Hamer Man
November 25, 2011
Please join me at the opening of Refocus: Multicultural Focus
Arena 1 Gallery, Santa Monica
January 7th, 2012
part of the J. Paul Getty, Pacific Standard Time initiative
In 1981 the exhibition Multicultural Focus was mounted at Los Angeles Municipal Gallery Barnsdall Park where Josine Starrels was Gallery Director. Organized by Sheila Pinkel and curated by twelve artist/curators in the Los Angeles area — three each from the black, Latino, white and Asian communities — it was the first cross-cultural exhibition of photography in the Los Angeles area. Refocus: Multicultural Focus will include current work by most of the original artists in the exhibition. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition providing information on the original show juxtaposed to contemporary work and statements by participating artists. A new catalogue essay will reflect the changes that have taken place in multiculturalism and photography during the intervening thirty years. Participating artists include Arden Alger, Don Anton, Stephen Axelrad, Carroll Parrott Blue, Elizabeth Bryant, Gillian Brown, Steve Beherns, Dennis Callwood, Todd Gray, Robin Lasser and Adrienne Pao, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Willie Middlebrook, Patrick Nagatani, Peter Reiss, Joan Salinger, Rick Tejada-Flores, Linda Wolf, Nancy Webber, Mihoko Yamagata and Bruce Yonomoto.
