Specialties
The Beacon Arts Building, located in the heart of the burgeoning Inglewood Arts District, offers ground floor gallery and retail spaces, and a gorgeous New York warehouse-style environment for professional artists, with studios in various sizes up to 8,000 square feet with high ceilings and polished concrete floors. Amenities include 24/7 access, wifi, utilities, kitchenette, w/d, large freight elevator, gated parking and more.
The gallery, housed within the iconic Beacon Arts Building, offers innovative art programming to enrich the cultural landscape of Los Angeles. Its primary directive is to provide and maintain the integrity of an exhibition space for contemporary art by Southern California artists working in all media. As a catalyst and advocate for new ideas, the endeavor enriches public understanding and appreciation of contemporary fine art by creating conversations through special events, lectures, symposia, and panel discussions with intellectual commentary on exhibitions.
History
Established in 2010.
The Beacon Arts Building is an iconic, four-story, solid reinforced concrete monolith in Inglewood, California representative of classic 1950s architecture. Cast in-place, the structure is as much a singular sculpture as an inhabitable building. The massive 32,400 square foot structure is self-supporting by design, with strong, "open capital" columns - a modern reference to the columns found in early Egyptian ceremonial temples. Having stored inanimate items for close to sixty years, originally as the legendary Bekins Moving and Storage Company, this dramatic 1951 edifice is now transforming into a springboard for artistic expression. In recognition of the gallery's first year, Beacon Arts presents its inaugural Critics as Curators series with esteemed art critics and writers as curators. Past curators include Shana Nys Dambrot, Peter Frank, David Pagel & Doug Harvey.
Meet the Manager: Renée F.
Renée Fox, Beacon Arts Creative Director, is a contemporary artist working in mixed media painting and drawing, was tapped to run the Beacon Arts gallery space based on her success organizing Inglewood Open Studios. The Open Studios project grew quickly from 7 to 39 participating artists, attracted large crowds, and garnered great press in just a few short years under Fox's leadership, providing a nexus for the blossoming art community in the area. The firecracker mover-shaker was born in Frederick, Maryland, attended the Corcoran College of Art and Design in Washington D.C. and graduated from Otis College of Art and Design in 2002. She is an experienced curator and owner of art-related businesses (archiving and decorative painting). She has participated in and curated art exhibitions in Washington DC and Los Angeles. Fox currently directs the new Beacon Arts gallery space in Inglewood, CA and continues to organize Inglewood Open Studios.
