Parallel Play

Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Lee Maida, Jen Smith

Los Angeles based Artist Curated Projects presents Parallel Play, a three-woman show, featuring the work of Ginger Brooks Takahashi, Lee Maida and Jen Smith. The work in Parallel Play considers the materiality of bodily effort and pleasure as it intervenes with craft, sexuality and politics. Communal strategies of dialogue and intervention inform the exhibition.

May 16 - June 5

Opening Reception May 16th, Noon to 3pm

Ginger Brooks Takahashi lives in Brooklyn, NY, maintaining a social, project-based practice. She is co-founder of LTTR, a queer and feminist art journal, and projet MOBILIVRE BOOKMOBILE project, a traveling exhibit of artist books and zines. She received her BA from Oberlin College, attended the Whitney Independent Study Program, and is a resident artist at Smack Mellon, 2008-9. Her work has shown in the following exhibitions recently: Shared Women at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, 2007; Exile of the Imaginary at the Generali Foundation, Vienna, 2007; and Locally Localized Gravity at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia, 2007. She has presented public projects at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 2008; documenta 12, Kassel, 2007; Art Metropole, Toronto, 2007; and with Ridykeulous at The Kitchen, NY, 2007. She currently is touring extensively with her music group, MEN.

Jen Smith is a Los Angeles based artist. With her post punk band the Quails, she has played music halls, street protests and squats, made posters, zines and anti-war ephemera and recorded three albums. She received her BA in American Studies from the University of Maryland, College Park and her MFA from the University of California, Irvine. She is an experienced fermenter and pickler, and won the Arlington County Fair for best baked good by an adult for a peach pie in 1989.

Lee Maida lives and works between Brooklyn, NY and Emeryville, CA. Her work is a sensorial and social experimentation using the materials and methodologies of the textile tradition. She is currently pursuing a BFA in Textiles at California College of the Arts in Oakland, CA.

Artist Curated Projects (ACP) was conceived of by Eve Fowler and Lucas Michael. The goal is to support and nurture a community of artists –their projects and ideas– outside of a conventional art gallery or institutional venue; a space removed from the commercial  pressures often attached to the experience of showing/curating/viewing art. Shows are curated by artists, with the intention of creating a shared space where artists can develop their curatorial ideas, show the work of their peers, while promoting, engaging in dialogue and creating connections among artists from multiple disciplines and at different stages of their practice. www.artistcuratedprojects.com

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