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Art Exhibit: POSE & KC Ortiz @ Known Gallery - Graffiti artist POSE and photojournalist KC Ortiz will unveil “Whitewash,” their second exhibit at Known Gallery in Los Angeles.

For POSE, Whitewash references society’s attempt to eradicate graffiti and stifle human expression. “Shortly after I started writing graffiti, Chicago took an extremely hard-line stance on its eradication, outlawing the sale of spraypaint and implementing Mayor Dayley’s Graffiti Blasters program,” POSE explains.

For KC, Whitewash is about the people and places he photographs. “Much of the work I do covers those who have been ‘whitewashed,’ so to speak, by history and policy,” KC notes. “Specifically, the work I will be exhibiting is from West Papua and Burma. You won’t find either of those ‘nations’ on the map, as both have been essentially ‘whitewashed’ away. Burma has been renamed Myanmar by its ruling junta in order to establish the fantasy of a unified nation, and West Papua has been occupied by Indonesia since 1963 after a very controversial handover from the Dutch that was orchestrated by the United States.”

POSE will show 15 new works while KC Ortiz will show 12 new photographs.  Opening reception is Saturday, Nov 19th from 8-11pm.  The exhibit will be up for view until Dec 10th.

Known Gallery
441 North Fairfax Avenue
Los Angeles, CA  90036
T: 310-860-6263
www.knowngallery.com