Ring Down the Curtain is an idiom borrowed from theater that marks the end of a performance. After more than a year of isolation and lockdowns, digital surrogates and Zoom fatigue, this group exhibition signals a return to embodied optimism by offering works that embrace materiality and empiricism.
The show includes artists working to parse the complexities of gender, sexuality, identity, and power through a dedication to labor, design, and craft. A carefully considered intersection of ceramic, textile, paint, video, and installation engages sensory perception, creating somatic markers that challenge histories of cultural performativity, particularly as they apply to women. Each artist expresses their unique interests in the relationship between tactility and the significance of elicited bodily experience.
Featured artists include Sula Bermúdez-Silverman, Oona Brangam-Snell, Trulee Hall, Isabel Yellin, Sarah Zapata, and Bari Ziperstein. Ring Down The Curtain is on view through June 19 @ Ochi Projects 3301 W Washington Blvd, Los Angeles.
