Let the dog out.  Feed the chickens.  Eat breakfast.  Look in the mirror.  Create a self-portrait.  That is how Julia Couzens begins each day in a ritual she’s performed for decades.

Over the course of three years I worked on a series of hand woven and repeatedly burned textiles. My work has since taken on a new direction but the burned textiles laid the ground work in moving me toward a performance-based making practice.

The inauguration of the formerly SF-based gallery’s new LA location, features work by Lien Truong, Linda Sormin, and Luis A. Sahagun — three artists whose practices are immersed in complex visual and political American histories.