Downtown…The Arts District Co-op celebrates its 2nd birthday all weekend (April 15 to April 17, 2016). Enjoy a weekend of live music, art, food and shop locally handmade products by some of the most talented artisans in L.A. 453 Colyton St., LA 90013; 12-8pm. See FB Page.
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In Mar Vista…
Co
me bid a final farewell to former councilman Bill Rosendahl today at 2 pm….GREAT GREAT GREAT: A Celebration of Life – the event takes place at Mar Vista Park.
I have lived in Venice since 1999 and participated in many community events will Bill. He was a great supporter of Venice!
The event is organized by Councilman Bonin, who will be there, along with Mayor Garcetti. Patt Morrison is the MC.
The speakers are from all parts of Bill’s life, from his cable days, his work on Presidential campaigns, and the LGBT community.
Music and performances are from Bill’s favorites, including Christmas music, drummers, a poem read by Pegarty Long, – and The band Venice plays.
If you would like tto attend, please RSVP via this link – CLICK HERE!
What: Memorial
Where: Mar Vista Park, 11430 Woodbine St., Los Angeles, 90066
When: 2:00pm
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Downtown LA…
BLAM presents its first Los Angeles group show titled “Concrete.” Brooklyn and Los Angeles artists will juxtapose their cultures and their creations at the first show of BLAM (Brooklyn Los Angeles meet).
This first show will introduce all the artists involved – from Brooklyn and L.A. – to the L.A. community. The exhibition will feature each member artist’s take on the urban environment they inhabit. BLAM Brooklyn will open its first show in May. “Fewer and fewer galleries seemed to be showing local artists,” said BLAM founder David Spanbock, a painter. “It occurred to me that the big players all had multiple venues and that this gave them higher visibility. Why couldn’t emerging and midcareer artists do the same thing?”
Each artist pulled together a group of artists representing the finest independent artists in their respective communities. Artists include: Nadege Monchera Baer, Corey Bond, Paul Catalanotto, Dani Dodge, Pete Hickok, Kio Griffith, Richard Lebenson, Alise Mona Loebelsohn, Aline Mare, Alanna Marelletti, Jesus Max, Vincent Romaniello, David Spanbock, Joe Wolek, Lena Kazakova Wolek, and Alison Woods.
What: Opening reception
Where: 1950 S. Santa Fe Ave #207 Los Angeles, CA 90021
When: 2:00pm – 7:00pm
Website: http://www.blamprojects.com/
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Just across the street…
CB1 Gallery is pleased to present “new haven
,” a group exhibition featuring five painters who all attended Yale University in New Haven, CT. For certain artists, all roads, and certain train tracks, lead to New Haven, and Yale University. Such is the case with the five painters featured in this exhibition.
Michael Mancari, Junky, 2016, oil, enamel, urethane on canvas, 79″ x 95.5″
TOM BETTHAUSER (MFA 2012) arrived from the San Francisco Art Institute (BFA 2010); AIN COCKE (MFA 2004) from California State University, Long Beach (BFA 2002). CRAIG TAYLOR and MICHAEL MANCARI were classmates (MFA 1998), after receiving BFAs from the Maine College of Art (Taylor) and the Maryland Institute College of Art (Mancari). ALEXANDER KROLL did his undergraduate work in New Haven (BA, 2004), receiving his MFA from the Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles in 2008.
Also opening today…”Lily Simonson: Midnight Sun” and continuing through April 24 at the gallery …George Adams Gallery presents “Joan Brown Herself.”
On view: April 16 – May 29
What: Opening reception
Where: CB1 Gallery, 1923 S Santa Fe Ave, LA, 90021
When: 3-6pm
Phone: (213) 806-7889
Website: http://cb1gallery.com
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Then Head across the River – to Boyle Heights (where the Pick of the Week takes place at SAGE Projects)
C
himento Contemporary presents “LAURA LONDON: “RELOCATION.”
See image: Laura London, Lilac – Present, 2016, Archival Pigment Print, 30 x 30 inches, Ed. of 4
Photographer Laura London’s new series comprises a video work with audio; as well as photography, in an eight-part portrait series in two folios plus a triptych. In both content and meaning, as well as technology and technique, these images represented a re-examination and directed evolution of her iconic celebrity-culture critiques of 2000-2012 and the series of work exploring teen identity from 1995-1999. While those works took aim at the perverse and pervasive influence of celebrity through the prism of the American teen-ager, in 2015-16, the new problem is selfie culture, and its new face is the Millennial.
On view: April 16 – May 28, 2016
What: Opening recepton
Where: CHIMENTO CONTEMPORARY, 622 South Andersen Street, Space 105, LA 90023
When: 5:00pm – 8:00pm
Phone: 310.433.0508
Website: www.chimentocontemporary.com
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Close by….in Boyle Heights Nicodim Gallery‘s current exhibition closes today at 6pm.
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And another Boyle Heights art party takes place at 356 Mission (356 S. Mission Road, LA 90033), at 8pm – screening and opening. (323) 609-3162;
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In the Venice/Mar Vista area…
c.nichols projects hosts an opening reception for “Re-Corded History” featuring Delicious Taste.
See image: Delicious Taste* 1968, 2016 Si
x feet wide, height variable, Courtesy of c. nichols project
New works by Delicious Taste are woven of contemporary carriers of information: data, signal, current, codes and intelligence. Their artworks, which on the surface resemble works made of fiber, reflect the meaning in our current society based on computers. Reliving the days of playing NOKIA’s “Snake” the artists use phones as well as vintage SPACE AGE monitors and surveillance cameras as a contemporary nod to George Orwell’s iconic dystopian novel 1984. Delicious Taste invite viewers to haptically immerse themselves in the artworks by “reading” the knots with their hands through touch.
*a new collaboration between Bruce Yonemoto and Grant Levy-Doolittle
On view: April 16 – May 28, 2016
What: Opening reception
Where: c.nichols projects, 12613 Venice Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90006
When: 5:00 pm – 7:00 pm
Phone: (310) 915-1930
Website: http://www.cnicholsproject.com/
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In the mid-Whilshire area…Icon Projects (5450 Wilshire Blvd., LA 90036) offers a MOPLA exhibition and opening for Dennis Keeley from 5-8pm.
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In Santa Monica…
At Bergamot Station (2525 Michigan Ave., (B-5) Santa Monica CA 90404), there are several here.
Sloan Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition by Los Angeles artist, Adele Mills.
See image: Adele Mills, Harper, 2016, Mixed Media / Kinetic Object, 16 x 20 inches
“Four acts and a landscape” is comprised of mixed media objects that employ prints on fabric in a shadow-box format. This exhibition is the artist’s first solo show in the United States and her first with the gallery.
On view: April 2 – May 4, 2016
What: Opening reception
Where: Sloan Projects, Bergamot Station Arts Center, 2525 Michigan Ave., (B-5) Santa Monica CA 90404
When: 5:00 pm – 8:00 pm
Phone: (424) 744-8265
Website: http://www.sloanprojects.com
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The Craig Krull Gallery (Bergamot Station, B-3, 2525 Michigan Ave, Santa Monica, 90404) celebrates artists Lou Beach, Stephen Aldrich, Joseph Heidecker, & Zac Thompson from 5-7pm.
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In Santa Monica…
At Bergamot Station, bG Gallery offers its 2nd exhi
bition to celebrate MOPLA titled “Monster Photo Gestalt.” Gallery Owner and curator Om Bleicher will assemble close-up photos of animal and human body parts by a variety of photographers into an imaginative composition including a surreal landscape populated by composite “monsters.”
See image: by Lori Pond
Artists: David Dumo, Marcus DeSieno, Lori Pond, Debra Behr, Nabil TAZI, Lauren K Barwood, Cameron McIntyre, Maureen Haldeman, Susan Mac, Allan Peach, Heather Roessler, Allyson Marie, Mara Zaslove, David Skernick, Robin Cohen, Amy Kanka Valadarsky, Mitch Cullin, Federico, Clea Jones, Bernard Wolf, Fong Lien, Organa Meets, Airom, Susie Loucks, Leonard Monje, Ip Hoi Wan and more.
On view: April 16 -April 20th
What: Opening reception
Where: bG Gallery, Bergamot Station 2525, Michigan Ave, Space G8A, Santa Monica, 90404
When: 5:00pm – 8:00pm – April 16, 2016
Phone: 310-906-4211
Website: bgArtGalleries.com
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dnj Gallery, (Bergamot Station, J-1, 2525 Michigan Ave, Santa Monica, 90404) hosts an opening for “When did it stop being fun?” from 6-8pm.
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ltd los angeles (7561 Sunset Blvd #103, LA 90046), features an art talk and sceening from 5-7pm.
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Marc Selwyn Fine Art (9953 South Santa Monica Blvd., Beverly Hills, 90212), hosts an opening reception from 6-8pm.
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In
Culver City…
Baik Art debuts “Quarry,” an exhibition of work by Kathleen Johnson, Laura Menz, and Rachelle Rojany, three multidisciplinary artists from Southern California whose artworks share the medium of plaster.
See image: Rachelle Rojany, Invisible black, 2016, plaster, pigment, 8¼ x 8¾ x ½ inches
The exhibition will consist of both abstract and figurative objects, some of which have been impregnated with sequins or pigmented with pastel print patterns.
On view: April 16–May 21, 2016
What: Opening reception
Where: Baik Art, 2600 La Cienega Blvd.,
When: 6:00pm – 8:00pm – April 16, 2016
Website: http://baikart.com/
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Also in Culver City…Mark Moore Gallery (5790 Washington Blvd., Culver City, CA 90232), celebrates the art of Penelope Umbrico from 6-8pm.
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In Hollywood…Various Small Fires (812 North Highland Ave., LA 90038) hosts a solo exhibition featuring Sean Shim-Boyle from 6-8pm.
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Another art event takes place at Thomas Duncan Gallery (6109 Melrose Ave., LA 90028) from 6-8pm.
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In
Venice…
Shulamit Nazarian presents “Mansión Magnolia,” a solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist Carmen Argote. Known primarily for her large-scale architectural installations, the artist has created her first exhibition comprised entirely of photography.
Argote developed this body of work in Guadalajara, Mexico, while inhabiting Mansión Magnolia, her ancestral home turned public events space. The works produced within the mansion explore the ways in which domestic space can impact the body and construct notions of self. The photographs also serve as an extension of the artist’s previous installations, which explore memory, architecture, and the notion of home through the modification of physical space.
On view: April 16 – May 28
What: Opening reception
Where: Shulamit Nazariam, 17 North Venice Boulevard, Venice 90292
When: 6:00pm –8:00pm – April 16, 2016
Website: http://www.shulamitnazarian.com
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In Santa Monica…
Buck
shot Gallery is pleased to announce a major solo exhibition of leading European graffiti artist BATES, showcasing a brand new body of work, created especially for “California Dreaming.“
See image: by BATES What Comes Around, Mixed Media, (acrylics, enamel, spray paint, airbrush, markers and brush), 22.4” x 29.9”
The exhibition testifies to BATES’s impact on the world of graffiti and his contribution to contemporary art in general. His stylistic elegance is purposeful and uninhibited. With the internationalization of European graffiti in the early 1990s, he soon became one of the most sought after artists for big venues around the continent and overseas. His iconic graffiti writing derives inspiration from comic books, sculptures and color palettes in their fleeting observations and compositional sophistication.
On view: April 16 – May 12, 2016
What: Opening reception
Where: Buckshot Gallery, 3129 Pico Blvd. SM 90405
When: 6:00pm – 8:00pm – April 16, 2016
Phone: (310) 457-0619
Website: http://www.buckshotgallery.com/
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In Chinatown…
Charlie James Gallery is delighted to present LA-based artist Ramiro Gomez in his third solo show with the gallery titled On Melrose opening Saturday, April 16th from 6-9pm. This show will feature Gomez’s largest show of painting and installation to date.
See image: Ramiro Gomez, Paul Smith S
tore, Los Angeles, 2015, Acrylic on canvas, 72 x 72 inches
Book Release – Signing: Lawrence Weschler’s new book on Ramiro Gomez titled Domestic Scenes: The Art of Ramiro Gomez (Abrams) will be celebrated during the reception as well. Copies of the book will be available and Gomez will be signing.
Also starting at 5pm is…Everything Must Go! Swap Meet organized by Keith Rocka Knittel
Swap Meet runs from 5-9pm; Artist’s reception and book signing runs from 6-9pm
April 16th – May 28th
What: Opening reception
Where: Charlie James Gallery, 969 Chung King Road, Los Angeles CA 90012
When: 6:00pm – 9:00pm – April 16, 2016
Phone: 213.687.0844
Website: http://www.cjamesgallery.com/
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In the mid Wilshire area…
Los Angeles Jazz & Arts Festival and Dysonna City Art Gallery are teaming up again in 2016 for a special series of events to benefit the Festival’s jazz education programs. Five nights of “Rhythms and Art” events will take place at Dysonna City Art Gallery, and are hosted by Donna Dyson.
Ea
ch event will feature Hors d’oeuvres, local wines, with special jazz-inspired desserts and served during a live jazz performance every Saturday in April, from 7-9 p.m.
Come support the musicians and artists as they help bring awareness to Jazz Appreciation month. Admission is $20,which includes hors d’oeuvres and wine. Proceeds from the fundraiser will support the Art. Keep Creating Art education programs. CLICK Here to purchase Tickets https://squareup.com/market/dysonna
The series is set to run shows on April 23, 30, 2016;
What: Performance
Where: Dysonna City Art Gallery, 5373 Wilshire Blvd., LA 90036
When: 7:00pm – 9:00pm – April 16, 2016
Phone: 323 857-0030
Website: http://www.dysonnacityartgallery.com
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