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PAST EXHIBITION
Vexing: Female Voices from East LA Punk
May 17, 2008—August 31, 2008
Press Release
The burgeoning punk rock and new-wave music scene of the late 1970s and early 1980s in East Los Angeles provided an electrically charged, creative climate where performance mixed with poetry and visual culture was defined by an aesthetic and an attitude. Artists and musicians mixed and blurred the lines of actions, documentation, photography, sound and style. Many women were active in this era, developing and establishing new modalities of cultural production while fostering shifts in gender roles and social politics.
Taking its name from the all-ages music club The Vex, once housed within East Los Angeles’ Self Help Graphics and Art, Vexing is an historical investigation of the women who were at the forefront of this movement of experimentation in music, art, culture and politics while exploring their lasting legacies and contemporary practices. This documentary style exhibition will include photo, video and audio archives of the era as well as recent studio work encompassing video, painting, installation, writings and performance.
Participants include musicians Alice Bag, Teresa Covarrubias and Angela Vogel, musician and artist Exene Cervenka, artists Diane Gamboa and Patssi Valdez, and photographer Dawn Wirth. Representing a newer generation of artistic producers influenced by these women are musician/artist Lysa Flores, artists Shizu Saldamando and Sandra de la Loza. An extensive program of live performances will accompany the exhibition.
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