April 22 - July 22
Drawing from the hemispheric context of the Americas, and broad questions of civilization and culture, this exhibition presents recent works by artists from the United States and Latin America grappling with continued questions of colonialism and postcolonialism in an effort to locate “place” in contemporary society.
This comprehensive survey of Cervántez’s richly layered, politically charged and spiritually informed artistic practice spans over four decades and encompasses painting, printmaking and muralism, featuring recent works as well as revealing the artist’s historic intersections with social justice work in California, feminist and Latin American solidarity movements, the Chicano art movement, and the era of multiculturalism.
Exploring questions of citizenship, national belonging, and the fantasy of immigration through drawings, paintings and a video installation, itself part performance and part storytelling, this exhibition borrows its title from the book by cultural critics Judith Butler and Gayatri Spivak to comment on the complex landscape of nationhood.
This exhibition, comprising works from LACMA’s permanent collection, presents an introduction to Chinese ceramics, with examples from c. 2500 BC (Neolithic period) to the 19th century.
Admissions is free and we are open to the public.