Artist Glenn Kaino would like to give you three wishes, each packaged inside a small ceramic disk. Glenn Kaino’s “Wishing Well” installation will debut at the new, Long Beach art space, Compound, in December — pandemic permitting. “And it’s especially relevant now.”Study for Glenn Kaino’s drawing “Salute,” graphite on paper, 2014, which depicts Tommie Smith’s 1968 protest. When talking about his art, Kaino almost always uses “we,” crediting everyone in his six-person studio with the ideas behind the work. “That action, it wasn’t me, Tommie Smith the Black man, up there on the victory stand, it was all those unjustly treated on the victory stand.

Source: Los Angeles Times November 09, 2020 15:02 UTC