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Design Loves Art Program at the Pacific Design Center
Ongoing with first round of exhibitions up through October 17
LA's Pacific Design Center is the latest LA venue to get resourceful in the face of a challenging economy. Offering several of its empty design showrooms to local galleries, rent-free, the P.D.C. has established a new "neighborhood" of temporary satellite gallery locations. The first round of openings includes Sam Lee Gallery, d.e.n. Contemporary, Kopeikin Gallery, Carl Berg--which will present an ambitious group show of 26 artists in one showroom--and See Line, which will present a new installation by Beri Zipperstein. In the coming months, be sure to check out two exhibitions organized by Diana Thater in conjunction with Emi Fontana's West of Rome, and a related show curated by the energetic, young L.A. artist Adam Miller.
Matthew Ronay
Matthew Ronay
MARC FOXX
Through Oct 17, 2009
www.marcfoxx.com
Slightly tribal but undeniably totemic, the work in "is the shadow," Matthew Ronay's newest exhibition at Marc Foxx, cloaks heavy, theoretical propositions in the artist's characteristically rudimentary expressions. Here, ceremonial costumes, capes, masks and cairn-like sculptures speak to the esoteric rituals and symbolic actions. And if imagining such rites isn't enough, three short videos of Ronay's performative activation of these objects can be found on YouTube.
Ami Tallman
Ami Tallman
Circus Gallery
Through October 17
www.circus-gallery.com
Ami Tallman's most recent exhibition of figurative paintings revolves around the idea of charisma through an intimate depiction of actors, musicians, historical figures, and political activists. Developing her signature brand of portraiture, Tallman's most recent works on paper are looser and more layered with a sharp attention to color as seen in the fiery red-haired Ziggy Stardust, the saturated coat of a young JFK Jr., and Iggy Pop's snarling pink lips for example. Tallman's Technicolor compositions seem as imaginary as they are drawn from life.
Brian Bress
Brian Bress
Cherry and Martin
Through October 24
www.cherryandmartin.com
In follow up to his last Los Angeles solo show in 2007, Brian Bress presents a stellar series of video, collage, prints and sculpture at Cherry and Martin. Combining multi-layered forms and cultivated non-sequitur actions, Bress' videos investigate interior realities, fears, desires and neuroses through a largely materialist language.
Matt Connors
Phil Chang, Matt Connors, Sayre Gomez, Nick Kramer, Kim Schoen and Erika Vogt.
Cirrus Gallery
Through October 31, 2009
Curated by Aram Moshayedi, this six-person exhibition of Los Angeles-based artists presents minimal and conceptual works in an exploration of space, context and institutional display. While the main premise of this show may seem all too theory heavy--Moshayedi cites Brian O'Doherty citing Thomas De Quincy citing Shakespeare--the strength of the artwork will undoubtedly speak for itself.
Adrian Ghenie
Invisible Body, Conspicuous Mind
Luckman Gallery
Through November 7
Romania may fast be becoming a new center for contemporary art and this exhibition, curated by Lara Taubman, is further evidence of the country's growing cultural landscape. Presenting fifteen Romanian artists, the show questions the post-soviet construction of identity and everyday life.
Chiho Aoshima
Group Show
Blum and Poe
Through November 14
On 3 October long-time L.A. dealer Blum and Poe opened an expansive new location across the street from its current Culver City location. The inaugural exhibition features a selection of works by the gallery's roster of artists including Chiho Aoshima, Sam Durant, Jennifer Bornstein, Dave Muller and Julian Hoeber.
Tomory Dodge
Tomory Dodge
Acme Gallery
Through November 14
Tomory Dodge's ruinous but dazzling quasi-landscape paintings seem to negotiate brushstroke with constructivist precision. This forthcoming group of small format collage works substitute brushy gestures with cut and assembled paper, but the results are nevertheless consistent with Dodge's painterly aesthetic. With his keen focus on texture, color and surface, the artist assembles a new series of intimate and complex compositions.
Ed Ruscha
20th Anniversary Exhibition: Installations Inside/Out
Armory Center for the Arts
Through December 31
In celebration of their twentieth year, Pasadena's Armory Center has organized an extensive program of exhibitions and events at sites throughout the city. The Armory's central show includes notable L.A. artists like Ed Ruscha, Bruce Nauman and Pae White and Edgar Arceneaux.
Lewis Baltz
New Topographics
LACMA
Through January 10, 2010
LACMA's forthcoming New Topographics show borrows its title from the International Museum of Photography's 1975 exhibition of the same name. Bringing together the nine original artists included in the seminal show--Lewis Baltz, Bernd and Hilla Becher, Joe Deal, Frank Gohlke, Shore, and Henry Wessel, Jr among them--with a larger group of historic and contemporary photographers, this show will reassert the new approach towards landscape photography that emerged in the mid-70s, just as photography was first being considered a collectible medium as well as give the moment a historical context. |
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Catherine Taft is a Los Angeles-based writer and critic. Her writing on contemporary art and culture has appeared in magazines including Modern Painters, Art Review, Artforum.com, and Metropolis M and in various museum catalogs. Her recent projects include curating a series of video and film screenings throughout LA, and research and curatorial assistance for the Getty Museum's exhibition, 'California Video' (March 2008). |
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