For Immediate Release: Last Projects is pleased to present Gardens: A Group Show May 3- June 6th 2019 Opening Friday May 3rd 7-11pm gallery hours Fri+Sat 2-6pm and by appt. A special live performance from LA based Moroccan Gnawa band, "Gnawest" begins at 9 pm Participating artists include: Liv Aanrud Jules de Balincourt Nevena Binney Rachid Bouhamidi Keenan Derby Sarita Dougherty Patrick Donovan Amir H. Fallah Daniel Gibson Josh Hagler Chris Johanson Nilay Lawson Jasmine Little Manuel Lopez Rob Monforte Colin Roberts Maja Ruznic Forouzan Safari Jovi Schnell Liz Walsh Gardens, is curated by Rachid Bouhamidi and co-conceptualized by Arshia Fatima Haq. "The garden is conceived of as a place of sanctuary, refuge, isolation, and as a place where emotions and identities are cultivated. It is both a literal environment and a metaphor of the human psyche. Vegetation, soil, organic matter, botanical motifs and patterns, the cycles of flower and fruit, and the waxing and waning of seasons, all become surrogates for aspects of yearning for tranquility, freedom, sexual adventure, and spiritual totality. Gardens are thus transformed in to mirrors of the desires, struggles, and transformations of those who inhabit them. This exhibition interprets the garden in its variegated metaphorical and literal aspects, through a group of artists who use various mediums to explore this realm from tactile to conceptual forms." - Rachid Bouhamidi and Arshia Fatima Haq