LA><ART IS LOS ANGELES’ LEADING INDEPENDENT NON-PROFIT CONTEMPORARY ART SPACE, PRODUCING EXPERIMENTAL EXHIBITIONS, PUBLICATIONS AND PUBLIC ART INITIATIVES WITH EMERGING AND MID-CAREER LOCAL, NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL ARTISTS.
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Monsters Mongers (and retailers of other strange satellites)
Works by University of California, Irvine, 2009 MFA graduates in Studio Arts
June 27 - July 9, 2009
Opening reception: Saturday, June 27 7pm - 9pm
Arielle Bivas
Marcus Civin
Laurel Frank
kate hers
Dong Hoon Jun
Jared Nielsen
Jen Smith
Sean Sullivan
Grant Vetter
Maya Weimer
Morgan Wells
Working in photography, video, performance, installation, sculpture, drawing, and painting, the 2009 MFA graduates in Studio Arts engage with subjects that range from identity, language, architecture, the body, institution, and globalization. A performance by Marcus Civin will be featured during the reception on June 27 at 7:30pm.
Joaquin Segura
Untitled (The Gunpowder Plot)
2009
Vinyl lettering on wall
Variable Dimensions
Courtesy of the artist and Arena Mexico Arte Contemporaneo
LA><ART’s first publication is now available for purchase.
Ruben Ochoa: Extracted
With contributions by Lauri Firstenberg, Jan Tumlir, and Aram Moshayedi in conversation with Ruben Ochoa.
53 pages, soft cover.
ISBN-13 978-0-9815055-0-3
ISBN-10 0-9815055-0-3
$25.00 + tax, shipping & handling
$20.00 + tax, shipping & handling on orders of 5 or more
(this rate is not available for online purchases)
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Thomas Lawson:New World
June 14 through July 26, 2009
Opening reception: Sunday June 14th. 7 to 9pm
Participant Inc.
253 East Houston Street
New York, NY
10002
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An LA><ART Off-Site Initiative and part of L.A.P.D: L.A. Public Domain. Dedicated to artistic and curatorial interventions in experimental contexts.
curated by Lauri Firstenberg
La Cienega Boulevard between Venice and Washington Boulevards, Los Angeles
May 11 - June 11, 2009
Part of LA><ART Public Art Initiatives with ForYourArt
(LAPD – LA Public Domain)
Artistic and Curatorial Interventions and Collaborations in Experimental Contexts
caraballo-farman
Regarding the Horror
Stretched vinyl on billboard
12 x 25 feet
2009
Courtesy the artists, Rattapallax, and LA><ART, Los Angeles
A billboard project by New York-based artist collaborative caraballo-farman will be mounted concurrently throughout the month of May. Facing north on La Cienega Boulevard between Venice and Washington Boulevards, this project will serve as the first public iteration of an ongoing series of works entitled Regarding the Horror. Focused on the responses generated by scenes of terror, the digital manipulation of images appropriated from popular press coverage of the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq serves as the basis of their photographic project. Two isolated figures occupy an evacuated space. Their context has been digitally removed by the artists to reposition the subject’s relationship to the spectacle of violence. Responding to the incessant circulation of images focused on the intimacies of individual suffering, the translation of this series into a billboard examines the spectacularization of mourning within the public sphere.
caraballo-farman is a two-person collaborative working in video, installation and photography. Their work has been included in such national and international exhibitions as the Havana Biennial, Cuba and the Cuenca Biennial, Ecuador; the Tate Modern, UK; Berlinale, Germany, World Wide Video Festival and Impakt, Netherlands; the Banff Center for the Arts, Canada; Buenos Aires International Art Biennial, Argentina; Artists Space, New York; and PS1 Contemporary Arts Center in Queens, New York.
caraballo-farman would like to thank Ram Devineni and Rattapallax for making this project possible
Untitled (Baldwin Hills)
May 16, 2009 - June 20, 2009
Opening reception: Saturday, May 16, 2009 7 - 9pm
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A Garden for Losing One’s Head
May 16, 2009 - June 20, 2009
Opening reception: Saturday, May 16, 2009 7 - 9pm
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LA><ART’s programs are made possible with the generous support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Peter Norton Family Foundation, the Kenneth T. and Eileen L. Norris Foundation, Danielson Foundation, the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation, Foundation for Contemporary Arts, Campari, Eileen Harris Norton, the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs, ForYourArt, Rattapallax, and the LA><ART Board of Directors, Producers Council, Curators Council, founding members, and patrons.
This exhibition is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Lisa Schiff, and by an anonymous donor.
Drew Heitzler
Untitled (Baldwin Hills #5)
2009
Inkjet print and Peformix Plasti Dip on watercolor paper
8 x 10 inches
Edition of 25
$100
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