Artist Talk: David Horvitz, Diane Meyer and Brian Van Camerick for Homosocial
- Saturday
May 11, 2024
11:00 am - 12:00 pm
Join us for a conversation about experimental techniques, creating a space for a community through photography, obscuring points of views and pixelating social and historical landscapes.
FREE for Members – Please RSVP Below. $10 General Admission
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About
Saturday, May 11, 11 am – 12 pm PST, @ LACP, 252 S. Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
LACP is thrilled to host an artist talk featuring Expand and Contract’s David Horvitz, Brian Van Camerik for Homosocial and Diane Meyer, moderated by Dr. Rotem Rozental.
Join us for a conversation about experimental techniques, creating a space for a community through photography, obscuring points of views and pixelating social and historical landscapes.
About the Artists
David Horvitz was born in Los Angeles, where he currently lives and works. He studied at the University of California and at the Waseda University in Tokyo. He obtained a MFA from Milton Avery Graduate School of the Arts, Bard College, in 2010.Witty and poetic, the work of David Horvitz meddles with systems of language, time and networks.
Eschewing categorization, his expansive, nomadic body of work traverses the forms of photographs, artist books, performances, the Internet, mail art, sound, rubber stamps, gastronomy, and natural environments. His work examines questions of distance between places, people and time in order to test the possibilities of appropriating, undermining or even erasing these distances. Using image, text and objects, his works circulate and operate independently of himself, penetrating ever more effectively the intimate sphere. When encountering his works– in the postal system, libraries, or the airport lost-and-found services– our attention to the infinitesimal, inherent loopholes and alternative logics, and the imaginary comes to the fore. Like lullabies impressed upon our minds, Horvitz deploys art as both objects of contemplation and as viral or systemic tools to affect change on a personal scale. Horvitz makes fictions that insert themselves surreptitiously into the real.
Homosocial is a multimedia project created by Brian Van Camerik. The project is a collection of found photographs of homosocial images that guide Van Camerik’s artistic practice. As principal artist for the project, Van Camerik works in a variety of media, from mat board sculptures constructed into reliquaries to contemporary photography. These objects are all meant to enshrine the images Van Camerik has collected and created for Homosocial.
Van Camerik earned a Bachelor of Fine Arts from the University of Pennsylvania and the Pennsylvania Academy of the Fine Arts with honors in 2014. In 2014, he was recipient of the Henry Schiedt Memorial Travel Scholarship from the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine Arts. He and Homosocial are currently based in the LA area. View Website Here
About the Moderator
Rotem Rozental, Ph.D, is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Los Angeles Center of Photography. Between 2016-2022, she served as Chief Curator at American Jewish University, where she was also Assistant Dean of the Whizin Center for Continuing Education and Senior Director of Arts and Creative Programming. Her upcoming book, Pre-State Photographic Archives and the Zionist Movement will be released by Routledge Publishers in March 2023, and was named recipient of the Jordan Schnitzer First Book Award by the Association for Jewish Studies. Rotem is a lecturer at USC Roski School of Art and Design Critical Studies Department. She mentors artists worldwide and contributes regularly to magazines, journals and exhibition catalogues. Her writings about contemporary art and image-based media, as well as Jewish and Israeli art, were published in Artforum.com, Photographies, Jewish Currents, Tablet and Forward, among other outlets.
Tickets
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Details
- Date: Saturday, May 11, 2024, 11 am – 12 pm PST
- Cost: FREE for Members; $10 General Admission
- Location: LACP Headquarters, 252 S. Los Angeles St, Los Angeles, CA 90012
- Parking: Street parking, Public parking: Terasaki Budokan Recreation Center (paid, underground, just across the street from LACP) and Joe’s Auto Parks Parking, 330 Main St, Los Angeles, CA 90013 (paid, surface).