COLA 2021
May 13—July 22, 2021

Neha Choksi, Strata bouquet (uncertain allies), 2021. courtesy of the artist. photo: Ruben Diaz.

The City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs (DCA) and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery (LAMAG) presented COLA 2021, a virtual exhibition featuring new work by Edgar Arceneaux, Maura Brewer, Nao Bustamante, Jedediah Caesar, Neha Choksi, Lia Halloran, Phung Huynh, Farrah Karapetian, Ruben Ochoa, and Umar Rashid. These ten artists were the recipients of the 2021 City of Los Angeles (COLA) Individual Artist Fellowships. The Fellows were selected by a panel of curators, educators, museum directors, and past COLA Fellows. The COLA initiative provided each artist with $10,000 to produce a new body of work that premiered in the C.O.L.A. 2021 exhibition.

 

The exhibition was also accompanied by public programming as well as a catalog produced by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs Marketing, Development, Design, and Digital Research Division and designed by Garland Kirkpatrick, a former COLA Design Fellow. The exhibition and related public programming was curated by Jamie Costa.

 

Select Press:

Carolina A. Miranda, “Newsletter: How artist Nari Ward Uses castoffs to create charged worlds at Deitch gallery”, Los Angeles Times, July 3, 2021.

Lindsay Preston Zappas, “Top 3 This Week”, KCRW, July 6, 2021.

 

COLA 2021 Catalog
 
Edgar Arceneaux Video Feature

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Maura Brewer Accessibility links:

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Phung Huynh Accessibility links:

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Farrah Karapetian Accessibility links:

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C.O.L.A. 2021 Visual Art Fellows: Advice for Aspiring Artists Video Feature

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Ruben Ochoa, "Las Tortillas and CLASS: C mobile gallery", 2021. courtesy of the artist and CLASS: C. photo: Pete Galindo.
Ruben Ochoa, "Las Tortillas and CLASS: C mobile gallery", 2021. courtesy of the artist and CLASS: C. photo: Pete Galindo.
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Maura Brewer, "1550 Blue Jay Way" (video still), 2021. courtesy of the artist.
Maura Brewer, "1550 Blue Jay Way" (video still), 2021. courtesy of the artist.
Nao Bustamante, "Bloom, concept drawing of open speculum", 2021. courtesy of the artist. drawing credit: Jessica Taylor Bellamy.
Nao Bustamante, "Bloom, concept drawing of open speculum", 2021. courtesy of the artist. drawing credit: Jessica Taylor Bellamy.
Jedediah Caesar, "Exterior, Ammonite House", 2021. courtesy of the artist, Vincent Arnado, and Jenessa Cua.
Jedediah Caesar, "Exterior, Ammonite House", 2021. courtesy of the artist, Vincent Arnado, and Jenessa Cua.
Edgar Arceneaux, "Mirror Pull 2", 2021. courtesy of the artist.
Edgar Arceneaux, "Mirror Pull 2", 2021. courtesy of the artist.
Neha Choksi, "Strata bouquet (uncertain allies)", 2021. courtesy of the artist. photo: Ruben Diaz.
Neha Choksi, "Strata bouquet (uncertain allies)", 2021. courtesy of the artist. photo: Ruben Diaz.
Farrah Karapetian, "The Women", 2020. courtesy of the artist and Diane Rosenstein Gallery.
Farrah Karapetian, "The Women", 2020. courtesy of the artist and Diane Rosenstein Gallery.
Lia Halloran, "The Sun Burns My Eyes Like Moons", 2021. courtesy of the artist. photo: Garret Hill.
Lia Halloran, "The Sun Burns My Eyes Like Moons", 2021. courtesy of the artist. photo: Garret Hill.

Vanessa McConnell (b. 1960, Houston, TX, lives and works in Los Angeles, CA) began her practice at the Exceptional Children’s Foundation Art Centers (ECF) in 1983 at the MLK studio in South Los Angeles, and now works from the ECF Art Center Westside studio located in Inglewood California. The ECF Art Center Westside is one of ECF’s five progressive art studios supporting adult artists with developmental disabilities.