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# Artist-Led Workshops and Projects Wrestle with Body Awareness
- URL: https://hyperallergic.com/artist-workshops-ltd-los-angeles/
- Published: 2018-01-24T11:47:16.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-24T16:11:06.000Z
- Description: Artists at ltd gallery are hosting a series of events working out themes related to the body in tandem with a group exhibition on the topic.
- Author: Elisa Wouk Almino
- Tags: Art, Events, Ltd Los Angeles, #wp, #wp-post, #image-position-hidden, #Import 2025-11-18 14:37 (2018)

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(image courtesy ltd los angeles)

The theme of “the body” can feel overused in contemporary art exhibitions. But truth be told, it is a rich, varied, and always relevant theme; the trick is to present it in a non-generic and fresh way.

The group exhibition [*I am no bird…*](http://ltdlosangeles.com/current%5Fexhibition.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)at ltd gallery takes off to a promising start with [a text written by William J. Simmons](http://www.ltdlosangeles.com/IANB%5Ftext%5FSimmons.pdf?ref=hyperallergic.com). In it, he compares our relationship to art to that of love. “In both cases we attribute inconsistent and life-altering importance to entities over which we (should) have no control,” he writes. According to him, the works featured in *I am no bird…* (by Baseera Khan, Aimee Goguen, [Ebony G. Patterson](https://hyperallergic.com/284614/lost-and-invisible-bodies-enshrined-in-glitter-and-bling/), among others) capture the longing, loneliness, shame, and desire that comes with inhabiting a body.

Over the course of the exhibition, artists will be staging a series of events. The first was a body awareness workshop led by Lesley Moon, who is featured in the show and will be returning to the gallery on February 3 for a class on training for body strength. This Saturday, Moon, [Cassils](https://hyperallergic.com/377494/a-1900-pound-sculpture-pushed-through-the-streets-of-omaha-in-tribute-to-its-lgbtq-history/), Matt Chavez, Justin Chow, Nik Kosmas, and Elliot Musgrave will engage in a roundtable discussion about fitness and training, and how health influenced their practices. And, finally, Mariah Garnett and Aimee Goguen have made a film, screening next Wednesday, that responds to the artwork on view.

**When:** Saturday, January 27, 2pm; Wednesday, January 31, 8pm; Saturday, February 3, 1pm  
**Where:** ltd los angeles (1119 South La Brea Avenue, Los Angeles)

*More info at* [*ltd los angeles*](http://ltdlosangeles.com/current%5Fexhibition.html?ref=hyperallergic.com)*.*