Some City Angels

Some City Angels is a group exhibition conceived to characterize the ever hard to grasp, frustratingly elusive, yet undeniable phenomenon termed the 'L.A. Vibe.' The exhibition casts a lens on the diversity of art currently being made in Los Angeles through highlighting a notable gathering new and recent works of eight artists active today. Organized by guest curator, Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue and presented against the backdrop of the unprecedented Pacific Standard Time exhibitions and collaborations; Some City Angels zeroes in on a small yet discerning slice of L.A. now.

Sampling a range of materials and methods -- from conceptual photography to installation, from oil painting to drawing -- Some City Angels culls works made by newly minted grad students, local artists known better in Europe, and L.A. mainstays, and seasoned mid career artists. The exhibition includes works by: Deborah Aschheim, Adam Berg, Wilder Buck, Kate Harding, Elana Mann, R. Nelson Parrish, Alex Slade and Chris Wilder.

Envisioned to trigger visual and discursive inquiry, the exhibition asks, given our increasingly visible and well chronicled local history and increasing global profile, where is L.A. art today? While making no definitive claims or statements, the exhibition taps into our local suspicions of hierarchies, our diversity of thought and approach, our precision of process, our delight in play, our dark desires, and the general far reaching inventive license that more than anything else has formed L.A.'s enduring creative substrate.

The first in a series of guest curatorial projects planned by Edward Cella Art + Architecture, Some City Angels is curated by Marlena Doktorczyk-Donohue, Professor of Art History within the Liberal Arts and Sciences Dept. of Otis College of Art and Design. Ms. Doktorczyk-Donohue's deep engagement of the greater Los Angeles arts community as a lecturer, critic, curator and arts editor for over two decades informs the exhibition eccentric yet revealing selection of under recognized artists and unexpected artworks.

To view the exhibition on line, please visit:
http://www.edwardcella.com/html/exhibresults.asp?exnum=1166&exname=Some City Angels

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• Deborah Aschheim
• R. Nelson Parrish
• Kate Harding
• Alex Slade
• Chris Wilder
• Wider Buck
• Marlena Donohue
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