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Per Capita

2021
Acrylic on cow hide
41 by 73 inches

Umar Rashid
PER CAPITA
May 1 - July 3
Opening: Saturday, May 1st, 11am-6pm
Hours: Monday-Friday 12pm-5pm and Saturday 12pm-6pm

 

Transformative Arts is pleased to present Umar Rashid PER CAPITA, an installation inspired by the artist's 2021 COLA Fellowship.

 

PER CAPITA, an immersive experience outside the white cube, extends Rashid's acuity to form space and time as a cosmic journey that reimagines colonial Los Angeles. Rashid's rich iconography questions the role of the individual in the collective shaping of the city. What does it mean to build a city – a gathering place – from diverse migratory peoples and experiences? Whose values dominate and whose heads roll?

 

Rashid's COLA project focuses on expanding his sculptural practice, specifically conceiving the Babylonian Ishtar Gate through the imagery and materials that define Los Angeles. The Ishtar Gate, once described as one of the world's seven wonders, in Rashid's reimagining translates Babylon's lapis lazuli into Dodger blue, lions into pitbulls and asps into rattlesnakes. In Rashid's LA, sentinels of the goddess are titled Yves Klein garden figures and the West African trickster Anansi continues to weave a web of playful confusion, pain as well as potential.

 

Ishtar is the goddess of love, war, sex and fertility, death and destruction, representing both darkness and light. Rashid uses these contradictions to stretch visual narratives, sifting through layers of history, power and subjugation, as well as divinity, desire and desecration to show us the temporalities of our consumption and creativity. PER CAPITA examines and judges the city we live in, its miseries and its pleasures.

 

Please observe Covid safe practices. Remember to wear your mask and socially distance. All are welcome.

 

Transformative Arts, formerly Quotidian, is located at 410 S Spring Street in downtown Los Angeles.

 

https://transformativenow.org/new

  • PER CAPITA Per Capita

    2021
    Acrylic on cow hide
    41 by 73 inches

    22691
  • PER CAPITA 8th Wonder: Portal to Los Angeles Past, Present and Future

    2021
    Wood and acrylic spray paint

    22734
  • PER CAPITA 8th Wonder: Portal to Los Angeles Past, Present and Future (side view)

    2021
    Wood and acrylic spray paint

    22733
  • PER CAPITA 8th Wonder: Portal to Los Angeles Past, Present and Future (detail)

    2021
    Wood and acrylic spray paint

    22732
  • PER CAPITA I found the A

    2018
    Broken car windshields, spray paint, steel, love

    22695
  • PER CAPITA Trickster

    2019
    Cotton aplique on linen, gold thread
    42 by 88 inches

    22736
  • PER CAPITA Worker's Unite

    2017
    Unique zero graphic transfer print with ink and acrylic on birch panel
    12 by 9 inches

    22729
  • PER CAPITA All Power to the Women

    2017
    Unique zero graphic transfer print with ink and acrylic on birch panel
    12 by 9 inches

    22722
  • PER CAPITA All Power to the Men

    2017
    Unique zero graphic transfer print with ink and acrylic on birch panel
    12 by 9 inches

    22721
  • PER CAPITA Disrupt the Economy of the Enemy through Infiltration and Make them Recognize Your Power

    2017
    Unique zero graphic transfer print with ink and acrylic on birch panel
    12 by 9 inches

    22723
  • PER CAPITA Hit Them in Their Homes

    2017
    Unique zero graphic transfer print with ink and acrylic on birch panel
    12 by 9 inches

    22724
  • PER CAPITA Torture and Execution is Difficult but Necessary

    2017
    Unique zero transfer graphic print with ink and acrylic on birch panel
    12 by 9 inches

    22728
  • PER CAPITA Las Cruxes

    2020
    a set of two cross candelabras carved from myrtle wood with diecast metal bases filled with poured concrete
    35 by 28 by 6 inches

    22725
  • PER CAPITA Las Cruxes

    2020
    a set of two cross candelabras carved from myrtle wood with diecast metal bases filled with poured concrete
    35 by 28 by 6 inches

    22726
  • PER CAPITA Per Capita: Hortense through Candy (installation view)

    2021
    Acrylic on paper over panel
    7 by 7.5 inches

    22735
  • PER CAPITA 1. 1794 St. Bertrand (St. Louis) Mugwayan, Shshone trapper and interpreter prepares to execute her abusive Frenglish husband, while Pompey, body slave to the Bonnie Prince Charles Sidney Looks on. 2. The heat is on. Abusive ex really begins to cook. Pompey is like, damn! 3. The Bopnnie Prince Charles Signey, fomer Pharaoh of Novum Eboracum (New York) and his lover, Achille St. Marc, explorer and fighter from the Caribbean, finish the immolation show and invite Mugwayan to join them on their journey to the Pacific.

    2019
    Colonial Fabric Softener
    Ink on paper mounted on board
    7 by 5.5 inches

    22710
  • PER CAPITA 4. The fellowship is formed and they are prepared to leave the safety of St. Bertrand for the wilderness. 5. Horses are mounted. 6. Fusiliers with cannon. 7. Grenadiers with cannon. 9. Canoe division prepare to navigate the rivers.

    2019
    Colonial Fabric Softener
    Ink on paper on board
    7 by 11 inches

    22711
  • PER CAPITA 11. Young lovers on a cargo wagon full of poison.

    2019
    Colonial Fabric Softener
    Ink on paper on board, paint on graphic transfer print (unique)
    7 by 33 inches

    22712
  • PER CAPITA 13. Female water bearers with children. Grueling work. 12. Field hands with bags of poison. 14. Cattle as food for the journey. Historical origin of Omaha steaks. 15. Brubeck band for show and rhythm on the march.

    2019
    Colonial Fabric Softener
    Ink on paper on board, paint on graphic transfer print (unique)
    7 by 33 inches

    22713
  • PER CAPITA 16. First contact with the friendly Mandan. A gift of exotic poison. 17. Drink party. 18. A sober agreement of friendship in the morning. Mugwayan translates but is concerned.

    2019
    Ink on paper on board
    7 by 16.5 inches

    22714
  • PER CAPITA 20. On the move again. The fabric is softened without agitation.

    2019
    Colonial Fabric Softener
    Ink on paper on board
    7 by 5.5 inches

    22715
  • PER CAPITA 21. The party moves into Dakotaland. Idyllic procession. 22. Fusiliers discover bison across the river. Sidney and St. Marc are already across on a picnic. 25. The butchering of bison commences. The Dakota hunters begin to assemble and decide the course of punishment for the trespassers. 24. The fusiliers hunt bison. A Dakota man (Sioux) looks on as the foreigners trespass upon his hunting grounds.

    2019
    Colonial Fabric Softener
    Ink on paper on board
    7 by 22 inches

    22716
  • PER CAPITA 26. A fusilier is killed whilst relieving himself. The hunters prepare to attack the trespassers. 27. Three trespassers get sent to the afterlife in a hail of arrows. 28. With the element of surprise lost, the fusiliers use the bison as a shield while the Dakota hunters plan their final assault. 29. The fusiliers, now bolstered by courage and fear shoot their single-shot rifles into the woods. The Dakota hunters have anticipated their move and maneuvered behind them. 30. The remaining fusiliers are killed in close-quarter combat. 31. Pompey delivers the heads of the fusiliers to Sidney at Leroi, The Pleasure Tent while receiving a shave from St. Marc. 32. Sidney, enraged at the loss of his men urges military action against the Dakota while Mugwayan and Pompey urge restraint.

    2019
    Colonial Fabric Softener
    Ink on paper on board
    7 by 33 inches

    22717
  • PER CAPITA 33. A band of mounted Dakota warriors appear simultaneously to attack the camp. Dakota Fury, 34. The warriors are defenseless against the heavy cannon and are cut down. 35. The warriors retreat, having dealt some death and satisfied to that end. 36. Sidney, in retaliation, had sent a small force to the Dakota village to massacre the women and children before the men can return. It sickens Mugwayan. White rage! Fabric softened.

    2019
    Colonial Fabric Softener
    Ink on paper on board
    7 by 11 inches

    22718
  • PER CAPITA 37. The caravan eventually reaches the great mountains (Rockies) and begin their ascent through the dangerous pass. 38. After a while, the caravan makes its descent through the pass to the valley of the Shoshone. Mugwayan is thrilled to be home.

    2019
    Colonial Fabric Softener
    Ink on paper on board
    7 by 11 inches

    22719
  • PER CAPITA 39. Emissaries of the Shoshone chief greet Sidney, St. Marc, and Mugwayan

    2019
    Colonial Fabric Softener
    Ink on paper on board
    7 by 11 inches

    22720
  • PER CAPITA Title Page

    2019
    Colonial Fabric Softener
    Ink on paper on board
    7 by 5.5 inches

    22727
 
 

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