Downtown, Los Angeles
Group Exhibition
From Common Ground
SidecarSarah Awad, Marwa Abdul-Rahman, Mira Dancy, Kenturah Davis, Brad Eberhard, Asher Hartman, Alice Könitz, Ruby Neri, Laura Howard Parker, Camilla Taylor, Patricia Valencia, Emmett Walsh, Eric Zammitt Salim Moore curates the exhibition.Sidecar Gallery is delighted to present From Common Ground, a group exhibition featuring work by Los Angeles area artists. The works by artists in From Common Ground engage with a robust variety of themes ranging from tensions between figuration and abstraction in painting, to land use and water rights in the American Southwest, and ideas about the collective and individual human experiences in the natural world. This exhibition is made possible in part by a generous grant from the Fondation Valmont through its mission to promote contemporary art, foster intercultural dialogues, and support visual artists on a global scale. From Common Ground is curated by Salim Moore, academic curator at the Benton Museum of Art at Pomona College, and brings together a creative exchange of work by artists with roots in Altadena, California. The artists were assembled through a collaboration between the Fondation Valmont, Marcos Lutyens, and Night Gallery. Fondation Valmont has a very precise mission: promoting art in all its forms, in accordance with the values offered by Valmont its parent company: quality, aesthetics, generosity and sustainability. Valmont Chairman Didier Guillon has always refused to remain trapped in the universe of cosmetics alone and has therefore built bridges with the artistic sector. Guillon's efforts were crowned in 2015, when the rich depth and scope of the projects led to the birth of Fondation Valmont. In 2019, this institution made Venice its permanent home, in a Renaissance palace built in the purest 16th century style with rococo interior decorations: Palazzo Bonvicini, also known as The Intimate Museum. Alongside the international art events that take place in Venice, Fondation Valmont offers a rich programme of travelling exhibitions presented worldwide, from Hydra to New York.