Call and Response | LA Artcore

Call and Response is a product of 5 years’ worth of conversation between Erin E. Adams and me. The exhibition felt like such a natural outgrowth of our shared sensibilities and overlapping practices.

“After the shock of trauma, the restoration of health emerges out of an unbalanced and damaged system. Call & Response at LA Artcore considers the impacts of universal events and their influences. Artists H. Leslie Foster II and Erin Elizabeth Adams join forces for the first time and present an exhibition that reviews the cyclical nature of anguish and renewal. Foster and Adams share a connectedness marked by two global pandemics, separated by almost two generations. In their practices, both artists combine interdisciplinary approaches to navigate fragility, ecology, and the beauty of queerness. The scar tissue from which their work emerges notes the desire to savor intimacy and stubborn joy, both gifts harnessed to build new worlds.” - Excerpt of exhibition text by LA-based curator and writer Taylor Bythewood-Porter