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The Echo Park Film Center

by Jenia Gorton
Posted 6/22/09

Address: Echo Park Film Center 1200 N. Alvarado Street (@ Sunset Blvd) Los Angeles, CA 90026 Hours: Wednesday: 2 - 7 PM Thursday: 2 - 10 PM Friday: 2 - 7 PM Saturday: Noon - 5 PM Nights we have events 8 - 10 PM. www.echoparkfilmcenter.org The Echo Park Film Center is a volunteer-run, media arts organization dedicated to educating and exposing the public to film and video arts in creative, inclusive, and affordable ways. They host events, screenings, and classes as well as providing... [more]

David Lynch at Michael Kohn Gallery

by Jenia Gorton
David Lynch, Danger Mouse, Sparklehorse at Michael Kohn Gallery May 30th, 2009 - August 15th, 2009
Posted 6/22/09

Dark Night of the Soul presents an installation of mutually inspired music and photography that join to create a dismal and sinister tone, much like one would expect in a psychological thriller sans dialogue and moving images. It is no surprise that the famed filmmaker David Lynch is responsible for the photographs and the renowned Danger Mouse and Sparklehorse for the music. Songs play back to back from two pairs of speakers in the two adjoined, carpeted rooms with fifty p... [more]

Jeana Sohn: Sleep Sleep

by Jenia Gorton
Jeana Sohn at Taylor De Cordoba May 16th, 2009 - June 27th, 2009
Posted 6/22/09

Jeana Sohn’s “Sleep Sleep” is a thoughtful adventure through a simple landscape. Female figures—from girls who look like figurines to women with aging faces—serenely search, dance delightedly, and investigate with intent through tangled rope, swarms of butterflies, and prismatic shapes, wandering in quasi-natural spaces. Each piece is undoubtedly part of the whole, linked together either literally through strands and lines or, visually, through these recurring motifs... [more]

John Waters at Gagosian

by Jenia Gorton
John Waters at Gagosian Gallery - Beverly Hills April 11th, 2009 - May 23rd, 2009
Posted 5/4/09

This extensive exhibit of photography and sculpture celebrates, mocks, and explores concepts of beauty, sexuality, and commodity in the history of American cinema. All the while, Waters remains conscious of the relationship between these love-to-hate-them themes in filmmaking and their exposure through contemporary art, replete with its own difficulties, including pretension and inaccessibility. With a level of facetiousness that is at times disquieting, Waters simultaneously laughs at and laughs... [more]

Opera at 533

by Jenia Gorton
Lesley Moon, Jill Spector, Brendan Threadgill, CALVIN TREZISE, Dawson Weber at Five Thirty Three April 25th, 2009 - May 23rd, 2009
Posted 5/4/09

The Five Thirty Three Gallery in Downtown Los Angeles is an opportune experiment in the use of space. In a city where room is copious and geographical sprawl has lead in part to aesthetic diversity, but also to artistic disparateness, the 533 Gallery at 533 Los Angeles St. capitalizes on an availability of space while promoting interaction, community, and collaboration. Located in a mixed-use loft in the Fashion District, the space supports life, art, and community. Living space, work... [more]

Stories Bookstore and Cafe

by Jenia Gorton
Posted 5/4/09

www.storiesla.com1716 W Sunset BlvdLos Angeles, CA 90026(213) 413-3733 Stories is a small, independent bookstore In Echo Park with a selection that looks hand-picked, even to the naked eye. Their selection includes vintage books and an extensive—and quite beautiful—collection of children’s books. The café in the back serves affordable snacks and coffee and their chairs out front provide a space to set up computers, listen to the store’s music, and people-watch out the window that... [more]

X’otik Kitchen

by Jenia Gorton
Posted 8/31/08

6121 Washington Blvd Culver City, CA 90232(310) 280-3961 www.xotikkitchen.com X’otik Kitchen in Culver City is certainly not as gimmicky as its name (or its awning, which advertises the restaurant as “Xtra Fresh, Xtra Natural, Xtraordinary”). Sarcasm aside, this place really is fresh, natural, and great. The food is healthy, flavorful, and also quick—so when new shows start to open mid-September, this is an easy choice for a place to sit outside briefly between galleries or get... [more]

All of This is Melting Away

by Jenia Gorton
Chiho Aoshima, Olaf Breuning, Beth Campbel, Roberto Cuoghi, Hans-Peter Feldmann, Wynne Greenwood, Kirsten Hassenfeld, Jim Hodges, Hideaki Kawashima, Makiko Kudo, Melora Kuhn, Mahomi Kunikata, Yayoi Kusama, Tony Matelli, Adam McEwen, Bjarne Melgaard, Mariko Mori, Dave Muller, Ivan Navarro, Mitsuhiro Okamoto, Nick Rodrigues, Rei Sato, Jennifer Steinkamp, Aya Takano, Yuken Teruya, Gary Webb, Fischli & Weiss, Fred Wilson at Royal T August 14th, 2008 - February 20th, 2009
Posted 8/31/08

The group show, “All of This is Melting Away,” at Royal-T art space presents the work of 33 diverse artists in an imaginative, enlivening, and vibrant array of painting, mixed media, sculpture, pottery, and light and sound installation. Each of the 43 works somehow indicate a quality of fluctuation and variability, as implied by the show’s title, and suggest the motif of melting by combining mediums, blurring subjects, and experimenting with space. The show as a whole destabilizes... [more]