LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) (Venue Partner)
6522 Hollywood Boulevard
323.957.1777
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Monica Duncan and Laura Odell: Living Pictures (Laundromat) (2003), courtesy of LACE.
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Oct 21, 2009 – Jan 24, 2010
Wednesdays–Thursdays (noon–6pm)
Fridays (noon–9pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
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“Curator Jennifer Doyle gets in touch with our emotional side in I Feel Different, a group exhibition featuring multimedia works at LACE. Breaking down the conventional boundaries between art and spectator, Doyle chose artists whose work elicits mood-altering reactions through sentimentality and confrontation. By tapping into artistic emotional expression, Doyle finds feeling different is not all that bad. Join Doyle in a curator's walkthrough Sunday, November 15.”
Heather Jeno Silva, Flavorpill
LACE is pleased to present I Feel Different, a multi-media group exhibition organized by guest curator Jennifer Doyle. Participating artists: Nao Bustamante, Lezley Saar, David Wojnarowicz, Monica Duncan, Lara Odell, Susan Silton, and Niña Yhared (1814).
This provocative project explores both the experience of feeling different from others and the transformational power of art to make one feel differently. Most of the time, we attend museums and galleries with our social armor “up” – approaching art with sophistication, irony, and even a degree of cynicism. This exhibit gathers together artists working in the unusual registers of the sentimental and the sincere – testing the limits of what kinds of emotional expression are possible within art. In doing so, they ask us if tears register as “real” in art (and what happens when they do), what happens when we are asked to take on an artist’s outrage, depression, or pleasure as our own, or how much can an artist can really change how we feel (and if this what we want from them). The show acknowledges that contemporary art is powerfully defined by the relationship between art and the spectator, and asserts that emotion plays a major part in this story.
