Olivia Mia Orozco
Artist Who Helps Artists
The Messenger
July 31st 7:00pm
Created by Olivia Mia Orozco in collaboration with Julienne Mackey and presented inside Laurie Shapiro’s installations in Los Angeles this July 2022. Informed by Hopi creation and agricultural mythology, and Hopi Folktales, the work blends these influences to create an inspired story honoring the earth and bringing lessons from the past to enrich our futures collectively. The work plays with themes of the infinite nature of reality and the interconnectedness in us all.
Choreographer
Director-Producer
Director-Producer
I have spent my whole life training as a dancer and have always been choreographing. Born into a dancing family, I was encouraged to pursue dance professionally and have worked in NYC, LA and Mexico.
Director-Producer
Director-Producer
Director-Producer
I have been making dance films and documentaries for several years. I also work as a freelance producer and AD for commercials. I am also the director of the Los Angeles Dance Shorts Film Festival.
Art Consultant
Director-Producer
Art Consultant
Performative Pop-ups bridges the gap between communities and spaces to transform the LA art landscape. For several years I ran an art gallery in Hollywood, Radiant Space and am now starting a project called Performative Pop-Ups to continue to bring events to new locations. I work with individual artists to connect their work to new audiences and collectors.
Pleasure Garden
April 22nd - July 30th
Laurie Shapiro Studio Gallery
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https://laurieshapiroart.com/gallery
Disillusioned by the “Boys Club” mentality, a need like no other to work and be surrounded by feminine energy brings about this second show inside Laurie Shapiro’s Studio Gallery displaying female artists curated by Olivia Mia Orozco. All of these artists' work in some way explores female archetypes, the female body as a garden of Lucious fruit, Fertility gods, the Garden of Eden, or the Female body seen in nature. The tenderness of mother earth could wrap around this world and heal it if not for the greed and corrupt narcissists creating more pain and divides. Pleasure Garden aims to create a space of contemplation, serenity, and healing for all. A moment to step away from the immense pain and heaviness the world has currently experienced. Featured artists include Ann Weber, Caitlin Fowler, Lauren Desberg, Alexandra Carter, Meg Lionel Murphy, and Laurie Shapiro. The artwork in this show includes hanging sculptures, photography, fantastical paintings, and of course installations, all in one of LA’s most unique gallery spaces.
If there’s a private locker room boys club, there is most certainly a pleasure garden of nourishment and loving thoughts inclusively open to all. Keeping true to the pleasure gardens’ historic purpose, during the course of this show performances, talks, meals, and events will ensue between April 22nd and July 30th.
In reference to the historic Pleasure Garden, Giuliana Bruno author of “Atlas of Emotion” says “As architectural historian Sylvia Lavin effectively shows, the way that the feminine and the picturesque have been codified has resulted in the marginalization of both.” This show seeks to take back ownership of the feminine and redefine space in a celebrated garden neither diminished nor put on a pedestal for its femininity. Celebrated for its strength in creating visceral artwork able to penetrate the emotions of all onlookers.
When considering the paradoxes of lightness and darkness and heaviness versus weightlessless in the world and finding a sense of balance, there is comfort in the words of Milan Kundera on this subject: “The heaviest of burdens crushes us, we sink beneath it, it pins us to the ground. But in love poetry of every age, the woman longs to be weighed down by the man's body. The heaviest of burdens is therefore simultaneously an image of life's most intense fulfillment. The heavier the burden, the closer our lives come to the earth, the more real and truthful they become. Conversely, the absolute absence of burden causes man to be lighter than air, to soar into heights, take leave of the earth and his earthly being, and become only half real, his movements as free as they are insignificant. What then shall we choose? Weight or lightness?”
Fluf Haus Art Basel
This was a wonderful opportunity where I got to show artwork by Gustavo Oviedo and BG gallery at an event celebrating Fluf world Nfts. We created a beautiful in-person experience with physical art and performances. I was also able to bring in Plain Jane and The Mushroom Latte as sponsors as well as various press and art industry attendees.
