DIVERTED DESTRUCTION 19: The Pharmaceutical Edition

OPENING: Sunday, June 28, 2026

TIME: 12 pm – 4 pm

LOCATION: 453 S. La Brea Ave

Enter via Liz’s Antique Hardware

Exhibition featured 6/12/26 – 09/12/26

ARTISTS:

Mike Mollet
Maru Garcia
Monica Marks
Enoch Waiswa
Nancy Kay Turner
Wendy Lee Gadzuk
Monique Birault/Evan Nie

DIVERTED DESTRUCTION is The Loft at Liz’s long-running found-object assemblage exhibition series in Los Angeles, begun in 2008 and curated around a clear environmental premise: artists are challenged to transform discarded, salvaged, obsolete, or landfill-bound materials into meaningful works of art. The series frames waste not as useless debris but as material with cultural, aesthetic, and social value.

Across its many editions, the exhibition has explored consumerism, sustainability, landfill culture, construction waste, technology waste, plastics, Styrofoam, and disaster recovery. Beyond the gallery exhibition itself, Diverted Destruction often includes free material giveaways, artist talks, public workshops, and community engagement, making it both an art exhibition and an environmental activism platform.

Diverted Destruction 19 examines the overlooked waste stream of modern healthcare. Through medical refuse, surgical materials, medication packaging, syringes, wheelchair parts, mobility devices, and other discarded objects associated with treatment and recovery, the exhibition explores the tension between healing and disposability. These materials, once connected to care, pain, survival, and bodily repair, are reimagined as works of art that question the environmental cost of medicine while honoring the human vulnerability and resilience embedded in them.