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Felix Quintana
fantasma paraiso / phantom paradise
A Multi-Site Ephemeral Portrait of Los Angeles On view from February 2024 – March 2024 Plaza Mexico 3100 E. Imperial Hwy Lynwood, CA 90262 Plaza Mexico, a popular destination in Lynwood, will feature several large scale print works, a digital billboard above the 105 Freeway, …

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Star Feliz
In the Belly of the Serpent
In the Belly of the Serpent is a sculptural work meant to invoke our collective imagination, to envision the abolishment of existing global systems of exploitation. We’re tasked in helping the healing of the Great Mother, often represented by a serpent in the Taino culture. …

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Justen LeRoy
X’ene’s Witness
BOTH PERFORMANCES HAVE REACHED CAPACITY – JOIN WAITLIST HERE X’ene’s Witness is a contemporary opera conceived and directed by multidisciplinary artist Justen Leroy, and commissioned and presented by LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division). A continuation of Leroy’s critically acclaimed installation Lay Me Down in Praise …

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Multiple Artists
Mohn LAND Grants
Announcing Mohn LAND Grants, a new and ambitious initiative to introduce, and invest in, emerging Los Angeles artists, providing them with a platform to present site-responsive, transdisciplinary work across Los Angeles County and to serve as a first formal public presentation. Over a five year …

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Kahlil Joseph
BLKNWS®
LAND presents a citywide installation of Kahlil Joseph’s BLKNWS®​, a conceptual news program taking the form of a two-channel installation connected to a newscast that blurs the lines between art, reporting, entrepreneurship, and cultural critique. ​BLKNWS®​ is currently broadcast at sites across Los Angeles, with …

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Anna Sew Hoy
Ongoing Exhibition: Psychic Body Grotto
Los Angeles State Historic Park 1245 N Spring St Los Angeles, CA 90012 LAND commissioned Los Angeles-based artist Anna Sew Hoy to create the large-scale, bronze public sculpture Psychic Body Grotto at the 32 acre Los Angeles State Historic Park. Drawing on the artist’s previous …

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LAND Presents: fantasma paraiso / phantom paradis LAND Presents:

fantasma paraiso / phantom paradise
A multisite ephemeral portrait of Los Angeles
by @felixfquintana 

Join us for an opening celebration
Saturday, February 24
3-5pm

@artdivisionla 
2418 W 6th Street
Los Angeles, CA 90057

fantasma paraiso / phantom paradise is a multisite exhibition by artist Felix Quintana commissioned and presented by public art nonprofit Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND). From February - March 2024, Quintana’s mixed-media works will form an ephemeral portrait of Los Angeles by placing his signature portrait and landscape photography directly in the locations that they represent. His billboards, wheatpaste posters, vinyl banners, and signs uplift the beauty of the day-to-day routines and the emblems of diasporic communities of Los Angeles. Quintana encourages a slowing-down and flattening of the past and present through his unique cyanotype style of combining photography, print-making, collage, and mixed-media.

Felix Quintana is a 2023 Mohn LAND Grant recipient. fantasma paraiso is the final project of our initial year of Mohn LAND Grant-supported projects. 2024 Mohn LAND Grant recipients will be announced this spring. 

LAND and the artist would like to thank Irina Gusin (producer), Arantza Pelayo & the Sterling Organization (Plaza Mexico), Dan McCleary and Luis Hernandez (Art Division), Raven Sanchez (Project Assistant), Jynx Prado (Installation) Carlos Diaz (Print Co Direct), Rey Sepulveda and Jimmy Saldivar (Cultivarte Studios). 

Installation image: @plazamexicola by @_erwinr_ @_losojos_
Sneak peek of our forthcoming multi-site exhibitio Sneak peek of our forthcoming multi-site exhibition fantasma paraiso / phantom paradise by @felixfquintana - kicking off @plazamexicola
Broader Than Broadway by @felixfquintana On Broa Broader Than Broadway
by @felixfquintana 

On Broadway they do wheelies
with no front wheel
Off Cliftons, stealing tha sunshine
I hop on the 16 in early daylight
Where palm tree’s off of 5th Street
slip and glide
Layers of dust and sprayed tags
Time wanders slow around here
Where they slang doggie dog bags
And Tacos for $1.25

Views from the 11th floor at dusk
Synchronized flashes
pop off and disappear
Across the way, A pool
filled with water that mimicked
the ocean

A Salvadoran flag cut into
an LA logo
Broader than Broadway
the light gleams in slow mo’
A poster repeated promo
The homies not working pro-bono
Sinaloa Jewelers covered by
A draped and tattered banner

I woke up to a street parade
And witness the sun shine move
Like wire spokes
In strips from east to west

Today we share images and a poem by @felixfquintana on the final day of his month long residency @acedtla, coinciding with the last days of the hotel. We are grateful to all of our friends at Ace for all of the collaborations over the year. 

This series is also a sneak peak of our forthcoming multisite exhibition with Felix, fantasma paraiso / phantom paradise. fantasma paraiso is means of chronicling the critical and disappearing histories of the city’s immigrant communities and businesses. Stay tuned. 💙
Join Star Feliz (@priestusssy) and Ace Hotel Downt Join Star Feliz (@priestusssy) and Ace Hotel Downtown LA (@acedtla) on Saturday, January 13 for a special Green and Gold Tea Party to celebrate the one year anniversary of the Green Gold Oracle Deck @botanicacimarron. Star was our inaugural LANDxAIR artist in residence at Ace DTLA this past summer, as well as a 2023 recipient of the Mohn LAND grant. Feliz was also part of a major sculpture presentation by LANDxAIR as part of Gatherings last fall @lastatehistoricpark.

The community gathering will start with a workshop led by Feliz focused on co-creating your artistic dreams with the mystical guidance of plant spirits. 

Taste the aromatic symphony of teas by Botánica Cimarrón (@botanicacimarron), immerse yourself in the earthy scents of SYD Botanica (@sydbotanica), and devour the magic forest with a wondrous custom cake by Chariot LA (@chariot__la).

Prepare to forge a deeper connection to the earth’s organic rhythms. You’ll learn more about ancestral plant spirits, and allow your creativity to help you rediscover the wonder woven into the fabric of life.

Loam at Ace DTLA
Saturday, January 13th
5:00pm-7:00pm
Free with RSVP
Link in bio @botanicacimarron
So many moments we are grateful to have shared wit So many moments we are grateful to have shared with you in 2023… Looking forward to all that lies ahead in 2024. Thanks for being there with us. 💗 - Laura
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