The Art of Labour: Abundance, Despite (Los Angeles)

This exhibition explores what it means to remain an artist in a city that markets itself as “the land of opportunity” while access to creative sustainability remains deeply uneven. The Art of Labour: Abundance, Despite invites artists to reflect on the realities of creative survival in Los Angeles: the labour behind sustaining a practice, the systems that shape opportunity, and the ways artists continue to build identity, belonging, joy, and collective care through creation.

Beloved Community hosted the inaugural artist talk dinner in Los Angeles. We brought together emerging and mid-career artists, local collectors, gallerists, and art consultants to reflect on a visual art collection that is important to the value of work and labour in America right now.

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Featured Artist: Will Raojenina

Will Raojenina (b. Montreal, Canada; lives and works in Los Angeles) is a multidisciplinary artist working under the name WCMTL. Born to immigrant parents from Madagascar, and influenced by the multicultural fabric of his hometown of Montreal, his practice bridges formal experimentation with emotionally driven narratives, connecting personal experience to broader social realities. His mixed-media works combine portraiture, abstraction, heavy texture, and the assemblage of found objects to transform stories of resilience into powerful visual experiences that uplift communities. Through his work, he invites viewers to see themselves in the experiences of others, reinforcing his guiding ethos: “Connect Through Empathy.”