CURRENT EXHIBITS [243]

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 "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

Aran Cravey Gallery is pleased to present “AQUACULTURE,” an exhibition by Jed Berk and Oliver McIrwin. In this multimedia collaboration, Jed Berk and Oliver McIrwin stretch the boundaries of our perceptions of organic and synthetic, intertwining art and engineering to create an installation that challenges our perceived equilibrium with nature. Through this intersection of art and technol...   [more]

Opening: July 28th, 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

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

"Overgrown" features a bold new series of work by Gosha Levochkin, that stems from an exploration of and reaction to the artist's urban environment. Gosha's artwork is inspired by his inherent need to wander, roam, explore and search for something new. He is intrigued with how people live their daily lives in urban density and clutter and somehow make it all work. In this new series, Gosha imagines...   [more]

Opening: July 28th, 2012   6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

"Terrible Magic": New works by BEN KEHOE Ben Kehoe is an artist living and working in Pittsburgh. His work is influenced by nature, Americana, vintage war books and the supernatural. He believes that American history should contain more wizards, ghosts and giant beasts, so he creates an alternate history revealing mystical imagery. Ben's paintings express an unbridled imagination that freely c...   [more]

Opening: July 28th, 2012   6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

"Encore": New works by NETHERLAND Chicago based artist David "Netherland" van Alphen creates wonderfully obscure 70's charged collage works. Consistent in theme and playfully nostalgic, his pop art montages are a clever and eye-catching mash up of vintage advertising imagery and bold acrylic rainbows mounted on wood. David does not resize, photocopy or scan any of the images he uses. All images a...   [more]

Opening: July 28th, 2012   6:00 PM - 10:00 PM