March 2021
Maru Garcia: membrane tensions
Transforming the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery into an active laboratory, membrane tensions features a constellation of new, site-specific works composed of cellulose. The cellulose (produced and harvested on-site at the Gallery) is used as both an intervention in the Gallery’s balcony windows and an installation of sculptural objects and light projections, alluding to the beginning of life where the delineation between internal and external was essential for life forms to first emerge. In using and placing cellulose (literally and figuratively) as…
Playing with SCOBY Workshop with Maru Garcia
LAMAGPlay Playing with SCOBY Workshop Friday, March 26 at 1 PM PST In this family friendly workshop, learn how to make your own kombucha culture with exhibition artist Maru Garcia. Garcia will walk us through the step by step process of creating culture and discuss the basics of SCOBY. Please note contents are intended for educational purposes only and not consumption. Supplies required: SCOBY Kombucha starter (also called “mother”): https://store.poseymom.com/products/poseymom-kombucha-natural-probiotic 1/2 cup of sugar 1 L purified water 2 black…