Echo Park Rising 2018

TURN ME ON is a free, community-focused exhibition, featuring bold Southern Californian artists and vendors who promote sexual empowerment and liberation with works featuring sexuality, body-positivity, self love, and fetish-freedom. TURN ME ON is loudly exposing heart, strength and sensuality by confidently honoring sexuality with communication through intersectionality and art. TURN ME ON will be showcased at ONE ONE SIX TWO during Echo Park Rising, which is a free, annual, neighborhood festival celebrating the community with art, music, vendors, and activities in over 100 locations throughout Echo Park, Los Angeles.

The TURN ME ON exhibition will be featuring more than 25 participating artists and 40+ bands and performers from across Los Angeles. By showcasing multiple artists of varying mediums, we expand the opportunity to meet new friends and connect with LA neighbors for an evocative in-take of ideas and personal journeys. TURN ME ON aims to stimulate viewers of all backgrounds by catalyzing provocative conversation of sexual experiences and challenging ideas of social pressures, shame, harassment, and antiquated gender roles.

Throughout the duration of the exhibition, TURN ME ON will be offering a full program of entertainment to encourage guests to interact with the art and space in engaging and transformative ways. TURN ME ON will include works including, but not limited to photography, fine art, sculpture, digital media, various vendors, an outdoor beauty refresh bar, live painting, musical acts, performance art, and more. A bar will be present, though non-alcoholic beverages will also be available.

ONE ONE SIX TWO believes in giving back to it’s local community, and therefore dedicates a large portion of it’s group exhibition proceeds to benefit selected nonprofit or community-focused organizations. TURN ME ON will be benefiting RAINN- which provides counseling, resources, and support for victims of sexual abuse.