SATURDAY, JANUARY 31, 2 pm
NIGHT GALLERY NORTH
2050 IMPERIAL STREET
Please join us for a conversation between artist Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack and writer and curator Auttrianna Ward. The conversation will take place in Gaitor-Lomack's exhibition YOU CAN HATE ME NOW at Night Gallery North on Saturday, January 31st at 2 pm.
Daniel T. Gaitor-Lomack (b. 1988, Neptune, NJ) has presented solo exhibitions at Jac Forbes Contemporary, Los Angeles; Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Alyssa Davis Gallery, New York; and Maple St. Construct, Omaha. His work has been featured in recent group shows at Night Gallery, Los Angeles; Public Gallery, London; James Cohan Gallery, New York; Jeffrey Deitch, Los Angeles; Welancora Gallery, Brooklyn; HVW8 Art + Design Gallery, Los Angeles; PPOW Gallery, New York; and Outono Projects, Los Angeles, among others. Gaitor-Lomack's work is in the permanent collections of The Hammer Museum, Los Angeles, CA; The Crocker Art Museum, Sacramento, CA; and The Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego, CA. He is the recipient of the NXTHVN Studio Fellowship and a Rema Hort Foundation Emerging Artist Grant. His work and performances have been written about in publications including Artforum, Hyperallergic, Artillery, the Los Angeles Times, Autre Magazine, and Art Industry News.
Auttrianna Ward is an independent curator, publisher, multilingual writer, cultural producer and founder of Auttrianna Projects. Born and raised in San Francisco, Ward has spent the last decade centering African Diasporic stories through her academic and professional pursuits, which have taken her to Brazil, Puerto Rico, New York, Chicago, London, Baltimore, and throughout the continental United States. Ward is the founder of Mare Residency and Auttrianna Projects, a creative firm and publishing house that supports African, Asian and Indigenous artistic production through publications, grants, residencies and special projects. She has penned cultural commentary as a contributing writer for Saint Heron, AFROPUNK, Sugarcane Magazine and published a bilingual Portuguese and English online journal for Afro-Brazilian art, Cores Brilhantes, from 2015-2018. Ward recently creatively directed and cofounded BLUE/AZUL, a tri-lingual art criticism journal on Afro-Diasporic art. Recent awards include the Critical Minded Grant for Critics of Color, Leslie King Hammond Graduate Fellowship, MICA Intercultural Development Grant, MICA/MFA Graduate Merit Scholarship and the MICA Graduate Research Development Grant.