Laugh, Cry, Fight …With the Guerrilla Girls @ Beyond the Streets
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The Artistic Collective Debut Their First-Ever Solo Exhibition in Los Angeles
Laugh, Cry, Fight…with the Guerrilla Girls opens tonight at BEYOND THE STREETS (434 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles 90036.) The show features classic works and new pieces from the Guerrilla Girls, known for their bold, intersectional feminist activism in art, politics, and pop culture. Spanning posters, immersive installations, and more, this exhibition challenges gender and ethnic bias, offering visitors an interactive and thought-provoking experience.
Laugh, Cry, Fight…with the Guerrilla Girls at Beyond the Streets gallery in Los Angeles runs through January 18th, 2025. The gallery and shop are open Wednesday through Saturday: 11AM – 6PM and are closed Sunday through Tuesday. Guerrilla Girls merchandise and printed matter will be available within the gallery gift shop for the duration of the show. RabbleRouse News absolutely plans to Exit through the Gift Shop.
The Guerrilla Girls have long been celebrated for their bold, unapologetic approach to activism in the art world and beyond. Known for using disruptive headlines, outrageous visuals, and striking statistics, the collective has been at the forefront of exposing gender and ethnic bias and corruption across art, film, politics, and pop culture. Their intersectional feminism fights for human rights for all, and their work continues to challenge the status quo, revealing the understory, subtext, and the often-overlooked injustices in society.
This exhibition will highlight not only the enduring relevance of the Guerrilla Girls’ messages but also their evolution as a collective, which grew out of a demonstration in 1985 by a group of women artists protesting an exhibition titled An International Survey of Painting and Sculpture at the Museum of Modern Art in New York.
From their infamous street posters and banners to video projections and immersive installations, the show will cover the breadth of their impactful work. Visitors can expect to see a wide range of mediums and messages, all with the Guerrilla Girls’ signature blend of humor, confrontation, and deep societal critique.
Behind the Scenes w/ Guerrilla Girls
About the show, BEYOND THE STREETS Founder Roger Gastman shares, “We’ve had the privilege of working with the Guerrilla Girls since 2018, showcasing their groundbreaking work in various capacities. Each time, their ability to provoke thought and inspire change has left a lasting impact on our audience. It’s an honor to give their work the space and attention it deserves in Los Angeles through a comprehensive exhibition that not only celebrates their past contributions but also highlights the continued relevance of their activism today.
About Guerrilla Girls
The Guerrilla Girls are anonymous artist activists who use disruptive headlines, outrageous visuals, and striking statistics to expose gender and ethnic bias and corruption in art, film, politics, and pop culture. They believe in an intersectional feminism that fights for human rights for all people. They undermine the idea of a mainstream narrative by revealing the understory, the subtext, the overlooked, and the downright unfair through hundreds of unforgettable projects—street posters, banners, actions, books, and videos—across the world. The Guerrilla Girls conduct interventions and exhibitions at art museums, calling out these institutions on their own walls for their bad behavior and discriminatory practices, including a stealth projection on the façade of the Whitney Museum addressing income inequality and the super-rich hijacking art. Their retrospectives and traveling exhibitions have attracted thousands, with their work now part of the permanent collection at Tate Modern, alongside showcases at the São Paulo Museum of Art, the Venice Biennale, the Van Gogh Museum in Amsterdam, the Museum of Military History in Dresden, Art Basel Hong Kong, the Minneapolis Institute of Art, the Centre Pompidou in Paris, Toi o Tāmaki Museum in New Zealand, the National Museum of World Writing in Korea, and many more. The Getty Research Institute in Los Angeles is preparing an exhibition of the collective’s 40-year history for Fall 2025. The Guerrilla Girls live by their motto: “Do one thing. If it works, do another. If it doesn’t, do another anyway. Keep chipping away!” www.guerrillagirls.com
About BEYOND THE STREETS
BEYOND THE STREETS was founded by Roger Gastman, producer of the 2010 Academy Award-nominated film, Exit Through the Gift Shop, co-curator of Art in the Streets (2011) at the MoCA in Los Angeles, and director of the SHOWTIME documentary Rolling Like Thunder (2021), a plunge into the underground world of freight train graffiti culture. BEYOND THE STREETS is an art-driven cultural and educational worldwide movement celebrating mark makers and rule breakers, agitators and instigators. Its curation showcases the best of contemporary and emerging artists, with a focus on graffiti and street art creators. Boasting over 100 artist collaborators per show, BEYOND THE STREETS is known for its massive-scale exhibitions, immersive educational experiences, and engaging pop-up events, which have played host to over 650,000 unique visitors between its shows in Los Angeles, New York, The Hamptons, London, Shanghai, and digital showcases with NTWRK. BEYOND THE STREETS exhibitions have produced over 2.5B media impressions through global art publications, business journals and culture magazines. BEYOND THE STREETS is widely recognized for its innovative brand partnerships and premium publications, which include over 85 published and authored book titles, including works for the likes of Martha Cooper, Felipe Pantone, POSE, Paul Insect, and Mister CARTOON, amongst others. BEYOND THE STREETS pushes the very idea of art beyond any preconceived boundary.
*All images used with permission of Guerrilla Girls in promotion of this event. Content from Beyond the Streets Press Release. **Special thanks to Heidi Johnson at Hijinx Artist Management
