Nature on Notice: Contemporary Art and Ecology

Eve Shillo, the Associate Curator of the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at LACMA and long-time friend and supporter of PAC LA, has kindly offered to lead us through the exhibition Nature on Notice: Contemporary Art and Ecology. This VIP Closing Event takes place on the final day of this important and beautifully curated show. The exhibition is not at LACMA but rather at the Charles White Elementary School Gallery near McArthur Park.

Of this show, LACMA writes:

From its beginnings in the late 1800s, photography has idealized the natural world. Photography elevated the pristine environment, evoking the sublime and motivating the protection of natural beauty. Simultaneously, photographic land surveys acted as guides on how to exploit nature, whether through infrastructure, extraction, or armed forces, determining who was displaced. In the Anthropocene—the current geological age in which human activity has been the dominant influence on the environment—lens-based artists are imaging an even more rapidly changing ecology. In Nature on Notice, more than 20 artists from around the globe engage in a visual dialogue about the “new nature” we are living in. Illuminating the need for both artistic and scientific imagination to counter threats to our ecology, these makers speak sensitively to the changes they are witnessing or, as a counterpoint, refer to cultures that have long revered nature while most of the world has steadily consumed it.

LINK TO EXHIBITION

TICKETS ARE FOR PAC LA MEMBERS ONLY

1 Ticket per Member, Please!

LOCATION & INFORMATION

Saturday. August 2nd. - 2:00PM

Charles White Elementary School Gallery

The entrance and lobby of the gallery are located at 2401 Wilshire Blvd. (see glass doors at the corner of Wilshire and Park)

There is plenty of metered parking surrounding the venue. Validated Free parking is available in the parking structure behind the Charles White Elementary School at 611 S. Carondelet St., LA 90057

Please present your parking ticket to LACMA security staff for validation.

PAC LA - Curator-led Walkthrough of "Nature on Notice"