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Uta Barth
1301PE
An exhibition of new work by Los Angeles based artist Uta Barth. Since the early 1990s, Uta Barth has examined photographic and visual perception--how the human eye sees differently from the camera lens and how the incidental and atmospheric can become subject matter in and of themselves. The works that brought her to international attention, the series Ground and Field, presented photographic blurs caused by focusing the camera on an unoccupied foreground; these lushly colored images tested connections between the descriptive clarity of photography and the haze of memory. For this exhibition 1301PE will present Barth's latest series, and draw a bright white line with light, and a brand new series works. As with much of her earlier work, the domestic setting continues to be fertile ground for nuanced explorations of changes in atmosphere, although for the first time the artist has intervened in the scene she previously had only observed. In this new series, Barth transforms a simple observation-the dance of a ribbon of light across curtains-into a complex photographic experience describing perception and the passage of time. The word "photograph" translates as drawing or writing with light; Barth's new images, then, are quite literally photographs.
09/23/2011 - 10/29/2011
www.1301pe.com
Pae White
1301PE
An exhibition of new work by Los Angeles based artist Pae White. White is one of the most significant American female artists participating in the international dialogue on design. From her delicate mobile aviaries, brightly colored Plexiglas "pools," hanging tapestries and glass "rivers" to her numerous catalogues, advertisements and magazine covers, her work is crisp and challenging. White's work utilizes the language of advertising, arts & crafts, fine arts and graphic design. In employing these locales and disciplines, White brings together these seeming disparate worlds, challenging the possibilities of visual arts. In this, the relationship to Sister Corita's (1918-1986) reinventions of the uses of graphic design in the public and social space is evident. Pae White was born in Pasadena, California. White has exhibited internationally at institutions such as at The Power Plant, Toronto; SMOCA, Scottsdale, Arizona; Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati; UCLA Hammer Museum, Los Angeles and the Hirshhorn Museum and Sculpture Garden, Washington DC.
11/05/2011 - 12/17/2011
www.1301pe.com
De Wain Valentine: Sculpture from 1960s-70s
ACE Gallery
De Wain Valentine's seminal resin and fiberglass sculpture from the 1960s and 70s will be on view at ACE Gallery to coincide with his one person exhibition opening on September 13 at The J. Paul Getty Museum titled From Start to Finish: De Wain Valentine's Gray Column, followed by his inclusion in the Getty's survey of sculpture in Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1950-1970.
09/15/2011 - 11/30/2011
www.acegallery.net
Judy Fiskin: Some Works
Angles Gallery
The exhibition is composed of a selection of photographs (1973-1995) and films (1997-2010) by influential, Los Angeles-based artist Judy Fiskin. Fiskins's work is included in four Pacific Standard Time exhibitions: The Museum of Contemporary Art's Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981, The J. Paul Getty Museum's In Focus: Los Angeles, 1945-1980, Pomona College Museum of Art's It Happened at Pomona: Art at the Edge of Los Angeles 1969-1973 and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery's Civic Virtue: The Impact of the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery and the Watts Towers Arts Center.
09/10/2011 - 10/22/2011
www.anglesgallery.com
TargetVideo77: Cal Punk & Performance
Annie Wharton Los Angeles
TargetVideo77, founded by artist Joe Rees, who collaborating with Jackie Sharp, Jill Hoffman, Sam Edwards and others, archived early performance art, punk, and hardcore bands on video and film. Performers and artists as diverse as the Sex Pistols, the Dead Kennedys, The Cramps, William S. Burroughs, The Clash, The Avengers, Mark Pauline, Survival Research Labs, The Go-Go's, John Cooper Clark, Bauhaus, X, The Dils, Johanna Wendt, Talking Heads, Black Flag, Flipper, and Crucifix were recorded in the late 1970s to the early 1980s. Target Video captured one of music's most infamous performances at Napa State Mental Hospital in 1978. The show was headlined by the Mutants and opening on the bill were the Cramps.
11/17/2011 - 01/06/2012
www.anniewhartonlosangeles.com
Refocus: Multicultural Focus
Arena 1
In 1981 the exhibition Multicultural Focus was mounted at Los Angeles Municipal Gallery Barnsdall Park where Josine Starrels was Gallery Director. Organized by Sheila Pinkel and curated by twelve artist/curators in the Los Angeles area -- three each from the black, Latino, white and Asian communities -- it was the first cross-cultural exhibition of photography in the Los Angeles area. Refocus: Multicultural Focus will include current work by most of the original artists in the exhibition. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition providing information on the original show juxtaposed to contemporary work and statements by participating artists. A new catalogue essay will reflect the changes that have taken place in multiculturalism and photography during the intervening thirty years. Participating artists include Arden Alger, Don Gregorio Antón, Stephen Axelrad, Carroll Parrott Blue, Elizabeth Bryant, Gillian Brown, Steve Berens, Dennis Callwood, Todd Gray, Robin Lasser and Adrienne Pao, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Willie Robert Middlebrook, Patrick Nagatani, Joan Salinger, Rick Tejada-Flores, Linda Wolf, Nancy Webber, Mihoko Yamagata and Bruce Yonemoto
01/07/2012 - 01/29/2012
www.santamonicaartstudios.com
Breaking in Two: Provocative Visions of Motherhood
Arena 1

The exhibition will feature a multi-cultural group of four generations of nationally and internationally recognized artist-mothers selected to represent the multi-faceted and changing realities of motherhood. The exhibition explores the intimate experience of the artist as mother, and the evolving image and place of the mother, which underwent huge transformations during the Women's Movement of the late '60s and '70s. Breaking in Two will include painting and drawing, sculpture, collage and assemblage, installation, photography, film/video, performance art, and poetry/writing.The participating artists include: Kim Abeles, Lita Albuquerque, Eleanor Antin, Michele Asselin, Jo Ann Callis, Joyce Dallal, Bruria Finkel, Magaret Garcia, Cheri Gaulke, Tierney Gearon, Judithe Hernandez, Channa Horwitz, Katherine Jacobi, Mary Kelly, Margaret Lazzari, Andrea Liss, M.A .M. A, Kim McCarty, MaryLinda Moss, Mother Art, Sandra Mueller, Pearls of Wisdom: End the Violence, Renee Petropoulos, Astrid Preston, Alison, Saar, Betye Saar, Sola Agustsson Saar, Lesley Saar, Reva Santo, Sylvia Sher, Amy Shimshon-Santo, Elena Mary Siff, Doni Silver Simons, Linda Vallejo, June Wayne, Ruth Weisberg, Kim Yasuda, and shuang zhang. The exhibition curated by Bruria Finkel will be featured in a documentary By Sabine Sighicelli.

02/11/2012 - 04/14/2012
www.santamonicaartstudios.com
The Art of Andy Wing: Works from 1957 – 1987
Art Resource Group
In 1956, Andy Wing, a recent Bard College graduate and an artist with the Miller Advertising Agency, packed his bags and left New York, headed West.  He hoped, he wrote in his journal, to "find the tranquility in which to be [himself] and create, and try to absorb, overcome and place in proper perspective" his art education.   He chose to free himself from artistic convention and delve into a period of intense creative experimentation in idyllic Laguna Beach, California, where he found a community of like-minded, intellectual Bohemians and quickly became widely known and respected for his art and activism.  Art Resource Group presents this exhibition of paintings and sculptures spanning three decades of Wing's career.  Wing's work is characterized by his forward-thinking promotion of recycling, organically made natural pigments and invented art processes that reflect an early interest in interventions in nature, environmental awareness and conservation.  Although he utilized recognizable found materials in his constructions, Wing strove to create works of pure, nature-driven abstraction, objects upon which one could meditate or find spiritual inspiration and which engaged the viewer in an innovative dialogue about abstraction and representation, conservation and excess, consciousness and transformation.    
10/25/2011 - 05/30/2012
www.artresourcegroup.com
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David Weidman: Modern Master: Prints 1967-1974
Bermudez Projects
During the 1950s, David Weidman began his career as a commercial illustrator and animator, earning great acclaim for working with the upstart animation studio United Productions of America (UPA). Weidman himself was known for his backgrounds on Mr. Magoos's Christmas Carol.
 
But in 1963, Weidman chose to become a printmaker, utilizing his knowledge and experience as an animator to create brilliantly-colored kaleidoscopic works-on-paper displaying a pared-down, flat style expressing whimsy, magic and wonder. For nearly two decades, from his studio/gallery on La Cienega Blvd. behind a liquor store, just north of Melrose Ave., Weidman produced an extensive body of work, including lithographs, serigraphs and posters inseparably associated with mid-century modernism.
 
Unique from his peers, Weidman’s style evoked a cheery playfulness that continues to inspire artists, animators, filmmakers and designers today.
 
In the mid-60s, to prove his versatility, Weidman created a series of non-representational modernist prints with deep, saturated colors reminiscent of Rothko's color-field paintings and Kandinsky's abstract expressionism.

Bermudez Projects presents more than 15 works from this series, including a never-before-seen print. The exhibit reaffirms Weidman's keen graphic sensibility, expert use of color and mastery of composition.
11/11/2011 - 01/14/2012
www.julian-bermudez.com
Jack Reilly: Solo Exhibition
Bleicher Gallery
Bleicher Gallery La Brea presents a new body of work by Jack Reilly that reevaluates and redefines the rules of abstraction and perspective. These shaped canvases of with a series of abstract expressive metallic paint look like hundreds of paintings have been sliced together and reconstructed to create new structures. The works call to mind the history of the artists past experiments shaping canvas and blurring the line between modernism and pre-modernism and post-modernism. They will be presented along side historical works from the artist's collection. Jack Reilly was brought to prominence in the 1970s as one of the key players in the controversial movement termed "Abstract Illusionism". The movement challenged the notion of abstract art as exclusive from illusory representations of space and volume. In 1979, the Molly Barnes Gallery on La Cienega presented a solo exhibition of Reilly's abstract paintings on artist constructed sculptural canvases. These new shaped canvases were met with critical acclaim by the
Los Angeles Times, Artweek, and Arts Magazine and brought him a flurry of exhibits and representation nationwide into the 80's.

01/26/2012 - 02/17/2012
www.bgartdealings.com
Stuart Rapeport: Solo Exhibit "Critics, Collectors, Curators and Grapefruit"
Bleicher Gallery La Brea
This installation by Stuart Rapeport features life sized wood cut portraits of art aficionados, collectors, and critics prominent in the 1970s and 80s observing fruit pickers. Rapeport was active in the 70s creating anti-elitist humorous works crossing class division. He was recently featured in the Getty encyclopedia of artists before the 80s LA RISING.
01/05/2012 - 01/20/2012
www.bgartdealings.com
Susan Moss: Solo Exhibit
Bleicher Gallery La Brea
Bleicher Galleries presents new paintings by Susan Moss. A long term breast cancer survivor, Moss has long been an advocate for women's issues, health and healing through her work. Her use of texture and thick layers of overlapping lines create a sense of overpowering emotion and sensuality. Moss's paintings and drawings are held by public and private collections around the world, including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Skirball Museum, Laguna Art Museum and the Robert Rowan Collection. She was recently featured in the Getty publication, LA RISING: SO CA Artists Before 1980.
02/20/2012 - 04/10/2012
www.bgartdealings.com
Ann McCoy
Bleicher Gallery La Brea
Historical Los Angeles expatriate artist Ann McCoy returns to Bleicher Gallery La Brea for an exciting solo exhibit. McCoy was a prominent and influential Los Angeles in 1970s, beginning her career when she received LACMA's MCAC new talent award. Acclaimed for her enormous and elaborate pencil drawings, Ann's work is deeply rooted in Alchemical theory and Jungian analysis. She has been celebrated and collected internationally through the most prestigious art institutions, awards and auction houses in the arts including Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA), The Museum of Modern Art, New York (MoMA), the Whitney Museum of American Art and the National Gallery of Australia.
04/20/2012 - 05/20/2012
www.bgartdealings.com
Simone Gad: Solo Exibit
Bleicher/Golightly Gallery
Bleicher Gallery presents an exciting exhibit by Los Angeles based artist Simone Gad. A painter and assemblage/collage artist, Gad rose to prominence in the Los Angeles art scene in the 1970's. After being introduced to the Fluxus movement in 1972 by Al Hansen, she began making collage and assemblage painting collages on vinyl. An actress herself, Gad's work focuses on Hollywood, exploring ideas of celebrity and stardom and providing unique insight into the world of fame. Her career includes numerous exhibits through California, showing at LAICA Downtown and Molly Barnes Gallery, among others. Gad is highly regarded in the Southern California art scene, being the recipient of numerous awards and grants, as well as being included in many publications and texts.
02/12/2012 - 02/25/2012
www.bgartdealings.com
Terry Riley, the Calder Quartet, Dave Muller
Blum & Poe
Blum & Poe will host a unique, one-night collaborative event with the American composer and minimalist pioneer Terry Riley, alongside the Calder Quartet and Los Angeles-based artist Dave Muller. Reunited again with the Calder Quartet, Terry Riley will perform live on a Steinway piano in the intimate setting of Blum & Poe's gallery. One of Blum & Poe's longstanding artists, Dave Muller, will be exhibiting paintings concurrent to the performance and has produced custom album art for a limited edition, pre-recorded release. Ticketed seating will be limited for the event. Terry Riley was born in Colfax, CA and studied at Shasta College, San Francisco and the San Francisco Conservatory before earning his MA at the University of California, Berkeley. His innovations in compositional technique have established him as an influential figure in the minimalist school of classical music. Riley first shared a concert with the Calder Quartet as part of the Los Angeles Philharmonic's Minimalist Jukebox series in 2006. The Calder Quartet studied together at the University of Southern California's Thornton School of Music followed by the Colburn Conservatory of Music and the Juilliard School. Dave Muller was born in San Francisco and lives and works in Los Angeles. His art has been exhibited at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Boston; Museum of Contemporary Art, Chicago and the Museo de Arte Contemporaneo de Castilla y Leon, Spain.
09/14/2011 - 11/30/-0001
www.blumandpoe.com
Matt Johnson
Blum & Poe
For Matt Johnson’s second solo exhibition at Blum & Poe, the artist will present new sculptures – some monumental in scale – as he continues to explore the limits of materiality through familiar and enduring forms. The cast bismuth Scholar’s Rock is based on a phenomenon that occurs only upon human intervention when the heated metal liquid is plucked and cooled, hardening into unique geometric forms. Collaborative activation resolves the seeming disparity between the natural and the man-made resulting in a sculpture to be contemplated for its aesthetic beauty. These news works recalibrate the natural, spiritual and industrial components that inform our reading of any construction, its integrity and immutability. Matt Johnson lives and works in Los Angeles. Recent solo exhibitions include Alison Jacques Gallery, London and Taxter & Spengemann, New York.
09/10/2011 - 10/22/2011
www.blumandpoe.com
Podwórka
Blum & Poe
Blum & Poe is pleased to present the Los Angeles debut of Sharon Lockhart's 2009 film Podwórka. Framed in the courtyards of Lodz, Poland, the film depicts six different groups of children in various modes of play. The open courtyards offer a unique interstitial setting insulated from the harsh urban streets by their surrounding apartment buildings. Left to the resourceful minds of the city's youth, the courtyards are transformed into sandboxes, jungle gyms and soccer fields. Lockhart affords her subjects, and in turn, the film's viewers a signature anthropological freedom to invest unique meaning and narrative in the lives and activities on screen. The film, photographed on 16mm and transferred to HD with sound, has a total running time of 31 minutes. Sharon Lockhart lives and works in Los Angeles and has had solo exhibitions at international venues including Wiener Secession, Austria; Walker Art Center, Minneapolis; Kunsthalle, Zurich and most recently the Mildred Lane Kemper Art Museum, Saint Louis.
09/23/2011 - 10/29/2011
www.blumandpoe.com
Chuck Close
Blum & Poe
On October 29, 2011, Blum & Poe will open an exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Chuck Close. This exhibition will mark Close's first solo-presentation in Los Angeles in nearly twenty years and his first with the gallery. The landmark show will fill three downstairs galleries and feature new portraits of, amongst other subjects, artists Kara Walker and Laurie Anderson, as well as a new example from Close's ongoing self-portrait series. The show will be comprised of both intimate and large-scale canvases, offering a unique opportunity for viewers to experience the artist's stylistic range and technical capacity which have defined his practice since the 1960s.
10/29/2011 - 12/22/2011
www.blumandpoe.com
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John Paul Jones: Objects and Images
Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
Known as a consummate image maker--his achievements as a printmaker and teacher of printmaking being a case in point--John Paul Jones turned later in his career toward the production of unique sculptural objects. Teaching first at UCLA and later at UC Irvine, Jones was the almost solitary representative of a distinctly European set of high modernist values. Thus, it may be that the Giacometti brothers provide the interpretive link connecting this artist's image-based artworks with the sculptures that were to follow. John Paul Jones: Objects and Images features a broad selection of work dated from 1952-1999, the year of his death.
01/21/2012 - 02/25/2012
www.cardwelljimmerson.com
Feminism and Conceptual Art in Seventies Los Angeles
Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
This group exhibition marks the intersection of events: The emergence of Feminism as a social movement and the arrival of Conceptual Art, examining how these two met and intermingled in Southern California during the decade of the 1970s. In addition to sculptures and photo-text artworks operating in that Conceptual Art vocabulary, the show features a large and strong selection of artists' videotapes presented on period TV monitors. Artists include Eleanor Antin, Lynda Benglis, Nancy Buchanan, Beth Bachenheimer, Sheila DeBrettville, Maren Hassinger, Suzanne Lacy, Susan Mogul and Ilene Segalove.
03/03/2012 - 04/07/2012
www.cardwelljimmerson.com
Sub-Pop
Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
If Pop Art necessarily traffics in the celebrity culture it glorifies and critiques, is then the notion of a non-famous Pop artist a contradiction in terms? The group exhibition Sub-Pop tests this hypothesis by gathering together vintage artworks by lesser known California artists working in that fabulously well known idiom. Artists include Vern Blosum, Robert Dowd, Doug Edge, Jim Eller, Phillip Hefferton, Leslie Kerr, Michael Olodort, Ben Sakoguchi, Jan Stussy and Norman Zammitt.
09/10/2011 - 10/15/2011
www.cardwelljimmerson.com
Terry O'Shea: Actual Size
Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
The claim of "cult figure" and "artists' artist"--a narrative invariably accompanied by a short life and tragic death--has been overused to the point of abuse. And yet the weight of personal testimony combined with the power of the artworks themselves sometimes forces reuse of even so tired a trope. Such is the case with the late Los Angeles based artist Terry O'Shea. The exhibition Terry O'Shea: Actual Size, curated by Doug Edge, focuses on the decade of the 1970s when O'Shea was exploring the "Plastics" idiom, but also what would come to be called Conceptual Art.
10/22/2011 - 11/26/2011
www.cardwelljimmerson.com
Dark Mirror
Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
In the Post-War era the combined horrors of Auschwitz and Hiroshima (not to mention the ongoing threat of nuclear destruction) weighed heavily on the collective imagination of the world, even that part of the world located here in sunny Southern California. Dark Mirror is a group exhibition of largely representational artists who felt morally obliged to address the tragic events of their day. In the always unbalanced competition between imagination and mimesis, here mimesis prevailed. Artists include Connor Everts, Mel Henderson, John Paul Jones, Rico Lebrun, Arnold Mesches, James Strombotne, Jan Stussy, Norman Zammitt and Bernard Zimmerman.
12/03/2011 - 01/14/2012
www.cardwelljimmerson.com
Photography into Sculpture
Cherry and Martin
Cherry and Martin will re-stage the landmark 1970 exhibition Photography into Sculpture, originally curated by Peter Bunnell for the Museum of Modern Art, New York. The exhibition was "the first comprehensive survey of photographically formed images used in a sculptural or fully dimensional manner," and included artists from across the United States and Canada such as Ellen Brooks, Robert Brown, Carl Cheng, Darryl Curran, Jack Dale, Michael deCourcy, Karl Folsom, Andre Haluska, Robert Heinecken, Richard Jackson, Jerry McMillan, Bea Nettles, Ed O'Connell, James Pennuto, Joe Pirone, Douglas Prince, Dale Quarterman, Charles Roitz, Leslie Snyder, Michael Stone, Ted Victoria, Robert Watts and Lynton Wells. For this exhibition, Cherry and Martin will gather together as many of the original pieces as possible.
09/10/2011 - 10/22/2011
www.cherryandmartin.com
Allan Sekula: Untitled Slide Sequence
Christopher Grimes Gallery
The work of photographer, theorist, historian and writer Allan Sekula is concerned with the consequences of the economic changes arising from globalization. His work questions the function of documentary photography in the media, in art, and in society. Sekula's early work dealt with workers within the workplace and solidified his place as an important figure in the Southern California art community. Photographed in rapid succession, Untitled Slide Sequence (1972) depicts workers as they depart from the General Dynamics Conair Division Aerospace Factory in San Diego. This work documents the aerospace industry and its socioeconomic implications in the Southern California landscape. Originally exhibited as a projection, the gallery will exhibit Untitled Slide Sequence as a series of photographs taken from the original slides.
11/05/2011 - 01/07/2012
www.cgrimes.com
Once Emerging Now Emerging: The Visitation
Cirrus
The third iteration of a four-part exhibition, Once Emerging Now Emerging: The Visitation, will project a forty-year archive of L.A. art history and Cirrus Gallery into the gallery space. Established in 1970 by Jean Milant after printing some of Ed Ruscha's Standard Station, the gallery and publishing house began promoting Los Angeles artists locally and internationally, including its early participation in Art Basel. As a rotating, four-part exhibition aligned to the entire span of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, the exhibition will operate "excavation-ally" to Cirrus' archive and how it pertains to the current artistic climate of Los Angeles. By focusing on moments of particular artists' early involvements with the gallery, such as Guy de Cointet, Barbara T. Smith, and works by international and local emerging artists of today, the exhibition presents a liberal marriage of the past and present. Cirrus invites artists today from Los Angeles and beyond to react to the archival information through a specially created website which will funnel into the exhibition, integrating the once emerging with the now emerging. Shows curated by Jean Milant and Aaron Wrinkle.
01/14/2012 - 03/05/2012
www.oncenowexhibition.com
Once Emerging Now Emerging: Open Network
Cirrus
The final iteration of a four-part exhibition, Once Emerging Now Emerging: Open Network, will project a forty-year archive of L.A. art history and Cirrus Gallery into the gallery space. Established in 1970 by Jean Milant after printing some of Ed Ruscha's Standard Station, the gallery and publishing house began promoting Los Angeles artists locally and internationally, including its early participation in Art Basel. As a rotating, four-part exhibition aligned to the entire span of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, the exhibition will operate "excavation-ally" to Cirrus' archive and how it pertains to the current artistic climate of Los Angeles. By focusing on moments of particular artists' early involvements with the gallery, such as Guy de Cointet, Barbara T. Smith, and works by international and local emerging artists of today, the exhibition presents a liberal marriage of the past and present. Cirrus invites artists today from Los Angeles and beyond to react to the archival information through a specially created website which will funnel into the exhibition, integrating the once emerging with the now emerging. Shows curated by Jean Milant and Aaron Wrinkle.
03/10/2012 - 05/05/2012
www.oncenowexhibition.com
Once Emerging Now Emerging: Now & Then
Cirrus
The first iteration of a four-part exhibition, Once Emerging Now Emerging: Now & Then, will project a forty-year archive of L.A. art history and Cirrus Gallery into the gallery space. Established in 1970 by Jean Milant after printing some of Ed Ruscha's Standard Station, the gallery and publishing house began promoting Los Angeles artists locally and internationally, including its early participation in Art Basel. As a rotating, four-part exhibition aligned to the entire span of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, the exhibition will operate "excavation-ally" to Cirrus' archive and how it pertains to the current artistic climate of Los Angeles. By focusing on moments of particular artists' early involvements with the gallery, such as Guy de Cointet, Barbara T. Smith, and works by international and local emerging artists of today, the exhibition presents a liberal marriage of the past and present. Cirrus invites artists today from Los Angeles and beyond to react to the archival information through a specially created website which will funnel into the exhibition, integrating the once emerging with the now emerging. Shows curated by Jean Milant and Aaron Wrinkle.
09/24/2011 - 11/05/2011
www.oncenowexhibition.com
Once Emerging Now Emerging: Livin' L.A.
Cirrus
The second iteration of a four-part exhibition, Once Emerging Now Emerging: Livin' L.A., will project a forty-year archive of L.A. art history and Cirrus Gallery into the gallery space. Established in 1970 by Jean Milant after printing some of Ed Ruscha's Standard Station, the gallery and publishing house began promoting Los Angeles artists locally and internationally, including its early participation in Art Basel. As a rotating, four-part exhibition aligned to the entire span of Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980, the exhibition will operate "excavation-ally" to Cirrus' archive and how it pertains to the current artistic climate of Los Angeles. By focusing on moments of particular artists' early involvements with the gallery, such as Guy de Cointet, Barbara T. Smith, and works by international and local emerging artists of today, the exhibition presents a liberal marriage of the past and present. Cirrus invites artists today from Los Angeles and beyond to react to the archival information through a specially created website which will funnel into the exhibition, integrating the once emerging with the now emerging. Shows curated by Jean Milant and Aaron Wrinkle.
11/12/2011 - 01/07/2012
www.oncenowexhibition.com
Gertrud and Otto Natzler: Form and Glaze
Couturier Gallery
Gertrud Natzler (1908-1971) and Otto Natzler (1908-2007), both born in Vienna, Austria, arrived in Los Angeles in 1938 together with their kiln and potter's wheel with which they were already producing ceramic work in Vienna. They also brought with them a style in ceramics that had not been seen in the United States. Gertrud, the potter, and Otto, the inventor of glazes, set up shop immediately upon arrival in L.A. and began producing work and teaching as a means of making an income. The work they produced between the 1940s until Gertrud Natzler's death in 1971 had enormous impact on contemporary ceramics in the United States. Younger ceramists have emulated the very thin walled forms created by Gertrud Natzler and tried to reproduce the array of glazes produced by Otto Natzler to "cloth" the forms his wife and collaborator built. After Gertrud's death, Otto created his own forms on which to apply his brilliant glazes. The Natzlers' work remains an important force in American ceramics.
10/22/2011 - 11/26/2011
www.couturiergallery.com
Lita Albuquerque: Stellar Axis
Craig Krull Gallery
Los Angeles-born artist Lita Albuquerque emerged on the California art scene as a member of the Light and Space movement when the Ellie Blankfort Gallery exhibited her first solo exhibition in 1974. She gained attention in the late 1970s with her ephemeral pigment installations pertaining to mapping, identity, and the cosmos, executed in the natural landscape. Albuquerque has been collected by institutions such as The Whitney Museum of American Art, Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA), The J. Paul Getty Museum and Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA). Craig Krull Gallery will present an exhibition of Albuquerque's 2006 installation in Antarctica, Stellar Axis. For the installation, Albuquerque created an array of 99 blue spheres and placed each of them corresponding to the location of a specific star in the sky above, creating a mirror of the constellations on the Antarctic landscape. As the planet rotated the spheres naturally displaced from their original positions and were photographed and documented.
01/21/2012 - 02/25/2012
www.craigkrullgallery.com
Jerry McMillan: The Artist's Image
Craig Krull Gallery
Jerry McMillan was born in Oklahoma in 1936 and moved to Los Angeles with his childhood friends Ed Ruscha and Joe Goode in 1958. The three lived together while attending the Chouinard Art Institute. McMillan established himself in the Los Angeles art scene by creating advertisements for Artforum Magazine, posters for galleries, exhibition catalogues, and by becoming a leading figure in photo-sculpture. In 1966 he became the first photographer to have a solo exhibition at the Pasadena Art Museum. McMillan's photographs of artists are not simply portraits, but the creation of a persona. He often collaborated with Ed Ruscha, the results of which can be seen in the 2004 publication Picturing Ed. McMillan's eye for staging is demonstrated in his 1969 photograph of artist Judy Chicago, in which he chose to depict her as a tough boxer, framing her as a competitor in an all-male art world. Craig Krull Gallery's exhibition, The Artist's Image will include additional McMillan works such as War Babies and Ed Ruscha Says Goodbye to College Joys.
03/03/2012 - 04/07/2012
www.craigkrullgallery.com
Dennis Hopper: Vintage Photographs from the 60s
Craig Krull Gallery
Los Angeles icon Dennis Hopper moved to Southern California at the age of 13. In the 1960s he began photographing artists and civil rights activities after his then-wife Brooke Hayward gave him a camera. In 1961 he shot the iconic Double Standard at the intersections of Santa Monica Boulevard, Melrose Avenue, and Doheny Drive. It is certainly a Beat Generation photograph, taken not only "on the road," but on the legendary Route 66. It is also a quintessentially "L.A." image, made from a driver's perspective. The title of this image served as the name of his recent comprehensive survey at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles. Craig Krull Gallery's fourth exhibition of Hopper's work will include over 400 vintage photographs from the 1960s, originally shown in an exhibition curated by Henry Hopkins at the Fort Worth Art Museum in 1970.
03/03/2012 - 04/07/2012
www.craigkrullgallery.com
Don Bachardy: Portraits of L.A. Artists
Craig Krull Gallery
Don Bachardy was born in Los Angeles in 1936 and has been painting portraits of film stars, literary figures, government officials and the art world since the early 1950s. His work has resulted in almost a dozen books, including Stars In My Eyes, 70 x 1 and Christopher Isherwood: Last Drawings. In 2005, The Huntington Library presented a solo exhibition of Bachardy's work, six years after their acquisition of his partner Christopher Isherwood's archives. His works are included in the permanent collections of the National Portrait Gallery in London, the Metropolitan Museum of Art and the Smithsonian Institution. Bachardy's upcoming exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery will feature portraits made over the last 40 years of artists from Southern California, including Peter Alexander, Lita Albuquerque, Larry Bell, Billy Al Bengston, Robert Irwin, Ed Moses and Ed Ruscha.
09/10/2011 - 10/15/2011
www.craigkrullgallery.com
Malcolm Lubliner: Pacific Party Time
Craig Krull Gallery
During the 1960s and 70s photographer Malcolm Lubliner documented his experiences and friendships in the Los Angeles art scene with images of Larry Bell, Wallace Berman, Sam Francis, and others in their studios and at gallery openings. These photographs were featured in Craig Krull Gallery's 1996 exhibition (and corresponding catalog) Photographing the L.A. Art Scene 1955-1975. Lubliner's photographs have been collected by the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art, Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the National Portrait Gallery in Washington D.C. The exhibition Pacific Party Time consists of candid photographs of artists such as John Baldessari, Robert Irwin, and John Altoon attending the soirees of Betty Asher, Louise Bernstein, Stanley and Elyse Grinstein, and Ken Tyler. It was at these gatherings that L.A. artists were first introduced to important artists from around the world. As gallerist Patricia Faure said, "We suddenly became hosts to artists from New York and Europe... all connecting with our L.A. artists."
09/10/2011 - 10/15/2011
www.craigkrullgallery.com
Carlos Almaraz: Paintings, Drawings and Pastels
Craig Krull Gallery
Carlos Almaraz was born in Mexico City in 1941, moving with his family to Los Angeles when he was nine. After studying at Loyola Marymount University and UCLA, Almaraz received his MFA from the Otis College of Art and Design. Along with Frank Romero, Gilbert Lujan, and Roberto de la Rocha he formed the artist collective known as "Los Four" in 1973 in order to bring Chicano street art to the mainstream. In 1974 their exhibition at LACMA marked the country's first show of Chicano art at a major institution. Almaraz went on to work for Cesar Chavez painting banners and murals for the United Farm Workers Union. In 1984 he was honored with a major solo exhibition at the L.A. Municipal Art Gallery. His work blends elements of Mexican and Native American mythologies along with contemporary Chicano culture. The upcoming exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery will be comprised of paintings, pastels and drawings from the 70s and 80s. Almaraz will also be featured in corresponding Pacific Standard Time exhibitions, including MEX/LA: "Mexican" Modernism(s) in Los Angeles 1930-1985 at the Museum of Latin American Art and Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement at the Fowler Museum at UCLA.
09/10/2011 - 10/15/2011
www.craigkrullgallery.com
Peter Alexander: Survey 1970-2010
Craig Krull Gallery
Born in Los Angeles in 1939, Peter Alexander became a leader of the Light and Space Movement in 1971 when he was featured in UCLA's exhibition Transparency, Reflection, Light, Space alongside Larry Bell, Robert Irwin, John McCracken, and Craig Kauffman. The range of Alexander's work includes mural-sized works such as Blue, which is installed at the Walt Disney Concert Hall, glittery black velvet paintings, and his photographic works which demonstrate his longtime interest in iridescence and the visual effects of light. A retrospective exhibition, Peter Alexander: In this Light was mounted at the Orange County Museum of Art in 1999. Craig Krull Gallery will present a survey of Alexander's paintings, drawings, and pastels from the 1970s to the present.
10/22/2011 - 11/26/2011
www.craigkrullgallery.com
Julian Wasser: 60s Los Angeles
Craig Krull Gallery
Julian Wasser started his career in photography in the 1950s as a teenager shooting crime scenes in Washington D.C., which he sold to The Washington Post. After university and military service Wasser settled in Hollywood and worked for many years as a contract photographer for Time, Life and People Magazine. Craig Krull Gallery will be exhibiting a broad scope of his work, including streetscapes of Los Angeles (particularly the Sunset Strip at night), images of iconic Los Angeles figures (such as Joan Didion, Frank Zappa and Rudi Gernreich), as well as a series of historic images of Robert F. Kennedy at the Ambassador Hotel and the Watts Riots. Wasser is also well-known for his photographs of the L.A. art scene, particularly his image of Marcel Duchamp playing chess with a nude Eve Babitz at the opening of his retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum.
12/02/2011 - 01/14/2012
www.craigkrullgallery.com
George Herms: Collages
Craig Krull Gallery
Coming out of the Beat Generation of the 1950s, George Herms is recognized- along with Ed Kienholz, Wallace Berman and Bruce Conner--as a leading figure of California Assemblage. His work combines aged, stained, and rusted detritus, always rubber stamped with the four letters, L-O-V-E (the E printed backwards). As the critic Robert L. Pincus observed, the stamps are "a linguistic hieroglyph, as it were, of his ambitions for art. Collective judgment deems ugly those things Herms recycles as beautiful." Herms' second exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery will include works on paper from the 1960s through the present, varying in mediums from ink and watercolor to stamps and collaged found paper remnants.
12/03/2011 - 01/14/2012
www.craigkrullgallery.com
Edmund Teske: Photographs
Craig Krull Gallery
Edmund Teske (1911-1996) was born in Chicago and moved to Los Angeles in 1943. A poet and photographic alchemist, Teske invented the process that Steichen later called "duotone solarization," a manipulative, yet chance-oriented darkroom technique that the artist likened to the interplay of natural forces. In these works he combined negatives, solarized images, and photo-chemical interactions, resulting in unique tones and stains, much different than the documentary style that began his career. Teske's first exhibition with Craig Krull Gallery was in 1993. Teske's work was featured in solo exhibitions at the J. Paul Getty Museum in 1993 and 2004. Teske's fifth exhibition at Craig Krull Gallery will include duotone solarizations of the L.A. art scene in the 1960s, with images of Walter Hopps, George Herms, Shirley Berman and Kenneth Anger.
12/03/2011 - 01/14/2012
www.craigkrullgallery.com
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Richard Jackson
David Kordansky Gallery
Since the 1970s, Richard Jackson has worked to expand the physical and conceptual possibilities for painting. This exhibition, his first Los Angeles solo gallery show in 20 years, features a monumental spinning sculpture of a girl holding an upside-down unicorn. When it is activated at the outset of the show, the object will spray paint across an installation designed to resemble a child's room, including walls fashioned from stretched canvases and numerous other objects through which paint will be sprayed and poured. Born in Sacramento in 1939 and based in Southern California for many years, Jackson has influenced many of the major artists who are associated with the region. As he continues to revolutionize the relationship between paint and support in the most maximal way possible, his work explores the intense transposition of existing art historical concepts into immersive environments, the use of humor as an important generative force, and the darker reaches of American culture.
09/10/2011 - 10/22/2011
www.davidkordanskygallery.com
Ronald Davis: L.A. Icon, 1960s-1980s
David Lawrence Gallery
Ronald David worked in fiberglass and other traditional painting and drawing media in the 1960s, and had his first one man show with Nicolas Wilder in 1965 in Los Angeles. This exhibit will showcase works in all media produced over this time period.
10/29/2011 - 11/29/2011
www.davidlawrencegallery.com
Felix Landau, The Tastemaker of La Cienega, and the Felix LandauGallery, 1951-1971
Denenberg Fine Arts Inc
Denenberg Fine Arts will draw from the Landau family's private archives, collection, and memories, and from other private collections to examine the life and work of art dealer Felix Landau. In the context of La Cienga Boulevard's then-burgeoning gallery row and "art walk" scene, the show will revisit exhibitions featuring artists such as Bacon, Beauchamp, Brainerd, Brown, Diebenkorn, Francis, Hockney, Jones, Klimt, Lachaise, McLaughlin, Moore, Picasso, Pomodoro, Schiele, Voulkos, Warhol, Wonner and Zajac. A documenting brochure will be published with a historical essay, and with the support of the California International Arts Foundation, Lyn Kienholz, Director, will map the territory of galleries such as Ankrum, Eugenia Butler, Copley, Rolf Nelson, Herbert Palmer, Stendahl and Zeitlin & Ver Brugge.
10/01/2011 - 11/10/2011
http://www.fada.com/denenberg_fine_art.html
Then and Now
dnj Gallery
In the late 1960s and 70s New York may have been considered to be the hub of the art world, but Los Angeles was artistically less structured, allowing its artists to explore ideas outside of the mainstream. Then and Now highlights several artists who defied common conventions and experimented with techniques and innovative uses of contemporary subject matter. This exhibition will trace the stimulating progress of these photographers who flourished within the Southern California environment. It will show the full trajectory of their development, to work completed in the present day. For the past forty years, these artists have sought to expand the definition of 'photography' to include notable experiments of the medium, such as abstraction, conceptualism, light as subject, camera-less image-making, obsolete photographic printing processes and scanner as camera. Artists include Darryl Curran, Robert Fichter, Robbert Flick, Suda House, Jane O'Neal, Patrick Nagatani, Susan Rankaitis and Robert von Sternberg.
11/19/2011 - 01/01/2012
http://www.dnjgallery.net
Ansel Adams: Los Angeles Street Photographer
drkrm/gallery
In 1939, Ansel Adams was commissioned by Fortune magazine to photograph a series of images for an article covering the aviation history of the Los Angeles area. For the project, Adams took 217 black & white photographs showing everyday life, businesses, street scenes and a variety of other subjects, but when the article, "City of Angels," appeared in the March 1941 issue, only a few of the images were included.
 
In the early 1960s Adams rediscovered the photographs among papers at his home in Carmel and donated the photographs to the Los Angeles Public Library. He wrote in a letter: "The weather was bad over a rather long period and none of the pictures were very good. ... I would imagine that they represent about $100.00 minimum value. ... At any event, I do not want them back."
 
drkrm, with the cooperation of the Los Angeles Public Library present these rarely seen and never before exhibited photographs that reveal the lost landscape and lifestyle of a prewar Los Angeles.

02/18/2012 - 03/17/2012
www.drkrm.com
The Surfing Essay: Photographs by Anthony Friedkin
drkrm/gallery
The Surfing Essay by photographer Anthony Friedkin, documents in a vivid and personal way the Surfing culture of Southern California. Started in the middle 1960s, the essay explores how surfers lived when they got out of the ocean and crossed the Pacific Coast Highway. A native Southern Californian and an avid surfer himself, Friedkin used his camera as a means of personal discovery and continues to do so. The photographs are highly personal, a visual testimony to his own life as a surfer, his deep affection for the ocean and the beauty of waves, plus his connection to his fellow surfers, their girlfriends, their ups and downs and the environments they co-existed in. Much of the essay was shot in the 1970s, a particular time in the evolution of surfing where lifestyles amongst surfers were wild and reckless, especially in Malibu and Venice. Many of the photos were shot during the "Dog Town" era, in Venice Beach, then known at the time for it's stark, decayed community and toughness. These are not your typical Southern California golden haired, perfectly tanned surfers standing with their board at sunset. These are warriors of the waves, at times intoxicated and high.
09/17/2011 - 10/22/2011
www.drkrm.com
T.V.LIFE: Photographs by John Van Hamersveld 1965 to 1980
drkrm/gallery
Best known for his legendary poster for the 1964 blockbuster surf film The Endless Summer and his album covers for the Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour, The Rolling Stones' Exile on Main Street, and The Grateful Dead's Skeletons in the Closet, among others, John Van Hamersveld has built up a wide-ranging body of work over a career verging on its sixth decade. The iconography of his oeuvre runs deep. Primarily known as an illustrator and designer, Van Hamersveld has been photographing for many years: "The concept of the camera as not just a piece of technology, but as a tool for visual poetry proved inspirational." Beginning in 1974, there were a series of shows of Van Hamersveld's photography. In 1975, Van Hamersveld exhibited T.V.LIFE. at the Fisher Gallery at USC, and in 1976, another set of photos at Long Beach Museum's Bicentennial show So Cal 76. T.V.LIFE brings together this photography collection covering an important 15-year period of Van Hamersveld's Los Angeles experiences. But it is the broader sweep of reflection that is revealed through these photographs that serves as a mirror of the social revolution in his life as an artist and of the times they capture.
10/29/2011 - 11/24/2011
www.drkrm.com
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Essential Eames: The Design of Knowledge
Eames Office
As part of the Getty Foundation's Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A., 1945-1980, the Eames Office presents Essential Eames: The Design of Knowledge. This exhibition examines the approach to knowledge that Charles and Ray Eames modeled throughout their lifetime. It reflects on their playful but sharply focused method of working, teaching, learning, and communicating ideas. The husband-and-wife team designed all of their projects in house at the Eames Office at 901 Washington Boulevard, open from 1943-1979. During that time, Charles and Ray practiced and encouraged "learning by doing" and "never delegating understanding", educational philosophies that are explored in this exhibition through an intimate look at their films, exhibitions, presentations and former staff members' recollections. Essential Eames also considers their methodologies by presenting and examining pivotal works from their first exhibition, Mathematica: A World of Numbers . . . and Beyond, which is celebrating its 50th anniversary this year.
10/13/2011 - 04/28/2012
www.eamesoffice.com
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Channa Horwitz: Works from the 60s and 70s
Francois Ghebaly Gallery
Francois Ghebaly presents key works by Channa Horwitz from the period between 1965 and 1980.
01/07/2012 - 02/18/2012
www.ghebaly.com
Joel Kyack: Escape to Shit Mountain
Francois Ghebaly Gallery
Joel Kyack will realize a fully immersive installation further exploring the relationship with body and nature.
09/04/2011 - 10/30/2011
www.ghebaly.com
Larry Bell: Early Work
Francois Ghebaly Gallery
Larry Bell's innovative sculptural work is integral to the development of the clean, clear look of Los Angeles art. Significantly, several series of paintings preceded the artist's well-known cubes and environments of the later 1960s. These early works, from the years 1959 to 1963, show a progression from paintings influenced by Abstract Expressionism, to early shaped canvases, to Bell's incorporation of geometric form within paintings. Bell's inquiry was driven by his sense that the image should relate directly to the plane of the canvas. In these early works, Bell focused on visual perception, and his questions led him to eliminate distractions such as gesture and the tactile layering of paint. In works from 1962 such as Ghost Box, Bell introduces the illusion of a sculptural volume as well as the use of mirrored glass. Other pieces included in the exhibit employ glass, wood, and paint to demonstrate the artist's interest in the medium of reflected light. As Michele De Angelus has summarized, " Bell expanded the two-dimensional illusion of a geometric form into actual space: his canvases became thick panels with the addition of clear and opaque, black and white glass and mirrors."
10/22/2011 - 11/26/2011
www.franklloyd.com
Peter Voulkos in L.A.: Time Capsule
Frank Lloyd Gallery
Frank Lloyd Gallery presents selected works by Peter Voulkos from 1954-1959 from the collection of the Voulkos family. Though best remembered for his work in ceramics, Voulkos was also a painter, bronze sculptor, and influential teacher. He knew artists ranging from Ed Kienholz and Robert Irwin to Billy Al Bengston, and worked with John Mason, Ken Price, Paul Soldner, Henry Takemoto among others. Whether made by Voulkos, or collected by the artist from his colleagues and cohorts, the works in this exhibit directly relate to the beginnings of assemblage art, abstract painting and innovative ceramics that sparked the growth of modern art in Los Angeles. Works include a wall relief by Ed Kienholz, a very early painting and drawing by Billy Al Bengston and several examples of small-scale pottery by Peter Voulkos. As critic and curator John Coplans has written, "two ceramists, Peter Voulkos and John Mason, were the first to take the plunge into something quite startlingly unfamiliar by applying the most radical of techniques to fired-clay sculpture."
01/14/2012 - 02/11/2012
www.franklloyd.com
Craig Kauffman: Sensual/Mechanical
Frank Lloyd Gallery
This exhibition traces the development of Craig Kauffman's paintings from 1958 to 1964. By 1958, Kauffman had begun working in opposition to the dominant Abstract Expressionist mode, and has stated that his lean, lyrical look was a personal reaction to the heavy, thick painting of the time. In the early 1960s, after living in France, the artist explored sensual abstract forms and acknowledged the influence of Dada in small paintings on advertisements for shoes and lingerie. He later recounted the "things I was interested in: a kind of sexual, biomorphic mixture of mechanical things." Transferring those images to paintings on flat plastic in 1962 and 1963, Kauffman integrated bold line and intense color with playfully suggestive forms. This exhibition includes works that were shown at Kauffman's 1962-63 exhibit at Ferus Gallery. Painted on the reverse of acrylic plastic and employing flat shapes with rounded contours, the works predict the artist's later vacuum formed pieces. As stated by art historian Susan Larsen, "They had the sleek good looks of a well-made machine, animated by strong sexual overtones. As such, they are late twentieth-century counterparts to the mechanic-erotic visions of Duchamp and Picabia."
09/10/2011 - 10/15/2011
www.franklloyd.com
Adrian Saxe: G.R.I.N.-Genetic,Robotic, Information, Nano (Technologies).
Frank Lloyd Gallery
Among the artists that participated in the extraordinary experimentation in ceramic art of Los Angeles is Adrian Saxe. Saxe's early work was site specific sculpture that employed arrays of modular ceramic elements. Some of these pieces were exhibited in the early 1970s at the Pasadena Museum of Modern Art. Saxe saw the opportunity to address complex social and cultural issues in a format accessible to a broad audience, the ceramic vessel. Since the early 1980s, Saxe has sought to reinvent a role for ceramic art that employs decorative art conventions to comment on social and cultural expectations surrounding a number of topical themes. Some of these themes are explored in his new exhibition, G.R.I.N.-Genetic, Robotic, Information, Nano (Technologies). Christopher Knight of the L.A. Times has written, "With outrageous humor and unspeakable beauty, (Saxe) makes intensely seductive objects that exploit traditional anthropomorphic qualities associated with ceramics. Having pressed the question of the utility of his own art in a post-industrial world, his work engages us in a dialogue about our own place in a radically shifting cultural universe."
12/03/2011 - 01/07/2012
www.franklloyd.com
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Robert Therrien
Gagosian Gallery
Robert Therrien's sculpture, drawing and photography explore the American everyday object in ways that bridge the real with the surreal, and the found with the fabricated. For this exhibition, the artist's first in Los Angeles for more than a decade, he will present a tableau in which two and three-dimensional objects will be displayed on a maze of tables. Where architectural spaces were built to house collections of objects in the recent projects Red Room and Transparent Room, here the gallery itself becomes Therrien's personal museum. Common themes will be explored such as the use of photography as source material for sculptural projects, the subtle manipulation of perspective, seriality as a means of making perfect, the use of artist-made templates and the attention to surface that has long marked this artist's career. This exhibition will produce the experience of visiting Therrien's studio where distinguishing the real from the remade, or sentiment from satire, can be confusing. Current exhibitions are on view at Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA) and Tate Liverpool.
09/23/2011 - 10/29/2011
www.gagosian.com
Barbara Kasten Experimental Photography of the 1970s
Gallery Luisotti
Gallery Luisotti will feature some of the earliest photographic work produced by Barbara Kasten during the late 1970s and early 1980s. The show would inlude Barbara’s experiments in non-optical photography, specifically her photograms and cyanotypes, along with the subsequent Polaroids of studio installations that originated from the sculptural constructions used to create her photograms. The exhibition draws attention to the development of the studio as an integral part of the productions of photography for both Barabara specifically as well as the photographic community at large.
11/12/2011 - 01/14/2012
http://www.artnet.com/luisotti.html
California Armenian Pacific Standard Time
Garboushian Gallery
Garboushian Gallery presents California Armenian Pacific Standard Time. Planned artists include John Altoon, Charles Garabedian, Leo Krikorian, Sam Tchakalian and poet William Saroyan among others. These artists are featured not only because they are California Armenian Americans, but precisely because of the vital role they played and some still continue to play in defining Californian art, both at the aesthetic and institutional level in the second half of the 20th century.
09/15/2011 - 11/05/2011
www.garboushian.com
Pacific Standard Editions
Gemini G.E.L.
Gemini G.E.L. began when both the Los Angeles and New York contemporary Art Scenes were developing and gaining recognition. Gemini invited artists from the East Coast, primarily New York City, to come to Los Angeles, and at this same time artists from Los Angeles were also invited to collaborate with the Master Printers in the workshop. There was a great amount of interchange of ideas. Friendships developed amongst the artists, and social exchanges occurred between visiting artists, local collectors and museum personnel. The artists getting to know each other led to a better understanding between the East and West Coast groups about the art each was creating. Life-long friendships developed between the visiting East Coast artists and LA-based Ed Ruscha, Frank Gehry, David Hockney, Bruce Nauman, Ken Price, Larry Bell, Tony Berlant, Chuck Arnoldi, and Laddie and Guy Dill. Immediately following the period of Pacific Standard Time (1982), the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C., established the Gemini Archive, where scholars of today as well as the future can come to study all works of art that were created during this highly creative and productive era.
01/20/2012 - 02/24/2012
www.geminigel.com
Pacific Standard Editions
Gemini G.E.L.
Gemini G.E.L. began when both the Los Angeles and New York contemporary art scenes were developing and gaining recognition. Gemini invited many artists from the East Coast to come to Los Angeles, while at the same time, local artists were invited to collaborate with the master printers in the workshop. There was a great amount of interchange of ideas. Friendships developed amongst the artists, and social exchanges between visiting artists, local collectors and museum personnel took place. The artists getting to know each other led to a better understanding between the East and West Coast groups about the art each was creating. Life-long friendships developed between the visiting East Coast artists and Los Angeles-based Ed Ruscha, Frank Gehry, David Hockney, Bruce Nauman, Ken Price, Larry Bell, Tony Berlant, Chuck Arnoldi, and Laddie and Guy Dill. In 1982 the National Gallery of Art in Washington, D.C. established the Gemini Archive, where scholars of today and of the future can study all works of art created during this highly creative and productive era.
09/23/2011 - 10/28/2011
www.geminigel.com
Bridging the Gap: Linking American Scene Painting and Post-War Modernism
George Stern Fine Arts
Bridging the Gap explores the connection between a traditional and Modernist representation of art in Southern California. While abstraction was becoming a predominant form of art during the Post World War II period, many leading artists continued to produce representational paintings. Artists during this period had various interpretations, yet they shared the desire to produce figurative works. While artists such as Millard Sheets and Milford Zornes depicted their surroundings in a traditional style, artists such as Robert Frame and Roger Kuntz embraced the new by painting figurative works with a modernist flair.
10/15/2011 - 11/19/2011
www.sternfinearts.com
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Monsieur Gainsbourg
Here is Elsewhere Gallery
Since the 1980's, Serge Gainsbourg's music, film and art has reached legendary stature and formed an extraordinary legacy. He has gained a following in the English-speaking world and inspired some visual artists and filmmakers for his decadent, fin de siècle aesthetic, his iconic stature, and fertile, post-Dada kind of imagination.
 
To mark the 20th birthday of his disappearance, Monsieur Gainsbourg is an exhibition that not only aims to pay homage to the cult artist, but also to reveal how he continues to be an inspiration for the 21st century. Photographs from cult & avant-garde artists and friends of Gainsbourg will be shown in L.A for the first time, while contemporary artists have been commissioned to present their own interpretations of Serge. The program will also involve conversations, video clip and musical performances (to be announced). Curated by Yann Perreau (director of Here is Elsewhere) with Timothee Verrecchia (producer of "Monsieur Gainsbourg Revisited" (Universal) and curator of Gainsbourg exhibitions in Paris, Tokyo, and New York).
With works by: Franck Habicht, Kami, Vanessa Atlan, Tom Recchion, Jules Muck, Robert Schwan, Remy Bond and more.
09/22/2011 - 11/11/2011
http://www.hereiselsewhere.com/
John Outterbridge: "In Search of the Missing Mule" Series
Here is Elsewhere Gallery
As part of Pacific Standard Time, Here is Elsewhere will show for the first time in L.A., John Outterbridge's In Search of the Missing Mule series in its entirety. Praised by Cathy Curtis in the L.A. Times as a "masterpiece" the series is an indictment of racist justice. It refers to the promised-but-missing mule that was to be given to each African-American after Slavery, with subtle, ironical references to contemporary events and symbols (a segregation Wall, the Los Angeles Riots of 1992...).   
    
A seminal figure in the Los Angeles assemblage movement of the 1960s and 70s, John Outterbridge is one of the most respected and widely acknowledged L.A. African-American artists. Outterbridge has been highly influential for generations of artists, both in his sensitive approach to materials and his commitment to activism. Searching for a new visual language to represent the African-American experience, Outterbridge drew on assemblage, folk art and African sculpture.
09/22/2011 - 11/11/2011
www.hereiselsewhere.com
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Hans Burkhardt: Within & Beyond the Mainstream
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Hans Burkhardt's (1904-1994) expansive career and influence in L.A. is the focus of this exhibition of paintings and drawings, juxtaposed with contemporaneous reviews and archival documentation spanning more than six decades. Arriving in L.A. in 1937, following his association with Arshile Gorky, whose studio he shared in N.Y. between 1928-37, Burkhardt represented L.A.'s earliest and most critical link to the N.Y. School. Included are important paintings shown in his first solo exhibition at the Stendahl Gallery (1939), and the L.A. County Museum (1945), after which Burkhardt was both celebrated and "censored" as his abstract works proved too provocative in those years leading up to the McCarthy Era. Nevertheless he was included in the Sao Paulo Biennale (1951), had 23 solo shows in the 1950s and his impact on artists such as Ed Kienholz, John Altoon, Karl Benjamin, Tony Berlant, etc. was significant. Also shown will be Burkhardt's profound anti-war paintings of the 60s and 70s which prompted art historian Donald Kuspit to cite: "Burkhardt is the master - indeed the inventor of the Abstract Memento Mori." The prescient nature of Burkhardt's work is evident in the exhibition, through the earliestanti-war subjects (1938) to his Graffiti paintings of 1983. His final work, included in the exhibition, dates from 1993, after receiving the American Academy's Lifetime Achievement Award.
09/24/2011 - 01/31/2012
www.jackrutbergfinearts.com
Ruth Weisberg - Now & Then
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Ruth Weisberg's paintings and works on paper explore issues of personal identity through the convergence of art history, personal memory and cultural experience. Weisberg's contribution in L.A. also extends to her work as a teacher and former Dean at the University of Southern California. Major exhibitions include Weisberg's 1979 survey exhibition at the Los Angeles Municipal Gallery, and subsequent institutions throughout the U.S. and Europe. Weisberg was the first contemporary painter ever exhibited at the Huntington Library, and she was afforded the same distinction at the Norton Simon Museum. Weisberg has had over 80 solo and 185 group exhibitions. Her work is included in sixty major Museum collections including The Getty Research Center, Los Angeles; Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); The Art Institute of Chicago; The Biblioteque Nationale of France, Paris; Istituto Nationale per la Grafica, Rome; Detroit Institute of Arts; The Norwegian National Museum, Oslo; The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; National Gallery, Washington, D.C. and the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York.
02/18/2012 - 04/28/2012
www.jackrutbergfinearts.com
Claire Falkenstein: An Expansive Universe
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
Claire Falkenstein: An Expansive Universe will launch the publication of a monograph, Claire Falkenstein (1908-1997), with essays by art historians Susan Anderson and Maren Henderson, art writer and critic Michael Duncan, and an introduction by Philip Linhares, Chief Curator of Art at the Oakland Museum of California. The exhibition will feature the artist's sculpture and rarely seen paintings. Following an earlier exhibition in November 2011 of intimate works in small scale at Jack Rutberg Fine Arts, this exhibition will present the artist in larger form, revealing Falkenstein's ability to move sculpture to non-traditional realms, whereby she incorporates and suggests both the expansiveness of form, as well as the compression of space. The works reveal a prescient fascination with the expanding possibilities of chance and choice and how that parallels current views of our own expanding universe.
02/18/2012 - 04/28/2012
www.jackrutbergfinearts.com
Claire Falkenstein - Intimate Relations: Drawings, Jewelry & Sculpture
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
This exhibition presents Claire Falkenstein's (1908-1997) small scale sculpture, drawings and her highly prized jewelry which transcends the traditional definition of the genre. Falkenstein's jewelry was the subject of a 1961 solo exhibition at the Louvre's Musee des Arts Decoratifs. Best known for her innovative large scale sculpture and public works, she pushed the boundaries in small and monumental sculpture as exampled by her fusions of metal and glass. Her sculpture extended into the realms of printmaking by impressing her sculptures into paper; first in the Atelier 17 in Paris, and then when commissioned by the Graphic Arts Council at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA).
11/05/2011 - 12/24/2011
www.jackrutbergfinearts.com
Ilene Segalove, Susan Mogul, Hildegarde Duane: Vintage Works 1970-1980
Jancar Gallery
This exhibition will survey the work of three important Los Angeles female conceptual artists from 1970-1980.
12/17/2011 - 02/04/2012
www.jancargallery.com
Judy Chicago: Los Angeles in the 1970s
Jancar Gallery
Exhibition will survey the Los Angeles work of this important female artist during the 1970s. A Catalog will accompany this exhibition with an essay by Micol Hebron.
02/28/2012 - 03/17/2012
www.jancargallery.com
Richard Newton - the 70's
Jancar Gallery
This exhibition will survey the Los Angeles work of this important artist during the 1970s.
09/10/2011 - 10/01/2011
www.jancargallery.com
Collecting Eames
JF Chen/Exhibit C
Visitors to this exhibition will have the pleasure of seeing and learning about the largest and most diverse Eames collection in the United States - 450 pieces in the JF Chen Eames Collection. With curator Daniel Ostroff, JF Chen has assembled an unprecedented collection, from the earliest - a 1939 Eames-Saarinen chair for the Kleinhans Music Hall – to the latest, a Vitra-made Eames La Chaise of the 1990s.  The collection includes rare posters, toys, graphics, and exceptional examples of "signed" Eames work throughout the long career of Charles and Ray Eames.

The formation of this vast collection was accompanied by JF Chen's generous contribution to Eames scholarship.  Chen commissioned 6,000 photographs, documenting every aspect of these important designs, and donated the photographs to the Eames Office for their new website, eamesdesigns.com, a virtual encyclopedia of all things Eames.

In this exhibition, Ostroff offers new perspectives on Eames connoisseurship and scholarship through a intricate study of this rare and significant collection. He is grateful that JF Chen has agreed to share it with the public in his vast new art space.
10/03/2011 - 02/18/2012
www.jfchen.com
Collecting Eames
JF Chen/Exhibit C
Visitors to this exhibition will have the pleasure of seeing and learning about the largest and most diverse Eames collection in the United States—450 pieces in the JF Chen Eames Collection. With curator Daniel Ostroff, JF Chen has assembled an unprecedented collection, from the earliest—a 1939 Eames-Saarinen chair for the Kleinhans Music Hall—to the latest, a Vitra-made Eames La Chaise of the 1990s. The collection includes rare posters, toys, graphics, and exceptional examples of "signed" Eames work throughout the long career of Charles and Ray Eames.

The formation of this vast collection was accompanied by JF Chen’s generous contribution to Eames scholarship. Chen commissioned 6,000 photographs, documenting every aspect of these important designs, and donated the photographs to the Eames Office for their new website, eamesdesigns.com, a virtual encyclopedia of all things Eames. In this exhibition, Ostroff offers new perspectives on Eames connoisseurship and scholarship through an intricate study of this rare and significant collection. He is grateful that JF Chen has agreed to share it with the public in his vast new art space.
10/31/2011 - 01/13/2012
www.jfchen.com
Sam Francis: The Last Paintings
Jonathan Novak Contemporary Art
Sam Francis: The Last Paintings, will display 44 of his last canvases created in 1994, shortly before his death. During this time, he was suffering from prostate cancer and due to the severity of his illness the works were created with his left hand, as opposed to his dominant right. In addition there will also be examples of Sam's works from the 1950's, 60s, 70s, and 80s. This exhibition will be presented in tandem with the publication of the catalogue raisonne of Sam Francis paintings on canvas.
10/31/2011 - 01/09/2012
http://www.novakart.com/
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Sister Corita
Kantor Gallery
Corita Kent, also known as Sister Mary Corita, gained international fame for her vibrant serigraphs during the 1960s and 1970s. A Sister of the Immaculate Heart of Mary, she ran the Art Department at Immaculate Heart College until 1968 when she left the Order and moved to Boston. Corita's art reflects her spirituality, her commitment to social justice, her hope for peace and her delight in the world that takes place all around us.
10/01/2011 - 12/01/2011
www.kantorgallery.com
James Turrell
Kayne Griffin Corcoran
James Turell will consist of four works produced by the artist between 1968 and 2011. Turrell began experimenting with light in 1966 in his Santa Monica studio. Shortly thereafter, he began using halogen projectors to beam light across darkened rooms into corner spaces. The projected shapes appear solid from a distance, but as viewers move in, reveal themselves to be simply light cast against walls. Two of these Cross-Corner Projections from 1968-69, will be included in the exhibition along with Present Tense, a space division construction from 1991. In this work, a room is divided into two spaces by a partition wall. The space the viewer enters is lit by bulbs shining directly onto the sidewalls, while fluorescent tubes fill the partitioned space with colored light visible through a rectangular aperture. The partitioned three-dimensional space appears to be a flat shape from a distance, but is perceived to diffuse into a three dimensional "mist" when approached. Also included is a Tall Glass work where a grid of LEDs, behind a pane of etched glass, are individually programmed to carry out a subtle shift in color, similar to the beautiful fashion in which the sky changes from late afternoon to night.
09/17/2011 - 10/22/2011
www.williamgriffingallery.com
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Roebrt Irwin
L&M Arts
This exhibition will feature new work by Robert Irwin, including light sculptures and installation.
11/17/2011 - 10/22/2011
www.lmgallery.com
Kienholz Before LACMA
LA Louver
Working in collaboration with Maurice Tuchman, L.A. Louver presents an exhibition of work by Edward Kienholz (1927-1994) that evokes his infamous 1966 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, which Tuchman curated. Comprised of rare works from the 1950s and 1960s, the show will examine the nature of these provocative assemblages, how they set a foundation for the development of Kienholz's oeuvre and his impact, and why they ignited the controversy that electrified both newspaper headlines and the art world.
01/24/2012 - 03/03/2012
www.lalouver.com
Frederick Hammersley
LA Louver

In 1959, Frederick Hammersley was identified with John McLaughlin, Lorser Feitelson and Karl Benjamin as one of the "Four Abstract Classicists"- a title coined by curator and critic Jules Langsner to describe the California artists' reaction to New York's Abstract Expressionist movement. Acclaimed for his hard-edge, geometric and organic works, Hammersley passed away at the age of 90 in 2009. Representing the Estate of Frederick Hammersley, L.A. Louver showcases benchmark moments of his illustrious career in painting, through the juxtaposition of his drawings and studies of figuration.

A fully illustrated catalogue will be published on the occasion of the exhibition.

03/22/2012 - 05/12/2012
www.lalouver.com
Tom Wudl
LA Louver

At the start of his career in Los Angeles in the '70s, Wudl became renown for densely intricate collages and paper punch-based compositions, and received international acclaim from his inclusion in Documenta V in 1972 and the Paris Biennale in 1973. This exhibition surveys the visually disarming and complex works that secured Wudl a prominent role in the Pattern and Decoration movement of the period, and heralded the artist's increasingly sophisticated pursuit of subject and medium.

01/24/2012 - 03/03/2012
www.lalouver.com
Charles Garabedian
LA Louver
Arriving at painting at the relatively late age of 32, Garabedian caused a stir with his natural talent, wild imaginations of subject and form, and his idiosyncratic use of materials to influence not only his peers, but generations that followed through his teaching at UCLA. Following his highly lauded exhibition at the Santa Barbara Museum of Art (January 22 – May 1, 2011) that focused on the work from the late 1970s to date, the L.A. Louver exhibition will return to the artist's early career, including paintings and sculpture from 1965-1975. This period embraces Garabedian's interest in narrative and figuration, as well as his transition into abstraction and includes rarely seen work from the artist's own collection.
03/22/2012 - 05/12/2012
www.lalouver.com
Gajin Fuita: Made in Los Angeles
LA Louver
Born to Japanese immigrants and raised in the East Los Angeles community of Boyle Heights, Gajin Fujita’s work merges elements of traditional Japanese art and graffiti culture. Los Angeles Times art critic Christopher Knight described Fujita’s work as "the most important 21st century iteration of graffiti’s influence on art," and Made in L.A. encompasses Fujita’s studio activity over the past three
years.

A fully illustrated catalogue, with a foreword by Peter Goulds and text by Scott Grieger, artist and professor at Otis College of Art and Design, will be published on the occasion of the exhibition.
10/13/2011 - 11/12/2011
www.lalouver.com
Peter Shelton: Sculpture, 1980 - Present
LA Louver
L.A.-based artist Peter Shelton presents an extensive exhibition of sculpture installed throughout all of L.A. Louver’s gallery spaces. This exhibition examines the origin of Shelton’s early works since he emerged onto the Southern Californian scene during the 1980s, and reveals his development and maturation as an artist of international stature. Created in bronze and fiberglass, Shelton’s work mediates between sensual experience and intellectual engagement, conjuring archetypal images that form a personal relationship with the body.

11/19/2011 - 12/03/2011
www.lalouver.com
Memories and Proof
Larry Bell Studio Annex
A series of four exhibitions at artist Larry Bell's studio & exhibition space, opening on the first of each month October 2011–January 2012 [October 1, November 1, December 1, and January 1], concluding April 28, 2012.  Larry Bell plans to improvise the installations every month. These are the works that led to his development of the glass cubes and show how the two-dimensional canvases that were illustrative of volumes developed into three dimensional sculptures. It's a true visual narrative of his studio development.  Bell has kept some of these works for more than 50 years. Public Viewing Hours 2-7pm or by appointment Wednesday through Saturday.  

10/01/2011 - 04/28/2012
www.larrybell.com
Guy Dill: Wood Steel Glass Rope Paper Cotton Cable; A 1970's Dialogue with Material
Leslie Sacks Contemporary
Leslie Sacks Contemporary presents an exhibition featuring work by Los Angeles-based artist Guy Dill produced in 1970. This exhibition will illustrate the artist's influential use of materials and structural compositional elements that both parallel and are contrary to the prevailing "Finish Fetish" and "Light and Space" movements in Los Angeles during that period. Concurrent to the investigations of the Light and Space artists, who were constructing and refining rarefied spatial and atmospheric rooms and events, Guy Dill's work engages the existing architecture (floor, walls, ceiling) within compositions of industrial materials, and puts to work their more basic yet dynamic attributes.
10/29/2011 - 12/31/2011
www.lesliesackscontemporary.com
Hydrodynamica: Remember the Future
Loft 9 Gallery
This exhibition will showcase and explore the hydrodynamic planing hull surfboards of Bob Simmons. Simmons' board design and early use of composite construction processes in board building from 1949-1954 parallels California's post-war modern design movement and was profoundly influential on the birth of modern surfing and skateboarding. Carl Ekstrom grew up at Windansea during Simmons' day and is one of the first surfer/skateboarders of all time. He developed asymmetric surfboards in La Jolla in 1964, which helped inspire an explosion of revolutionary surfboard design in San Diego that culminated with the designs of Steve Lis in the late 1960s. Once overlooked and marginalized, this design school is currently experiencing a worldwide renaissance that is changing surfers perspectives on the past and changing the way people ride waves today.

The exhibition will feature original Simmons planing hulls and other objects he made, including boomerangs he used to experiment with rail foils. Boards from Ekstrom, Lis, and Mirandon will also be exhibited, along with photographs and short film clips.

Text will explore the influence of these designs, especially in the realm of the birth of modern surfing, skateboarding, and snowboarding.

01/28/2012 - 03/09/2012
www.hydrodynamica.com
Hydrodynamica: Remember the Future
Loft 9 Gallery
This exhibition will showcase and explore the hydrodynamic planing hull surfboards of Bob Simmons. Simmons' board design and early use of composite construction processes in board building from 1949-1954 parallels California's post-war modern design movement and was profoundly influential on the birth of modern surfing and skateboarding. Carl Ekstrom grew up at Windansea during Simmons' day and is one of the first surfer/skateboarders. He developed asymmetric surfboards in La Jolla in 1964, which helped inspire an explosion of revolutionary surfboard design in San Diego that culminated with the designs of Steve Lis in the late 1960s. Once overlooked and marginalized, this design school is currently experiencing a worldwide renaissance that is changing surfers perspectives on the past and changing the way people ride waves today. The exhibition will feature original Simmons planing hulls and other objects he made, including boomerangs he used to experiment with rail foils. Boards from Ekstrom, Lis, and Mirandon will also be exhibited, along with photographs and short film clips. Text will explore the influence of these designs.
11/15/2011 - 12/15/2011
http://hydrodynamica.com
Pippa Garner: CAR SICK
Lois Lambert Gallery
Philip Garner began his career as a performance artist in California in the seventies. He is known both for his restructured automotive sculpture as well as his re-purposed functional art. A backwards '59 Chevrolet he crafted for Esquire magazine caught the eye of the San Francisco collective Antfarm. Philip and Chip Lord began collaborating, and they performed Chevrolet Training Film at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1980. Shortly thereafter his pieces were shown at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) in Los Angeles in two shows focusing on the car culture of the city. In the early eighties, the artist published his most well known book, Philip Garner's Better Living Catalog, a humorous commentary on consumerism. Ten years later Philip became his own art project and underwent a complete sex change, becoming Pippa Garner. She is still a practicing artist. The Lois Lambert Gallery exhibition includes both Pippa's past and present work, and focuses on the original car drawings she made over the last three decades.
11/12/2011 - 01/01/2012
www.loislambertgallery.com
Collecting in Los Angeles 1945 - 1980
Los Angeles Modern Auctions (LAMA)
Collecting in Los Angeles 1945–1980 is a three week exhibition that explores the collecting practices of Richard Dorso, a native Californian, who at age 101 left behind a unique art collection spanning much of the 20th century. Active participant and witness to the explosion of the post World War II Los Angeles art scene, Mr. Dorso adorned his West L.A. apartment from floor to ceiling with fine art from this period. The collection is comprised of over 400 works from Los Angeles art galleries, publishers, and artists’ studios, all linked through the discerning eye of the collector. Highlight works include two John Baldessari paintings from 1966-1967, purchased from the landmark Molly Barnes gallery show, a Robert Cottingham photorealist painting from the late 1960s, and numerous paintings by Bay Area artists such as Paul Wonner and Nathan Oliveira. Also included will be hundreds of works purchased from local Los Angeles galleries such as Felix Landau, Molly Barnes, Ferus, Edgardo Acosta, Ankrum, Esther Robles and Rosamund Felsen, as well as works published by Gemini G.E.L., Crown Point Press and Tamarind, among others.
09/19/2011 - 10/09/2011
www.lamodern.com
Samella Lewis and the African American Experience
Louis Stern Fine Arts
Artist, educator, scholar, curator, writer, administrator, editor, filmmaker and collector, Samella Lewis has played a crucial role in the development of African American Art. In Los Angeles, Ms. Lewis is known as the founder of the Museum of African American Art where she served as chief curator from the museum's inception in 1976 through 1986. Ms. Lewis also founded 'The Gallery' at Scripps College where she was a professor. In 1996 Ms. Lewis explained her creative and curatorial philosophy, "Black women are nurturers... We nurture our families by seriously listening to and seriously considering what they tell us. We also have an obligation to see that valuing and collecting our art is a significant aspect of nurturing. We must familiarize ourselves with our historical and contemporary art in order to understand and know ourselves." This exhibition will feature selected artworks from the artist's collection along with works created by the artist in hopes of illustrating this philosophy in eloquent detail.
02/04/2012 - 04/21/2012
www.louissternfinearts.com
Signs of LA: Roger Kuntz
Louis Stern Fine Arts
This exhibition features selected works from Kuntz's highly acclaimed 'Freeway' series.  Though Kuntz is frequently described as an American landscape painter, this ground breaking series, executed between 1959 and 1962, signals the artist's exploration of  a "middle ground" between figurative and non-figuative painting. In capturing the suggestive graphics of signs, underpasses, ramps and concrete canyons, Kuntz offers a dazzling visual riff on a mainstay of Southern California life, then and now.

01/07/2012 - 02/18/2012
www.louissternfinearts.com
Karl Benjamin and the Evolution of Abstraction, 1950-1980
Louis Stern Fine Arts
Karl Benjamin did not set out to become one of the founding fathers of Hard Edge painting. His plan was to write. However, in 1950 while attempting to offer art instruction, along with reading and writing, to his classroom of sixth graders, Karl Benjamin discovered painting, switched his allegiance to the visual arts and the rest is history. In the course of his lengthy career, Benjamin and his luminous, grid-based paintings have earned accolades from colleagues, collectors and curators alike. The artist’s thirty-year trajectory, catalogued in this exhibition, could serve as a guide for the evolution of American abstract painting. Benjamin’s meticulous exploration of color, his intuitive understanding of complex spatial relationships and the sheer joie de vivre with which each canvas announces itself to the viewer are in equal parts impeccable and irresistible.
In a 2008 interview, Benjamin commented, “I wasn’t thinking about a career in art; I just wanted to make beautiful paintings.” This selection of paintings should persuade anyone with eyes that the artist has more than succeeded. He has triumphed.
09/24/2011 - 12/24/2011
www.louissternfinearts.com
The Long Range
ltd Los Angeles
The Long Range is a group show co-curated with Jan Tumlir that focuses on the various meanings of "range." According to the dictionary, the word range denotes, first of all, an arrangement: "to set in a row, or in rows, to dispose in the proper order." In cowboy country, the range is essentially an open stretch of land given over to cattle, and these in turn range upon it. "To rove over and through" is the dictionary definition of range as a verb. But range is also related to the act of viewing, typically at a distance: "To have range, to be capable of projecting; as, the gun ranges three miles." One spots a faraway object in the rangefinder of a gun or a camera. For the purposes of this show, we may assume that the range is long, that it goes on and on, and not only in space, but also in time, because there is also such a thing a "long range planning." Artists included in the exhibition are Dave Bailey, Cindy Bernard, Ginny Bishton, John Divola, Anton Lieberman, Christopher Michlig, Karthik Pandian and Jim Skuldt.
09/08/2011 - 10/03/2011
www.ltdlosangeles.com
Tilt-Shift LANew Queer Perspectives on the Western Edge
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Curated by Darin Klein & Friends, Tilt-Shift LA New Queer Perspectives on the Western Edge, responds to themes explored in Cruising the Archive: Queer Art and Culture in Los Angeles, 1945 - 1980 at the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives and Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibition's (LACE) Los Angeles Goes Live: Performance Art in Southern California 1970-1983. Shoring Up Los Angeles will feature contemporary Los Angeles queer artists and include performances and lectures.
01/28/2012 - 02/25/2012
www.luisdejesus.com
Points of Entry
Luis De Jesus Los Angeles
Born 1969, Martin Durazo grew up in Los Angeles in the late 1980s and 90s, the son of a second-generation Mexican-American garment worker and a first-generation Mexican immigrant father. Durazo is a multi-media artist whose work is concerned with the intersection between elements of high-design and the grittiness of social subcultures. He is known for creating large scale installations combining painting, sculpture, ready-made objects, video, sound, light and performance-a tradition that is explored in the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) exhibition Under the Big Black Sun: California Art 1974-1981 and the Fowler Museum at UCLA's Mapping Another L.A.: The Chicano Art Movement. Taking cues from the literal imagery of the materials of silver (money) and lead (bullets), Durazo's most recent projects offer an aesthetic interpretation of the illegal drug trade and the legal pharmaceutical drug economy through metallic and neon spray painted canvases, sculptures, neon, and text based works. For this exhibition, Durazo will present a series of large-scale paintings that express the transcendence of the modern day narco-drug violence to a higher level existence. Both local and global in orientation, this project will continue a dialogue concerning all facets of the continued drug phenomenon, its impact on individuals and communities alike.
03/03/2012 - 04/07/2012
www.luisdejesus.com
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Matthew Porter: Pale Subtropical Light
M+B
M+B presents The Undefeated, an exhibition of new work by Matthew Porter. The exhibition comprises a critical photographic inquiry into the career and legacy of Hollywood icon Jane Fonda, mid century modern architecture in California and historical locations such as the Little Bighorn Battlefield National Monument in Montana.

Included in the show is a series of photographs that use original works by the architectural photographer Julius Schulman of Richard Neutra's now demolished Von Sternberg house. The house was located in the San Fernando Valley and was briefly occupied by Ayn Rand before being demolished in 1972. The Schulman photographs become backgrounds for further appropriative gestures' sections of Schulman's photographs have been enlarged and abstracted, then overlaid with objects and re-photographed. Also
included in the show are a series of re-staged iconic pictures of Jane Fonda, each representative of a different stage of her career. The various chapters of Fonda's life are easily represented by singular photographs, and seen together, they illustrate the relationship between depictive images and lived experience. Original photographs made on the Hawaiian island of Kauai will surround the Fonda pieces. Kauai is often used by Hollywood productions because of its close visual proximity to Vietnam and World War II Pacific Theatre locations. In this context, the island itself is a stand-in or backdrop. The exhibition is the result of various image-making strategies, an aggregate of appropriated and originally authored works, using a variety of historically relevant source material.
01/07/2012 - 02/11/2012
www.mbart.com
Matthew Brandt: Taste Tests
M+B
M+B presents Taste Tests, a collection of works by contemporary artist, Matthew Brandt (b. 1982, Los Angeles). In this exhibition, Brandt uses a photograph he took of an iconic Western landscape--Yosemite's Half Dome--and uses a silk screen process with condiments to produce the image. Ketchup and mustard, mint jelly and Chinese BBQ sauce are among the several pigments he uses. Fascinated with process and methods of production, Brandt's whimsical take on formerly solemn genres evokes a sense of Pop Art-specifically in the way Pop Art experimented with the silk-screen process, pastiche, multiplicity and irony. Furthermore, Brandt's interest in the Western imagery contributes another layer to his Taste Tests. While mid-century Western icons were celebrated for their virility, and the masculine ideal of untamed land, the genre served as an escape, meant to remind moviegoers of simpler times. Brandt's reference to the West in this body of work reminds us of our current fears, and the nostalgia we hide behind.
09/16/2011 - 10/29/2011
www.mbart.com
Lee Mullican: Paintings from the 1950s
Marc Selwyn Fine Art
Marc Selwyn Fine Art presents Lee Mullican: Paintings from the 1950s. This exhibition will highlight works from the height of the Dynaton movement. Dynaton was an artist's movement in California that means "that which is possible." Injecting spiritual consciousness into their work, Mullican, Wolfgang Paalen, and Gordon Onslow Ford collaborated on an exhibition at the San Francisco Museum of Art in 1951. Dynaton bridged the gap between Surrealism (prominent in Europe in the 1920s to 1940s) and Abstract Expressionism (prominent in the United States in the 1950s). The exhibition at Marc Selwyn Fine Art will show the early style cultivated by Mullican and later seen in the Getty's Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1950-1970.
09/17/2011 - 10/15/2011
www.marcselwynfineart.com
John M. Miller: Yesterdays
Margo Leavin Gallery
Margo Leavin Gallery presents an exhibition of paintings by John M. Miller. Since the 1970s, when the artist began exhibiting in Los Angeles, Miller has been investigating a single abstract image--specifically, a meticulously-rendered composition consisting of repeating lines. His continued commitment to this visual system, realized in a variety of canvas sizes, formats, and colored resins, has produced a unified oeuvre thrilling in its range. Miller is a two-time recipient of the National Endowment for the Arts Visual Arts Fellowship and his work is in the collections of major museums, including Los Angeles County Museum of Art, The J. Paul Getty Museum; the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles; the Museum of Contemporary Art, San Diego; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; and the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh.
10/01/2011 - 11/12/2011
www.margoleavingallery.com
5 Lite: A site-specific Mystery in Light featuring installations by Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill, Robert Irwin, Ed Moses, and Robert Wilhite.
Merry Karnowsky Gallery (MK2 Projects)
Ed Moses has invited long-time friends and colleagues to join him in creating five site-specific installations in several adjoined storefront spaces on East 6th Street in Downtown Los Angeles. The installations will be put together over a two week period with the unveiling taking place on Thursday, September 29th. Larry Bell, Laddie John Dill, Robert Irwin and Robert Wilhite, join Moses to present, A Mystery in Light, using materials such as sand, glass, neon, and fluorescent lights. A gathering of formal thinkers, that are also adventurous.
09/29/2011 - 11/30/2011
www.mk2-projects.com
West Coast Walker: Catalyst to Modernism
Meyer Fine Art
This exhibition presents the diverse work of Clay Walker (1924-2008), mid-century abstract expressionist/modernist, master of diverse art media; oil paintings, watercolors, woodcuts, mixed media and sculptures. Walker moved to Southern California in 1963, taking a sabbatical from studio work to focus on teaching art (Long Beach State, Orange Coast College, Chouinard). In 1968, relocating to Escondido, he kept apart from the mainstream art scene, only allowing family members, close friends and trusted collectors to view his pieces. His concern was not for commercial success but to retain his integrity as an artist. He found his niche in the contemporary art world, yet Walker's work has been displayed minimally since the late 1960s. Meyer Fine Art, Inc. will present Walker's diverse works on paper, canvas, wood; a retrospective of color, texture and creativity. Experience how the times and art movements influenced his images. Compare his skillfully executed sketches to the finished masterpieces. Understand how he challenged himself utilizing colors and materials to create compositions ahead of their time.
11/11/2011 - 12/24/2011
www.plmeyerfineart.com
Pacific San Diego Time
Meyer Fine Art, Inc
In the late 50s and early 60s LA emerged as an art presence, creating a new direction in the art world. Pacific Standard Time: Art in LA. 1945-1980, celebrates the era that continues to inspire the world. San Diego also had its cadre of artists contributing new dimensions in creativity and expression to the art history of an era. Meyer Fine Art is extending its Pacific Standard Time exhibition featuring Clay Walker, augmented with a group of his San Diego contemporaries. These talented artists will include Joe Nyiri, Barney Reid, Walter Wojtyla, Dan Dickey, Michael O'Mara and Allan Morrow. Their backgrounds and paths to San Diego's art scene are as varied as their artwork. Some are native San Diegans, with three still alive and working, one studied at Otis Art Institute in Los Angeles, some were connected with the San Diego Allied Craftsmen or the San Diego Art Guild. They worked in diverse media, sculpture, etchings, mixed media, painting, etc. They exemplify the artistic production and creativity of Southern California and modern art of the 20th century.

01/11/2012 - 02/25/2012
www.plmeyerfineart.com
Joe Goode: Nighttime Series 1977-1978
Michael Kohn Gallery
Exercising a prescient Post-modern sensibility, Joe Goode painted his Nighttime series in the late 1970s by effectively merging together qualities of Minimal, Abstract Expressionism and Conceptual art in these beautiful and meditative paintings.
09/17/2011 - 10/29/2011
www.kohngallery.com
Paper~Work: Baldessari, Borofsky, Dill, Goode, Graham, Ruscha
MIXOGRAFIA
Mixografia presents an exhibition of Los Angeles-based artists who maintained studios in the city during the 1970s and 80s, and after the workshop opened its second printmaking facility in downtown. The workshop provided artists with a previously unavailable paper-making capability allowing for a diverse array of project ideas including paper-based sculptures and paper-pulp coloring. These artists incorporated themes representing the city's unique character: romanticizing pollution, associating images with Southern California cityscapes, and the fantasy often explored in the celluloid dreams from the city's chief industry.
09/19/2011 - 11/23/2011
www.mixografia.com
Black Is The Color of True
Monte Vista Projects
Monte Vista Projects presents a group show of predominantly black artworks. This show will explore many different contexts of how the color black can be used for various meanings. Given the restriction of color, it allows the artists to focus on what black means in the context of their process. This show will also be in dialogue with another show at Michael Kohn gallery of Joe Goode's black paintings. This provides an interesting platform for generational dialogue between Joe Goode's black paintings from the 1970's to a younger generation of artists. Artists include Lara Bank, Chris Bassett, Frank Chang, Roni Feldman, Joe Goode, Dan Hockenson, Candice Lin, Jay Lizo, Nikki Pressley, Colin Roberts, Anna Skarbek, Steve Steinman, Devon Tsuno and Tyler Waxman.
09/24/2011 - 10/22/2011
www.montevistaprojects.com
Ornament Is A Crime: The Classic Modernism of Architectural Pottery & Architectural Fiberglass: 1950-1985
Museum of California Design: JF Chen Gallery
The California-designed mid-century products of Architectural Pottery and Architectural Fiberglass have had a pervasive influence on how America has looked since the middle of the 20th century. We are now accustomed to seeing large, cylindrical and square planters -- most often white -- holding plants and trees at office buildings, universities, banks, gasoline stations and homes across the country, blending indoor and outdoor space just as California architecture frequently does. But those planters haven't always been there: they are descendants of products first introduced by Los Angeles-based Architectural Pottery in 1950 or by the company's off-shoot, Architectural Fiberglass, in 1961. This exhibition of more than 50 pieces -- by Marilyn Kay Austin, Raul Coronel, David Cressey, Douglas Deeds, John Follis, Rex Goode, Malcolm Leland, Gordon Newell and La Gardo Tackett -- will provide a comprehensive survey of the output of these remarkable companies. -- Organized by Museum of California Design, Bill Stern, curator.
01/28/2012 - 03/31/2012
www.mocad.org
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The Lords and The New Creatures
Nye + Brown
Named after black angel Jim Morrison's self-published poems, The Lords and the New Creatures investigates the historical relationship between Los Angeles artists and cars through art, artifacts and the written word. This show sheds new light by first examining select work by the "Lords": John McCracken, Billy Al Bengston, John Chamberlain, Peter Alexander, Ed Ruscha and others who have been directly inspired by the blossoming car culture of 1960s Southern California. These and other founders of the Light and Space and Finish Fetish movements will be represented, including Craig Kaufmann, Robert Irwin and Larry Bell. Works from 1963-73 will highlight the use of material and construction methods or an overall sensibility relating to car culture. The show will also include recent work by a group of the "New Creatures," a younger generation of L.A. based artists including Catherine Opie, Rob Reynolds, Brian Wills among others, advancing the dialogue through systematic use of automotive and adjacent industrial materials and processes, post-conceptual modes of critique, performance and inquiry. There will be an overall curatorial effort to frame this work with selections from relevant art historical antecedents, including the Futurists, the first self-identified movement to embrace technological production.
09/10/2011 - 10/22/2011
www.nyeplusbrown.com
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Beefcakes and Boundaries:Photography by Bruce of Los Angeles
POP tART
In the same pioneering spirit as many others who have packed their bags and headed west, photographer Bruce Bellas, or Bruce of Los Angeles as he came to be known, arrived in California in 1946 and immediately began challenging the norms of acceptable society. With post-war conservatism growing, Bruce of Los Angeles photographed Muscle Beach's most beautiful male bodies and published an extensive body of homo-erotic work during a time when institutionalized homophobia was the norm. His pin-up images of the male physique pressed the boundaries between art and obscenity. Having influenced contemporary photographers such as Robert Mapplethorpe, Bruce Weber and Herb Ritts, Bruce of Los Angeles is regarded as a "creative force in the establishment of the modern American homosexual identity." Drawing from the libraries of the ONE National Gay & Lesbian Archives, a Pacific Standard Time participating institution, this exhibition will showcase original prints of the photographer's extensive body of work as well as exhibit the work of contemporary artists who've found inspiration in the classic style and boundary breaking approach that mark the contribution Bruce of Los Angeles made to art as we know it today.
10/29/2011 - 12/10/2011
www.lapoptArt.com
Return of the Repressed: Destroy All Monsters, 1973-1977
PRISM
PRISM is pleased to present the first retrospective exhibition of artwork created by the original members of Destroy All Monsters, the Ann Arbor-based performance/music/art group comprised of Mike Kelley, Cary Loren, Niagara, and Jim Shaw. Destroy All Monsters was unique for having produced a distinct body of multi-media work while documenting itself in the act of its own creation. The themes of the work span grotesque figuration, ecstatic pop imagism, apocalyptic play-acting, gothic dreamscapes, and full-on horror. On view will be drawings, prints and photographs by Kelley; paintings, drawings and unique photocopy prints by Jim Shaw; photographs and collages by Cary Loren; works on paper by Niagara;  and a more recent mural memorializing the group's time and place. Much of this work is being exhibited for the first time; Kelley, Niagara, and Loren are producing new print editions for the occasion.

Accompanying the exhibition is a full color, 312-page catalogue co-published with PictureBox and edited edited by Mike Kelley and Dan Nadel with an essay by Nicole Rudick.
11/19/2011 - 01/07/2012
www.prismla.com
LA5: Sculpture That Shaped The City
PYO Gallery LA
The premise of LA5: Sculpture That Shaped The City, is to highlight and celebrate the many contributions that five Los Angeles artists have made to the local and global art scene. Based in Los Angeles, the well known artists have worked in the region since 1965 and continue to thrive in the arts. Molly Barnes, who curated this exhibition, held a successful gallery on La Cienega Boulevard from 1970 until 1989, selected artists of importance to her as a dealer and whose work continues to grow in prominence and historical review. The exhibition will include the work of Guy Dill, Lloyd Hamrol, Peter Shire, Michael Todd, and Robert Williams. The artists featured in this exhibition are historically connected to the J. Paul Getty Museum exhibition Pacific Standard Time: Crosscurrents in L.A. Painting and Sculpture 1950-1970.

The artist whose work we will exhibit deals directly with assemblage sculpture (Michael Todd), ceramic exploration (Peter Shire), conceptual and material investigations in sculpture inspired by the Light and Space art movement (Lloyd Hamrol, Guy Dill)

10/01/2011 - 11/12/2011
www.pyogalleryla.com
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The Prodigal Paints: James Hayward Paintings 1972-2011
R.B. Stevenson Gallery
The R.B. Stevenson Gallery will present a survey of small paintings by Los Angeles artist James Hayward to coincide with the Getty's groundbreaking initiative Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945-1980. This exhibition begins with Hayward's work from the early 1970s, whose line of thought continues up to the present moment.
09/16/2011 - 10/22/2011
www.rbstevensongallery.com
James Welling: Geometric Abstraction
Regen Projects
Regen Projects is pleased to announce an exhibition of work by Los Angeles artist James Welling. This exhibition will present a selection from two recent bodies of work: Geometric Abstraction (2008) and Maison de Verre (2009). This pairing examines the dialogue between photographic representation and visual experience that is at the core of Welling's work. James Welling engages the materials, production, and history of photography, into an interrogation of the nature of the medium. Appearance and illusion, the historical nature of cameras and of the photographic print, what we see or think we see in the act of perception, and how things are revealed photographically have long been at play in Welling's work.

 

02/29/2012 - 03/31/2012
http://www.regenprojects.com/
Andrea Zittel
Regen Projects
A Southern California native living and working in Joshua Tree, Andrea Zittel draws upon the legacy of modernist architecture with its strong California precedence as well as its European counterparts; she has re-mapped physical environments, and has designed functional ways of living. In her upcoming fall exhibition, Zittel will be presenting a new sculptural work entitled Lay of My Land, a topographical representation of A-Z West, the artist's home, workshop and testing ground. Tracing the ongoing complexities of the frontier ethos, she reimagines the utopian ideals of the west through space, dress and modes of living. In addition to Lay of My Land, Zittel will show related billboard works that also deal with themes of territory and independence, two ideas integral to homesteading and the social history of the high desert. These billboards, part of an ongoing series, use the language of advertising and propaganda to raise questions about intentionality, matter and ideology, while illustrating systems for living.
09/16/2011 - 10/29/2011
www.regenprojects.com
Andrea Zittel
Regen Projects
A Southern California native living and working in Joshua Tree, Andrea Zittel draws upon the legacy of modernist architecture with its strong California precedence as well as its European counterparts; she has re-mapped physical environments, and has designed functional ways of living. In her upcoming fall exhibition, Zittel will be presenting a new sculptural work entitled Lay of My Land, a topographical representation of A-Z West, the artist's home, workshop and testing ground. Tracing the ongoing complexities of the frontier ethos, she reimagines the utopian ideals of the west through space, dress and modes of living. In addition to Lay of My Land, Zittel will show related billboard works that also deal with themes of territory and independence, two ideas integral to homesteading and the social history of the high desert. These billboards, part of an ongoing series, use the language of advertising and propaganda to raise questions about intentionality, matter and ideology, while illustrating systems for living.
09/16/2011 - 10/29/2011
www.regenprojects.com
Raymond Pettibon
Regen Projects
Raymond Pettibon's drawings explore the spectrum of American culture. His early work was devoted to handmade fan zines and album covers or flyers for the South Bay's punk rock music scene. His work is generally characterized as ink on paper drawings, sometimes mixed with gouache, acrylic, watercolor and collage, incorporating texts that are original or extrapolated from literature and other sources, carefully rewritten to the artist's devices. Pettibon's upcoming fall exhibition will feature new works in which the subject matter is a continuation of the artist's oeuvre: the landscape of war, politics, popular culture, art, literature, sports, religion and sexuality.
11/05/2011 - 12/22/2011
www.regenprojects.com
Sue Williams
Regen Projects
Sue Williams lives and works in Brooklyn, New York. Throughout her career, Williams has used painting as a means to overtly comment on society. Studying at CalArts in 1972, and from 1975-76, Williams arrived at art school shortly after Judy Chicago and Miriam Schapiro founded the Feminist Art Program, an innovative program exclusively for women artists to learn about a female art history taught entirely by women. While studying at CalArts under John Baldessari, among others, and simultaneous to this program, Williams' first exhibited work veered from the dominant approach to feminist art at that time, and took its own unique path, bringing to light the injustices and prejudices of gender and sexuality with sometimes funny, rage filled, mordant and sarcastic images addressing sexual politics. A decade later, Williams' painting moved towards abstraction and began to address more general political themes. Williams upcoming show at Regen Projects will be an overview of her paintings, illustrating how her formal and conceptual concerns have evolved over her twenty-plus-year career.
11/10/2011 - 12/22/2011
www.regenprojects.com
James HaywardAutomatic Paintings: 1975-1979
Richard Telles Fine Art
Richard Telles Fine Art will present a series of monochromatic oil paintings by James Hayward from the mid-to-late 1970s. These works, known as his "automatic paintings," represent a significant period in Hayward's oeuvre in its direct relationship to West coast minimalism at its peak.
10/10/2011 - 01/15/2012
www.tellesfineart.com
Paid to Play: Illustrating Los Angeles 1945 - 1985
Robert Berman Gallery
Paid to Play will present an overview of Southern California artists rooted in illustration, commissioned to create imagery for record albums, magazines, advertisements and more. "Fueled by a combination of intense demand, sleepless nights, and brutal competition, the four men at the center of LA's airbrush market - Dave Willardson, Charles E. White III, Peter Palombi and Peter Llyod - embarked on careers that produced iconic work for Playboy, Levi's, and the Rolling Stones, along with major studio films such as American Graffiti and Tron." - Overspray. The wrangler of these men was Mike Salisbury, art director of West magazine, the Sunday supplement of the Los Angeles Times beginning in the late 1960s. Salisbury was for illustrators what the Ferus Gallery was for beat artists, a platform to project Los Angeles cool to the world at large. Though the visuals defined a generation, most West Coast illustrators never landed the fine art jump with the aplomb of their East Coast contemporaries like James Rosenquist, Tom Wesselmann and Andy Warhol.
09/17/2011 - 11/12/2011
www.robertbermangallery.com
Transformation: Conceptual Photographs by Robert Heinecken & Victor Landweber
Robert Berman Gallery
Transformation presents conceptual photography from Robert Heinecken and Victor Landweber, appropriating magazine imagery (the former) and paint chip color cards (the latter) as a companion show to Paid to Play - an overview of California illustrators from 1945-1985. Paid to Play studies art used for commerce and Transformation explores commerce used for art. In Robert Heinecken's Recto/Verso photogram portfolio - a single page from a mass circulation magazine depicting women and fashion is placed in direct contact with color photographic paper and exposed to light. The resulting image superimposes the visual and verbal information from the front and back of the magazine page without the use of collage, manipulation or other handwork. Victor Landweber's Cherie Holding Colored Cards is a photographic series shot in 1976 juxtaposing nudes with colored card paint samples. Both series examine sexuality in relationship to consumerist culture and identity in the seventies and eighties as influenced originally by pinup images from the forties and fifties.
10/08/2011 - 11/12/2011
www.robertbermangallery.com
Lost & Found: Abstracting Los Angeles 1945-1980
Robert Berman Gallery
Lost & Found: Abstracting Los Angeles 1945-1980 will feature paintings, drawings, sculptures and assemblage work from both obscure and known artists who used different media to interpret the Abstract Expressionist movement with a Los Angeles twist. This exhibition will show different media relating to Los Angeles' interpretation of modernism, with an emphasis on the difference between Los Angeles and its East Coast counterpart. Exhibition includes select works by Elsa Wagner, Stanley Tschoop, Ted Gilien, Eugene Berman, Jules Engel, Russ Tamblyn, John Grillo, Ben Talbert, Hans Burkhardt, James Gill, Paul Bruch, Norman Zammitt, Agnes Kellog, William Tunberg, Henrietta Berk, Joe Goode, Oskar Fischinger, Frank Lobdell, John Baldessari, Ed Kienholz, Bruce Conner, Craig Kauffman, Carlos Almaraz, Llyn Folkes, Rico Lebrun Larry Bell, Eric Orr, Man Ray, Wallace Berman, Don Sorenson, John Altoon and Robert Graham.
11/29/2011 - 12/31/2011
www.robertbermangallery.com
Gusmano Cesaretti
Roberts & Tilton
Roberts & Tilton is pleased to announce an exhibition of photographs by Los Angeles based photographer, Gusmano Ceseratti, organized in conjunction with independent curator, Aaron Rose. Gusmano Ceseratti, born in Lucca, Italy, and a resident of Los Angeles since 1970, has been capturing the sound, light, and even emotional tenor of his adopted city through the lens of his camera. Gusmano has published two books: Street Writers- A Guided Tour of Chicano Graffiti, and Physical Graffiti-4x4=24. He is a contributing photographer to the book, 24 Hours in the Life of Los Angeles. 
01/07/2012 - 02/18/2012
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L.A. Object: Selected Photographs
Roberts & Tilton
Roberts & Tilton presents L.A. Object: Selected Photographs. The exhibition features photographs by Bruce Talamon and Harry Drinkwater included in the 2011 publication L.A. Object & David Hammons Body Prints. The catalogue follows Roberts & Tilton (Los Angeles) and Tilton Gallery's (New York) 2007/2006 exhibitions of the same title. Roberts & Tilton will host a book signing with L.A. Object artists on Saturday, September 17 from 5-7pm.
09/10/2011 - 10/22/2011
www.robertsandtilton.com
Betye Saar: Red Time
Roberts & Tilton
Roberts & Tilton presents Red Time, a site specific retrospective installation by Los Angeles artist, Betye Saar. An amalgamation of found, created, borrowed and recycled objects, the installation will examine Saar's past, present and future. Red Time is set to divide Saar's artistic interests into three categories: In the Beginning, Migration and Transformation, and Beyond Memory. In the Beginning features works from 1960-1970, illustrating Saar's interest in metaphysics, the occult and magic. These works incorporate the Euro-centric concepts of palmistry, phrenology and astrology in addition to Afro-centric concepts of voodoo and shamanism. Works from this period take form in print and drawing, as well as Assemblage windows, boxes and alters. Migration and Transformation spans from 1970-2010 and focuses on social and political subjects. Themes of the diaspora, slavery, racism, revolution and feminism are explored using the format of Assemblage boxes, washboards, trays and cages. Finally, in Beyond Memory, a selection of Saar's most recent work from 2010-2011 will highlight the artist's quest for new creative expression through reinterpretation of the language of objects and materials.
09/10/2011 - 12/17/2011
www.robertsandtilton.com
In Context
Roberts & Tilton
Roberts & Tilton presents In Context, a group exhibition accompanying Betye Saar's solo installation, Red Time. Artists included in the exhibition will serve to contextualize and historicize varying facets of Saar's fifty year oeuvre.
10/29/2011 - 12/17/2011
www.robertsandtilton.com
Charles Arnoldi: Artworks from the 1970s in Los Angeles
Rosamund Felsen Gallery
This exhibition will present the work of Charles Arnoldi, who during this period, used tree branches in their natural or painted state to create his pictorial compositions.
11/19/2011 - 12/23/2011
www.rosamundfelsen.com
Robbert Flick: Vintage Prints 1975-1985
Rose Gallery
Robbert Flick 1975 - 1985 will feature this L.A. photographer's vintage black and white prints of empty parking structures (Arena Series) and gridded landscape images (Sequential Views). Flick is known for working within and furthering the well-established traditions of California landscape photography and for his emphasis on the distinctive urbanscape of Los Angeles. After studying under Robert Heinecken at UCLA in the late 1960s and early 1970s, Flick went on to produce a hard-edged series of photographs of parking structures in the late 1970s and multi-image grids of the urban environment in the early 1980s. The transition between his single-frame photographs and the highly-edited and arranged sequential views highlights an important shift in his vision from the static image to the more dynamic use of multiple images to capture the experience of the city through movement in space and time.
02/25/2012 - 04/21/2012
www.rosegallery.net
East Village West
Royal/T
The East Village art scene of the late 20th century comes to 21st century Culver City via an intergalactic wormhole ripped from the time-space continuum by time-trippers Ann Magnuson and Kenny Scharf. Part of the TV generation who grew up on the pop-culture sensibility telecast from Los Angeles during the Atomic Age, Scharf and Magnuson met up with other like-minded suburban refugees to put a surrealistic spin on the variety shows they watched as kids; creating a frenzy of art and punk rock theater at the now infamous neo-Dada cabaret/arts lab Club 57 (that Magnuson ran from 1978-1981) and other clubs and art spaces in downtown NYC. Scharf and Magnuson will contribute work -both visual and performative--as well as draw from their personal archives and collections that include work by other East Village luminaries such as Keith Haring and Jean Michel Basquiat. From the Hollywood dream factories of California to the living rooms of America's suburbia to the crazy clubs of New York City and then back again to Pacific Standard Time, East Village West brings it all back home.
09/28/2011 - 12/04/2011
www.royal-t.org
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Masami Teraoka: The Last Supper
Samuel Freeman
Masami Teraoka arrived in Los Angeles in the 1960s, a Japanese man run aground on the soft sands of excess and promiscuity at Venice Beach. His talents were formidable from the start, but his biting humor and scathing criticism are what remain most poignant. McDonald's Hamburgers invaded Japan while Samurai played golf and Geisha went snorkeling. Half a century later Teraoka continues to explore the friction between tradition and progress. Today the sand in his vaseline is religious intolerance in the face of a globally-educated populace. Teraoka's visual language has expanded; recent works use classical religious iconography to infiltrate, lampoon and soothe his lambasted subjects. Teraoka is unrelenting, he strips them bare, mutes their sanctimony and lifts their clerical skirts (the Pope often wears a thong) before reminding us that the worst sinners are human, the saints just symbols and that those claiming divinity are just delusional. Teraoka's westernized iconographic series has been underway for some years now, approaching the clash of supposedly Secular Christianity and Fundamentalist Islam, as western hawks wage holy war for oil. In early 2012 Samuel Freeman will unveil Masami Teraoka's The Last Supper Series in the newly constructed gallery at 2639 S. La Cienega Blvd.
01/07/2012 - 02/18/2012
www.samuelfreeman.com
Stendahl Galleries: 100 Years of Setting the Scene
Stendahl Galleries
Stendahl Galleries presents an exhibition of Pre-Columbian art and early-to-mid 20th century painting that represent the pioneering exhibition space, pre and post-WWII. Dealer Earl Stendahl handled Edgar Payne, Guy Rose, William Wendt, Nicolai Fechin, Joseph Kleitsch, and other masters of California Impressionism before helping his most prominent buyers, Louise and Walter Arensberg, amass a world-renowned collection of modern works. Stendahl sold to hundreds of noted collectors and celebrities, including William Randolph Hearst, Edward G. Robinson, Frank Lloyd Wright, George Gershwin, Charles Laughton, Vincent Price, and even institutions such as the Louvre. Programming will include guided tours of the gallery to illuminate Earl Stendahl’s contribution to the Los Angeles art world. Pacific Standard Time exhibition days/hours are 10am-5pm October 21st and 22nd, November 4th and 5th and December 2nd and 3rd. The gallery is also open Tuesday–Saturday by appointment at: 323.876.7740.
10/21/2011 - 12/03/2011
www.stendahlgalleries.com
The History of Bruce: The Extraordinary Life and Times of Bruce of L.A., 1948-1974 From the collection of L.A. based artist, John Sonsini
Stephen Cohen Gallery
Bruce Bellas arrived in Los Angeles from Nebraska in 1946, eventually opening his own studio two years later. Over the years Bruce of L.A. became one of the most sought after photographers of the male physique. The exhibition will include not only photographs from his well-know magazine from the 1950s and 60s, The Male Figure, but will also showcase actual copies of the publication, as well as images from his early period - student shots, homoerotic photographs, and a set of images from a wedding party. The gallery will also showcase a few of Bruce of L.A.'s 8mm films.
01/26/2012 - 03/17/2012
www.stephencohengallery.com/
Edgar Orlainea: Solar Nothing
Steve Turner Contemporary
Steve Turner Contemporary presents Solar Nothing, a solo exhibition by Mexico City-based artist Edgar Orlaineta that will feature sculpture, collage and video. Orlaineta was inspired by Charles Eames' Solar Toy, a 1958 project that was intended as part of Alcoa's (Aluminum Company of America) promotion of aluminum in industrial design. Without a mandate for a specific function, Eames designed a toy which had no specific use, hence its name. Though it was never mass-produced, and the original is now lost, the Solar Toy received a lot of attention that Orlaineta rediscovered through extensive research. Based on his findings, he has produced new versions of the toy by using the traditional Mexican craft of Hojalateria (artistic tinware) and applying it to recycled aluminum cans. His collages are based on period press accounts, and his video depicts dancers wearing skirts of his design that move in a similar way to the toy; he filmed the dance from a hot air balloon. Born in Mexico City in 1972, Edgar Orlaineta received an MFA from Pratt Institute, New York (2004).
09/10/2011 - 10/08/2011
www.steveturnercontemporary.com
Lee Lynch: The Murder of Hi Good
Steve Turner Contemporary
Steve Turner Contemporary is presents The Murder of Hi Good, a single channel video installation by Lee Lynch. The centerpiece of the installation is Lynch's sixty-minute dramatic, revisionist western that relates to the murder of California's most infamous Indian hunter who lived in Tehama County in the 1870s. Lynch has been working on this project since 2007 and it will be making its world premiere. The Murder of Hi Good addresses the profound impact that Hollywood has had on shaping history. The genre of the western film was invented on the back lots of studios in Los Angeles and was an important part of Hollywood film production during the Pacific Standard Time era. In The Murder of Hi Good, Lynch addresses the idiosyncrasies of Hollywood westerns and in so doing, introduces an alternative history. Born in Redding, California in 1980, Lee Lynch earned a BFA in film from California Institute of the Arts (2005) and an MFA in Fine Art from the University of Southern California (2009).
09/10/2011 - 10/08/2011
www.steveturnercontemporary.com
Passed Forward: William Godfrey to Masood Kamandy
Steve Turner Contemporary
Steve Turner Contemporary presents Passed Forward: William Godfrey to Masood Kamandy, a solo exhibition by Masood Kamandy that also introduces William Godfrey as the first view photographer of Los Angeles. Godfrey created over one hundred stereoview photographs of Los Angeles in the 1860s and 1870s, and Kamandy will transform some of these into three-dimensional objects. In his work, Kamandy investigates the medium of photography by altering meaning and content through physical or digital manipulations. In past work, erasure shifted meaning, and in this project, he gives new meaning by transforming 2-D photographs into to 3-D objects. As the art history of Los Angeles is often thought to have started at the end of World War II, Kamandy's project expands this history and reveals the ongoing fascination that contemporary artists have for Los Angeles' past. Born in Fort Collins in 1981 to Afghani immigrant parents, Kamandy earned a BFA from the School of Visual Arts, New York (2004) and currently is an MFA candidate at UCLA (2012).
09/10/2011 - 10/08/2011
www.steveturnercontemporary.com
Ingrid Calame
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
An exhibition of work by Ingrid Calame.
01/07/2012 - 02/11/2012
www.vielmetter.com
Charles Gaines
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
An exhibition of work by Charles Gaines and Patrick Wilson.
09/10/2011 - 11/05/2011
www.vielmetter.com
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5 Decades of California Dreaming
Tasende Gallery
Simultaneous exhibitions at Tasende Gallery's La Jolla and West Hollywood locations will feature early and recent works by Wayne Thiebaud, Fletcher Benton and Mark di Suvero.
09/30/2011 - 12/03/2011
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5 Decades of California Dreaming
Tasende Gallery
Simultaneous exhibitions at Tasende Gallery's La Jolla and West Hollywood locations will feature early and recent works by Wayne Thiebaud, Fletcher Benton and Mark di Suvero.
09/30/2011 - 12/03/2011
TasendeGallery.com
Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS)
The Box
The Los Angeles Free Music Society (LAFMS) was formed in 1973 by a group of artist living on the east side of Los Angeles. The group's work was fueled by experimental music and anti-aesthetics. LAFMS, while in constant flux, is most known for bands such as Le Forte Four, interested in sound collage; The Doo-Dooettes, concerned with improvisation and spontaneous sound composition; and Ace and Duce, which was more free form. LAFMS also acted as a conduit for artists and musicians, in places as far away as Japan (Hojikaidan) enabling them to become familiar with and collaborate with bands such as Half Japanese and Alterations. Pioneers in technology, LAFMS often made their own instruments and looked to find news ways to experience their music. At one of Le Forte Four's performances at the Brand Library they made individual pyramid headphones for the audience so those attending the concert could have a more personal experience to the music. The exhibition will consist of several performances as well as ephemera from 1970s to the present, mapping the historical influence LAFMS has had on the art and experimental music scene of Los Angeles and other international cites over the years.
01/14/2011 - 02/25/2011
www.theboxla.com
John Altoon: Drawings from 1966-68
The Box
The Box gallery presents an exhibition of forty drawings made by John Altoon between 1966 and 1968. Altoon, a key figure at Ferus gallery, was a close contemporary of seminal Los Angeles artists Ed Kienholz, Robert Irwin, Billy Al Bengston and Ed Rusha. Such a large group of drawings attempts to explore the breadth of Altoon's work, reflecting on the prolific nature of his practice, producing hundreds and hundreds of drawings every year. While he may have become well known for his abstract paintings, he was at root a man who loved to draw to express his everyday thoughts and ideas. In this way, the exhibition will expose sexually risqué ideas alongside the vulnerability of the body. The exhibition will shed light on the importance of his drawing practice, a practice that explored ideas and imagery not found in his paintings.
09/17/2011 - 10/22/2011
www.theboxla.com
Asco: Valdez/Jacinto - 80's Portraits
Thomas Paul Fine Art
Thomas Paul Fine Art presents Asco founding member, Patssi Valdez, with Louis Jacinto in Asco: Valdez/Jacinto - 80's Portraits. The exhibition showcases rarely seen photography from Valdez's career. Valdez, a contemporary Los Angeles painter, founded the Chicano performance and conceptual art collective in 1972 with artists Harry Gamboa, Gronk and Willie Herron in an effort to counter negative stereotypes of the Latino community. The 1980s photographs glamorously portray Chicano subjects in the context of Hollywood and stardom in order resist prevailing social perceptions of Mexican-Americans. Valdez's experimental path as an Asco member carries over to her individual works, in which she explores mixed media, photo-collage, set design, paper fashion and painting, resulting in transformative photographs that transcend reality. Experienced in costume and set design, Valdez assembled many of the outfits worn by the artist, her models and friends in her photographs. In adopting the visual language of Los Angeles' popular culture, the photographs dispel rigid cultural assumptions and depict their subjects in an empowered light.
09/17/2011 - 10/08/2011
www.tpaulfineart.com
California Artists: An Exhibition of Photographic Portraits
Timothy Yarger Fine Art
Timothy Yarger Fine Art presents a photographic exhibition of portraits of L.A. artists. The California based artist portraits will include Ed Ruscha, Richard Diebenkorn, David Hockney, Robert Irwin, John Baldessari, Robert Graham, Wayne Thiebaud, Beatrice Wood, Bruce Nauman, Peter Alexander, Sam Francis, Ed Moses, Helen Lundeberg, De Wain Valentine, Lita Albuquerque, Carlos Almaraz, Hans Burkhardt, Nathan Oliveira, Craig Kauffman, Ron Davis, James Turrell, Mike Kelley, Don Bachardy, Alexis Smith, Guy Dill, Charles Garabedian, Joe Goode, Robert Arneson, Peter Voulkos, Dennis Hopper, Julius Shulman and Larry Bell, among others. The photographer Jim McHugh has a long relationship with each of these artists, and as a third generation Angeleno, possesses a unique understanding and vision of Los Angeles. McHugh's photographs are included in a number of private and public collections including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art (LACMA); National Portrait Gallery London; Museum of Modern Art (MoMA), New York; Eastman House and Polaroid Collection.
10/08/2011 - 11/19/2011
www.yargerfineart.com
Leonard Edmondson: Etchings, Paintings, Collages, and Drawings 1949 to 1970s
Tobey C Moss Gallery
Rhytmic abstractions with vibrant palette by Leonard Edmondson, 1916-2002, whose work is as current today as it was in the 1950s. His influences have been felt widely.
01/12/2012 - 02/29/2012
www.tobeycmossgallery.com
Layering, Assembling, Carving, Constructing: Gordon Wagner, George Herms, Jules Engel, William Dole, Etc.
Tobey C Moss Gallery
Tobey C Moss Gallery presents a group exhibition of assemblage, collage, ceramics and sculpture including art by: Betye Saar, Gordon Wagner, George Herms, Jules Engel, Claire Falkenstein, Peter Krasnow, William Dole, Emerson Woelffer, Rupert Deese, Ynez Johnston, Jay Rivkin, Peter Shire and Frank Romero.
03/08/2012 - 04/14/2012
www.tobeycmossgallery.com
June Wayne 1949 to tomorrow
Tobey C Moss Gallery
June Wayne has spearheaded the future in her created concepts, her chosen techniques and her political goals. She has guided, demanded, demonstrated and proven the necessity of creativity through art to an international mundane world centered in California.
04/19/2012 - 05/11/2012
www.tobeycmossgallery.com
NOT STANDARD in Pacific Standard Time
Tobey C Moss Gallery
This exhibition will feature art created in Southern California during the years of 1950 to 1980, a time that challenged defined sensibilities, techniques, imagery and philosophies. Some of the artists were part of "art history" from the 1930s - like Helen Lundeberg, Lorser Feitelson, Oskar Fischinger, Peter Krasnow, Elise Seeds, Dorr Bothwell and Stanton Macdonald Wright. That history of creativity was augmented after World War II by John McLaughlin, Jules Engel, June Wayne, Lee Mullican, Ynez Johnston and Leonard Edmondson, and was further complemented in the 1950s to 1970s by Gordon Wagner, George Herms, Joyce Treiman, John Paul Jones, Rico Lebrun, Howard Warshaw and Betye Saar- all California masters represented in Pacific Standard Time.
10/01/2011 - 12/30/2011
www.tobeycmossgallery.com
From "No-thing to Some-thing": Assemblage, Collage and Sculpture
Tobey C. Moss Gallery
Betye Saar, Gordon Wagner, George Herms, Jules Engel, Peter Krasnow, William Dole, Jay Rivkin, Peter Shire and Frank Romero: A group  exhibition of Layering, Assembling, Carving and Constructing.
 

02/25/2012 - 03/31/2012
http://www.tobeycmossgallery.com/
American Optimism: Celebrating the L.A. Art Scene 1935-1980
Trigg Ison Fine Art
American Optimism: Celebrating the L.A. Art Scene 1935-1980 will examine the history and evolution of America through the work of West Coast artists articulating a visual history of Los Angeles from the middle of the depression era, circa1935, through the advances of the modern age, 1945 through 1980. The exhibit will include works by Ron Blumberg, Robert McIntosh, Jessica Rice, Jan and Maxine Kim Stussy, Jirayr Zorthian, Alexander Rosenfeld, Karoly Fulop, Phillip Paval, Burton Freund, Patricia Knop, Peter Krasnow, and Oskar Fischinger. Through a diverse selection of work, the show will explore a special perspective on American Optimism through the distinct eyes of these Los Angeles artists.

Opening reception is on January 12, 2012 from 6-9 p.m. The exhibition will run through February 28, 2012.
01/12/2012 - 02/28/2012
www.triggison.com
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Uncle Lenny: Right as Wrong/Wrong as Right
Western Project
An exhibition of a series of drawings highlighting the work and life of Lenny Bruce, historical stand-up comedian who used his satirical humor and American popular culture as a mirror to reflect back the good, the bad and the ugly of society. The series consists of 7 drawings on black paper using white and prisma color pencils. The drawings include repeated images of Lenny, Justice, Night of the Living Dead and cocktail napkins. There will also be a series of 3 acrylic paintings based on the stand-up that Bruce did on the Lone Ranger and a cartoon that he later made of the material. Images are culled from popular culture include the Lone Ranger, Night of the Living Dead, Law and Order: Special Victims Unit, Edgar Hoover, El Santo amongst others.
10/15/2011 - 11/12/2011
www.western-project.com
Ed's Party: Spheres of Influence in the LA Art Scene
William Turner Gallery
The Venice studio celebration of Ed Moses' 85th birthday in April 2011 provided a perfect curatorial opportunity for a "then and now" snapshot of L.A.'s art scene, proceeding from the mid-1950s to present. The exhibition of work by those in attendance reveals a cross-generational perspective on the friendships, influences and shared histories that comprise a significant aspect of L.A.'s artistic ecosystem.
02/04/2011 - 03/10/2011
www.williamturnergallery.com
Alex Couwenberg & Karl Benjamin: Influence, Divergence & the Evolution of an Idea
William Turner Gallery
Karl Benjamin's work signaled a new aesthetic sensibility in abstract painting in Los Angeles. Benjamin first gained visibility for his exhibition Four Abstract Classicists, a 1959 exhibition at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art in which the term "hard-edge" was coined to describe the new nonobjective painting. At once intuitive and systematic, Benjamin is, in the words of critic Christopher Knight, "a colorist of great wit and inventiveness."

Benjamin's aesthetic proceeded to influence the next generation of Los Angeles area painters, perhaps none more so than Alex Couwenberg. This exhibition explores those influences, and how Couwenberg's work has evolved and diverged as his work has matured. Mat Gleason has written, "Couwenberg uses the forms and colors of Eames-era design and hard-edge masterpieces as points of departure for masterful abstractions that develop counterintuitive ideas."
01/07/2012 - 02/18/2012
www.williamturnergallery.com
Fred Eversley: Four Decades - 1970-2010
William Turner Gallery
Fred Eversley had his first solo exhibition at the Whitney Museum of American Art in 1970. Since then he has had numerous museum exhibitions but until now, never a solo exhibition or retrospective in an L.A. gallery. The William Turner Gallery is proud to present a four-decade retrospective of Fred Eversley's sculpture as part of Pacific Standard Time.
09/24/2011 - 10/30/2011
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The Gleam in the Young Bastard's Eye: Finish Fetish & The Continuing Fascination with Sensuality Of Surface In Contemporary LA Art
William Turner Gallery
In the early 1960s, artists such as Billy Al Bengston, Larry Bell, Craig Kaufman, Kenny Price, John McKracken and others began working with materials which were uniquely evocative of those associated with L.A.'s car and surf culture. Many of the objects had a unique, high gloss allure that engendered the term "Finish Fetish" to describe this nascent period in L.A.'s emerging contemporary art scene. Some 50 years later, a fascination with materials and surface continues to define work as uniquely southern Californian and drive a significant number of Los Angeles artists. This exhibition will focus on the younger generation of artists whose work is informed by, and a direct descendant of, this "Finish Fetish" sensibility. A partial list of L.A. artists to be exhibited include Eric Johnson, Andy Moses, Suzan Woodruff, Alex Couwenberg, Greg Miller, Lisa Bartelson and Casper Brindle.
11/05/2011 - 12/10/2011
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