TAKE A MINUTE

​on view February 29 - April 4

work by Ciarra K. Walters

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Gallery Hours Monday, Tuesday, Thursday 10 am - 2 pm
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Viewing by appointment, email to book: [email protected]

Group Exhibition Featuring:

​Aaron Petz
Ada Pinkston
Adee Roberson
Cara Elise Taylor
Ciarra K. Walters
Chelle Barbour 
Christy Roberts Berkowitz
Dominique Duroseau
Gwen Smith
Hasef
Ibrahim Abusitta
James Williams III
Jheyda McGarrell
Katherine Duclos
Laneigh Ramirez
Mary Lai
Meghan DeRoma
Ramon Silva
Reginald Armstrong
Rhombie Sandoval
Ronda Brown
Sóla Saar
Teresa Flores

Dominique Gallery & Sovern LA in collaboration with Black Women in Visual Art are pleased to announce the opening of TAKE A MINUTE, a group exhibition of over twenty artists featuring works that remind us to take a minute to relax, refresh, restore and reflect.

As the world enters into another year of highs and lows, we need to try to center ourselves by any means necessary. The artists in the exhibition come from different cultural backgrounds, life experiences and geographic locations yet are connected through their art and practice, much of which is labor intensive or time based.

From the fine details of film photography or small oil paintings to the mixed media minutia in the form of egg shells or bubble wrap, all of the artists and these works encourage viewers to stop and take a minute to understand and appreciate the big and small moments in our lives. ​Just as art is a lifestyle, the notion of reclaiming time is also a lifestyle, and now is the time to lean into it.

​We invite audiences to join us and take a minute to enjoy art, enjoy conversation and enjoy this moment. TAKE A MINUTE opens at Sovern LA with an all day reception on March 2nd and runs through April 4.

Dominique Clayton. Shot by Texas Isaiah.

Dominique Gallery

Dominique Clayton
Founder of Dominique Gallery + Freelance Arts Writer

DOMINIQUE is a gallery and arts incubator founded in 2015 by Dominique Clayton, an African-American arts manager and writer. Founded in the West Adams neighborhood in her hometown of Los Angeles, the space has exhibited solo and group exhibitions by emerging and mid-career artists from Los Angeles, New York, Chicago, New Orleans, Baltimore, Atlanta and Toronto featuring a wide range of artists with diverse artistic practices. The gallery is committed to diversity and representation, intentionally holding space for emerging artists of color, women and artists raising children.

Ronda Brown

Ronda Brown

​Ronda Brown is a multi-disciplinary artist whose sculptures, paintings, reliefs and collages bridge a gap between the urban future and the ancient. In addition to her Cosmic, Hip Hop, Soul and Reggae Roots, Brown’s global and unIversal travels through Europe, India, Asia, Caribbean, Canis Major, Pleiades, Polaris Minor, and the Andromeda Galaxy system have lent her a kaleidoscopic view. Ronda’s Art launches an urban Mystic Sensibility through the canon of authentic Hip Hop, spoken word and soul music morphed into multidimensional visual artworks.

Brown's work is celebrated for its sensual revelations of the sacred feminine and interconnected ancestral symbolism. Sustainably minded, Ronda's approach to her artistic practice, her home, and her family life, is constantly reverent of form, process and evolution. Powerfully ritualistic by nature, as cultivated in her own spiritual practice, her work represents a deep connection to culture, tradition and mysticism that honors her Star Nation & Indigenous Ancestry. Brown completed her Bachelor of Fine Arts and Master of Fine Arts at City University of New York and is the recipient of several visual arts scholarships and awards. Brown is also  tenured Arts Educator with the Los Angeles Unified School District and is the founder of Zen Way Foundation, a non-profit based in Los Angeles that employs Creative Arts, Financial Literacy, and Travel Exposure to promote economic and ecological sustainability among K-12 youth.

Cara Elise Taylor

Cara Elise Taylor

​Cara Elise Taylor is a photographer from the Midwest, shooting primarily with analog modes of photography and videography. The themes in her work include nostalgia/memory, food, Afrolatinidad, Caribbean life, and community. She loves color, candor, natural light, and using art to stay connected to her body. She’s perpetually interested in displaying the intimate and ordinary feelings and behaviors of Black people globally — keeping a record of the African diaspora for future generations to observe.

Teresa Flores

Teresa Flores

Teresa Flores is a multidisciplinary artist who explores connections between her Chicana identity and the notion of the California Dream.  Through drawing, painting, video, and social practice Flores explores the ways generations of colonialism and assimilation in California have affected families like her own, who can trace their ancestor’s migration along the Pacific coast for generations. In exploring food and movement, collective art making and nurturing, Flores seeks innovative avenues of expression and pathways to healing.

Her drawings, paintings, videos, and social practice projects have been featured in Alta Journal, The New Yorker and NPR and presented at Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Spike Art Quarterly in Berlin and Galería de la Raza in San Francisco. Flores has also exhibited with Dominique Gallery, Espacio 1839, and has been a featured artist in the annual Venice Family Clinic Art Walk and Auction.  Her work has also been featured in online exhibitions and auctions on Artsy.  Flores studied drawing and painting at Fresno State, home of the feminist art movement, before receiving her Public Practice MFA from Otis College of Art and Design, where she earned the recognition of Outstanding Alumni. Flores lives and works in East LA. 

Jheyda McGarrell

​Jheyda McGarrell

Cofounders Daricia Mia DeMarr and Lauren Jackson Harris.

Black Women in Visual Art

Daricia Mia DeMarr + Lauren Jackson Harris
Co Founders and Partners​

The BWVA Foundation is 501 (c)3 that was founded in 2023 by BWVA Partners, Daricia Mia DeMarr and Lauren Jackson Harris, to provide resources, programs and opportunities for Black womxn, from students to senior level leaders. We aim to serve a sect of art workers with opportunities for connectivity, career development and moments of reprieve through thoughtful programming and events hosted from all over.

The front of Sovern LA's building facing W. Adams Blvd., mural by Antonina Clarke, photographed by Sam Shea.

Sovern LA

​Sovern is a 501(c)3 Healing Justice Center and Gallery located in the West Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles. Sovern's mission is to address exclusion and inequity in art and wellness by providing a dedicated space and platform for Black and Indigenous women and gender expansive people of color. With an unwavering commitment to anti-racism, we strive to dismantle systemic barriers and amplify the voices, talents and experiences of BIPOC communities.