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Selected artworks from the University Art Museum\u2019s permanent collection will be used to “examine how ‘high art’ and pop culture intersect” during \u201cCall and Response, When We Say\u2026 You Say\u201d, a new exhibition opening this weekend, the museum announced.<\/p>\n
The artworks on display were selected by co-founders Mario Ybarra Jr. and Karla Diaz of Wilmington-based art collective, Slanguage, and chosen based on their cultural significance. These works make up the \u201ccall\u201d in Call and Response.<\/p>\n
Diaz and Ybarra, alongside a handful of Slanguage artists, \u201crespond\u201d with their own artworks, turning the galleries into a dialogue between artists spanning different generations, encouraging students and visitors to consider the varying perceptions behind fine art.<\/p>\n
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One of the galleries will be used by university students as a classroom and lab space to discuss \u201csocial inequities in the art world\u201d, while community conversations and class sessions will be held to \u201cchallenge institutional practices and attempt to inspire a deeper appreciation of the arts.\u201d<\/p>\n
Diaz, who recently showed embroidered portraits of forgotten or estranged family, confronting the gentrification of East Los Angeles and her family\u2019s abandoned home in Mexico at Long Beach-based art space, C.A.C.T.t.U.S.<\/a>, will be showing work among other Slanguage artists.<\/p>\n Ybarra, an artist activist and lecturer in fine arts at Otis College of Art and Design, creates sculptural, photographic and installation art on Mexican-American identity, art and politics.<\/p>\n [easy-image-collage id=999936196]<\/p>\n Artist and Slanguage co-founders Mario Ybarra Jr. and Karla Diaz by Lluvia Higuera from \u201cArtist Educator Series\u201d. Courtesy University Art Museum.<\/em><\/p>\n Run by artists, Slanguage has been leading teen workshops, hosting art exhibitions and performance events since 2001. Ybarra and Diaz’ work has been shown at ICA Boston, Whitney Museum, MOCA, LACMA, Tate Modern and was also included in the first Made in LA Biennial at the Hammer Museum.<\/p>\n One of the Slanguage artists participating is high school art teacher Arnoldo Vargas, who recently picketed during the L.A. teacher\u2019s strike for smaller class sizes and higher pay, according to the Los Angeles Times<\/a>. Vargas\u2019 work critiques social, cultural and political issues.<\/p>\n Other Slanguage members contributing are Abel Alejandre, Valerie J. Bower, Gabriel “Gobs” Fernandez, Alonso Garzon, Rosalie L\u00f3pez, Antonio De Jesus Lopez, Aydinaneth Ortiz and Marlene Tafoya.<\/p>\n Artists represented by the museum\u2019s collection are Kim Abeles, Richard Bosman, Patricio Cabrera, Albert Contreras, Adolph Gottlieb, Graciela Iturbide, Lee Krasner, Piotr Kowalski, Ken Light, Ken Price, Lorna Simpson and Andy Warhol.<\/p>\n For more information, visit the website here<\/a>.<\/p>\n