SPIRITUAL NATURE:
MICHAEL MASSENBURG

In this solo show, Massenburg’s wonderfully vibrant paintings function as a ritual to “connect the dots” spanning the connection of cultural and spiritual practices from the Motherland to the New World. It illustrates a tale of survival and salvation, tracing the journey of his ancestors from enslavement to empowerment, and evoking questions about the notions of status and place in the world. With this long overdue exhibition, Massenburg affirms his place among his peers (artists like John Outerbridge and Kerry James Marshall), and as mentor to countless younger artists.

MESS

An exhibition exploring women, domesticity, and representation

Curator Candice Greathouse organizes an exhibition about the complicated nature of being a woman and all the messy aspects – domesticity, representation, objectification, empowerment, and contradiction. Featuring artworks spanning from the seventies to now, MESS includes performative video, figurative photography, and experimental sculpture. Exhibiting artists, all women artists, each addressing a unique aspect and approach to the exhibition concept, are: Beth Abaravich, Jaime Bull, Jo Ann Callis, Danielle Deadwyler, Tirsa Delate, Flo Kasearu, and Lee Materazzi.

Exhibition: August 29 - October 5, 2022

Opening reception: September 7, 2022, 5-7 p.m.

Tambayan

A group exhibition of Filipino American artists

Tambayan narrates the timelines and perspectives in the Filipino diaspora, while questioning issues of cultural assimilation, traditions, and surveillance.

Revolutionary Talent

2022 Student Scholarship Show

Visual and Arts Media Department presents work by the winner’s of the VAMA Gallery scholarship. We are proud to share the art of students from the Los Angeles City College Art programs; studio art, photography, journalism illustration, digital arts, and photojournalism.

Under Investigation

Alberto Lule solo exhibition

Alberto Lule's recent activist artworks focusing on the prison industrial complex, gentrification, surveillance, and identity designation. Lule, a former Graffiti artist incarcerated for a total of 14 years at several California prisons, draws on his own experiences in the prison industrial complex to creates artworks that explore institutional roles of gatekeepers of knowledge, authorities of culture, and administrators of discipline and punishment.

Bringing Imagination Into View

A New Future Awaits

At Bringing Imagination Into View you will experience the process firsthand and see the artwork that helped make some of your favorite places and characters into reality. Welcome to the future, taking shape before your very eyes.

Broke with Expensive Taste

Surge Witron & Jynx Prado

Broke with Expensive Taste, a two person exhibition by Los Angeles based artists Jynx Prado and Surge Witrön. Embracing non-traditional methods and materials, these two artists work with an exuberant love for the handmade and resulting in unlikely synergies.

2021 Student Scholarship Show

LACC Scholarship Winners

Visual and Arts Media Department presents work by the winner’s of the VAMA Gallery scholarship. We are proud to share the art of students from the Los Angeles City College Art programs; studio art, photography, journalism illustration, digital arts, and photojournalism.

REVOLUTIONS GENERATOR

ISMAEL DE ANDA III

Revolutions Generator pluralistically evokes the definition of a revolution as an instance of revolving or spinning, or the replacement or evolution of social order, in favor of an alternative system or experience.

Distant Lives

2020 Faculty Show

The Los Angeles City College VAMA Gallery is hosting an exhibition of work by faculty members from the Visual Arts and Media department. The faculty 2021 show, Distant Lives, showcases the recent work of LACC professors who took inspiration from the unusual events of the last year.

2020 STUDENT SHOW

VAMA Gallery Annual Student Art Show 2020, is an online experience featuring student work in various mediums, including digital art, graphic design, painting, drawing, and photography. All work shown was created by the talented students of Los Angeles City College through classes taken in the 2019-2020 school year.