Resident Letters: Kelman Duran and Peter Wilson
November 19 - December 17, 2016
Opening Reception: November 19th 7-9pm
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive is pleased to present its final exhibition at 2245 East Washington Boulevard entitled Evacuated Landscapes, which features the work of Los Angeles artist Kelman Duran and New York artist Peter Wilson. Both artists seek to create narratives that explore themes of land privatization, displacement, and unfulfilled potential.
Kelman Duran is a Los Angeles based artist and curator who was born in the Dominican Republic and raised in Washington Heights, NY. His work is informed by counter-histories that deal with power and political exclusion. Duran received his MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Los Angeles and was the Resident Curator at Otras Obras, Tijuana, Mexico. Duran's work has been shown at LACMA (OFFSITE Series), REDCAT, Echo Park Film Center and Human Resources in Los Angeles; Viennale Film Festival, Vienna;Split Film Festival, Croatia; Bradford International Film Festival; Zinebi, Bilbao; and the Sensory Ethnography Lab at Harvard University, Cambridge.
Peter Wilson is from Houston, TX and lives in Brooklyn, NY. His work centers around the remnants of private and mass media and the cultural transitions they chronicle. He has exhibited recently at Zax, Violet's Cafe and Lana's in New York, and at Brown University. He is the former Art Director of the Film Society of Lincoln Center and teaches at the Rhode Island School of Design.