Group Exhibition: Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture @ Vincent Price Art Museum
- Jessica Wimbley
- Jun 21
- 2 min read
Updated: Jun 22
Summer Reception
Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture
&
On the Side of Angels: Latina Lesbian Activism
Saturday, June 21, 2025
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Left: Kalli Arte Collective, Self Help Graphics, Familia, 2022, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, purchased with funds provided by the Prints and Drawings Special Purpose Fund, © Kalli Arte Collective, photo © Museum Associates/LACMA. Right: Flyer by Latina Futures 2050 Lab.
Hey SoCal Folks! Visit the museum June 21, from 4:00 – 6:00 PM, to celebrate the openings of two new exhibitions: Before You Now: Capturing the Self in Portraiture and On the Side of Angels: Latina Lesbian Activism.
Enjoy a Dublab DJ set by Langosta, cash bar by Chicas on the Rocks, and caricatures by artist Alex Săndulescu.
Given the current climate in our city, we look forward to being in community and sharing space with those who feel comfortable visiting the museum.
Admission is free and open to all!
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ABOUT THE EXHIBITIONS
Before You Now focuses on the enduring themes of the artist’s self-portrait, as seen in a selection of works from LACMA’s collections of photographs, prints, drawings, videos, and installation art. Primarily featuring contemporary makers, the exhibition is an introduction to seeing American artists as they see themselves—or as they want to be seen by their public. They are shown contemplating their physicality in realistic fashion, highlighting their persona through symbolic tropes, or utilizing humor or conceptual methods to enlighten, exaggerate, or camouflage their reflective selves. Over 50 artists—including Laura Aguilar, Kwame Brathwaite, Kalli Arte Collective, Jennifer Moon, Roger Shimomura, Cindy Sherman, Rodrigo Valenzuela, and June Wayne—display an ongoing fascination with, or return to, the self-portrait. Before You Now aims to broaden the topic to include many whose practice leans into an autobiographical narrative, and explores artists who are adding to and redefining our culture by expanding on ideas of identity.
This exhibition was organized by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in collaboration with the Vincent Price Art Museum at East Los Angeles College; Riverside Art Museum; Lancaster Museum of Art and History; and California State University, Northridge, Art Galleries.
Local Access is a series of American art exhibitions created through a multi-year, multi-institutional partnership formed by LACMA as part of the Art Bridges Initiative.
All exhibitions at the Vincent Price Art Museum are underwritten by the Vincent Price Art Museum Foundation and East Los Angeles College.
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The UCLA Chicano Studies Research Center (CSRC) in collaboration with Vincent Price Art Museum (VPAM) at East Los Angeles College (ELAC) proudly presents On the Side of Angels: Latina Lesbian Activism.This exhibition presents selections from the archival collections of prominent Latina lesbians, narrating their involvement in LGBTQ+, immigrant, labor, and housing justice movements from the 1980s through the late 2000s.Featuring materials from the CSRC, the exhibition includes photography, posters, magazines, and video footage from the collections of: policy and civil rights advocate Laura Esquivel; tenant rights attorney Elena Popp; and archivist, herstorian, and former CSRC librarian Yolanda Retter Vargas.
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