Viewable only in-person from April 17-May 29, 2021.

Temporary Gallery Hours:
Walk-ins everyday between 2-4PM (closed Fridays) | or by appointment

Appointment Schedule:
Monday – 10:30AM, 11:30AM, 2:00PM, 3:00PM
Tuesday – 10:30AM, 11:30AM, 2:00PM, 3:00PM
Wednesday – CLOSED
Thursday – 10:30AM, 11:30AM, 2:00PM, 3:00PM
Friday – 10:30AM, 11:30AM
Saturday – 10:30AM & 11:30AM (some Saturdays), 2:00PM, 3:00PM
Sunday – CLOSED

or by arrangement.

Community Agreements:
Please only 5 visitors inside at a time.
Visits are limited to 45 minutes.
Mask required for entry.

To schedule an appointment, please email artist, Victoria Arriola, at victoria.arriola@gmail.com (subject: “GALLERY APPOINTMENT“) with information on what what date, what time slot, how many people in your party and contact info (name, email, phone number). Please email for an appointment at least 24 hours in advance. Thank you.

Avenue 50 Studio
131 N. Avenue 50
Los Angeles, CA 90042
(Highland Park, Northeast Los Angeles)
avenue50studio@gmail.com | call (323)258-1435.

Free parking is available behind the building (enter through the dirt road driveway parallel to the train tracks), or the gallery is also located within walking distance from the Highland Park Metro Gold Line Station, and several Dash and Metro bus routes.

EVENTS:

Check out our Instagram feed on the dates of Monday, May 10 – Friday, May 14, 2021 for an Instagram Takeover by one of our exhibiting artists, Victoria Arriola!

WHERE?
instagram.com/Avenue50Studio

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INSTALLATION SHOTS:

Please click and drag the image for a 360 panoramic view of the gallery.

Thank you to Panoramic Eye for the 360!

Thank you to Panoramic Eye for the 360!

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ABOUT:

(the quality of being fleeting or vanishing quickly)

1: Remembered_unremembered  /  14 minute video

2: Water makes many beds /  video

3: Faint murmurings /  panels

Evanescence of a Dream, provides a look into the ethereal and intimate world that Victoria has documented over the past five years, which visualizes the fluid interaction between human consciousness, nature and their mutual impermanence. In 2016, she began filming a series of videos that recorded the starkly different terrains of Iceland, Denmark, Spain, Switzerland, Greece, Italy, Turkey, England and California. In a dream-like narrative of fragmented memories, she combines footage of the elusive aspects of the natural world found within the trappings of civilization. The movement of light and the sound of the wind evoke a hypnotic, disturbing, yet healing, voyage where dreams appear, vanish and reappear. A tension of opposites, both conscious and unconscious, provide a contemplative glimpse of a hazy, trance-like journey of joy, youth, aging, loss, death and rebirth. The work, thusly connects passages of time, intertwined memories, and visions remembered and unremembered.

Simultaneously, Victoria collected used tea-bags from friends and family in her community (known for years as the Teabag Project). The individual bags were transformed into large, flowing scrims, that serve as shroud-like portals and visible traces of collective story-telling.

Victoria Arriola, a second generation Hispanic, was raised in Highland Park. She is a mixed media visual artist, art director, designer, adjunct professor at UC Berkeley, USC, and a Fulbright guest lecturer at the Danish School for Media and Journalism in Copenhagen, Denmark. Greatly inspired by her second home, Denmark (and much time spent in Iceland), her artwork focuses on the beauty and mystery found in decay. This body of work was completed during Covid.

Thank you to the LA County Dept. of Arts & Culture for helping us make this programming possible!