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Home’s closing at LACMA was bittersweet. We were sad to see it go, but the show’s success far exceeded our expectations. We are thrilled to report that over 130,000 people saw Home at LACMA. Among them were a significant number of Latinos, many of whom were first-time LACMA attendees. We are delighted the community responded so favorably. In addition, critics raved about the exhibition, its unique theme, and its cultural relevance. (For press coverage, visit the Home media page.)
More good news: For those of you who weren’t able to see it in Los Angeles, Home is now on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston. The local press has already embraced the show, as evidenced by reviews in the Houston Chronicle and Texas Observer. In January we will host a walkthrough led by CSRC director and Home co-curator Chon Noriega exclusively for Bruins and our Spark donors in the Houston area. If you or a Bruin you know is interested in attending, please contact Rebecca Epstein at repstein@chicano.ucla.edu or (310) 206-9185.
Finally, after several production delays, we are happy to report the exhibition catalog will be released next week! As soon as we receive shipment, we will mail out your copies. Please note: Spark donors may purchase additional copies for $30, including shipping. If you are able to pick up your copies at the CSRC, the price will be reduced to $20. Contact Darling Sianez at darlings@chicano.ucla.edu or (310) 825-3428 to take advantage of this special offer.
Home will be on view at MFAH through January 21, 2018; open every day except Mondays, Christmas Eve, and Christmas Day. General admission; no special tickets required.
It’s hard to believe there’s only one month left until Home’s run ends at LACMA. It will then travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (dates below). Time has gone quickly, yet there continues to be much to celebrate! Here are a few highlights:
--The CSRC Staff
Home will be on view at LACMA through October 15, 2017; open every day except Wednesdays. General admission; no special tickets required. Home will be on view at the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) November 19, 2017 - January 21, 2018.
For more information, contact csrcinfo@chicano.ucla.edu
Now in its seventh week, Home—So Different, So Appealing has welcomed over 57,000 visitors through its galleries at LACMA. That’s an average of 1,300 people of all ages per day!
In the past two weeks, Home has received rave reviews in premier art magazine Artforum, Brooklyn-based arts blogazine Hyperallergic, and from Hunter Drohojowska-Philp of KCRW’s Art Talk. These are in addition to over 60 stories and reviews that have covered the show to date. To view a full list of media coverage, visit the Home media page on the CSRC website.
More great news: Congratulations to L.A.-based artist and UCLA Bruin Carmen Argote, whose sculpture 720 Sq. Feet: Household Mutations (featured in the Spark campaign video) has been acquired by LACMA as part of its permanent collection!
Congratulations are also in order for L.A.-based artist Ramiro Gomez, whose work is featured in Home. His cardboard mural CUT-OUTS, which was part of Fragments from Home exhibited by the CSRC at the 2017 LA Art Show, was also recently acquired by LACMA!
--The CSRC Staff
Home will be on view at LACMA through October 15, 2017; open every day except Wednesdays. General admission; no special tickets required. Home will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) November 19, 2017 - January 21, 2018.
For more information, contact csrcinfo@chicano.ucla.edu
Carmen Argote, 720 Sq. Ft.: Household Mutations, Part B (at Gallery g727) 2011, Sculpture installation- carpet from artist' childhood home, house paint, 798 ½ x 178 in., Courtesy of the Artist, Los Angeles
Home—So Different, So Appealing officially opened to the public June 11 and the response has been overwhelmingly positive!
Highlights:
Art critic Peter Schjeldahl of The New Yorker calls the CSRC-organized exhibition a "tour de force."
Culture writer Carolina A. Miranda at the Los Angeles Times stated Home “has set the bar high” for the Getty arts initiative Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, which officially kicks off September 15.
For additional reviews, visit the CSRC News page.
Of course, we couldn’t have achieved this success without your support! If you haven’t already done so, please see the exhibition and let us know what you think.
Home will be on view at LACMA through October 15, 2017; open every day except Wednesdays. General admission; no special tickets required. Home will travel to the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston (MFAH) November 19, 2017 - January 21, 2018.
Image: (L-R) Home co-curators Mari Carmen Ramírez, Chon Noriega, and Pilar Tompkins Rivas.
In anticipation of the groundbreaking exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing, opening June 11 at LACMA, the official press release is now live: http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/files/Home_Media%20Advisory_FINAL_5.3.17.pdf
Learn more about the artists, artworks, curators, and the exhibition organization. There’s only one month to go before Home opens its doors!
To read more on the Home exhibition, please visit the CSRC website: http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/research/home%E2%80%94so-different-so-appealing
Hello from Home base!
We are doing final preparations for the opening next month of Home—So Different, So Appealing! The press release for the exhibition will be going live soon, so look forward to that in the next day or two. You’ll find inside information on the artists, curators, and the exhibition’s unique organization.
To our donors who are receiving CSRC Press publications, we wanted to let you know those perks will be going out next week! To those of you receiving an exhibition catalogue, we’ll be shipping that out as soon as we receive it from the printer. We’ll keep you updated!
We’re so excited to share this exhibition with you and we couldn’t have made it happen without your support. Thank you from all of us at the CSRC. We look forward to seeing you in June!
Home—So Different, So Appealing will be on display at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art from June 11, 2017 – October 15, 2017.
You did it! You helped us reach our goal of $10,000! We’re simply overwhelmed with gratitude for the number of donors who have given to the exhibition Home—So Different, So Appealing.
Thanks to your contributions, we’re now able to make history! This exhibition marks the first time a major U.S. museum will hold an extensive group show focused on U.S. Latino and Latina American art from the 1950s to the present.
To add to the good news, we just received a $5K gift from an anonymous donor! With five days left in the campaign, we have decided to stretch our goal to $17,500. These additional funds, if we raise them, will be used to expand the educational outreach and public programming associated with this groundbreaking exhibition.
You can still help! Please forward this message to 10 of your friends and let them know how important Home is to you and why you donated! Please also consider checking with your employers to see if they will match your gift!
“Like” us on Facebook and share your support on Twitter and Instagram (@ucla_csrc) using #home.
The Home campaign ends Monday, February 27 at midnight! Thank you for your support.
--The CSRC Staff
REMEMBER! One stunning silkscreen print by Home artist and UCLA alumnus Salomón Huerta is still available for a $2,500 donation! See it here: http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/research/che
Image: Allora y Calzadilla, Under Discussion, 2005, Standard definition video, color, sound, 6:14 min., Courtesy of the Artists and Gladstone Gallery
We’ve reached 75% of our goal! Only 19 days left to go!
Your support gives emerging artists like Ramiro Gomez a platform to address sensitive topics concerning immigration, race, and class in the U.S. today.
Gomez’s life-sized cardboard figures, paintings, and paintings on home décor magazine pages make the “invisible” visible—that is, the predominantly Latino “day labor” workforce in Los Angeles. His faceless subjects include nannies, gardeners, and housekeepers—the people behind much of the city’s domestic luxury.
Describing his style of painting his subjects, Gomez said in an interview with PRI, “There [are] no details for the fact that when we drive by the real people, we don’t have the time necessarily to observe the details: their eyes, their nose, their moles, and their imperfections. We just have time to view the physical outline and my cardboard cut-outs are interpretations of that.”
You can view Gomez’s work in Home--So Different, So Appealing opening June 11 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. We need to raise $2,435 in order to reach our $10,000 goal for exhibition and catalogue costs. Please help us spread the word about our campaign. We’re in the Home stretch!
“Like” us on Facebook and share your support on Twitter and Instagram (@ucla_csrc) using #home.
Thank you for your support.
--The CSRC Staff
Image: Ramiro Gomez, Untitled I, 2013, Acrylic on magazine, 11 x 8 ½ in. Private Collection, Los Angeles
We’ve reached almost HALF of our fundraising goal after only the first week of our UCLA Spark Home 2017 campaign! Thank you for helping us get this far!
Your support allows us to draw attention to U.S. Latino and Latin American artists, including Bruin artists like Leyla Cárdenas!
Cárdenas received her MFA in sculpture from UCLA in 2004. Cárdenas’s work analyzes the remnants of empty, architectural spaces. She delves into the history left within each space of destruction using sculptural techniques without creating sculpted objects.
To support Cárdenas and other Bruin artists, please continue to spread the word about our campaign! In the next 33 days we must raise another $5,650 in order to reach our $10,000 goal!
“Like” us on Facebook and share your support on Twitter and Instagram (@ucla_csrc) using #home.
Thank you for your support!
--The CSRC Staff
Home--So Different, So Appealing opens June 11 at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art.
Image: Leyla Cárdenas, Excision, 2012, Peeled paint, recovered wallpaper, cement, plaster, wire, wood, 168 x 122 x 4.72 in. Courtesy of Casas Riegner Gallery and the West Collection. Photo Credit: Sebastiano Pellion
As a special thank you for donating, we will give you a shout-out on Twitter. (Your $10 gift is fully tax-deductible.)
Thank you! Look for a shout-out on Twitter and Facebook. (Your $25 gift is fully tax-deductible)
Thank you! You will receive shout-outs and a personal thank you from Chon A. Noriega, CSRC director and exhibition co-curator. (Your $50 gift is fully tax-deductible.)
You will receive Twitter and Facebook shout-outs, plus one (1) copy of the exhibition catalogue. ($65 of your donation is tax-deductible.)
You will receive all of the above perks, plus "Luis Cruz Azaceta," a monograph on an artist featured in "Home" from the CSRC's award-winning series A Ver: Revisioning Art History. ($190 of your donation is tax-deductible.)
Thank you! In addition to the above perks, you are invited to an exhibition tour led by Chon A. Noriega, exhibition co-curator and CSRC director, followed by lunch. Limited to 10 people. Date to be arranged. ($400 of your donation is tax-deductible.)
Thank you for your gift! As a special thank you, you will receive two additional CSRC Press arts publications and your name will be listed in the acknowledgments section of the exhibition catalogue. ($890 of your donation is tax-deductible.)
Thank you! Your generous support will provide invaluable resources for producing this exhibition! You will receive a signed silkscreen print of Che Guevara by "Home" artist and UCLA alumnus Salomón Huerta. One print available and viewable here: http://www.chicano.ucla.edu/research/che. In addition, you will receive a copy of the exhibition catalogue and your name will be listed in the acknowledgements. ($975 of your donation is tax-deductible.)
Thanks are not enough! To honor your commitment to this groundbreaking exhibition, we will recognize you in the exhibition catalogue and the introductory wall text for the exhibition. You will also be invited to the VIP exhibition preview. You will receive the exhibition catalogue, plus four additional art publications from CSRC Press. ($4865 of your donation is tax-deductible.)