Public Projects
LA><ART
LA><ART
is an independent nonprofit art space
presenting experimental exhibitions and public art initiatives
offering the public access to a new generation of artists and curators
supporting both risk and dialogue
producing new work for new audiences
inciting the conversation on contemporary art in LA
animating dynamic relationships between art, artists and audiences
enhancing the cultural landscape of LA by supporting challenging work
reflecting the diversity of the city
LA><ART
the seminal space for contemporary art in LA
LA><ART is a 501 (c)(3) nonprofit organization, federal ID number 20-2911916.
To join or for more information, call T.310.559.0166 or email membership@laxart.org
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Joel Kyack: Superclogger
Joel Kyack, Superclogger, 2010, Rush hour - 210E - Pasadena, Courtesy of the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles. Photo courtesy of Anthony Lepore
Curated by LA><ART Curator of Public Art and Programs Cesar Garcia.
June 1st, 2010
Public Reception: 7 - 10 pm at LA><ART
Launching June 1st, 2010 with a special showing at LA><ART from 7-10pm, Superclogger will mark Los Angeles-based artist Joel Kyack’s first large-scale public project. Conceived with Providence-based artist and bike mechanic Peter Fuller and developed out of Kyack’s interest in chaos, performance, and the relationship between individual will and collective control, Superclogger will present various puppet shows to drivers caught in afternoon traffic jams from a mobile theater housed in the back of a nondescript white pickup truck. Broadcasting soundtracks discretely to the viewer’s car stereo, Superclogger aims to briefly halt the progression of chaos by temporarily drawing the audience out of the commute experience and placing them within an intimate space of engagement and performance that highlights their own individual presence within the broader structure of the traffic jam.
Superclogger will continue presenting weekly interventions throughout the summer, culminating with a second special showing at the Hammer Museum on September 25th, 2010 from 1-4pm, marking the first collaboration between LA><ART and the Hammer Museum. With the exception of its two special showings, Superclogger will operate only during evening rush hours at different freeways throughout the city.
The dates and freeways of every intervention are listed below, and a new Superclogger twitter will update on the project’s specific location throughout the days of its presentation (http://www.twitter.com/superclogger10)
Please visit the LA><ART and Hammer websites for updates on additional dates and project updates.
Dates & Locations
June 1
405 N Fwy (Between Clarkdale and Bel-Air)
LA><ART Superclogger Launch, 7-10pm
LA><ART Back Parking Lot
2640 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
June 2
210 E Fwy (Between Pasadena and Duarte)
June 3
110 N Fwy (Between South Los Angeles and Chinatown)
June 11
110 N & 110 S Fwys (Between Downtown and Hollywood)
July 2
10 E Fwy (Between PCH and Downtown)
July 9
5 S Fwy (Between China Town and Bell Gardens)
July 16
134 W Fwy (Between Glendale and Sherman Oaks)
July 30
60 E Fwy (Between East Los Angeles and South San Gabriel)
August 13
10 E Fwy (Between Monterey Park and El Monte)
September 10
10 E Fwy (Between PCH and Downtown)
September 24
210 E Fwy (Between Pasadena and Duarte)
September 25
the Hammer Museum, 1-4pm
10899 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles, CA 90024
in conjunction with the HAMMER Museum.
Part of LA><ART Public Art Initiatives with ForYourArt
(L.A.P.D. – LA Public Domain)
Artistic and Curatorial Interventions and Collaborations in Experimental Contexts
This public exhibition is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
WARNING TO VIEWERS
Superclogger viewership is at your own risk. By watching Superclogger you agree to assume sole responsibility for any risk and to release anyone associated with Superclogger and LA><ART from all claims relating to any injury, damage or loss you may suffer or cause while experiencing the artwork and/or performance.
LA><ART Billboard: Emilie Halpern
La Cienega Boulevard between Venice and Washington Boulevards, Los Angeles
On view through the month of June, 2010
Part of LA><ART Public Art Initiatives with ForYourArt
(L.A.P.D. – LA Public Domain)
Artistic and Curatorial Interventions and Collaborations in Experimental Contexts
With support from John Rubeli and Gil Friesen.
Emilie Halpern, Midnight Sun, 2010, Stretched vinyl on billboard, 2.3 x 24.6 feet, Courtesy of the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles
A collection of Emilie Halpern’s video works will be on view in the LA><ART entryway concurrently with her billboard project.
Emilie Halpern, For No One, 2005, Digital video with color, TRT: 3 min. 7 sec., Dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles
Alex Israel: Rough Winds Trailer on Sunset Videotron
Sunset Videotron // 8410 Sunset Boulevard // West Hollywood, CA 90069
LA><ART Public Art Initiatives (L.A.P.D - LA Public Domain) presents Alex Israel’s Rough Winds trailer on the videotron on Sunset Boulevard at Kings Road with support of City of West Hollywood Arts and Cultural Affairs and Art on the Outside program.
Piero Golia: Luminous Sphere On Top Of The Standard Hotel
Piero Golia, Luminous Sphere On Top Of The Standard Hotel, 2008-10, site-specific installation, dimensions variable, courtesy of the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles. Photos courtesy of Joshua White.
Piero Golia, Luminous Sphere On Top Of The Standard Hotel, 2008-10, site-specific installation, dimensions variable, courtesy of the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles. Photos courtesy of Daiana Feuer.
Party to celebrate Piero Golia’s Luminous Sphere on top of the Standard Hotel with LA><ART, ForYourArt, and the Standard, Hollywood
All photos by Daiana Feuer
Piero Golia’s Luminous Sphere is a temporary intervention in the public domain as part of L.A.P.D (Los Angeles Public Domain), LA><ART’s Public Art Initiatives with support from ForYourArt, which produces artistic and curatorial interventions in experimental contexts.
Luminous Sphere is made possible with the generous support of Eugenio Lopez. The project was produced with additional support from LA><ART’s Producer’s Council Public Art Chair Esthella Provas, ForYourArt, The Standard Hotels, Sima Familant and the City of West Hollywood Department of Cultural Affairs, ZellnerPlus, Benchmark Scenery, HWI, and Buro Happold.
LA><ART Entryway: Artemio
Artemio, Mandala #17, 2010, Site-specific tiled wall mural, 102 x 121 inches, Courtesy of the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles. Photo by Kelly Barrie.
LA><ART Billboard: Shana Lutker
Shana Lutker, Ruin, Los Angeles, 2010, Stretched vinyl on billboard, 12 x 25 inches, Courtesy of the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles. Photo by Kelly Barrie
LA><ART WINDOWS: Mark Hagen
Mark Hagen, Untitled, 2010, Mexican onyx (onyx marble), resin, 48 1/2 x 24 1/2 x 3/4 inches, Courtesy of the artist, Jeff Poe, and LA><ART, Los Angeles. Photos by Kelly Barrie
Mark Hagen, Vapor Parade, 2010, Holographic double-axis diffraction grating film, 98 1/2 x 59 inches, Courtesy of the artist, Jeff Poe, and LA><ART, Los Angeles. Photos by Kelly Barrie
Mark Hagen, Vapor Parade, 2010, Holographic double-axis diffraction grating film, 98 1/2 x 59 inches, Courtesy of the artist, Jeff Poe, and LA><ART, Los Angeles
LA><ART Mini-Wrong: Daniel Pelt
Daniel Pelt, A Home Frozen and High (Hampen/Tundra), 2010, Polypropylene, latex, fiberboard, laminate (melamine foil), foil, 14 x 7 x 12 1/2 inches, Courtesy of the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles
LA><ART at Art | Basel | Miami Beach | 2009
Daniel Joseph Martinez, I HATE YOU AND ME FOR MAKING HATE NECESSARY, the report of my death is an exaggeration!, 2009, File Numbers MB, 2375-2379- 2009, 4 photographs printed on poly-silk, 3 sounds works, site dependent installation. From the series, The terrifying Things I Have Done in The Name of a God That Was Never My Own, 2009-, a new series of photographic images, made in collaboration with a U.S. government entity. (National security issues prevent release of additional information.)
LA><ART Facade: Karl Haendel
La Cienega Boulevard between Venice and Washington Boulevards, Los Angeles
Part of LA><ART Public Art Initiatives with ForYourArt
(L.A.P.D. – LA Public Domain)
Artistic and Curatorial Interventions and Collaborations in Experimental Contexts
Karl Haendel, Public Scribble #2, Painted facade, 18 x 64 feet, Courtesy of the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles. Photos courtesy of Kelly Barrie
This public exhibition is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
LA><ART Billboard: Mungo Thomson
La Cienega Boulevard between Venice and Washington Boulevards, Los Angeles
October 28, 2009 - December 28, 2009
Part of LA><ART Public Art Initiatives with ForYourArt
(L.A.P.D. – LA Public Domain)
Artistic and Curatorial Interventions and Collaborations in Experimental Contexts
Mungo Thomson, Negative Space (STscI-PRC2007-08), 2009, Stretched vinyl on billboard, 12 x 25 feet, Courtesy of the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles. Photos courtesy of Kelly Barrie
This public exhibition is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
Doug Aitken: Migration Happening
Doug Aitken, Migration, 2008, Single channel video, TRT 24:28, Courtesy of the artist; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; and LA><ART, Los Angeles. Photos courtesy of Daiana Feuer
In conjunction with Doug Aitken’s first monumental public installation in Los Angeles, a host of partners including Los Angeles Nomadic Division (LAND), LA><ART Public Art Initiatives, and ForYourArt - L.A.P.D - LA Public Domain will produce a night time event featuring musicians to participate in an outdoor “happening” inclusive of the musicians composing a live impromptu score to the publicly projected film Migration.
Confirmed participants include Lucky Dragons, Nudge, Steve Roden, The Urxed, and White Rainbows. Two temporary stages will be built site specifically, allowing the score to remain unbroken as the musicians alternate from stage to stage. The artist sees a night of continuous eclectic avant-garde music to animate and complement his public projection/intervention, a constant sonic reinterpretation of the film itself.
LA><ART Public Art Initiatives and ForYourArt produce public projects under the program L.A.P.D. - LA Public Domain - featuring experimental artistic and curatorial interventions in the public domain.
LAND is a public art initiative committed to the support of dynamic and unconventional artistic practices by commissioning and producing site- and situation-specific projects with national and international artists.
Doug Aitken: Migration
Doug Aitken, Migration, 2008, Single channel video, TRT 24:28, Installation view: Regen Projects, Courtesy of the artist; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; and LA><ART, Los Angeles
Internationally renowned artist Doug Aitken’s first monumental public project in Los Angeles seen from Santa Monica Boulevard at Almont Drive, from sunset to sunrise September 12- October 17th.
Part of LA><ART’s Public Art Initiatives with ForYourArt - L.A.P.D. (LA Public Domain) and the City of West Hollywood’s Art on the Outside Program.
The public projection migration is made possible with the generous support of Suzanne Deal Booth and David G. Booth, The Broad Art Foundation, Jill and Peter Kraus, Steven F. Roth Family Foundation, Paul and Lilly Merage and Beth Swofford.
Video system provided by Scharff Weisberg, Inc.
Special thanks to the Carnegie Museum and the City of West Hollywood’s Arts and Cultural Affairs Commission.
Doug Aitken’s public incarnation of Migration is concurrent with the billboard project mounted for the month of October by L.A.P.D. on La Cienega Blvd between Venice and Washington Boulevards, facing north.
LA><ART Billboard: Doug Aitken
La Cienega Boulevard between Venice and Washington Boulevards, Los Angeles
September 28 - October 28, 2009
Part of LA><ART Public Art Initiatives with ForYourArt
(L.A.P.D. – LA Public Domain)
Artistic and Curatorial Interventions and Collaborations in Experimental Contexts
Doug Aitken
FATE
Stretched vinyl on billboard
12 x 25 feet
Courtesy of the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles
This public exhibition is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
On view through October 31, 2009: Gustavo Artigas
Vote for Demolition
September 12, 2009 - October 31, 2009
Opening reception: Saturday, September 12, 2009 6 - 9pm
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Place your vote!
Gustavo Artigas, Vote for Demolition, 2009, Site-specific installation, Dimensions variable, Courtesy of the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles. Photo courtesy Kelly Barrie
LA><ART’s programs are made possible with the generous support of the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; Peter Norton Family Foundation; La Fundación/Colección Jumex; Danielson Foundation; the Jerry and Terri Kohl Family Foundation; the Audrey and Sydney Irmas Charitable Foundation; Foundation for Contemporary Arts; Wildman, Harrold, Allen & Dixon LLP.; Campari; the Standard Hollywood; the Standard Downtown LA; Eve Steele and Peter Gelles; Eileen Harris Norton; the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs; ForYourArt; Richard Massey; Larry Mathews and Brian Saliman; 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
This exhibition is supported, in part, by the Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.
LA><ART Publications // Ruben Ochoa: Extracted
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)
To pay by phone, call +1.310.559.0166 Tuesday through Saturday, 11am - 6pm PST.
Checks should be made to LAXART and mailed to:
LAXART
2640 S. La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles CA, 90034.
Include a quantity and shipping address along with your payment.
If you have questions concerning LA><ART Publications please contact office@laxart.org or call 310.559.0166 during normal business hours (Tuesday through Saturday, 11am to 6pm PST).
LA><ART Off-Site Initiatives: Thomas Lawson at Participant Inc.
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><ART Billboard: caraballo-farman
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
LA><ART Billboard: Walead Beshty
La Cienega Boulevard between Venice and Washington Boulevards, Los Angeles
March 16 - April 16, 2009
Walead Beshty
Dust (2007-2008)
Stretched vinyl on billboard
12 x 25 feet
2009
Courtesy the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles
This project is supported, in part, by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
OUTLET17 // APRIL 11, 2009 4 PM
Please join us for the first OUTLET event for 2009 at LA><ART.
Peter Zellner will host a discussion with architects Hernan Diaz Alonso and Tom Wiscombe to mark the occasion of the launch of two new monographs on the work of Xefirotarch and EMERGENT published by AADCU, Beijing.
Saturday April 11, 2009
Talk starts at 4 pm
Hernan Diaz Alonso is the principal and founder of Xefirotarch, an award-winning Los Angeles-based design firm working in Architecture, Product and Digital Motion. He has taught design studio and visual studies for several years at SCI_Arc, where he is also graduate thesis coordinator. He is a design studio professor at the GSAPP at Columbia University, New York and a visiting professor at the Universitat fur Angewandte Kunst in Vienna. He received his Architecture degrees from the National University of Rosario, Argentina, and from Columbia University’s AAD Program. In 1996, he worked as a designer in the office of Enric Miralles in Barcelona and from 2000 to 2001 he was senior designer at Eisenman Architects in New York. Diaz Alonso has lectured widely in major institutions around the world including the Architectural Association in London, MIT, University of Pennsylvania; Archilab in Orleans, France; the IDCA Conference, Aspen Colorado; UC Berkeley; the Pratt Institute; UCLA; Columbia University; and Princeton University. His work has been widely published in most of the major architectural magazines and periodicals worldwide and in several books. The first monograph of his work will be published in 2007. His work has been exhibited in the solo shows at the San Francisco MoMa in 2006, the Art Institute in Chicago and MAK center in Vienna in 2007, and the Pompidou Center in 2008-2009. In 2005, he was the winner of the PS1 MoMa, New York, Young Architects Program competition. His work is part of the permanent collections of the FRAC, the San Francisco MOMA and the New York MOMA.
www.xefirotarch.com
Tom Wiscombe is an architectural designer based in Los Angeles. In 1999, he founded EMERGENT, a platform for researching contemporary models of biology, engineering, and computation to produce an architecture characterized by formal variability, high performance, and atmospherics. EMERGENT is currently working on a 20,000 SM. office tower in Guiyang, China and Freshwater Plaza, Abu Dhabi, which is a water desalinization prototype and public space. EMERGENT won first place in the reknowned MoMA/P.S.1 Urban Beach competition in 2003, and second place in the Seoul Performing Arts Center and Novosibirsk A&D Pavilion competitions in 2005 and 2007. In 2007, EMERGENT was a finalist in the Czech National Library Competition. The work of EMERGENT has been published and exhibited extensively and it is part of the permanent collections of the FRAC Centre, the Museum of Modern Art San Francisco, and the Museum of Modern Art, New York. Wiscombe was Chief Designer and Project Partner at Coop Himmelb(l)au for over 10 years, right-hand to Principal Wolf Prix. He was in charge of design for BMW World, which has been hailed as one of the most important buildings of the 21st century. Educated at UCLA and UC Berkeley, Wiscombe has taught design and technology at SCI_Arc, UCLA, UC Berkeley, and the University of Applied Arts in Vienna. He has lectured widely, including at Rice, Yale, and Columbia.
www.emergentarchitecture.com
About Outlet:
Outlet was founded to instigate and to promote the public sharing of architectural ideas, concepts and projects.
Outlet will present new works by local, national and international practitioners, host panel discussions on selected themes or topics and stage one-night only exhibitions.
Outlet will be staged at various venues over the course of its life.
Outlet will promote discussions about architecture through an online magazine, podcasts and online exhibitions.
Outlet is dedicated to the long term goal of establishing a permanent architectural publications program and architectural exhibition space.
Outlet was founded in 2006 by Architect and SCI-Arc Faculty Member Peter Zellner.
For more information please visit: www.outlet4arch.org
Outlet
2712 S. La Cienega Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90034
admin@outlet4arch.org
www.outlet4arch.org
Alexandra Grant Love Necklace to support Watts House Project
Los Angeles-based artist Alexandra Grant has created a special edition for LA><ART to support Watts House Project (WHP), an ongoing collaborative artwork led by Edgar Arceneaux. WHP is an artist-driven neighborhood redevelopment that is aimed at improving the homes and lives of residents who live across the street from the historic Watts Towers.
Grant has designed the Love Necklace to help raise funds to benefit Watts House Project (WHP). Grant’s work uses language as the basis for images in painting, drawing and sculpture. For WHP, Grant has proposed a sculpture of the word “love” be placed on the roof of a house on 107th Street, literally putting “love on the house.” The singular font and shape of the sculpture is copied in the elegant sterling silver Love Necklace, which embodies both the “hand-made” and the universal aspects of love.
As a benefit for Watts House Project, the Love Necklace is produced by Honor Fraser Gallery, LA><ART, and ForYourArt.
About Watts House Project
Watts House Project (WHP) is an artist-driven urban revitalization project centered around the historic Watts Towers in Watts, California. Directed by Los Angeles artist Edgar Arceneaux, WHP is a large-scale artwork-as-neighborhood-redevelopment engaging art and architecture as a catalyst for expanding and enhancing community.
Generating a physical and social infrastructure for creativity, WHP catalyzes artistic production and community pride of place, establishing partnerships that can lead to real solutions, hope, and change.
For more information visit: www.wattshouseproject.org
Watts House Project is made possible in part by its generous sponsors and partners including Creative Capital, ForYourArt, the Hammer Museum, Master of Public Art Studies Program, University of Southern California, and LA><ART.
To purchase Alexandra Grant’s Love Necklace and support this vital public project by Edgar Arceneaux call 310.559.0166, email editions@laxart.org, or simply click the button below that says BUY NOW.
Tax, shipping and handling costs are additional.
LA><ART Public Art Initiative: Jedediah Caesar
North East corner of Washington Blvd and Marcasel Ave, Culver City, CA
Jedediah Caesar
Gleaners Stone
Collected material, urethane, wood
92 x 44 x 30 inches
2008
Courtesy the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles
This project is affiliated with the 2008 California Biennial, organized by the Orange County Museum of Art, and curated by Lauri Firstenberg in collaboration with the city of Culver City. CB08 is produced in tandem with LA><ART Public Art and Off Site Initiatives with ForYourArt.
CB08 Billboard: Felipe Dulzaides
January, 2009 - February, 2009
Facing North on La Cienega Boulevard, between Venice and Washington Boulevards.
Felipe Dulzaides
Las Ideas Son El Arma Esencial En La Lucha De La Humanidad (Ideas Are The Essential Weapon in Humanity’s Struggle)
Stretched vinyl on billboard
12 x 25 feet
2008
Courtesy the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles
This project is affiliated with the 2008 California Biennial, organized by the Orange County Museum of Art, and curated by Lauri Firstenberg. CB08 is produced in tandem with LA><ART Public Art and Off Site Initiatives with ForYourArt.
LA><ART Entryway: Karl Haendel
Karl Haendel
Sentence
2008
Oil pastel on blackboard paint
102 x 121 inches
Courtesy of the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles
This project is supported, in part, by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
LA><ART Window: Eamon Ore-Giron
Eamon Ore-Giron
Copias Copias
2008
Spray paint on glass
24 x 48 inches
Courtesy of the artist; LA><ART, Los Angeles; and Steve Turner Contemporary, Los Angeles
This project is supported, in part, by the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs.
CB08 Billboard: Raymond Pettibon
Sunset Boulevard and Olive Drive, West Hollywood
November, 2008 - March, 2009
Raymond Pettibon
No Title (I Thought California)
Stretched vinyl on billboard
20 x 50 feet
2008
Courtesy the artist; Regen Projects, Los Angeles; LA><ART Public Art Initiatives; and Art on the Outside City of West Hollywood.
Photo by Daiana Feuer
This project is affiliated with the 2008 California Biennial, organized by the Orange County Museum of Art, and curated by Lauri Firstenberg. CB08 is produced in tandem with LA><ART Public Art and Off Site Initiatives with ForYourArt.
CB08 at High Desert Test Sites
November 7, 2008 - November 9, 2008
Hannah Greely
Jonathan Hernandez
Patrick Jackson
Alice Konitz
Joel Kyack
Ann Magnuson
Thom Merrick
Yoshua Okon
Jack Pierson
Ry Rocklen
Julia Scher
Marnie Weber and the Spirit Girls
Wonder Valley Institute of Contemporary Art
Amy & Wendy Yao’s Art Swap Meet
Joel Kyack
The greater the goal the deeper the hole
2008
Wood, steel, aluminum, clothing, water, food coloring, Astroglide, hand pump, plastic tubing, tarps, grapefruit, plaster, rope, generator, lightbulb, hardware, wiring
Dimensions variable
Photo credit: Anthony Lepore
Events include a Friday Night Inaugural Opening of the Wonder Valley Institute
of Contemporary Art, and a Saturday night Dinner and performance by Marnie
Webber and the Spirit Girls at the Palms in lovely Wonder Valley.
*Project descriptions, and a program of events will be available at the HDTS HQ in Downtown Joshua Tree next to Coyote Corner on Park Dr. Saturday and Sunday from 11:00 AM to 4:00 PM
To get to HDTS from Los Angeles:
(approx. 2+ hours)
Take the 10 east
Drive approx 1.5 hours (to the windmill fields)
Exit on Hwy 62 (29 Palms Hwy)
Take 62 (29 Palms Hwy) east towards 29 Palms.
The sites are located between Yucca Valley and Wonder Valley - An updated map will be posted before the
next event, and directions to the HDTS HQ will be listed on the home page.
WARNING TO ATTENDEES
The High Desert Test Sites is a multi-site event in the high desert. Attendance
is at your own risk. By attending the HDTS, you agree to assume sole responsibility
for any risk and to release anyone associated with the HDTS, the CB08, and
LA><ART from all claims relating to any injury, damage or loss you may suffer or
cause while in the desert.
These Projects are affiliated with the 2008 California Biennial, organized by the Orange
County Museum of Art. CB08 is produced in tandem with LA><ART Public Art and Off Site Initiatives with ForYourArt.
Special thanks to Andrea Zittel, Alex Wetzel and Shaun Regen as well as Cesar Garcia, Aram Moshayedi, Daniel Pelt, and USC Public
Art Studies Department.
For more information on High Desert Test Sites, visit www.highdeserttestsites.com
For more information on the Orange County Museum of Art and the 2008 California Biennial, please visit www.ocma.net
CB08 Billboard: Karl Haendel
La Cienega Boulevard between Venice and Washington Boulevards, Los Angeles
November 1, 2008 - December 1, 2008
Karl Haendel
A Year From Now
Stretched vinyl on billboard
12 x 25 feet
2008
Courtesy the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles
Photo by Daiana Feuer
This project is affiliated with the 2008 California Biennial, organized by the Orange County Museum of Art, and curated by Lauri Firstenberg. CB08 is produced in tandem with LA><ART Public Art and Off Site Initiatives with ForYourArt.
LA><ART Window: Lindsay Lawson
Lindsay Lawson
Veil Piece
2008
Vinyl on Plexiglass
24 x 38 inches
Courtesy of the artist and LA><ART, Los Angeles
LA><ART Entryway: Kori Newkirk
Entrywave
Edgar Arceneaux Limited Edition to Support Watts House Project
An exclusive limited edition is now available for $5000.
Each version is a hand-made drawing with a different background color.
Wattship
Edgar Arceneaux, 2008
diameter of 37.5 inches
Charcoal and acrylic paint on paper
1 of 10 unique versions
The Watt’s Towers, built in Simon Rodia’s backyard, is on a triangular lot that points east towards his native Italy. The eastern most tip of the lot is reminiscent of a ship. Imagining the towers in different environments, I’ve erased the distance between the Towers and the ocean, the towers float amidst a raging sea.
Thanks to everyone who has supported the Watts House Project in a variety of ways.
Michael and Sirje Gold
Linda and Jerry Janger
Laura Donnelley and the Good Works Foundation
Larry Mathews and Brian Saliman
Will Leben
Eileen Harris Norton
Elliott Barnes
Joy Simmons
Kathryn Kanjo
Christopher Yin
Donanne Kasikci
Emma Gray
In-kind Support
Trader Joe’s, Culver City
Grand Casino Bakery, Culver City
The Cheese Shop, Beverly Hills
The Mandrake, Culver City
Nattu Coleman
Project Partners
The Hammer Museum
ForYourArt
Creative Capital
Special thanks to Wangechi Mutu and Susanne Vielmetter
To read about the Watts House Project:
www.wattshouseproject.org
For questions and comments, or to join the Watts House Project mailing list, send your contact information to info@wattshouseproject.org
To donate, call 310.559.0166 or email Lauri Firstenberg at editions@laxart.org
BILLBOARD: Guyton\Walker
March 15 - April 26, 2008
LA><ART WINDOW: Antonio Puleo
Me and You
March 15 - April 26, 2008
LA><ART WINDOW: Jason Kraus
Warping Box
January 19 - March 1, 2008
LA><ART WINDOW: Michael Dodge
Complex Course
curated by Aram Moshayedi
November 16, 2007 through January 5, 2008
Brian Bress: Bamboo Room
Mara Lonner: …and so forth
Selected by Mark Bradford
September 15 through October 27, 2007
LA><ART WINDOW: Alexander May
Light Echo
curated by Aram Moshayedi
September 15 - October 27, 2007
LA><ART WINDOW: Jeff Williams
Thickly Settled
curated by Aram Moshayedi
July 19 - August 30, 2007
LA><ART SOUND: Ultra-red
Untitled (for seven solo voices)
7 one-minute loops
Selected by Timothy Ivison
July 8 - July 18, 2007
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LA><ART SOUND engages the entryway as a project space for imbedded sound experiments featuring looping and extended ambient works, conceptual projects, and site specific interpretations of the gallery and street to be played continuously at regular intervals.
BILLBOARD: Matt Lucero
Greetings From MacArthur Park
in collaboration with Aya Seko
May 16 - July 2, 2007
LA><ART WINDOW: Jody Zellen
All Moments Are Now
Curated by Aram Moshayedi
May 16 - July 7, 2007
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LA><ART WINDOW: Ezra Woods
Scent and Window Display
curated by Aram Moshayedi
March 17 - April 28, 2007
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LA><ART SOUND: Chris Watson
Vatnajökull (2003)
18 minute time-compressed field recording
selected by Timothy Ivison
March 17th – April 28th, 2007
images of Vatnajökull, courtesy of Tim Ivison
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LA><ART SOUND engages the entryway as a project space for imbedded sound experiments featuring looping and extended ambient works, conceptual projects, and site specific interpretations of the gallery and street to be played continuously at regular intervals.
BILLBOARD: Ken Gonzales Day
February 8 - February 28
LA><ART SOUND: Brendan Threadgill
“Mia Kara” Numbers Station
Continuous shortwave radio broadcast
selected by Timothy Ivison
January 20 – March 3, 2007
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LA><ART SOUND engages the entryway as a project space for imbedded sound experiments featuring looping and extended ambient works, conceptual projects, and site specific interpretations of the gallery and street to be played continuously at regular intervals.
LA><ART WINDOW: Justin Beal
Calender
curated by Aram Moshayedi
January 20 - March 3, 2007
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image:Justin Beal, Westpac, excerpt from Calender 2007
BILLBOARD: Harrell Fletcher
January 20 - February 8, 2007
Mark Bradford: Volver
November 11 - December 31, 2006
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mixed media mural installed in the portal entry of LA><ART
Originally included the song Mississippi Goddam (1963) by Nina Simone
LA><ART WINDOW: Vishal Jugdeo
Sorry Window
curated by Aram Moshayedi
November 11 - December 31, 2006
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LA><ART SOUND: Laura Kuch
Mama, Mama (2002)
selected by Timothy Ivison
Nov. 1st – 10th
image: Laura Kuch, previous sites for Mama, Mama, installed anonymously in Frankfurt.
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LA><ART SOUND engages the entryway as a project space for imbedded sound experiments featuring looping and extended ambient works, conceptual projects, and site specific interpretations of the gallery and street to be played continuously at regular intervals.
LA><ART WINDOW: Danny Jauregui
Broken Corner
curated by Aram Moshayedi
September 9 - October 31, 2006
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Ruben Ochoa: Extracted - Freeway Wall Intervention
Eastbound on 10 Fwy below N. Soto St. and Marengo St., 2006
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LA><ART SOUND: Julian Opie
“City” (1999)
September 9 - October 31, 2006
selected by Timothy Ivison
image: Julian Opie, Animals, Buildings, Cars and People (2004) courtesy Public Art Fund
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LA><ART SOUND engages the entryway as a project space for imbedded sound experiments featuring looping and extended ambient works, conceptual projects, and site specific interpretations of the gallery and street to be played continuously at regular intervals.
BILLBOARD: Ruben Ochoa
in collaboration with Raul Vasquez
September 9 - October 31, 2006
BILLBOARD: Torolab
May 27 - July 1, 2006
LA><ART SOUND: Gino De Dominicis
D’IO (1971)
selected by Ali Subotnik (The Wrong Gallery)
May 1 - July 1, 2006
LA><ART SOUND engages the entryway as a project space for imbedded sound experiments featuring looping and extended ambient works, conceptual projects, and site specific interpretations of the gallery and street to be played continuously at regular intervals.
BILLBOARD: Daniel Joseph Martinez
March 18 - April 29, 2006
Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life (REDCAT)
LA><ART Billboard Projects in conjunction with the exhibition Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life at The Gallery at REDCAT (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater)
February 2–March 2, 2006
Billboard projects by Mark Bradford, Ruben Ochoa & Daniel Joseph Martinez.
Image Bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life is a multi-phased project beginning with the photographic archive of David Alfaro Siqueiros.
Daniel Martinez’s billboard was located on 7th and Wall Street from February 18–March 18, 2006
Mark Bradford’s billboard was mounted on Sunset Boulevard and Golden Gate from February 2 –March 2, 2006. Mark Bradford’s billboard project was made possible with the support of Larry Mathews and Brian Saliman
Ruben Ochoa’s billboard was mounted on Santa Monica Boulevard and Highland from February 18–March 18, 2006
