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Fire in the Belly: The Life and Times of David Wojnarowicz
In December 2010, the National Portrait Gallery in Washington made headlines when it responded to protests from the Catholic League by voluntarily censoring an excerpt of David Wojnarowicz's A Fire in My Belly from its show on American portraiture.
Why a work of art could stir such emotions is at the heart of Cynthia Carr's Fire in the Belly, the first biography of a beleaguered art-world figure who became one of the most important voices of his generation. Wojnarowicz emerged from a Dickensian childhood that included orphanages, abusive and absent parents, and a life of hustling on the street. He first found acclaim in New York's East Village, a neighborhood noted in the 1970s and '80s for its abandoned buildings, junkies, and burgeoning art scene. Along with Keith Haring, Nan Goldin, and Jean-Michel Basquiat, Wojnarowicz helped redefine art for the times.
As uptown art collectors looked downtown for the next big thing, this community of cultural outsiders was suddenly thrust into the national spotlight. The ensuing culture war, the neighborhood's gentrification, and the AIDS crisis then devastated the East Village scene. Wojnarowicz died of AIDS in 1992 at the age of thirty-seven. Carr's brilliant biography traces the untold story of a controversial and seminal figure at a pivotal moment in American culture
Tad Beck and Jennifer Locke: Capsize
$15 general / $12.75 member
from Capsize, LACE (2012)
By Tad Beck, Jennifer Locke and Marjorie Vecchio, PhD. Essays
by Jennifer Doyle, PhD and Grant Wahlquist
Published by Sheppard Fine Arts Gallery, University of Nevada, Reno.
About Capsize
Taking place on an island off the coast of Maine where Beck
had spent many summers both as a child and adult, the two artists developed a
body of work utilizing objects, landscape and models from this island
incorporating Locke’s approach to action/performance and the camera. The
catalogue is sponsored by a generous award from the Hilliard Endowment, the
Associated Students of the University
of Nevada, Reno, the Graduate Student Association and
the Friends of Sheppard Gallery.
Lifelines: John M. White: A Retrospective Exhibition of Performance, Installation, Sculpture, Painting & Drawing
$25 general / $21.25 member
By John M. White
About Lifelines
Since emerging as a young California artist in the late 1960s, John M. White has focused on performance art, installations, and drawing and painting. This exhibition catalog combines the artist's creative actions (performances, installations and sculptures) with paintings and drawings related to the performances. In White's primarily autobiographical work, he mines his personal environment, resulting in intriguing visuals that hint at contained narratives. White has staged hundreds of public performances and his works are included in numerous collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum.
Since emerging as a young California artist in the late 1960s, John M. White has focused on performance art, installations, and drawing and painting. This exhibition catalog combines the artist's creative actions (performances, installations and sculptures) with paintings and drawings related to the performances. In White's primarily autobiographical work, he mines his personal environment, resulting in intriguing visuals that hint at contained narratives. White has staged hundreds of public performances and his works are included in numerous collections, including the Los Angeles County Museum of Art and the Guggenheim Museum.
Christopher Russell: Sniper
$40 general / $34 member
By Christopher Russell
About Sniper
Sniper takes an imaginary look at the Baltimore Snipers. Russell proposes the relationships of paired serial killers as an ultimate expression of repressed desire. He writes a perverse version of the classic American love story told through the narrative chaos of nameless characters, past-life flashbacks, false recollection, parental and bureaucratic influence.
Sniper takes an imaginary look at the Baltimore Snipers. Russell proposes the relationships of paired serial killers as an ultimate expression of repressed desire. He writes a perverse version of the classic American love story told through the narrative chaos of nameless characters, past-life flashbacks, false recollection, parental and bureaucratic influence.
The Evolutionary Revolution: Fiction by Lily Hoang
$15 general / $12.75 member
Fiction by Lily Hoang
Introduction by Anna Joy Springer
Book 4 of 5, TrenchArt Maneuvers Series (2009/2010)
Les Figues Press
What if evolution was decided by committee and revolution by mere chance? What if man was a subspecies? What if man, as a subspecies, was woman, with tiny red wings on her thighs and pasted shut eyes? What if she flew in the sky or slept on the moon, and what if the earth was a saltless water world filled with forgetful, vengeful two-headed mermen? Welcome to The Evolutionary Revolution, a fabulist story of sense-making for the 21st century. In this twinning tale of freak shows and prophets, tract homes and impending doom, award-winning author Lily Hoang collapses time and narrative into a brilliant novel of beginnings and ends, where sentences undo each other and opposites don’t cancel each other out. As Anna Joy Springer notes in the book’s introduction, “In literature, as sometimes in life, it’s a scary kind of fun to be manipulated by a pretty girl, who changes the game on a whim.”
Vanessa Place: Dies: A Sentence
$15 general / $12.75 member
By Vanessa Place
Introduction by Susan McCabe
Les Figues Press
In DIES, Place withholds the period for 130 pages and one long night as its legless narrator recounts the war journey that has lead him to his final point of final truth, next to an armless man making stew. Place’s single sentence unmoors time and space, subject and object, victim and perpetrator, in a voice sanctifying everything and elegizing nothing. As poet and scholar Susan McCabe says in her introduction, “Roll over, dear Whitman. Here’s our new original.”
Jennifer Calkins: A Story of Witchery
$15 general / $12.75 member
By Jennifer Calkins
Introduction by Amy Gerstler
Illustrated by Sarah Lane
Les Figues Press
Fantasy, fear, and freedom all play parts in A STORY OF WITCHERY, a new book-length narrative poem by Jennifer Calkins. Here we meet Emily, our “small and weedy” protagonist, an orphan complicit (perhaps) in her own abandonment, and who is caught up, as poet Amy Gerstler writes in her Introduction, in a story “entwined with science facts and twisted clinical fictions.” In language rolling and tripping with spare precision, Calkins makes a modern pilgrim progress into the imagination and the dark world of medicine. Rich and haunting images create an environment of seeming familiarity which, like the internal landscape of the protagonist, dissolves only to reform, until finally resolving into a healed whole.
Teresa Carmody: Requiem
$15 general / $12.75 member
By Teresa Carmody
Introduction by David L. Ulin
Art by Stephanie Taylor
Les Figues Press
REQUIEM is a “folk opera, a lament for the unexamined life,” writes editor and author David L. Ulin in his Introduction, “marked throughout by its own quiet tone of authority, which works to peel back the surface of what we imagine and examine what is going on underneath.”
Drawing out the elliptical plain talk of those who would refer to themselves as simple, using Biblical language to pierce the callous and bruised souls of these lost, and sometimes found, people, Carmody creates, says Ulin,” art as observation, a literature constructed of the most minute details, a lens that allows us to see.”
Drawing out the elliptical plain talk of those who would refer to themselves as simple, using Biblical language to pierce the callous and bruised souls of these lost, and sometimes found, people, Carmody creates, says Ulin,” art as observation, a literature constructed of the most minute details, a lens that allows us to see.”
LACE Living the Archives
LACE Living the Archives: Selected Publications & Print Ephemera from the LACE Archives 1978 – 2008
The LACE archive represents a crucial site of cultural history for southern California. The past three decades have featured diverse and diffuse practices and the LACE archival stores are one of the primary sources of information of this important work. LACE had been using the benchmark of this three-decade mark to raise the archive’s visibility and offer unprecedented creative and scholarly access.
Designer Mark Owens developed the overall conceptual framework of Living the Archives in collaboration with Executive Director Carol Stakenas and Independent Curator Lisa Carlson. Inspired by the legacy of Fluxboxes from the 1960’s to more recent
creative curatorial print projects such as North Drive Press, LACE’s Living The Archives is a necessary and vital extension of our project space, not a comprehensive timeline and catalogue.
Living The Archives features republishing of select crucial texts which continue to be in demand: such as excerpts from TV Generations, curated by John Baldessari and Bruce Yonemoto (1986); Against Nature: A Group Show of Work by Homosexual Men, curated by Dennis Cooper and Richard Hawkins (1988); and Democracy When?! Activist Strategizing in Los Angeles, curated by Tone O. Nielsen (2002). Scholars Jane McFaddden (Associate Chair of Liberal Arts and Sciences and Director of Graduate Studies, Criticism and Theory at Art Center College of Design) and Glenn R. Phillips (Curator in the Department of Contemporary Programs and Research at the Getty Research Institute) wrote the forward for the reprint materials.
The limited box edition also includes original LACE ephemera, and four portfolio projects by Liz Young, Harry Gamboa Jr., Suzanne Lacy w/ Barbara T. Smith, Felis Stella, and Tenechia Terrell as well as Stephanie Taylor w/ Les Figues Press. As a whole, the group will represent the spectrum of media that LACE
continues to champion, including visual art, performance art, and video,
as well as public practices.
Hardcover / 9 x 12” / 110 pp / b&w
Inch Aeons: Poems by Nuala M. Archer
$15 general / $12.75 member
By Nuala M. Archer
Introduction by Pam Ore
Illustrations by Tamzo
Art by Molly Corey
Les Figues Press
INCH AEONS is a meditation on the form of meaning, the nature of nature, and the locality of tradition in an over-wired-world. Here, award-winning poet Nuala Archer adopts, breaks and recreates the limits of haiku, evoking moments of collision and convergence, from “Beyond Conception— / Without Regeneration— / Big Bang’s Leave let Be” to “Am-Is-Are—Was-Were— / Has-Have-Had—Do-Does-Did—Shall- / Should—Can-Could—Will-Would—“. These are poems, as poet Pam Ore says in the Introduction, “like starlight, resonat[ing] with the brightness of an original violence, cooling-healing and coalescing into the word.” Illustrated by Japanese artist Tamzo, and framed with an image from Molly Corey’s Family of Man Project, the poems in INCH AEONS are cracked and beautiful, fragmented and fully-formed as the world they come from.
in the plain turn of the body make a sentence: Two Plays by Sissy Boyd
$15 general / $12.75 member
By Sissy Boyd
Introduction by Guy Zimmerman
Art by Julie Thi Underhill
Les Figues Press
“Boyd’s signature style, her love of ellipses, comes from a distrust of language and a rejection of the hierarchies it brings in tow,” writes playwright and director Guy Zimmerman in his Introduction to in the plain turn of the body make a sentence: Two Plays by Sissy Boyd. In Green Shoes, a dancer returns to the studio of an artist to reclaim his obsessive drawings of her. Then. The body portrays the sadness and tragic memory loss of Ma, an aging dancer, reviewing before rehearsal with her adult daughter. In spare language taut as a contracted muscle, dancer Sissy Boyd writes body as mind and mind as movement, on the broken edge of human will and desire.
Amina Cain: I Go To Some Hollow
$15 general / $12.75 member
By Amina Cain
Introduction by Bhanu Kapil
Les Figues Press
Question: “If you had to think of a motion you’ve made more than any other in your whole life, what would it be?” Response: “I don’t want to be a motion.”
In her debut collection of fifteen short stories, Amina Cain makes ordinary worlds strange and spare and beautiful. A woman carves invisible images onto ice, a pair of black wings appears in front of a house, and a restless teacher sits in a gallery of miniature rooms. As Miranda Mellis describes, “The revelatory pleasure and hope [in these stories] emanate from an artistry driven by ethical desire.” “I highly recommend reading I Go To Some Hollow,” says Bhanu Kapil, “because of what it teaches you about love, and the relationship between love and writing.”
In her debut collection of fifteen short stories, Amina Cain makes ordinary worlds strange and spare and beautiful. A woman carves invisible images onto ice, a pair of black wings appears in front of a house, and a restless teacher sits in a gallery of miniature rooms. As Miranda Mellis describes, “The revelatory pleasure and hope [in these stories] emanate from an artistry driven by ethical desire.” “I highly recommend reading I Go To Some Hollow,” says Bhanu Kapil, “because of what it teaches you about love, and the relationship between love and writing.”
Sophie Robinson: a
$15 general / $12.75 member
By Sophie Robinson
Foreword by Caroline Bergvall
Afterword by Diane Ward
Art by Ken Erhlich and Susan Simpson
Part of the TrenchArt: Tracer Series
Les Figues Press
How do you trace death? What do you make of the useless objects left behind? Conjuring Cage, Stein, and Francesca Woodman, British poet Sophie Robinson documents the detritus of sudden loss. Layering word and image, object and subject, the said with the unsayable, a is as Caroline Bergvall writes, “[A] work of mourning. Angry, torn, hardly daring to remember”—a textual performance of “love that dares to speak as queer.”
Kim Rosenfield: re: evolution
$15 general / $12.75 member
By Kim Rosenfield
Introduction by Sianne Ngai
Art by Ken Erhlich and Susan Simpson
Part of the TrenchArt: Tracer Series
Les Figues Press
Delving into the fissures of language as an opportunity to create something new, Rosenfield appropriates texts from various fields of knowledge (evolutionary theory, psychoanalysis, advice on the science of living, and feminist theory) to rewire ideas of authority, subjectivity and expert opinion. The resulting re: evolution is part text-book, part poem, part song-of-science, part feminist guide-to-living. Presented alongside research and analysis from a literary critic (Sianne Ngai), a poet/academic (Diana Hamilton) and an evolutionary biologist (Jennifer Calkins), and coupled with images by poet/artist Yedda Morrison, re: evolution begs the question: what moves around what?
Stephanie Taylor: Chop Shop
$18 general / $15.30 member
By Stephanie Taylor
Introduction by Vanessa Place
Art by Danielle Adair
Part of the TrenchArt: Parapet Series
Les Figues Press
Chop Shop chronicles, in full color, Los Angeles artist Stephanie Taylor’s interdisciplinary, “site-specific” installation of sculpture, photography, rhyme and song. With an introduction by Vanessa Place, a conversation with Juli Carson, an essay (in German) by Susanne Prinz, and additional visual art by Danielle Adair, experience “a lusty, rusty, busty in full titular view, this voom-va-va-voom makes a gal leery, like the peek-a-boo of a cutie museum nudie. Still, she has the gall to leer at the gal on the go, the va-va which would be the ooh-la-la version of go-go, ergo, we’re the Go-Go-Girls, as in vroom-vroom, as in warum-warum, the why-why?”
Axel Thormählen: A Happy Man and Other Stories
$15 general / $12.75 member
By Axel Thormählen
Translated by Marianne Thormählen
Introduction by Judith Freeman
Art by Danielle Adair
Part of the TrenchArt: Parapet Series
Les Figues Press
A Happy Man and Other Stories or/oder Der Glückliche und andere Erzählungen draws together nine short stories by German author Axel Thormählen. Jochen, the title story’s hero, is a man content in the face of others’ discontent and their foolish fear of mortality. Like Jochen, many of Thormählen’s characters live within deceptively simple, but impossibly profound movements, accepting the happy limits of life. Judith Freeman asks in her introduction, “though we are drained, hunted to death, and out of breath, is [Jochen] not still, are we not all, happy men?” Thormählen’s great achievement is that his stories move as much toward the answer as the question, but in the end leave both untouched and unrelenting.
Stan Apps: God's Livestock Policy
$15 general / $12.75 member
By Stan Apps
Introduction by Michael Magee
Art by Danielle Adair
Part of the TrenchArt: Parapet Series
Les Figues Press
God’s Livestock Policy is Stan Apps’ self-ordained “mini-Bible…sort of a commentary on the real Bible.” Employing satire as incisive as that which one might find in e.e. cummings and The New Republic, Apps’ poems problematize God, configuring the deity as a grasping extension of Man’s urge for sovereignty, a populist construct by which we are roped, doped, and branded. Heaven here is a bureaucratic machine, earth a lamentable mistake, and humans the lowing livestock.
Vincent Dachy: Tribulations of a Westerner in the Western World
$15 general / $12.75 member
By Vincent Dachy
Introduction by Mary Burger
Part of the TrenchArt: Casements Series
Les Figues Press
“Tribulations of a Westerner in the Western World is a grand tour of a bland realm, framed by a slideshow and narrated by a cranky viewer in a running-off-at-the-mind commentary that veers from cynical to silly to wise to sick. Vincent Dachy presents the new Western Everyman as an engaging if solipsistic armchair tour guide, whose complex musings perform a strangely political indictment of a society in such an advanced state of decay, all one can do is sit and watch.” – Doug Nufer
Paul Hoover: Sonnet 56
$15 general / $12.75 member
By Paul Hoover
Introduction by Ian Monk
Art by VD Collective
Book 2 of 5, TrenchArt Maneuvers Series (2009/2010)
Les Figues Press
Paul Hoover’s Sonnet 56 mixes Love, Poetry and Shakespeare in a marvelous grab bag of form, wit and playfulness. Starting with Shakespeare’s sonnet 56 — Sweet love, renew thy force, be it not said / Thy edge should blunter be than appetite, — Hoover writes 56 poetic variations, turning Shakespeare’s sonnet into a series of new (and traditional) forms, including: “Villanelle,” “Noun Plus Seven,” “Limerick,” “Blues,” “Course Description,” “Flarf,” “Imagist,” “Tanka,” “Answering Machine,” “Rilke,” “Morse Code” and “Bad Writing.” The result is tender portrayal of love and an excellent survey of the possibilities within contemporary poetry.
Harold Abramowitz: Not Blessed
$15 general / $12.75 member
By Harold Abramowitz
Introduction by Teresa Carmody
Book 3 of 5, TrenchArt Maneuvers Series (2009/2010)
Les Figues Press
In Not Blessed, a story is told not once, but twenty-eight times in twenty-eight shifting versions. Here, a story acts as a chosen narrative constraint, a constraint which, once chosen, becomes a compulsion within the text, a landing point the narrator must reach again and again. Not Blessed: a brilliant twist of a tale, where narrative is spun like politics in the nightly news, deployed in a language that delights and distorts as it winds toward the trauma of non-truth and multiple non-originals. Not Blessed asks: what is the what that makes who?
The Black Automaton - Douglas Kearney
$15 general / $13.75 member
Douglas Kearney, a featured writer in Kim Schoenstadt's "Painted Over/Under" exhibition from Public Interest: The Summer Cycle, brings you his most recent acclaimed book of poetry. From ambivalent animals thriving after Katrina to party chants echoing in a burning city, The Black Automaton
troubles rubble, cobbling a kind of life. In this collection, bodies at
risk seek renewal through violence and fertility, history and myth,
flesh and radios.
Lo Hago Con El Corazon - Tank
$45 general / $38.25 member
Designed by Carolina Caycedo and hand-sewn.
Lo Hago Con El Corazon - Tee
$45 general / $38.25 member
Designed by Carolina Caycedo and hand-sewn.
Lucky Dragons: Open Power 12"
$15 general / $12.75 members
By Lucky Dragons (2009)
Curated by Steve Roden
Another outstanding LP from Los Angeles duo Lucky Dragons, whose music seems forever cursed with being compared to Animal Collective, but you might equally align them with the likes of High Places or El Guincho in their rhythmically adventurous sample-hopping ways. Expect a cornucopia of looped hand percussion sequences and the kind of exotic resonances redolent of obscure South Pacific islands with instruments you could well imagine being played by an orchestra of cheery parakeets. Open Power holds a delightful blend of tropical sounds and electronically shaped melody, and it probably stands as Lucky Dragons most cogent, musically rewarding release to date. Most deserving of your investigation
William Basinski: Vivian & Ondine
$20 general / $17 members
By William Basinski (2009)
Curated by Steve Roden.
The new CD by William Basinski, originally performed as part of LACE’s Resonant Forms festival earlier this year, and not available in stores!
Lara Odell: Bad Nuns
$25 general / $21.25 members
By Lara Odell (2009)
“I believe that anyone who does not know how to stay put and remain in a cell ought not go anywhere." This satirical picture book is composed of 28 nun portraits with corresponding quotes from mystical nuns' writings.
Animal Shelter: Art Sex & Literature
$10 general / $8.50 members
By Various Contributors (2008)
Contributions by David Askevold, Bruce Benderson, Erik Bluhm, Gary Lee Boas, Claude Collins-Stracensky, Rachel Detroit, Jennifer Doyle, Tony Duvert, Hedi El Kholti, Matt Fishbeck, Mark Flores, Paul Gellman, Giovanni Jance, Dave Jones, William E. Jones, Iris Klein, Alice Könitz, Chris Kraus, Elke Krystufek, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Jonathan Meese, Erik Morse, Theresa Pendlebury, Ariel Pink, JC Rees, Ariana Reines, Rebekah Rutkoff, Abdellah Taïa, Masha Tupitsyn, Sarah Wang, Goody-B Wiseman, Bobbi Woods and others.
This intellectual journal looks towards non-privatized forms of sexuality as a cultural conduit. With a focus on the underground sex culture of the 70s, Animal Shelter implies real freedom for the present.
Steve Roden: one stone. and arcs and ears.
$20 general / $17 members
Audio by Steve Roden (2007)
Inspired by a film by Robert Bresson
Originally part of the installation "Invisible Other," this 7" is the audio from the film Proces de jeanne d'arc. Roden edited out all of the dialogue leaving the listener with a fragmented and abstract experience.
Jeffrey Roden: Seeds of Happiness
$13.50 general / $11.45 members
Music by Jeffrey Roden (2006)
Cover painting by Syd Solomon
Curated by Steve Roden.
Striving for "perfect beauty," Roden offers the listener a new musical experience. The bass is the starring instrument, used to express the deepest human feelings.
Heuristics: Impossibility Made Easy
$10
from aporia : aporia, LACE (2007)
About Impossibility Made Easy
Produced by the dBfoundation and LACE
Printed April 2006 by the dBfoundation and the EFA
Michael Brewster
$20 each general/ $17 member
See, Hear, Now CD, signed
from Michael Brewster, See, Hear, Now, LACE 2002
Karaoke Ice Temporary Tattoo
Any 5 for $1 general/$0.85 member, combined with stickers
from Karaoke Ice, LACE (2007)
About Karaoke Ice
This public art project, an ice cream truck-turned-mobile-karaoke-unit, was deployed throughout Los Angeles to unite people in a collective quest to perform and record new versions of pop songs using the vernacular of ice cream truck music. Karaoke Ice introduced people to the playful ways in which technology can be used to give voice to personal and collective concerns, as well as enable meaningful social interaction between groups, both large and small.
Karaoke Ice Sticker
Any 5 for $1 general/$0.85 member, combined with temporary tattoo
from Karaoke Ice, LACE (2007)
About Karaoke Ice
This public art project, an ice cream truck-turned-mobile-karaoke-unit, was deployed throughout Los Angeles to unite people in a collective quest to perform and record new versions of pop songs using the vernacular of ice cream truck music. Karaoke Ice introduced people to the playful ways in which technology can be used to give voice to personal and collective concerns, as well as enable meaningful social interaction between groups, both large and small.
Karaoke Ice CD
$10 general / $8.50 members
from Karaoke Ice, LACE (2007)
About Karaoke Ice CD
Lucci's Home Tinklepop Karaoke Kit
A project by Nancy Nowacek, Katie Salen and Marina Zurkow
Featuring music by Johnny Cash, Aretha Franklin, The Beatles, Beach Boys, Stevie Wonder, Madonna, Outkast, and more!
Fallen Fruit Poster
$25 general / $21.25 members
from United Fruit, LACE (2009)
About Fallen Fruit Poster
Poster designed by Fallen Fruit for United Fruit at LACE, the collectives' first solo show by the artists collective Fallen Fruit (David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young), premiering a new body of work generated during Fallen Fruit's recent residency in Colombia, South America which features a series of photographs and video installations exploring the social, political and pop history of the banana.
Live and Let Lez Tank Top
$15 general / $12.75 members
By LACE
Women, 100% Cotton
Sizes Available: S, M, L
Karaoke Ice T-Shirt
$20 general / $17 members
from Karaoke Ice, LACE (2007)
Unisex, 100% Pre-shrunk Cotton
Sizes Available: S, L, XL, 2XL
About Karaoke Ice
This public art project, an ice cream truck-turned-mobile-karaoke-unit, was deployed throughout Los Angeles to unite people in a collective quest to perform and record new versions of pop songs using the vernacular of ice cream truck music. Karaoke Ice introduced people to the playful ways in which technology can be used to give voice to personal and collective concerns, as well as enable meaningful social interaction between groups, both large and small.
I Would Prefer Not T-Shirt
$30 general / $25.50 members
By LACE
Men & Women, American Apparel, 100% Cotton
Colors Available: White, Silver
Sizes Available: S, M, L
Fucking Fabulous Feminist T-Shirt
$25 general / $21.25 members
By LACE
Women, American Apparel, 100% Cotton
Colors Available: Pink, Black, Silver
Fallen Fruit T-Shirt
$25.00 general / $21.25 members
from United Fruit, LACE (2009)
Unisex, Hanes 100% Pre-shrunk Cotton
Sizes Available: S, M, L, XL
About Fallen Fruit: United Fruit
LACE is proud to present United Fruit, the first solo show by the artists collective Fallen Fruit (David Burns, Matias Viegener and Austin Young). This exhibition premieres a new body of work generated during Fallen Fruit's recent residency in Colombia, South America which features a series of photographs and video installations exploring the social, political and pop history of the banana.
The Woman of the Crowd
$35 general / $29.75 members
By LACE (2006)
About The Woman of the Crowd
Features "Executive Style: Looking It...Living It" created by Mary B. Fiedorek, written by Diana Lewis Jewell and "The Woman of the Crowd: Susan Ciancolo and Cone Denim," essay by Patricia Mears
Special thanks to Woodbury University
The Art of Spectacle
$35 general / $29.75 members
from The Art of Spectacle, LACE (1984)
Executive Editor: Elizabeth Freeman
About The Art of Spectacle
The Art of Spectacle was a major interdisciplinary performance festival featuring dance, music, theatre and the visual arts. The participating Artists from Los Angeles and New York (including Glenn Branca, Remy Charlip, Ping Chong, Lin Hixson, Robert Longo, Rachel Rosenthal and Carl Stone) were among the most innovative in the country. THeir diverse artistic expressions exemplified the direction of performance art in the 80's.
Presented by Some Serious Business, Inc., LACE, and UCLA Center for the Arts
Funding provided in part by a grant from the Interarts Program of the National Endowment for the Arts
Resolution: A Critique of Video Art
$35 general / $29.75 members
from Resolutions, LACE (1986)
Editor: Patti Podesta
Featuring articles written by artists about their own work: Doug Hall, Dara Birnbaum, John Sanborn, Lyn Blumenthal and Bruce and Norman Yonemoto
About Resolution: A Critique of Video Art
Resolution: A Critique of Video Art included an exhibition of video tapes and a full-day symposium with artists, writers and critics a LACE. It brought together a representative group of influential video work, gave critics time to study the work and draw their conclusions and resulted in a body of writing and discourse that was both critical of specific work and affected the viewing and perception of media images in general.
Funded in part by The National Endowment for the Arts Museum Program, Special Exhibitions
Joe Sola: Taking a Bullet
$30 general / $25.50 members
from Joe Sola: Taking a Bullet, LACE (2005)
Editor: Erin Wright
Featuring an introduction by LACE Executive Director Carol Stakenas, essays by Irene Tsatsos and Jan Tumlir and an interview with the artist by Stuart Horodner
About Joe Sola: Talking a Bullet
LACE is pleased to present Joe Sola: Talking a Bullet, a solo exhibition of recent works by Los Angeles-based artist Joe Sola, organized by Karl Erickson, Program Coordinator, and consulting curator Irene Tsatsos. Armed with strategies of seduction, including humor, beauty, and the occasional jolt of spectacle, Sola's artworks explore the problems we face when navigating between the stylized images we consume from Hollywood film and the residue of them that we take with us.
Exhibition and accompanying publication made possible by The American CInematheque at the Egyptian Theatre, Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Atlanta College of Art, California Community Foundation, JP Morgan Chase Foundation, LEF Foundation, LLWW Foundation, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Morris Family Foundation, the Wexner Center for the Arts and the members of LACE.
Heuristics
$10 (or $15 when combined with Heuristics: Impossibility Made Easy)
from aporia : aporia, LACE (2007)
Featuring commentary on works by: Aaisha, Joan Banach, Daniel Bozhkov, eteam, Rochelle Feinstein, Carl Ferrero, Monika Goetz, Nakazawa Hideki, Tianna Kennedy, Karen Margolis, Sarah Oppenheimer, Jim Skuldt, Allyson Spellacy, Peter Wegner, Treva Wurmfeld
About Heuristics
Published in conjunction with the exhibition Aporia and developed by dB foundation with the support of the Elizabeth Foundation and exhibited at the EFA Gallery.
Exhausted Autumn
$30 general / $25.50 members
from Sweet Oleander: An Exhibition of Works by Tony Greene, LACE (1991)
Editor: Richard Hawkins
About Exhausted Autumn
A Collection of Fiction, Criticism and Testimony with Plates from Paintings by Tony Greene.
Published by LACE, 1991
Democracy When?
$30 general / $25.50 members
from Democracy When? Activist Strategies in Los Angeles, LACE (2002)
About Democracy When?
LACE presented Democracy When? Activist Strategizing in Los Angeles, guest curated by independent curator Tone O. Nielsen, an exhibition, workshop and discussion series that brought together fifteen artists, activists, community organizations, and theorists from greater Los Angeles to explore six "problematics"--conditions, situations, and cultural challenges or biases that political and social activism is faced with today--through displayed artworks and projects, weekly talks, and actions.
Financial support provided by the Ruth Peskin Distinguished Artists Fund
Border Art Workshop
$35 general / $29.75 members
from Border Art Workshop / Destination LA, LACE (1991)
About Border Art Workshop
Border Art Workshop: 1984-1991; a continuing documentation of seven years of interdisciplinary art projects surrounding issues of the U.S./Mexico border.
Against the Grain
$27 general / $22.95 members
from Against the Grain, LACE (2008)
About Against the Grain
Against the Grain featured works by arists Tom Allen, Brian Bress, Robert Fontenot, Wendell Gladstone, Matt Greene, Julian Hoeber, Brian Kennon, John Knuth, Amy Sarkisian, Ryan Taber, Ami Tallman, Kelly Sears, Anna Sew Hoy and Cheyenne Weaver. Curator Christopher Russell looks back on a seminal exhibition from LACE's history, Against Nature: A Group Show of Work by Homosexual Men (1988), curated by Dennis Cooper and Richard Hawkins.
Russell looks at the influence of the original show and asks after the influence of radicality among a new generation of artists. Using Against Nature as a point of departure, Russell has selected 14 local artists that seek a similar critical position in our social climate today and undertake themes of decadence within a present day context.
Published with support from the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts and the Pasadena Arts Alliance.
Against Nature: A Show by Homosexual Men
$22 general / $18.70 members
from Against Nature: A Show by Homosexual Men, LACE (1988)
About Against Nature: A Show by Homosexual Men
Curators Dennis Cooper and Richard Hawkins' show looked at decadent seclusion and syphilitic deterioration as modes of social rebellion and was informed by J.K. Huysmans' novel À Rebours. This exhibition exposed the margins of the already marginalized world of gay men. The curators translated Huysmans through the lens of AIDS in a politically and socially conservative era, and displayed rich, decadent and inherently morbid work. They reacted against aesthetics that seemed polemically overwrought, privileging activism over the individual.
This catalog was made possible in part by a grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs of the City of Los Angeles.