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Visual Arts

An image can have powerful consequences. Explore how artists are using the visual arts to empower and elevate a point of view.

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The artwork of Alika Cooper is appropriated from the work of male photographers and arranged into sumptuous collages.
Artist Patrick Quan's new installation transforms numerous spaces into a turbulent dreamscape of contemplative and confrontational portals for the viewer to peer through.
Van Nuys Boulevard's Mural Mile is a growing collection of drive-by artwork that add color and life to the neighborhood, created by an informal crew of artists under 30 years old.
Mural Conservancy Restoration on the 101 Freeway
Willie Herrón III, the Mural Conservancy of Los Angeles' official restorer, and his assistant Melody Betancourt, are working on one of the city's prized possessions: Frank Romero's "Going to the Olympics."
"Alfombra Domestica (Domestic Rug)," 2012, Installation for Made in L.A. 2012, dyed sawdust, 9ft X 23ft. | Courtesy of Nery Gabriel Lemus.
Artist Nery Gabriel Lemus gracefully exposes racial tensions in his art.
Jorg Dubin
Laguna Beach artist Jorg Dubin is professional artist examining psychology
Natural Selection, Tar on Canvas, 36x28, 2012.jpg
With his bucket of tar from the La Brea Tar pits, James Griffith brings to life emotion-filled portraits of animal life that -- almost magically -- appear out of a minimalist Zen-like backdrop.
Origami and Worker’s Rug
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This episode features artwork inspired by the life and death of Kelly Thomas and an exhibition of origami influenced by scientific and mathematical techniques.
A selection of polaroids by Andy Warhol are on display at The Luckman Gallery. The exhibition emphasizes the labor involved in the production of the artist's work.
2013 is the Chinese Year of the Snake, and a number of local artists are celebrating this much maligned creature in their work.
Red Black and Water #1 (2009) by Seyburn Zorthian, sumi and acrylic on paper, 22''x 30''
Seyburn Zorthian draws inspiration from Japanese Culture to create calligraphic abstractions that are dynamic visualizations of the energy created when cultures collide.
QMA collaborates with the Uni Project to bring a mobile reading room to the newly pedestrianized Corona Plaza, August 2012. Photo | Courtesy of the Queens Museum of Art.
Sue Bell Yank sits down with Bill Kelley, Jr. and Prerana Reddy to speak about Queens as a vanguard for integrating socially-engaged art into a museum context, and as a case study for the changing role of the museum in civic life.
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