Oxy Arts on York (4757 York Boulevard)

Mark Allen is an artist and curator based in Los Angeles. Between 2003 and 2018 he was the executive director of Machine Project, a nonprofit art space that produced more than 2,000 events in 15 years, including operas for dogs, vacations for plants, and concerts for dentists, as well as shows with the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, the Hammer Museum at UCLA, the Museum of Contemporary Art in Dever, the Walker Museum in Minneapolis and the Tang Teaching Museum in Satatoga Springs, New York.

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X: a Performance considers the significance of the letter X. From chromosome X to a time marker and void filler, Gabriela Ruiz explores the multiple uses and varying definitions of X. Ruiz works with multiple mediums including sound, film, sculpture, and installation. Her live performances use surprise, surrealism and elaborate installations to create rich visceral environments that contemplate emotion and meaning within culture and identity.

Hailing Cesar follows Eduardo Chavez’s journey to understand the legacy and struggle of his grandfather Cesar Chavez. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with director Eduardo Chavez, muralists John Zender Estrada, Daniel Cervantes and Pola Lopez, and scholar-artivist Brenda Perez.

Join us this February for a series of FREE generative writing workshops led by local LA-based authors. The series explores the connections between LA's built environment and how different cultures and communities interface with public space.

Free and open to the public - register here to reserve your spot.

Club SCUM will bring their East LA queer punk Latinx party to Oxy Arts with a DJ and live performances.

Dorian Wood performs a collection of folk standards and new compositions with a voice that "inhabits a room like a choir of ghosts" (LA Weekly

How does the past show up in the future in the emotional architectures of Greater (and Lesser) Los Angeles? An evening of student engaged poetry considering the temporal moving and shaking on various Southern California locales.

Through a poetic lens, Yosimar Reyes presents a comedic conversation about what it means to be undocumented in today's political system. Drawing from personal anecdotes, Reyes takes us on a journey of self-empowerment and perseverance, providing insight into the ways undocumented communities continue to build lives despite adversities. 

For the first time, EJ Hill and Texas Isaiah will commune and discuss Excellentia, Mollitia, Victoria. Excellentia, Mollitia, Victoria, was presented at the Hammer Museum's Made in L.A. 2018 and explored performance, stills, and installation as a form of meditation and healing. For Excellentia, Mollitia, Victoria, Hill and Texas Isaiah visited six of the seven schools Hill attended in Los Angeles—running laps around and documenting each.

Join us for the opening reception for the solo exhibition of Shizu Saldamando, Wanlass Artist-in-Residence.

Special DJ Set by Crasslos 
Snacks by East Los Musubi