Permutations
Dec
1
to Dec 18

Permutations

The Torrance Art Museum presents Permutations, curated by Stephanie Sherwood and Joshua Oduga.

Permutations is a curatorial project conceived within the notion of change. This exhibition is in reaction to artistic practices which accept and welcome change as an integral aspect of the work. Permutations contains work which wields various mediums and inhabits space in very individual ways. Some works within the exhibit exist outside the museum walls; some of the works will evolve throughout the course of the exhibition. Permutations asks you to consider the entire life of the work and how this informs your understanding of each artist.

Artists: Justin Loza Gomez, Randi Hokett, Iain Muirhead, Michael Nannery, Tu Nguyen

Exhibition Dates: December 1st - 15th, 2018

Reception: Saturday, December 1st, 2018 6-9pm

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Tactile Encounters
Nov
28
8:30 PM20:30

Tactile Encounters

For five nights, curator Joshua Oduga presents Central Server, a curatorial residency at PAM Residencies. Central Server is a physical/digital curatorial platform Oduga founded in 2018 to push the boundaries of what art and community can work in tandem to achieve.

Central Server will host performances, video screenings, encounters with visual art and discussions curated by Joshua Oduga. Encounters amongst the political, aesthetic and poetic stakes of the work of 19 artists will be presented during the five-night series. Many of the artists featured in these nights are members of the inaugural cohort, FORUM at TAM, which has a full exhibition opening at TAM Torrance Art Museum Saturday, December 1.

11/28 Night 3: Tactile Encounters

Works of object based artists paired with artist performances. The artists involved in this night do not normally function as collective units. Interactions between performer and object signal a deeper sense of collaboration than any planned collusion.

Artists: Sean Cully, Philip Koscak, Kate Sikorsky, Iain Muirhead, Tu Nguyen, Joshua Oduga

Single night event: November 28th, 2018

Reception: Wednesday, November 28th, 2018 from 8:30-10:30pm

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The People Radio episode 68: David Pagel and Iain Muirhead
Jun
17
3:00 PM15:00

The People Radio episode 68: David Pagel and Iain Muirhead

On this episode our guests are David Pagel & Iain Muirhead.

David Pagel is an art critic who lives in Los Angeles. He writes regularly for the Los Angeles Times. He is a professor of art theory and art history at Claremont Graduate University and an adjunct curator at the Parrish art museum in Water Mill, New York.

Iain Muirhead is a Los Angeles based artist via Chicago where he ran NFA Space, NFA stands for Not Fucking Around.

Our interstitial music, as always, is Ocfif by Lewis Keller, and we go out with a song from LA musician Annie McQueen. We’re going to listen to a single of hers from Feb of this year that you kind find on bandcamp at amqmusic.bandcamp.com. The name of the track is Someday (Ain’t Ever Gonna Come).

The People with Mathew Timmons and Ben White is an arts and literature podcast produced by Insert Blanc Press in Los Angeles, California. The People features the voices and ideas of The People that make up the cultural landscape of Los Angeles, the west coast, and beyond on KCHUNG 1630AM every 3rd Sunday at 3pm … it's Like a Broken Record Magically Repaired.

Insert Blanc Press produces innovative art & literature in Los Angeles, CA. Founded in October 2005, Insert Blanc Press endeavors to create dynamic conversations among the artistic disciplines and to support emerging artists and writers in the interest of contemporary arts and letters.

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Common Room
Apr
28
to May 27

Common Room

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Curated by Evan Trine

Artists: Iain Muirhead, Ardeshir Tabrizi, Stacy Wendt, Eric Trine, Chas Schroeder, Karri Paul, Joe Lloyd, Evan Nesbit, Sam Kyser, Justin Waugh, Brian Rochefort, Sean McGaughey, Spencer Russell Lewis, Marten Elder, Steve Childs, Erik Foss.

Exhibition Dates: April 28th - May 27th, 2018

Reception: Saturday, April 28th, 2018 from 3-6pm

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Aggregate as Self
Apr
16
to Apr 20

Aggregate as Self

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Aggregate as Self is a group exhibition that explores how we engage with, process, and implement the diversity of information at play in contemporary life.

Curated by Sotheby’s Institute of Art, Los Angeles graduate students as part of the Curatorial Practices course led by Los Angeles curators Alma Ruiz and Irene Tsatsos, the exhibition brings together five CGU MFA alumni whose interdisciplinary works invite a deeper look at aggregation and adaptation of information into constructs of personal and cultural identity.

Artists: Adrienne DeVine, Iain Muirhead, Liz Nurenberg, Evan Trine, Christine Salama

Exhibition Dates: April 16th - April 20th, 2018

Reception: Tuesday, April 17th, 2018 from 6-9pm

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Transpose
Feb
25
to Apr 7

Transpose

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Exhibition Dates: February 25th - April 7th, 2018

Opening Reception: Saturday, March 3rd, 2018 at 7pm

Artists: Isabel Avila, Catherine Azimi, Emily Baker, Erika Barrios, Rose Briccetti, Adrian Culverson, Emily Jones, Kellan King, Philip Koscak, Shannon Leith, Morgan McAllister, Amy MacKay, Megan Macken, Patricia Martin, Rain Lucien Matheke, Iain Muirhead, Yael Nov, Michelle Nunes, Erika Osthandel, Andrea Patrie, Elise Preiss, Jennifer Reifsneider, Elena Roznovan, Shelbi  Schroeder, Cintia Segovia, Christina Shurts, Peter Sowinski, Andrew Thompson

Juror: The submissions were blindly juried by Kristina Newhouse, curator at the University Art Museum at CSU Long Beach. She is a contemporary art curator and writer. Since 2003, she has been an editor at X-tra Contemporary Art Quarterly. She has curated exhibitions at the Torrance Art Museum, the Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis College of Art and Design, the IX Bienal Internacional de Cuenca, in Cuenca, Ecuador, and many other venues.

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GLAMFA 2018
Jan
22
to Jan 31

GLAMFA 2018

GLAMFA, Greater Los Angeles MFA, is a survey exhibition curated by graduate students at CSULB. The show features work from current MFA students from schools all over the greater LA area and has become an annual tradition for the LA art community to discover the next wave of contemporary artists. 

Exhibition Dates: January 22nd - 31st, 2018

Opening Reception: Sunday, January 28th, 2018 at 5pm

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2017 SoCal MFA Juried Exhibition
May
20
to Jun 10

2017 SoCal MFA Juried Exhibition

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Annual juried art exhibition open to all current Southern California MFA Visual Art students in conjunction with The Millard Sheets Art Center and Claremont Graduate University.

Guest Juror: Amanda Ross-Ho

Exhibition Dates: May 20th - June 10th 2017

Opening Reception: Saturday, May 20th, from 6pm-9pm.

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