Art Talks at Brand Return to Glendale This Spring
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Roksana Pirouzmand, A tap, a word, 2024. Photo by Brad Farwell
The Brand Library & Art Center has announced the return of Art Talks at Brand this spring. This series invites contemporary artists to discuss their work and the issues surrounding it. Each talk will be followed by a moderated Q&A session led by Brand staff member, artist, and writer Jennifer Remenchik. The spring series will feature Los Angeles-based artists Roksana Pirouzmand, Shana Hoehn, Miguel Nelson, and Nick Aguayo. The series is sponsored by the Brand Associates, it is free and open to the public.
Thursday, February 13, 7:00 PM
Roksana Pirouzmand (b. 1990 in Yazd, Iran) is a multidisciplinary artist currently living and working in Los Angeles. While performance art is at the core of her practice, her ideas have materialized in mediums such as sculpture, installation, and two-dimensional imagery. In her pieces, personal experiences are incorporated into installation systems that suggest the possibility of transformation, deterioration, and movement through interactions between the artist and her work. Pirouzmand received a BFA from California Institute of the Arts and an MFA from UCLA. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries in Southern California, New York, Mexico, and China.
Thursday, March 6, 7:00 PM
Shana Hoehn is a Los Angeles-based artist working in sculpture and drawing. Through her art practice, Hoehn considers modes and conditions of agency, embodiment, and transformation. Hoehn’s sculptural work combines traditional and digital fabrication techniques and employs various materials, including wood, sawdust, clay, and metal. Her work references a long and winding history of women contorting and the bodily destruction involved with transformation. Hoehn received her MFA from the Virginia Commonwealth University in Sculpture and Extended Media and earned a BFA in Painting from the Maryland Institute College of Art. Her work has been exhibited in numerous galleries across the US and in Mexico, and Hoehn has participated in various international residencies.
Thursday, March 20, 7:00 PM
Miguel Nelson is a conceptual artist, designer, and developer who has created art and experimental social spaces for over twenty-five years. His interests have included projects as varied as multi-element, immersive art performances to developing urban oases as private event spaces to an ongoing venture dedicated to the re-vitalization of the Desert Island Country Club in Palm Springs. Now he is focused on a large-scale collaborative art project, “The Spirit of Rudy Caballero”, in which Nelson invites other (credited) contemporary artists to create work under the fictional artist’s name. “The Spirit of Rudy Caballero” recently presented an exhibition of sketches at LOOT Gallery in Mexico City during Zona Maco and is slated for upcoming presentations at Frieze New York and London.
Thursday, May 1, 7:00 PM
Nick Aguayo paints compellingly layered abstract works that reveal an inventive approach to the materiality and physicality of paint. Emphasizing the performative aspects of dragging, pressing, brushing, and rolling paint onto canvas, Aguayo layers hand-rendered geometric shapes, building his compositions around the tensions between erasure and transparency, accumulation, and excavation. Taking cues from collage, Aguayo densely coats his canvases with thick impasto surfaces, textural areas of paint, and materials including marble dust, to create a matte physicality to each composition. He received his BA from the UCLA and his MFA from the University of California, Irvine. His work has been included in group exhibitions and may be found in the collections of The Bronx Museum, Bronx, NY and the Palm Springs Art Museum, Palm Springs, CA.
About Jennifer Remenchik
Brand staff member and program moderator Jennifer Remenchik is an artist and writer based in Los Angeles. Her work has been exhibited in several institutions and galleries, including No Gallery, VIVO Media Arts Centre, HILDE, basement projects, Industry Lab, and The Contemporary Austin, among others. She is a regular contributor to Hyperallergic and has written for CurateLA, BOMB Magazine, and Contemporary Art Review Los Angeles. Remenchik began organizing art talks at Brand Library & Art Center to showcase artists who reflect the diversity of the art scene of the greater Los Angeles area.
Visit BrandLibrary.org/Art-Talks for more information on artists in the Art Talks at Brand as well as links to recordings of past programs.
About Brand Library & Art Center
Brand Library & Art Center has been a cornerstone for the arts in Southern California since 1956. This unique public library focuses on visual arts and music and provides free services and programs for a diverse community, including print and online collections, subject specialist librarians, exhibitions, concerts, lectures, dance performances, films, and hands-on craft programs for children and adults. Brand Library seeks to develop innovative programs, services, and collections to serve an ever-widening public interested in the arts. Brand Library & Art Center is a branch of the City of Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Department. For more information visit BrandLibrary.org or contact (818) 548-2051.
About Library, Arts & Culture
Founded in 1907, the Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Department includes eight neighborhood libraries including the Brand Library & Art Center, a regional visual arts and music library and performance venue. Glendale Library Arts & Culture is supported in part through the efforts of the Glendale Library Arts & Culture Trust (GLACT). For more information visit GlendaleLAC.org, or contact Library, Arts & Culture at 818-548-2021 or via email at LibraryInfo@GlendaleCA.gov
About the City of Glendale & its Arts and Culture Commission
Known as the “Jewel City,” Glendale is the fourth largest city of Los Angeles County. With a population of more than 200,000, Glendale is a thriving cosmopolitan city that is rich in history, culturally diverse, and offers nearly 50 public parks, and easy access to a municipal airport. It is the home to a vibrant business community, with major companies in healthcare, entertainment, manufacturing, retail, and banking. Its Arts and Culture Commission administers a developer- funded program which is working to transform Glendale into an arts and culture destination for the Southern California region. The mission of the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission is to enrich the human experience, reinforce Glendale’s identity and civic pride through arts and culture, and to recognize the importance of arts to our quality of life and to the local economy. This is accomplished by consciously integrating arts and culture into the daily life of the people of Glendale through urban design, planning, economic development, and education. For more information about the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission see the website: GlendaleArtsandCulture.org.
*Press Release courtesy The ACE Agency.
