G.O.C.A. The Gallery of Contemporary Art

The Gallery of Contemporary Art (G.O.C.A.)
is a self-contained portable exhibition space located in a suitcase. It is an ongoing project founded by Los Angeles based artist Ed Gomez.  The objective of G.O.C.A. is to provide an alternative space for artists to call into question curatorial and institutionalized practices. Previous installments have included conservators and art preparators of the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and several Southern California based artists.
G.O.C.A. has a growing permanent collection of artworks from previously exhibited artists and a gift shop with original G.O.C.A. merchandise.  Exhibition catalogs, booklets, t-shirts, and postcards may be purchased in G.O.C.A.’s traveling external gift shop.

for more information email me at zemogde@hotmail.com

Gift Shop

it doesn’t need a title
2004

Cedric Adams 2004
Tommy Beane
Chris Ellis
Edwin Menendez
Sam Pace
David Parker
Chris Sicat
Jeff Stephens

It Doesn’t Need a Title, was G.O.C.A.’s inaugural exhibition for the On The Move show and included eight art preparators from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. These eight artists contributed works for the exhibition with the only stipulations being the size restraints of the exhibition space and that each artist worked at the museum as an art preparator.

NEXT
2005

Andrew Armstrong
Jesse Benson
Andrew Davis
Rob Faucette
Luis G. Hernandez
April Lillard
Matt Macfarland
Alfredo Mercado
Karen Emi Nakashima
Saida Staudenmaier
Chris Tallon

Next features eleven Los Angeles based artists who were invited to produce works for G.O.C.A.’s second exhibition.
The only restrictions placed on the artists were the size restraints of the exhibition space.

Spit
July 30th-September 3, 2005

Natasha Cochran  Don Menveg
Soko Furuhata      Catherine McLean
Cristina Graca       Jean Neeman
John Hirx              Chail Norton
Chie Ito                Yosi Pozeilov
Ashley Johnson     Terry Schaeffer
Jennie Koerner      Susan Schmalz
Yadin Larochette   Batyah Shtrum

Contributing artworks for this exhibition are sixteen conservators from the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. The parameters for this exhibition were that the artists participating must be actively employed in the conservation department of the museum and that their works fit inside the exhibition space.

release
March 25 – April 15, 2006

G.O.C.A. catalog release exhibition. Exhibition held at Slanguage, The New China Town Barber Shop,
Los Angeles, CA.

Link
May 4-25, 2007

Cindy Santos Bravo     Gomez Bueno
Enrique Castrejon        Denis Gillingwater
Michael Maglich          Raymond Pettibon
Mary Temple               Roy Wasson Valle

Organized by Ed Gomez, Phoenix-based artist Carolyn Lavender, and collector and artist advocate Ted Decker. LINK brings together eight artists from Los Angeles, Phoenix, and New York. Gomez and Lavender, as exhibition curators, have invited artists with varying artistic practices from different geographical locations to overcome the restrictions set forth by G.O.C.A.