Art Event: 25th Anniversary Show at Michael Kohn Gallery
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For 25 years the Michael Kohn Gallery has mounted museum-quality exhibitions in Los Angeles of the work of Andy Warhol (during his lifetime), Richard Tuttle, Peter Halley, Keith Haring, Mark Tansey, Dan Flavin, John McLaughlin, Kenny Scharf, Maureen Gallace, Christopher Wool, among many other notable and talented artists. Michael Kohn Gallery also has the privilege of representing the Estates of Wallace Berman and Bruce Conner, both important California-based artists whose work, from the 1950s and throughout their career, paralleled and led to notable developments in late 20th-century art.
The Exhibition opens on Saturday, November 20 (6-8pm) and continues in West Hollywood through January 6.
Art Event: Martin Mull at Samuel Freeman
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Martin Mull at Samuel Freeman
MARTIN MULL: SPLIT INFINITIVES
OPENING RECEPTION: SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 20, 5-8PM
Yes, that Martin Mull. The comic legend has been quietly building a following and a solid reputation as a serious painter for decades, and his new show of recent oil paintings on linen and paper further proves the depth of his talent. To a well-developed penchant for layered images and conflated perspectives, Mull now adds a refined palette and a punny political undertone to his paintings of subverted Suburbia. As the show’s title refers to an interrupted verb, so Mull’s conflated scenes recombine to create a new, fractured, metaphorical reality.
The Exhibition continues at Bergamot Station through December 18.
Art Event: Claudia Parducci at Garboushian Gallery
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Claudia Parducci at Garboushian Gallery
CLAUDIA PARDUCCI: EMERGENCY, Keep on Fridge
OPENING RECEPTION: NOVEMBER 20, 2010, 6 - 9 PM
Claudia Parducci makes work that grapples with the seduction of fear and its consequence: paranoia. The take-away, or denouement, from her work is something much more profound: an unwavering acceptance at the moment of fear. From November 20, 2010 to January 8, 2011, Claudia Parducci explores these ideas in EMERGENCY, Keep on Fridge, an installation and exhibition of paintings and drawings at GARBOUSHIAN GALLERY.
EMERGENCY, Keep on Fridge is by turns meditative, humorous, analytical and serene. The joy of the work lies in its absurdist self-awareness and the implicit acknowledgement that big-ticket disasters – the anthrax attacks and dirty nukes that drive survivalist paranoia today – are the anomaly rather than the norm. The strength of Parducci’s work lies however in her understanding that fear can exist beyond its paranoid extremes, in even the smallest things—the fears of everyday life in which only the paranoid survive. As such, there are no explicit disaster scenarios depicted in Parducci’s work, only renderings of the preparations for and communications during such an event.
The Exhibition continues in Beverly Hills through January 8, 2011.
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Art: Giant Robot Takes Over Scion
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Len Higa at Scion Installation Space, courtesy of Giant Robot.
Among the most vibrant, well-attended, and critically respected art spaces in the world-famous Culver City gallery district is one name not everyone associates with fine art and progressive culture: Scion. The car company. But the Scion Installation Space in Los Angeles is one of many they operate around the country; and those galleries themselves are just one facet of the cultural support funded by the company that Dave Choe once called “the new NEA,” in praise of their unconditional support for even the most boundary-pushing contemporary visions.
Their current exhibition, PIXEL PUSHERS, was curated by Eric Nakamura, best known to most as the man behind the magazine Giant Robot, and the gallery/stores of the same name. In a case of perfect synergy between gallery and curator, the exhibition centers around the Famicom-inspired custom Scion art car, which will project the Giant Robot produced video game, Return of the Quack. Featuring the work of Jude Buffum, Matt Furie, Zach Gage, Len Higa, Chevy Ray Johnston, Nullsleep, Daniel Rehn, Shawn Smith, and Kohei Yamashita, Pixel Pushers uses interactive installation to explore the range of creative options available in the world of 8-bit digital media.
Follow Scion Installation and Giant Robot on Facebook. The Exhibition continues in Culver City through December 11.
Art Event: Mira Schor at CB1
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Mira Schor: Read, Think, Walk, 2009, oil on linen. Courtesy of CB1.
Opening Reception: Sat., November 20, 5–8pm.
CB1 Gallery is pleased to present Mira Schor: Paintings From The Nineties To Now, the first major survey of Schor’s work to be shown in Los Angeles. Mira Schor’s paintings exist on the razor’s edge between visual and verbal language, between formalism and politics. A conceptual artist who is a painter’s painter, a feminist who is an odd inheritor of the approaches to painting of the New York School, Schor’s primary subject is the co-existence of embodiment and thought within the material and pictorial surface of painting. Using the materiality and meaning of these two sets of languages, Schor references femininity and intellectualism, the body in wartime, the politicization of the personal, the self-portrait of thought.
The Exhibition continues Downtown through January 9, 2011.
Art Event: Mear One
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Photo of the Alphonse Mucha mural, by MEAR ONE. Photo taken on July 29, 2010, by Roger Griffith.
Famously known for his often-political street graffiti art, and commonly referred to as the ‘Michelangelo’ of Graffiti, MEAR ONE will discuss how the Alphonse Mucha mural came to be, and more at the Loft at Liz’s on La Brea.
The talk and Q & A is being lead by Curator, Bryson Strauss founder of L.A. Art Machine/VOX HUMANA of which MEAR is part of. The mural is located in the alley off of S. La Brea and W. 6th St. and is painted on Liz’s Antique Hardware and The Loft at Liz’s, facing the Dispela Antiques parking lot. The mural is a collaboration between LA Art Machine/Vox Humana, the Miracle Mile Art Walk, The Loft at Liz’s, Roger, Suzie, and friends. Saturday, November 20th 2-5pm. The Loft at Liz’s is located above Liz’s Antique Hardware 453 S. La Brea, corner of 6th and La Brea. Food and beverage allowed. This talk is free to attend.
Art Event: Chewbacca to Zapata: Revisiting the Myth of the Mexican Revolution
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Closing Reception and Panel Discussion: Saturday November 20 (5:30pm).
Curated by Pilar Perez and Marcus Kuiland-Nazario. Participating artists include Octavio Abundez, Mariana Botey, Nao Bustamante, Alida Cervantes, Raul Baltazar, Rafael Gallardo, Ruben Ortiz Torres, Pocho Research Society, Javier M. Rodriguez, Fernando Sanchez, Joaquin Segura, Laureana Toledo, and Mario Ybarra, Jr. Chewbacca to Zapata examines the enduring myth of revolution through the lens ofcontemporary artists from both sides of the U.S. / Mexico border. The exhibition features video, painting, and installation. November 20 will be an evening of performance centered around the themes of myth and revolution curated by Marcus Kuiland-Nazario, and a panel discussion examining the topics of immigration, art, and revolution.
Morono Kiang Gallery presents a closing reception and panel titled Asi Es: Contemporary Art Practice on Both Sides of the Mexico/U.S. Border. Ruben Martinez moderates, joined by panelists Nao Bustamante, Ruben Ortiz-Torres, Sandra de la Loza, Santiago Espinoza de los Monteros and Pilar Tompkins. The closing reception will immediately follow the panel discussion.
Art Event: Maira Kalman at the Skirball
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Maira Kalman: Crosstown Boogie. Courtesy of The New Yorker.
The Skirball Cultural Center presents Maira Kalman: Various Illuminations (of a Crazy World). This exhibition is the first museum survey of the work of Maira Kalman (b. 1949 Tel Aviv), an illustrator, author, and designer known for her whimsical yet probing imagery. Her work ranges from designs for the legendary firm M&Co to covers and drawings for The New Yorker, more than a dozen books for children and adults, an illustrated blog for The New York Times (“And the Pursuit of Happiness”), and collaborations with leading designers like Isaac Mizrahi.
Featuring a selection of original works on paper that span thirty years of illustration, the exhibition also has showcases less widely seen works in photographs, embroidery, textiles, and performance. To provide context for this wide array of work, Kalman has created a special installation, furnishing the gallery with chairs, ladders, and “many tables of many things” drawn from her own collections.
Kalman uses her writing and drawing to render her singular vision of the world from a deeply personal viewpoint, illuminating contemporary life with a profound sense of joy, spontaneity, and humor.
The Exhibition continues in Brentwood through February 13, 2011.
Art Event: Doug Aitken at MOCA and Regen Projects
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Doug Aitken: Still from Home, courtesy of Regen Projects.
It’s been a busy month for LA-based photographer and video artist Doug Aitken, with the installation of a major work (electric earth, which he discusses at MOCA on the evening of Thursday, November 18) included as part of the institution’s current multi-venue exhibition, The Artist’s Museum; the production of an ambitious, immersive multimedia piece for the museum’s annual gala; and the much-anticipated exhibition of his new cinematic work, Home, at Regen Projects through the end of the year.
Regen shows his newest film-based work, House, born of the more reflective strains in his aesthetic, such as manipulated time-lapse, expressive architecture, imagined landscape, and symbolic narrative. The film depicts a couple whose built surroundings disintegrate around them as they sit motionless, staring into each other’s eyes. Aitken’s extreme technical skill and patient, detailed craftsmanship makes him a master of illusion, and he brings the full range of his talent to bear on this ambitious, enigmatic bit of cinematic poetry.
The Regen Projects exhibition continues through December 18 in West Hollywood.
