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The Company
Human Resources
Human Resources
Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Thursday, January 15, 2009
Reception: November 22, 2008, 6-9pmSenior Management at The Company is pleased to announce Human Resources (HR), the inaugural exhibition in our new space at 946 Yale Street in Chinatown, Los Angeles. Since the recent financial meltdown, The Company has realized the error of our heartless ways and regrets the greed that fueled our past practices. The Company has decided to implement a more grassroots approach to conducting our relationships. Previously, HR was primarily concerned with the minutia of hiring, firing, payroll, insurance, conduct and work rules, evaluations, as well as enforcing a strict alcohol and drug ...more info
OPENINGS FRIDAY, NOVEMBER 21, 2008
On the Enlightened Path: Jain Art from India
Exhibition Dates: Friday, November 21, 2008 - Monday, July 13, 2009
An exhibition that examines the artistic traditions of one of the world’s oldest yet least known religions, Jainism. It includes approximately 20 sculptures, paintings and manuscripts....more info
Ceramic Influences
Exhibition Dates: Friday, November 21, 2008 - Sunday, January 11, 2009
Reception: December 5, 2008, 5-8pmBeautiful pieces abound in the current exhibition, ranging from purely decorative sculptural forms and vessels to exquisitely decorated “functional” forms such as plates, cups, vases and, of course, imaginative teapots....more info
Shana Nys Dambrot
Surface Sounding Curator Talk
Exhibition Dates: Friday, November 21, 2008 - Friday, November 21, 2008
Reception: November 21, 2008, 7pmThings thare are not what they appear to be.
Shana Nys Dambrot is an art critic, curator and author. She is currently the Managing Editor at Flavorpill.com/losangeles and the Galleries Editor at TimeOut LA. ...more info
Alicia Morris Soto
Exhibition Dates: Friday, November 21, 2008 - Sunday, November 30, 2008
Reception: November 21, 2008, 6pmA body of work based on hand-stitched plastic bags....more info
Eric Bogosian
Pounding Nails in the Floor with my Forehead
Exhibition Dates: Friday, November 21, 2008 - Saturday, November 22, 2008
In conjunction with Robbie Conal’s career retrospective, “No Spitting, No Kidding,” Track 16 Gallery presents a two-performance-only staging of Eric Bogosian’s “Pounding Nails in the Floor with my Forehead” directed by Martin Papazian....more info
excess/access
Exhibition Dates: Friday, November 21, 2008 - Friday, December 5, 2008
Reception: November 21, 2008, 7pmThis project examines the effects of rampant consumerism and glorified decadence....more info
OPENINGS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 22, 2008
Frank Boyden and Tom Coleman
On the River through the Valley of Fire
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, February 14, 2009
Reception: December 13, 2008, 6-9pmThis exhibition features 40 key vessels that were created between 1985-2008 by both Boyden and Coleman working in collaboration. Individual works created by these artists will also be on display....more info
Black Market at Black Maria: Skip the Mall
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, January 3, 2009
Reception: November 22, 2008, 7-10:30pmThe exhibition will carry a bazaar theme, complete with some of the accoutrements of the shopping experience: paintings suspended on clothing hangers, displayed in shoe boxes and on display stands holding a variety of artworks....more info
Juri Ueda
Phantom Aquarium
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, January 3, 2009
Reception: November 22, 2008, 7-10:30pmThe inspiration for the exhibition comes from Juri’s relationship nature. Living in Japan, water is large part of her landscape....more info
Scott Short
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, January 3, 2009
Using a specific palette and process, Short explores the relationship between the Machine and the man-made, the original and the copy, abstraction and representation, the infinite and the temporal....more info
Michael Kenna and Pam Posey
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, January 10, 2009
Reception: November 22, 2008, 4-6pmMichael Kenna: Recent photographs and Pam Posey: Timber....more info
"The Ulysses Guide to the LA River
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, November 22, 2008
Reception: November 22, 2008, 6-10pmA book signing by the authors of GK Editions' The Ulysses Guide to the LA River....more info
Tray Chic
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, November 22, 2008
Reception: November 22, 2008, 6-10pmArt Trays, Jazz, Wine Tasting & Fun Raising at the dA....more info
Darren Almond
Nail to Nail
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, December 20, 2008
Reception: November 22, 2008, 6-9pmmore info...
David Carlin and Judith Ubick
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, December 27, 2008
Wood carvings and jewelry....more info
Ling Jian
Red Seed
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, January 17, 2009
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Maria Elena Castro
Artist's Choice, Artist's Voice
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, November 22, 2008
Reception: November 22, 2008, 3pmMaria Elena Castro discusses her installation commissioned by the Fowler as part of Cara Vemos, and other selections from the exhibition, exploring art as a political strategy....more info
Aurora
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Friday, December 5, 2008
Reception: November 22, 2008, 6-9pmHoliday Art Sale...more info
9 Scripts From a Nation at War
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Sunday, January 18, 2009
Reception: November 21, 2008, 6-9pmA collaboration between Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander, David Thorne, and Andrea Geyer - a multi-channel video installation that responds to conditions and questions that have arisen since the 2003 invasion of Iraq, taking the U.S. context as an initial point of view....more info
Daniel Phill, Lisa Oxley, and Sarah Coleman
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, January 10, 2009
Reception: November 22, 2008, 5-8pmPaintings...more info
Hirst Murakami Warhol
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, January 17, 2009
Reception: November 22, 2008, 5-7pmSelect works by Damien Hirst, Takashi Murakami, and Andy Warhol....more info
Susan Arena
Play and Prophecy
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Wednesday, December 31, 2008
New paintings and works on paper, made with ink, fabric, acrylic paint—painted on handmade paper or tarps....more info
William Hundley
Draco
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Tuesday, December 30, 2008
Reception: November 22, 2008, 6-9pmHundley's signature amorphous figures—produced by capturing fabric-draped human models mid-air—float in and among everyday landscapes and street scenes to create delicious juxtapositions in his most recent series of photography....more info
Who Do You Love?
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Wednesday, February 4, 2009
Reception: November 22, 2008, 8-9pmThis special showing of the Movers & Shakers exhibition will spotlight some of San Diego's cultural leaders and also provide an opportunity to commission an artist to paint a portrait for someone you love! 10% of proceeds will benefit the San Diego Art Prize....more info
You See L.A., Cupcake?
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, December 20, 2008
Reception: November 22, 2008, 6-9pmGroup Show celebrating L2Kontemporary's Fifth Anniversary....more info
Kim Kimbro
To My Widow
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, December 20, 2008
Reception: November 22, 2008, 6-10pmPaintings based on archival photographs of explorer Captain Robert Falcon Scott. Also showing, paintings by Miguel Osuna....more info
Brian Dick
Me Me Me
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, December 27, 2008
Reception: November 22, 2008, 6-9pmUsing a post-studio style of practice, Brian Dick continues to examine his apparent fascination with self identity through self portraiture....more info
Olivier Pojzman
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Friday, December 5, 2008
Reception: November 22, 2008, 7-10pmCalifornia-inspired fine art photography....more info
Robert Longo
Nights Bright Days
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, January 10, 2009
For this exhibition, Longo continues working on a monumental scale, creating meticulous charcoal renderings that expand across multiple panels....more info
Art Bazaar
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Friday, December 19, 2008
Reception: November 22, 2008, 6:30-10:30pmA show featuring affordable fine art for the holidays....more info
Anthology
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, January 3, 2009
Reception: November 22, 2008, 6-8pmANTHOLOGY unites artists with a diverse range of practices whose interstices collide in an affirmation of the creative impulse and of that divine madness that lies at the crux of change....more info
Mark Flood
Entertainment Weakly
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, December 20, 2008
Reception: November 22, 2008The exhibition will include mixed media drawings, paintings, sculpture and installation from the past and present....more info
Geoffrey Krueger and Jorg Dubin
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Reception: November 22, 2008, 6-9pmNew works by artists Geoffrey Krueger and Jorg Dubin....more info
Hernan Bas
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Saturday, January 3, 2009
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Anthology: Call For Entries
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Sunday, February 8, 2009
Reception: November 22, 2008, 6-9pmThe annual Call For Entries (CFE) exhibition bringing together five local artists selected during last year’s open-call....more info
Chupacabra!
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Sunday, December 28, 2008
Reception: November 22, 2008, 8-11pmA group show inspired by devils, weird animals & mythical creatures! ...more info
Human Resources
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Thursday, January 15, 2009
Reception: November 22, 2008, 6-9pmThe Company's inaugural exhibition, Human Resources, will feature works by Melissa Brown, Jen DeNike, Damien Echols, John Espinosa, Ali Prosch, Lisi Raskin, Gareth Spor, and Chris Verene....more info
Holiday Salon
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 22, 2008 - Tuesday, December 23, 2008
Reception: November 22, 2008, 4-7pmAll Tirage Gallery artists are included in the annual eclectic exhibition of paintings & sculpture in a salon-style installation. ...more info
OPENINGS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 23, 2008
Re-Discovery Tour
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, November 23, 2008 - Sunday, November 23, 2008
Reception: November 23, 2008, 9:30am-5pmOur 16th annual showcase of artists’ homes and studios, a self-guided auto tour of artists’ homes and studios in Highland Park, Eagle Rock and Mount Washington....more info
OPENINGS MONDAY, NOVEMBER 24, 2008
Cristy Thom
Tacky Hawaiian Tourist Items
Exhibition Dates: Monday, November 24, 2008 - Saturday, January 3, 2009
Reception: December 4, 2008, 7-11pmCristy Thom pays homage to those fictive and common aquisitions of humanity that eventually get taken for granted. ...more info
Peggy Ann Jones and Grant Hier
Violet Unity: The Veil Project
Exhibition Dates: Monday, November 24, 2008 - Thursday, December 4, 2008
Reception: November 24, 2008, 12-1pmA collaborative, multi-media, multi-dimensional “evolving installation,” unique in that it is re-created differently with each showing....more info
OPENINGS TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 25, 2008
Prisms of Jewish Life
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, November 25, 2008 - Sunday, February 8, 2009
On display in this exhibition are 120 objects from the Levy Collection including a range of ceremonial objects, from traditional to contemporary, for synagogue and home celebrations crafted by folk and fine artists....more info
OPENINGS WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 26, 2008
Other People: Portraits from Grunwald and Hammer Collections
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - Sunday, March 15, 2009
A wide range of prints, drawings, paintings and photographs dating from the nineteenth century to the present day....more info
Michael Knight and Anne Ramis
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, November 26, 2008 - Saturday, December 20, 2008
Reception: December 6, 2008, 5-8pmMichael Knight’s new works “Migration”, explores the idea of connection between the migration patterns of crows and humans. In “The Sultan’s Favorites” Anne Ramis continues to expresses her dream world. ...more info
OPENINGS SATURDAY, NOVEMBER 29, 2008
Holiday Craft Month
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 29, 2008 - Sunday, December 21, 2008
The gallery space will make way for a large collection of handmade objects from an assortment of artists and designers....more info
Inaugural Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 29, 2008 - Saturday, November 29, 2008
Reception: November 29, 2008, 6-9pmWarhol and Haring Amid Impressionist and Modern Masters in Spectacular Venue
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New Acquisitions: Contemporary
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 29, 2008 - Monday, January 5, 2009
Works by Baechler, Close, Hockney, Johns, Lichtenstein, Scully, Segal, Serra, Sultan, and Warhol....more info
Audra Weaser and Sharon Weiner
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 29, 2008 - Saturday, January 10, 2009
Reception: December 6, 2008, 4-6pmTwo concurrent solo exhibitions featuring paintings. ...more info
Space Station, A Place in Space, _______ solo show
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, November 29, 2008 - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
As many artists as possible will be packed into the gallery, cloaked in a outer space theme, and will be encouraged to list this massive group show as a solo show on their resumes by entering their name in the blank area of the title of this show. ...more info
OPENINGS SUNDAY, NOVEMBER 30, 2008
Ann Dumas
Impressionism: New Art For Old
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, November 30, 2008 - Sunday, November 30, 2008
Reception: November 30, 2008, 12pm noted art historian Ann Dumas will present the lecture “Impressionism: New Art For Old” at Heather James Fine Art in Palm Desert. The lecture will take place at 12 noon and the public is invited to attend for free. Refreshments will be served....more info
OPENINGS MONDAY, DECEMBER 1, 2008
Gil Garcetti
Exhibition Dates: Monday, December 1, 2008 - Tuesday, December 16, 2008
Reception: December 6, 2008, 3-6pmPhotography....more info
Richard MacDonald
Blanc Noir
Exhibition Dates: Monday, December 1, 2008 - Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Reception: December 6, 2008, 6-9pmmore info...
Chris Messner
Faces of Cuba
Exhibition Dates: Monday, December 1, 2008 - Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Reception: December 4, 2008, 5-8pmChris Messner exhibits photographs from his recent expeditions to Cuba. ...more info
Vera Arutyunyan and Ron L. Zheng
Exhibition Dates: Monday, December 1, 2008 - Thursday, December 25, 2008
Reception: December 11, 2008, 6-9pmTwo solo shows, as well as a group show featuring Ruth Askren and resident artists Dover and Jill Abrams....more info
Dreams to Dreams: DCTO Custom Show 2008
Exhibition Dates: Monday, December 1, 2008 - Sunday, January 4, 2009
Reception: December 6, 2008, 1-4pmDacosta! a.k.a CHOCOLATE SOOP and the Japanese American National Museum have assembled the first custom toy show held in a museum. 45+ artists have customized his DCTO (Dreams Come True Object) Jibun Project, a futuristic version of the traditional Daruma toy....more info
OPEN
Exhibition Dates: Monday, December 1, 2008 - Saturday, January 31, 2009
Reception: November 29, 2008, 5-9pm“OPEN” is a survey of artists who use neon as an alternative medium. With works dating from the 1960s through today, this show focuses on pioneers of the medium like Keith Sonnier and Bruce Nauman to an adventurous new generation of artists like Alejandro Diaz and Peter Wegner....more info
Daniel Gerken and Elizabeth Houston
Exhibition Dates: Monday, December 1, 2008 - Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Reception: December 6, 2008, 7-10pmCross sculpture and angel photographs....more info
OPENINGS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 2, 2008
Jedd Garet
Wonderous Orbs of Life
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - Saturday, January 3, 2009
The works in this exhibition date back to 1985, when Jedd Garet created them in the print workshop of Cirrus Editions....more info
Illuminate
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - Saturday, December 6, 2008
Reception: December 2, 2008, 7-10pmNew works by Mia Araujo, Robert Bellm & Angelique Houtkamp.
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Holiday Show
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Reception: December 4, 2008, 5-8pmWorks by members of the Santa Barbara Art Association. Original art for $300 or less.
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The 1980s Neo-Expressionism and Driven to Abstraction II
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - Saturday, February 21, 2009
Reception: December 13, 2008, 7-9pmIn the last few decades the prominence of painting has surged in Southern California just as it has throughout the world. The three shows presented by the Riverside Art Museum look at artwork produced in the context of this phenomenon....more info
Jeff Soto
Turning in Circles
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, December 2, 2008 - Saturday, February 21, 2009
Reception: December 13, 2008, 7-9pmmore info...
OPENINGS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 3, 2008
Yunsun Lee
Weeds
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - Wednesday, December 31, 2008
Reception: December 7, 2008, 3-5pmLos Angeles based artist’s second show in a series of unique Asian paper print and paint hybrids depicting abstractions of weeds on canvas and panels....more info
Seven Decades of Collecting: Celebrating the USC Fisher Museum of Art
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, December 3, 2008 - Saturday, February 7, 2009
Reception: December 3, 2008, 3-5pmUSC celebrates the renaming of its AAM-accredited art museum, formerly known as the USC Fisher Gallery. This exhibition showcases the institution’s most recent acquisitions and most prized—and rarely exhibited—possessions....more info
OPENINGS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 4, 2008
Paper Trail
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 4, 2008 - Sunday, January 11, 2009
Reception: December 4, 2008, 5-8pmNew and selected paintings on paper by Janet Bothne, Jack N. Mohr, Michael Moon, Suha Sin, and Norton Wright, plus a selection of sensual black and white photographs by Teri Blodgett exquisitely altered by the artist with paint and dye colors....more info
Mahvash Mossaed
I Paint A Woman's Life
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 4, 2008 - Saturday, January 3, 2009
Reception: December 4, 2008, 6-9pmThe painter and poet Mahvash Mossaed portrays her emergence from the crucible of womanhood with a blend of artwork (acrylic on canvas)....more info
Emerging Artists
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 4, 2008 - Sunday, January 4, 2009
Reception: December 5, 2008, 6-9pmFeaturing Susan Gottlieb, Daniel Gottlieb, Ira Mintz, Alan Mayer, and Justin Black....more info
Darren Le Gallo
Ladies and Robots
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 4, 2008 - Monday, December 8, 2008
Reception: December 4, 2008, 7pm-12amA solo show of many mediums, with focus on two basic subjects: Ladies and Robots....more info
Los Angeles Printmaking Society and Robert Blackburn Printmaking Society
Stones Throw
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 4, 2008 - Sunday, December 28, 2008
Reception: December 7, 2008, 1-3pmThe Los Angeles Printmaking Society, which has coordinated an invitational exchange show with the Robert Blackburn Printmaking Workshop of New York City. The exhibition will include work from members of each organization....more info
Engagement Party - Finding Joy
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 4, 2008 - Thursday, December 4, 2008
Reception: December 4, 2008, 7-10pmFinding Joy takes its name from a WWII-era military term that refers to the successful establishment of radio contact on the battlefield. Participants will build small DIY radios, which they can then use to locate prerecorded transmissions from the MOCA community that explore perceptions of joy. Hors d’oeuvres and cash bar....more info
Architectures of Survival
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 4, 2008 - Sunday, December 14, 2008
Presented by ART2102 and Outpost for Contemporary Art:
Aline Bouvy, John Gillis, Francisco Camacho, Messieurs Delmotte, Yona Friedman, NG, Feederic Plateus, Jim Skuldt, Jaro Straub, and Matthew Burbidge....more info
All Artists Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 4, 2008 - Saturday, December 27, 2008
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Jennifer Vanderpool and Rasmus Persson
Forum Lounge
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 4, 2008 - Thursday, December 4, 2008
Reception: December 4, 2008, 7pmA simulated version of Santa Barbara for a one-night only performance featuring animation, audio, and film. ...more info
1st Thursday
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 4, 2008 - Thursday, December 4, 2008
Reception: December 4, 2008, 5-8pm1st Thursday is an evening of art and culture in downtown Santa Barbara. On the first Thursday of each month, participating galleries and other art-related venues will offer free access to art in a fun and social environment from 5-8 p.m....more info
Alia Malley
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 4, 2008 - Saturday, December 20, 2008
Reception: December 4, 2008, 6-9pmProject Gallery Three is an historic bank vault converted into an experimental gallery space that feature works by second year Master of Fine Arts students in the art department at UC Riverside. Alia Malley leads this season’s series with her latest work of photographs.
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OPENINGS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 5, 2008
Jeremy Szuder, John Michael Gill and Michelle Dubin
Trifecta
Exhibition Dates: Friday, December 5, 2008 - Friday, January 2, 2009
Reception: December 5, 2008, 7-11pmA favorable phenomenon that comes in threes....more info
Alex De Leon and Max Grundy
Exhibition Dates: Friday, December 5, 2008 - Sunday, December 28, 2008
Reception: December 5, 2008, 8-11pmAlex de Leon's art explores symbolic images of contemporary life. Max Grundy believes that the images of world destruction, alien invasion and communism which were predominate during the WW2 and post-war decades still have a huge influence on the phobias of contemporary society....more info
OPENINGS SATURDAY, DECEMBER 6, 2008
The Pomona Tea Party
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, January 31, 2009
Reception: December 13, 2008, 6-9pmThis show will display sculptural and functional works of art from the renowned ceramic artists from all over the United States featuring tea pots and tea bowls....more info
Christmas Concert 2008
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, December 6, 2008
Reception: December 6, 2008, 7:30pmThe concert will feature beautiful selection's from Handel's "Messiah" as well as other wonderful holiday choral music. ...more info
Watercolor and Sculpture Student Exhibit
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, December 20, 2008
The Brentwood Art Center will open its Watercolor and Sculpture Student Exhibit in the school’s gallery. ...more info
Gracias A La Vida
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, January 10, 2009
Reception: December 6, 2008, 6-8pmA Large Show of Small Works is Couturier Gallery’s annual group exhibition of small and fine works of art including paintings, sculptures, works on paper, photographs and ceramics....more info
Lucky 7
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, December 6, 2008
Seven year anniversary celebration. You'll experience art, live painting, installations, video projections, fashion, jewelry, student art, DJs, live musical performances and Tango!...more info
Printed
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Sunday, December 28, 2008
Reception: December 6, 2008, 6-9pmAn exhibition featuring an exclusive mix of limited hand printed urban art by LA's most influential up and coming artists. ...more info
Group Drawing Exhibition
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, January 31, 2009
Reception: January 10, 2009, 6-8pmA group exhibition featuring recent drawings created by a diverse group of established artists....more info
Made in Culver City, Hollywood, Burbank
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Sunday, January 11, 2009
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Nomad
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, January 10, 2009
Reception: December 6, 2008, 6-9pmNOMAD will curate a group show at Found Gallery in Silverlake. Only instead of a traditional group show, Nomad's exhibition will showcase work by, well, himself. Each of his fractured personalities will have free reign with a piece of art – and not even the artist himself can fathom what might result!...more info
Alicia Sterling Beach
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, January 3, 2009
Also showing at the Gallery: Joe Amrhein, Greg Stone, Jamison Carter, and Gerard Brane....more info
Florence Arnold
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, January 24, 2009
Reception: December 6, 2008, 6-8pmPaintings....more info
Ooh La La Louvre, Part Deux
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, December 27, 2008
Reception: December 6, 2008, 6-9pmThis honorary show will consist of a collection of work by the same 12 artists chosen to represent the Karen Lynne Gallery at the Societe Nationale des Beaux-Arts (SNBA)in Paris. ...more info
Alexandra Gibson
From the Outside In
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, December 6, 2008
Reception: December 6, 2008, 6-9pmLa Luz de Jesus Gallery is proud to present an exhibition of new works by Gibson in conjunction with the release & signing of her book. Limited edition archival prints will be on display & available for purchase. Also, as part of this special event Gibson will be erecting one of her famous live photo stages for a live erotic photo shoot in the gallery - an event not to be missed!...more info
Robert Ginder and Michael Gregg Michaud
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, January 17, 2009
Reception: December 6, 2008, 5-7pmIn the Main Room, Robert Ginder shows New Paintings. In the Project Room: Michael Gregg Michaud exhibits his show, Mae West, photography...more info
Viktor Safonkin
Dreams of Eternity
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, January 10, 2009
Reception: December 6, 2008, 8-11pmSafonkin’s surreal paintings deftly explore and expose human emotions ranging from pathos to elation through bizarre and unworldly images that appear to the artist in dreams....more info
Buy The Running Foot
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Friday, December 19, 2008
Reception: December 6, 2008, 6-10pmAn open Call Exhibition open to all artists in any media without jurying or censorship. Orange County Center for Contemporary Art will open its gallery to any and all artists for a special two week exhibition....more info
Illuminated Sculpture
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Sunday, April 19, 2009
This unique display features several light-emitting luminous sculptures from SDMA’s collection and local private collections. The works will fill the exhibition space with various warm glowing lights, a central physical and symbolic aspect of the works. The sculptures vary from metaphors for everyday objects, such as tables and nightlights, to surfaces covered in layers of photographs that touch upon social and political topics....more info
Alan Kupchick
One-Day Art Show and Sale
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, December 6, 2008
Reception: December 6, 2008, 11am-8pmKupchick’s journey across America culminates at the Santa Monica Museum of Art where his work will be shown in a one day exhibition and sale to benefit the Museum. ...more info
Martin Gantman
Male Call
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Friday, December 12, 2008
Reception: December 6, 2008, 6-9pmMartin Gantman will show selections from his project "Male Call" in a four person exhibit at the Seyhoun Gallery in West Hollywood, California. "Male Call" is a series of approximately 350 photographs taken of men during the years 1977 through 1980....more info
CHRISTMAS GIF(t)s
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, January 3, 2009
Reception: December 6, 2008, 8pm-12amCHRISTMAS GIF(t)s is a two-part show of animated .gifs and gift-giving. On view will be zines, posters, prints, drawings, do-dads, etc. for this gift-giving holiday. Buy your friends something more interesting this year than another cupcake tray full of greasy cupcakes; treat your friends and loved ones to some amazing art that won't make their thighs fat. Also on view will be be a collection of animated.gifs from various artists....more info
Hands
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, January 3, 2009
Reception: December 6, 2008, 6-9pmFeaturing John Coplans, Suzy Lake, Bruce Nauman, Dane Picard, Alan Rath, June Wayne, and Hannah Wilke.
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Treiops Treyfid
Are You Product People?
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, December 6, 2008
Reception: December 6, 2008, 8pm-12amA sculptural installation work. Also installed for downtown Art Walk Thursday, December 11th 6pm to 9pm....more info
Peter Lodato
Exhibition Dates: Saturday, December 6, 2008 - Saturday, January 3, 2009
New paintings....more info
OPENINGS SUNDAY, DECEMBER 7, 2008
Anna Silver and William Tunberg
Kaleidoscope of Color
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, December 7, 2008 - Sunday, February 15, 2009
Reception: December 7, 2008, 3-5pmRecent works on clay and wood. ...more info
At the Brewery Project, 1993-2007: the Finale
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, December 7, 2008 - Sunday, March 1, 2009
Reception: December 6, 2008, 7-9pmThe Brewery Project has made an important contribution to contemporary art in Southern California. This unique exhibition that spans the Armory building and will document and celebrate this legacy, featuring multiple artists and curators....more info
Holiday Tour
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, December 7, 2008 - Sunday, December 7, 2008
Reception: December 7, 2008, 1-5pmThe Castle Green, one of the last historic hotels in Pasadena, is open to the public for its annual Holiday Tour. ...more info
20th Century Modern Design and Fine Art Auction
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, December 7, 2008 - Sunday, December 7, 2008
Reception: December 7, 2008, 12pmThe December 7th auction will feature over 500 outstanding lots of paintings, prints, sculpture, furniture and other decorative objects....more info
Drawing the Line
Exhibition Dates: Sunday, December 7, 2008 - Sunday, April 12, 2009
This show presents works on paper, sculpture, and fabric pieces from the Museum's collection that reveal new approaches to the integration of drafting techniques and line-making into media that have not been traditionally associated with drawing genres....more info
OPENINGS MONDAY, DECEMBER 8, 2008
Among Friends
Exhibition Dates: Monday, December 8, 2008 - Sunday, January 25, 2009
Reception: December 13, 2008, 6-9pmThe gallery's biggest show of the year, featuring 30 of their favorite artists who work in almost every medium in all sizes....more info
Student Holiday Exhibition and Sale
Exhibition Dates: Monday, December 8, 2008 - Friday, December 12, 2008
Come and support RCC’s students at this Holiday Exhibition. One of a kind jewelry, ceramics and art pieces will be on display and for sale....more info
OPENINGS TUESDAY, DECEMBER 9, 2008
Linda Taylor
Poetic Prints
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - Saturday, January 3, 2009
Reception: December 13, 2008, 4-7pmOriginal and unique prints by Linda Taylor inspired by poetry. Each image uses a variety of printmaking processes, some utilizing multiple processes to create a single image.
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Pete Wentz and Travis McCoy
Without You, I'm Just Me
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - Wednesday, December 24, 2008
Reception: December 9, 2008, 6-9pmArtwork and prints....more info
Hammer Projects: Erin Cosgrove
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - Sunday, March 15, 2009
Master storyteller Erin Cosgrove’s latest project, What Manner of Person Art Thou?, is an
elaborate animation that follows two characters, Yoder and Troyer, the only two survivors of
two small colonies somewhere in the Northwestern United States, after a series of catastrophes and epidemics....more info
Narrowcast: Reframing Global Video 1986/2008
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - Sunday, March 1, 2009
Reception: December 9, 2008, 7-9pmNarrowcast re-presents selected works from LACE's seminal 1986 video exhibition Resolution: A Critique of Video Art and pairs them in compelling and unexpected ways with contemporary works, thus framing the medium's brief history both formally and thematically. ...more info
Name That Tune with Leonard Nimoy & Josh Kun
Exhibition Dates: Tuesday, December 9, 2008 - Tuesday, December 9, 2008
Reception: December 9, 2008, 7:30pmA special night of lost music, excavated memory, and forgotten Jewish LPs. Followed by a book signing of Josh Kun and Roger Bennett's And You Shall Know Us by the Trail of Our Vinyl: The Jewish Past as Told by the Records We Have Loved and Lost (Random House).
Free admission.
RSVP required: rachel.monas@smmoa.org or 310.586.6488 x119...more info
OPENINGS WEDNESDAY, DECEMBER 10, 2008
Maynard Dixon: Art and Spirit film screening
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - Wednesday, December 10, 2008
Reception: December 10, 2008, 7pmThis feature length documentary profiles the breathtaking art and complex life of western artist, Maynard Dixon (1875–1946). ...more info
Human Rights: Student Voices
Exhibition Dates: Wednesday, December 10, 2008 - Sunday, January 4, 2009
What do young artists think about human rights? How does the next generation address issues of freedom? These and other questions are explored in a provocative 25-poster exhibition called Human Rights: Student Voices which makes its U.S. debut in the Great Hall at the Pasadena Central Library....more info
OPENINGS THURSDAY, DECEMBER 11, 2008
Harlem Renaissance: Legacy and Beyond
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 11, 2008 - Sunday, February 15, 2009
Reception: December 11, 2008, 6pmGuest Curator, Charlotte Sherman of Los Angeles, assembled a stunning display of 40 works of art, paintings and sculpture representing this outpouring of African-American of art which took place in the 1920s and 1930s. ...more info
Stephen Hartzler
Deconstruction Zone
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 11, 2008 - Friday, January 30, 2009
A collection of street sign found art and jewelry. ...more info
PSA - Group Show
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 11, 2008 - Saturday, January 3, 2009
Phyllis Stein Art is pleased to announce our first group show. Featured Artists: Cecile Carriere, Jesse Chapo, Nolan Hendrickson, John Hyde, Sam Lubicz, Rachel Maxi, Tom Patton, Anne Vanderlaan, and William Waggoner....more info
From the Back Room
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 11, 2008 - Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Erotic, vintage & contemporary photographs....more info
Steve Huston
Construct
Exhibition Dates: Thursday, December 11, 2008 - Thursday, December 17, 2009
Reception: December 11, 2008, 7pmAdhering almost exclusively to images of the worker, Huston’s larger-than-life paintings serve as powerful metaphors for the human condition, for struggle and strength, for victory and defeat....more info
OPENINGS FRIDAY, DECEMBER 12, 2008
The Arts and Crafts Movement: Promised Gifts from the Collection of Max Pal
Exhibition Dates: Friday, December 12, 2008 - Sunday, March 8, 2009
The exhibition will highlight about eighteen representative examples of the American and European Arts and Crafts movement, including furniture, glass, ceramics, and metalwork....more info
In Remembrance of Jeffrey Pan
Exhibition Dates: Friday, December 12, 2008 - Saturday, December 20, 2008
An artistic tribute that celebrates the life of former student Jeffrey Pan. The show will encompass multiple majors, mediums and genres of artwork as well as a poignant slideshow and interviews from the students whose lives were touched and creatively inspired by having known him....more info
Paul Evans
Puffpieces
Exhibition Dates: Friday, December 12, 2008 - Friday, January 23, 2009
Reception: December 12, 2008, 7-10pmA solo show of artwork by Paul Evans. These small works on wood, created especially for Scoops, are affordable, one of a kind pieces that are humorous, sneaky, wicked and fun. ...more info
Holiday Raffle 2008
Exhibition Dates: Friday, December 12, 2008 - Friday, December 12, 2008
Group show and fundraiser. ...more info
Armsrock and Elbow-Toe
Mostly Memory
Exhibition Dates: Friday, December 12, 2008 - Friday, January 2, 2009
Reception: December 12, 2008, 7-11pmNew works by Armsrock and Elbow-Toe. In the Project Room, Life Sentence by Jon Todd....more info
