Art Los Angeles Contemporary

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

nomadicdivision.org

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