Featuring Laura Aguilar, Judith F. Baca, Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studio, Nancy Baker Cahill, Vija Celmins, Laddie John Dill, Mercedes Dorame, Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, Alfredo Jaar, Jenny Kendler, David Maisel, Kori Newkirk, Catherine Opie, Emma Robbins, Alison Saar, Shinique Smith, and Isaac Michael Ybarra, with additional objects from the collections of the Autry Museum of the American West, California State University, Dominguez Hills’ Donald R. & Beverly J. Gerth Archives and Special Collections, and the Natural History Museum of Southern California.

Part of Getty PST ART: Art + Science Collide, Brackish Water Los Angeles examined the ecosystems, infrastructures, and politics surrounding brackish water, which refers to the space where salt and fresh waters meet. The project considered the larger implications of in-betweenness, including issues of access, inclusion, ecological racism, and cultural/class system interchanges along Los Angeles’ waterways.

The exhibition included off-site activations including the Harrison Studio’s California Wash in Santa Monica and Judith F. Baca’s Great Wall of Los Angeles in North Hollywood; and presented a new iteration of Nancy Baker Cahill’s groundbreaking augmented reality piece Mushroom Cloud LA/Proximities in Long Beach. With the inclusion of these off-site artworks, audiences were invited to consider the shape of the city and their own relationship to land and waterways.

Research for the exhibition entailed two undergraduate courses titled Art + Water, inviting CSUDH students directly into the research process to assist in shaping the resulting exhibition. The interdisciplinary course featured guest lectures from hydrologists, environmental activists, Indigenous leaders and museum curators; and took students to brackish sites, tide pools, tar pits and more.  

Brackish Water Los Angeles was co-directed by artist and independent curator Debra Scacco and CSUDH University Art Gallery Director and Associate Professor Aandrea Stang. The project participated in the Getty PST ART Climate Impact Program, also co-directed by Scacco.

Brackish Water Los Angeles is made possible by generous funding from Getty, Pasadena Art Alliance, and the California State University, Dominguez Hills’ Instructionally Related Activities Award.

Featuring  Laura Aguilar, Judith F. Baca, Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studio, Nancy Baker Cahill, Vija Celmins, Laddie John Dill, Mercedes Dorame, Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, Alfredo Jaar, Jenny Kendler, David Maisel, Kori Newkirk, Catherine Opie, Emma Robbins, Alison Saar, Shinique Smith, and Isaac Michael Ybarra, with additional objects from the collections of the Autry Museum of the American West, California State University, Dominguez Hills' Donald R. & Beverly J. Gerth Archives and Special Collections, and the Natural History Museum of Southern California. 

Part of Getty PST ART: Art + Science Collide, Brackish Water Los Angeles examined the ecosystems, infrastructures, and politics surrounding brackish water, which refers to the space where salt and fresh waters meet. The project considered the larger implications of in-betweenness, including issues of access, inclusion, ecological racism, and cultural/class system interchanges along Los Angeles’ waterways.

The exhibition includes off-site activations including the Harrison Studio’s California Wash in Santa Monica and Judith F. Baca’s Great Wall of Los Angeles in North Hollywood; and presented a new iteration of Nancy Baker Cahill’s groundbreaking augmented reality piece Mushroom Cloud LA/Proximities in Long Beach. With the inclusion of these off-site artworks, audiences were invited to consider the shape of the city and their own relationship to land and waterways.

Research for the exhibition entailed leading two undergraduate courses titles Art + Water, inviting students directly into the research process to assist in shaping the resulting exhibition. The interdisciplinary course featured guest lectures from hydrologists, environmental activists, Indigenous leaders and museum curators; and took students to brackish sites, tide pools, tar pits and more. 

Brackish Water Los Angeles was co-directed by artist and independent curator Debra Scacco and CSUDH University Art Gallery Director and Associate Professor Aandrea Stang. The project participated in the Getty PST ART Climate Impact Program, also co-directed by Scacco. 

Brackish Water Los Angeles is made possible by generous funding from Getty, Pasadena Art Alliance, and the California State University, Dominguez Hills’ Instructionally Related Activities Award.

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Featuring Laura Aguilar, Judith F. Baca, Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studio, Nancy Baker Cahill, Vija Celmins, Laddie John Dill, Mercedes Dorame, Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, Alfredo Jaar, Jenny Kendler, David Maisel, Kori Newkirk, Catherine Opie, Emma Robbins, Alison Saar, Shinique Smith, and Isaac Michael Ybarra, with additional objects from the collections of the Autry Museum of the American West, California State University, Dominguez Hills’ Donald R. & Beverly J. Gerth Archives and Special Collections, and the Natural History Museum of Southern California.

Part of Getty PST ART: Art + Science Collide, Brackish Water Los Angeles examined the ecosystems, infrastructures, and politics surrounding brackish water, which refers to the space where salt and fresh waters meet. The project considered the larger implications of in-betweenness, including issues of access, inclusion, ecological racism, and cultural/class system interchanges along Los Angeles’ waterways.

The exhibition included off-site activations including the Harrison Studio’s California Wash in Santa Monica and Judith F. Baca’s Great Wall of Los Angeles in North Hollywood; and presented a new iteration of Nancy Baker Cahill’s groundbreaking augmented reality piece Mushroom Cloud LA/Proximities in Long Beach. With the inclusion of these off-site artworks, audiences were invited to consider the shape of the city and their own relationship to land and waterways.

Brackish Water Los Angeles was co-directed by artist and independent curator Debra Scacco and CSUDH University Art Gallery Director and Associate Professor Aandrea Stang. The project participated in the Getty PST ART Climate Impact Program, also co-directed by Scacco. 

Brackish Water Los Angeles is made possible by generous funding from Getty, Pasadena Art Alliance, and the California State University, Dominguez Hills’ Instructionally Related Activities Award.

Click on images below to view full screen.

Featuring Laura Aguilar, Judith F. Baca, Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studio, Nancy Baker Cahill, Vija Celmins, Laddie John Dill, Mercedes Dorame, Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, Alfredo Jaar, Jenny Kendler, David Maisel, Kori Newkirk, Catherine Opie, Emma Robbins, Alison Saar, Shinique Smith, and Isaac Michael Ybarra, with additional objects from the collections of the Autry Museum of the American West, California State University, Dominguez Hills’ Donald R. & Beverly J. Gerth Archives and Special Collections, and the Natural History Museum of Southern California.

Part of Getty PST ART: Art + Science Collide, Brackish Water Los Angeles examined the ecosystems, infrastructures, and politics surrounding brackish water, which refers to the space where salt and fresh waters meet. The project considered the larger implications of in-betweenness, including issues of access, inclusion, ecological racism, and cultural/class system interchanges
along Los Angeles’ waterways.

The exhibition included off-site activations including the Harrison Studio’s California Wash in Santa Monica and Judith F. Baca’s Great Wall of Los Angeles in North Hollywood; and presented a new iteration of Nancy Baker Cahill’s groundbreaking augmented reality piece Mushroom Cloud LA/Proximities in Long Beach. With the inclusion of these off-site artworks, audiences were invited to consider the shape of the city and their own relationship to land and waterways.

Research for the exhibition entailed leading two undergraduate courses titled Art + Water, inviting CSUDH students directly into the research process to assist in shaping the resulting exhibition. The interdisciplinary course featured guest lectures from hydrologists, environmental activist, Indigenous leaders and museum curators; and took students to brackish sites, tide pools, tar pits and more. 

Brackish Water Los Angeles was co-directed by artist and independent curator Debra Scacco and CSUDH University Art Gallery Director and Associate Professor Aandrea Stang. The project participated in the Getty PST ART Climate Impact Program, also co-directed by Scacco. 

Brackish Water Los Angeles is made possible by generous funding from Getty, Pasadena Art Alliance, and the California State University, Dominguez Hills’ Instructionally Related Activities Award.

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Featuring Laura Aguilar, Judith F. Baca, Lauren Bon and Metabolic Studio, Nancy Baker Cahill, Vija Celmins, Laddie John Dill, Mercedes Dorame, Helen Mayer and Newton Harrison, Alfredo Jaar, Jenny Kendler, David Maisel, Kori Newkirk, Catherine Opie, Emma Robbins, Alison Saar, Shinique Smith, and Isaac Michael Ybarra, with additional objects from the collections of the Autry Museum of the American West, California State University, Dominguez Hills’ Donald R. & Beverly J. Gerth Archives and Special Collections, and the Natural History Museum of Southern California.

Part of Getty PST ART: Art + Science Collide, Brackish Water Los Angeles examined the ecosystems, infrastructures, and politics surrounding brackish water, which refers to the space where salt and fresh waters meet. The project considered the larger implications of in-betweenness, including issues of access, inclusion, ecological racism, and cultural/class system interchanges along Los Angeles’ waterways.

The exhibition included off-site activations including the Harrison Studio’s California Wash in Santa Monica and Judith F. Baca’s Great Wall of Los Angeles in North Hollywood; and presented a new iteration of Nancy Baker Cahill’s groundbreaking augmented reality piece Mushroom Cloud LA/Proximities in Long Beach. With the inclusion of these off-site artworks, audiences were invited to consider the shape of the city and their own relationship to land and waterways.

Research for the exhibition entailed leading two undergraduate courses titled Art + Water, inviting CSUDH students directly into the research process to assist in shaping the resulting exhibition. The interdisciplinary course featured guest lectures from hydrologists, environmental activists, Indigenous leaders and museum curators; and took students to brackish sites, tide pools, tar pits and more. 

Brackish Water Los Angeles was co-directed by artist and independent curator Debra Scacco and CSUDH University Art Gallery Director and Associate Professor Aandrea Stang. The project participated in the Getty PST ART Climate Impact Program, also co-directed by Scacco. 

Brackish Water Los Angeles is made possible by generous funding from Getty, Pasadena Art Alliance, and the California State University, Dominguez Hills’ Instructionally Related Activities Award.

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