The Hi-Lite in collaboration with Nancy Baker Cahill’s Collaborative Art Project at Homeboy Industries is proud to present Exit Wounds. Featuring close to twelve mixed media works, the exhibition was born out a relational art project Los Angeles artist Baker Cahill designed to allow at-risk and formerly gang-involved youth to tell their own stories through collaged text, photographs, original art, and highly charged imagery. The resulting works are visually arresting and boldly confront personal and collective issues that impact the larger Los Angeles community.

Participants in the Exit Wounds project are given cameras, magazines and art supplies and are encouraged to bring unconventional materials from home (original & graffiti art, x-rays, prayer cards, letters) in order to personalize their individual narratives. Baker Cahill then takes the collaged stories to the shooting range, and with direction from the participants about where they would like the bullet holes, shoots and paints them as she does her Bullet Blossoms.

All proceeds benefit Homeboy Industries.

Opening Reception

Saturday, March 19, 2011
6-9pm
FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

On view Tuesdays: 3/22, 3/29, 4/5 from 10:30 am-1:30 pm
FREE
533 South Los Angeles Street, 6th Floor
Los Angeles, CA 90013

Or by appointment at 213-784-2003
Hi-Lite Project Space