Sandra de la Loza: Mi Casa Es Su Casa | Sara Kathryn Arledge: Serene for the Moment
145 N Raymond Ave., Pasadena, CA 91103
Saturday, January 26 at 7:00 PM 9:00 PM
Ends May 12, 2019
In this exhibition, Sandra de la Loza interrogates historic photographs of her own Mexican American family to address issues of power, memory, and history through the concept of home. By obscuring, blurring, and replacing the bodies and faces in the photographs, she points to the codes that comprise the family photo–the landscape, architecture, pose, and fashion to investigate the uneasy and slippery terrain of representation itself. With this immersive installation, which simultaneously searches for shifting, non-reductive portrayals as it deconstructs hegemonic myths, de la Loza highlights a central paradox of our contemporary moment, where an increased social desire for fluid notions of identity coincides with a heightened demand to dismantle historic and current economic, political, and cultural violences. Armory galleries are open daily 12:00 to 5:00 PM (closed Tuesdays and holidays). Admission is always free. *** In this exhibition, abstraction is an entry point to consider daily encounters marked by abundance, loss, transcendence, and a dream-like passage of time. An under-recognized painter and innovator of mid-20th century experimental cinema, Sara Kathryn Arledge (1911-1998) was a prolific artist who emphasized the eerie in the mundane and the disorienting in the beautiful. Arledge worked at the margins of art history, shaping her practice with idiosyncratic personal myth. She is considered a pioneer of ciné-dance (dance made uniquely by and for the medium of film) and was one of the first to film dance movement to “extend the nature of painting to include time.” The exhibition includes over 60 of Arledge's vivid works on paper, seven short films, and a selection of hand-painted glass transparencies. The work quietly suggests that subjective, “alternative” normals are equally legitimate. "Sara Kathryn Arledge: Serene for the Moment" has been produced with generous support from the Pasadena Art Alliance. Image: Sandra de la Loza, "Brothers," 2003. C-print, 20 x 20 inches, framed. Courtesy of the artist.