Upcoming Events
Víctor Mortales / Overnight: A Body at Rest Produces Images
Thursday, February 19, 2026
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
As part of his current exhibition Language is a Place, Víctor Mortales will present Overnight: A Body at Rest Produces Images, a live performance that extends his ongoing investigation into rest, dwelling, and image-making. The work emerges from a photographic project carried out over thirty-one consecutive nights in Mexico City, later realized as the photobook Nivi Ve’e. In this performance, Mortales reclaims that durational experience by shifting it from a physical site to the body itself, treating rest as both subject and method.
L.A. Book Launch: Stanger's Journey by Gedda Ilves
Friday, February 20, 2026
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us for the return of The Golden Mean, a quarterly reading series that brings together poets from the University of Southern California's PhD in Creative Writing & Literature program with other notable poets from Los Angeles and beyond. Featuring Nick Martino, Austen Leah Rose, Amanda Scharf, and Thomas Renjili, curated and hosted by Matthew Gellman.
L.A. Book Launch: Stanger's Journey by Gedda Ilves
Saturday, February 21, 2026
3:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us for a poetry reading celebrating the Los Angeles book launch of Stranger’s Journey by Gedda Ilves. The afternoon will feature readings by Gedda Ilves, alongside Mariano Zaro, Jim Natal, and Gloria Vando.
Heidi Seaborn, Erin Marie Lynch, Matthew Gellman, & Nick Martino
Saturday, February 21, 2026
7:00 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us for an evening of poetry in celebration of Heidi Seaborn's collection tic tic tic. The author will read alongside poets Erin Marie Lynch, Matthew Gellman, & Nick Martino, all sharing new and selected work. In a special format, tic tic tic offers poetry for the soul and 23 beautiful and stunning black and white photographs that tell their own story. This is a poetry collection to read, to share and display.
Woke in a World: Poetry Performance by Alyesha Wise featuring Muki Brewster
Friday, February 27, 2026
7:30 PM PT
In Person at Beyond Baroque and Live on YouTube
Join us for a curated poetry performance by the author, poet, educator, and speaker, Alyesha Wise featuring music by Muki Brewster. Woke in a World is a never-before-seen showcase of storytelling and select poems from Wise's latest collection, My Older Brother, A Famous Rapper.
More Upcoming Events
Ongoing Free Workshops
Monday Night Fiction Workshop with Raquel Baker
Mondays 7:30 PM PT
Via Zoom
A community writing workshop in which participants are asked to bring 2-3 pages of fiction to read and receive feedback. Facilitated by Raquel Baker via Zoom. Registration required.
Wednesday Night Poetry Workshop
Wednesdays 8:00 PM PT
Via Zoom
The West Coast’s longest-running free poetry workshop welcomes new and seasoned poets to share new work and provide feedback. Please be prepared to share one poem. Facilitated by Martin Jago via Zoom. Registration required.
Exhibitions
Víctor Mortales: Language is a Place
January 17 – March 7, 2026
Performance: Thursday, February 19, 7:30 PM
Language is a Place is a solo exhibition by Oaxaca-based visual artist Víctor Mortales. The exhibition takes its conceptual starting point from the book Language is a Place: 14 Voices that Change Language to Explore Literature and Life in Different Contexts a publication that gathers reflections by writers who explore the conditions, transformations, and possibilities of language across cultures and identities. Víctor Mortales (born 1985, Oaxaca, México) is a visual artist with a background in linguistics whose site-specific practice examines the ephemeral nature of creative processes and the relationships between space, language, and materiality.
More information here.
Proxy Gallery Presents
Sandeep Mukherjee:
Observer, Observed
January 31 to March 14, 2026
Mukherjee’s installation is a fiberglass head, made by rotating in a 3D printer his own profile horizontally 360 degrees. The translucent fiberglass is lit from within. The light is reflected and refracted in many pieces of irregularly broken mirrors affixed to all five surfaces of the proxy gallery. The idea harkens distantly to the 1915 perceptual experiment by Edgar Rubin, the face/vase illusion, where the shapes of two identical profiles facing each other form the shape of a vase in the negative space between them. The concept became very important in gestalt psychology, showing how the human brain organizes information about figure and ground.
For more information visit Proxy Gallery online here.
For past Proxy Gallery shows at Beyond Baroque click here.
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