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New Hammer Exhibit Features LA Artists

'Made In L.A.' opens at the Hammer Museum June 2.

Made in L.A. 2012, the first in an ongoing series of biennial exhibitions focused on new work created by artists in the Los Angeles region, opens June 2 at the Hammer Museum in Westwood, LA><ART in Culver City, and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park in Los Feliz. Today the Hammer has launched MADEINLA2012.org, a dedicated website for the biennial.

Building upon the tradition of Hammer Invitational exhibitions, Made in L.A. 2012 features work by 60 artists with an emphasis on emerging and under-recognized artists. This exhibition will debut nearly all new installations, performances, drawings, film, video, sculptures, and paintings created specifically forMade in L.A. 2012. There are ten major new commissions for the exhibition and, in contrast to most biennials, every artist has received an honorarium.

Made in L.A. 2012, on view through September 2, 2012, is organized by a team of curators from the Hammer and LA><ART: Hammer Senior Curator Anne Ellegood, Hammer curator Ali Subotnick, LA><ART Director and Chief Curator Lauri Firstenberg, LA><ART Associate Director and Senior Curator Cesar Garcia, and LA><ART curator-at-large Malik Gaines.

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