Human Resources

9/11 Fifteen Years A one-night exhibition happening on the fifteen year anniversary of September 11, 2001. A paradigm shift. Airplanes as weapons. America attacked. In the immediate aftermath, we saw people rush to hospitals to donate blood, and strangers talking on the street to figure out what was going on. People wanted to help. But, […]

Opening Saturday, September 3rd at 9pm, the exhibition will be on view for the duration of 24 hours, closing Sunday, September 4th at 9pm. Contributing artists include: Matt Damhave, Emma Kohlmann, Dennis Wornick, Shay Semple, Suzanna Zak, Cali Thornhill DeWitt, Madison East, Elijah Funk, Taylor Doran and ”Prank Line" from Local Outreach (Van Robinson & […]

An exhibition of art therapy works by Nikki Darling, Temple of The Dawg includes 26 works on paper and a video installation.

Organized by Sohrab Mohebbi and Miljohn Ruperto, With: Michel Auder, Julie Becker, David Bernstein, Jennifer Bolande, Cliff Borress, Quynh Dong, Shahab Fotouhi, Ulrik Heltoft, Joel Holmberg, Hassan Khan, Laura Owens, Maria Taniguchi, Asha Schechter, Dineo Seshee Bopape, Alice Wang, Brent Watanabe

Group exhibition highlighting the dialogic dimension of two years of thinking and working in relation to one another. Acknowledging the paradoxical quality of institutionalized art education, the show is conceived as a field of interferences and counterpoints, the aftermath of a vital encounter and commitment to critical discourse.

The Distance Plan: Climate and Infrastructure brings together work by 10 practitioners whose works address major infrastructural forms of the present—energy generation, digital frameworks and mass transport networks—in relationship to future alternatives.

Please join CLOSING for a week of presentations that invite 8 artists to play with form of public address and take on the task of communicating a substantial amount of information to an audience.

Works by Seniors in the Visual Arts program at L.A. County High School for the Arts. Opening Reception: Fri, May 20 5:30 - 8:30pm with gallery hours Sat, May 21 noon-5pm

50/50 presents the question, given the chance to peer into the future of your health, would you opt in or out? Using the artist’s personal screening and diagnostics, 50/50 examines and abstracts the predictive genetic screening process, and brings the private experience into a public space.

EXHIBITION HOURS
Thursday, April 14, 6-9pm
Friday, April 15, 12-6pm and 8-11pm
Saturday, April 16, 12-6pm

SCREENING: Queen Antigone followed by conversation between Alexiou and Zackary Drucker
Friday, April 15, 8-11pm

Opening Reception: Friday March 25, 2016 7-10pm Hours: Weds - Sun 12-6pm or by appointment

"I'd just like to point out that if anybody cares to look at the video evidence, at no point was my bare backside revealed. So therefore the fact he says he's seen it totally negates the credence of what he said in the previous part of the answer....I'm glad I've got that off my chest – it's been bothering me, that."

An exhibition of sixty new and recent videos by Martine Syms.

On View February 6 - 27, Wednesday thru Sunday 12-6pm or by appointment

ONE MAN SHOW is Berlin-based artist Sille Storihle’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. The show centers on two documentary shorts, The Stonewall Nation (2014) and The Tomorrow Show (2015). Drawing on archival material from the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, the exhibition examines the performative potential of archival documents.

Jeffzilla presents JEFFZILLAWORLD, a three-night installation and performance series that will transform HRLA into a fantasy fun house from beyond the pumpkin. Jeffzilla, aka Jeff Galvan, is an an LA based multi-disciplinary artist, musician and co-founder of the infamous Coolworld Party LA. **** *A queer little pumpkin, a jolly fat fellow, Stood close to his […]

Mark Golamco founded and hosted a monthly performance cabaret called Ghostlight at the infamous (and now shuttered) Cafe Dancer bar in New York City. Ghostlight is an eclectic night of performance featuring exceptional artists and DJs. Each night is grounded by an intimate solo performance by Golamco self-accompanied on the viola. Ghostlight has now become […]

Project curated by Suzy Halajian

with Basma Alsharif, Doa Aly, Gilda Davidian, Mariah Garnett, David Horvitz, Hiwa K, Mark Leckey, Klara Liden, Christine Rebet, Julie Tolentino, Erika Vogt, and Hanna Wildow, texts by Doa Aly, Janine Armin, Shoghig Halajian, and Litia Perta, & a video program organized with Clara López Menéndez

An exhibition of new work by Sabrina Chou consisting of backdrops, equipment, furnishings, and clothing. The exhibition proposes an ambiguity around these objects, and how they might oscillate between aesthetic proposition, functional use, and absurd adaptation.

The work in L​et it Yellow is process driven - performances build objects creating a syntax as gestures break down their materiality, starting the process over again. Art objects exist equally as both a means of representing the present and a remnant of the past, both combined to reflect upon the future.

“What It Means to Learn” Johanna Jackson & Dana Dart-McLean September 4th—September 6th, 2015 Opening Friday September 4th 7-9pm  At the opening, Peter Hernandez, Busy Gangnes, and Nickels Sunshine will dance in a collaboratively choreographed piece, using sculpture by Dana and Johanna. In addition to their individual work, Johanna Jackson and Dana Dart-McLean have used […]

A Man of Average Means Opening Reception: August 2nd 4-7pm with a performance by Dawn Kasper at 5:30PM Closing Party & Performance: Viola Yesiltac + Kathleen Kim 7:30PM In 1978, frustrated by his country’s inability to produce quality films, North Korean Supreme Leader Kim Jong Il embarked on a plan to appropriate proven foreign resources. […]

Opening reception: Sunday, June 28, 2015 Exhibition: June 28-July 19, 2015 Gallery hours: Thu-Sun 12-6pm Events staged during this exhibition include: FRI JULY 3: Your Motion Says: Dance to Arthur Russell: Christopher Argodale, Shade Theret, Peter Hernandez, Eydie Mcconnell & Nika Kolodziej, Tatiana Lubovski-Acosta, and Emily Jane Rosen 9PM FB TUE JULY 7: tir talk (1): conversation with Johanna […]

Chilean Miracle examines the transformations Chile witnessed since the 1970s, following Augusto Pinochet’s brutal dictatorship and the arrival of neoliberalism’s no less ruthless global capitalism. Using theorist, curator, and art historian Andrés Grillo’s and Angie Saiz's curatorial texts as a jumping-off point, artists Sergio Acevedo, Mario Z, Francisco Huichaqueo, María José Rojas, Hugo Leonello, Angie Saiz and […]

Opening Reception: Thursday, May 14 7PM-10PM Exhibition Dates: May 13 - May 21, 2015 Performance: Thursday, May 14 8PM sharp Gallery Hours: Wed-Sun, NOON-6PM (or by appointment) In an extensive showing of installations and materials from his most recent conceptual art projects and performances, JAMIE McMURRY (Los Angeles) brings his solo exhibit, ABOVE SNAKES, to […]

The text tho OMG IS EVERYONE WORKING RIGHT NOW? Maybe one of you guys can work on the images w/descriptions we could make  it a PDF?? is this allowed? a pdf? I can mess with it rn They don't want a PDF they want individual jpg files but anyways I work on it but it […]

https://vimeo.com/121561175 Opening Reception: Saturday March 21 7–10 pm Human Resources is pleased to announce Emily Joyce: Famous Potatoes and other related works.  Joyce’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles, Famous Potatoes and other related works features an on-and-off-the-wall installation of kinetic, optical, and symbolic abstract paintings. The exhibition is comprised of new works from three ongoing projects, including: free-standing mixed media paintings […]

Curated by Kelman Duran, The Border Again showcases artists who work in Tijuana and artists from Los Angeles who have made work in Tijuana and/or consider it as a context. The show is comprised of an exhibition, a film/video screening, and an Open Forum. The exhibition will also feature a text by Luisa Fernanda Martínez and Reuben Torres. […]

Opening: February 6th, 7pm-10pm Exhibition hours: Feb 7th-10th, 12pm-8pm Performance by Chris Corsano: February 10th, 8pm Michael Parker's Juicework is a five-day installation, inviting visitors to juice. Visitors entering the gallery are welcomed to wash their hands using a stoneware sink (pictured here, in the background). The basin is supported by three redwood legs joined […]

Primary Selected works by LACHSA Visual Arts students Opening reception Friday, January 30th, 2015, 5-8pm Curated by Sarah Russin, director of LACE gallery HRLA gallery will also be open Saturday, January 31st, 12-5pm

Human Resources Los Angeles presents artist Tiger Munson’s Numinous Rupture: An exploration of the individual and collective relationship we have with atomics, our nuclear world, and cataclysm. The exhibition consists of artist Munson’s photographic fabric light installation, performances by his portrait subjects, and an afternoon symposium. January 17th to 25th Opening reception and performances: January […]

Who is Ken Sugimori? "Who is Ken Sugimori?" is an installation consisting of nearly 800 drawings of every Pokemon and mega-evolution in the Nintendo canon. It's taken artist Johnnie JungleGuts over a year to complete these drawings and they represent a culmination of his work within the Pokemon fandom. This opening at Human Resources also […]

“A globe spinning so fast the continents can no longer be made out, flags wrapped around themselves, showing only their red colour, a video reversing the course of time – starting from the formulation of a hypothesis, the works of Fayçal Baghriche undermine our most familiar points of reference by staging fundamental actions. Playing on […]

HRLA is proud to present My Father's Side of Home, an installation project by Carmen Argote. Carmen Argote "Manta" (2014) (image courtesy of the artist)   Preview: Nov 14, 12-6 Opening: Nov 15 7PM-10PM Schedule: Nov 16-22 12PM-7:30PM, with nightly film screenings beginning at 6PM Closing Event: THE 16 HOUR EXPERIENCE November 22th 7PM - November […]

art must be perfect. life has to make mistakes. evolution favors mutations.

NSA-USA: Sound as Prophecy is an elaboration and embellishment of an installation and performance work that takes as its point of departure the recent scandal arising from the secret surveillance activities of the National Security Agency’s upon private citizens and politicians in the United States and abroad.

Opening Night & Reception, September 18th With performance/discussion by Cake and Eat It at 8:00pm Closing September 30th, till late Gallery Hours: Wednesday-Sunday, 1pm - 9pm Cake and Eat It will spend as much time in the gallery as possible. For additional hours, please see updates here, event details and on the exhibition's Facebook page. Feel free to reach […]

What we wear is often shorthand for who we are, or who we want to be. The codified manner in which we dress signals positions of power through public and private spheres, specifically the public notions of meaning and private hierarchal structures of inclusion and exclusion. Fascination with cultural identity is both the means and the end: fashion, like art, engages a public desiring insight on culture from seeing itself reflected back on a critical, yet consumable scale.

KRYSTEN CUNNINGHAM “UNDER / OVER” June 5th - June 22nd https://www.hatchfund.org/project/under_over OPENING RECEPTION: Thursday, June 5th, 7-10pm Cunningham will present two large-scale textile sculptures that also serve as performative tableaux’s -- “Tapestry X” and “Loom for Minkowski.” “Tapestry X” is a work of hand dyed and woven tapestries that hang in formation from the ceiling.  […]

The floor of the gallery will be covered with Mylar thermo blankets, light bulbs and mounds of sugar. As the light bulbs heat the sugar, the sugar caramelizes and creates small volcanoes which mark the blankets underneath.

BASE is a series of choreography exhibitions. These Sessions incorporate performance, workshops, video, and material research. Featuring work by Niv Acosta, Gina Dell’Amico, Nick Duran, Lauren Davis Fisher, Madeline Hollander, Arley Marks, Temra Pavlovic, Mårten Spångberg, and Sylvie Spencer.

A new angle on Geo Wyeth's Kitchen Steve project.

MPA Fiona Connor Mandla Reuter Erika Vogt curated by Chiara Giovando A note on series: In our current incarnation we are held discrete by time and space. Our bodies retain individuality through these physical properties, without which we would melt back and into one another as primordial ooze. “All that is or ever was or […]

Artist Arjuna Neuman will present a gallery installation in response to an original text conceived by Kestrel Burley that explores the relationship between war, sexuality and pornography.

Teenage Wasteland of the Arts is an artist collective for teens aged 14-19. The collective was founded by both teens and adults in September of 2011. Since January this year , members of the collective have met once a week for 2 hours at a time, at Human Resources, preparing work for this show. All the work in the show is made by teen members of the collective.

Oral Sadism and the Vegetarian Personality
a Solo Show by Karl Haendel

The Trap Door Jedediah Caesar and Shana Lutker Exhibition Dates: November 23 – December 8, 2011 Reception with the artists: Friday, December 2, 2011 8 – 11 pm Featuring DJs Joey Kotting and Aram Moshayedi and special guests D3 Human Resources is pleased to present a display of large art-related items that were previously exhibited […]

Ian Stanton Chris Hanke Kaitlyn Fong Ashley Blakeney Brandon Jardine Yrneh Gabon Brown Devon McDonald-Hyman This document is essential. We propose that the artworks in this exhibition function as individual documents; they are essential in and of themselves. If, how or why they utilize the photographic medium, they all respond, in one way or another, […]

Opening Reception: Saturday, October 22nd, 2011, 7pm-10pm Human Resources is pleased to present Molly Larkey: The Lost Alphabet, Pants That Fit, and Other Implausible Disguises In her new body of work, Larkey continues to investigate the boundaries between the self and the world, by looking at the ways the individual is both hidden and revealed […]

Sophie Lee Anne McCaddon Allison Miller Yunhee Min Opening Reception: Saturday, October 22nd, 7-10 pm A plain brown wrapper is used when something is too valuable - or too subversive - to reveal to the world. It’s a strategy of concealment, so that the treasured object isn’t immediately recognized for what it is. It’s also […]

Eros And Civilization September 16 – October 7, 2011 Opening reception: Friday, September 16, 7-10 PM Heather Cantrell Dawn Kasper Tricia Lawless Murray Davida Nemeroff Amy Sampson Curated by Benjamin Lord Eros And Civilization gathers together the work of five female artists based in Los Angeles who use photography to explore the relationship between desire, power, […]

mal-dis-tri-bu-tion

n. Faulty distribution or apportionment, as of resources, over an area or among a group. Maldistribution is a term generally applied to economic disparity: It most often refers to

the inequal distribution of resources or capital.

It is a term that also suggests ‘bad’ distribution- a common complaint of producers of cultural artifacts: records, films, mass-produced objects. In this context, it refers to a lack of wide commercial availability of a specific product, usually through the fault of the distributor. Maldistribution has poor consequences for mass-produced objects and good consequences for their opposite in the realm of distribution: objects of art.

Queering Sex is a performance and video exhibition that features the work of artists who are dealing with gender and sexuality. This cross-generational, trans-historical video program explores sex and sexuality via ideas and actions related to performance, and thereby highlighting a relationship between performativity and identity. The exhibition includes the participation of over 40 artists from Los […]

Paul Pescador May 14-June 1, 2011 Opening May 14, 7-10pm. Film will screen promptly at 9pm. In 1, 1 1/2, 2, the space will be used as a theater, art gallery, and screening room simultaneously. The show explores the relationship between live events, performances, everyday objects, and their photographic documents. These photographic documents are then used as the source material for the […]

Artist Curated Projects is pleased to present the work of Tony Payne and Suzanne Wright. Each artists' work is inherently concerned with the body though their approach to the subject is vastly different.
Using text, Tony Payne’s work explores both the actual letterforms and their various levels of context - the text / image is rendered in a painterly fashion - using hand made materials (pigment) with elements directly related to the body (it's host, the interior), saliva, blood, semen. Words (often parts of lyrics, found text or elements of the artist's dreams) subconsciously emerge to become subjects. The letters somehow both stand for, and come from the body, mirroring the struggles (the elation, the power) within.

Mariah Garnett at Human Resources 510 Bernard St, Los Angeles, CA, 90012. October 8-19, 2010. Opening Reception: October 8, Closing Reception: October 19 info@humanresourcesla.com 213-290-4752 Gallery hours are 12-6 pm, Thursday through Saturday and by appointment Human Resources are pleased to host: Encounters I May Or May Not Have Had With Peter Berlin a 16mm […]

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Human Resources 510 Bernard St. Los Angeles, Ca 90012 Opening Reception: Saturday August 7th, from 7pm-11pm Human Resources is pleased to host: The Birth of Satan a multimedia interactive art installation by Gustavo Herrera. The installation ruminates on specific cause and effect relationships pertaining to the conceptual allure of such figures as […]

The Mystics Circle June 19 - July 29 curated by Spencer Douglass and Devin McNulty Human Resources hosts The Mystics Circle, an exhibition of video works by Skip Arnold, Brian Bress, William E. Jones, Hilja Keading, Mike Kelley, Candice Lin, Davida Nemeroff and Margie Schnibbe. Coinciding with the summer solstice the show’s titled alludes to […]

Curated by Dawn Kasper, Human Resources hosts a group exhibition with works by Asher Hartman and Skylar Haskard and Jason Yates. The theme of the show is qualia. Qualia is a term used in philosophy to describe the subjective quality of conscious experience; defined as a property as it is experienced as distinct from any […]