Please join LACE for an exclusive studio visit and reception with artists Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster, as part of LACE’s Meet the Artist program.

Designed to facilitate lively, intimate conversation between artists and patrons and provide unique insights into the artistic process, Meet the Artist is a series of studio visits, lectures, and gallery tours held throughout the year, and is a benefit offered exclusively to LACE members at the Silver Circle and higher.

Please RSVP to Robert Crouch by Thursday 4 March either by phone at (323) 957-1777 x12 or email at rsvp@welcometolace.org.

The studio visits will be followed by a reception with the artists featuring food and beverages by Mooi and Stone Brewing.

LACE is pleased to present GUTTED: LACE’S ANNUAL WINTER BENEFIT. This year, LACE has teamed up with Los Angeles-based curator Dino Dinco, who brings his own passions and experience to this annual fundraising event. Inspired by Los Angeles’ history of performance art and LACE’s role as an open platform for artistic expression, Dinco has reached out to a range of artists, both established and emerging, to present an unrestrained evening of contemporary performance.

GUTTED showcases a daring ensemble of live performance, texts and objects speaking of, from and to the body. With a roster of creative talent spanning thirty years of live performance, GUTTED illustrates an array of ways artists have addressed the human form, spanning issues of domesticity and labor, AIDS, race, social activism, queerness, straightness, bodybuilding, body destruction, fantasy & grotesquerie.  

Participating artists include: Benjamin Weissman, Raquel Gutierrez, Xuanito Carlos Espinoza Cuellar, Sheree Rose, Monica Duncan, Alice Cunt, Lucas Michael, Elle Mehrmand and Micha Cardenas/Azdel Slade, Marcus Civin, Ryan Heffington, Dawn Kasper, Rafael Esparza, Gronk, Oscar "Sister Mantos" Santos, Josseline Black, Brian Getnick/THE BALLET, Hi Fashion $9.99, Julie Tolentino and Pigpen, Taisha Ciara Paggett, Heather Cassils, Grace Killjoy, Mariel Carranza, Dorian Wood, Samuel Vasquez, Bela Messex, Juan Martin del Campo Jr., and Joseph Shahadi.

The impetus for GUTTED stems from my love for performance as well as my ongoing interest in the work of French philosopher and social critic Jean-Luc Nancy, particularly his work Corpus.  In this work, Nancy articulates that there is no ontology of the body, but rather, the body is ontology itself.  The body is a familiar subject of discourse in the arts, as we have and will always already work from the body.  A body of work.  A body of knowledge. Through Nancy, I view LACE – the space – as a ...

LACE presents CLOSER 104.7, a radio collaboration with artist Jeff Cain, as part of the Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair, 28-31 January 2010.

During the art fair, LACE will broadcast a selection of live and pre-recorded sound art addressing ideas of location, proximity, territory, and place. CLOSER 104.7 will include performances and projects by Simon Leung, Brandon Labelle, Bari Zipperstein and Susan Silton, Zachary Drucker, Shizu Salamando, Jay Lizo, Dee Williams, Dino Dinco, Yann Novak, Sublamp, Mem1, Justin Varis, Julia Holter, and more.

CLOSER 104.7 will broadcast on 104.7 FM. Visitors are encouraged to visit us while we broadcast from our station in room B261 on the 2nd floor of the Pacific Design Center, as well as bring their own radios to tune in at their leisure. In compliance with FCC regulations, the signal will only be audible on the 2nd floor of the PDC.

Jeff Cain is an artist and designer who works with sculpture, video, sound technology and performance. His studio, the Shed Research Institute, is an umbrella organization for independent research, public art projects, and site-specific design projects. Jeff received his MFA in studio art from Cal Arts. His works have been shown in France at the Musee d'art Modern de Ville de Paris, as well as locally at the Getty Museum, Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Track 16 in Santa Monica, and many others.

Jeff has made several radio based projects including a project that decodes the LAPD digital radio and rebroadcasts it on the LAPD’s original AM station, and a broadcast radio technology called RHZ Radio that it’s hybrid online and broadcast infrastructure technologically obeys the FCC broadcast law but allows legal neighborhood radio stations without a permit. RHZ Radio was nominated for the Prix Ars ...

LACE is raffling off chances to win a Contemporary Editions Los Angeles artwork. For $20, you can enter to win a John Baldessari, Monica Majoli or  Sharon Lockhart. Retail value $1300-$3500.

Single ticket   $20
Bundle of 6    $100
Bundle of 20  $300

The winning raffle ticket will be selected on 20 February 2010 during GUTTED: LACE's Annual Winter Benefit.

Download the participation form.  

THREE EASY WAYS TO PURCHASE YOUR TICKETS
CALL (323) 957-1777 to purchase your tickets by phone
FAX your completed form to (323) 957-9025
MAIL your completed form to LACE: 6522 Hollywood Blvd., L.A., CA 90028.

Forms must be received by 18 February 2010. 

LACE is pleased to present Sweet Child Solos, a new performance/ installation by artist-in-resident Mark Tribe. The performance on Tuesday 19 January 2010 will feature several guitarists playing instrumental covers of "Sweet Child o' Mine" by Guns N' Roses and result in a new work to debut at LACE on Thursday 21 January 2010. 

"I am me and you are you and we are we and we are all together. Corporation t-shirts, stupid bloody Tuesday, see how they run? Coming back from Kabul laying in a casket, see how they fly? Something’s wrong. The more I want to be me, the more I feel empty. The more I express myself, the more I am drained. The more I run after myself, the tireder I get. Meanwhile, we manage. We blog, we rent apartments, the latest fashionable crap, relationship dramas, who's hooking up with whom, whatever it takes to hold on. All the existential crutches that allow us to keep dragging on, the dependencies we've contracted as the price of identity. Where do we go, sweet child, where do we go? Where do we go now?"  - Mark Tribe

RELATED EVENTS
Thursday 21 January 2010 - Guest artist talk with Mark Tribe at CalArts, Valencia.

To learn more about Mark Tribe's projects, visit www.marktribe.net.

"I am me and you are you and we are we and we are all together. Corporation t-shirts, stupid bloody Tuesday, see how they run? Coming back from Kabul laying in a casket, see how they fly? Something'’s wrong. The more I want to be me, the more I feel empty. The more I express myself, the more I am drained. The more I run after myself, the tireder I get. Meanwhile, we manage. We blog, we rent apartments, the latest fashionable crap, relationship dramas, who’'s hooking up with whom, whatever it takes to hold on. All the existential crutches that allow us to keep dragging on, the dependencies we've contracted as the price of identity. Where do we go, sweet child, where do we go? Where do we go now?"

LACE is pleased to present Sweet Child Solos, a new performance/ installation by Mark Tribe. An evening of solo guitar performances on Tuesday, January 19 will be followed by an installation featuring video of the performances that will run from January 21 through January 31.

Free and open to the public

Join I Feel Different artist Lezley Saar and curator Jennifer Doyle as they discuss the exhibition currently on view at LACE. Saar will talk about her practice, her “Tragic Mulatto” series, and the way in which her work ties into the exhibition’s central themes.

Deemed “sentimental ambivalence” by Doyle, Saar’s work depicts the outcasted figures of an American culture that only exist in folktales and memories now. Focusing on the blurred space between dual identities— black/ white, male/ female, natural/ strange— Saar embraces contradiction and celebrates the atypical personalities of American history, such as Dorothy Champ, Saartji Bartman and the albinistic Rudolf Lacasie.

ABOUT THE EXHIBITION
I Feel Different is a provocative project that explores both the experience of feeling different from others and the transformational power of art to make one feel differently. This multi-media exhibit gathers together artists working in the unusual registers of the sentimental and the sincere – testing the limits of what kinds of emotional expression are possible within art. In doing so, they ask us if tears register as “real” in art, what happens when we are asked to take on an artist’s outrage, depression, or pleasure as our own, or how much can an artist can really change how we feel.    Featuring Nao Bustamante, Monica Duncan and Lara Odell, James Luna, Lezley Saar, Susan Silton, Raquel Gutierrez, David Wojnarowicz, and Niña Yhared (1814). Curated by Jennifer Doyle.

Download, print, and assemble the online catalog with Jennifer Doyle’s exhibition essay, "Feel Your Way Through It."

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Health Insurance 101: How to obtain private and group health insurance
Join LACE and workshop leader Michael Grodsky for a FREE workshop for individuals, families, and self-employed artists.

Choosing a suitable health insurance plan in the private or small-group market can be a daunting task. How does one compare plans from the hundreds available, when they are all so different? Can a self-employed person qualify for guaranteed issue group insurance? How might health insurance reform affect me? If you want answers to these questions and more, this friendly, interactive workshop is for you.

RSVP today: send an email to Monica Hicks, GYST, at monica@gyst-ink.com.
Please include your first & last name, email address, phone number, workshop title, location, date and time..

Topics include:
. Terminology and design features of health insurance plans.
. How to select a suitable plan.
. How to qualify for California guaranteed-issue group health plans.
. Group insurance for artists who teach college part-time.
. 5 common mistakes in choosing health insurance & how to avoid them.
. What health insurance reform may mean for you.

Individual and Family Coverage
You will gain an understanding of the six basic elements that should be considered when choosing a health plan: premium cost, plan benefits, contractual financial risk, your personal preferences, health history, and financial  circumstances.

Small Group Coverage
Currently, only in 5 states can individuals obtain private market coverage without regard to pre-existing conditions. In California we have guaranteed-issue insurance for the self-employed, which can cover owners, employees, family members and dependents. In some cases there can even be a 'group of one.' We'll go over the business requirements for setting up these plans.

Health Savings Accounts (HSA)
You can set up tax-advantaged savings accounts if you have a compatible high deductible health plan. You will learn how they work and how ...

This provocative project explores both the experience of feeling different from others and the transformational power of art to make one feel differently. Most of the time, we attend museums and galleries with our social armor “up” – approaching art with sophistication, irony, and even a degree of cynicism. This exhibit gathers together artists working in the unusual registers of the sentimental and the sincere – testing the limits of what kinds of emotional expression are possible within art. In doing so, they ask us if tears register as “real” in art (and what happens when they do), what happens when we are asked to take on an artist’s outrage, depression, or pleasure as our own, or how much can an artist can really change how we feel (and if this what we want from them). The show acknowledges that contemporary art is powerfully defined by the relationship between art and the spectator, and asserts that emotion plays a major part in this story.

Join LACE for a special evening to celebrate Westfield Culver City's public art collection.

Located in the three primary courts, each installation examines the way in which the public can interact with art in a social setting.  Featuring works by:

Chris Doyle
Alex Israel
Jeff Kopp
David Trubridge

For more information on the artists and the artwork, visit Westfield Culver City.
To attend, RSVP to rsvp@welcometolace.org by October 27 and we'll make sure you're on the list.

Food, drinks and entertainment will be provided.