Mark your calendars for our upcoming exhibition this May!
The sky broke when I was allowed to fly.
A solo exhibition by Nicole Rademacher
LA Artcore
May 15th - June 15th
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16th
120 Judge John Aiso St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
“The sky broke when I was allowed to fly.” is a multimedia installation examining
transcultural/racial adoption, cultural displacement, and the complexities of claiming— rather than reclaiming—Mexican heritage as a Latinx adoptee who never had access to her birth culture growing up.
This week.
Pushed to every limit. And then —
this.
Specifically,
this.
I adjust.
method is solid, even when I doubted it.
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Tomorrow is.
And it will
I will
keep adjusting
…
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙠𝙮 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙠𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙡𝙮. / 𝙎𝙚 𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙞ó 𝙚𝙡 𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙡𝙤 𝙘𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙤 𝙢𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙟𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙣 𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙧.
a solo exhibition by Nicole Rademacher
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opening reception: Saturday, May 16, 2026, 5-7pm
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LA Artcore | May 16 - June 15, 2026
@laartcore
five to seven pm.
@laartcore
saturday the sixteenth of may.
The sky broke when I was allowed to fly. / Se rompió el cielo cuando me dejaron volar.
a claiming of what was never given and what does not resolve.
debut solo exhibition by Nicole Rademacher
Congratulations to our #VCArchives Artist-in-Residence for the premiere of their exhibitions at #LAAPFF2026! 🎊✨
The Archive is ALIVE exhibition brings together four projects developed through the inaugural VC Archives Artist-in-Residence program, inviting artists to engage the VC Archives as a living site for research, experimentation, and creative discovery.
Centered on exploration and archival activation, the residency supports artists in working with historical materials to ask new questions, challenge form, and imagine new ways of connecting past and present through community storytelling 💜
Artcore’s booth at Kodomo No Hi (Children’s Day Celebration) hosted by JACC 🎏
Thank you Jiayun Chen, our teaching artist who led the drawing prompts 🖍️
Thank you to everyone who came to THE ARCHIVE IS ALIVE ❤️
Special thanks to @vcmediaorg for collaborating with Artcore on these screenings and all the artists - Mia Barnett, Derek Benig, Habiba Hassaan, Linda Wei - who shared their incredibly moving experiences, thoughts, and stories
Centro, Monterrey
Nuevo León
México
2025.
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Claiming, not reclaiming.
She had nothing to reclaim.
…
The sky broke when I was allowed to fly.
A solo exhibition by Nicole Rademacher
LA Artcore
May 15th - June 15th
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16th
120 Judge John Aiso St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
This is the gallery’s story: the founder, the building, your continuity.
Pranay sent it to me, when I asked what the paint was so we could match it. I knew this was too good not to be on social, but it’s yours to post, not mine.
I was thinking that it there’s a conceptual rhyme with Lo que queda de lo que queda (the veladora piece) — material residue, what stays after — is real but stays implicit.
Pranay sent it with the text:
Lydia, the founder’s color, lives on
The sky broke when I was allowed to fly.
A solo exhibition by Nicole Rademacher
LA Artcore
May 15th - June 15th
Opening Reception: Saturday, May 16th
120 Judge John Aiso St., Los Angeles, CA 90012
34.051368713378906,-118.24015045166016
start 2026-05-16T17:00:00-07:00
end 2026-05-16T19:00:00-07:00
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video on sixteen channels
audio that never quite syncs
twenty drawings
twice made, twice erased
porcelain holding the residue
candles that have already burned
and are still burning
some Spanish I didn’t grow up with
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come back
it will have shifted
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human version:
LA Artcore
opening reception: Saturday, May 16, 2026, 5-7pm
𝙏𝙝𝙚 𝙨𝙠𝙮 𝙗𝙧𝙤𝙠𝙚 𝙬𝙝𝙚𝙣 𝙄 𝙬𝙖𝙨 𝙖𝙡𝙡𝙤𝙬𝙚𝙙 𝙩𝙤 𝙛𝙡𝙮. / 𝙎𝙚 𝙧𝙤𝙢𝙥𝙞ó 𝙚𝙡 𝙘𝙞𝙚𝙡𝙤 𝙘𝙪𝙖𝙣𝙙𝙤 𝙢𝙚 𝙙𝙚𝙟𝙖𝙧𝙤𝙣 𝙫𝙤𝙡𝙖𝙧.
a solo exhibition by Nicole Rademacher
May 16 - June 15, 2026
@laartcore
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