Art Los Angeles Contemporary
January 28–31, 2010
Pacific Design Center
Programming & Events
Thursday, January 28
Reception
Opening Night Public Reception
8:30–10:30pm, Thursday
Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Ave
West Hollywood, CA
artlosangelesfair.com/opening-night-tickets
Opening night reception of the inaugural Art Los Angeles Contemporary.
Tickets for opening night will be sold online starting January 8th and onsite at the box office.
Friday, January 29
Conversation
Ten Years of Hammer Projects
1pm, Friday
Pacific Design Center
ALAC Conference Center
2ND Floor Blue Building
Senior Hammer Museum Curator Anne Ellegood in conversation with Hammer Project artists Amy Adler, Erin Cosgrove, and Mungo Thomson.
Conversation
Playing Fair: Women in the Contemporary Art Market
3pm, Friday
Pacific Design Center
ALAC Conference Center
2ND Floor Blue Building
Today’s panel looks at the various roles of women in the art market today, from artist and writer to gallery owner and collector. The panel will grapple with questions including: Do women artists command the same prices as that of male artists? Has representation of women artists in museums and collections improved? Is there a glass ceiling for female curators and dealers?
Panel members include:
Moderator: Kimberly Light, Owner, Kim Light/LightBox, LA
Katherine Battista, Director Contemporary Art, Sotheby’s Institute, NY
Emma Gray, Heller Group Consultant, Curator, Art Writer
Rachel Lachowicz, Artist and Head of Sculpture, Claremont College
Abaseh Mirvali, Independent Contemporary Arts Projects Producer, Former Director of Jumex Collection, Mexico City
INSTALLATION
Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND) Exhibition VIA: Artemio
4pm, Friday
Pacific Design Center
Green Building Lobby
Mexico City-based artist Artemio, concurrent with a solo-show at LA><ART, will produce a site-specific installation at Art Los Angeles Contemporary. A “carpet” of custom ceramic tiles installed in the Green Building Lobby at the Pacific Design Center, each tile invokes familiar icons of urban violence, specifically the guns used in much of the drug related violence happening throughout Mexico and the United States. Employed in a repetitive and decorative manner, the tiles undermines their individual symbolism, synthesizing a number of social critiques in their placement and design – for example, the sterility of exchangeable iconography functioning to insulate its signifier from gritty realities.
Come meet Artemio and Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND)'s Shamim M. Momin at Art Los Angeles Contemporary as they present the installation.
Exhibition
Ferus Gallery Greatest Hits Volume I
Friday - Sunday 12pm - 6pm, Friday
932 La Cienega Ave
Los Angeles, Ca 90069
Art Los Angeles Contemporary presents an exhibition curated by Franklin Parrasch and Tim Nye of art works once installed at the famed Ferus Gallery’s original location on La Cienega Blvd.
Works by Billy Al Bengston, Craig Kauffman, Ed Kienholz, Ken Price, Ed Ruscha and Andy Warhol, all veterans of the pioneering Ferus years, 1957-66 will be on display in the historic original storefront, which has been restored by Tom Beeton to become a new, yet to be named gallery space.
The exhibition is on display through January 31, 2010.
Gallery Tour
Culver City Gallery Tour
6-10 pm, Friday
Galleries in the Culver City will be open for visits.
6pm: LA><ART presents exhibitions by Artemio and Kamrooz Aram.
7pm: Peres Projects screens SSION’s first feature-length film, BOY.
8pm: Honor Fraser hosts an exhibition walkthrough with artist Gustavo Godoy.
Participating spaces:
Angles Gallery
Blum & Poe
Cherry and Martin
Honor Fraser
Kim Light/LightBox
David Kordansky
LA><ART
Maloney Fine Art
Nicodim Gallery
Peres Projects
Susanne Vielmetter
Screening
The Los Angeles Premiere of "The Posters Came From the Walls" (Depeche Mode fans from around the world) by Jeremy Deller & Nick Abrahams
7:30pm and 10pm, Friday
Cinefamily at the
Silent Movie Theatre
611 N Fairfax Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 655-2510
artlosangelesfair.com/theposters
First Screening: 7:30pm
Q&A with directors Jeremy Deller and Nick Abrahams by Michael Stock (Part Time Punks): 9PM. Priority seating given to 7:30PM ticket holders.
Second screening: 10pm
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, in association with Gavin Brown's enterprise, presents the Los Angeles premiere of "The Posters Came From the Walls" (Depeche Mode fans from around the world), a film by 2004 Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller & Nick Abrahams. "The Posters Came from the Walls" tells stories of faith and devotion from around the world in this fascinating and inspired documentary about fandom.
Tickets available at the Silent Movie Theatre or www.cinefamily.org.
PERFORMANCE
An Evening at the Buck House
10pm–1am, Friday
805 S. Genesee Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
countryclubprojects.com/exhibitions/the_buck_house.html
An evening at the Buck House with performances by artist Gabriel Loebell and musical guests Henry Wolfe and Disco Volante, songwriters who both craft beautiful layered melodies, at Country Club, a contemporary gallery exhibiting modern and contemporary work in R.M. Schindler's Buck House. The Buck House is a landmark modernist residence built in 1934 and one of the most important examples of Schindler's application of Space Architecture.
In association with Country Club
Saturday, January 30
Gallery Tour
Sunset Boulevard Art Walk
10am, Saturday
Take a walking tour of the most exciting art venues surrounding Hollywood.
Participating Galleries:
LACE
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Michael Benveneto
Khastoo Gallery
Eighth Veil
Conversation + Books Signing
Ari Marcopoulos and Dave Muller
1pm, Saturday
Pacific Design Center
ALAC Conference Center
2nd Floor Blue Building
artlosangelesfair.com/marcopoulos-book
A presentation by artists Ari Marcopoulos and Dave Muller in conjunction with a signing featuring Marcopoulos’ most recent publication, Ari Marcopoulos: Within Arm’s Reach.
In association with Artbook.
Book Signing
Book signing with artist Mark Ryden
1-3pm, Saturday
Artbook Booth
Pacific Design Center
Artbook presents a book signing with artist Mark Ryden in the Artbook booth.
Screening
The Films of Hollis Frampton
2pm, Saturday
Pacific Design Center
Silver Screen Theatre
LA Film Forum and Khastoo Gallery co-present the films of pioneering American avant-garde filmmaker, photographer, writer/theoretician Hollis Frampton.
Panel following screening: Alex Klein (artist/curatorial fellow at LACMA); David James (USC film professor and Frampton scholar); Madison Brookshire (filmmaker); Michael Ned Holte (critic, curator)
Nostalgia (Hapax Legomena I), 1973, 36 min., sound
Poetic Justice (Hapax Legomena II), 1972, 31 min., silent
Reading and Music
Poppy Books and Safe Crackers presents...
2pm, Saturday
Pacific Design Center
Ooga Booga & Independent Publishers Room
Booth D-1
Poppy Books and Safe Crackers presents
A reading of "Wild Geese" by Matthias Connor with musical accompaniment by Brian DeGraw. Followed by a screening of selections from the hugely influential weekly web show "Palace Waywards Boys Choir Global Skateboard News," introduced by artist Oliver Payne.
Conversation
Uncertain Objects: A Panel Discussion on the Confluence of Art, Design, and Architecture.
2:30pm, Saturday
Pacific Design Center
ALAC Conference Center
2nd Floor Blue Building
Moderated by Design Loves Art Curator, Helen Varola
Panelists Walead Beshty, T. Kelly Mason, and JohnstonMarkLee (Mark Lee and Sharon Johnston) will convene in an hour-long panel discussion entitled, Uncertain Objects. This group of artists and architects will share their insights dealing with the connection and separation between architectural/design object and the artwork.
PRESENTATION
X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly's 1 IMAGE 1 MINUTE
4pm, Saturday
Pacific Design Center
Silver Screen Theatre
Join us for a special event to benefit the publication of X-TRA presented by Art Los Angeles Contemporary.
Over 45 Artists, Curators, and Historians each present a significant photograph of their choosing for 1 minute. Participants from all over the LA art community will come together for this live presentation of ideas and anecdotes tied to images. Ranging from funny to poignant to historically iconic, the presentations will surprise, delight, and inspire the audience.
PARTICIPANTS:
Scoli Acosta / Benjamin Ball / Andrew Berardini / Delia Brown / Julia Bryan-Wilson / Annie Buckley / David Bunn / Dorit Cypis / Tony de los Reyes / Shannon Ebner / Tim Ebner / Janet Fitch / Tim Fleming / Kianga Ford / Brendan Fowler / Piero Golia / Judith Jack Halberstam / William E. Jones / Stanya Kahn / Dawn Kasper / Peter Kirby / Bettina Korek / Liz Kotz/ Brandon Lattu / Thomas Lawson / Aram Moshayedi / Karen Moss / Dave Muller / Leonard Nimoy / Shana Nys-Dambrot / Karthik Pandian / Christopher Pate / Lucas Reiner / Britt Salvesen / Kim Schoenstadt / Mohamed Sharif / Aandrea Stang / Sally Stein / Catherine Taft / Geoff Tuck / Margaret Wappler / Christine Wertheim / Carlin Wing / Josh White / Mark Wyse / HK Zamani / Peter Zellner
The 1 IMAGE 1 MINUTE event is based on Micol Hebron's column in X-TRA, which is a recreation of a project produced by Belgian director Agnes
Varda in 1983.
Each ticket purchased receives a complimentary copy of the current issue of X-TRA.
Gallery Tour
Chinatown Gallery Openings
6–9pm, Saturday
Galleries in Chinatown will be open for a walking tour.
5:00pm - CRISP presents The Fucked Up Drawing Party X by artist Nathan Danilowicz at The Public School.
6:00pm - Thomas Solomon Gallery hosts a reception for artist Josh Mannis and his solo exhibition Variations.
7:30pm - The Happy Lion will present the premiere of Torch Trouble, a new performance piece by Joe Sola and Michael Webster. Sola’s highly physical performances use slapstick, live music, and Dada-ist abstraction to hilarious results.
Participating Spaces:
Kathryn Brennan
China Art Objects
The Company
FOCA-Fellows of Contemporary Art
Francois Ghebaly
The Happy Lion
Parker Jones
The Public School
Redling Fine Art
Solway Jones
Thomas Solomon Gallery
WPA
screening
Screening of "The Posters Came From the Walls" (Depeche Mode fans from around the world) by Jeremy Deller & Nick Abrahams
8pm, Saturday
Silent Movie Theatre
611 N. Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036
323-655-2510
artlosangelesfair.com/theposters
Art Los Angeles Contemporary, in association with Gavin Brown's enterprise, presents the Los Angeles premiere of "The Posters Came From the Walls" (Depeche Mode fans from around the world), a film by 2004 Turner Prize winner Jeremy Deller & Nick Abrahams. "The Posters Came from the Walls" tells stories of faith and devotion from around the world in this fascinating and inspired documentary about fandom.
Tickets available at the Silent Movie Theatre or www.cinefamily.org.
Sunday, January 31
Performance + Book Signing
Machine Project
1-2pm, Sunday
Pacific Design Center
ALAC Conference Center
2ND Floor Blue Building
artlosangelesfair.com/machineproject-book
Machine Project presents a paranoid poetry drum lecture starring Jason Brown, Corey Fogel, and Anthony McCann.
Mark Allen, Jason Brown and Liz Glynn of Machine Project will be signing copies of "The Machine Project: A Field Guide to the Los Angeles County Museum of Art" directly following the performances.
In association with Artbook.
Conversation + Book Signing
Ferus Gallery Panel
2:30pm, Sunday
Pacific Design Center
ALAC Conference Center
2nd Floor Blue Building
artlosangelesfair.com/ferus-book
The panel discussion will be centered around Kristine McKenna's recently released book title "The Ferus Gallery: A Place to Begin" and focused on the history and current relevance of the famed Los Angeles Ferus Gallery.
The Ferus Panel Talk participants include:
Kristine McKenna
Larry Bell
Hal Glicksman
Andrew Berardini
Carol S. Eliel
moderated by: Hunter Drohojowska-Philp.
Kristine McKenna will be signing copied of her book directly following the panel.
In association with Artbook.
Gallery Tour
Alternative Space Driving Tour
2–6pm, Sunday
Participating spaces:
The Attic
House on Genesee
JAUS
offramp gallery
Marine- a contemporary art salon
NTBA
Statler Waldorf Gallery
Summercamp
Underground Gallery
For more information and directions click below:
artlosangelesfair.com/drivingtour
Celebrate the alternative art space with a self-guided driving tour. There will be an open house and receptions for new exhibitions all across the city, allowing the visitor to explore the different neighborhoods of Los Angeles.
3pm - Vegetarian Curry and Beer at SUMMERCAMP
SCREENING
34 Degrees North: A Selection of Artist Videos from Los Angeles
4pm, Sunday
Pacific Design Center
ALAC Conference Center
2ND Floor Blue Building
Curated by Paul Young
Consisting of two hour-long programs, ‘34 Degrees North” is comprised of nearly 25 video projects from artists based in Los Angeles. Collectively they represent a wide range of single channel work being produced at the moment, from established and emerging artists alike. Stylistically and thematically, they run the gamut from graphic animation to deconstructed narratives; from socio-political allegories to mock-rock-videos; from the quiet and the contemplative to the raucous and outrageous.
Artists included:
Skip Arnold
Cal Crawford
Erin Cosgrove
The DateFarmers and Logan
Micol Hebron
Julien Hoeber
David Jones
Lewis Klahr
David Lynch
Euan Macdonald
Alex Mendoza
Brett Nicely
Danial Nord
Siobhan O'Brien
Pat O'Neill
Julie Orser
Michelle O'Mara
Raymond Pettibon
Trish Sie
Charlie White