Special Relationships | Zavier Ellis: Sites of Conflict | Catya Plate: An Animated Ecological Short Film Trilogy
3320 Civic Center Dr., Torrance, CA 90503
Saturday, June 14 at 6:00 PM 9:00 PM
Ends Jul 26, 2025
MAIN GALLERY: Special Relationships Art from London and Los Angeles that explore shared concerns and outcomes. Special Relationships brings together paintings, sculptures and installations by artists from London and Los Angeles, exploring shared creative concerns and outcomes across two vibrant cultural landscapes. Featuring artists at different stages of their careers, the exhibition highlights a dynamic exchange of ideas, revealing both commonalities and distinct perspectives that shape their practices. Through this transatlantic dialogue, the show celebrates the diversity and interconnectedness of both cities’ art scenes. PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Lynn Aldrich, Hermione Allsopp, Josh Callaghan, Bjorn Copeland, Rosson Crow, Ian Dawson, Skylar Haskard, Nicky Hirst, David Kefford, Peter Lamb, David Leapman, David McDonald, Chris Miller, Stephen Neidich, Selma Parlour, Fiona Rae, Tania Salha, Stephanie Sherwood, Kerry Stewart, Erika Trotzig GALLERY TWO: Sites of Conflict British artist and curator Zavier Ellis presents  Sites of Conflict, an expansive solo exhibition interrogating the ideological battlegrounds that have shaped — and continue to shape — global power structures. Through richly layered abstraction, collage, and textual intervention, Ellis constructs a visual matrix of historical and contemporary struggles that encompass revolutions, resistance, protest, and the machinery of propaganda. DARK ROOM: Catya Plate: An Animated Ecological Short Film Trilogy Produced over the course of ten years (2013-2023), artist and filmmaker Catya Plate’s award-winning stop-motion animated short trilogy based on her meticulously handcrafted puppets, costumes, props, and sets present wildly imaginative, beautifully handcrafted sci-fi adventures that blend humor, heart, hope, and a powerful environmental message into cautionary tales that celebrate animal ingenuity and the importance of species survivalism. FEATURED SHORTS: Hanging By A Thread (2013), Meeting MacGuffin (2017), Las Nogas (2023)