MAIN GALLERY: Special Relationships

Art from London and Los Angeles that explore shared concerns and outcomes. Special Relationships brings together paintings, sculptures and installations by artists from London and Los Angeles, exploring shared creative concerns and outcomes across two vibrant cultural landscapes. Featuring artists at different stages of their careers, the exhibition highlights a dynamic exchange of ideas, revealing both commonalities and distinct perspectives that shape their practices. Through this transatlantic dialogue, the show celebrates the diversity and interconnectedness of both cities’ art scenes.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Lynn Aldrich, Hermione Allsopp, Josh Callaghan, Bjorn Copeland, Rosson Crow, Ian Dawson, Skylar Haskard, Nicky Hirst, David Kefford, Peter Lamb, David Leapman, David McDonald, Chris Miller, Stephen Neidich, Selma Parlour, Fiona Rae, Tania Salha, Stephanie Sherwood, Kerry Stewart, Erika Trotzig

GALLERY TWO: Sites of Conflict

British artist and curator Zavier Ellis presents  Sites of Conflict, an expansive solo exhibition interrogating the ideological battlegrounds that have shaped — and continue to shape — global power structures. Through richly layered abstraction, collage, and textual intervention, Ellis constructs a visual matrix of historical and contemporary struggles that encompass revolutions, resistance, protest, and the machinery of propaganda.

DARK ROOM: Catya Plate: An Animated Ecological Short Film Trilogy

Produced over the course of ten years (2013-2023), artist and filmmaker Catya Plate’s award-winning stop-motion animated short trilogy based on her meticulously handcrafted puppets, costumes, props, and sets present wildly imaginative, beautifully handcrafted sci-fi adventures that blend humor, heart, hope, and a powerful environmental message into cautionary tales that celebrate animal ingenuity and the importance of species survivalism.

FEATURED SHORTS: Hanging By A Thread (2013), Meeting MacGuffin (2017), Las Nogas (2023)

MAIN HALLWAY: liminal level

Semi Permanent Installation

An immersive hallway experience featuring a new site-specific installation by artist Darel Carey.

Darel Carey is a visual artist focusing on optical perception. He graduated from Otis College of Art and Design with a Bachelor of Fine Arts degree in 2016.His Optical Art (Op Art) includes immersive tape installations, painted murals, and digital art.  The demand for his crowd-pleasing work has been in demand in recent years, with installations at art institutions around the world and featured in major commercial ad campaigns.

Darel’s previous hallway installations for TAM include DIMENSIONALIZATION (2018-2019) and COALESCENCE (2019-2024).

Fallen Fruit's projects invite people to experience their city as a fruitful, generous place, to collectively reimagine the functions of public participation and urban space—to ponder forms of located citizenship, and to explore the meaning of community and neighborhood through creating and sharing new and abundant resources.

in 2021 Fallen Fruit installed a permanent community Fruit Park around the perimeter of the pre-existing community garden in Torrance’s Lago Seco Park as part of TAM’s public art exhibition ULTRA!

Permanent Installation: Public Art mural

This installation brightens the hallway of the Cultural Arts Building with bold and dynamic color in abstract arrangements that enliven the space and alter the perception of it as a neutral space into one of integrated experience with the studios.