Michael’s class this semester is huge, so they really had to negotiate where everyone was going to go to both present a good show and also keep everyone happy about how their work was displayed.
Students wiring a painting. So many students know a lot about making art, but not a lot about presenting it to the public. Michael’s class addresses this. There are people wandering around with MFA degrees that don’t have these basic, necessary skills.
Hanging a piece. All the students did an amazing job of working together to support one another. Working in teams, they were able to work quickly and avoid making beginner’s mistakes. The show looks incredibly good. See you on Sunday.
