PERSERVERANCE - 20 Years of Thinkspace Opens at Brand Library & Art Center

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
January 22, 2025

Library, Arts & Culture Media: Maryl Fleisher
Email: MFleisher@GlendaleCA.gov
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PERSERVERANCE: 20 YEARS OF THINKSPACE OPENS AT BRAND LIBRARY & ART CENTER

Glendale, CA - Glendale Library, Arts & Culture and Brand Library & Art Center present PERSEVERANCE: 20 Years of Thinkspace in collaboration with Thinkspace Projects, a Los Angeles-based gallery. Featuring over 70 artists, PERSERVERANCE celebrates the 20^th anniversary of the gallery with a presentation of new works by local artists as well as site-specific murals.

Thinkspace Projects was founded in 2005 in what is now L.A.'s burgeoning West Adams District. The gallery has garnered an international reputation over the past 20 years as one of the most active and productive exponents of the New Contemporary Art Movement. Maintaining its founding commitment to the promotion and support of its artists, Thinkspace has steadily expanded its roster and diversified its projects, creating collaborative and institutional opportunities all over the world. Established in the spirit of shaping recognition for young, emerging, and lesser-known talents, the gallery is now home to world-wide artists ranging from the emerging, mid-career, and established.

PERSEVERANCE serves to pay tribute to all the creatives Thinkspace has worked with over the last two decades and features a diverse mix of artists on the gallery's current roster alongside some longtime gallery favorites and a look forward with fresh new talent that will be inspiring us for years to come. Thinkspace is more driven than ever to keep forging its path forward to honor the legacy of Thinkspace's co-owner, dear Shawn Mery Vezinaw Hosner, and to keep building on all the gallery has accomplished thus far. SHAWN FOREVER.

PERSEVERANCE: 20 Years of Thinkspace, which is the fifth collaboration between Brand Library & Art Center and Thinkspace Projects, will be on view February 1 - March 29, 2025. Artists featured in the exhibition will be present at the opening reception on Saturday, February 1, 2025, from 5:00 PM - 9:00 PM.

For more information and to view the list of featured artists, visit BrandLibrary.org/Gallery.

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About Glendale

Known as the "Jewel City," Glendale is the fourth largest city of Los Angeles County. With a population of more than 200,000, Glendale is a thriving cosmopolitan city that is rich in history, culturally diverse, and offers nearly 50 public parks, and easy access to a municipal airport. It is the home to a vibrant business community, with major companies in healthcare, entertainment, manufacturing, retail, and banking.

About Library, Arts & Culture

Founded in 1907, the Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Department includes eight neighborhood libraries including the Brand Library & Art Center, a regional visual arts and music library and performance venue housed in the historic 1904 mansion of Glendale pioneer Leslie C. Brand, and the Central Library, a 93,000 square foot center for individuals and groups to convene, collaborate and create. GLAC is supported in part by the Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Trust (GLACT), the department also serves as the chief liaison to the Glendale Arts and Culture Commission which works to continually transform Glendale into an ever-evolving arts destination. For more information visit GlendaleLAC.org, or contact Library, Arts & Culture at 818-548-2021 or via email at LibraryInfo@GlendaleCA.gov.

About Brand Library & Art Center

Brand Library & Art Center has been a cornerstone for the arts in Southern California since 1956. This unique public library focuses on visual arts and music and provides free services and programs for a diverse community, including print and online collections, subject specialist librarians, exhibitions, concerts, lectures, dance performances, films, and hands-on craft programs for children and adults. Brand Library seeks to develop innovative programs, services and collections to serve an ever-widening public interested in the arts. Brand Library & Art Center is a branch of the City of Glendale Library, Arts & Culture Department, it is supported, in part by the Brand Associates. For more information visit brandlibrary.org or contact 818-548-2051.

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