GRAND DEPOSITORY
EXHIBITION PRESS KIT
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Artist Statement
THE ARTISTS
Sharon Lockhart
Karen Tavenner Acosta [email protected]
Malia Cravens [email protected]
Gian Dionisio [email protected]
Sasha Jelan [email protected]
Hanwen Lei [email protected]
Tanner Ott [email protected]
Michelle Park
[email protected] / www.rawclayphoto.com
Brandon James Patrick
Professor
[email protected] / www.brandonjamespatrick.com
Graham Sandelski
[email protected] / gsandelski.com
Vidhi Todi [email protected]
Haena Won [email protected]
with guest artists Corrine Bernard & Chelsea
McCarthy from otis college of Art and Design
Grand
Depository
Event SCHEDULE
Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery
Watt Hall 104, University Park Campus
Los Angeles, California 90089
April 13th - 25th, Events Daily
4/13 - A Walt Whitman Experience − Graham Sandelski
An immersive poetry reading from Walt Whitman’s Leaves of Grass; after the sunset we’ll relocate to the
south lawn where two worlds will merge into one. Please bring pillows, blankets, or whatever you need to
be comfortable. 7:30pm
4/14 - Queer Space: Burning Hearts − Vidhi Todi
A discussion focused on queer culture and community space with the Heart Of Art Gallery curators,
followed by a screening of Paris Is Burning. 6pm - 8:30pm
4/15 - Try Lingual − Karen Tavenner Acosta
Interactive performances centered around language and (mis)translation. 6pm-8pm
4/16 - Do You Think We Can Just Get Up And Leave? − Hanwen Lei
A conversation with filmmaker Katie Espejo from Porterville, CA, on the current state of drought in the heart
of california. 6:30pm - 7:30pm
4/17 - CAC + Dorothy Does Us − Brandon James Patrick
A viewing experience like none other! Cum see A.K. Burns’ and A.L. Steiner’s Community Action Center, a
69 minute long sociosexual film, with an introduction by Steiner in the flesh! Following the screening we’ll
be trans-ported to Oz for a fortune telling xxxperience with the one and only Freckle! Bring pillows,
blankets, anything you need to get comfortable. 7pm - 9pm
4/18 - In Transit − Tanner Ott
Readings from local Los Angeles artists on navigating through urban sprawl, transit and travel. 6pm - 9pm
4/19 -Things Always Change. They Always Stay The Same. − Corrine Bernard
A collage of readings into another narrative: that rearranges matters most and not at all, by making
a new order while (maybe) knowing there may not be how anything might in fact be everything.
After the talk the artist will be offering free permanent body art. 7pm
4/20 - Pre College Programs Workshop − Sasha Jelan
This event will focus on bringing awareness to high school students about programs and
opportunities available to them. In hopes of creating confidence, a sense of ability and
excitement in students of underserved areas. 6pm - 8pm
4/21 - Just Breathe − Malia Cravens
Bring whatever you need to get comfortable for this group meditation. We will be listening to
Techniques For Meditation, a record by Johnny Temple & Tom Mains recorded in 1976, which lasts
approximately 30 minutes. The gallery space will become a quiet room for the remaining time after the
recording is finished. 6pm - 7pm
4/22 - Little Fish − Chelsea McCarthy
Please join Chelsea McCarthy for a reading from her book, Little Fish, with a discussion to follow.
8pm - 9pm
4/23 - Where Is Your Seoul? − Michelle Park
Embrace/discover your inner Asian for a rad night of Korean traditional dance, music, and food!
The talented Hiza Yoo will be performing a selection of magnificent pieces on the Gayageum. What’s a
Gayageum you ask? Come to the Grand Depository and experience it yourself. 6pm - 7pm
4/24 - Intersections − Gian Dionisio
A group discussion on API intersectionality. 6pm - 9pm
4/25 - Homelessness − Haena Won
A consciousness raising conversation surrounding issues involved with transient living.
Tea will be served. 2pm - 5pm
photo: Michelle Park
“Grand Depository is first and foremost a reaction to the notion that the
Roski School of Art and Design and the USC School of Architecture can
function properly without a library. The physical removal of books from a
school is very telling about the current climate of our campus and the
direction it’s headed in. The library is an essential part of our education, its
just that simple. The idea of relocating one of our greatest resources off
campus, effectively making the books and other media invisible and more
difficult if not impossible to access, is wrong....We need more
communication between the administration and the students about the
rapidly changing structure of our school, more respect for the
hard-working and extremely valuable full-time and adjunct faculty, and a
more vocal student body to keep things in check. You don’t need an Arts
Degree to be an artist, its a professional move that should be treated as
such. We’re coming from a place of confusion, maybe a place of quieted
anger because we feel impending loss headed our way, but most of all
we’re coming from a place of love for what we do. Ask any creative person
about their practice or what motivates them and its going to lead you
directly to a publication, books or otherwise.
Don’t take that away from us.”
-Brandon James Patrick
Photo credit:
Michelle Park and Gian Dionisio
VISIT THE EXHIBITION:
Grand Depository
Now on display: APRIL 13-25TH
Gallery Hours: Mon-Fri 8:30am-5pm
Location: Helen Lindhurst Fine Arts Gallery
Watt hall 104,university park campus
Los Angeles, california 90089
For PRESS & MEDIA Related
Questions, Please contact:
Regina Chung
[email protected]
Michelle Park
[email protected]
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