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MEDIA RELEASE
Press Contact: Kathy MacPherson
kmacpherson@otis.edu / 310.665.6909
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lili Bernard, The Sale of Venus, 2011, Oil on canvas, 72”x96”
Glued to the Seat: Revealing Hidden Realities at Otis College of Art and Design
A group exhibition based on retelling and revealing bigotry and stigma
June 22 – August 28, 2013
LOS ANGELES – April 2013 – Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present the exhibition, Glued to the
Seat: Revealing Hidden Realities at the Bolsky Gallery, June 22 ‐August 28, 2013, with an opening reception
Saturday, June 22, 4‐6pm.
Glued to the Seat, curated by Otis alumna Jeseca Dawson (’12), presents the work of six artists who use
narrative elements to reveal hidden truths and confront deep‐rooted stereotypes. Through the guise of
history, cultural traditions or personal experience, these provocative artists use authorship to expose
oppressive stigmas and question sources.
Artists in the exhibition:
Lili Bernard (’14 OTIS MFA Public Practice), Channing Martinez (’13 OTIS Fine Arts), Jessica Minckley (’13 OTIS
MFA Fine Arts), Silvia Juliana Mantilla Ortiz (’13 OTIS MFA Public Practice), Hyung min Rhee (’13 OTIS MFA
Fine Arts), and Susan Slade Sanchez (’13 OTIS MFA Public Practice).
On March 2, 1955, fifteen year‐old Claudette Colvin was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation
in Montgomery, Alabama; shouting, “It’s my constitutional right!” as police dragged her off the bus. Nine
months later, Rosa Parks would be arrested for the same thing. When recently asked why she didn’t get up,
Claudette Colvin replied, “I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. It felt like Sojourner
Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on
another shoulder." These six artists are glued to their seats in present day America and are finding their power
to change the tide.
Lili Bernard: “The generational struggle of my family and Afro‐Indigenous Caribbean ancestors, coupled with
my own personal experiences as a mixed‐heritage, Black Cuban immigrant in the United States of America,
informs my exploration of the diasporic stain of racism, born of colonialism, and of the unconquerable nature
of the human spirit.” http://www.lilibernard.com/
Channing Martinez: “I’m interested in using myself as a tool to create conversation, if not contradiction of
many of the useless constructions that mainstream media would like us to all fit into…the fact still remains
that the African American male body still raises prominent social questions, especially when that body isn’t
Object Description
| Exhibition | Glued to the Seat: Revealing Hidden Realities |
| Artist(s) |
Bernard, Lili Martinez, Channing Mantilla Ortiz, Silvia Juliana Minckley, Jessica Rhee, Hyung min Sanchez, Susan Slade |
| Title | Press release for "Glued to the Seat: Revealing Hidden Realities" |
| Year | 2013 |
| Decade(s) | 2010s |
| Exhibition Dates | 2013 June 22 - August 28 |
| Curator(s) | Dawson, Jeseca |
| Description | For immediate release. |
| Gallery | Bolsky Gallery |
| Media |
Painting Photography Video |
| ImageID | PR-GTTS-Bolsky |
| Rights | Copyright Otis College of Art and Design |
| Collection | Ben Maltz Gallery Exhibition Archive |
Description
| Title | Page 1 |
| Full Text of PDF | MEDIA RELEASE Press Contact: Kathy MacPherson kmacpherson@otis.edu / 310.665.6909 FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE Lili Bernard, The Sale of Venus, 2011, Oil on canvas, 72”x96” Glued to the Seat: Revealing Hidden Realities at Otis College of Art and Design A group exhibition based on retelling and revealing bigotry and stigma June 22 – August 28, 2013 LOS ANGELES – April 2013 – Otis College of Art and Design is pleased to present the exhibition, Glued to the Seat: Revealing Hidden Realities at the Bolsky Gallery, June 22 ‐August 28, 2013, with an opening reception Saturday, June 22, 4‐6pm. Glued to the Seat, curated by Otis alumna Jeseca Dawson (’12), presents the work of six artists who use narrative elements to reveal hidden truths and confront deep‐rooted stereotypes. Through the guise of history, cultural traditions or personal experience, these provocative artists use authorship to expose oppressive stigmas and question sources. Artists in the exhibition: Lili Bernard (’14 OTIS MFA Public Practice), Channing Martinez (’13 OTIS Fine Arts), Jessica Minckley (’13 OTIS MFA Fine Arts), Silvia Juliana Mantilla Ortiz (’13 OTIS MFA Public Practice), Hyung min Rhee (’13 OTIS MFA Fine Arts), and Susan Slade Sanchez (’13 OTIS MFA Public Practice). On March 2, 1955, fifteen year‐old Claudette Colvin was the first person arrested for resisting bus segregation in Montgomery, Alabama; shouting, “It’s my constitutional right!” as police dragged her off the bus. Nine months later, Rosa Parks would be arrested for the same thing. When recently asked why she didn’t get up, Claudette Colvin replied, “I could not move, because history had me glued to the seat. It felt like Sojourner Truth’s hands were pushing me down on one shoulder and Harriet Tubman’s hands were pushing me down on another shoulder." These six artists are glued to their seats in present day America and are finding their power to change the tide. Lili Bernard: “The generational struggle of my family and Afro‐Indigenous Caribbean ancestors, coupled with my own personal experiences as a mixed‐heritage, Black Cuban immigrant in the United States of America, informs my exploration of the diasporic stain of racism, born of colonialism, and of the unconquerable nature of the human spirit.” http://www.lilibernard.com/ Channing Martinez: “I’m interested in using myself as a tool to create conversation, if not contradiction of many of the useless constructions that mainstream media would like us to all fit into…the fact still remains that the African American male body still raises prominent social questions, especially when that body isn’t |
