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Infinite Sequence: Lawrence Fodor & Chris Richter
Tue, May 15, 2012
An exhibition of new work on view May 16 with an opening reception May 19 at Southern California Art Projects and Exhibitions (Scape), Corona del Mar.
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Linda King: New Paintings
Tue, May 15, 2012
The visual complexity in King’s vibrant new paintings is a combination of fluid movements of paint with hardedge shapes and flat intense backgrounds, which shifts the viewer’s eye as shape becomes negative and space becomes shape. Opens May 17 at den contemporary.
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Earthly Paradise : Displaced Realities
Mon, May 14, 2012
Art-merge | LAB launches its first pop-up gallery with the photographic works of Korean contemporary artist Yeonju Sung at the Pacific Design Center (PDC), Los Angeles. Opens May 17.
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Debra Scacco: Birds of Passage
Mon, May 14, 2012
This London based artist’s practice is centered around defining the concept of ‘home’. Opens May 19 at Marine Contemporary, Venice.
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Unsettled: The Art of Vincent Sabella
Mon, May 14, 2012
An exhibition of work culled from three discrete collections of the artist’s work produced over the past twelve months, curated by Shana Nys Dambrot. Opens May 18 at Edgar Varela Fine Arts (EVFA).
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Mary Corse: Current Paintings
Mon, May 07, 2012
New paintings on view through May 2012 at Ace Gallery, Los Angeles. The following essay is an excerpt from The Realization of Perception: White Paintings by Mary Corse by Drew Hammond (2011).
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Victor Man: The White Shadow of His Talent
Mon, May 07, 2012
With this new series of paintings and arrangements of images and objects, Victor Man creates non-linear scenarios that are loosely based on nine fictional texts forming the book If Mind Were All There Was. Through May 26 at Blum & Poe, Culver City.
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Frederick Hammersley
Mon, May 07, 2012
This is the final week to see this exhibition which includes a range of geometric and organic abstract paintings made between 1958-1991, as well as over twenty unique lithographs from 1949-1950. Closes this Saturday, May 12 at L.A. Louver, Venice.
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John Baldessari: Double Bill (Part 2)
Mon, May 07, 2012
In this new series, Baldessari pairs the work of two selected artists (such as Giovanni diPaolo with David Hockney, or Fernand Léger with Max Ernst) on a single canvas. Opens May 12 at Margo Leavin Gallery.
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Cy Twombly: The Last Paintings
Mon, May 07, 2012
In tribute to the late Cy Twombly, Gagosian Gallery presents his last paintings and one hundred of his photographs, ranging from early studio impressions from the 1950s to a group of landscape subjects that he took in St Barths last year. Through June 9, 2012.
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Daniel Aksten: Support, Edge, Variation
Wed, May 02, 2012
Aksten initially intended to pursue writing but discovered he could use visual art to explore his ideas in philosophy. Opens May 6 at CB1 Gallery.
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Roman Deingruber: Believing is Seeing / selected video works 2002 - present
Wed, May 02, 2012
Selected past works and new video installation and single-channel video work by Deingruber. Opens May 5 at Trunk Gallery, Venice.
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Random Acts of Time
Wed, May 02, 2012
This exhibition investigates our relationship to the concept of time, its fleeting nature and impact and the arbitrary, often uncontrollable events that shape our lives. Opens May 5 at Orange County Center For Contemporary Art.
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Steven Rubin: Vacationland
Tue, May 01, 2012
This body of work is an homage to the strength of these families who must struggle on a daily basis to keep body and soul together. Opening reception May 5 at drkrm, Los Angeles.
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Behind the Wheel
Tue, May 01, 2012
Chosen from the collection of the Santa Barbara Museum of Art, these photographs explore the psychological place of the car in Southern California life. Opens May 5.
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Tama Hochbaum + Patti Oleon: Photographs and Paintings
Mon, Apr 23, 2012
Featuring the photographic grids of East Coast artist Tama Hochbaum and a selection of recent paintings by Patti Oleon. Opens April 28 at George Lawson Gallery.
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Thomas Wrede: Real Landscapes
Mon, Apr 23, 2012
“I see the world as a kind assembly kit, a grand stage, as image and simulacrum.“ Runs through May 26 at Kopeikin Gallery.
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Kelly Berg: Amazonia
Mon, Apr 23, 2012
In Kelly Berg’s recent series of paintings entitled “Amazonia”, a controlled chaos emerges from the overall compositions which are formed by intricate series of acrylic and ink layers. Opening reception Sunday, May 29 at Frank Pictures, Bergamot Station.
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Ned Evans: Recent Paintings
Mon, Apr 23, 2012
An exhibition of new work by Evans, whose love of the desert and the sea provide abundant source material for his sun-drenched body of work. Opens April 28 at William Turner Gallery, Bergamot Station.
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Nick Veasy: Cyanotypes
Mon, Apr 16, 2012
Inspired by the seminal work of one of the pioneers of photography, Anna Atkins, British artist Nick Veasey has created an intriguing body of work ‘Cyanotypes of X-Rays of Seaweed’. Opens April 21 at Joseph Bellows Gallery, La Jolla.
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Brice Bischoff: Bronson Caves
Mon, Apr 16, 2012
Bronson Caves documents a performance done at the caves, located in Los Angeles’ Griffith Park, specifically for this photographic series. Opens April 21 at Kopeikin Gallery.
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Jimi Gleason: Silver Deposit Paintings
Mon, Apr 16, 2012
While Gleason's work may appear somewhat spontaneous, almost accidental, his approach is far from random. Opens April 21 at R.B. Stevenson, La Jolla.
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Kim MacConnel: ABRACADABRA
Mon, Apr 16, 2012
Works of brightly colored, high-gloss enamel on board that referenced the artist's non-Western and non-art practices and concerns. Opens Friday, April 20 at Rosamund Felsen.
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Selina Trieff: Presences
Mon, Apr 16, 2012
Trieff paints archetypal figures in a flattened and heavily delineated manner, which act at once as self portraits and allegories for the human condition. Opens April 21 at Ruth Bachofner Gallery.
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Barbara Kerwin: Geometric Progressions
Wed, Apr 11, 2012
A survey of the artist's luxuriant wax in oil and newer acrylic paintings opens April 12 at the Pierce College Art Gallery.
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Joseph Lopez: Nightwork
Tue, Apr 10, 2012
Nightwork, embodies the under-appreciated elements of our (and possibly any) city and presents it to us in a positive light. Closing reception April 27, 7pm at Il Tramezzino at UCLA.
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Marla Rutherford: LAY-TEXT
Tue, Apr 10, 2012
Rutherford’s photographs show a surreal universe that brings together groups of people from completely different worlds. Through April 28 at Robert Berman Gallery.
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Farrah Karapetian: Representation3
Tue, Apr 10, 2012
Karapetian’s first comprehensive exhibition and her first show with Roberts & Tilton, examines representation in both political and artistic terms. Opens April 14.
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Shay Bredimus
Tue, Apr 10, 2012
Renowned tattoo artist Bredimus employs languid and gestural marks using tattoo ink on drafting film to portray spontaneous and personal moments of his models. Opens April 14 at Koplin del Rio.
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Charlene Liu: New Work
Tue, Apr 10, 2012
In her new body of works on paper and panel, Liu manipulates the medium of paper itself to create a series of beautiful yet unsettling abstractions. Opens April 14 at Taylor De Cordoba.
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Michele Mikesell: Hugo, Oklahoma
Sun, Apr 01, 2012
Hugo, Oklahoma, is an homage to a literal town established in 1901 in Southeast Oklahoma and is a return to her favorite subject: The Circus. Opens April 6 at Altered Space Gallery, Venice.
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Michel Auder and Giulia Piscitelli
Sat, Mar 31, 2012
Ten films and several photographs by Auder from the 1960s to the present. Piscitelli’s exhibition includes recent drawings, sculpture, tapestries, and photographs. Through May 19 at Kayne Griffin Corcoran.
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Taj Forer: Stone by Stone
Sat, Mar 31, 2012
An installation of photographs and objects. Opens April 6 at Leadapron.
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Amanda Beckmann: Hasten Slowly
Sat, Mar 31, 2012
Hasten Slowly is about Beckmann becoming more comfortable with the artistic process. Opens April 7 at Bermudez Projects.
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Firelei Báez: Not Even Unalterable Limitations
Sat, Mar 31, 2012
In this recent body of work Báez collapses time by mediating conversations between liminal characters, past and present, real and fictive. Opens April 7 at Richard Heller Gallery.
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Anthony Lister
Sun, Mar 25, 2012
For his new exhibition Lister has created a montage of figurative renderings with special focus on the central theme of the beautiful and sometimes twisted form of the dancing ballerina. Runs through April 7 at New Image Art.
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Mounir Fatmi: Kissing Circles
Sun, Mar 25, 2012
Kissing Circles, proposes an encounter between two classic Hollywood films: Modern Times by Charlie Chaplin and Casablanca, by Curtiz. Opens March 31 at Shoshana Wayne Gallery.
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Hookers: Curated by Natalia Fabia
Sun, Mar 25, 2012
Fabia’s curatorial debut will feature 22 artists’ interpretation of the term “Hooker.” Opens March 31 at Corey Helford Gallery
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Tree: Garret Suhrie, Elaine Ling, Thomas Basile
Sun, Mar 25, 2012
These three photographers introduce us through their individual sensibilities and unique narratives, to a natural element protagonist of the exhibition - a Tree. Opens March 31 at ADC Contemporary.
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Charlotta Westergren: SERE
Sun, Mar 25, 2012
SERE is an acronym for Survival, Evasion, Resistance, and Escape, a military program that was supposed to provide soldiers with training in evading capture and survival skills. Opens March 31 at Patrick Painter.
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Part 3: At Pomona
Tue, Mar 20, 2012
An opening reception for the final of three exhibitions associated with “It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969–1973”—“Part 3: At Pomona,” will be held on Saturday, March 24 at the Pomona College Museum of Art.
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Dennis Hollingsworth: Terrestrial
Mon, Mar 19, 2012
At the heart of Hollingsworth’s practice is a rigorous fidelity to the dichotomous nature of painting. Opens March 23 at Michael Kohn Gallery.
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Dennis Hoekstra + Noah Olmsted: The Betty Roberts Room
Mon, Mar 19, 2012
Public interest in The Betty Roberts Room points towards what the artists have come to understand as a kind of longing to be “spiritual, but not religious.” Opens March 20 at Annie Wharton Los Angeles.
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Roni Feldman
Mon, Mar 19, 2012
Drawing upon hundreds of photographs of people, Feldman paints elaborate crowds in airbrushed acrylic by spraying transparent, glossy varnish against a matte black background. Opens March 23 at Garboushian Gallery.
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Immanence: The Videos of Antoine Roegiers
Sat, Mar 17, 2012
Roegiers uses a complex form of animation to give life to the strange array grotesqueries found in each painting’s mise-en-scene. opens March 20 at Young Projects, Pacific Design Center.
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Camille Rose Garcia: Snow White The Complete Works on Paper
Mon, Mar 12, 2012
Camille Rose Garcia's wholly original interpretation of the classic tale of Snow White is underscored by her dark and whimsical style. Opens March 16 at Michael Kohn Gallery.
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Herakut: After the Laughter
Mon, Mar 12, 2012
The exhibition will feature a new series of sculptures, photography and wall installations by the artists. In conjunction with the opening, Herakut will also be releasing their second book also titled “After the Laughter." Closes March 17 at LeBasse Projects :: Chinatown.
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Jamie Reid: Ragged Kingdom
Mon, Mar 12, 2012
Reid is best known for exposing and protesting modern society’s social and cultural injustices. Ragged Kingdom brings together a variety of material spanning several decades from the 1970s to the present. Opens March 16 at Subliminal Projects.
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Globalize THIS! International Graphics of Resistance
Mon, Mar 12, 2012
The images in Globalize THIS! remind us of the passions and commitment of the protesters and demand our involvement to make a difference. Opens March 17 at Ben Maltz Gallery at Otis.
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California Girls
Mon, Mar 12, 2012
The exhibition is titled "California Girls" after Judy Chicago's project in the 1970ʼs of young California women artists that were working to be recognized as professional female artists in a mostly male dominated art world. Opens March 17 at Katherine Cone Gallery.
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