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Arely Villegas
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A Landscape After the Storm
by Arely Villegas
Dan Flavin at Norton Simon Museum
March 8th - August 19th
Posted
5/19/13
John Coplans’ essay, “Pasadena’s Collapse and the Simon Takeover: Diary of Disaster” written for Artforum in 1975, unravels the mirages and problems that the Pasadena Art Museum faced before being essentially purchased by ketchup mogul Norton Simon. Architects Lad + Kelsey's plan rode over the balance of architecture and beneficial exhibition space for their own design vision. The new building and location opened in late 1969 with a chaotic flurry of anticipation from the staff and artists,... [more]
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Not So Quiet on the Western Front: A conversation with Art Los Angeles Contemporary director, Tim Fleming
by Arely Villegas
at Art Los Angeles Contemporary
January 24th - January 27th
Posted
1/22/13
What is fair in Los Angeles, but the amalgam of worlds and communities that thrive and crash histories under almost perfect weather? We interviewed Tim Fleming, director of Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair, who talks about the fair’s fourth year.
What is your take on the move of other fairs installing programming west in the past two years, including Paris Photo inaugurating later this year in April?
I really don’t have any comment on the other fairs, except that we are really exc... [more]
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Gap, Mark, Sever, and Return: Series
by Arely Villegas
Fiona Connor, MPA, Mandla Reuter, Erika Vogt at Human Resources
November 15th, 2012 - December 15th, 2012
Posted
12/13/12
In the cavernous former movie theater that makes the main gallery of Human Resources, performance artist MPA has hung a lunar calendar, following the phases of the moon for the duration of the exhibition the work finds itself in. Curated by artist and Human Resources collective member Chiara Giovando, the premise of the thematic exhibition, “Gap, Mark, Sever, and Return”, is that of the “series”, the way interconnected works can mark time, to organize, to build. The documented course of ti... [more]
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Gravitational Pulls
by Arely Villegas
Eli Langer at Wharton+Espinosa
September 19th, 2012 - November 2nd, 2012
Posted
10/18/12
The first time I met Eli Langer was in a book. In Chris Kraus’s Where Art Belongs—a collection of essays that begins with words on the now defunct underground space, Tiny Creatures. Full of kaleidoscopic stories, the essay touches on the “golden age” of the eastside’s art and music scene in Los Angeles—the flux of spaces in Chinatown and Echo Park. One of my favorite descriptions of the now infamous Part Time Punks club is told by Kraus in her essay:
“… where people who’d grown up as misfits with obscur... [more]
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Summering City, Cryptic Languages
by Arely Villegas
Nick Aguayo, Brandon Andrew, Erich Bollmann, Sebastien Bonin, EJ Hill, Peter Holzhauer, Ian James, Calvin Lee, Lesley Moon, Lisa Ohlweiler, Marcus Perez, Mark Verabioff, Augusta Wood, Bobbi Woods, Aaron Wrinkle at Charlie James Gallery
July 21st, 2012 - August 18th, 2012
Posted
8/18/12
"It's a show about winter in summer," replied the woman behind the gallery counter. Summer in Los Angeles, where time seems inescapable... This exhibition seduces the spirit of the summer group show, drawing out the cryptic parallel lines of the poetics of the physical (objects) and fantasy (desires). The longing and anticipation in Ian James Elements of Fractal Topography #8 (Chair throws), 2008, a distorted landscape of photograms, might be tinting towards desires/obsessions in its hyperbolic magen... [more]
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Window Frames
by Arely Villegas
John Divola, Sayre Gomez, Joe Goode at Steve Turner Contemporary
July 7th, 2012 - August 4th, 2012
Posted
7/25/12
Jesse Fleming at The Finley Gallery and L'Idée Fixe at Steve Turner Contemporary
The tangible vs. the intangible
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Architecturally, the Finley adapts to the facade of the building—situated while seemingly floating in space. Imminently, the Finley imitates the quiet intangibility of William Leavitt´s shape shifting dreamscapes (pulsating purple plays with the inhibited greenery of garden plants), the poetics of Hollywood sets along with the untidy narrative of the Los Angeles land... [more]
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Window Frames
by Arely Villegas
Jesse Fleming at The Finley
June 20th, 2012 - August 7th, 2012
Posted
7/24/12
Jesse Fleming at The Finley Gallery and L'Idée Fixe at Steve Turner Contemporary
The tangible vs. the intangible
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Architecturally, the Finley adapts to the facade of the building—situated while seemingly floating in space. Imminently, the Finley imitates the quiet intangibility of William Leavitt´s shape shifting dreamscapes (pulsating purple plays with the inhibited greenery of garden plants), the poetics of Hollywood sets along with the untidy narrative of the Los Angeles land... [more]
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