CURRENT EXHIBITS [262]

1301PE is pleased to announce its first solo exhibition with Los Angeles-based artist Fiona Connor. Working at the intersection of architecture, sculpture, and installation, Fiona Connor encourages us to reflect on physical surroundings by re-contextualizing objects and creating disruptions in the built environment. Her painstakingly fabricated replicas of everyday objects function both as sculpture to b...   [more]

Opening: January 19th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Artist Lab open studio, January 14 - March 29 Opening Reception, February 23, 8 - 10 pm  'Born to Curate' Event, 6:00 - 8:00 pm SANTA MONICA, CA - Encompassing 18th Street Arts Center's Visiting Artist Residency Program, its Artist Labs process-based exhibition series, and in partnership with Highways Performance Space, Paris-based artists Ivan Argote and Pauline Bastard tap into multiple platf...   [more]

Opening: February 23rd   6:00 PM - 10:00 PM

Born in Finland, Eero Saarinen (1910 – 1961) is recognized today as one of America’s most influential architects of the 20th Century. The exhibition at the Architecture and Design Museum will highlight his short but brilliant career beginning with the Smithsonian Gallery of Art Competition in 1939 and culminating with Dulles Airport in 1962 and highlighting his influence on design in mid-Cent...   [more]

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

There are certain artists who grip the subconscious and dive into temporalities of the forgotten, touching upon the cornerstones of human memory and being. Charles Fine is one such artist. He works human  consciousness in a way that connects the corporeal thinking organism with the intimacies of what might be called earth consciousness. Fine attends to the natural world and ancientness in ways that...   [more]

Opening: January 12th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

ACME. is pleased to present a solo exhibition featuring new acrylic paintings on canvas and linen by Los Angeles based artist Josh Peters. Interested in making paintings that evoke a sense of inevitability, Peters attempts to harness the tension between opposing forces in his work, from the conscious and the unconscious, to the accidental and the very deliberate. The paintings are started by wett...   [more]

Opening: January 12th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

AMBACH & RICE is pleased to present It’s Never Over, a solo exhibition of paintings, textiles and ceramics by Ellen Lesperance. The exhibit continues the artist’s reverential examination of female activism while underscoring the parallels between contemporary and ancient heroines. Lesperance places the viewer on the periphery of female activism, manifesting political and societal transgression th...   [more]

Opening: January 19th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

Synthetic Minds, the Photographs of Laura Menz, opens at AndrewShire Gallery January 12, 2013 – February 9, 2013 (Los Angeles, CA—November 27, 2012)  Laura Menz is a photographer who, as a professional model, has been extensively photographed. Partly as a result, Menz’s photographs seek to understand and even construct the self. Who – or even what – am I, asks Menz in her photographs.Â...   [more]

Opening: January 12th   6:00 PM - 8:30 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

In Los Angeles, where non-native fauna, golf courses, and man-made lakes collide with a desert, mountains and sea, what is a natural landscape? What is escape, when surrounded by the fabricated artificial? In a gesture that considers the methodologies of contemporary art, theme restaurants, parks, and interior design, Los Angeles National Forest is comprised of a 7' x 7' x 7' room with a 3' x 5...   [more]

Opening: January 27th   1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Searchin' is an exhibition that considers contemporary, critical engagements with the theoretical sublime. Inspired by 70s Californian conceptual artist Bas Jan Ader's project, In Search of the Miraculous, the contemporary artists whose work makes up this exhibition re-examine his quest for the sublime and through it, launch their own journeys into the wilderness. Emmanuel Kant's definition of and wri...   [more]

Opening: January 27th   1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Eloisa Guanlao's investigation of water in southern California takes her to the heart of modern notions of wilderness, western settlement, the dynamics of rural-urban divide, and the tension between technological development and ecological aesthetic. She is interested in understanding the historical and current attitudes about water. Guanlao looks at current attitudes by setting up her "water" tr...   [more]

Opening: January 27th   1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

An old-growth forest, through its great age, exhibits unique ecological features and is often home to rare, threatened, and endangered species of plants and animals, making them ecologically significant. Unfortunately, many of our old-growth forest stands are threatened by habitat destruction at the invasive hands of man. This exhibition hopes to address the wonders and perils of the forest by cr...   [more]

Opening: January 27th   1:00 PM - 3:00 PM

Angles Gallery is pleased to present Not in Arcadia Ego, featuring photographic works by Noriko Furunishi, Ori Gersht, Soo Kim, and Walter Niedermayr.  The exhibition will be on view in the main galleries January 12th through March 9th.  The landscape has been a central theme in visual art since antiquity. But beginning in the 16th century, a new market for secular art emerged in the Netherlands,...   [more]

Opening: January 12th   6:00 PM - 8:00 PM

The Annenberg Space for Photography is pleased to announce its next exhibit – no strangers: ancient wisdom in a modern world, a group show about the wonder of culture and the plight of indigenous people throughout the world.  The exhibit is guest curated by esteemed anthropologist, author and photographer Wade Davis.   no strangers explores the ways cultures express a shared humanity and nav...   [more]

Opening: November 17th, 2012   11:00 AM - 9:00 PM