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“Over forty years ago Clinic’s volunteers Irma Cohen, Ruth Bloom, Sheila Goldberg and Laura Maslon joined forces with architect Frank Gehry and artists Ed Ruscha, John Baldessari, Fred Eversley, Laddie and Guy Dill, Chuck Arnoldi, myself, and many others to create Venice Art Walk + Auction. We bandied together to support our neighbors in-Venice and created a one-of-a-kind experience, opening our studios and showing art in this colorful place with its canals and eccentric history. Light and Space. Many will remember at that time walking from one studio to the next and buying art. Today the need has grown, the Clinic has grown, and they are still opening their doors to help our neighbors get well and stay well. I am so glad to have been and continue to be part of this history.”
– Lita Albuquerque
“For the last five decades, Venice Family Clinic has been a guiding light for the LA Community and beyond. In a time when basic human rights are at stake, the Clinic continues with their legacy of support to underserved communities including generations of women and the Clinic’s deep rooted programs dedicated to women’s health at all stages of life. I find it so moving when the arts community and the health community can join forces in our shared goals of imagining and creating better futures and presents for our grandmothers, mothers, aunties, nieces, sisters and daughters. This kind of coming together is essential now more than ever, and I am honored to join Venice Family Clinic in their mission of healthcare for all.”
– Isabelle Albuquerque
About Lita Albuquerque
Since the early 1970s, Lita Albuquerque (born 1946, Santa Monica, CA, raised in Carthage, Tunisia and Paris, France) has created an expansive body of work, ranging from sculpture, poetry, painting and multi-media performance to ambitious site-specific ephemeral projects in remote locations around the globe. Often associated with the Light and Space and Land Art movements, Albuquerque has developed a unique visual and conceptual vocabulary using the earth, color, the body, motion and time to illuminate identity as part of the universal. She represented the United States at the Sixth International Cairo Biennale, where she was awarded the Biennale’s top prize. Albuquerque has also been the recipient of the National Science Foundation Artist Grant Program for the artwork, Stellar Axis: Antarctica, which culminated in the first and largest ephemeral artwork created on that continent. Recent major exhibitions include Lita Albuquerque: Earth Skin, Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles; Lita Albuquerque: The Washington Monument Project: The Red Pyramid, presented by Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach, Offscreen, Paris; Lita Albuquerque: Malibu Line, Los Angeles Nomadic Division; Crossing Over: Caltech and Visual Culture, 1920 – 2020, California Institute of Technology, Getty PST, Pasadena, CA; Lita Albuquerque: Early Works at Galerie La Patinoire Royale Bach, Brussels; Groundswell: Women of Land Art at Nasher Sculpture Center, Dallas; Lita Albuquerque: Liquid Light presented by bardoLA at 59th La Biennale di Venezia, Biennale Arte 2022; Light & Space at Copenhagen Contemporary, Denmark; Desert X AlUla 2020, Saudi Arabia; the 2018 Art Safiental Biennial, Switzerland. Her work is in the collections of the Metropolitan Museum of Art, the Getty Trust, the Whitney Museum of American Art, LACMA and MOCA, among others
About Isabelle Albuquerque
Isabelle Albuquerque is an artist based in Los Angeles. She is a founding member of the performance duo Hecuba, and has performed at SFMOMA, the Walker Art Center, and the Hammer Museum. Recent sculptural exhibitions include Post Human, Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles, Orgy for 10 People in One Body, Jeffrey Deitch, New York; BodyLand, Max Hetzler, Berlin; and Sextet, Nicodim, Los Angeles. Albuquerque’s work has appeared in numerous publications including Flash Art, Artforum and The New York Times. Last year she released Orgy for Ten People in One Body (Jeffrey Deitch, Nicodim, Pacific), a 450 page monograph about the series that includes her own personal writings alongside conversations with the artists Miranda July and Arthur Jafa. Her formally powerful and psychologically charged sculpture invites multiple, simultaneous readings and creates a cross-temporal conversation that centers the experiences of women and their own connection to desire, sexuality and embodiment.
Isabelle Albuquerque’s psychologically charged work mines structures of power, desire, and transmutation through the body. She employs both human and robotic processes and uses materials such as cast bronze, hair, rubber and melting wax to encode precise moments or performances in time. The resulting works become a cross-temporal conversation that centers the experiences of women and subverts art historical constructs through new modes of multiplicity and agency. In her most recent series Orgy For Ten People In One Body, Albuquerque translates her own body through varied forms and materials to create ten headless human scaled figures in multivalent states of embodiment, ecstasy and transformation.
Each year, the Curatorial Committee of Venice Family Clinic Art Walk + Auction honors an artist or artists who exemplifies the spirit of the event, a devotion and dedication to the artistic community and the people the Clinic serves.
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