February 2018
Thank you
Thank you Patricio Bernal Morales On view through 2018 Thank you is an installation by Patricio Bernal Morales. Thank you utilizes the instance of exchange as a permeable stage for the definition of value. During its year-long residency at LACE, the installation will perform as a donation box, providing assistive funding for the sustainability of the institution. Thank you is an inaugural piece in a series of on-site interventions, surrounding LACE’s 40th anniversary. Patricio and LACE thank you for your contribution.
Find out more »New LACE Edition with Barbara Kruger
Untitled (Platter War), 2018 Barbara Kruger Glazed Earthenware, 15'' diameter Edition of 30 with 7 APs Ceramic Production: Creative Fire Studio Project Coordination: Eric Gero Editions Publisher: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) Launches 2018 LACE: Trailblazing for 40 Years Created especially for LACE by Barbara Kruger, sales of this edition support LA's longest-running artist space. Contact: Sarah Russin, Executive Director sarah@welcometolace.org
Find out more »March 2018
The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE
The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE Curated by Matias Viegener with Exhibition Design by Jeff Cain Opening Reception: March 15, 2018, 7-10 PM The Archival Impulse has been extended through 2019. The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE is a Project Room installation that pulls from material found in LACE’s archive that either highlights or disputes our conceptions of LACE’s history. Accumulated over 40 years, it has no organizing system beyond what LACE staff considered worth saving. It enfolds many stories about the…
Find out more »Ed Ruscha’s Hollywood Boulevard on Hollywood Boulevard
Ed Ruscha’s Hollywood Boulevard on Hollywood Boulevard Iconic Los Angeles artist Ed Ruscha photographed iconic Los Angeles streets beginning in the 1960s. By mounting a camera to a moving car, Ruscha documented sequential storefronts on the north side of Hollywood Boulevard between McCadden Place and Hudson Avenue, and on the south side of the street between Wilcox Avenue and McCadden Place. The images in the top black and white “filmstrip” show what the Boulevard looked like in 1973, and the…
Find out more »November 2018
A Message from the LACE Team
Photo: Exterior artwork, Young Joon Kwak, Preferred Pronouns, 2018, LED neon rope, plexiglass, cable ties; Storefront artworks from Emory Douglas: Bold Visual Language LACE matters because of its community Greetings from the LACE Team! We are an organization and a physical space that unites us in the exploration of important and provocative art and ideas. We support access to culture for all in Los Angeles and revel in connecting with one another. As the longest-running contemporary artist space in Los Angeles, we invite you to become a member…
Find out more »January 2019
Take My Money / Take My Body
Jiwon Choi, Parallel (photo still), 2017. HD video, 29 min 51 sec. Courtesy of the artist. Take My Money / Take My Body Curated by Narei Choi and Nicolas Orozco-Valdivia Opening Reception January 3, 2019 7-10 PM Exhibition Dates: January 3 - February 24, 2019 In Take My Money / Take My Body, K-Pop is an entry point for a question about the promises of popular media within highly bureaucratic, surveilled, and macro-scaled communities such as corporations / nations. Whether a data-mining…
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