Welcome
Raw Materials is an arts and architectural supplies store in downtown Los Angeles.
We will be closed on July 4 for Independence Day. Have a great holiday weekend!
June Happenings
Can you believe that summer is almost officially upon us? It was just a year ago that we signed the lease and hosted “FIRST | LAST“, our first and last full gallery show in our 436 S. Main Street space. Besides that and the solstice, other events you might want to remember this month include Philippine Independence Day, Flag Day, Bloomsday, Juneteenth, and Father’s Day.
STATION MUST GO
On exhibit in our windows throughout June is the operational art store/multidisciplinary installation, “STATION MUST GO”:
STATION MUST GO includes quizzical productions, both functional and non-functional, which seek to blur and question the boundaries separating art and decoration, commerce and kunst, art tools and art objects. Harkening back to Claus Oldenberg’s 1960’s ground-breaking storefront installations, this revised and updated exhibition addresses the questions of advertising conventions, branding, and product display as they pertain to the art world and larger pressing economic issues permeating today’s news. This is an abashedly generous interactive installation where “EVERYTHING MUST GO!”
STATION is an artist-led organization that supports diversity with practice and adapts to the needs of the artist within a continuously changing environment. The artists who form STATION collectively and individually initiate innovative projects, exhibitions, workshops, and forums. STATION workshops and forums stimulate critical thinking while exposing the community to a variety of art-making practices.
