April 24 2025 - August 30 2025
Opening April 24 2025
5:00pm - 7:00pm
While citizens and non-citizens face uncertainty, we feel empowered by the strength of our diversity. Inspired by a rock en Español song, the exhibition brings together Latinx artists from different backgrounds. In the spirit of resilience, we make friends with the metaphor of the weed that refuses erasure. Because mala hierba nunca muere.
Malahierba features painting, ceramics, sculpture, poetry, and film.
Isaac Covarrubias
Alexandra Cuesta
Gabe Medina
Katie Mejía
Cynthia Ortega
David Rubacalva
César Vallejo
Cindy Velázquez
Malahierba is curated by graduating CSUDH Art student Iris Natividad
scores
March 27, 2025 - April 17, 2025
Opening March 27, 2025
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Razan AlSalah
Grace Bush
Viviana Campos
jinseok choi
Intertwined Collective
Iris Martinez
Saebyeok
Kiara Ulale
Scores features works on paper, sculpture, textile installation, and video
Scores: collectivity, collaboration, music notation, labor, protest
November 14 2024 - March 1 2025
Opening November 14
5:00pm - 7:00pm
16502 Collective
Mark Gonzalez
Mona Kareem
Julia Masvernat
Myriad of Us Collective
Yadira Pérez
Ignacio Pérez Merhuane
Cartographic features works on paper, installation, sculpture, textiles, video, drawing and poetry.
In that Empire, the Art of Cartography attained such Perfection that the map of a single Province occupied an entire City, and the map of the Empire, an entire Province. In time, these Excessive Maps did not satisfy and the Schools of Cartographers built a Map of the Empire, that was of the Size of the Empire, and which coincided point for point with it. Less Addicted to the Study of Cartography, the Following Generations understood that that dilated Map was Useless and not without Pitilessness they delivered it to the Inclemencies of the Sun and the Winters. In the Deserts of the West endure broken Ruins of the Map, inhabited by Animals and Beggars; in the whole country there is no other relic of the Disciplines of Geography.
On Rigor in Science
Jorge Luis Borges
landscape
April 11 2024 - November 1 2024
Opening April 11
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Mosab Abu Toha
Lena Abujbara
Gene Aguilar
Grisabel Alfaro
Flowing Darias Collective
Natalie Gutiérrez
Katie Mejía
Maritza Santiago
Landscape features textile sculpture, video, poetry, photography, painting, installation and monoprints considering the aesthetic, political and ecological implications of framing Earth’s view “at one time from one place.”
oneiric
November 16 2023 - January 30 2024
Opening November 16
5:00pm - 7:00pm
Elizabeth Afaro
Basma al-Sharif
Colectivo Los Ingrávidos
Crystal Falk
Emely Flores
Amber Gálvez
Vivian Gonzalez
Bre Holmes
Mark Silva
Michelle Valencia
Now, as you awaken, remember the swan's
last dance. Did you dance with young angels
while you were dreaming? Did the butterfly
light you up when it burned with the eternal
light of the rose?Did the phoenix appear clearly
before you and call you by your name?
Did you see the morning dawn from the fingers
of the one you love? Did you touch
the dream with your hand or did you
leave it to dream alone, aware suddenly
of your own absence? Dreamers don't abandon
their dreams, they flare and continue
the life they have in the dream…tell me
how you lived your dream in a certain place
and I'll tell you who you are. And now,
as you awaken, remember if you have wronged
your dream. And if you have, then remember
the last dance of the swan.
Mahmoud Darwish, poet (1941-2008)