Art in California by Jenni Sorkin

Author:Jenni Sorkin
Language: eng
Format: epub
Publisher: Thames & Hudson
Published: 2021-11-15T00:00:00+00:00

Artist-Initiated Spaces After 2000

Since 2000, artists have remained at the helm of space-making, but increasingly utilized their own monies, drawn from teaching salaries or the sale of their artworks, to pursue programming free of bureaucratic constraints. They have been adept at inventing thoughtful and scalable situations that are not only self-funded, but also time-limited: not meant to supplant one’s own artistic career.

In 2000, L.A. painter Kim Dingle (b. 1951) opened Fatty’s, a vegetarian restaurant in Eagle Rock, an Eastside working-class neighborhood where many artists had settled. On the restaurant’s walls, she showed other artists’ work, taking a seven-year hiatus from painting. In San Francisco, the artist Ginger Wolfe-Suarez (b. 1980) established InterReview Journal (2002–08), a short-lived magazine that commissioned artists’ projects by both established and emerging California artists.

As a cross between an alternative space and a home-apartment gallery, Micol Hebron’s The Situation Room (Eagle Rock, 2015–present), presented feminist video nights, performances, and collaborations, inviting organizations such as Women’s Center for Creative Work (WCCW) and X-Tra magazine, a non-commercial, artist-run periodical, to collaborate on screenings and fundraisers.[128] Hebron explains her reason for initiating her own self-funded space in her garage: “After learning about the Situation Room that is located in the White House, I was very interested in the idea of a dedicated space where people gather when serious and important sh*t goes down. I also liked the linguistic association with the Situationists. And I really wanted a Situation Room of my own. Los Angeles has a long and unique history of alternative art spaces…facilitated by the space and sprawl of Southern California.”

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