MAIN GALLERY: Body Counts

Highlighting how figurative art, in many forms, can reflect on issues of representation, trust, group dynamics, alienation and social capital, Body Counts explores diverse artistic potentials that reflect on what can help maintain, or interrogate, society’s structures, democracy and civil rights.

Participating artists: Alison Blickle, Danie Cansino, Amir H. Fallah, Lanise Howard, Justine Otto, Duane Paul, Jose Sanchez III, Meghan Smythe, Haena Yoo

GALLERY TWO: David DiMichele - Envirotechnology

An immersive light art installation exploring the relationship between environmental issues and technology. The installation will be composed of a linear network of twisted oak branches intertwined with LED light strips that will form a kind of three-dimensional drawing in the interior space of the gallery creating a metaphor for the way technology can exist in harmony with nature rather than obliterating it.

DARK ROOM: Erin Cooney - Aire Libre

A single-channel video installation about environmental injustice in South Los Angeles made in collaboration with East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, a community advocacy group based in Commerce and Long Beach.

MAIN HALLWAY: liminal level

Semi Permanent Installation

An immersive hallway experience featuring a new site-specific installation by artist Darel Carey.

Darel Carey is a visual artist focusing on optical perception. He graduated from Otis College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2016.His Optical Art (Op Art) includes immersive tape installations, painted murals, and digital art.  The demand for his crowd-pleasing work has been in demand in recent years, with installations at art institutions around the world and featured in major commercial ad campaigns.

Darel’s previous hallway installations for TAM include DIMENSIONALIZATION (2018-2019) and COALESCENCE (2019-2024).

Fallen Fruit's projects invite people to experience their city as a fruitful, generous place, to collectively reimagine the functions of public participation and urban space—to ponder forms of located citizenship, and to explore the meaning of community and neighborhood through creating and sharing new and abundant resources.

in 2021 Fallen Fruit installed a permanent community Fruit Park around the perimeter of the pre-existing community garden in Torrance’s Lago Seco Park as part of TAM’s public art exhibition ULTRA!

Permanent Installation: Public Art mural

This installation brightens the hallway of the Cultural Arts Building with bold and dynamic color in abstract arrangements that enliven the space and alter the perception of it as a neutral space into one of integrated experience with the studios.