Field Permits

December 22, 2024 – April 6, 2025
Every Sunday from 2-4 PM

Albion Riverside Park
1739 Albion St
Los Angeles, CA 90031

About the Project

Field Permits by artist Vincent Enrique Hernandez, organized and presented by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), is a work of civic institutional critique taking place over sixteen successive Sundays on a soccer field at Albion Riverside Park in Lincoln Heights. 

Every Sunday between December 22, 2024 through April 6, 2025, and from 2 to 4 pm, Hernandez will invite the public to access a soccer field, and engage with it as they see fit. Hernandez, born and raised in Los Angeles, and an avid amateur soccer player, has a deep interest in the ways that public space is mediated by city organizations, which often create unnecessary burdens and hurdles that prevent communities from accessing, and utilizing recreational third spaces in their own neighborhoods.

Ordinarily, the “public” soccer fields operated by the city of Los Angeles are only available for use through a permitting system and require the payment of a fee and the obtainment of liability insurance to be booked for play. As such, these spaces are kept under lock and key unless the permit is obtained. Hernandez’s is a quiet but consequential gesture–one that literally opens the gates to any community members who might otherwise not be able to use these facilities.

In conceiving Field Permits, Hernandez reflected on how communities navigate the bureaucracy associated with public spaces. For the artist, a locked gate sends a message about usage, access, and permission, whereas the opportunity for play is a catalyst for connection, and growth, and a type of collaboration with strangers. In addition, Hernandez will inform the community of the availability of the soccer field for free play through posters and other materials that showcase his training as a sign painter, and which will respond to the architectural and design elements of the area. 

Throughout his practice, Hernandez focuses on the intersections between daily life and art and the ways that art may function outside of conventional art spaces, specifically as it relates to community, narrative, tradition, and local history. For the past several years, the artist has been working on a collection of artworks related to the San Fernando Valley and the region’s relationship to Los Angeles narrative, including an artwork that is a five-hour tour of the Valley, and was featured in the Hammer Museum’s 2023 “Made in LA” exhibition. Hernandez is particularly interested in the performative potential for artworks to be encountered in non-traditional art spaces and considers the instance in which the public encounters and engages with his works as the moment of the artwork’s completion.

Field Permits is funded through the Mohn LAND Grants, which were introduced in 2023 as a new and ambitious initiative to invest in emerging Los Angeles artists by providing them with a platform to present site-responsive, transdisciplinary work across Los Angeles County. The program was developed in collaboration with art collectors and philanthropists Pamela and Jarl Mohn.

Events

Due to the devastating fires across Los Angeles, the conversation and celebration for Field Permits will no longer take place on Sunday, January 12 and will be rescheduled for a later date in the coming weeks. We are keeping everyone in our thoughts during this challenging time.

About the Artist

Vincent Enrique Hernandez (b. 1998, Los Angeles) is an artist working in Los Angeles whose practice engages with history, monuments, localism, and community by appropriating narratives related to regional culture. Hernandez’s work is grounded in numerous research processes: deep internet dives, picking apart articles, archives, advertisements, visiting libraries, and casual conversation. He is drawn to stories and storytelling as a method and subject, and feels that maintaining oral traditions is a central tenet to his practice, and specifically focuses on these as the catalyst for the construction of local mythologies.

 

Field Permits is organized by Bryan Barcena and Irina Gusin, LAND curators-at-large.

This project is funded through the Mohn LAND Grants established by Pamela and Jarl Mohn. The initiative provides Los Angeles-based artists resources and support to present site-responsive, transdisciplinary work across Los Angeles County.

LAND’s 2024 exhibitions are made possible with lead support from the Offield Family Foundation, the Jerry and Terri Kohl Family Foundation, and The Perenchio Foundation. Additional support is provided by the Fran and Ray Stark Foundation, Patrick and Aimee Butler Family Foundation, the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Department of Arts and Culture, the LA Arts Recovery Fund, Brenda Potter, and LAND’s Nomadic Council. Special thanks to Artist Sponsors: Karen Hillenburg, Liana Krupp, and Ben Weyerhaeuser.

LAND is a member of and supported by the Los Angeles Visual Arts (LAVA) Coalition.

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Wenot (Life Giver)

Close-up photograph of a multicolored, multimedia work.

Ongoing

Los Angeles County Hall of Records
320 W Temple St
Los Angeles, CA 90012

About the Project

Teresa Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa) creates sculptural paintings suggestive of maps or landscapes by utilizing natural and industrial materials, such as sinew, bark, AstroTurf, and acrylic paint. Wenot means the LA River in the Kizh language. Her artwork for the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning loosely resembles a map of the county. Baker highlights natural features—the LA River, San Gabriel Mountains, and the Pacific Ocean—and blends them with materials, colors, and forms that reflect the First Peoples of this region, whose descendants are still here and who protect and preserve these lands and waters.

Under the guidance of ethnobotanist Matt Teutimez (Gabrieleño Band of Mission Indians – Kizh Nation), Baker incorporated plants traditionally used for food and medicine by local Indigenous Peoples, including acorns, mulefat, elderberry, and willow twigs from the San Joaquin Marsh. She wove them into AstroTurf to create a composition that embodies the First Peoples without directly depicting them. The artist prompts viewers to contemplate how identities and histories can be represented directly and indirectly.

Commissioned by the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture and installed at the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning offices at the Los Angeles County Hall of Records in Downtown Los Angeles, the artwork is on permanent view. The offices located on the 13th floor are open to the public. Also on view on the same floor is a commission by  Felix Quintana produced by LAND.

About the Artist

Teresa Baker (Mandan/Hidatsa, b. 1985) currently lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. Through a mixed media practice combining artificial and natural materials, Teresa Baker creates abstracted landscapes that explore vast space, and how we move, see, and explore within them. The materials, texture, shapes, and color relationships are guided by Baker’s Mandan/Hidatsa culture to explore how identity can relate to innate objects.

She has had recent solo exhibitions at Broadway Gallery, NY; The Arts Club of Chicago, IL; de boer, Los Angeles, CA; The Scottsdale Museum of Contemporary Art, Scottsdale, AZ; Halsey McKay, East Hampton, NY; and Pied-à-terre, San Francisco, CA. Recent group exhibitions include Prospect. 6 Triennial, New Orleans, LA,; The Wattis Institute, San Francisco, CA; The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; Nerman Museum, Overland Park, KS; and Ballroom Marfa, Marfa, TX. Baker is a 2022 Joan Mitchell Fellow, and was an artist-in-residence at Fogo Island Arts in Newfoundland in 2022. She was the 2020 Native American fellow at the Ucross Foundation in Ucross, WY, and was a Tournesol Award artist-in-residence at Headlands Center for the Arts, Sausalito, CA. Baker received a BA from Fordham University in 2008 and an MFA from California College of the Arts in 2013.

Events

Previous Programming

Artist Walkthrough: Teresa Baker and Felix Quintana
Friday, December 6, 2024
11am-12pm

Los Angeles County Hall of Records
320 West Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Join artists and Teresa Baker and Felix Quintana on Friday, December 6, 2024 at 11am for a walkthrough of the artists’ installations at the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning offices at the Los Angeles County Hall of Records in Downtown Los Angeles.

This project has been commissioned by the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture for the Department of Regional Planning, and was managed by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND).

 

La sal de la tierra / The Salt of the Earth

A blue and white artwork depicting city scenes

Ongoing

Los Angeles County Hall of Records
320 W Temple St
Los Angeles, CA 90012

About the Project

Felix Quintana’s artworks are densely layered collages that depict the people and urban landscapes of Los Angeles County. Having grown up in Lynwood, he draws inspiration from locations connected to his personal history, looking to East, Southeast, and Central Los Angeles to celebrate the County’s diverse communities.

This artwork is a combination of over fifty layers of photos from the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning archives, personal documentation, and portraits of community members who attended workshops held by Quintana across the County. The artist printed each element onto cyanotype-treated paper—which gives the final image its signature blue coloring and grainy texture—and then scanned each handmade print to create a digital collage. La sal de la tierra (The Salt of the Earth) is a representation of the people and places of Los Angeles, both past and present. Through the signs, maps, aerial views, city streets, graffiti, and architecture juxtaposed with the faces of Angelenos, Quintana has created a portrait of Los Angeles County.

Commissioned by the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture and installed at the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning offices at the Los Angeles County Hall of Records in Downtown Los Angeles, the artwork is on permanent view. The offices located on the 13th floor are open to the public. Also on view on the same floor is a commission by Teresa Baker produced by LAND.

About the Artist

Felix Quintana (b. 1991, Lynwood, CA)  is a Salvadoran-American visual artist and educator. Quintana’s art practice spans photography, digital media, collage, and installation. Quintana received his MFA in Photography from San Jose State University and BA from California State Polytechnic University, Humboldt. Solo exhibitions include Donde Nace El Agua at Wende Museum, Fantasma Paraiso presented by Los Angeles Nomadic Division, and Cruising Below Sunset at Residency Art.

Select group exhibitions include Vincent Price Art Museum, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art, Chinese Culture Center San Francisco, and Center for Photography Woodstock, among others. Awards include California Community Foundation Fellowship for Visual Arts, Lucas Artist Fellowship at Montalvo Art Center, Mohn LAND Grant by Los Angeles Nomadic Division, and LACE Lightning Fund Grant. His work is included in the public collections of Oakland Museum of California, Altamed Art Collection, and Los Angeles Civic Art Collection.

Quintana lives, works, and teaches in Los Angeles.

 

Events

Previous Programming

Artist Walkthrough: Teresa Baker and Felix Quintana
Friday, December 6, 2024
11am-12pm

Los Angeles County Hall of Records
320 West Temple St.
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Join artists Felix Quintana and Teresa Baker on Friday, December 6, 2024 at 11am for a walkthrough of the artists’ installations at the Los Angeles County Department of Regional Planning offices at the Los Angeles County Hall of Records in Downtown Los Angeles.

Community Portrait Workshop with Felix Quintana
Ted Watkins Memorial Park in Watts
Saturday, April 6, 2024
6pm – 9pm

Join us Saturday, April 6 from 6pm – 9pm for a one-day, pop-up portrait workshop with artist Felix Quintana at Ted Watkins Memorial Park in Watts. Bring your family, neighbors, tias, tios, nieces and nephews to have your portrait taken and be part of a public art project that will be installed at the offices of the Los Angeles Department of Regional Planning. Participating community members will receive a limited-edition print of the final artwork. Snacks and drinks will be provided.

This project has been commissioned by the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture for the Department of Regional Planning, and was managed by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND).

 

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 a focus on South Los Angeles and black-owned businesses. This iteration of ​BLKNWS® ​aims to bring the work to its largest audience yet, reaching people in their everyday environments.

Participating Sites: Patria Coffee Roasters,  Hank’s Mini Market,  Bloom & Plume Coffee,  Natraliart Jamaican Restaurant, Total Luxury Spa, UNION,  Go Get Em Tiger, and Hilltop Coffee + Kitchen (View Park Location).

Previous sites included: Sole Folks, St. John’s Well Child & Family Center Clinic, Cedars-Sinai Hospital, Touched By An Angel / SON., Hollywood Bureau, Underground Museum, and the Hammer Museum.

See Google Map below for sites. We recommend checking the site’s website before visiting for most current hours and visiting instructions.

This citywide presentation was originally commissioned as part of the Hammer Museum’s Made in LA 2020: a version, curated by Myriam Ben-Salah and Lauren Mackler.

ABOUT BLKNWS

BLKNWS®​ is best described as a ‘conceptual news program’, or ‘conceptual journalism’, that is simultaneously a work of art as well as a media entity. It takes the form of a two-channel installation connected to a newscast that blurs the lines between art, reporting, entrepreneurship, and cultural critique.

Exploring film as a powerful collective experience that can be manipulated through its essential visual and audio components, ​BLKNWS® ​reflects upon the contemporary period utilizing fragments of popular culture, archival material, and filmed news desk segments. Historical iconography sits side by side with ordinary images from our daily lives. When examined through Joseph’s lens, these images are steeped with an unusual perception of contemporary society that doubles as the artist’s ethos, inheriting a new life of reflection and signification. The dichotomy constructed by the device of the split screen polarizes the images employed, fragmenting the narrative and formalizing the images for their poetic and political potential. The ways in which the newscast is combined and collaged becomes as surreal as our current cultural condition.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Kahlil Joseph was born in 1981 in Seattle. Early on, he earned his spurs working for the photographer Melodie McDaniel and the movie director Terrence Malick. Joseph creates films and video installations that disrupt linear narratives with a particular treatment of music, used both as a material and as a model of lyricism and complexity. Joseph’s practice scrambles the conventional approach to and understanding of video: his films quote the likes of Andrei Tarkovsky and Chris Marker and feature pop culture icons and underground heroes alike. Joseph’s current focus is the ongoing project BLKNWS®, an artwork and functioning business established as a way to redefine how Black culture is experienced, viewed, and communicated. BLKNWS® starts from the postulate that anything can be “news” that is new to someone. Originally conceived as a television program, it presents an uninterrupted—though highly edited—stream of images focusing on African American life, including YouTube videos, amateur film footage, internet memes, Instagram stories, and actual news clips. The work operates through a network of highly skilled editors and fugitive journalists—constantly updating the stream—whom Joseph hires and supports, forming a sort of BLKNWS® academy that reflects his interest in community-driven process. Joseph’s work with BLKNWS® was included in May You Live in Interesting Times at the 58th Venice Biennale (2019) and in the Biennale de l’Image en Mouvement, Geneva (2018). His short film Fly Paper debuted as part of his 2017 solo exhibition at the New Museum, New York. Other exhibitions include those at Bonnefantenmuseum, Maastricht, Netherlands (2017); Frye Art Museum, Seattle (2016); and Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles (2015). Joseph currently serves as the creative director of the Underground Museum alongside his family, carrying out the vision of his brother, the late Noah Davis.

ABOUT MADE IN L.A.

The Hammer’s biennial exhibition series​ M​ade in L.A. focuses exclusively on artists from the L.A. region with an emphasis on emerging and under-recognized artists. The Los Angeles biennial debuts new installations, videos, films, sculptures, performances, and paintings commissioned specifically for the exhibition and offers a snapshot of the current trends and practices coming out of Los Angeles, one of the most active and energetic art communities in the world.

ABOUT THE HAMMER MUSEUM

The Hammer Museum is part of the School of the Arts and Architecture at UCLA, and offers exhibitions and collections that span classic to contemporary art. It holds more than 50,000 works in its collection, including one of the finest collections of works on paper in the nation, the Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts.​ ​Through a wide-ranging, international exhibition program and the biennial,​ ​Made in L.A., the Hammer highlights contemporary art since the 1960s, especially the work of emerging and under recognized artists. The exhibitions, permanent collections, and nearly 300 public programs annually—including film screenings, lectures, symposia, readings, music performances, and workshops for families—are all free to the public.

The citywide presentation of BLKNWS® is co-produced by the Hammer Museum and LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) for Made in L.A. 2020. Major support is provided by Aubrey Drake Graham. Additional support is provided by Angeles Art Fund.

Production support for this presentation of BLKNWS® is provided by Apple Music.

Made in L.A. 2020: a version was organized by the Hammer Museum in partnership with The Huntington Library, Art Museum, and Botanical Gardens.

 

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 explorations of materiality, spirituality and the relationships we forge with everyday objects, this is Sew Hoy’s most ambitious sculpture to date.

Psychic Body Grotto is a room-sized bronze sculpture or “figurative gazebo” for meetings and rituals that have yet to be invented. The sculpture evokes the illusion of being organically generated from the earth, creating a locus for contemplation and relaxation amidst the buzzing city-scape of Los Angeles.

Working in conjunction with the efforts of California State Parks to revitalize and create new spaces for cultural and civic dialogue, activity, leisure, and engagement, Psychic Body Grotto functions as an interactive work of public art, landscape design, and gathering spot for local residents and visitors of the park.

 

Previous Programming

Opening Reception
Sunday, May 21, 2017
4pm – 7pm

Anna Sew Hoy and LAND (Los Angeles Nomadic Division) celebrated the opening of Psychic Body Grotto on Sunday. The free public opening event included artist activations by Ethernet (Benjamin Boatright and Dylan Mira), Cirilo Domine & Tala Mateo, Corey Fogel, and LA Fog at the sculpture. Corey Fogel turned Psychic Body Grotto into an instrument with an array of other percussive units. Cirilo Domine & Tala Mateo live wrote a text at their desk relocated near the sculpture. LA Fog presented a traditional acoustic performance of their music.

John Tain and Carol Cheh from KCHUNG radio broadcast live during the performances, recording the music, sounds and interviews with the artists.

SIGNIFICANT SUPPORT FOR THIS EXHIBITION IS PROVIDED BY:

CREATIVE CAPITAL

ADDITIONAL SUPPORT FOR THIS EXHIBITION IS PROVIDED BY:

BLOOMBERG PHILANTHROPIES
LAND NOMADIC COUNCIL
LOS ANGELES COUNTY ARTS COMMISSION
LOS ANGELES STATE HISTORIC PARK