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Oxy Arts

Oxy Arts is the community-based arts hub of Occidental College. Oxy Arts is the hub for interdisciplinary arts at Occidental College.

We are a vital public space bringing together the campus community, the Northeast Los Angeles community, and local and regional artists in socially conscious dialogue and engagement. This multidisciplinary arts programming initiative at Occidental College seeks to engage the Oxy community in socially conscious dialogue around contemporary arts practices.

03/02/2023

Join us Thursday, March 9 for a conversation between Davis and Ian F. Blair, editor-in-chief of the L.A. Times Image magazine. The pair will share insights into the artist’s practice and first solo institutional exhibition in Los Angeles, “Kenturah Davis: Dark Illumination”.

Kenturah Davis in Conversation with Ian F. Blair
March 9, 6pm
4757 York Blvd
No RSVP Required
Space is very limited. Seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Ian F. Blair is the editor-in-chief of Image, the Los Angeles Times’ style, culture and fashion magazine. Before joining the Times in 2020, he was the deputy managing editor of Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag, its longform, premium storytelling platform. He was previously an editor and producer at the New Yorker, and an assistant editor at Salon. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Nation, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Ssense, HyperAllergic, Guernica and Ebony, among other publications.

02/24/2023

Last Friday, we gathered for this special afternoon of art-making, processing, and creating in community with one another. We are so grateful for your vulnerability and presence. Thank you for bringing us together for this unique altar making workshop. Participants constructed personal, original altars using craft materials, personal objects, and photographs to honor their loved ones.

It was a pleasure collaborating with .bao on this event. Big thank you to Ashon, James, and Chekwube!

Photos by Michael Tyrone Delaney

02/21/2023

**EVENT POSTPONED**
We’re sorry to share that due to unforeseen events, the artist talk scheduled for Tuesday, Feb 21st is postponed.

We will provide an updated date ASAP. Thank you for your understanding and patience.

02/16/2023

First event of the season! Want to hear more from Kenturah Davis? ✨

Join us Tuesday, Feb 21 for a conversation between Davis and Ian F. Blair, editor-in-chief of the L.A. Times Image magazine. The pair will share insights into the artist’s practice and first solo institutional exhibition in Los Angeles, “Kenturah Davis: Dark Illumination”.

Kenturah Davis in Conversation with Ian F. Blair
February 21, 6pm
4757 York Blvd
No RSVP Required
Space is very limited. Seating will be on a first come, first served basis.

Ian F. Blair is the editor-in-chief of Image, the Los Angeles Times’ style, culture and fashion magazine. Before joining the Times in 2020, he was the deputy managing editor of Bleacher Report’s B/R Mag, its longform, premium storytelling platform. He was previously an editor and producer at the New Yorker, and an assistant editor at Salon. His work has appeared in the New Yorker, the Nation, Pitchfork, Rolling Stone, Ssense, HyperAllergic, Guernica and Ebony, among other publications.

02/14/2023

The Stafford Ellison Wright Black Alumni Scholar-in-Residence program enables distinguished Black scholars from a variety of fields to spend time in residence at Occidental each year. Ashon Crawley ()—a writer, artist and teacher, exploring the intersection of performance, blackness, queerness and spirituality— is the 2023 Scholar-in-Residence. The program was conceived by Occidental’s Black Alumni Organization (BAO).

This FRIDAY, Feb 17, we’re thrilled to co-present with the Black Alumni Organization “Altars Made, Altars Unmade”, an altar making workshop facilitated by Ashon Crawley.

This workshop takes inspiration from Crawley's “Lonely Letters” and “loss.nothing.memorial.” Respectively, these works explore collectivity, loneliness, mourning and celebration. “Altars Made, Altars Unmade” sustains these themes, even as it embraces "sense experience." How can altar-making, as an embodied activity, rather than an empty routine or an amplification of dogma, provide a remedy to the numbness characterizing much of our present day?

During the workshop, participants will create their own original altar. All materials will be provided. Spots are limited, registration is required for this event.

Event is free. RSVP via the link in our bio!

Crawley will also give a public lecture on Oxy’s campus, at Choi Auditorium, on Thursday, Feb 16 from 7-8:30 PM, titled, “The Uncategory of Unkindness.”

02/09/2023

“Kenturah Davis: Dark Illumination” opens TONIGHT! Join us for an evening of art, food, drinks, and music–we can’t wait for you to experience this beautiful show.

Opening Reception
TONIGHT! February 9, 6-8 pm
4757 York Blvd
No RSVP required

In the near-darkness of the gallery, Davis’ works come into view, illuminated in parts, concealed in others. The walls are sites for exploration, outfitted with reliefs and alcoves, screens and portals. Building on ancient forms of writing such as cuneiform and hieroglyphics, Davis puts forth a visual language that traverses drawing, painting, and printmaking. A meditation on the materiality of language and the poetics of perception, Davis’ work plays with the relationship between shadow and light, movement and stillness, permanence and ephemerality in a way that is revelatory to witness and revisit. Don’t miss “Kenturah Davis: Dark Illumination” this spring at OXY ARTS!

Photo: Christian Nguyen

01/27/2023

Incense, Ethiopian coffee, jazz, classic Japanese cinema, and more! This spring, we invite you to join us for an exciting season of programming that truly engages the senses. “Kenturah Davis: Dark Illumination” opens us up to viscerally experience shadows and light, scents and memory, language and meaning-making…you won’t want to miss it! Mark your calendars and bring a friend!

All events are free. Link in bio for more information.

Opening Reception | “Kenturah Davis: Dark Illumination”
Thursday, Feb 9, 6-8pm

Kenturah Davis in Conversation with Ian F. Blair
Tuesday, Feb 21, 6pm

Jonathan Richards and Ensemble in Concert
Thursday, March 23, 6pm

Screening of “Maborosi (Phantom Light)” (1995)
Thursday, April 6, 6 pm

Incense Presentation with Ethiopian Coffee Ceremony
Thursday, April 27, 6pm
*RSVP link will be available two weeks prior to the event

01/18/2023

Announcing our spring exhibition! 📢

“Kenturah Davis: Dark Illumination” opens February 9, 2023. On view until April 29.

MARK YOUR CALENDARS! 🗓
Opening Reception
Thursday, Feb 9, 6-8 PM

For the culmination of her residency at OXY ARTS, and in her first solo institutional exhibition in Los Angeles, Kenturah Davis presents a body of work that illuminates the significance of shadows in our sensory experience.

Drawing inspiration from Jun’ichirō Tanizaki’s classic text, “In Praise of Shadows”, Davis explores the premise that shadows and darkness do not just produce conditions that conceal, but that they can also reveal and illuminate. Using hybrid forms of drawing, photography and printmaking, Davis experiments with various modalities that interrogate the contingent relationship between shadow and light.

Davis’ practice—at the intersection of text, image, and object—considers how we embody and disseminate meaning. Her work extends to questions and explorations that help unpack social and cultural conventions and hierarchies, and consider ideas rooted in philosophy, physics, literature and anthropology.

Kenturah Davis () is an artist working between Los Angeles and Accra (Ghana). Her work oscillates between various facets of portraiture and design. Using text as a point of departure, she explores the fundamental role that language has in shaping how we understand ourselves and the world around us. This manifests in a variety of forms including drawings, textiles and objects. Her work is in several institutional collections and has been included in exhibitions internationally. She has also been a contributing writer for publications including the LA Times and Brooklyn Rail. She currently teaches at Occidental College in the Art and Art History department. Davis earned her BA from Occidental College and MFA Yale University School of Art.

Link in bio for more on the exhibition and public programs.

Image credit: Kenturah Davis, “In Praise of Shadows”, 2019. Photo: Dawn Blackman.

12/30/2022

What a thrill! OXY ARTS exhibition, “Voice a Wild Dream”curated by Kris Kuramitsu, highlighted in ’s top 50 exhibitions worldwide.

From the review: “‘Voice a Wild Dream’ communicated both urgency in the wake of 21st-century hate and timelessness in its reminder that today’s struggles have a long history. We stand on the shoulders of giant robots.”

Congratulations to all the collectives, contributors and friends this season. We are honored to be in your company!

12/17/2022

As the year comes to a close, we’d like to thank you for your unwavering support of OXY ARTS! From EJ Hill’s exhibition reminding us to foreground JOY, to a summer of science and enchantment, to our fall season steeped in history and activism, it’s been a wonderful year full of gathering in community. Your participation has allowed us to continue our commitment to providing free arts programming and free arts education to our expanding community. We thank you for being part of our 2022! We can’t wait to share what’s coming up in the spring.

From all of us at OXY ARTS (Addy, Frankie, Jeff, Meldia and Rory), we wish you a safe and healthy holiday season.

The gallery is closed and will reopen on Jan 3rd.

Photo credits: Gina Clyne, Marc Campos, Ian Byers-Gamber

12/13/2022

Next up in the series of updates from our Fall 2022 interns is Maya who has been working with artworxLA.

My job with artworxLA was to help with recruitment for their advanced program workshops. I got to go to a couple of the schools around LA and meet with prospective students. My highlight was joining an alumni day with recent artworxLA alums (mostly first year students in college) and getting to see how artworxLA had helped them find incredible opportunities and continues to support them.

Shown in this series of photos is the alumni day where artworxLA introduced them to different design spaces which happened to be around Eagle Rock. It was equally as insightful for me and so nice to see what types of creative communities live so close to Oxy.

I really appreciated the artworxLA team. It was informative to just watch how they operated and interacted during office meetings and observe how they treated each other as equal players of collaboration. I gained a lot by meeting with different members one on one and asking them about their career/education journey’s and experience working with artworxLA.

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12/12/2022

Next up in our series of Fall 2022 internship recaps is Madeline who has been working with Clockshop.

Hi my name is Madeline Aubry! I am a senior Urban Environmental Policy Major and Spanish Minor. This past semester I interned for Clockshop, as a program and communications intern. Clockshop’s mission is to help connect the community to public land. I got to be involved in a few of the awesome projects and events that Clockshop puts on; like a talk and tasting event with Ohlone chefs, and “Dreaming Land Back into Reality”, a program that centers indigenous leaders in conversations about giving land back. I also got to visit two local artist’s studios to see the work they have been doing for upcoming partnership events with Clockshop (the last picture is a photo of artist, Sarah Rosalina’s, loom). Clockshop’s events are all free and open to the public, so I encourage you to check them out !

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Tuesday	11am - 4pm
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