Stepping Into The Radiant Future
group exhibition
Last Projects
Los Angeles, CA
2017

Press Release

From gallery director ilona Berger:
A Soviet utopian cliche I heard on a copy of a copy of a cassette containing the only recording I have of my mothers voice of an interview conducted with a film director in early 70's Moscow. I understood the phrase was used ironically, but her voice beguiled. Irony and idealism entwined. Heterotopia. Sublimation and transcendence. Speculative cosmogony. Solidarity and resistance.

At LAST Projects in Hollywood, where we occupied a second floor space above a lingerie shop for three years, the gallery's bar was the crucible of the space. It was built in a narrow side room lit by amber and colored lights, with our personal curation of artworks that colorful and a little dark. Several artists asked us to show this collection in the exhibition space. We soon moved out of Hollywood to Lincoln Heights. It was a difficult rebirth and we pulled through on the strength of our friendships with artists.

Stepping into the Radiant Future brings together the communities of artists we've worked with over the past three years and the friends they've invited, with a collection of works that disturbs the divergent emanations from the radiant future; a utopian mantra that is perennially prescient, a warning, a portal, and emergent.

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Participating Artists

  • Gianni Arone

  • Anthony Ausgang

  • Billie Austin

  • Devin Anderson

  • Joe Baiza

  • Liz Walsh

  • Jovi Schnell

  • Serge Serum

  • Craig Calderwood

  • Patrick Donovan

  • Jean Guerly Pétion

  • Kim Weller

  • Alex Sanchez

  • Rachid Bouhamidi

  • Keenan Derby

  • Alice C*nt

  • Jeff Zilla

  • Malik Pope

  • Ciriza

  • Cynthia Herrera

  • Lena Moross

  • Rachel Mason

  • Sean Noyce

  • Katya Usvitsky

  • Franco Castilla

  • Astral Eyes

  • Nora Keyes

  • Adrienne Heloise

  • Cate Nelson

  • Meagan Boyd

  • Peter Kalisch

  • Karim Shuquem

  • Michael Dee

  • Dorian Wood

  • Nilay Lawson

  • Skip Snow

  • Ken Gunn Yeop Min

  • Ernest Rosenthal

  • Andrew Wingler

  • Ilona Berger

  • Louis Schmidt

  • Phillip Haut

  • Caro Fontoura Alzaga

  • KT Flanagan

  • Case Hudson

  • Isabel Theselius

  • Luka Fisher

  • Tim Hailand

  • Schelsey Mohammadi Sabat

  • Cindy Rehm

  • Kat Genikov

  • Lola Rose Thompson

  • Xara Thustra

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