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Elana Mann has achieved a rare kind of poetry with her “Assonant Armory” at Commonwealth & Council. The exhibition consists of an array of custom-made megaphones, fashioned from life-casts of arms raised in the “hands up” position.
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Elana Mann is a Los Angeles–based artist whose interdisciplinary performance, sculpture, video work, and collaborative organizing practice address the radical political potential and material aesthetics of listening and speaking. With Robby Herbst, Mann recently organized “Chats About Change,” a series of grassroots conversations with artists involved in creative social change. Here she discusses her public mural Talk Through the Hand, which is on view at Baik Art, in the La Cienega Boulevard art corridor, through December 16, 2016, and her solo exhibition, “The Assonant Armory,” which is at Commonwealth & Council through November 5, 2016.
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Elana Mann (b. 1980) recieved an MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA in 2007, and a BFA in sculpture from Washington University in St. Louis, MO in 2003.
She has presented her work in galleries, museums, buses, senior centers and street corners all over the world, including the Ford Foundation (New York), the Hirshhorn Museum at the Smithsonian (Washington D.C.), The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, and A Gentil Carioca (Rio de Janeiro, Brazil). She is a recipient of California Community Foundation’s 2009 Visual Arts Fellowship and has published six books, four of which are in the collection of the Getty Research Institute.
Mann is a co-founder of the Artist Bailout Collective and the People’s Microphony Camerata as well as part of the collaborative duo Chan and Mann. Her projects have been written about in such publications as the Los Angeles Times, NPR, O Globo, El Pais, La Reuppublica and X-Tra Magazine.
For additional information about this artist, visit Mutual Art
