Closing Celebration of LAND DREAMS

Join us for a celebration marking the conclusion of Lizette Hernández’s LAND DREAMS at the Exposition Park Rose Garden on Saturday, June 21, 11AM-1PM, with a special talk by the artist and Peter Haas, Rose Garden Senior Gardener.

A 2024 Mohn LAND grantee, Hernández will reflect on the sculptures and the significance of the location to her art practice. Peter Haas will join the artist to speak about the history of the garden, and what rose varietals visitors may encounter there.

The seven sculptures on view at the Exposition Park Rose Garden combine the texture and form of naturally occurring rock formations or grottoes, while simultaneously replicating the look and form of religious nichos—vernacular communal altars meant to venerate saints or the Virgin Mary. Ornate glazing covers these highly textured ceramic sculptures, and evidence of the artist’s hand is visible in their folds, crevices, and undulations. The sculptures also incorporate smaller ceramic pieces made by community members invited to four workshops hosted by the artist at her studio. Hernández invited the participants to create small objects that imagined positive visions of possible futures and “new ways of living.”

These works were created specifically to be in dialogue with the park’s roses and historic fountain. Hernández, whose studio is nearby to Exposition Park, often comes to the garden to seek out the healing properties of running water and roses and she hopes that these sculptures within this environment will encourage others to seek healing and imagine a future in which collective participation in the arts serves as a recuperative gesture.

Please note there is a paid parking lot in the vicinity of the Rose Garden ($20) and limited street parking in the general area. Options for lots listed here. We often park in the Blue Structure Parking Lot. Rideshare is encouraged.

See the map below with parking in red, walking instructions in blue, and location of the sculptures in white.

Lizette Hernández (b. 1992, Los Angeles, California) lives and works in Los Angeles. She received her Bachelor of Arts from the University of California, Los Angeles in 2019.

Her work has been exhibited at april april, Brooklyn, NY (2024); Charlie James Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Guerrero Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2024); Jeffrey Deitch Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023); Craft Contemporary Museum, Los Angeles, CA (2023); PTT Space, Taipei City, Taiwan (2023); Charles Moffett, New York, NY (2023); Night Club, Minneapolis, MN (2022); Good Mother Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2023); House of Seiko, San Francisco, CA (2023); Long Beach Museum of Art, Long Beach, CA (2023); Matthew Brown Gallery, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Murmurs, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Harkawik, Los Angeles, CA (2022); New Image Art, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Fortnight Institute, New York, NY (2022); Muzeo Museum & Culture Center, Los Angeles, CA (2022); Blumenfield Projects, Kyoto, Japan (2022); Emilio Donde No.10, Mexico City, MX (2021); Mercado Negro, Guadalajara, MX (2018); The Pit, Los Angeles, CA (2019); and Slow Culture, Los Angeles, CA (2016).

LAND DREAMS is commissioned by Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) and organized by Bryan Barcena and Irina Gusin, LAND curators-at-large. Learn more about LAND DREAMS here.

Photo by Gina Clyne.