UTOPIA/DYSTOPIA EXHIBITION

Saturday, April 20, 2019 Opening Reception

5:30 PM - 8:00 PM | FREE

On View April 18, 2019 - August 10, 2019

M-F, 10:00 AM - 5 :00PM | FREE

(Temporarily closed April 27, 2019 - May 8, 2019)

at Self Help Graphics & Art

1300 E. 1st St. LA, CA. 90033

#SHGExhibitions #UtopiaDystopia

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Utopia/ Dystopia is a portfolio of fine art prints created in the form of a deck of 52 playing cards. Curated by Artist and Printmaker, Miyo Stevens-Gandara, twenty-six artists were invited to create two cards for the deck to create their interpretation of utopia and dystopia.

The deck of cards allows the project to bring many different artists and styles together creating one unified artwork- a full deck, redefining a traditional portfolio. The concept of a deck of cards is intended to reference many things- games of chance, luck, fortune, war, solitude, precarious situations (house of cards), magic, empire, and divination. It serves as a container for many ideas, and each artist has chosen their own direction.

Artists include Pavel Acevedo, Kay Brown, Ada Pullini Brown, Leslie Dolin, Usen Gandara, Miyo Stevens-Gandara (Curator), Luis Genaro Garcia, J. Leigh Garcia, Margaret Griffith, Rogelio Gutierrez, Phung Huynh, Dongeun Lee, Kelvin Lopez, Rosalie Lopez, Sandra Low, Poli Marichal, Álvaro D. Márquez, Dalila Mendez, Wayne Perry, Sandy Rodriguez, Victor Rosas, Marianne Sadowski, Dewey Tafoya, Alex Fridrich-Ward, Christian Salcedo Ward and Andi Xoch.

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Artwork print: Poli Marichal, Utopia (detail), 2019