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Maker-in-Residence featuring Jackie Amezquita
This exhibition has ended.
Guatemalan-born artist Jackie Amezquita's on-site residency forming pebble sculptures from soil, masa, cacao and copal with visitor collaborators.
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Amézquita keeps a freezer and an oven in the gallery. Soil sent in from around the United States goes into the freezer to stop time, then into the oven to set it moving again, and comes out as small pebbles shaped in the palm of her hand.
Each pebble mixes that soil with masa, cacao and spring water, sealed with copal. On the museum's first floor, as part of the tierra Clay Biennial, her project Between Root, Body, and Breath keeps growing: you press soil, masa and ocean water into the hollow of your hand, and your cast joins a field of everyone else's. Anyone in the US can also mail her soil from home until 25 October.
Go for the process, not a finished object; on days she isn't in, her tools and materials are laid out. Her last day on site is Friday 23 October, 11am to 5pm, drop-in. It's included with admission: $12, free for 12 and under, pay what you wish on Sundays.
Look for
The freezer and the oven
Look for the two appliances at the centre of her process: the freezer holds the soil until it's needed, and the oven bakes it into pebbles.
The pebbles
Small pebble-like sculptures of soil, masa, cacao and spring water, sealed with copal and shaped in the palm of Amézquita's hand.
Between Root, Body, and Breath
A growing field of earthen forms, each one cast by a visitor pressing soil, masa and ocean water into the inside of their hand.
Good for
- Locals Who've Seen It All
- Small Kids
Skip if
You want a finished show: this is a working residency that grows from visitors' hand casts.
With kids
Children 12 and under get in free. The 23 October session is drop-in for all ages, and visitors can join in as co-creators.
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- Craft ContemporaryPaul Esposito / Wikimedia Commons, Public domain
- Alfonso Gonzalez Jr.: In Between Stops© Alfonso Gonzalez Jr., photo © Museum Associates/LACMA, by Charlie Powers
- Danse Macabre: Death in Print from Durer to DixCourtesy of Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)
- Pablo Picasso—Portraits in Disguise© Estate of Pablo Picasso/Artists Rights Society (ARS), New York, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA
- Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA)ArchEyes Magazine / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY 4.0
- Academy Museum of Motion PicturesDowntowngal / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
- Petersen Automotive MuseumDavid Zaitz / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0