Postcard reproductions of four recent projects, We Are Here (Yiddish/Spanish embroidery), Never Again, and Collaborating with my five year old son while social distancing: Green Ninja & Aardvark Mom are included in the Exhibition in a Box, HINDSIGHT IS 2020: Dispatches from the Edge of an Apocalypse.
The exhibition was recently reviewed by Carol Cheh for KCET’s Southland Sessions: 'Hindsight Is 2020' Offers Visceral (Not Virtual) Art Experiences in a Box.
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Below is the press release:
The Cerritos College Art Gallery is physically closed through Spring 2021, so our Fall 2020 exhibition has gone mobile. Inspired by art historical precedents - such as Marcel Duchamp’s Boîte-en-Valise, the Fluxus Fluxkits, and Wallace Berman’s Semina mail art project - our Fall show is presented as a limited-run ‘exhibition-in-a-box.’ In the spirit of mutual aid food banks, the gallery will be distributing these art boxes free-of-charge (while supplies last) to anyone that requests one.
The exhibition, Hindsight is 2020: Dispatches from the Edge of an Apocalypse, consists of miniaturized reproductions of works by fifteen contemporary artists exploring the events and anxieties of the last year, including: plague, virality, isolation, remote contact, face masks, parenting/childhood under lockdown, work/food/housing precarity, struggles in the service industry, plight of frontline/essential workers, disinformation campaigns, conspiracy theories, the constitutional crisis, the rise/return of fascism/anti-semitism, armed militias, police/state violence, protesting bodies, structural racism, xenophobia, the climate crisis, wildfires, etc.
The participating artists are Carmen Argote, Badly Licked Bear, christy roberts berkowitz, Michael Hanson, stephanie mei huang, Michele Jaquis, Jacqueline Bell Johnson, Elana Mann, Narsiso Martinez, Thinh Nguyen, Dominic Quagliozzi, Conrad Ruiz, Allison Stewart, Chester Vincent Toye, and Gordon Winiemko.
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Collectors were invited to reserve a boxed copy of Hindsight is 2020: Dispatches from the Edge of an Apocalypse and to receive instructions with pickup locations and dates (contactless, free) or delivery options (donation required to cover cost of shipping), by emailing curator James MacDevitt at jmacdevitt@cerritos.edu.
