Twenty Years of Explosive Graphics

Art Against Empire:
Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since World War II

Out of the Closet and Into the Street:
Posters of LGBT Struggles & Celebration

Escapes: Polish Art in the Communist Era

The Graphic Imperative—International Posters
for Peace, Social Justice & the Environment 1965—2005

 
CSPG Exhibitions:

Twenty Years of Explosive Graphics
Reclaiming the power of art to educate and inspire people to action

will be featured in:
Actions, Conversations, and Intersections
an exhibition of participatory projects

January 28 – April 18, 2010

Opening Reception:
Sunday January 31, 2-5pm

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Barnsdall Art Park
4800 Hollywood Blvd,
Los Angeles, CA 90027


The 20th Anniversary of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics is cause for celebration. We have created a unique and independent institution that is nationally and internationally recognized as a source of artistic inspiration and a graphic resource for education and activism. We honor and remember a myriad of popular movements for social justice. By preserving the posters created to further these causes, we also pay tribute to the stories of the people who produced these works of art in their efforts to create a better world. The existence of these posters prevents many struggles from falling into obscurity. We give recognition to the many artists, often anonymous, who placed their talents in the service of others.

Twenty Years of Explosive Graphics represents the graphics that CSPG has produced or reproduced to honor and commemorate individual artists and critical world events over the past 20 years. All pieces were selected for their graphic power and contemporary relevance. They depict ecological disaster, denounce attacks on civil liberties, promote free speech, and protest ongoing illegal wars. Every issue addressed in these works remains timely and critical today.

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Art Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since World War II

March 11 – April 18 2010

Opening reception:
Thursday, March 11, 2010

Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
6522 Hollywood, Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90028

This poster exhibition documents continuous domestic and international opposition to U.S. interventions into the domestic affairs of sovereign nations since the end of World War II. Political, economic and military interventions, many of them covert, have repeatedly resulted in unacceptable deaths and misery for millions. These posters show hopes and dreams, and the pain of dreams destroyed. Their graphic intensity results from expressing the rage engendered by U.S. actions through art. The exhibition will also provide insights into why the amount of devastation caused by the recent earthquake in Haiti can be linked to its long history of French colonialism and U.S. imperialism.

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EAT
Tomi Ungerer
1967, 1967
New York

Out of the Closet and Into the Street:
Posters of LGBT Struggles & Celebration

July 3 – September 26, 2010

ONE Archives Gallery & Museum
626 N. Robertson Blvd. West Hollywood
Los Angeles, CA 90069

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CSPG Posters are Featured in the Following Exhibitions:

The Graphic Imperative—International Posters
for Peace, Social Justice & the Environment 1965—2005

January 14 – February 20, 2010

Richmond Center for Visual Arts
Western Michigan University,
Kalamazoo, MI 49008

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Q. And Babies? A. And Babies
Frazier Dougherty; Jon Hendrick; Irving Petlin;
R. L. Haeberle; Artists Poster Committee
of Art Workers Coalition, Offset, 1970, New York, NY

Escapes: Polish Art in the Communist Era

January 30-March 21, 2010

Opening Reception:
Saturday, January 30, 4-6pm

Gallery Hours: Wednesday - Sunday,
12 - 4pm

Laband Art Gallery
Loyola Marymount University
ONE LMU Drive, MS-8346
Los Angeles, CA 90045
http://cfa.lmu.edu/laband
T 310.338.2880

Solidarnosc
Tomasz Sarnecki; Solidarnosc
Offset, 1989
Warszawa, Poland

N.E.W.S.
Lex Drewinski
Silkscreen, 1990
Berlin, Germany

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