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EXHIBITIONISTA: “A Woman’s Place – Visual Voices” at The EBELL of Los Angeles

March 11, 2025 By Debra Disman

I am thrilled to participate in “A Woman’s Place: Visual Voices”, a tribute to the profound impact of women’s narratives. This exhibition, in celebration of Women’s History Month, serves as a platform for artists to amplify stories that have often been overshadowed or marginalized. It provides a space where the rich tapestry of women’s experiences can be vividly depicted and shared in a manner that crosses language and cultural barriers.

Held at the historic Ebell of Los Angeles, 743 South Lucerne Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90005, on view from March 20 to April 24, 2025.

Opening Reception: March 20, 2025 from 6:00 to 8:00 pm

If you have questions about this event, please email: tickets@ebellofla.org or call 323-931-1277 x 131.

Juried by: 

  • Andi Campognone has over 30 years of arts experience in the western region of the United States. She is the Owner/Director of AC Projects, a private consulting organization focused on promoting arts and culture through museum quality projects that include the production of books, films and traveling exhibitions. Campognone is the Founding Director of Kipaipai Professional Development Workshops. She is also the Museum Manager/Curator for the Museum of Art and History (MOAH) in Lancaster, California with a mission of exhibiting and highlighting the history and contributions of southern California post 1945. She has served as Cultural Arts Commissioner for the City of Pomona, California where she contributed to the writing and adoption of Pomona’s Cultural Arts Master Plan and Art in Public Places Policy. She currently serves as a Director on the Lancaster Museum and Public Art Foundation Board, Director on the Bear Valley Springs Cultural Art Association, is a grant panelist for Los Angeles County Arts Commission and California Community Foundation
  • Based in Los Angeles, Lilly Dawson is an independent curator and Principal of Gray Dawson Art Advisory, dealing with institutional and private clients in the United States and Europe. She specializes in American and European Impressionist and Modern art, contemporary and photographs. She has held senior positions at Christie’s, Sotheby’s, Driscoll Babcock Galleries in New York and Dickinson Gallery in London.
  • Jennifer S. Li  is an art advisor, writer and educator with over 20 years of experience in the art world. She is the LA Desk Editor for ArtAsiaPacific and her art criticism and writing also appears regularly in publications such as Art in America,  Frieze,  Architectural Digest, Sight Unseen, and more. She also currently works with collectors across the United States to build collections focusing on emerging as well as established and blue-chip artists. Previously, Jennifer worked for institutions such as the Getty, the Art Institute of Chicago, and LACMA.

 

 

 

Tagged With: A WOMAN's PLACE, EBELL, female identity, Female Themes, Group Exhibition, Juried Show, The EBELL OF LOS ANGELES, Visual Voices, Woman's Themes, Woman's Visual Voices, Women, Women Artists, Women's history month, Womens' Issues

“OBJECTS OF AGENCY” Artists Talks

December 22, 2023 By Debra Disman

ARTISTS SPEAK
WOMEN ARTISTS SPEAK
WOMEN ARTISTS SPEAK OUT ABOUT REPRODUCTIVE RIGHTS

Objects of Agency was and is a 52 week long virtual exhibition, through 2023. The exhibition addresses the health care crisis which has recently culminated in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization and stripped thousands of people of the right to bodily autonomy. 

“The United States has the worst maternal mortality rate among other similarly developed countries. According to the University of Colorado, due to the Dobbs decision, maternal mortality rates are projected to go up 14%. For women of color, it is 20%. Simply due to women’s health care becoming more restrictive and less accessible.

At the time this call for art was written, when “abortion” was typed into a Google search, the first page result was a misleading website filled with fear slogans and misinformation to prevent women from seeking necessary and viable health care options. A recent research study by the Center for Countering Digital Hate showed that in many right wing states, 1/10 Google search results for abortion services lead to anti-abortion fake clinics. And when abortion was typed into Instagram, the first hashtag was #abortionisevil. Due to activists, advocates, artists, and scientists this scale is tipping to provide accessible, accurate, and viable healthcare information.

So, what can we do to continue the fight for abortion rights? How can we use our creative voices to counteract misinformation and false advertising and provide viable discourse and inspiration?

At Hera Gallery, we invited you to cry, rage, and make art. We invited you to connect with others through creative expression in hopes that it would bring a sense of insight, or deep feeling, beauty, education, perseverance, protest, connection and/or community. Culminating in the virtual exhibition Objects of Agency, we bring you 52 selections of work from artists across the country. 

Each week, Hera Gallery will chose one featured artist and artwork from the exhibition to represent the tribulations and inspirations of the current state of women’s health care in America. Featured artists will be posted on all social media accounts.

Objects of Agency aims to stimulate, educate, and encourage abortion care. It aims to challenge the anti-abortion campaigns and false information which dominate the internet. It aims to provide access to factual information and ultimately to create a platform and a network to share the voices, choices, and stories of all women and female identifying persons.”

Here are the ARTISTS TALKS 1 and 2:
ARTISTS’ TALK 1
ARTISTS’ TALK 2

 

 

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