Saturday | June 29, 2019 | 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Blind Courier

9 Los Angeles Artists and Their Notions of Place  

On View: June 29, 2019 - August 23, 2019

Curated by: Hilary Baker and Lauren Kasmer

Featuring: Robert Aull, Hilary Baker, Lauren Kasmer, Sharon Levy, Diane Meyer,

Minoru Ohira, Osceola Refetoff, Samuel Scharf and Andrew West

“The city is a blind courier. It brings nothing. It takes nothing.” – Norman Klein

Blind Courier takes the idea of the city as a passive entity and turns it on its head. Nine Los Angeles area artists offer a compelling mix of work that reveals their relationship to a place. By documenting, redefining and re-envisioning dwellings, neighborhoods and landmarks, the artists have shaped their own surroundings. Curators Hilary Baker and Lauren Kasmer originally conceived of this exhibition as homage to Los Angeles. Expanding on this idea, they selected artists whose work casts a wider net beyond the boundaries of the city. Blind Courier is the map that invites the viewer to meander through their individual environments.

 In conjunction with the exhibition Blind Courier, Lauren Kasmer and Joyce Dallal are bringing their Homesĭtē Recipe Exchange to the Brand Library & Art Center. Homesĭtē is an expansive travelling public participatory art installation begun in 1992. It encourages residents of Los Angeles to contribute recipes, stories, visual items and small tableaus, thus forming a collective perspective about the city. Visitors are invited to express their connection to a locale – be it a neighborhood, city or country – through their recipes and stories about food. During the opening reception on June 29, 2019 the Homesĭtē Recipe Exchange will be conducting live red carpet 'interviews.’ 

The reception is FREE and open to the public. Artists will be in attendance.

Additional Programming: Food & Art in the Park

Sunday, August 11, 11am – 4pm

Homesĭtē Recipe Exchange engages the community in a conversation about the intersection of food and place through cooking performances, demonstrations, and food-sharing. 

Exhibition tour and talk with art critic Shana Nys Dambrot, 2pm-4pm.

Food trucks will be onsite throughout the day.