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The built environment of Los Angeles \u2014 as well its opaque soul \u2014 is on display at UCLA\u2019s Hammer Museum as it opens the seventh edition of its popular Made in L.A. biennial, featuring 28 artists with deep connections to the sprawling metropolis. The 2023 exhibition<\/a>, titled \u201cActs of Living,\u201d was largely informed by the pandemic. This year there is no title or theme, with curators Essence Harden and Paulina Pobocha relying on the work itself to shine a light on the amorphous nature of the city.<\/p>\n

During a sneak-peek tour of the still-unfinished galleries a few days before the show\u2019s opening last Saturday, Harden and Pobocha discussed the finer points of the exhibition, including how they staged the work by juxtaposing various artists and historical references to highlight the interconnections of the art, rather than devoting each gallery to a single artist or time frame.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf there\u2019s a Venn diagram, there\u2019s a place in this Venn diagram where every artist overlaps in terms of their interest,\u201d said Pobocha. \u201cSo much of this work is about Los Angeles. There\u2019s a kind of looking back at, an engagement with, the city itself and its impact, either on the artist in the show personally or on larger populations.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cHold the Ice\u201d by Patrick Martinez is on display in Made in L.A. 2025 at the Hammer Museum in Westwood.<\/p>\n

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There are glossy Pop Art sculptures by Pat O\u2019Neill made with steel, fiberglass and pieces of old photographic equipment and coated with car paint; cinder block murals and neon art by Patrick Martinez; giant sculptures of doors representing seasons and memories by Amanda Ross-Ho; an interactive painting by Gabriela Ruiz about the omnipresence of surveillance in the city, particularly in Black and brown communities; analog film and video art by Mike Stoltz; sculptures that look like science experiments by Carl Cheng; still life-inspired photos on fabric by David Alekhuogie; and a large-scale painting by Ali Eyal, who grew up in Baghdad during the U.S. invasion of Iraq before moving to L.A.<\/p>\n

Eyal\u2019s inclusion underscores that artists don\u2019t have to be from L.A. to be part of Made in L.A., Harden said.<\/p>\n

\u201cL.A. is a global place, and the impact of L.A. and of America is also global,\u201d she said. \u201cSo the relationship to this place, and someone who chooses to be here or has to be here \u2014 whatever the case might be \u2014 is crucial to how the city forms.\u201d<\/p>\n

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\u201cStill life with okra, corn, and tomato\u201d by David Alekhuogie, 2022.<\/p>\n

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The ground floor of the show lays the foundation for everything to come, Harden and Pobocha explained, standing near the re-creation of a mural titled \u201cEye on \u201984,\u201d which was made by Alonzo Davis for the 1984 Olympics and originally painted on a concrete wall of the 110 Freeway. Davis died earlier this year at age 82.<\/p>\n

\u201cHow do you get the most people to see the most art? And for L.A., that means the freeways,\u201d said Harden. \u201cBut again, the freeways are fundamental structures that divided the city and created all kinds of underclasses, which really affected lots of people of color and lots of people who were working class.\u201d<\/p>\n

Davis, however, inverted that paradigm to utilize the freeway as a unifier, she added.<\/p>\n

The show features wall text with a quote by Beat poet and writer Jack Kerouac. \u201cL.A. is the loneliest and most brutal of American cities,\u201d it reads, echoing a common critique of one of the world\u2019s most misunderstood urban areas. Made in L.A. 2025 corrects that misconception, the curators said.<\/p>\n

\u201cIf you don\u2019t live in Los Angeles, you might think that there\u2019s no community and that everything is fractured,\u201d said Pobocha. \u201cAnd I think one of the things that you see throughout the course of this presentation is that, in fact, there are so many points of connection, especially in the arts community.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\u2018 The preceding article may include information circulated by third parties \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n

\u2018 Some details of this article were extracted from the following source www.latimes.com \u2019 <\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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