New Exhibitions, Live Performance Art & More at TAG

New exhibits from fine artists Shelley Lazarus, Gary Polonsky, Shirley Asano Guldiman, Elyse Wyman, and Carlos Buitrago open August 25 at TAG. Join us for an Opening Reception celebrating their art, August 28, 5-9pm.

TAG Performs returns with a new performance from artist Taco Guillen, Saturday, August 21, 9-10pm.

TAG hosts a four part seminar series from our president and award-winning artist K Ryan Henisey, Art Matters: Building Your Fine Art Business, Saturdays & Sundays, September 25-October 3.

 

New Fine Art Exhibits Open, August 25, 2021

Opening Reception, Saturday, August 28, 5-9pm.

 
 
 
 
 
 

August 21
9-10pm
Taco Guillen
Reflect on Anguish

Taco Guillen is a punk performance artist, musician, actor and dancer based in Los Angeles.

Performance art is an artwork or exhibition that comes to life through actions executed by an artist and/or audience participants. As the destination of choice for artists and art lovers in Los Angles, TAG Gallery is proud to present a series of performance art pieces curated by Peter Kalisch in our store-front window. Four artists across three nights of performance will present fine art behind the glass facing Wilshire Boulevard.

 

Art Matters — Building Your Art Business

A Four Part Seminar for Artists & Arts Professionals

TAG Gallery hosts Art Matters, a four part seminar for artists & Arts Professionals, led by award-winning fine artist and arts entrepreneur K. Ryan Henisey, Saturdays and Sundays, September 25 & 26 and October 2 & 3, from 3-4:30pm (Pacific). This is a LIVE, IN PERSON series of events located at TAG Gallery. Sessions are sold individually ($25) or as a complete package ($85 through September 15). Each session is approximately one hour, followed by a 30 minute Q&A. Learn more>

Now Showing the 16th Annual California Open

Our national juried competition opens today, August 4, at TAG Gallery. Join us for an artist reception, Saturday, August 7, 7-10pm.

The 16th Annual Competition Opens Today

The California Open is a national juried competition celebrating contemporary and modern art by US Residents over the age of 18. All medias of fine art were considered by our juror, Gronk Nicandro. Accepted work displys at TAG Gallery from August 4–21, 2021.

Join us for an opening reception celebrating the selected artists on August 7, from 7-10pm. All awards will be announced at the public opening. (Masks may be required).

 

TAG Performs
Summer 2021

Curated by Peter Kalisch

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LA Art Documents Capture TAG Performances by Kayla Tange & Chuck Hohng

July 3, 2021 Kayla Tange & Chuck Hohng created an experience of art performances here at TAG Gallery.

"Beams Too Vast to Hold” by Kayla Tange / Curated by Peter Kalisch

Kayla Tange was born in Seoul, South Korea and adopted at age six months by a Japanese American family residing in Lemoore, California. She moved to Los Angeles in 2000, and among other endeavors at the intersection of art-making, self-discovery, and survival, began performing as an exotic and burlesque dancer, where she served not only as a sexual projection, but as a private confessor. These experiences inspired the performances Confession Box and A Bare Witness in which public space became an interactive confessional. In 2016, Tange created Confession Room, where these stories collected over a two year period were presented in an interactive multimedia installation at Coagula Curatorial in Chinatown. Under the name Coco Ono, she dances with the Bootleg Bombshells at Townhouse in Venice as wells as venues around Los Angeles and New York. She uses confession, sexuality and dark comedy in her performance work to explore love and longing, cultural stereotyping and societal taboos, catharsis and fetish.

Her passions are found in performance, poetry, photography and facilitating a unique relationship between art and audience leading her to create Intentions at Torrance Art Museum in September 2019, Defining Boundaries performed at Human Resources in December 2018 and Dear Mother, a visual letter to her birth-mother directed by Matthew Kaundart, produced by Luka Fisher and herself. All projects explore emotional, physical and cultural confines and transforming stories of shame into a symbolic and valuable medium.

“Norujeon" by Chuck Hohng / Curated by Peter Kalisch

Born in Long Beach, CA and raised in Seoul, South Korea, Chuck Hohng has always been living in the gray area. Not a fully Korean nor an American, his attempt to understand the cultural duality of life has led him to seek a way to connect different cultures through the visual medium. Finished his undergraduate study in Fine Arts at the University of Southern California and earned his MFA at Art Center College of Design, Chuck Hohng had been part of several national and international exhibitions/ art fairs including southern California, France, South Korea, United Arab Emirates, and Great Britain.