Tierra del Sol Gallery presents our first ever zine show, Zines del Sol. Join us for the collaborative exhibition and festivities celebrating word and image by artists working with the Studios of Tierra del Sol, which is a not-for-profit founded in 1971. We champion inclusion and value for all individuals with disabilities through creative pathways to employment, education, and the arts.
Open from November 6th to December 23rd, 2021, this is the perfect destination for uniquely crafted holiday gifts. This includes the debut of our exciting new Tierra del Sol book publication of collaborative poetry featuring original poems and artwork dreamed into reality from Tierra’s online poetry workshops over the past year. Also, Wendy Yao, owner of Ooga Booga in Los Angeles, is juror of our t-shirt and tote bag contest so you can leave the gallery wearing one of the award-winning designs created by Tierra artists.
We invite you to join us both virtually and in-person as we festively re-emerge and reconnect:
Nov 6, 6-9pm, Opening Celebration with book signings, live portraits and DJs
Dec 4, 2-4pm Live & Streaming Poetry Reading
Dec 11, 11-4pm Holiday Bazaar & Zine Making Workshop
Come visit Tierra at Canoga Park’s 21st Annual Dia de los Muertos booths on Sunday, November 7th, 10 am – 5 pm! For more information on this event, check out: https://www.facebook.com/DiadelosMuertosFestivalCanogaPark/
After over a year of creating from home studios and working in new online communities, Tierra artists have come forth with an explosion of passion and an invigorated zest for making art. By delving deeper into their own interior landscapes, original writings and words are woven into poetry, characters stitched into dolls, images conjured for divination, and intergalactic friendships forged. Whether on paper, thread, paint, or clay, these artists have accessed new dimensions of their creative practices and brought imaginative ideas into fruition.
Street Views of Los Angeles opens March 19 and runs through May 7, 2022. Join us for an in-person celebration of Joe and his work on Saturday, March 19, 6-9 pm at our Chinatown gallery location.
EVERYONE’S INVITED!!!!
Joe Zaldivar is having a solo show
at the Tierra del Sol Gallery in Chinatown!
“Street Views of Los Angeles”
Opening reception Saturday, March 19, 6 – 9 PM
Exhibition March 19 – May 7, 2022
Tierra del Sol Gallery presents Hollywood, Camera, Action!, the first Studio Artist
curated exhibition at the Chinatown location. Artist Evan Hynes, selected works
from six Studio Artists: Catherine Benita, Justin Braden, Jose Hernandez, Daniel
Padilla, Jeffrey Rinsky and Zack Stewart to be in dialog with his own imagery that
centers on Hollywood, movies, and the characters that inspire him.
Reception at Tierra del Sol Gallery May 21, 6 – 9pm
Show runs from May 21 – July 9
Leul Asfaw
The Storm Clouds are Leaving
July 16 – September 3, 2022
Tierra del Sol proudly presents Leul Asfaw: The Storm Clouds are Leaving. This is his first solo
exhibition with the Gallery, since joining the Tierra del Sol Art Studio program in 2012. Asfaw
creates lush land and cityscapes that reflect his travels and his interests in the language of spaces and places. He is drawn to color-rich vistas that allow him to express the diverse palettes of natural and built environments.
Asfaw constructs his landscapes with repetitive strikes of colored pencil on paper, often giving his work the feel of a painting. With his attention to color, he thoroughly works the medium, saturating the paper and boldly transforming layers of hues into forms that delineate structure as well as
suggest something more poetic.
Please Note: This event is not open to the public, but all members of the media are welcome to attend, interview staff and associates, gather b-roll, and take photos.
The Tierra del Sol event also marks the celebration of National Disability Employment Awareness Month in October.
WHO: Tierra del Sol Foundation and the City of Los Angeles Department on Disability
WHAT: Breaking Barriers to Technology for People with Disabilities
WHEN: Tuesday, October 18, from 10:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
WHERE: Tierra del Sol’s Campus located at 9919 Sunland Blvd., Sunland, CA 91040
MEDIA RSVP: Please RSVP to Janice Estrada, jestrada@tierradelsol.org by Friday, October 14th.
Tierra del Sol Gallery presents 10 x 10, a massive group exhibition featuring submissions from nearly all Tierra del Sol Studio program participants. This exhibition continues the gallery’s annual tradition to showcase the collective energy that makes our organization vital to communities from Upland to Sunland and beyond.
To read more about this show, check out our blog. We hope to see you there!
Show runs November 12th – December 23rd, 2022
Tonmoy Khan: EVERYTHING
Opening Saturday, January 14th | 6-9 pm
On view through March 4th, 2023
Tierra del Sol Gallery presents Tonmoy Khan: Everything, Khan’s first solo exhibition. Everything embodies Khan’s feelings, his practice and his commitment to making visual language. He uses various media to illustrate his flora and fauna inspired images, including pencil, oil pastels and markers, the combination of these creates vibrant color, texture and depth. His work tells important stories of how he sees and interprets the world around him.
Khan immigrated from Bangladesh in 2011 and joined Tierra’s Studio Art Program in 2019. Khan uses tape to delineate rich geometric watercolor patterns that frame subjects including elaborately potted plants and other still life. Everything also includes surreal imagery depicting hands, flowers, insects, Pokemon and everything in between. Khan implores what he calls his “Secret Imagination” to work through both the stress of living so far from home and the pleasure in his deep connections to his friends, family and ideas that are often expressed in his surrealist works.
Please join us and the artist in celebration of this exciting body of work,
January 14, 6-9pm at the gallery in Chinatown, Los Angeles.
Everyone is welcome!
