Here is a list of shows, lectures and other things that may be worth checking out.
Lacma
Conversations with Artists: Kristen Morgin
Sunday, October 28 | 2:00 pm
Los Angeles artist Kristen Morgin talks with SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s & 70s from LACMA's Collection exhibition curator Carol Eliel about her own work and inspirations as well as the work of selected SoCal artists. Morgin’s sculptures—made of clay, cement, glue, wood, and wire—have been likened to ancient Chinese tomb sculptures as well as to assemblage by Southern California artists such as George Herms and Edward Kienholz.
Brown Auditorium | Free, no reservations
Conversations with Artists: Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw
Sunday, November 18 | 2:00 pm
In this informal conversation, artists Mike Kelley and Jim Shaw discuss Salvador Dalí’s influence on cult films and visual culture. Both Kelley’s and Shaw’s work manifests a long-standing engagement with popular culture and a sustained questioning of cultural values and attitudes. Their reflections on Dalí’s surrealism and its impact on Hollywood films and American mass culture complements LACMA’s exhibition Dalí: Painting & Film.
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
Panel Discussion: Is Photography Really Art?
Tuesday, November 27 | 7:00 pm
In this panel discussion, Charlotte Cotton, curator and head of LACMA’s Photography Department, and artists Arthur Ou, Michael Queenland, and Mark Wyse weigh in on a question that continues to confound the field of photography—“is photography really art?” The increased interaction between photographic practices and other media, as well as the pervasive presence of photography in today’s art market, brings renewed attention to this debate. The conversation will investigate why photography’s status as art remains up for review and will propose new possibilities for photography in contemporary art.
Brown Auditorium | Free, no reservations
Film Screening
The Cool School: How Los Angeles Learned to Love Modern Art
Thursday, November 29 | 7:00 pm
Director Morgan Neville’s documentary features interviews with Dennis Hopper, Frank Gehry, and other artists about the impact of the Ferus Gallery (1958–68). The film considers, among others, Andy Warhol, Ed Ruscha, Ed Kienholz, Ed Moses, and Robert Irwin. (2007/b&w and color/86 min. Narrated by Jeff Bridges. Distributed by Arthouse Films.)
Bing Theater | Free, no reservations
Getty
Recent History: Photographs by Luc Delahaye
Daily through November 25, 2007
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
The Getty Museum presents the first West Coast exhibition featuring the work of Luc Delahaye (French, b. 1962), including 10 photographs depicting recent world events. Inspired by a documentary approach to photography, his large-scale color works urge reflection about the relationships among art, information, and history. The direct nature of the photographs, the detachment and the rich details that emerge from them contradict but also enhance their dramatic intensity and narrative power.
Please Be Seated: A Video Installation by Nicole Cohen
Daily through January 11, 2009
South Pavilion, Plaza Level, Getty Center
Internationally recognized video artist Nicole Cohen (American, b. 1970) explores the intersection of historical interiors, the social behaviors they conditioned, contemporary popular culture, and fantasy. Her project for the Getty Museum focuses on the Museum's collection of French seating furniture and its original and museological contexts. Viewers are invited to engage in a participatory experience, forming personal, imaginative narratives through video projections that render the chairs virtually accessible.
Edward Weston: Enduring Vision
Daily through November 25, 2007
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
A seminal figure in the history of photography, Edward Weston (American, 1886–1958) began his long career in Southern California. The Getty Museum's collection of Weston prints is among the most significant of any art museum, spanning four decades of the artist's work. This exhibition traces the breadth of Weston's accomplishments in California, Mexico, and across the United States, employing a selection of prints drawn from the Museum's holdings alongside a smaller number of complementary loans. One gallery of the exhibition is devoted to the work of Weston's colleagues and students.
In Focus: The Nude
Daily through February 24, 2008
West Pavilion, Terrace Level, Getty Center
The unclothed human figure became a camera subject shortly after the discovery of photography was announced in 1839. From that point forward, artists have been challenged to use a variety of photographic materials and processes to find new ways of picturing the nude. This exhibition, which is drawn exclusively from the Getty Museum's collection of photographs, brings together the work of over 25 innovative photographers who have left their mark on the history of the genre.
MOCA
MOCA Art Talks Presented by Gallery C
Artist Emory Douglas
10.21.07 3:00 PM
MOCA Pacific Design Center
Blue Conference Center
In conjunction with MOCA’s exhibition Black Panther: The Revolutionary Art of Emory Douglas, Emory Douglas will discuss the graphic art that he created for the Black Panther Party during the late 1960s through the early ‘80s. Following his talk, Douglas will sign copies of the accompanying publication across the Design Plaza at MOCA Pacific Design Center, where his exhibition is on view upstairs.
INFO 213/621-1745 or education@moca.org
FREE
MOCA Art Talks Presented by Gallery C
Gordon Matta-Clark Discussion
10.25.07 6:30 PM
MOCA Grand Avenue
Ahmanson Auditorium
Jane Crawford, filmmaker and director of The Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark, and Robert Fiore, cinematographer, discuss the work of Gordon Matta-Clark.
INFO 213/621-1745 or education@moca.org
FREE
MOCA Art Talks Presented by Gallery C
DISCUSSION WITH ARTIST NED SMYTH
11.01.07 6:30 PM
MOCA GRAND AVENUE
Artist Ned Smyth discusses working collaboratively with Gordon Matta-Clark, as well as his involvement with the artist-run restaurant Food.
INFO 213/621-1745 or education@moca.org
FREE
GORDON MATTA-CLARK: YOU ARE THE MEASURE
09.16.07 - 01.07.08
Gordon Matta-Clark: You Are the Measure is a full-scale retrospective of one of the key figures to emerge in the generation of artists that followed minimalism. During the brief but highly productive ten years that he worked as an artist, and even more so since his death at the age of 35, Gordon Matta-Clark (1943–78) has exerted a powerful fascination on artists and architects who know his work. The son of surrealist painter Roberto Echaurren Matta, Matta-Clark produced a body of work that incorporated spatial, social, and psychological experiences. Best known for the variety of his often spectacular, planned architectural interventions, Matta-Clark’s works transformed everyday experiences into extraordinary visual encounters. Among the major works featured in the exhibition are sculptures made from his acclaimed architectural building cuts, as well as drawings, films, photographs, and notebooks. A wealth of documentary material related to his interactions with architecture and space, community events, and collective activity is also shown.
ARTISTS’ GIFTS: MICHAEL ASHER
09.09.07 - 01.07.08
MOCA has an extraordinary legacy of relationships with artists, who have generously supported the institution since its founding. Its permanent collection has been significantly enriched by artists donating their own works, as well as those of other artists. In 2006, Michael Asher made a gift to MOCA of 37 works from his personal collection, one of the largest gifts from an artist in the museum’s history. Spanning the late 1940s to the early ‘70s, many of the works were produced or exhibited in Los Angeles. Artists’ Gifts: Michael Asher features selections from this donation, including key works by Larry Bell, Vija Celmins, Judy Chicago, Joe Goode, Al Hansen, Donald Judd, Ken Price, Man Ray, Mason Williams, among others.
THOMAS HIRSCHHORN AND ROXY PAINE: SELECTIONS FROM THE COLLECTION
07.26.07 - 10.29.07
Thomas Hirschhorn and Roxy Paine: Selections from the Permanent Collection presents two important installations from MOCA’s permanent collection that investigate destructive forces associated with contemporary life and art.
OTIS
10.25.07 - 10.25.07
Mexican Masked Wrestler/Monster Films
Screening
Bobb Cotter, author of The Mexican Masked Wrestler and Monster Filmography presents a special double feature that showcases the very best of Mexican Masked Wrestler/Monster films: Santo vs. the Vampire Women (1962) Wrestling Women vs. the Aztec Mummy (1964)
Time: 7:30pm
Location: Forum, Ahmanson Bldg, Otis Goldsmith Campus
Phone: (310) 665-6909
Email: galleryinfo@otis.edu
10.30.07
Kori Newkirk Lecture
Lecture
Fine Arts presents this artist whose mixed-media paintings and sculpture installations resonate with underlying social implications that speak to issues of self, identity, race, and urbanity.
Newkirk is the winner of the 2007 O Award, sponsored by Otis' Board of Governors.
Time: 10-11:20
Location: Forum, Ahamanson Bldg, Goldsmith Campus
Phone: 310 665 6827
Email: finearts@otis.edu
Url: http://www.otis.edu/index.php?id=848
10.28.07 - 10.28.07
Guardians of the Threshold: From Tel Aviv to the Venice Biennale, a lecture by Yehudit Sasportas
Lecture
Renowned Israeli artist Yehudit Sasportas represented Israel in the 2007 Venice Biennale with her installation, Guardians of the Threshold. Sasportas is an internationally recognized artist, and her exhibitions have garnered prestigious prizes throughout Europe, the U.S., and Israel. She teaches in the Department of Fine Arts at the highly respected Bezalel Academy of Art and Design in Jerusalem. She currently lives and works in Berlin and Tel Aviv. Lecture series is generously supported by The Jewish Federation of Greater Los Angeles’ Tel Aviv/Los Angeles Partnership
Time: 2 p.m.
Location: Forum, Ahmanson Bldg, Otis Goldsmith Campus
Phone: (310) 665-6909
Email: galleryinfo@otis.edu
Url: www.otis.edu/benmaltzgallery
11.01.07
Deborah Irmas and Megan Williams lecture
Lecture
Graduate Fine Arts presents the producer and director, respectively, of Tell Me Cuba which was shown at the 2007 Los Angeles International Latino Film Festival in October. The film
Time: 11-12:30
Location: Graduate Studios: 1550 E Franklin; El Segundo 90245
Phone: 310 665 6892
Email: grads@otis.edu
11.03.07 - 01.18.08
Nancy Chunn: Media Madness
Exhibition
For her Los Angeles debut, the Ben Maltz Gallery has brought together a selection of Nancy Chunn’s politically charged paintings for a dynamic solo exhibition. Chunn is the 2007 Jennifer Howard Coleman Distinguished Lecturer and Resident Artist.
press release
Time:
Location: Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis Goldsmith Campus
Phone: 310 665 6905
Email: galleryinfo@otis.edu
Url: www.otis.edu/benmaltzgallery
11.13.07
Russell Ferguson Lecture
Lecture
Fine Arts presents the Chair of the Department of Art at UCLA, who served as Deputy Director for Exhibitions and Programs and Chief Curator at the Hammer Museum and as Associate Curator and Editor at the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.
He has written about Thomas Eggerer, Olafur Eliasson, Tony Feher, Rodney Graham, Nikki Lee, Damian Ortega, Laura Owens, and Gillian Wearing.
He will speak about the exhibition Francis Alÿs: The Politics of Rehearsal, currently on view at the Hammer Museum.
Time: 10-11:20
Location: Forum, Ahamanson Bldg, Goldsmith Campus
Phone: 310 665 6827
Email: finearts@otis.edu
Url: http://www.art.ucla.edu/news.html
11.20.07
Richard Aldrich Lecture
Lecture
Fine Arts presents this artist who has shown his work at Oliver Kamm/5BE Gallery, New York; Contemporary Art Center Vilnius, Lithuania; Kenny Schachter Gallery, New York; Art in General, New York; and Bellwether, Brooklyn.
Time: 10-11:20
Location: Forum, Ahamanson Bldg, Goldsmith Campus
Phone: 310 665 6827
Email: finearts@otis.edu
11.29.07
Victoria Dailey
Lecture
Graduate Fine Arts presents the author, one of three contributors to LA’s Early Moderns: Art/Architecture/Photography. For more than twenty years, she has been researching, writing about and collecting material on Southern California's art and history.
Time: 11-12:30
Location: Graduate Studios: 1550 E Franklin; El Segundo 90245
Phone: 310 665 6892
Email: grads@otis.edu
12.06.07
Jennifer Vanderpool
Lecture
Graduate Fine Arts presents this artist who creates multimedia installations, often using mundane materials including dessert items.
Time: 11-12:30
Location: Graduate Studios: 1550 E Franklin; El Segundo 90245
Phone: 310 665 6892
Email: grads@otis.edu
Url: http://jennifervanderpool.com
04.19.08 - 06.21.08
Keith Puccinelli: The Wondercommon
Exhibition
Southern California based artist Keith Puccinelli is creating a site-specific installation of his drawings and sculpture. More information forthcoming.
Time:
Location: Ben Maltz Gallery, Otis' Goldsmith Campus
Phone: 310 665 6905
Email: galleryinfo@otis.edu
Url: http://www.otis.edu/benmaltzgallery
ArtCenter
VII Photo Agency: Fall Seminar 2007
Saturday November 03, 2007 - Sunday November 04, 2007
Hillside Campus
Details:
VII is coming back to the West Coast, thanks to the generous support of Art Center College of Design. Join the VII photographers and their special guests for two intense days of new work, multimedia, photographer presentations, panel discussions, and practical training sessions.
VII has also joined forces with the Slideluck Potshow team to create a seminar-specific evening event, whereby attendees can also show off their work alongside the VII photographers and other leading photographers from the region.
For those interested in taking advantage of the Masterclass Portfolio Reviews, there are still a few slots left.
For more information about the seminar--including the panel discussion with industry experts, portfolio reviews and ticket prices--visit the VII website.
USC
Handtmann Photography Lecture Series presents: A.L. Steiner
Monday, October 29, 2007 from 6:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Advanced Photography Lab - 3001 S. Flower St.
A.L. Steiner was born and raised in Miami, FL. Her video, photographic, and curatorial work has been exhibited internationally at John Connelly Presents, Andrea Rosen Gallery, New Langton Arts, Tel Aviv Museum of Art, Contemporary Museum of Baltimore, Colette, RIXC Riga, ROVE UK, and Participant, Inc., among others, and is featured in the permanent collection of the Brooklyn Museum of Art. She is a collective member of Chicks on Speed, is the co-editor/curator of Ridykeulous and an instructor at the School of Visual Arts. Steiner's work considers the possibility of excess and the illusion of intimacy inherent in image-based "reality." She is based in New York City.
Graduate Lecture Series presents: Sterling Sterling Ruby
Wednesday, October 31, 2007 from 12:00 PM to 2:00 PM
Graduate Fine Arts Building lecture forum
Born in Bitburg, Germany, Sterling Ruby lives and works in Los Angeles. He received his BFA from The Art Institute of Chicago and an MFA from the Art Center College of Design in Pasadena, CA.
Ruby's ability to work prolifically with a wide variety of mediums including sculpture, ceramics, drawing and video makes him one of the most interesting and provocative artists to emerge from Los Angeles in recent years.
Ruby has exhibited widely at venues such as The Moscow Biennale for Contemporary Art (2007), the Rubell Family Collection, Miami, Florida (2006), the Hudson Valley Center for Contemporary Art, New York (2006); The California Biennial (2006), The Renaissance Society, Chicago (2005/6), The Turin Triennial (2005/6), the Aspen Art Museum (2005), the Netherlands Media Art Institute/Montevideo, Amsterdam, the Netherlands (2005), Participant, Inc, New York, Tate Britain, London (2003), Smart Project Space, Amsterdam (2003) and The Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art, Chicago (2003). He shows with Marc Foxx in Los Angeles as well as Metro Pictures and Foxy Productions in New York City.
His work has been featured in publications such as Artforum, Art Review, Artnet, Flash Art, Frieze, The New York Times, The Los Angeles Times, and Modern Painters.
USC Roski School presents: STOP DOWN! a Photography Area Parking Lot Party
Thursday, October 25, 2007 from 7:00 PM to 10:00 PM
Graduate Fine Arts Building
featuring...
A One Night Stand Student Exhibition
A Rolling Dervish Portrait Studio
The Original Mobile Taco Grill
plus Night of 1,000 Bands with
Charts and Maps
Cossack
Danger Bees
Robot Love
Family Tree Analog
and DJ Lawrence Rengert
UCSB
Tuesday, October 2
Kip Fulbeck
Kip Fulbeck specializes in narrative, fictional autobiography, race/ethnicity classification, and pop-culture analysis. He has performed and exhibited widely, including the Whitney Biennial, the Singapore International Film Festival, the Bonn Videonale, the World Wide Video Festival, and the Nuyorican Poets' Cafe, as well as twice keynoted the National Conference On Race in Higher Education. An affiliate faculty in the Asian American Studies and Film Studies Departments as well as an ocean lifeguard, he is the author of Paper Bullets: A Fictional Autobiography. He received his Master of Fine Arts degree from the University of California, San Diego.
www.seaweedproductions.com
Tuesday, October 9
Jeff Sheng
Jeff Sheng received his MFA from the department of Studio Art at UC Irvine in 2007, and his BA, magna cum laude, from the department of Visual and Environmental Studies at Harvard University in 2002. He has photographed for the New York Times Magazine and Out Magazine, and his work has been published in the Boston Globe and LA Times. As part of FearlessCampusTour.org, recent exhibitions at non-traditional art venues such as college student centers and athletic facilities include shows at the University of Pennsylvania, Williams College, Sonoma State, Loyola Marymount University, and the University of Wisconsin. He is also part of "LA 25," a juried group exhibition sponsored by the law firm Skadden Arps in Los Angeles, that will be exhibited at the Hammer Museum in 2008, along with other various venues in Southern California.
Tuesday, October 16
Pearl C. Hsiung
Pearl C. Hsiung was born in Taiwan and raised in Los Angeles, Hsiung received her BA from the University of California, Los Angeles in1997 and her MFA from Goldsmiths College, London in 2004. She has had several one-person exhibitions in London and was recently featured in the California Biennial at the Orange County Museum of Art in September 2006.
Her debut solo exhibitionin the United States, currently showing at Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles entitled Eroto Erupto Infinito, consists of large paintings and a large-scale sculpture. Hsiung is inspired by vintage sci-fi cover illustrations, ancient mystical symbols and idealized landscapes. She paints in a hard-edged style using bright, highly saturated colors. In so doing, she transforms grand geologic formations into images of gushing waterfalls, erupting volcanoes and oozing geodes while adding elements from pop culture.
Tuesday, October 23
Jenifer K Wofford
Jenifer K Wofford is a Filipina-American artist whose creative practice encompasses installation, painting, drawing, photo, video, performance, teaching and curating. She received her BFA from the San Francisco Art Institute, and her MFA from UC Berkeley in 2007. She has exhibited the in Bay Area at the Berkeley Art Museum, Richmond Art Center, Babilonia 1808, Southern Exposure, and Kearny Street Workshop, nationally at New Image Art (Los Angeles), Nora Eccles Harrison Museum (Salt Lake City), thirtynine hotel (Honolulu), and internationally at Future Prospects (Philippines), and Galerie Blanche (France). Wofford is 1/3 of the artist trio Mail Order Brides/M.O.B. Her awards include grants from the Art Matters Foundation, the UC Institute for Research in the Arts and the Pacific Rim Research Program, and artist residencies at The Living Room, Philippines, Skidmore College, New York, and Chateau de la Napoule, France.
www.wofflehouse.com
Tuesday, October 30
John Roloff
John Roloff is a visual artist who works conceptually with site, process and natural systems. He is known primarily for his outdoor kiln/furnace projects done from the late 1970’s to the early 1990’s as well as other large-scale environmental and gallery installations investigating geologic and natural phenomena. Based on a background in science, his work engages poetic and site-specific relationships between material, concept and performance in the domains of geology, ecology, architecture, ceramics, industry and mining, metabolic systems and history. He studied geology at UC Davis, Davis, CA with Professor Eldridge Moores and others during the formative days of plate tectonics in the mid-1960’s. Subsequently, he studied art with Bob Arneson and William T. Wiley also at UC Davis in the late 1960’s. In addition to numerous environmental, site-specific installations in the US, Canada and Europe, his work has been included in exhibitions at the Whitney Museum of American Art, UC Berkeley Museum, San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Smithsonian Institution, Photoscene Cologne and the Venice Architectural and Art Biennales and most recently The Snow Show in Kemi, Finland. He has received 3 artists visual arts fellowships from the NEA, a Guggenheim Foundation fellowship and a California Arts Council grant for visual artists. He is represented by Gallery Paule Anglim in San Francisco. He is currently Chair of the Sculpture Department the San Francisco Art Institute.
www.johnroloff.com
Tuesday, November 6
Jean-Pierre Hébert
For more than thirty years Jean-Pierre Hébert has been exploring the creative possibilities of algorithmics, mathematics, and physics. He uses software, hardware, and improvised devices to compose motifs and to mark paper, copper, or sand with ink, lead, or stylus. The early work was essentially drawings on paper, and has since evolved to embrace printmaking, installations, and wall displays. The initial obsession with precise line constructions has opened up to chance, motion, light, and sound. The aim remains quiet beauty and peaceful meditation.
His work has been shown extensively in the US and EU since 1989 and has received a Pollock-Krasner Award. Since 2003, Hébert has been Artist in Residence at the Kavli Institute for Theoretical Physics at UC Santa Barbara. He is often engaged in collaborations with physicists, engineers and artists on campus and in the community. He currently works on upcoming shows for 2008 with the Block Museum at Northwestern University Evanston, the Pratt Institute Manhattan Gallery and the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum.
herbert.kitp.ucsb.edu
jeanpierrehebert.com
Tuesday, November 13
James Gobel
James Gobel was born in 1972 in Portland, Oregon. He received a B.F.A. from the University of Nevada, Las Vegas, in 1996 and an M.F.A. from the University of California, Santa Barbara, in 1999. His work has been exhibited at the Contemporary Arts Forum in Santa Barbara; the Museum of Art in The Hague, the Netherlands; the Liberace Museum in Las Vegas, and, most recently, at the Kravets/Wehby Gallery in New York.
James Gobel's meticulous attention to detail and his use of felt, yarn and fabric—all supple and highly tactile materials ususally associated with homemade handicrafts—imbues his gently humorous portraits with a sense of loving familiartiy and intense devotion. Referencing Pop art as well as the portraits of Jean-Auguste-Dominique Ingres, Gobel's paintings celebrate the unsung sensuality of heayset men.
Tuesday, November 20
Jane Mulfinger
Cognitive and recognitive encounters with matter and ephemera within the specifics of locational context have been driving concerns across Jane Mulfinger's many and diverse projects. Often with a particular audience in mind, Mulfinger engages formal and anecdotal site-relative information in each body of work, sculptural, installational, and performative. "Regrets," shown in London, New York, Estonia, Turin, and Derry, utilized the collected misgivings from each community while "Common Knowledge" redeployed xenophobic jokes to expose regional rivalries within the European Union. She has shown at major international venues such as the Mayor Gallery and Camden Arts Center in London, the Southhampton Museum of Art, the Orchard Gallery, Derry, the Center for Contemporary Art in Glasgow, and the Franklin Furnace Archive, New York, as well as in alternative spaces around the world including Projects U.K., Newcastle, (now Locus+), St. Pancras Railway Station, London (with Camden Arts), an Italian baroque church (Flaxman Gallery), and a Belgian 'alms house' (Belgian Biennial). She received her Master of Fine Arts degree from the Royal College of Art in London.
www.arts.ucsb.edu/faculty/mulfinger
Tuesday, November 27
Kim Yasuda
David Jurist
Faculty Forum: Space-making - Venue Production in Contemporary Art
As art exhibition spaces have become increasingly formulaic and institutionalized, opportunities for exhibiting work require new creative strategies for both the production and presentation of art, opening up the field of vision to include an array of unusual, publicly-accessible spaces. Contemporary artists have become innovators of the venues in which they exhibit their work as well as brokers of access to the art works themselves. Yasuda and Jurist, both faculty teaching the special topic spatial studies course, "Extreme Fridays: IV Bakery" will present and discuss an array of artists and spaces that have successfully ventured into territories of the alternative. The forum will open up and encourage conversation with the symposium audience.
Tuesday,
December 4
Tom Adler
A UCSB graduate, Tom Adler is a noted art director and graphic designer who has lived and worked in Santa Barbara for more than three decades. He achieved cult status for his limited edition books T. Adler Books, Santa Barbara exploring the visual history of surfing. Over the last decade, these books have spoken equally and eloquently to surf aficionados, photo historians, and the fashion and visual cognoscenti.
His own graphic artworks, pairing images from various projects he has art directed and archives he has re-discovered, were exhibited recently, and can still be seen, at Danziger Projects in New York City:
www.danzigerprojects.com
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