Track 16 is a contemporary
art gallery
An art gallery is a room or a building in which visual art is displayed. In Western cultures from the mid-15th century, a gallery was any long, narrow covered passage along a wall, first used in the sense of a place for art in the 1590s. The long ...
with locations in East Hollywood and in the
fashion district neighborhood of downtown
Los Angeles
Los Angeles, often referred to by its initials L.A., is the List of municipalities in California, most populous city in the U.S. state of California, and the commercial, Financial District, Los Angeles, financial, and Culture of Los Angeles, ...
.
History
Track 16 was founded in 1994 by
Tom Patchett
Tom Patchett is an American film director, screenwriter, actor and producer who is best known as the co-creator of ''ALF (TV series), ALF''. He co-wrote the films ''Up the Academy'', ''The Great Muppet Caper'', ''The Muppets Take Manhattan'', and ...
and was located at the gallery hub
Bergamot Station
Bergamot Station Arts Center is a Santa Monica facility housing many different private art galleries and appears in most tourist guides as a primary cultural destination. Opened September 17, 1994 as Bergamot Station the campus-like complex is ...
which launched that same year.
They remained at Bergamot for 17 years until their building was demolished to make way for Metro's Expo Line train station. In 2012 they relocated to the Hayden Tract in Culver City where they focused on performance and theater work. Then in 2017 Sean Meredith became partners with Patchett and relocated them to the Bendix Building in downtown Los Angeles. More recently they opened a second exhibition space in East Hollywood, debuting the space with a solo exhibit of Eve Wood's work. In the early years of the gallery, they staged exhibits with the artworks of
Man Ray
Man Ray (born Emmanuel Radnitzky; August 27, 1890 – November 18, 1976) was an American naturalized French visual artist who spent most of his career in Paris. He was a significant contributor to the Dada and Surrealism, Surrealist movements, ...
,
Manuel Ocampo
Manuel Ocampo (born 1965) is a Filipino artist. His work fuses sacred Baroque religious iconography with secular political narrative. His works draw upon a wide range of art historical references, contain cartoonish elements, and draw inspiratio ...
, the early
Punk scene in L.A. ("Forming"), and contemporary
Latin American art
Latin American art is the combined artistic expression of Mexico, Central America, the Caribbean, and South America, as well as Latin Americans living in other regions.
The art has roots in the many different Indigenous peoples of the Americas, i ...
("Amnesia", "While Cuba Waits").
Artists
* Estate of
Pedro Álvarez Castelló
Pedro Reinaldo Álvarez Castelló (February 9, 1967 – February 12, 2004) was a Cuban artist who rose to prominence during Cuba's Special Period.
Biography
Álvarez was a native of Havana, Cuba. He studied art at the Escuela Nacional de Be ...
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Sandow Birk
Sandow Birk (born 1962 in Detroit) is an American visual artist from Los Angeles whose work deals mainly with contemporary American culture. Eight books have been published on his works and he has made two films. With an emphasis on social issue ...
*Debra Broz
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Nao Bustamante
Nao Bustamante (born September 3, 1969) is a Chicana interdisciplinary artist, writer, and educator from the San Joaquin Valley in California. Her artistic practice encompasses performance art, sculpture, installation, and video and explores iss ...
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Robbie Conal
Robert "Robbie" Conal (born 1944) is an American guerrilla poster artist noted for his gnarled, grotesque depictions of U.S. political figures of note. A former hippie, he is noted for distributing his poster art throughout a city overnight usi ...
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Simone Gad
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Don Ed Hardy
Don Ed Hardy (born 1945) is an American tattoo artist known for his tattoos, strong influence on the development of modern tattoo styles, and his eponymous brand.
Early life
Hardy was born on January 5, 1945, in Des Moines, Iowa. He grew up in ...
*Kathleen Henderson
*Galia Linn
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Mondongo
''Sopa de mondongo'' is a soup that originally came from Colombia, Venezuela, Puerto Rico and the Dominican Republic. It is made from diced tripe (the stomach of a cow or pig) slow-cooked with vegetables such as bell peppers, onions, carrots, ...
*Burt Payne 3
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Elyse Pignolet
Elyse Pignolet is a visual artist living and working in Los Angeles, California.
Early life and education
Born in Oakland, California, Elyse Pignolet is an American with Filipino heritage. She studied fine arts at California State University, ...
*Alicia Piller
*Molly Segal
*Camilla Taylor
*Chris Ulivo
*Eve Wood
Selected exhibitions
*1994: Burt Payne 3: Access
*1995: EATS
*1995: Martin Kippenberger: LA International
*1995: Jack Pierson: Paradise
*1995: Chain Reaction, An Abbreviated Survey of Idea-Based Art, Curated By Steven Leiber
*1996: Decade of Protest: Political Posters from the United States, Viet Nam, and Cuba 1965-1975
*1996: William S. Burroughs: Concrete and Buckshot
*1996-1997: Man Ray: Paris~L.A.
*1997: Manuel Ocampo: Heridas de la Lengua
*1998-1999: Ruben Ortiz Torres: Alien Toyz
*1998-1999: Viggo Mortensen: Recent Forgeries
*1999: Karen Finley: Pooh Unplugged
*1999: Forming: The Early Days of L.A. Punk
*1999-2000: Don Ed Hardy: Tattooing the Invisible Man
*2000: Pedro Alvarez: On the Pan-American Highway
*2000: Eduardo Abaroa: Soon After Before
*2000: Ruben Ortiz Torres: Power Tools
*2000: Surf Trip, Curated by Bob Carrillo and René de Guzman
*2000-2001: Don Ed Hardy: 2000 Dragons
*2002: The Godfrey Daniels School of Charm, Curated by Georganne Deen
*2002: David Byrne: Elective Affinities
*2003: Le Dernier Cri: Legendary Publishers of the International Underground
*2003: Table Turners
*2004: Show Your Wound: The Death and Times of Jospeh Beuys
*2007: Mondongo: Thread/Bare
*2007: Johanna Went: Ablutions of a Nefarious Nature
*2008: Mondongo: Gaslighting
* 2008: Don Ed Hardy, ''When East Meets West''
* 2008: Robbie Conal, ''No Spitting No Kidding''
* 2018: Robbie Conal, ''Cabinet of Horror''s
*2019: Marsian De Lellis, Simone Gad, Debra Broz, ''Stuck Together''
* 2019: Elyse Pignolet, ''You Should Calm Down''
* 2020: Rakeem Cunningham and Clifford Prince King, ''INSTALLATION #000000''
*2021: Galia Linn, ''Beauty Queen, Heartbreaker, High Maintenance''
*2021: John Collins, ''Moonlight Graham''
*2021: I Like LA and LA Likes Me: Joseph Beuys at 100
*2022: Elyse Pignolet: I'm Not Like the Other Girls
*2022: Alicia Piller: Atmospheric Pressures
*2022: Sandow Birk: Los Angeles and Her Surroundings, and other works
*2022: Kathleen Henderson: Bluebeard and Other Poolings
*2022: Confluence, curated by Debra Scacco
*2023: Camilla Taylor: Dry Tree
*2023: Molly Segal: What We Whispered and What We Screamed
*2024: Mondongo: Calavera 8
*2024: Nao Bustamante: Bloom
*2025: Joseph Beuys: Potential Goods
References
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Art museums and galleries established in 1994
Art museums and galleries in Los Angeles
Downtown Los Angeles
1994 establishments in California