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Five Artists – A Celebration of Life

  December 4 - 22, 1979 Five professional artists over sixty-five years old who exhibited mixed media sculpture, lithographs, carved wood sculptures, and paintings. Artists included: Joe ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1978-1979, Exhibition, LACE Tagged With: 1979, A Celebration of Life, Aurelia Morris, Five Artists - A Celebration of Life, Foster Jewell, Joe Funk, lithography, mixed media, mixed media sculpture, painting, Sculpture, Tomiko Nakazawa, wood sculpure

Bill Fontana

December 2, 1979 Sound sculptures by Bill Fontana that combined acoustical sound with eight-channel mobile recordings taken from environmental monitoring systems on Broadway in downtown Los Angeles. ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1978-1979, Installation, LACE Tagged With: 1979, Bill Fontana, Sculpture, sound, sound sculpture

Filter Kings and the Repercussion Unit

November 24, 1979 Concert and dance party with live music by Paul Anceau, John Bergamo, Jimmy Hildebrandt, Gregg Johnson, Lucky Mosko, and Larry Stein. ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1978-1979, LACE, Performance Tagged With: 1979, concert, dance party, Filter Kings and the Repercussion Unit, Gregg Johnson, Jimmy Hildebrandt, John Bergamo, Larry Stein, Lucky Mosko, music, Paul Anceau

The Big Dance

  November 3, 1979 A dance party hosted in association with Pasadena Community Art Center. ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1978-1979, LACE Tagged With: 1979, dance, dance party, music, The Big Dance

Video at Lace

October 20 & 21, 1979 Fifteen artists were featured in a marathon viewing organized with the Downtown Discovery Arts Festival. Artists included: Nancy Angelo, John Caldwell, Sam Costa, Ed ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1978-1979, LACE, Screening, Video Tagged With: 1979, Ed Emshwiller, Eric Martin, John Caldwell, Kathy Kaufman, Leslie Labowitz, Nancy Angelo, Sam Costa, Sheila Ruth, Suzanne Lacy, Tony Oursler, Ulysses Jenkins, Vanalyne Green, Video, Video at LACE

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