On the final weekend of Light Gauge, we will gather in the M&A x Craft Contemporary Courtyard to share a toast to our summer programs and to look ahead, together, toward our next seasons.
Complemented by drinks sponsored by Supergay Spirits, guests will enjoy a meal of seasonal ingredients, foraged plants, and the culturally vast flavors of Los Angeles’ community prepared by culinary artists Kyle Kiyomi Obermeier (Kitchen Sink) and Hal Roeser (Lovening Agent). Artists Markele Cullins and Jazmin Jazzy Romero will offer site-specific performances to complete this summer’s series of experiences that explore the spatial themes and programmatic capacities of Light Gauge.
As with each year’s end-of-season dinner, AFTERGLOW is ticketed to cover costs and to provide support to M&A’s upcoming exhibitions and public programs. The dinner additionally convenes and celebrates the dedicated community that supports and sustains M&A’s important work.
Markele Cullins is an interdisciplinary artist from Baltimore, MD based in Los Angeles, CA. They explore and ask questions about the human condition through play, experimentation, and embodied research. Grounded in the Black radical imagination, their practice creates spaces for catharsis and contemplation. They have shared work in spaces including Human Resources, Kita Gallery, The Athens Biennale, Mirror Lab, Shed Space, and Baltimore Museum of Art. They received their BFA from the University of Maryland Baltimore County and are currently a New Genres MFA candidate at UCLA.
Jazmin Romero is an artist from Los Angeles, California. Her work explores how memory is embodied through performance, video, sound, and sculpture. Romero’s practice considers experimentation, improvisation, and collaboration as pathways for alternative forms of storytelling. She engages with the relationship between musical gesture and physical form to produce scores, assemblages, and compositions. She is also a member of various performance and music production collectives, such as COQUETA. Romero has performed at MOCA Geffen, Frieze Art Fair Los Angeles, MoMA PS1, Performance Space New York, and Miami Basel. She received a BA from Hunter College, New York, and is currently an MFA candidate at UCLA in New Genres.
Kylie Kiyomi Obermeier (Kitchen Sink) and Hal Roeser (Lovening Agent) are chefs, culinary artists, and friends brought together by a shared love for bright flavors and unabashed kitchen dancing. At the heart of their practices lies a shared commitment to play, taking the sweet and ridiculous oh so seriously. The two share a penchant for seasonal ingredients, incorporating foraged plants and the culturally vast flavors of Los Angeles’ community throughout their food. Kylie’s Hapa heritage and Hal’s heartfelt approach to dishes as ephemeral archives meet to create a sense of home with a hearty dollop of dreamy imagination within every meal.
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Photos by Oscar Mendoza of Summer Supper (2024)