National WCA Exhibition
Momentum - Contemporary Women's Art. Commemorating 40 years of the Women's Caucus for Art, Momentum presents the art and ideas of intergenerational contemporary women artists.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
Momentum is part of WCA's Momentum: 40 Years of WCA Conference that takes place from February 22-25, 2012 in Los Angeles. The Women's Caucus for Art Conference is held in conjunction with the College Art Association (CAA) Conference. WCA is a non-profit 501(c)3 organization and an affiliate society of CAA.

SELECTION OF WORK
The juror will select works that will be on display at LAAA/Gallery 825. These works will also be in the exhibition catalog. The juror will select additional works that will be in the catalog only.

ABOUT THE JUROR
Rita Gonzalez is Associate Curator in the Department of Contemporary Art at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Gonzalez's curatorial collaboration with filmmaker Jesse Lerner, Mexperimental Cinema, was the first survey of experimental and avant-garde media art from Mexico and traveled to the Pacific Film Archives; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; Harvard Film Archives; the Guggenheim Museums (New York and Bilbao), and film festivals internationally. From 1997-1999, she was the Lila Wallace Curatorial Intern at the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego. At MCA San Diego, she worked on numerous exhibitions, lectures & film programs, as well as serving as curatorial coordinator for William Kentridge: Weighing and Wanting. Together with film scholar Norma Iglesias, she curated a film and video series for inSITE 2000. Recently, Gonzalez co-curated the 2006 California Biennial and Adria Julia: La Villa Basque at the Orange County Museum of Art, 20 Years Ago Today at the Japanese American National Museum, and the traveling exhibition Phantom Sightings: Art after the Chicano Movement for LACMA. Currently, she is working with C. Ondine Chavoya on Asco: Elite of the Obscure, an exhibition that will travel to Williams College Museum of Art and LACMA.

Gonzalez has written for media and art journals including Wide Angle, Poliester, COIL, Signs, and RIM. Recent essays appear in Still Moving: Between Cinema and Photography (Duke University Press), Recent Pasts: Art in Southern California from 90s to Now (JRP|Ringier Zurich), and California Video: Artists and Histories (Getty Publications).