TRANS-ANGELES: CROSSOVER EXPERIMENTATION

“Trans-Angeles: Crossover Experimentation,” an exhibition of 12 artists who live and work in Los Angeles, will go on exhibit in mid-March at Chabot Museum in Rotterdam, the Netherlands.

Peter Frank, curator of Trans-Angeles. About the artists in Trans-Angeles, Frank writes that they display a “dedication to substance over style,” calling this dedication “one of the things that makes the Los Angeles art scene so internationally vital. Another, related factor is the willingness of artists here to experiment – indeed, to maintain a tradition of experimentation and unorthodox practice that goes back at least a half-century. Los Angeles-area artists such as these twelve transit easily between concepts, disciplines, even styles. Interdisciplinary practice is almost presumed, collegiality spills over readily into collaboration, and a single artist’s oeuvre can so often comprise artworks that are parallel or even hybrid. Similarly, the lives of the artists themselves are fluid and multi-layered. Many come from other places, and many others go back and forth between L.A. and elsewhere. Many transit between identities and life conditions. Many make their living far from the studio but bring into the studio what they learn on the outside.”

The Trans Angeles exhibition features works in different forms and styles, including photographs, paintings, sculptures and video works, by Fatemeh Burnes, APT artist Mei Xian Qiu, Cosimo Cavallaro, Gisela Colón, Gronk, KuBO, Maya Mercer, Kirk Pedersen, Katsuhisa Sakai, John White, Jae Hwa Yoo and Zadik Zadikian.