This  site specific installation and series of  fifty performances by artist Julie Tolentino is one of Los Angeles’ most important and necessary art events this year.  The multi-tiered exhibition of installation, objects, ephemera, and performance at Commonwealth and Council opens on April 13 and runs through May 4th.
RAISED BY WOLVES itself is a temporal performance offered to intimate audiences. There will be fifty private iterations created over the span of the exhibition. Viewers are invited to schedule a performance appointment or visit the overall exhibition during regular gallery hours, Wednesday through Saturday,  noon to 6pm. The private performances by appointment only, Wednesdays through Saturdays at 4, 5, & 6pm. To schedule,  please email Jina Dishman at us@commonwealthandcouncil.com

Using gold threads, mugwort, taxidermy, and reverberations of a text from Shame– A Collaboration by Kemper/Kelly, Tolentino reflects on the disjointed past of the gallery’s physical space. The site-specific installations “Sky Burial” and “Echo Valley”attend to a lost stairway set afire and a once-concealed window. The sculpture Smoke of Future Firs” pays tribute to the practice of 81-year-old painter Ken Warne, who once lived and ultimately passed away in the side room, resonating with notions of loss, precarity, and transference embedded in Tolentino’s body of work.

RAISED BY WOLVES artist contributors include: Rafa Esperanza, Mark So, Catherine Opie, Taisha Paggett, Stosh Fila, Chloë Flores, Juliana Snapper/Miller Puckett, Jet Clark, Aliza Shvarts, Judie Bamber, A.L. Steiner, Zackary Drucker/Ellen Reid, Cyril Kuhn, and CW&C.