Welcome to CAI!
CAI is a collective of independent art practices and an incubator of small creative businesses. We host programming featuring emerging artists and creatively participatory projects. And we offer our shared spaces as venues for independently produced projects or private events. We invite you to join our community!
Support Structures
ON VIEW: 2016 | August 1 – September 30
Support Structures is an exhibition focusing on a less frequented, yet indispensable notion – that of support. While ‘support structures’ are fundamental to our everyday, these conversations are often displaced or disregarded. While they help foster the creative process, they are rarely seen as a means to an end.
Taking as their starting point the text from Céline Condorelli & Gavin Wade’s 2009 publication Support Structures, the six Los Angeles-based artists have assembled an exhibition of new and developing works that demonstrate their individual and collective responses to the subject and necessity of support structures. Working across drawing, painting, sculpture and video, the artists explore societal frameworks such as commerce and migration; the underlying myths that feed into our urban environments; and the immersion of technology into contemporary life, and the effects of this on human interactions and physicality.
Garden Party
ON VIEW: 2016 | October 8 – November 30
Garden Party is the first open call issued by the Collective Arts Incubator. We received work spanning various disciplines and technologies, but all addressing the brilliant energy innate to our natural environment. The work has coalesced into a vibrant thicket of sound, image, and object, embedded within the network of verdant planters, yards, and public spaces that make Los Angeles a bizarre but beloved suburban Eden. As we face an extended drought in Southern California, we are forced to claim ownership of our green amenities and recognize their indispensable role in our lives. This collection makes plain the resilient vitality of nature’s flora, which enlivens all other forms of life and encompasses some of the most stunning complexities known to man.
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