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Harold Mendez:
Let us gather in a flourishing way

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Let us gather in a flourishing way is the first Los Angeles solo museum presentation of artist Harold Mendez (b. 1977, Chicago). Borrowing its title from a poem by Juan Felipe Herrera, the exhibition will include a selection of approximately 20 works by Mendez made over the past decade as well as newly produced works. Working between photography and sculpture, Mendez explores the tension between fiction and truth, visibility and absence, with an interest in how constructions of history and geography shape our sense of self.

A first-generation American of Mexican-Colombian descent, his work often considers the transnational experience, ritual, and cultural memory. Mendez’s large format two-dimensional works transform found photographs through a laborious manual transfer process similar to lithography. Using charcoal or graphite to build the surface, Mendez both traces and erases archival imagery with specific sociocultural or art historical references to create otherworldly new images. Mendez’s sculptures take found objects, industrial goods, or symbolic organic matter—such as eucalyptus bark, bone, or cochineal pigment—to examine identity and place; certain works become living rather than static objects, requiring the daily replenishment of water or flower petals. While experimenting with dramatic shifts in scale and unorthodox materials, Mendez’s excavatory approach to production is a process of unearthing and transforming that highlights the tenuous relationship between history and its representation.

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Harold Mendez: Let us gather in a flourishing way is organized by Jamillah James, Curator.

The exhibition is made possible thanks to the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, Harpo Foundation, Michael Asher Foundation, Pasadena Art Alliance, Michael Silver, and Friends of Harold Mendez: Christine Meleo Bernstein and Armyan Bernstein; Claire Morton; and Lance Renner. Additional support is provided by the Angeles Art Fund and Wilhelm Family Foundation.

ICA LA is supported by Curator’s Council, Fieldwork, and 1717 Collective.

Harold Mendez  (b. 1977, Chicago) has taken part in numerous exhibitions such as  Being: New Photography  (2018) at the Museum of Modern Art, New York and the Whitney Biennial (2017), New York. Mendez was recently the subject of a solo presentation, The years now at the Reva and David Logan Center for the Arts at the University of Chicago. In addition, his work has been shown at the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Bass Museum, Miami; LAXART, Los Angeles; the Institute of Contemporary Art, Philadelphia; MoMA PS1, New York; Renaissance Society, Chicago; Project Row Houses, Houston; and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago, among others. Mendez has been awarded residencies at the John Michael Kohler Arts Center, Sheboygan, WI; Light Work, Syracuse; the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; the Core Program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture; and the Headlands Center for the Arts. His works are included in the permanent collections of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York; the Studio Museum in Harlem, New York; the Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; Minneapolis Institute of Art; the DePaul Art Museum, Chicago; and the Colección Diéresis, Guadalajara, Mexico. Mendez studied at Columbia College Chicago; the University of Science and Technology, School of Art, Ghana, West Africa; and the University of Illinois at Chicago. He is currently based in Los Angeles.
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Installation view of Harold Mendez: Let us gather in a flourishing way. Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles, September 26, 2020–January 10, 2021. Photo: Jeff McLane/ICA LA

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79 Online Screening: Stanya Kahn’s No Go Backs and Earlier Works 2020-12-09 2021-01-10 11:43am Jan 12, 2021 Page
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77 Harold Mendez:
Let us gather in a flourishing way
2020-09-26 2021-01-10
Hm16
5:37pm Jan 05, 2021 Page
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78 Stanya Kahn:
No Go Backs
2020-09-26 2021-01-10
Sk1a
6:46pm Dec 04, 2020 Page
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69 Ree Morton:
The Plant That Heals May Also Poison
2020-02-16 2020-07-19
Icala 2020 03 06 025
2:53pm Dec 03, 2020 Page
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74 Ann Greene Kelly 2020-02-16 2020-07-19
Icala 2020 03 06 001
9:53am Jun 17, 2020 Page
Active Published
75 Agency of Assets x El Clasificado 2019-12-06 2020-01-26
Meztly cover
10:30am Dec 09, 2019 Page
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73 CURRENT:LA FOOD Public Art Triennial 2019 2019-10-05 2019-11-03
CURRENT:LA FOOD
11:04am Oct 07, 2019 Page
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67 No Wrong Holes:
Thirty Years of Nayland Blake
2019-09-29 2020-01-26
Ica blake 5
3:57pm Oct 21, 2020 Page
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72 Sadie Barnette:
The New Eagle Creek Saloon
2019-09-29 2020-01-26
Ica barnette 7
5:36pm Aug 26, 2020 Page
Active Published
70 Hervé Tullet: Ideal Exhibition 2019-07-14 2019-09-08
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4:04pm Mar 27, 2020 Page
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71 Worldwide Orphans: Element of Play® 2019-07-14 2019-09-08
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5:44pm Jul 31, 2019 Page
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68 Brognon-Rollin:
Maybe Some Of Us Will Change This
2019-03-17 2019-06-30
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2:28pm Nov 17, 2020 Page
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63 Patty Chang:
The Wandering Lake, 2009–2017
2019-03-17 2019-08-04
Ica chang 24
3:05pm Oct 01, 2019 Page
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19 Maryam Jafri:
I Drank the Kool-Aid But I Didn’t Inhale
2019-02-10 2019-06-30
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4:45pm Apr 09, 2020 Page
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64 Lucas Blalock:
An Enormous Oar
2019-02-10 2019-08-04
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4:52pm Apr 09, 2020 Page
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62 Adrian Piper
What It’s Like, What It Is #3
2018-10-07 2019-01-06
1991 what its like 3
12:12pm Jul 16, 2019 Page
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61 Agency of Assets:
Reality Augmented
2018-09-30 2019-01-06
Agencyofassets
1:44pm Apr 07, 2020 Page
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4 B. Wurtz:
This Has No Name
2018-09-30 2019-02-17
Wurtz install 05
4:54pm Apr 09, 2020 Page
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6 Nina Chanel Abney:
Royal Flush
2018-09-23 2019-01-20
Abney install 02
11:58am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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2 This Brush for Hire: Norm Laich & Many Other Artists 2018-06-03 2018-09-02
Brush for hire 14
3:54pm Oct 01, 2019 Page
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20 sisters and brothers 2018-04-22 2018-06-17
Brothers & sisters 02
11:54am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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18 Rafa Esparza: de la Calle 2018-04-22 2018-07-15
Esparza5
6:11pm Jul 09, 2018 Page
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9 Grandfather: A Pioneer Like Us (1974) 2018-02-04 2018-04-22
Szeeman install 10
11:49am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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8 Skip Arnold: Truffle Hunt 2018-01-28 2018-04-08
Arnold install 11
11:45am Jul 16, 2019 Page
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1 Martín Ramírez: His Life in Pictures, Another Interpretation 2017-09-09 2017-12-31
Ramirez install 02
6:55pm Apr 02, 2020 Page
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