Thursday, July 22 from 5:00 – 8:30 PM at The Pacific Design Center to see art at it's best.
Here are the details:
8687 Melrose Avenue Blue Building, Second Floor West Hollywood, CA
Helen Varola, Curator/Director mycurator@earthlink.net
Complimentary parking for press by calling PDC at 310 360 6404.
Another Year in LA
B267
Tel: 323-223-4000
info@anotheryearinla.com
www.anotheryearinla.com
Monday – Friday
12:00 – 5:00 PM & By Appointment
NEW
July 22- September 10
Reception: July 22, 5-8:30 PM
For its Inaugural exhibition at the Pacific Design Center, ANOTHER YEAR IN LA has assembled a group exhibition entitled, NEW, comprised of five artists who have had solo shows a the gallery’s original location.
These five artists– Joe Amrhein, Linda Day, Richard Haley, Stephen Kaltenbach and Jacob Melchi exemplify the range of the curatorial vision that has helped make ANOTHER YEAR IN LA a mainstay in Los Angeles. The media employed by these artists are traditional ones- painting, sculpture and photography but their use of these materials is far from conventional. The unifying theme in NEW is one of intellectual vision.
Art Gate Frank Navarro/Yann Perreau
B231
Opens in November
frank@art-gate.org
www.art-gate.org
Tuesday – Friday
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM & By Appointment
310.652.6838
Alex Israel
B256
Opens in November
Beginning this November at the Pacific Design Center, LA-based artist Alex Israel will begin production on a to-be-titled serial video artwork. The work will take the form of a talk show, with Israel interviewing guests who have helped shape and define the Los Angeles landscape. New episodes will be released online, where an archive of past episodes will also be stored. Israel’s PDC space will house the show’s set and serve as both the show’s studio and administrative headquarters.
Carl Berg Projects Federico D’Orazio
B266
323-533-1332
carl@carlbergprojects.com
www.carlbergprojects.com
Monday – Friday 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM & By Appointment
July 22- August 20
Reception: July 22
5-8:30 PM
Carl Berg Projects will present new work by Italian artist Federico D’Orazio in his first major show in Los Angeles in 10 years. D’Orazio will feature large-scale inflatable paintings based on imagery from the Italian Renaissance paintings. These humoristic works portrays D’Orazio’s continued confrontation with art world practice. Known for his investigation of the fringes of culture including the sex industry in Thailand and Holland, car culture, and the penal system to name a few, D’Orazio’s new works present an investigation into the clashing of the high and low in art.
den contemporary Not in My Backyard
B275
Tel: 323-422-6340
info@dencontemporaryart.com
www.dencontemporaryart.com
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM & By Appointment
Reception: July 22, 5-8:30 PM
Artists featured: Sophia Allison, Bernadette DiPietro, Christine Gray,Hacer, Linda King, Christine Morla, and Ruby Osorio.
Not in My Backyard encompasses work that touches on the psychological/ sociological ideas of territory and personal space,specifically related to the domain known as the “backyard.”
The exhibition includes a variety of mediums such as Sophia Allison’s machine and hand-sewn thread “drawings” of country homes and lush lawns; Bernadette DiPietro’s photographs of laundry lines as “flags of a nation” hung in yards located around the world; Hacer’s 5-foot steel sculpture depicting an origami- inspired version of the family pet; abstract paintings with botanical references in both Linda King’s large, acrylic canvases and in Christine Morla’s panels including hundreds of woven and layered strips of food packaging paper arranged in sunburst compositions; Ruby Osorio’s gouache, gold leaf and embroidered collage drawings of fantastical narratives in the context of pastoral scenery; and Christine Gray’s dramatic paintings of an imaginary backyard environment with mysterious natural and manmade objects.
den contemporary
Nathan Huff
Amanda Sefton Hogg
B261
July 22 - August 27
Reception: July 22 from 5:00-8:30 PM
Monday – Friday 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM & By Appointment
323.422.6340
info@dencontemporaryart.com
www.dencontemporaryart.com
den contemporary art will feature two solo exhibitions by Los Angeles-based artists Amanda Sefton Hogg and Nathan Huff. Scottish-born Amanda Sefton Hogg continues the series 'Remaining Light' in her abstract paintings and watercolors, which began with her first United States exhibition at den contemporary art in 2006, in which the artist explored light illuminating through elaborate chandeliers. In the recent paintings, Sefton Hogg’s work has evolved to depicting passages of light reflected in intricate seascape compositions. Nathan Huff’s wood sculpture and gouache drawings explore the gravitational movement of objects and animals being launched and suspended, as well as in falling and clinging motions. Huff combines in his work, humor with uneasiness as well as the familiar with the surreal. He captures a mid-motion moment filled with suspense.
Space B261
den contemporary
Experimental Sound Art Performance By Anna Homler and Michael Intriere
Perfomance July 22 at 7:00 PM
Monday – Friday 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM & By Appointment
323.422.6340
info@dencontemporaryart.com
www.dencontemporaryart.com
During the July 22nd art receptions in gallery space B261, den contemporary art will host a Special Performance by the duo Anna Homler and Michael Intriere - two forces in the Los Angeles experimental art and sound performance practices. Encompassing music, spoken word, and installation, intermedia artist Anna Homler will be accompanied by Michael Intriere exploring non-traditional sonic capabilities on the violoncello.
ANNA HOMLER
During a career spanning over twenty-five years, Los Angeles-based Anna Homler has collaborated in America with composers/musicians Steve Moshier, Davis Moss, Ethan James and Jorge Martin, and in Europe with the Voices of Kwahn, Steve Beresford, Peter Kowald, Richard Sanderson, Geert Waegeman, and Sylvia Hallett. Homler has performed at well-known venues throughout the United States and Europe, including appearances at P.S. 122, the Kitchen, Dixon Place, and the Poetry Project at St. Mark's Church in New York; Supraclub in Prague; Klarinsky in Bratislava, Slovakia; Ketty Do in Bologna, Italy; the Stadgarten and the Loft in Koln, Germany; and the Melkweg and Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. She has participated in numerous international festivals in Canada, Italy, Belgium, Austria, Holland, Germany, France, and England.
MICHAEL INTRIERE
As one of the founding members of the now-defunct underground chamber group Fat & F…ed-Up, cellist Michael Intriere has been stalwart of the Los Angeles experimental music scene for over three decades. He has collaborated with many of L.A.’s foremost improvisers as well as participated in such unique musical configurations as the Salt Ensemble, the Miya Massoka Orchestra, the Emily Hay Collective and Zebra*Logic. As an experimental video artist, Intriere's work has been shown both nationally and internationally including screenings at Lincoln Center in New York, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles, the Rotterdam Film Festival, and various venues in Japan.
JOHNHOUSHMAND DESIGN
hous projects
The Naked Truth
Curator: Ruben Natal San Miguel
B222
Tel: 310-294-8577
daniel@housprojects.com
www.johnhoushmand.com
www.housprojects.com
Monday – Friday
9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
310.294.8577
July 22 – September 17
Reception: July 22, 5-8:30 PM
To be naked is defined as being bare without overlying matter, vegetation, foliage, hair, feathers or shell. It also encompasses the sentiment of being defenseless, unprotected and exposed. Or it can simply be an adjective to describe a plain, simple and unadorned condition, such as the truth. Often in the truth, we bare ourselves and reveal the state or character of a situation or our individual self. We place a belief that it is a verifiable and indisputable fact, proposition or principle and even assume there are obvious, accepted truisms and platitudes that exist.
KNOW ART/LA Sarah Jane Bruce and Anat Ebgi
Tour: September 23
www.knowartla.com
323 656-2858
Visit website for updated tour information and to reserve a tour.
Join Know Art/LA for a guided tour of Design Loves Art at the Pacific Design Center. Know Art will visit a cross section of galleries, art installations, and curated exhibitions while exploring the intersection between art and design – their similarities, differences, and symbiosis.
Know Art/LA is a collaboration between Sarah Jane Bruce (SJB Fine Art Services) and Anat Ebgi (The Company) aimed at de-mystifying art world etiquette and the art buying process. The program offers a practical guide to the Los Angeles art scene while providing special access to dealers, curators, and artists in a relaxed and casual setting. Sarah Jane holds an MA in Art History from Columbia University and Anat holds an MA from the Center for Curatorial Studies, Bard.
Mastodon Mesa Touching Show
Curators: Graham Kolbeins & Mya Stark
B257
July 22 – September 1
Reception: July 22 5:00 – 8:30 PM
Monday – Friday 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
310.463.5296
myastark@gmail.com
mastodonmesa.com
In Touch Show, artists create or exhibit works in a variety of media including performance, in which touch as a social or communication phenomenon, rather than a tactile one, is highlighted. Participatory works will be opt-in and non confrontational; the show will be strictly moderated to facilitate positive, comforting experiences with touch rather than evoke discomfort or provoke conflict in any way.
New Atlantis Enterprises
B215
Reception: July 22
5:00 – 8:30 PM
Monday – Friday 11:00 AM – 5:00 PM contact@newatlantisenterprises.com www.newatlantisenterprises.com
Artist Piero Golia embarks on his “relational aesthetics” project in which the iconic PDC itself becomes the subject of exploration. Golia has set up offices for his new “New Atlantis Enterprises” (NAE) in B215 as the hub of his creative vision that promises to redesign the social relationship between artist and audience. Golia's project is utopian and unlike the other projects at the PDC, NAE doesn’t offer ongoing staged exhibitions. Instead, NAE is a locus for Golia's interactive framework that intersects with the PDC’s day to day business and social network.
Patrick Painter Gallery
B275
Opens in September
Tuesday – Friday
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM
310.264.5988
matthew@patrickpainter.com
www.patrickpainter.com
See Line Gallery
Spirit Shack Todd Gray & Kyungmi Shin
B274
July 22 – September 10
Reception: July 22
5:00 – 8:30 PM
Performance by Todd Gray at 7:30 PM
Monday – Friday
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM & By Appointment
917.604.3114
janet@seelinegallery.com
www.seelinegallery.com
Artists and entertainers perform roles in contemporary culture similar to that of mystics and shamans from pre-colonial culture. Todd Gray and Kyungmi Shin will explore this phenomenon in “Spirit Shack”, a multimedia performance and installation that includes photography, video, sculpture and sound. Nigerian author Chinua Achebe’s writing on Ibo culture and the daily experiences Gray and Shin encountered in western Ghana where they maintain a studio, inspired the artists to find correlations in the mythologies created around rock stars.
SUPERFRONT
Open House/State Secrets
Curator: Mitch McEwen
B208
July 22 – September 3
Reception: July 22
5:00 – 8:30 PM
Monday – Friday
1:00 PM – 5:00 PM
646.351.3501
mitch@superfront.org
www.superfront.org
” – Would anyone like to have a little look down into the secret of how ideals are fabricated on this earth? Who has enough pluck? . . . Come on! Here we have a clear glimpse into this dark workshop.” -Nietzsche, On the Genealogy of Morality
OPEN HOUSE | STATE SECRETS is about the dark side of architecture – ‘architecture’ in both the abstract political use of the term and the literal experience of normative buildings. Conceiving of this exhibition as a laboratory, Farrah Karapetian, Mitch McEwen, and architectural collective Bureau E.A.S.T will accumulate work in SUPERFRONT’s space between July 6th and August 22nd. SUPERFRONT’s space at the Pacific Design Center becomes a studio for the exploration of the parameters of photography, sculpture, mapping, and architecture.
Young Projects
Amok Strategies: The 80s Show
Curator: Paul Young
B230
July 22 – August 30
Reception: July 22
5:00 – 8:30 PM
Monday – Friday
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM & By Appointment
323.377.1102
young.paul@yahoo.com
Amok Strategies explores some of visionary art that came out of LA’s early punk/art synthesis of the early 1980s. The exhibit consists or rare video works by the likes of Johanna Went, Bob Flanagan, Survival Research Laboratories and many more.
Much of the work was made in the immediate aftermath of the culture wars of the period, and thus tend to be highly aggressive in form. Yet at the same time, each work—whether it’s Johanna Went’s maximal stage performances or SRL’s robotic machine wars—is ultimately cathartic in its effect. More importantly, it captures some of the very qualities that have since come to define West Coast art practices: namely a penchant for the fantastical, the sardonic, and the psychedelic.
Young Projects
Surface Tension
Curator: Paul Young
B210
July 22 – August 30
Reception: July 22
5:00 – 8:30 PM
Monday – Friday
11:00 AM – 5:00 PM & By Appointment
323.377.1102
young.paul@yahoo.com
Ever since the camera was invented, artists have explored the medium’s essential paradox of two dimensionality versus the illusion of actual space. “Surface Tension” features the work of eight contemporary artists and filmmakers who explore that idea in their work, often to different ends. In some instances, the attempt to define a surface plane produces a highly painterly work that not only denies depth entirely, but makes deliberate art-historical references. In other cases, the idea leads to aesthetic, political and meta-fictional investigations that are as complex as they are serene, haunting and meditative. The artists featured include Gary Hill (Seattle), Ori Gersht (Tel Aviv), Burt Barr (New York), William Lamson (New York), Clemens Krauss (Austria) Juan Bufil (Spain) Christoph Brech (Berlin) and Jeffers Eagan (New York)
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