Craft and Folk Art Museum
5814 Wilshire Blvd
323.937.4230
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Artwork from Celestial Ash: Assemblages from Los Angeles, Courtesy of the Craft and Folk Art Museum
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Opens Saturday Apr 18, 2009 (6–9pm)
Apr 11, 2009 – Sep 13, 2009
Tuesdays–Wednesdays (11am–5pm)
Thursdays (11am–7pm)
Fridays (11am–5pm)
Saturdays–Sundays (noon–6pm)
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$5
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Note:
CAFAM hosts a free poetry reading with featured artist Exene Cervenka on Sunday, July 12 at 3:00pm.
Joseph Cornell's surrealist shadowboxes reconfigured found objects into multidimensional creations, classified as neither sculpture nor collage, but as assemblages. The Craft and Folk Art Museum takes inspiration from Cornell's legacy with Celestial Ash: Assemblages from Los Angeles, featuring works by a selection of LA artists, including Exene Cervenka, Gail Greenfield Randall, Matjames, and Michael C. McMillen — each of whom can claim aesthetic kinship with Cornell. These unpredictable, multi-layered renderings are curated by journalist, art historian, and critic Kristine McKenna; with their own interpretations of the dioramic tradition, the exhibit's artists transgress conventional artistic boundaries, revitalizing ordinary objects and generating unconfined, poetic, and symbolically fraught narrative objects.
