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Descendants and Dissonance: Cultural Iconography in Contemporary LA Salt Fine Art Gallery, Laguna Beach, CA EXHIBITION DATES: September 18 — October 31

Please RSVP to: [email protected] Tim Okamura explores social identity within the urban environment, using metaphors and cultural iconography in his work.

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The first one was that Maori students identified that they wanted teachers who respected their cultural location as Maori and part of that [is] teachers who are culturally appropriate; so, who understand some of the features of Maori culture, and use in the curriculum and use in the classroom what I would call «Maori iconography» - so students could see themselves in the curriculum.

The exhibition, presented by LA Plaza de Cultura y Artes and California Historical Society, will examine a group of murals produced in the greater L.A. area from the 1970s to the 2000s that were threatened or destroyed, and explore how their iconography, content, and artistic strategies challenged dominant cultural norms and historical narratives.

The reimagining and recycling of Hollywood iconography in contemporary art, and the way that movies live on in our personal and cultural memories, are explored in the exhibition Walkers: Hollywood Afterlives in Art and Artifact.

Working with appropriated images and texts, Gilsdorf creates sculptures and performances that delve into the relationship between historical narratives, the iconography of authority, and the ways in which representations influence our perception of cultural values.

Her sculptures and performances delve into the relationship between historical narratives, the iconography of authority, and the ways in which representations influence our perception of cultural values.

His work for Art Brussels pushes his oeuvre further in his use of iconography to cultural references including symbolism.

In a press release, CAA cited his «meticulous installations incorporating the memories, experiences and cultural and religious iconography of Latino communities and family dynamics.»

She defies the rectilinear, ornamental expectations of traditional quilts in favor of complicated narratives and varied cultural iconography — from African textiles to fabrics taken from her own wardrobe.

Paintings by Julian Schnabel, Thornton Dial, Rita Ackermann, Joe Bradley, and others largely abandon iconography for material in their reshaping of cultural clay (Laska does this too in her own work, hung in an earlier gallery).

Through the use of high and low cultural iconography and art historical references I create a working space between both cultural identities in which samples could be -LSB-...]

Exploiting the creative potential of free association and past experience, he created deeply personal, often autobiographical, images by drawing liberally from such disparate fields as urban street culture, music, poetry, Christian iconography, African and Aztec cultural histories and a broad range of art historical sources, a practice that is particularly evident in this work.

Located in downstairs Blue Mark Gallery and featuring over twenty works from Hagan's prolific practice, «Better Than The Truth» spotlights his expansive and unrelenting exploration of cultural iconography though rigorous mark - making.

In these times of diversity and multicultural experience, the artist's image is both a cypher for the human condition as well as the foundation for complex iconography in which the cultural object stands to reflect the impact of societal norms on the individuaIn these times of diversity and multicultural experience, the artist's image is both a cypher for the human condition as well as the foundation for complex iconography in which the cultural object stands to reflect the impact of societal norms on the individuain which the cultural object stands to reflect the impact of societal norms on the individual.

The paintings meander through various systems of knowledge and representation such as Tantric iconography, a landscape in the isolated dictatorship of North Korea, illustrations of cellular generation and radical cultural histories seen through the lenses of fellow artists Emily Roysdon and Cameron Rowland.

They both use dramatic religious and mythological iconography to delve inside the psychological worlds of people who suffer from tragic events (the socio - political dimension of human experience in Jerome's Jewish inspired paintings) and physical abnormalities (the transgression of cultural constructions of perversity in Joel - Peter's Catholic inspired photographs).

The core members — Chip Lord, Doug Michels, Hudson Marquez, and Curtis Schreier — sustained an interest in American cultural iconography, nomadic living, technology, and big cars over a ten year collaborative career.

By contrast, Harrison's work uses industrial tactics to romanticize what he terms «post-industry,» a time in which artists can use technology to refashion the cultural iconography that defines us.

The Pop art movement was largely a British and American cultural phenomenon of the late 1950s and»60s and was named by the art critic Lawrence Alloway in reference to the prosaic iconography of its painting and sculpture.

In the early 1970s, the poet and artist Cecilia Vicuña (b. 1948, Santiago de Chile) made a series of paintings «that critically explore the patriarchal iconography of international socialism and reinterpret Andean cultural symbols.»

Her work attempts to «frame» women in order to create new arrangements of contemporary iconography and cultural representations.

Like Warhol, Lichtenstein and Johns, her commercial design background served to immerse her in the powerful American cultural themes of consumerism and pop iconography.