Alden Kisner: Diva Manifestation Ritual
About this Event
Free EventOpening reception: Thursday, September 24, 5–7pm
Exhibition on view: September 25–October 13, 2026
Gallery hours: Mon–Fri, 9am–4:30pm, by appointment
Gayle and Ed Roski Gallery
3001 S. Flower Street, Los Angeles, CA 90007
ARTIST STATEMENT: My whole life I've felt like a performer without an audience. Diva Manifestation Ritual began as a private act, drawing the same nude women over and over, using their unapologetic femininity as a vessel before I knew how to inhabit my own. The more I created, the more this eccentric persona revealed itself. Painting myself became the natural next step – to hold the frame around my own body and decide what it means.
This show is where that ritual goes public. Life-size paintings and spontaneous figure drawings move between desire and being desired, grotesque and glamour – inhabiting a persona and realizing it was always yours.
This program is open to all eligible individuals. USC operates all of its programs and activities consistent with the university’s Notice of Non-Discrimination. Eligibility is not determined based on race, sex, ethnicity, sexual orientation or any other prohibited factor.
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