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DMST Atelier is now Currency Exchange
Art Gallery & Community Center in MidCity Los Angeles
Fri 5-8pm + Sat/Sun 12-5pm + by Appt
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Your one-stop shop for CXLA Fall Programming. Join us throughout the run of our current exhibition, Cast Shadows, featuring David Vega and Andy Montiel Phillips, for workshops, karaoke, conversation, and a Community Feed to close it all out. Coming up:
Saturday Night Karaoke — Oct. 10
Stories Through Drawing Workshop — Oct. 17
Happy Hour / Artist Panel Discussion — Oct. 25
Community Feed / Closing Reception — Nov. 14 Cast Shadows is on view through November 14. All programs take place at Currency Exchange and are free and open to the community. Song choice by @_readymade._ by @c.x.l.a
Destruccion amarilla David Vega Acrylic paint on canvas 72” x 24” 2023 Cast Shadows, a presentation of sculptures by Andy Montiel-Phillips and large-scale paintings by David Vega is on view through November 14th. Regular gallery hours Friday 5-8 PM & Saturday/Sunday 12-5 PM. by @c.x.l.a
David Vega (@streetsprung ) in our current exhibition; Cast Shadows. On view through November 14th. See more at CXLA.org by @c.x.l.a
Cast Shadows is a presentation of sculptures by Andy Montiel-Phillips and large-scale paintings by David Vega Featured work: Specter Andy Montiel Phillips Flocking, cedar, pine, galvanizing compound, steel 81” H x 120” W x 50”D 2025 by @c.x.l.a
Join us for HH this Sunday, 10/25 from 4-6:30 PM! This edition of HH will feature David Vega, Andy Montiel-Phillips, Nehemiah Cisneros and Coco Pusinella in a panel discussion about art and access. Cartoons, murals and public art let us in fast. A bright color, a clean line, a shape we half-remembered, a wall we always walk by, a sculpture in the lobbyway of our office building, outside a stadium, in a park. In all of these forms, we are given access before we have decided whether we want it or how we want to engage it. And these forms can hold almost anything: humor, grief, violence, the personal and the political at once. This Happy Hour brings the artists from the current exhibition, Cast Shadows, together with other artists working with accessible art forms into conversation with the CXLA community to ask what access really means, for contemporary art, for public art, for the cartoon and the caricature, and for difficult content that needs a way in. Participating Artists: David Vega, Andy Montiel-Phillips, Coco Pusinella, Nehemiah Cisneros  Homemade Cocktail Mixer - Frannie  Facilitator  - Frannie Hemmelgarn & Kim Garcia About Happy Hour Happy Hour is Currency Exchange’s ongoing series of public conversations, held around the exhibition currently on view. Each edition takes a theme from the show and opens it outward, inviting artists, writers, organizers, and neighbors to talk through what the work is asking and how it connects to the world beyond the gallery. The format is deliberately loose: a drink, a few starting questions, and room for the discussion to go where it needs to. The goal is not to explain the exhibition but to give it company and make CXLA a place where looking, discourse, and thinking together are part of the space’s everyday life. Everyone is welcome by @c.x.l.a
Molded under the corss Acrylic paint on canvas 39” x 38” 2026 Cast Shadows is a presentation of sculptures by Andy Montiel-Phillips and large-scale paintings by David Vega, nothing is as it seems at first glance. Bright colors, cartoon shapes and referential and ubiquitous symbols, icons and fonts create a quick access point and immediate familiarity, only to divulge into something darker and more distorted. The familiar becomes a kind of mirror—reflecting personal memory, popular culture, and our collective psychic entanglement with a muddy national history back at us. Cast Shadows is on view through November 14th. This Saturday David Vega is leading a Stories Through Drawing workshop from 2-3 PM, sign up at the link in the bio! by @c.x.l.a
Stories Through Drawing: Deconstructing & Reimagining the American Landscape Join David Vega at the gallery this Saturday from 2–3 PM for a drawing workshop exploring storytelling through images. Using transparent paper, participants will trace familiar historical images and layer them into collages as a tool for story telling. Sign up at link in the bio. by @c.x.l.a
Tonight at the gallery! Free and open to the public! by @c.x.l.a
Wounded Massacre David Vega Acrylic paint on canvas 72” x 24” 2022 Regular gallery hours this weekend + Karaoke on Saturday night! Cast Shadows, a presentation of sculptures by Andy Montiel-Phillips (@_readymade._ ) and large-scale paintings by David Vega is on view through November 14th. by @c.x.l.a
Karaoke next Saturday brought to you by @uly_nieto and @kimwantscoffee We will sing our heart out in the gallery surrounded by our current duo exhibition featuring the work of David Vega and Andy Montiel Phillips, Cast Shadows. Start practicing now 🎶 Song choice: Homage to @lineageofthekingdom performance from the last Saturday Night Karaoke by @c.x.l.a
Specter Andy Montiel Phillips Flocking, cedar, pine, galvanizing compound, steel 81” H x 120” W x 50”D 2025 Cast Shadows is a duo exhibition featuring the work for Andy Montiel Phillips (@_readymade._ )and David Vega (@streetsprung ) by @c.x.l.a
David Vega Furtive snakes Acrylic paint on canvas 60” x 60” 2025 Cast Shadows, a presentation of sculptures by Andy Montiel-Phillips and large-scale paintings by David Vega is on view through November 14th. Regular gallery hours Friday 5-8 PM & Saturday/Sunday 12-5 PM. + Special Programming this weekend as Andy (@_readymade._ ) hosts an Art Handling Workshop on Saturday, 9/26 from 2-3 PM. All are welcome & desired! by @c.x.l.a

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