Goddesses and Monsters takes up one of the most enduring themes of feminist art praxis: “the uncomfortable tensions that arise while claiming femme power and subjectivity within a white supremacist, capitalist, cis-heteropatriarchial culture.” The works in this exhibition utilize the archetypes of Goddess and Monster (sometimes simultaneously) to present windows into worlds on the horizon of our current politics. Goddesses and Monsters is trifurcated into three segments of feminist discourse: Icons and Myths, Ritual/Remnant, and Unruly Bodies. As a non-hierarchical collective invested in creating a more democratic art world, the Association of Hysteric Curators uses an open call and collaborative curatorial model that produces polyvocal exhibitions and allows a wide variety of artworks from artists at various stages of their career to engage in aesthetic and thematic dialogue with one another.

Goddesses and Monsters online exhibition at LADIES’ ROOM online is a seed that will blossom into an IRL show and will include performances, programming, and community engagement from participating artists. 

In conjunction with the ten year anniversary of Verge’s groundbreaking at 625 S Street in 2013, we are very excited to present, The First 10yrs, the inaugural biennial exhibition of works produced during the first ten years of Verge’s Artist Studio Program (RASP).

Opening Reception: Saturday, April 8, 5-8PM

I will be participating in a project created by Renee Petropoulos, Analog Among Nations/WB: Sewing Circle

At The Broad Museum in Los Angeles, Aug. 27, 2022 and The Wende Museum, August 28, 2022

The Broad and The Wende have come together to present performances by artists Renee Petropoulos (Analog Among Nations/WB: Sewing Circle) and Yvonne Rainer (Trio A with Flags), that engage issues of identity, national symbolism, and globalization.

LADIES’ ROOM presents ​GARDEN​, an exhibition of more than 100 women and non-binary artists and artist teams during quarantine. Understanding that gardens are metaphorical utopias and sites of resilience, but principally serve as bodily nourishment, ​GARDEN underscores mutual aid in a moment of institutional atrophy, financial insecurity, and cultural drought. As part of the exhibition’s commitment to the Los Angeles community, LADIES’ ROOM will donate 15% of all sales to benefit LA Food Policy Council, Ron Finley Project, and Summaeverythang Community Center.

During the COVID-19 pandemic, gardens have renewed human’s inherent spiritual and ecological kinship with non-human life. In her 2016 book ​Staying with the Trouble: Making Kin in the Chthulucene, ​feminist and environmental scholar Donna Haraway asks us to consider a type of kinship beyond our genealogical ties with family by recognizing the infinite networks tying together humans and plants with her statement: “We are [all] compost.”2

“By engaging more intimately and carefully with my houseplants during quarantine, I was compelled to expand this special sense of connectivity to a greater arena,” says LADIES’ ROOM curator Annie Wharton. “Curating the exhibition entirely via Zoom was odd at first, but has actually been deeply gratifying and really inspiring. As we moved through a series of ‘studio visits,’ I saw a ​GARDEN of artists assemble. The cross-pollination of cultures, sensibilities, and styles created a dynamic amalgam of visual language.”