RENÉE REIZMAN
DISABILITY DRAWING CLUB - MAGIC EYE
July 5 - ongoing
OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, July 5 from 7-10PM
Part hangout, part drawing workshop, Disability Drawing Club (DDC) is a safe space that allows people with disabilities, chronic illness, and mental illness to be unapologetic about their bodies. It also broadens representation of the disabled experience within one’s community.
DDC's pop-up at Grand Central Art Center, Magic Eye, explores invisible disabilities and illnesses, which are often absent from visual representations of disability. Like many people, Reizman appears able bodied, but each day she combats a miserable cocktail of sharp pain, extreme fatigue, bloat, and brain fog.
We invite you to answer prompts and draw directly on the wall. Reflect upon your own experience, or someone who is close to you.
ABOUT THE ARTIST
Renée Reizman is the founder and facilitator for Disability Drawing Club. She is an interdisciplinary social practice artist, writer, and educator who works with communities to reveal the ways infrastructure and public policy contribute to social inequality. She is currently an adjunct assistant professor at Pepperdine University and the University of Southern California.
Reizman has engaged with the public through residencies and workshops at the Los Angeles Department of Transportation, Canyonlands Solid Waste Authority, the Blue Sky Center, the Library Foundation of Los Angeles, Antelope Valley College, Franconia Sculpture Park, Northwestern Oklahoma State University, Kolaj Institute, and Machine Project. She has exhibited work at the Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University, Access Gallery, the Irvine Fine Arts Center, Monte Vista Projects, Unit 5 Gallery, UCLA Broad Arts Center, and California State University Long Beach. Her writing appears in the Los Angeles Times, The Guardian, Hyperallergic, Observer, Art in America, New York Magazine, The Atlantic, Vice, Teen Vogue, InStyle, Chicago Magazine, Slate, and more. She holds an MFA in Art: Critical & Curatorial Studies from the University of California, Irvine.