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18th Street Arts Center

Celebrating its 30th anniversary in 2018-2019, 18th Street Arts Center is one of the top 20 artist residency programs in the US, and the largest in Southern California. Conceived as a radical think tank in the shape of an artist community, 18th Street supports artists from around the globe to imagine, research, and develop significant, meaningful new artworks and share them with the public. We strive to provide artists the space and time to take risks, to foster the ideal environment for artists and the public to directly engage, and to create experiences and partnerships that foster positive social change.

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The new exhibition "Mineral Monsters" features flickering animations of rocks that challenge normal stereo vision and experience.
Los Angeles has been fertile territory for Japanese visual artist Yukako Ando's explorations of everyday phenomena.
Taiwanese artist Tsai Shih Hung uses his artistic canvas as a way to show the world his observations about the ironies of technology.
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Slovenian artist Miha Å trukelj is interested in the linear elements of urban landscapes and the geometric building blocks of architectural forms.
"This Paintings needs Attention from an Expert in Statistics," V&B (Alex Jacobs and Ellemieke Schoenmaker) 2014 54 x 66 inch.
Through the recurring use of ironic self-portrayal in their paintings, sculptures and installations, the artist duo V&B stir up a commentary on the (art) world.
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Patricia Fernández cultivates and shares a symbolic archive of Spanish Republicans' flight into France, a path known as la Retirada, to escape persecution in 1939.
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Video collective EZTV attracted artists and video-makers whose work wouldn't or couldn't be made in either the film industry or the traditional art world.
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Saxophonist and composer John Ellis has spent his residency at 18th Street Arts Center by composing 30 new pieces of work.
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Yael Lipschutz is organizing a body of research around the intersection of art and technology for her residency at 18th Street Arts Center.
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Elena Bajo's exhibition, "With Entheogenic Intent," investigates the "sculptural anarchive" of suppressed political histories, extending her research to California's geopolitical context.
"Be Dammed" is a multi-disciplinary project reflecting the artist's ongoing query into the development of mega-infrastructures over natural and social landscapes.
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Public Movement is a Tel Aviv-based 'performative research body' that aims to use the infrastructure of the art world to create social impact and new politicized civic bodies.
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