Healthcare Company AltaMed Opens Art Gallery in Los Angeles Suburb
AltaMed Health Services, a healthcare provider based in Los Angeles, is opening its own art gallery, library and cultural centre. The space will show the company's art collection to the public, and it opens on 15 November.
The new venue is called The Alta. It sits in Montebello, a suburb of Los Angeles, and covers 30,000 square feet, or about 2,800 square metres.
The collection holds around 4,000 works, according to The Art Newspaper. It focuses on Chicano art, which is work tied to Mexican-American life and identity in the United States. Among the artists represented are Laura Aguilar, Graciela Iturbide and Gabriel Orozco.
A collection like this, owned by a company rather than a museum, is often called a corporate collection. AltaMed began building its own in the 1970s. Right now, about 1,400 of the works are hung in the company's offices and clinics, where patients and staff see them as part of daily life.
The Alta's first exhibition is Patssi Valdez: LA LA LA. It runs until 9 April 2027, giving visitors about five months to see it.
The opening adds a public building to a collection that has, until now, been seen mainly by people who walk into AltaMed's own locations. For anyone in the Los Angeles area who wants to see Chicano art up close, the gallery is a new place to start, with doors open from 15 November.
