Join Catalyst in a field trip to the Santa Ana Artwalk to support Catalyst alumni Noe Gaytan's solo curatorial project, the Nomad Art Project! The first exhibition will be Passage: The Art of Jose Arroyo.
March 18, 2012
North America represented a place free from European traditions for women Surrealists from the United States and Mexico, and European émigrés. While their male counterparts usually cast women as objects for their delectation, female Surrealists delved into their own subconscious and dreams, creating extraordinary visual images. Their art was primarily about identity: portraits, double portraits, self-referential images, and masquerades that demonstrate their trials and pleasures. The exhibition includes works in a variety of media dating from 1931 to 1968, and some later examples that demonstrate Surrealism's influence on the feminist movement. Iconic figures such as Louise Bourgeois, Leonora Carrington, Frida Kahlo, Lee Miller, Kay Sage, Dorothea Tanning, and Remedios Varo are represented, along with lesser known or newly discovered practitioners.
October 19, 2011
Join us for the Orange County Museum of Art's Student Night! This is a FREE EVENT with student ID, and we will be viewing the resident exhibition, State of Mind: New California Art Circa 1979 (part of the Pacific Standard Time festival) as well as attending a screening of Two Schools of Cool.
October 7, 2011
Join Catalyst for a field trip to view the Museum of Contemporary Art's exhibition Lynda Benglis, an exhibition of the work of American artist Lynda Benglis from the past forty years.
September 30, 2011
On Sunday, October 2, the historic Broadway Theater District in Downtown Los Angeles will erupt with Trespass, a parade where artists and residents will rally together to engage in art, music, dancing, floats, community activism, and performance. The parade is just one component of Trespass – a collaborative project between Arto Lindsay, Rirkrit Tiravanija, and West of Rome Public Art (WoR) that also includes a party and a T-shirt project with call-to-action slogans. Many Los Angeles art luminaries, including John Baldessari, Barbara Kruger, Nancy Rubins, and Jeffrey Vallance, were asked to produce statements – personal calls to action expressing political or social concerns – which will be worn on T-shirts in the parade. Many of the participating artists will also join in with performative pieces.
January 28, 2011
Human Resources, Los Angeles presents My body lies over the Ocean. My body lies over the sea. a one night performance event featuring the work of Alexis Disselkoen and Tessa Kurszewski, Billy Kheel, Paul Pescador, and Nancy Popp. My body lies over the Ocean. My body lies over the sea. focuses on site-specific situational and interactive performances. The event examines the role of the body as vehicle for physical production. Whether it is through the excursion of endurance or the transference of physicality to material form, each performer examines the role of the body as a vessel in which performance disseminates.
January 13, 2011
It has been one whole year since Catalyst last took a trip to the Downtown Los Angeles Art Walk. Now we are back. As a means to spur new ideas in both, our individual art practices and our collective event planning and organization, it was, furthermore, a delightful, cultural experience that our community within Irvine could surely benefit from.
January 14, 2010
Catalyst is getting together to go to the LA Artwalk! Don't miss out on this monthly art festival.
May 3, 2012