Commonwealth and Council opens group exhibition at 47 Canal
(Artdaily.org)

Commonwealth and Council is a gallery in Koreatown, Los Angeles. Its program is rooted in it commitment to explore how a community of artists can sustain our co-existence through generosity and hospitality. Commonwealth and Council celebrates our manifold identities and experiences through the shared dialogue of art—championing practices by women, queer, POC, and ally artists to build counter-histories that reflect our individual and collective realities. In October 2010, the living room was cleared in an apartment on Commonwealth avenue and Council street for Gala PorrasKim’s solo show, I Want to Prepare to Learn Something I Don’t Know. Porras-Kim charted her efforts at learning Korean, her mother tongue which was foreign to her due to her growing up in Colombia before moving to the U.S. as a political refugee. She tried to dismantle her