IMMERSED
IMMERSED
FEBRUARY 13 — FEBRUARY 18, 2023
526 N WESTERN AVE
LOS ANGELES, CA 90004 I
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TOM ALLEN
NADIA AYARI
IZZY BARBER
MADELEINE BIALKE
ANNE BUCKWALTER
ALFIE CAINE
KRISTY M CHAN
DANIEL CREWS-CHUBB
BETHANY CZARNECKI
WILL GABALDÓN
DANIEL GIBSON
HENRY GLAVIN
BRICE GUILBERT
GREG ITO
PIERRE KNOP
JACOB LITTLEJOHN
ALEXANDRIA MENTO
ELI PING
ANDREW SENDOR
ANNA VALDEZ
NICOLE WITTENBERG
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EXHIBITION TEXT
What is it like to experience a new place, somewhat nostalgic or maybe unfamiliar? Our internal experiences show that sense cognition is not limited to the five means— sight, hearing, smell, taste and touch—by which we experience the material world around us. We possess internal images of places even if we are not there. “Immersed” brings together artists who take physical presence and recapture its structure with their own internal experience, through abstraction or depictions of landscape and personal settings.
The works presented in this exhibition are not reflections of what exists, but rather a dialogue between the physical world we experience through our external senses and the imaginative in which we originate. The environment aims to facilitate an immersive experience without sacrificing the sense of neutrality afforded by a white box interior. Viewers are invited to a space—both simultaneously familiar and alien—to examine the contrast between their external stimuli and their perceptions.
As we begin to fully notice what’s around us, we get to experience immersion; so long as we do not allow our own intimate access to memory to overshadow what’s in front of us. This combination of maintaining a vulnerability to newness while also allowing our lived experiences to resonate with what is being presented is what allows us to create a new personal connection. Through this integration with our surroundings, we become immersed.
