Over the past two decades, Connie Samaras has used photography and video to represent particular built environments she characterizes as “speculative landscapes” against the backdrop of daily life. She explores the aspirations and anxieties of the imagined future – how the US dreams itself – along with the psychological and social dislocation within the everyday.
On view through June 9, 2013
Connie Samaras: Surface Events
The three images currently displayed at Roadside Attraction are from Samaras’s photographic series Surface Events; they document the Griffith Park Fire of 2007 and Station Fire of 2009, two huge, devastating wildfires in the Los Angeles area. .
On view through June 9, 2013
Contested Destination
Contested Destination features photography, drawings, and video by six artists – Gina Osterloh, Betsy Lin Seder, Jeannie Simms, Gabie Strong, Kristine Thompson, and Carrie Yury.
On view through 2013
The Full Dollar Collection of Contemporary Art on York Blvd. X. Andrade
Outpost @ Armory is pleased present The Full Dollar Collection of Contemporary Art, an ongoing, neighborhood-based public art project conceived and launched by X. Andrade, an artist and anthropologist based in Ecuador. Andrade reconsiders the traditions of public art, signage, and murals by inviting collaboration between teams of artists, sign painters, and business owners
On view through June 2013
Nate Page Instituted Angles of Path and Display
Page’s work challenges the ultra-functional design of the Armory’s main stairwell. Page has removed one of the stairwell’s two large metal handrails, turned it 90 degrees, and mounted it in the middle of the space on a pedestal-like structure that follows the crooked trajectory of the stairs and the landing.
On view through May 2013
Steven Bankhead Eighteenth Brumaire
Bankhead's monumental sculpture, which utilizes the materials of billboard construction, will stand prominently in the garden of the Madison Neighborhood Casita, 805 N. Madison Ave. Pasadena, California.
