TORRANCE ART MUSEUM PRESENTS ITS SPRING EXHIBITIONS!

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Contact: Hope Ezcurra, Outreach Specialist
310-618-3842
HEzcurra@TorranceCA.Gov

TORRANCE, CA (MARCH, 2023) – Torrance Art Museum (TAM) proudly presents the schedule for its spring exhibitions, featuring:

TAM Main Gallery presents CO/LAB 5, Los Angeles and The World.

2023 is the 5th instalment of TAM’s innovative global contemporary art exchange, Co/Lab. Each year artist-run galleries from around the world are invited to partner with a SoCal one to present 4 unique, international, and pioneering collaborative exhibitions.

PARTICIPATING SPACES:

Fosforita (Madrid) starts with the intention to be a training, creation and dissemination laboratory for art and culture. The artistic projects are always open to collaborations between neighbours, artists, collectives and the involvement of anyone who wants to build together the collective imaginary.

Durden and Ray (Los Angeles) is committed both to individual praxis and to shared aims of curatorial experimentation, visual research, and artistic exchange with international partners.

FEATURED ARTISTS: Carlos Beltrán (USA/Mexico), Gul Cagin (USA), Lan Duong (USA), Le Frére (Spain), Ben Jackel (USA), Javier Jimeno (Spain), Ty Pownall (USA), Eva Zaragozá (Spain), Irene Zóttola (Spain)


515 (Los Angeles) is an artist-run salon and project space located inside the Bendix Building in downtown Los Angeles.

Supermarket (Stockholm) is dedicated to exhibiting artist-run spaces, artists’ collectives, nomadic spaces and independent artists’ initiatives of all shapes and from around the world. The key aim is to display unique projects, create opportunities for new local and international networks and share the strengths of the independent art world with a large audience.

FEATURED ARTISTS: Joey Holdren (US/NO), Robert Kingston (US), Alice Máselníková (SE/CZ)m Pontus Raud (SE), Andreas Ribbung (SE), HK Zamani (US)

Tiger Strikes Asteroid, (Los Angles) is one of five independently programmed, artist-run exhibition spaces with other locations in Philadelphia, New York, Chicago, and Greenville, SC. Our goal is to collectively bring people together, expand connections and create community through artist-initiated exhibitions, projects, and curatorial opportunities.

Space One (Seoul) founded in 2014 as an artist-run exhibition and project space, since 2020 has shifted to a project focused space supporting international, independent and discursive exchanges and collaborations.

FEATURED ARTISTS: Inyoung Kim (South Korea), Jihyung Song (South Korea), Rene C Hayashi (Mexico), Sala de Espera: Talia Pérez Gilbert and Luis Alonso Sánchez (Mexico), Kyoco Taniyama (Japan)

Kalashnikovv Gallery (Johannesburg) was founded in 2013 in direct response to the traditional white cube gallery system by envisioning an alternative operational model for the visual arts. It is administered and curated by two of Johannesburg's deep-rooted cultural instigators, M.J Turpin and Matthew Dean Dowdle who prioritize a collaborative exchange in working with the artists they partner with.

Wönzimer, is interested in unique voices from all different backgrounds to inspire and question the world we live in today. And it does this through an ever-evolving embrace of the vast creative potential of human beings.

FEATURED ARTISTS: Faith XLVII, Louis Devilliersiv, Ibuki Kuramochi, Natalie Paneng, Joshua AM Ross, Cheyann Washington, Ann Weber

 

Geckos, ZAK SMITH, 2018

TAM Gallery Two hosts An Unburnt Witch, An immersion into the drawings of Zak Smith.

“This show functions as both retrospective and reading room, where viewers are permitted to do what artists and collectors get to do all the time: relax on a couch, thumb through a book or magazine, and move toward specific works when an image calls out to them, rather than fulfilling the traditional role of taking all of the art in with a series of dutiful standing bursts before hustling themselves back out into their busy lives. “ -Zak Smith

 

“Metropolis”, Fritz Lang, 1927, Public Domain

TAM Dark Room is showing PUBLIC DOMAIN FILM SERIES: Films That Made The Movies

A film series presenting culturslly and artistically significant films each week that belong to the public at large.

  1. March 25th- April 1st: The Dixon Experimental Sound Film- William Dickson, 1894

  2. April 4th - April 8th: Trip to the Moon - Georges Méliès, 1902

  3. April 11th - April 15th: The Great Train Robbery - Edwin S. Porter, 1903

  4. April 18th - April 22nd: Battleship Potemkin - Sergei Eisenstein, 1926

  5. April 25th - April 29th: Metropolis - Fritz Lang, 1927

  6. May 2nd - May 6th: Un Chien Andalou - Luis Buñuel and Salvador Dalí, 1929


Spring Exhibitions are on view Saturday, March 25th - May 6th, 2023.
Opening Reception on Saturday, March 25th from 6-9pm.

TAM Public Art Programs:

TAM WINDOW (off site) will be showing the work of Juan Varela April 3 - June 30, 2023

Presented as part of the museum’s on-going public art project in collaboration with Discover Torrance. [Location: Del Amo Fashion Center]

The Riverside based, Mexican born, artist uses paint and embroidery to honor the indigenous roots of his culture. Entirely self-taught, he uses contemporary art practices to present traditional pre-Columbian imagery, blending anthropology, history, and fine art.

TAM ¿WILD? Public Art Residency Project (off site) April 18, 2023 - May 16, 2023

[Location: Madrona Marsh And Nature Preserve]

The residency program invites a contemporary artist with an environmental focus to interact with the Madrona Marsh Preserve, its Scientists, Researchers, Students, and the Public for a period of one month, during which they research, develop, and build a site specific work of public art to be presented on the grounds around the preserve for an exhibiting period of four months.

Free To Apply , $600 Budget /Stipend, Deadline to submit an application is March 27th , Click HERE for more information and to apply.



As always TAM is free and accessible to the public. Masks are suggested. No reservations required. All programs, schedules, and locations are subject to change. For the latest information and other museum programming, please visit TorranceArtMuseum.com.

 
 

Torrance Art Museum: 

Founded in 2005, the Torrance Art Museum is the premier visual art space to view contemporary art in the South Bay. The museum encourages all people to develop and increase their understanding and appreciation for modern programs, artist talks, lectures, and symposia. Through its emphasis on contemporary artistic expression in Southern California and globally, the Torrance Art Museum brings together visual artists and community members; fosters experiences in the arts to strengthen creative and critical thinking skills; and builds bridges between the visual arts and other disciplines in the humanities and sciences. Torrance Art Museum is a program of the City of Torrance Cultural Services Division of the Community Services Department. 

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