well wishes, sympathies, utterances (Newtown) 2024, UV print on Dibond. 24”x36”. Photography by Chase Barnes.
well wishes, sympathies, utterances (Newtown) 2024, UV print on Dibond. 24”x36”. Photography by Chase Barnes.
An Index of Americanisms (details) 2023, 27' paper scroll. Image courtesy of the artist.
An Index of Americanisms (details) 2023, 27' paper scroll. Image courtesy of the artist.
An Index of Americanisms
We are pleased to announce the opening of Rachel Zaretsky’s An Index of Americanisms, a new project commissioned by Prospect Art, presented in partnership with Winslow Garage.
August 11 to September 9, 2024.
Opening Reception Sunday, August 11, 2024, 4 - 8 PM
The show runs by appointment.
Contact Gallery https://www.winslowgarage.com/
Winslow Garage: 3540 Winslow Dr, Los Angeles, CA 90026
An Index of Americanisms is an installation examining the public’s desires concerning monumentality, collective memory, and its commodification. The exhibition includes interactive sculpture, photography, and installation works. Mass shootings are hyper-represented in mass media, where coverage contributes to how grief is framed when local traumas become national sensations. The work approaches these cycles of circulation by presenting an audit of actions or inactions that are subsequently set in motion. This presentation probes the commercialization of memory and grief, focusing on how collective remembrance and forgetting shape public responses to tragedy.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Rachel Zaretsky is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles. She works with video, performance, installation, and photography to untangle the social space of memory and how it is reconstructed in public. She examines how systems of authority frame highly publicized tragedies that mold our collective memory. Central to Zaretsky’s practice is amassing and organizing materials as evidence. She sifts through commemorative detritus, which includes found imagery, archival material, and testimony, to understand what was forgotten and lost through active processes of remembering. She received her MFA in Art from the University of Southern California’s Roski School of Art and Design and her BFA in Visual and Critical Studies from the School of Visual Arts in New York. Her work has been exhibited at Human Resources, 18th Street Arts Center, and UTA Artist Space in Los Angeles; it has also been screened in New York and Germany.
ABOUT THE SPACE
Winslow Garage is an artist-run project space in Silverlake exhibiting local and international contemporary art. Learn more about the space here: https://www.winslowgarage.com/about.html
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
This exhibition is made possible in part by a grant from the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. Additional support is provided by Yev Kozachuk, CFP® - Financial Advisor at Edward Jones.
Yev Kozachuk, CFP® - Financial Advisor at Edward Jones (PH: 847-768-5407)