Drawings of Removal installation displays the working artist’s studio on-site November 25, 2003 through February 29, 2004
November 24
Los Angeles, CA — The Hammer Museum presents the latest installment of its Hammer Project Series, Drawings of Removal by Edgar Arceneaux from November 25, 2003 through February 29, 2004. This installation incorporates the artist’s on-site studio and features a changing array of layered, cut-out, excavated, drawn and re-drawn images. Using the Museum’s gallery as a workspace and the process of memory as his subject matter, Arceneaux combines studio, gallery, and artwork into a single active and evolving installation. Drawings of Removal was organized by the Hammer Projects curator James Elaine and curatorial assistant Aimee Chang.
Arceneaux started the ongoing Drawings from Removal in 1999 following a family vacation to his father’s native Beaumont, Texas. Inspired by his father’s memories of his hometown — as they existed in his youth juxtaposed with his present day experience of Beaumont — Arceneaux began exploring the nature of memory through the medium of drawing. To the artist, “the work not only represents the idea of loss or of the gap between memory and desire, but is literally active. Something is being built and something is breaking down.”
The Museum will host an artist’s talk with Arceneaux February 26, 2004 at 6 p.m.
Edgar Arceneaux was born in 1972 in Los Angeles, where he continues to live and work. He received his B.F.A. from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, California, and his M.F.A. from the California Institute of Arts in Valencia. He has had solo exhibitions at the Kunstverein Ulm, Germany; Frehrkring Wiesehoefer, Cologne; Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; and the Project, New York. Recent group shows include True Stories at Witte de With, Rotterdam; Social Strategies: Redefining Social Realism at the University Art Museum, Santa Barbara; Urban Aesthetics at the African American Museum of Art, Los Angeles; and One Planet under a Groove at the Bronx Museum, New York.
ABOUT HAMMER PROJECTS
Hammer Projects are a series of exhibitions that focus primarily on the work of emerging artists, and reflect the Museum’s commitment to contemporary art by providing international and local artists a laboratory-like environment to create new work, or to present existing work in a new context. Hammer Projects are made possible with support from The Horace W. Goldsmith Foundation, The Annenberg Foundation, the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, and members of the Hammer Circle.
HAMMER MUSEUM
Through its permanent collections, exhibitions, and programs, the Hammer Museum endeavors to illuminate the depth and diversity of artistic expression through the centuries up to the present moment. Founded by Dr. Armand Hammer in 1990, the Museum houses several collections of art: The Armand Hammer Collection of Old Master, Impressionist, and Post-Impressionist paintings, including important examples of work by Rembrandt van Rijn, John Singer Sargent, Vincent van Gogh, Claude Monet, Camille Pissarro, and Mary Cassatt; The Armand Hammer Daumier and Contemporaries Collection, featuring the painting, sculpture, and lithography of 19th-century French satirist Honoré Daumier and his contemporaries; and The Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts, contains over 45,000 works on paper, including prints, drawings, photographs, and artists’ books dating from the Renaissance to the present.
For more information about the Hammer Museum:
VOICE: 310-443-7000; TTY: 310-443-7094; WEB: www.hammer.ucla.edu
Museum Hours: Tuesday, Wednesday, Friday, and Saturday, 11am–7pm; Thursday, 11am–9pm; Sunday, 11am-5pm; closed Mondays, July 4, Thanksgiving, Christmas, and New Year’s Day.
Admission: $5 for adults; $3 for seniors (65+) and UCLA Alumni Association members; free for Museum members, students with identification, UCLA faculty/staff, and visitors 17 and under. Admission is free for everyone on Thursdays. Access for people with disabilities is provided.
Location/Parking: The Museum is located at 10899 Wilshire Boulevard. Parking is available under the Museum. Rates are $2.75 for the first two hours with Museum validation, $1.50 for each additional 20 minutes. There is a $3 flat rate after 6 p.m. on Thursdays. Parking for people with disabilities is provided on levels P1 and P3.
Museum Tours: For reservations and information, call 310-443-7041
The Armand Hammer Museum of Art and Cultural Center is operated by the University of California, Los Angeles. Occidental Petroleum Corporation has partially endowed the Museum and constructed the Occidental Petroleum Cultural Center Building, which houses the Museum.