Haunted
October 5-25
Opening reception:
Saturday October 5, 6-9pm
Saturday October 5, 6-9pm
Cultural Alliance of Long Beach
Bungalow Art Center
727 Pine Avenue. Long Beach, 90813
Bungalow Art Center hours of operation:
For the month of October, Craftswoman House Temporary Residence partners with Long Beach Riot Grrrl to present an exhibition and series of events at the Cultural Alliance of Long Beach. The exhibition Haunted will open on Saturday, October 5, from 6-9pm. The opening event will include a series of performance works and a video screening. The show closes on Friday, October 25 with a LB Riot Grrrl Show from 6pm-Midnight.
Bungalow Art Center hours of operation:
Tuesday - Friday :: 4 - 9 pm
Saturday and Sunday :: noon - 5pm
For the month of October, Craftswoman House Temporary Residence partners with Long Beach Riot Grrrl to present an exhibition and series of events at the Cultural Alliance of Long Beach. The exhibition Haunted will open on Saturday, October 5, from 6-9pm. The opening event will include a series of performance works and a video screening. The show closes on Friday, October 25 with a LB Riot Grrrl Show from 6pm-Midnight.
Throughout history, creative works by women have often been
devalued, dismissed, and even buried. While women’s contributions to art and
culture have been more visible in recent years, blind spots still exist.
Feminist art of the 1970s serves as a profound antecedent to contemporary art,
but rich bodies of feminist work are barely acknowledged in discussions on
current art practices including relational aesthetics and the prevalent use of informal
and domestic materials. The artists in Haunted
explore the hollows of history, to wake ghosts and channel hidden voices. These
artists express a fluid exchange between the body and memory through a focus on
tactile experience, manifestations of the repressed female body, and an
emphasis on process as a means to capture the immaterial.
Annelie McKenzie, Design Lady (after Angelica Kauffman), oil and stickers 2013
Annelie McKenzie’s paintings reflect relationships between the female artist as subject against the art historical reference of woman as merely model or object in a work of art. She depicts pairs of women to explore the relationships between women and to insert herself into a dialogue with female artists and subjects of the past. Her highly textured surfaces spill onto decorative frames revealing a sentimental tie to the marginalized history women’s crafts and handiwork.
The Aura of Things, Mary Anna Pomonis’ new series of paintings, captures the residue of cast-off objects collected from neighborhood garage sales. Inspired by Man Ray’s ray-o-graphs, Pomonis uses the low-grade photographic technique of airbrush to render ethereal impressions left by the displaced objects. The found objects are destroyed through the painting process and are transformed into illusive, glowing images of what has been lost.
Evah Hart’s works
are experiments rooted in an approach that oscillates between staged
spontaneity and material obstruction. She uses various visual techniques to
explore her fascination with the nature of time. Her process-based work
generates random marks that reflect the cycles, history and complications of
time.
Cindy Rehm, Diary of a Young Medium, (detail) collage, 2013
Mundane materials are
transformed into mysterious objects, through Tina Linville’s use of basic human
compulsions like collecting, arranging, and wrapping. Her dense
and precarious “Frankenstein” objects are built through a process of
intimate and obsessive manipulation of salvaged objects that contain private histories.
Her hybrid works blur distinctions between painting and sculpture through thoroughly
layered, tactile surfaces.
Cindy Rehm’s work is
inspired by Symbolist art, the sentiments of surrealism, and the legacy of
women’s art and writing. She explores
hysteria as a means for sexual and spiritual liberation through the unmediated
expression and performative potential of the trance state. Through reflections on female madness, Rehm aims to
unearth narratives that have been suppressed throughout history.
Evah Hart, Infinity Color, etching
Ali Kheradyar
The opening event will also
feature a series of performance works and a video screening. Semi-Tropic Spiritualists will present, Test Site No. 4, part of an ongoing series of performance works and
objects that explore the history of spiritual and occult belief in Los Angeles.
Through the use of spirit bells, Semi-Tropic Spiritualists will pose questions and seek answers
through an activation of unconscious voices. The performance will develop a
space dedicated to investigation and a search for knowledge, and will explore
ideas of faith and skepticism. Chelsea Rector will make
sound blankets of love and haunted mansions and black widows and owls, through her
eerie blend of vocals and synth tones. Ali Kheradyar will perform Untitled, a work about pleasure, play, and memory.
The accompanying screening features video works by: Ursula Brookbank, Min Choi, Anne Colvin, Micol Hebron, Nina Lassila, Elizabeth Leister, Shana Robbins and Alberto Roman, Simone Stoll, Tracy Abbott Szatan and Marisa Williamson.
Chelsea Rector
Semi-Tropic Spiritualists
Nina Lassila, Piiskaa! video still, 2005
Haunted closes on Friday, October 25 with a LBRG Show from 6-Midnight with live music by GAZE, Spare parts for broken hearts, Potential Lunatics, Ingenue, Iris and Strange Radio. During the month of October, an extensive calendar of events will be presented in conjunction with the Haunted exhibit including:
Monday, October 7
6-8:30pm
LB Riot Grrrl &
Food Not Bombs political prisoners letter writing (room 3)
Wednesday, October
9
4-7:30pm &
7:30-9pm
DIY Wednesday,
Riotous Herbs workshop (early session room 2, later room 3)
Friday, October
11
8-10pm
Wednesday, October
16
4-9pm
DIY Wednesday
Clothing/costume swap and costume making (room 3)
Sunday, October 20
Doors at 5pm
$10
Debut screening of Riot Grrrl: self told narrative (room 2)
and a special
screening of the forthcoming documentary GRRRL
with: Lucid Nation, Bonfire Madigan, Gina Young, Potential Lunatics
This event will be
videoed for GRRRL, a documentary film directed by Vega Darling and Angie Young
(riotgrrrlfilm,com). If you have a riot grrrl story to tell email riotgrrrlfilm@gmail.com to schedule a short interview.
Wednesday, October
23
4-9pm, Discussion
starts at 6:30pm
DIY Wednesday, Circle
Discussion, All Ages: An Intergenerational Dialogue on Feminism (room 3)
Friday, October 25
6pm-midnight
Haunted closes with
LB Riot Grrrl show featuring: GAZE,
Spare parts for broken hearts, Potential Lunatics, Ingenue, Iris and Strange Radio
Craftswoman House Temporary Residence is a project dedicated to
fostering a dialogue on feminist issues through projects and exhibitions.
Inspired by collective efforts such as Womanhouse,
the project pays homage to the rich legacy of feminist art in Southern
California. Temporary Residence partners with artists and
organizations to present innovative site-specific works in found domestic and
public spaces in and around Los Angeles.
In a world where womyn are still being underrepresented, misrepresented, and where the impact of systemic patriarchy is still being ignored, LB Riot Grrrl provides a safe space and open forum for Long Beach feminists to come together to work towards growth and change.
We recognize womyn
through the way we rock and the work that we do …we are womyn and we co-create
the revolution!
Tina Linville, What Brought Me Here, detail, 2011
