MAIN GALLERY: SUR: biennial

Founded in 2011, the SUR: biennial is an ongoing exhibition series that highlights the impact of Latin American and Caribbean cultures on contemporary art worldwide. Through independently curated presentations, the SUR: biennial showcases recent and newly commissioned works by both local and international artists who explore themes rooted in the cultural traditions of Mexico, Central and South America, and the Caribbean.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Carlos Beltran Arechiga, Carlos Rittner, chris velez, Elena Manero, Jesus Max, Lowrider Alliance, Miguel Rodríguez Sepúlveda, Priscilla Mondo 

Lowrider Alliance contributions to SUR Biennial curated by Art Limon (President, Lowrider Alliance) featuring artists Alfonso “Fox” Orozco, Estevan Oriol, G. Alfaro, Gil Ortega, Horacio Romero, Ignacio Gomez, Teresa Rodriguez, Vidal Herrera

GALLERY TWO: Affective Territories, Alternate Belongings

Video and multi-media artworks from contemporary national and international artists whose current video production practice highlights technology as an extension of humankind and its desire to transcend corporeal identity. The works presented urge us to explore the increasingly entangled, unbodied, and physical worlds we take turns inhabiting so we can create new territories of belonging and develop alternate affections.

PANEL DISCUSSION: Otherworldliness - Alternate Belonging
Saturday, September 13, 2025, 12:00 to 2:00 p.m.

PARTICIPATING ARTISTS: Allyson Packer and Jesse Fisher / United States, Camille Dumond/ Switzerland, Chrystele Nicot & Antoine Alesandrini / France, Holly Veselka / United States, Joe Harjo / United States, Laine Rettmer / United States, Margaret Noble / United States, Paul Moore / Northern Ireland (UK), Scott Massey / Canada, Sophie Dia Pegrum / British/American, Spencer Chang / United States, Woohee Cho / South Korea/ United States

This exhibition is curated and organized by Gioj De Marco and Elizabeth Withstandley of Prospect Art. The project is co-created by Prospect Art’s 2023/24 Curatorial Fellow, Prima Jalichandra Sakuntabhai, and Prospect Art’s 4th-WALL program manager, Pedro Inock.

DARK ROOM: Backstreet to the American Dream

An award-winning doc on labor, race, and survival with civil rights icon, Executive Producer Dolores Huerta, Backstreet to the American Dream (2021) is a raw and intimate portrait of race, labor, and class in modern-day America, which offers an immersive look at blue-collar entrepreneurs and Latino immigrants navigating the collision of hustle and hardship in the heart of Los Angeles. The 90-minute journey moves beyond culinary fads to cut deep into the gritty layers of L.A.’s less-glamorous neighborhoods. What emerges is a sobering reality check: a bilingual portrait of bootstrapping entrepreneurs with limited options, for whom survival is anything but trendy.

Directed, produced, and edited by Patricia Nazario.

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.