Los Angeles artist, Lari Pittman’s monumental exhibition of paintings and works on paper will be on view at Regen Projects September 11th 2010. At Regen Projects II, ten new paintings of seven large scale and three mid-sized artworks will be shown. Concurrently on view at Regen Projects will be Orangerie, a comprehensive survey of Lari Pittman’s works on paper from 1980–2010. This exhibition will include over 100 works on paper, hung salon-style over the artist-designed trellis pattern that will adorn the gallery walls. His extensive paintings provide a sense of exploration that develops in layers of figures and abstract spaces, a plethora of colors and line details combined with his sense of composition and patterns provides a platform of inspirational design elements that create a playful sense of balance. (more…)
The expanded L.A. branch of high-end New York gallery L&M Arts will open September 25th 2010 with an exhibit by Paul McCarthy, known for provocative and sometimes shocking humor in his performances, installations, and sculptures. (more…)
Billionaire philanthropist Eli Broad has chosen his spot. Broad and his wife Edythe have decided that the Broad Art Foundation will be settling in on Grand Avenue in downtown Los Angeles. A committee of state and local officials voted that he could lease county-owned land to build a 35,000-square-foot structure to house pieces from the collection of 2,000 pieces. (more…)
The Art of Elysium is dedicated to enriching the lives of artists and critically ill children. We believe that there is a powerful and mutual exchange of hope and appreciation that occurs when artists share their time and talent with children battling serious medical conditions. (more…)
The Associated Press reported that Jazz scene photographer Herman Leonard, famous for his smoky, backlighted black-and-white photos of such greats as Billie Holiday, Duke Ellington, Charlie Parker, Louis Armstrong, Miles Davis and Frank Sinatra, has died. He was 87. (more…)
Arthouse Films and Curiously Bright Entertainment present Jean-Michel Basquiat: The Radiant Child, opening August 20, 2010, at Landmark’s Nuart Theatre in Los Angeles for a one-week engagement. (more…)
DRKRM/GALLERY/WEST is pleased to announce the exhibition of Marilyn Monroe photographs by Ed Feingersh and Gary Winogrand.
An opening reception will be held on Saturday, August 7th from 7-10 pm.
Exhibition through August 29th, 2010.
DRKRM/GALLERY/WEST is located at:
729 Montana Avenue, Suite 2
Santa Monica, CA 90403.
323.271.5635
The Art Reserve is pleased to announce the participation of Mark Leibowitz’s exhibition at MICAËLA GALLERY COLD+HOT 2010 an annual showcase of the work of selected national and international glass sculptors in a single exhibition. Other featured artists are Peter Bremers, Kathleen Elliot, Michael Janis, Michelle Knox, Weston Lambert, Carol Lawton, Silvia Levenson, JP Long, Susan Longini, Thomas Scoon, Carmen Spera, and Kristiina Uslar, who collectively demonstrate the expansive versatility of glass as a sculpture medium in terms of material, color, and form, alongside the video work of Tim Tate and photography of Mark Leibowitz. An opening reception will be held August 5th on 49 Geary Street in San Francisco, from 5:00pm to 7:30pm. (more…)
FIVE is a conceptual art show that will feature five forms of art: spoken word, music, art/graphic art, photography and dance. Providing a full house artistic environment, FIVE is an event that brings together lovers of all types of art & vision. (more…)
Featured at MoCA last Wednesday, Los Angeles art critic, David Pagel goes one on one with figurative painter Salomón Huerta, a Los Angeles artist who has exhibited at the Whitney Biennial, the Gagosian Gallery, and LACMA. Huerta, who is known for his back of the head portraits and luchador masked wrestler paintings, reveals a posture of reflecting identity, while presenting a perspective of a confined persona. As his paintings evolve, his methods and processes has taken on a similar nature, having its own obscurity in identifying himself to his work. Their conversation discusses Huerta’s methods of sanding down his images three to four times over before it’s completion, he need for finding peace in his paintings rather than pleasure. As some artist have the fear of creating or completing works, Huerta’s release and detachment from his work is through the destruction of the image in order to maintain the objective of always creating something new. (more…)
Artist Salomón Huerta has an ironic style of creation that involves destruction. Huerta will be joining Zócalo at the Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA) on Wednesday, July 14 to discuss his artwork at the event Ego, Destruction, and Facebook.
Huerta is known for his paintings of the backs of people’s heads, commonly styled homes and masked wrestlers. But the secret lies in his untraditional methods. Most of his work is destroyed after creation and “it’s only like ten percent that survives,” Huerta says. He sands a painting off of the canvas and then reuses the surface for a new idea. His methods relate to his artistic views. (more…)
Los Angeles based artist, Mark Bradford and Getty Museum introduce the new online art eduction program offered to art educators called Open Studio. The program functions as a dual effort to bring contemporary artists into building new foundations for teaching art, and bring new art programs to schools and institutions. Open Studio is formed in multitudes of mediums and theories, from photographic stories to exploring color through ones environment. Each lesson provides a free downloadable PDF that includes an artmaking prompt, an artist biography, and images of the artist and works of art by the artist. (more…)
Please join us Thursday, June 10th for the Opening Reception of Unlocked: A selection from The Art of Elysium Private Art Collection at the Century City Westfield space 26. The Art of Elysium is a Los Angeles based arts organization working with actors, artists, musicians and designers to provide workshops for children who are battling serious medical conditions. The Unlocked exhibition is a silent auction that will be held through out the month of June, featuring artists Russell Young & Mick Rock, Nina Munoz, Patrick Hoelck, Lisa Solberg, Keira Kotler, The Ultra Velvet Collection, Chris Jordan, Lisa Solberg, Matt Mahurin, Archie Budd, Arthur Grace, Stephens Wilkes, Robert Bengston, Wouter Deryutter, Michael Muller, Allen Ginsberg, Madoka Takagi, Scott Caan, Anderson & Low, Noah Webb, Jonathan Gitelson, Tofer Chin, Henry Diltz, Alex Prager, Gisela Getty, Sid Kaplan, Brian Finke, Susan Burnstine, Firooz Zahedi, Jenny Lynn, and Christopher Cuseo. The gallery will be open Tues-Sat 10am to 6pm. For more information about The Art of Elysium please visit www.theartofelysium.org
Louise Bourgeois, one of the world’s most influential contemporary artists died Monday, May 31, 2010 in Manhattan where she lived and worked. She was 98. Wendy Williams, managing director of the Louise Bourgeois Studio, told the New York Times that Louise died of a heart attack. (more…)
