AMP: Artists' Meeting Place and Resource Collective

from LA Culture Net

The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs’

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery

presents

SKIN

February 7 to April 17, 2016

Opening Reception: Sunday, February 7, 6 pm to 9 pm

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Barnsdall Art Park
4800 Hollywood Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90027

SKIN

Race is the least reliable information you can have about someone. It's
real information, but it tells you next to nothing.*

The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery is seeking work that engages, or is
in response to, the subject of SKIN. In doing so, the Gallery hopes to
create a platform whereby the creative community can contribute,
participate, and expand upon the ongoing dialogue about race and identity.

This exhibition, SKIN, addresses issues that have been increasingly
prominent since the 2008 presidential election of Barack Obama. It was the
first time that an African American had run for President and won. The
election symbolized strides thought to have been made in race relations,
yet it also revealed ruptures in the “skin” that binds us as Americans, and
ultimately, as people. During the last year, events in Ferguson,
Baltimore, Cleveland, Chicago, New York City, Prairie View, Charleston,
Oakland, and Southern California have revealed chasms in the issues of race
and identity.

Conversations about race have always taken place within diasporic
communities, but in the wake of racially charged events over the last year,
it has become a growing part of the national dialogue. Artists in Los
Angeles and throughout the country have been galvanized by these events.
The objective of SKIN is to bring the conversation into a centralized
discursive space, and we are seeking work that is both thoughtful and
thought provoking.

To submit, please visit our website: http://www.lamag.org/?page_id=3353

All entries will be selected through a curatorial process into the main
exhibition.

Please be aware of the limited time for you to enter.

October 12, 2015: Closing date of receiving digital entries

October 26, 2015: Notification of accepted artists

February 7 – April 17, 2016: Exhibition Dates

February 7, 5 - 6pm: Press and Media event
- Sunday, February 7, 6-9pm: Opening Public Reception

*Gray, Paul. “Books: Paradise Found.” Rev. of Time.com. Books: Paradise
Found 19 Jan. 1998: n. page. Time. Time Inc., 19 Jan. 1998. Web. 16 Sept.
2015.