Participating gallery in the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA
Exhibition Dates: September 9 – Extended through October 10th
Exhibit closing party : Saturday, October 7th, 5-8pm
Artist Walk-Through with Shana Nys Dambrot : Sunday, October 1, 2pm
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For the Brown Dot Project, Linda Vallejo transforms statistics regarding the number of Latinos in various sectors of Los Angeles into brown dots against a grid representing the rest of the population.
Quantitative demographics (e.g. population distribution, the number of Latino doctors, etc) convert into engaging visual representations.
Vallejo creates visually striking, dynamic images as the discrete dots coalesce, into semi-abstract ideas, pop culture icons, sculptural forms. They form a hook, connecting the viewer to deeper issues resting within the data: each dot becomes a poignant metonymic suggestion of a Latino reality while also forming an expressive whole.
“ Vallejo thus converts airy demographics into visual signifiers whose power is a good deal more visceral.
“ The conversion of data of any sort into an aesthetic experience is fanciful enough; but when the data being converted is loaded with meaning – and the meaning itself is loaded with a whole different, volatile aura of meaning – the artworks that result pack an invisible wallop… If not as a tool for change, then at least as an examination of the factors that necessitate such change, a passionate argument guided not only by reason, but by humor, craft, and beauty.”
-Peter Frank
Where: BLEICHER/GORMAN (bG) Gallery Bergamot Station – Space G8A, 2525 Michigan Avenue, Santa Monica 90404
Phone: +1 (310) 906 4211
Hours: 12-6pm Tues-Sat or by appointment.
Website: bGartGalleries.com
