| Twenty
Years of Explosive Graphics
Reclaiming the power of art to educate and inspire
people to action
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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Against Empire: Graphic Responses to U.S. Interventions Since World
War II
March 10– April 18 2010
Opening reception:
Thursday, March 11, 2010
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
6522 Hollywood, Blvd.,
Los Angeles, CA 90028
Art Against Empire uses the power of
posters to document 60 years of opposition to U.S. interventions
into the domestic affairs of sovereign nations. 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.
Art Against Empire will showcase over
100 political posters in the LACE galleries, spanning two dozen
sovereign nations including Korea, Vietnam, the Philippines, Guatemala,
Haiti, Cuba, Iran, and South Africa. It attempts to inform, challenge
and inspire by confronting the viewer with images of past struggles
that remain powerfully relevant today. It both raises questions
about past interventions and fosters debate about present ones.
The exhibition will also provide insight 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.
The United States is the focus of this exhibition. As citizens,
we are ultimately responsible for the actions that are taken by
our government in our name. Censorship and repression, so prevalent
in wartime, invariably attempt to eliminate dissent, thereby violating
the principles on which this democracy was founded. These posters
document the efforts of people who refuse to remain silent and who
use the power of art to inspire action.
RELATED EVENTS – SUNDAY SERIES,
1PM
• Sunday March 21 2010, 1PM –The
Coca-Cola Case, screening and presentation
A controversial film about the labor rights in Coke bottling plants.
Directors German Gutierrez and Carmen Garcia present a searing indictment
of the Coca-Cola empire and its alleged kidnapping, torture and
murder of union leaders trying to improve working conditions in
Colombia, Guatemala and Turkey.
The screening will be followed by a presentation by attorney, Theresa
Traber, discussing the lawsuit and recent appeal against Chevron
in Nigeria, and Patrick Bonner from Colombia Peace Project.
• Sunday March 28 2010, 1PM –Gaza & Egypt
2009 &
Arlington West
Los Angeles delegates from the Gaza Freedom March 2009, Dara Wells-Hajjar
and Shae Popovich will relay experiences of their recent trip to
Gaza and Cairo. They will share stories, photos and art from this
extremely dangerous but powerful trip. They will also discuss how
we can continue the work to change global public opinion around
Gaza and the occupied territories.
The afternoon will also include a screening of Arlington
West and a presentation by the film makers, Sally
Marr and Peter Dudar.
“I hope, for the sake of peace, that young people all over
the country will see ARLINGTON WEST and
come face to face with the consequences of war.” --Howard
Zinn
• Sunday April 11 2010, 1PM – Film
screenings:
Panama Deception: Exposing the Cover Up!
Cover Up: Behind the Iran Contra Affair
Destination Nicaragua
• Thursday April 15 2010, 7pm–
Artists for a New South Africa, ANSA, screening and presentation.
Film Screening of the acclaimed 36 minute film ROAD TO INGWAVUMA,
which documents a journey through post-Apartheid South Africa by
noted American performers and their families. The film highlights
South Africa's triumphs as well as its overwhelming challenges through
the eyes of Deborah Santana, Alfre Woodard, Samuel L. Jackson, Carlos
Santana, Jurnee Smollett, CCH Pounder, LaTanya Richardson Jackson,
and friends, as they interact with activists, disadvantaged children,
and leaders, including Nelson Mandela and Desmond Tutu.
Join ANSA director Sharon Gelman for a discussion
on the intersection of arts and activism, the situation in South
Africa, ANSA’s work, undertaken in partnership
with grassroots African activists and NGOs, and how it has evolved
over the past 20 years in response to the changing socio-political
landscape.
More details to come.
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EAT
Tomi Ungerer
Offset, 1967,
New York
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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
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Solidarnosc
Tomasz Sarnecki; Solidarnosc
Offset, 1989
Warszawa, Poland

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