“When I started using a computer, I initially thought about it as a surrogate darkroom… it took me some years to really understand that it’s a tool in its own terms” - Lucas Blalock describes his practice using both traditional and digital techniques to create uncanny and surreal images of ordinary things. ‘An Enormous Oar’ @theicala is the Brooklyn-based artist’s first solo museum exhibition and presents over twenty works produced in the last five years that focus on #stilllife, domestic scenes and portraits. Discover Blalock’s use of #photoshop, #photography as #sculpture as well as several nods to #LosAngeles artists in ‘An Enormous Oar’ on view through July 21 - admission FREE | #lucasblalock #icala

Inside ‘An Enormous Oar’ by Brooklyn-based photographer #LucasBlalock. Take an interactive virtual tour of the exhibition in our main gallery now on our Story or at theicala.org/visit 👈👀 #lucasblalock #icala

‘Lucas Blalock: An Enormous Oar’ curated by #JamillahJames continues through July 21 @theicala. Visit the exhibition Wed-Fri, 11am-7pm + Sat-Sun, 11am-6pm | #lucasblalock #icala

“Following along the longest aqueduct in the world built in China, I peed every time I came upon it” - recounts Patty Chang as she travelled towards Denzhou from Xianghua. The artist stored the plastic water bottles after filling them and marked them with the corresponding time and place - enroute her driver asked if the bottles were filled with ice tea. The South-to-North Water Diversion Project was relocating farmers to make way for the aqueduct as well as imminent industrialisation. Chang later redesigned the plastic water bottles into urinary devices and had the designs hand-blown in borosilicate glass. 32 glass bottles are on show in ‘The Wandering Lake, 2009-2017’ @theicala. Visit the museum Wed-Fri, 11am-7pm + Sat-Sun, 11am-6pm in downtown #LosAngeles - admission is always FREE | #pattychang #icala

Over 25 artists and art-spaces will open up their practice to 1717 collective members on Monday, May 13 at 7pm at the landmark Bendix Building in #DTLA. Experience a live performance by @heididuckler’s troupe on the rooftop of the #BendixBuilding, @artlifepractice workshop + hosted bar by our sponsors @abkbeer @banderotequila @bogartspirits. Not already a 1717 member? Tickets include automatic 1717 membership👉see Highlights for full details📍 #1717collective #icala

Our friends @redhooklabs and @photographmag have partnered to present 👉The Labs | photograph Talks in Brooklyn, New York. The first talk will take place on ‪Saturday, May 4 at 4 pm‬ with ICA LA artist Lucas Blalock in conversation with Chris Wiley. RSVP to school@redhooklabs.com - link in Highlights 👀#lucasblalock #icala

Pick up headphones at the front desk and listen to ‘Maybe some of us will change this’ in the language of #Mazatec - one of the oldest remaining whistled languages in the world - as part of artist duo @brognonrollin’s project with @flax_la and @metropolitanhighlausd 👂The exhibition is on view in the Annex @theicala through May 12 | #brognonrollin #icala

Artist duo David Brognon and Stéphanie Rollin @brognonrollin (pictured) work with raw, often marginal social material, embedding themselves in the field, and in direct conversation with their subject matter. This partnership creates modest monuments that shine light on otherwise overlooked fringes of society. In March 2019, the artists developed a new work, ’Maybe some of us will change this’ as part of their month-long residency with FLAX Foundation @flax_la and @metropolitanhighlausd in downtown #LosAngeles. Inspired by a phrase from a student essay about justice, Brognon-Rollin embarked on a journey to the Mexican border to collaborate with a community in Huautla de Jiménez in #Oaxaca #Mexico - where the whistle language of Mazatec is used - one of the oldest remaining whistled languages in the world. Approaching sound as a medium that has no limits, they recorded the whistle of the phrase ‘maybe some of us will change this’ and allowed it to travel through borders and into the communities the phrase originated from. Listen to recordings of the whistle by educators and students alike when you visit the exhibition at ICA LA on view in the Annex + keep your ears open for a network of ice cream trucks that are circulating the neighborhoods of #BoyleHeights, #HighlandPark and #EchoPark - each truck has been reprogrammed to play the whistle of the phrase in Mazatec - a gesture of preservation of a distant language that contributes to the cacophony of everyday life in #LA. ‘Maybe some of us will change this’ continues @theicala through May 12 | #brognonrollin #mazatec #icala