Professor Beatriz Cortez is participating in the group show Heavy Metal at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery. Curated by Nancy Meyer, the exhibition includes Cortez’s large-scale work The Lakota Porch: A Time Traveler (2017). Revisiting and challenging the historically dominant narratives of large-scale abstraction, sculpture, and Land Art, this group exhibition engages with the legacy of formalism while confronting colonial histories, memory, and the natural world. Expanding beyond an initial focus on metal, the works bring material and conceptual depth to question the history of monumentality in sculpture and to propose renewed ways of thinking about form, space, and relation.

In addition to Cortez, featured artists include Kelly Akashi, Miya Ando, Barbara Berk, Amy Bessone, Tanya Brodsky, Claire Chambless, Alika Cooper, Paige Emery, Katie Grinnan, Ting Ying Han, Andrea Hidalgo, Kelly Lamb, Abigail Lucien, Fay Ray, Brie Ruais, Carolyn Salas, Davina Semo, Kelly Wall, and Lisa Williamson.