VISUAL ARTS + MUSEUMS

Lawndale Art Center presents four exhibitions opening January 20, 2012, 6:30 – 8:30 PM, with artist talks beginning at 6 PM.

In the John M. O’Quinn Gallery, Jade Walker’s exhibition CONTACT includes sculpture and sculpture installation referencing a personal struggle with spectatorship, binaries within gender, abstraction, narrative, found objects, desire, and the body as temporal.

In the Mezzanine Gallery, the exhibition This Weird Place curated by Sebastian Forray presents work engaging the unsteady ground between figuration and abstraction by artists Lane Hagood, Alika Herreshoff, Cody Ledvina, Lee Piechocki, Anthony Record and Eric Shaw.

In the Grace R. Cavnar Gallery, TJ Hunt’s installation Breaking Ground consists of earth collected from various private property sites around Texas, molded into monumental block letters across the floor of the gallery space.

In the Project Space, Carlos Rosales-Silva’ presents new work reflecting on the absorption and appropriation of minority culture by mainstream American society in the exhibition Unfadeable So Please Don’t Try To Fade Me.

The exhibitions continue through February 25, 2012.

Pictured above:  a work by Eric Shaw.