PERSEVERANCE: 20 Years Of Thinkspace Opens in Glendale

Featuring over 70 artists, PERSEVERANCE: 20 Years of Thinkspace will celebrate the 20^th anniversary of the Los Angeles-based gallery Thinkspace Projects, in collaboration with the Glendale Library, Arts & Culture and Brand Library & Art Center. Featured will be the works of local artists as well as site-specific murals from February 1 through March 25, 2025.

Thinkspace Projects was founded in 2005 in what is now L.A.’s burgeoning West Adams District. The gallery has garnered an international reputation over the past 20 years as one of the most active and productive exponents of the New Contemporary Art Movement. Maintaining its founding commitment to the promotion and support of its artists, Thinkspace has steadily expanded its roster and diversified its projects, creating collaborative and institutional opportunities all over the world. Established in the spirit of shaping recognition for young, emerging, and lesser-known talents, the gallery is now home to world-wide artists ranging from the emerging, mid-career, and established.

PERSEVERANCE serves to pay tribute to all the creatives Thinkspace has worked with over the last two decades. It features a diverse mix of artists on the gallery’s current roster alongside some longtime gallery favorites. It is also a look forward with fresh new talent that will be inspiring us for years to come. Thinkspace is more driven than ever to keep forging its path forward to honor the legacy of Thinkspace’s co-owner, dear Shawn Mery Vezinaw Hosner, and to keep building on all the gallery has accomplished thus far. SHAWN FOREVER.

This is the fifth collaboration between Brand Library & Art Center and Thinkspace Projects. The exhibition will be on view February 1 – March 29, 2025.

Artists featured in the exhibition will be present at the opening reception on Saturday, February 1, 2025, from 5:00 PM to 9:00 PM.

For more information about PERSEVERANCE: 20 Years of Thinkspace and to view the list of featured artists, visit BrandLibrary.org/Gallery.

ABOUT BRAND LIBRARY & ART CENTER

Brand Library & Art Center has been a cornerstone for the arts in Southern California since 1956. This unique public library focuses on visual arts and music and provides free services and programs for a diverse community, including print and online collections, subject specialist librarians, exhibitions, concerts, lectures, dance performances, films, and hands-on craft programs for children and adults. Brand Library seeks to develop innovative programs, services and collections to serve an ever-widening public interested in the arts. Brand Library & Art Center is a branch of the City of Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Department, it is supported, in part by the Brand Associates. For more information visit brandlibrary.org or contact 818-548-2051.   

ABOUT LIBRARY, ARTS & CULTURE      

Founded in 1907, the Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Department includes eight neighborhood libraries including the Brand Library & Art Center, a regional visual arts and music library and performance venue housed in the historic 1904 mansion of Glendale pioneer Leslie C. Brand, and the Central Library, a 93,000 square foot center for individuals and groups to convene, collaborate and create. The department also serves as the chief liaison to the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission which works to continually transform Glendale into an ever-evolving arts destination. Glendale Library Arts & Culture is supported in part through the efforts of the Glendale Library Arts & Culture Trust (GLACT) GLACT.org. For more information visit GlendaleLAC.org, or contact Library, Arts & Culture at (818) 548-2021 or via email at LibraryInfo@GlendaleCA.gov.

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