CURRENT EXHIBITS [241]

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 "All I Want is a Picture of You," a group exhibition of beautiful, handmade portraits. The exhibition will open to the public on Saturday, July 14, 2012 with a reception from 6-8 PM. The often fastidiously crafted drawings and paintings in "All I Want is a Picture of You" are creative responses to desire and memory. Reflecting the artists' personal engagements with...   [more]

Opening: July 14th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Coming to the Annenberg Space for Photography this summer, Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present is the first major museum exhibit on rock & roll to spotlight the creative and collaborative role that photographers played in the history of rock music. The Los Angeles showing of this exhibit is the only one on the western coast of the United States and will feature an original do...   [more]

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

David Askevold (1940-2008) is recognized as an important contributor to the development and pedagogy of conceptual art, and his work has been included in many of the genre’s seminal exhibitions and texts. This full-career retrospective exhibition considers the four strains of Askevold’s exploratory journey – sculpture/installation, film and video, photo-text works, and digital images and includes key pieces fro...   [more]

Opening: July 7th, 2012   7:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Armory Center for the Arts presents a temporary, site-specific installation by Los Angeles-based artist Nate Page in its central stairwell through June 2013.  Page’s newest work, entitled Instituted Angles of Path and Display, challenges the ultra-functional design of the Armory’s main stairwell. Page has removed one of the stairwell’s two large metal handrails, turned it 90 degrees, and...   [more]

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

21st Century SEXOpening reception: Saturday July 14th 8PM-12AMSecond Event: Sat 28th 7-10pmDuration: July 14 - August 8, 2012Location: Bleicher Gallery La Brea 355 N La Brea Ave, Los Angeles CA 90036Public Viewing Hours: 1-6pm Wed-Sunday (often extended later and earlier but phone first)Website: labrea.BGartDealings.comPhone: (323)545-6018E-mail: info@bgartdealings.comCost: Free Under 18yrs of age...   [more]

Opening: July 14th, 2012   8:00 AM - 10:00 PM

               The Pacific Coast Highway surges northward from Dana Point, CA racing the ocean for 655 miles before disappearing without a trace just near the lone gas station in Leggett, CA.  People come from all over the world just to have the view fly by their windows at 60 miles an hour.  In her new exhibition "Series in Sand and Sky," Gay Summer Rick pulls the car over, ensuring th...   [more]

Opening: June 23rd, 2012   6:30 PM - 10:00 PM

BLUM & POE  is pleased to announce     Standard Operating ProceduresCurated by Piper Marshall   A Standard Operating Procedure (SOP) is a program or set of instructions detailing every step of an end-oriented process and its "best practices." SOPs are found in institutional and performance-driven contexts: health care, education, industry, and the military. Simultaneously contingen...   [more]

Opening: July 14th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

BLUM & POE is pleased to announce  No Person May Carry a Fish into a Bar, Curated by Julian Hoeber and Alix Lambert   This exhibition seeks to ask, "what is a crime?" The exhibition title, derived from an obsolete law still on the books in Los Angeles, points to the definitions of criminal behavior as sometimes absurd, other times poetic, and occasionally magical. The exhibition includes traditi...   [more]

Opening: July 14th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

BLUM & POE  is pleased to announce     MAURIZIO VETRUGNO Love, Commas and Asterisks  in the Garden Room   Blum & Poe and legendary musician Van Dyke Parks present a selection of work by Maurizio Vetrugno, his first one-person exhibition in Los Angeles. Vetrugno’s practice alters everyday objects, such as cloth and tools, into wry commentary on popular culture of a bygone era. Hand-made, e...   [more]

Opening: July 14th, 2012   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Bruce Lurie Gallery is pleased to present Rachel Roze's first solo show, We Were In Sicily, a selection of work from Il Pesce Pazzo . The collection of photographs taken in the summer of 2011 and shot entirely in film showcases her 40-day trip in Sicily, Italy. An enticing invitation to her Italian peregrination, her works offer stills flooded with sexuality, nationality, and the naked truth of seductiv...   [more]

Opening: June 30th, 2012   6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

C.A.V.E. Gallery is pleased to present "Stand & Deliver" - a solo exhibition by UK artist Kid Acne. Opening Reception for the Artist: Saturday June 30, 2012  6pm - 10pm: Artist will be in attendance The exhibition will feature new monoprints, screenprints, drawings and paintings of a daring, fresh band of the legendary Stabby Women. Kid Acne's Stabby Women have been found watching over cities a...   [more]

Opening: June 30th, 2012   6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

The Rental & Sales will be hosting Cheers!, an exhibit dedicated to community submitted artwork. ISM invites you to get creative by decorating coasters with paintings, photos or poetry. Coasters printed specifically for the show are available at local bars and restaurants including Grand Central's neighbors the Gypsy Den and Road Less Traveled. Focus, a photo competition, will be featured in the Sal...   [more]

Opening: July 7th, 2012   7:00 PM - 10:00 PM

ISM celebrates 10 years with this mega/meta exhibition consiting of three projects: ___ism, Cheers and Focus. For Focus, photographers were challenged to take a picture of their favorite camera—digital, instant, phone, pinhole, pocket, etc. http://ismcommunity.org/ism10   [more]

Opening: July 7th, 2012   7:00 PM - 10:00 PM