ABOUT

Mission
The Brick is a nonprofit visual art space that promotes developments in contemporary culture through exhibitions, publications, and public programs. We believe that contemporary art is a means of understanding key issues of our time with all their inherent contradictions. Contemporary art assumes many forms. Rather than provide answers, it raises questions. Through a range of offerings, The Brick contextualizes contemporary art both socially and art historically. Our programs are free and designed to be accessible to the general public. 

History
The Brick was founded as LAXART in 2005 by Lauri Firstenberg as a platform for emerging and under-recognized artistic talent in Los Angeles. Since that time, The Brick has realized over 400 projects, characterized by newly commissioned artworks and solo projects in our gallery and public spaces. The Brick has made significant contributions to Southern California culture through partnerships with the Getty—to co-produce the Pacific Standard Time Performance and Public Art Festival in 2012 and the exhibition Video Art in Latin America in 2017—and the Hammer Museum—to co-organize Made in L.A. 2012, the city’s first biennial. We have also partnered with local and national organizations including the Frieze Art Fair, Art Basel, The Huntington, Monday Evening Concerts, Artadia, The French Embassy, L.A. Dance Project, and Le Lycée International of Los Angeles. In 2015, The Brick moved into a former recording studio built in 1928, which tripled the organization’s exhibition space.

In October 2016, Hamza Walker became The Brick’s second director after twenty-two years as Curator and Director of Education at the Renaissance Society in Chicago. Under Walker’s leadership, The Brick has deepened its mission and exhibition program to include thematic group exhibitions, new work with historical figures, and institutional-scale projects with emerging and established artists.

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MENTIONS

Staff

Hannah Burstein
Curatorial Associate

Kameron McDowell
Administrative Assistant

Chris Oliveria
Head Preparator

Jeremy E. Steinke
Director of Development

Catherine Taft
Deputy Director & Curator

Hamza Walker
Director

Board of Directors

Margaret Morgan, Chair
John Frane, Secretary
Shana Eddy-Grouf, Treasurer
Kim Allen-Niesen
Teal Black
Andrea Bowers
John Geresi
Kim Gordon
Karen Hillenburg
Zenas Hutcheson
Theodore Karatz
Glenn Ligon
Phil Lord
Dashiell Manley
Olivia Marciano
Rodney McMillian
Kelsey Lee Offield
Ric Whitney