LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
6522 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028, USA
March 15 through April 29, 2018
Open Wed.-Sun., 12PM - 6PM

Coinciding with World Art Day celebrations April 12-15, The MART Gallery curators Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan are delighted to present ACTS TO OBJECTS at LACE Los Angeles.

The exhibition is the final in a three year programme titled “Activating Pangea”, a series focused on the promotion of Irish Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Acts to Objects brings together artists from Ireland and LA that span a number of generations, in order to explore the role of spectacle in feminist practice today.

Art and cultural practice often seeks to challenge the primacy of the visual in Western culture, as dominated by a “pervasive masculinised privileged gaze” (Irigaray). To affect change women artists too have sought ways to refute, undermine and evade this primacy of the visual in art practice in order to find a “visual language and a voice that can be heard” (Mary Kelly).

The exhibition is staged in Los Angeles, the locus of production of the Hollywood spectacle, that much early feminist discourse critiqued for its dominant gendered narratives that constantly position women as passive objects to the active masculine look, that continues to persist in new forms.  Bringing together artists from Los Angeles and Ireland that span a number of generations, in order to explore the role of spectacle in feminist practice today.

'Activating Pangea’ is three year series of exhibitions curated by MART {Dublin}, in collaboration with Los Angeles based galleries and art fairs to strategically promote leading Irish Contemporary Visual Artists.

Artists: Aine Phillips, Amanda Coogan, Helen Mac Mahon, Margaret O'Brien, Katherine Nolan, Eleanor Lawler, Laura O’Connor, Jane Fogarty

Curators: Matthew Nevin & Ciara Scanlan.

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