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The nonprofit Los Angeles Nomadic Division, also known as LAND, is dedicated to commissioning and producing projects with contemporary artists in and around Los Angeles. Founded in 2009 by Shamim M. Momin, adjunct curator at the Whitney Museum of American Art, in New York, and Christine Y. Kim, associate curator at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the organization brings creative prestige to the city’s public-art sector. Last month LAND launched Via, a series of cutting-edge projects by approximately 12 contemporary Mexican artists that continues to be shown in nontraditional locales, such as commercial retail venues and industrial buildings. Artist José León Cerrillo, for example, took up residency in January in architect R. M. Schindlers Fitzpatrick-Leland House, where he will host performances and lectures through mid-March. During his six-week sojourn, Cerrillo also plans to produce posters that will be assembled into a limited-edition publication to be printed by the independent LA press Eighth Veil. In supporting unconventional artistic practices, land promises to change both LA’s landscape and public art for years to come.

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"LAND" originally appeared in the February 2010 issue of Modern Painters. For a complete list of articles from this issue available on ARTINFO, see Modern Painters' February 2010 Table of Contents.