CURRENT EXHIBITS [255]

1301PE is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition with Mexican artist Jorge Méndez Blake. Ranging from sculptures and drawings to wall paintings, and inspired by works of literature and poetry, Méndez Blake's varied body of work draws connections between word and object, giving physical form to the written word. For his exhibition, Méndez Blake has created monuments to well-known poets and writers of the...   [more]

Opening: June 2nd, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

For her summer Artist Labs project and exhibition at 18th Street Arts Center, and coinciding with her participation in the first LA Biennial at the Hammer Museum, LA-based artist Michelle Dizon will create a large-scale video installation entitled Perpetual Peace. This seven-channel video installation will be a further development of a series of ongoing works around imperialism, neocolonialism, and globalizatio...   [more]

Opening: July 21st, 2012   6:30 PM - 9:30 PM

EMERGE is an exhibition of student graphic design work from from various colleges and universities in the Southern California area. See and be inspired by the high-quality of design work being done in the various programs. The exhibition is organized and sponsored by AIGA Los Angeles and participating institutions include: Art Center College of Art and Design Art Institute of California, Los Ange...   [more]

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

2X8 is an annual exhibition sponsored by the AIA|LA, showcasing exemplary student work from architecture and design institutions throughout California. Each of the participating academic programs select two projects that exemplify its core vision. The students’ design work will be judged by a noteworthy panel of architects and designers who will then announce the winners at the exhibition openin...   [more]

Opening: June 5th, 2012   6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

While meticulously constructed, the artwork of Helen Pashgian shows no trace ofthe artistʼs hand at work; instead, it concentrates on the final impression. Theartistʼs intimate, small in scale works are enigmatic studies of light and color. Herlarger pieces are inexplicable; they seem supernaturally constructed and perfectStonehenges of bent light. While using light and color as exploratory mater...   [more]

Opening: February 5th, 2011   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Ace Gallery Beverly Hills is currently exhibiting cast polyester resin sculptures from 1968-72 by DeWain Valentine, an installation that has been augmented with recent acrylic wall sculptures and Rainbow Ring (1972). Valentine spent his childhood in Colorado where his family worked in hard rock min- ing and as a child he would visit the mines, and started collecting and polishing his found objects...   [more]

Opening: February 5th, 2011   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

ERWIN REDLGRADIENT RED ACE GALLERY EXHIBITION EXTENDED THROUGH JUNE 30 2012 Currently on view at Ace Gallery Beverly Hills is a new LED installation by Austrian artist Erwin Redl. Redl’s work was brought to wider visibility in the United States with Matrix VI; the cloaking of the Whitney Museum of American Art in New York for the 2002 Whitney Biennial, and in Los Angeles, Redl’s Matrix II, wa...   [more]

Opening: February 26th, 2011   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

DAVID AMICO FACTORY/PARL SERIES EXHIBITION THROUGH JUNE 2012 In 1976, as a young painter David Amico embraced an unstylized, abstract and demanding approach to painting and has been committed to this process ever since. He executes each abstract painting by never allowing himself to follow a particular technique or style so that each painting has its own unique composition and application of paint....   [more]

Opening: November 10th, 2011   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

MARY CORSECurrent PaintingsEXHIBITION ON VIEW THROUGH OCTOBER 6, 2012 Essay excerpt fromThe Realization of Perception:White Paintings by Mary Corseby Drew Hammond (2011) Since periodizations cannot all be arbitrary, we can notice how events of the early chronology of Mary Corse’s life could have projected themselves into the future. Her birth in 1945 coincides with the year of Pollock’s fir...   [more]

Opening: February 25th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

As a pioneer and preeminent member of Minimalism, Carl Andre’s groundbreaking work challenges the inherent qualities of the three-dimensional object. The purity of his sculpture divorces all relations to function, metaphor and emotion. He creates profoundly simple pieces that draw attention from their external conditions to the viewer’s perception of the object and its surrounding space. By s...   [more]

Opening: June 9th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Opening: June 9th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Art Center’s Alyce de Roulet Williamson Gallery is proud to present Three Boys from Pasadena: A Tribute to Helmut Newton curated by June Newton. The show features the photographs of Helmut Newton’s proteges Mark Arbeit, George Holz, and Just Loomis, exploring both their individual talents and their longstanding friendship with Newton and each other. In June 2010, Three Boys from Pasadena premi...   [more]

Opening: June 14th, 2012   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Martina SauterCorrespondence 5.25.12 – 7.7.12 Opening Reception – Friday 5.25.12 (6  - 8pm) Gallery Hours: Tuesday – Saturday, (11am – 6pm) and by appointment AMBACH & RICE is pleased to announce a solo exhibition of new works by German artist Martina Sauter, Correspondence. Sauter continues to conflate photography and cinema to produce psychologically charged vignettes that extend t...   [more]

Opening: May 25th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Franklyn.calm Franklyn.excited Franklyn.artist When Franklyn Liegel passed away in March of this year, the Los Angeles art world lost one of its most inspiring teachers, gentlest eccentrics, and most underknown talents. A master of color, form, and texture, Liegel was able to fuse paint, drawing media, and collage almost magically into a perfect hybrid of two and three dimensions. His art is joy...   [more]

Opening: June 21st, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Can we access all meaning each time a word is used even as its meaning changes over time? Reclamation once meant not letting a drop of water go to waste and waste meant free flowing water to the sea. The meaning of these words would change, first by the environmental movement and later by the land artists of the 1960's and 70's to mean the process of recouping neglected or distressed landscapes. Geography of Re...   [more]