July, 2002

Current Exhibit

Transit Projects: Survival L.A.

Exhibition: July 6th to July 27th

Opening: Saturday, July 6, 7-10 pm

Artists:

Lisa Adams

SE Barnet

Kaucyila Brooke

Kathy Chenoweth

Martin Durazo

Kathleen Johnson

Hillary Mushkin

Nicoletta Munroe

Susan Otto

Christopher Pate

Steve Roden

Thaddeus Strode

Jody Zellen

Curatorial Statement

Transit Projects: Survival L.A. explores the thematic

concept of "survival" as it relates to issues of

contemporary art practice. Los Angeles artists investigate

notions of personal endurance, struggle and triumph,

release and transcendence. Each artist reflects on the

various manifestations of "survival" in our culture

today. Artists explore topics ranging from serial TV

dramas that allow for the viewer's collective kinship

with dramatized struggle, to "extreme" demonstrations of

physical hardship and endurance, and beyond, to the

personal coping mechanisms activated in navigating our

everyday struggles. Transit Projects: Survival L.A

investigates how the individual negotiates the physical

and psychological terrain of our everyday social

constructs, within a set of evermore fluid and transitory

boundaries.

The depARTment produces the Transit Projects

exhibition series. The Transit Pojects program invites

contemporary artists to interact, adapt, engage, and work

within the context of non-traditional spaces, and across

disciplines such as fashion, architecture, interior and

graphic design. It seeks to expand the relationship

between art, presentation, and audiences beyond

established formats, inviting a variety of perspectives to

inform these relationships. As the Transit Projects

series develops according to each individual site and

project, it promotes a dialogue about the arts and their

context, encouraging a playful and indepth

interpretation and approach to the arts in contemporary culture.