CURRENT EXHIBITS [259]

Merrily we grow along, looking at ourselves looking for a new or renewed place. Searching for wilderness or a pure place as we think it might have been before us, we find our imaginations and posit new harmonies instead. Most recent in our twelve year series of installation works about forests and human relationships with landscapes, Merrily We Grow A-longing continues the evolution of forms tha...   [more]

Opening: May 20th, 2012   12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Angels Gate Cultural Center presents our exhibition year entitled Into the Wilderness: The Journey Within. Over the course of the next year, artists and curators will engage the term "wilderness" from multiple perspectives ranging from ecological to introspective. The exhibitions consider how our ideas of wilderness continue to define our contemporary life and contemplate how we can find new oppor...   [more]

Opening: May 20th, 2012   12:00 PM - 5:00 PM

Using the painting Wave Break by JEN ZEN® (aka Jen Grey, CSULB Art Professor, Faculty Emerita) the Community Gallery considers our fragile clean water supply. In an effort to collaborate with the community, the gallery will install a second wave that is a collaboration with young artists and the community. Together, the pieces push us to consider what preserving clean water and clean oceans entails...   [more]

Although, on first impression, "wilderness" may call to mind places of intense experience in nature far from civilization, it reveals itself to be much more than a location. Traditionally associated with a land of uncultivated, abandoned and inhospitable conditions or inhabited only by wild animals,1 during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries its meaning expanded subjectively to include more...   [more]

Angles Gallery is pleased to present, Crucible: Selections from Art Foundry.   The forthcoming exhibition will open to the public on Saturday, May 12, 2012 from 10 AM - 6 PM. The exhibition presents a selection of multiples, produced between 1990 and 2000, by some of the most renown artists of the 20th century: Janine Antoni, Lynda Benglis, Ron Cooper, Maya Lin, Bruce Nauman, Susan Rothenberg,...   [more]

Opening: May 12th, 2012   10:00 AM - 6:00 PM

Another Year in LA presents the third in a series of three exhibitions focusing on a specific art activity - Painting (Los Angeles), Sculpture (California) and now, Drawing (Los Angeles).   This exhibition consists of work by five artists that address the act and nature of drawing in very different ways.  The participating artists are: Jackie Freedman, John Knuth, Stas Orlovski, Christopher Russe...   [more]

Opening: May 17th, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Aran Cravey Gallery is pleased to present “Natural Fiction,” a group exhibition of photographs guest curated by Shelley De Soto of De Soto Gallery, featuring Connie Samaras, and introducing Amelia Bauer and Laura Plageman. “Natural Fiction” brings together three artists depicting landscapes that fluctuate between the real world and fiction, where the natural order of things is interrupted by...   [more]

Opening: June 9th, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Armory Center for the Arts is pleased to announce a two-part program by Richard Jackson consisting first of a public spectacle entitled Accidents in Abstract Painting followed by a subsequent exhibition entitled Accidents in Abstract Painting, the Armory. In the outdoor spectacle entitled Accidents in Abstract Painting Richard Jackson will fly and crash a radio-controlled, model military plane with a...   [more]

Opening: February 11th, 2012   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

The artists' works on display in this nicely balanced, cohesive exhibition embrace the layering of images and materials in artworks. The exhibition focuses on the complexity and synthesis of layered works by artists Hilary Bond, Kati Elm, Paul Kirley and Raul de la Torre.   Complexity and synthesis is built up out of visual and material elements that work perfectly, layered one over the other. The feature...   [more]

Opening: June 2nd, 2012   5:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Meticulosity features the work of 11 Southern California based artists and 3 poets who each work in various genres ranging from painting to installation and ceramica and digital formats. Artists in the exhibition: Tanya Batura, Hilary Brace, Eileen Cowin, Linda Hudson, Gegam Kacherian, Sandeep Mukherjee, Ross Rudel, Linda Stark, Arthur Taussig, Elizabeth Turk, Samira Yamin. Poets: Guy Bennett, Dennis...   [more]

Opening: April 28th, 2012   4:00 PM - 6:00 PM

Opening: June 16th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Bleicher Gallery is pleased to announce a group exhibition of fine art prints, "Print X Print," showing from June 15th to July 9th 2012. “Print x Print” presents the development of concepts, narratives, technologies, and methodologies through printmaking in Contemporary and historical Modernist art. The spectrum of subject matter ranges from raising ecological and sociopolitical awareness, the hu...   [more]

Opening: June 15th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:30 PM

Group Show of artists working is a different way than they usually might. Testing the waters. Bleicher/Golightly announces "Test Pilots II" a short group exhibit of Los Angeles-based artists who are crossing into new territory. Artists were encouraged to exhibit work with different approaches and techniques than they have explored in the past.   [more]

Opening: May 26th, 2012   7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Blum & Poe is very pleased to present twenty years of painting by Beijing-based artist Zhu Jinshi. This marks Zhu Jinshi's first solo presentation in the United States, as well as his inaugural exhibition with Blum & Poe. Zhu Jinshi's dynamic, nearly sculptural paintings avoid easy classification, defining themselves instead through an inherent physicality and visceral power. Zhu's innovative style...   [more]

Opening: June 1st, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

“History is made by those that say ‘No’ and Punk’s utopian heresies remain its gift to the world.” (Jon Savage, England’s Dreaming: Sex Pistols and Punk Rock) Blum & Poe is very pleased to present Michael Wilkinson’s No History, marking his solo debut at the gallery. Culling references from art history, punk rock, popular culture, and anarchism, Wilkinson creates subtly layered canvases and...   [more]

Opening: June 1st, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

C.A.V.E. Gallery presents: "HAIIRO" - New works by SIT (Amsterdam, Netherlands)     Opening Reception for the Artist: Saturday June 2, 2012; 6pm - 10pm Artist will be in attendance Free exhibition poster for the first 50 guests!    C.A.V.E. Gallery is pleased to announce a solo exhibition by Dutch artist SIT. The show will feature a bold new series titled "Haiiro", which continues the artist's examinatio...   [more]

Opening: June 2nd, 2012   6:00 PM - 10:00 PM