Highway Hypnosis, at Craft Contemporary, presents the work of Adrian Alfaro, Aaron Douglas Estrada, Alfredo D. Diaz, Alexa Ramírez Posada, Oscar Magallanes, and Rubén Ortiz-Torres– all members of the Los Angeles-based 3B Collective. This exhibition will feature a vast range of multi-media works including murals, assemblages, textiles, ceramics, printmaking, mask installations, and more, serving as expressions and reiterations of a culture forced to migrate and adapt due to exploitation and (neo)colonization. Their collective and individual work sits in conversation with hidden legacies of migration, indigeneity, tradition, labor, and their effects within craft practices and material.
In Highway Hypnosis, 3B engages in collaborative works with skilled artisans from regions integral to their familial roots, such as Oaxaca, Jalisco, El Salvador, and Baja California, and actively credits the involved collaboration. This ongoing exchange of creation and labor forms a contemporary manifestation of ancestral lineages within the urban and industrialized context of Los Angeles. The exhibition as a whole will embody a resilient cultural heritage that thrives, despite a capitalist system that unintentionally makes them collaborators in their own exploitation– across borders and time.
Opening reception:
Saturday, May 25, 6-9pm
Gallery Conversations with 3B Collective
Sunday, June 30, 1:30am
free
Gallery Walkthrough with 3B Collective
Sunday, August 18, 11:30am
free
Museum Hours:
Tuesday - Sunday, 11am - 5:00pm
Admission:
adults - $9
students, teachers, seniors - $7
Craft Contemporary members - FREE
FREE admission every Sunday