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…
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LACHSA Visual Arts Dept. Annual Spring Exhibition
LACHSA Visual Arts Dept. Annual Spring Exhibition Saturday March 16, 2019 – Saturday May 23, 2019 Opening Reception: Saturday March 16, 2019 6-9pm LACHSA Visual Arts Dept. Fashion Show: Saturday March 23, 2019 1-3pm
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Unraveling Collective Forms
Photo by Chris WormaldUnraveling Collective Forms Opening Reception and Performance اجنبی ملن April 3, 2019 7-10 pm Exhibition dates April 3, 2019 to May 25, 2019 Tanya Aguiñiga, Holland Andrews, Julia Bogany, Carolina Caycedo, Tania Candiani, Patrisse Cullors, Demian DinéYazhi', East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice, Mercedes Dorame, Jorge González and Mónica Rodríguez, Harry Gamboa Jr., Jeannette Ehlers, Arshia Fatima Haq, Sky Hopinka, Israel Martínez, Sayak Valencia and Kim Zumpfe. A quipu (Quechua term for talking knots) is a device made of colored knotted threads—a multisensory…
Find out more »Using Memory & Connection to Occupy Space: Art in the Virtual and Natural Realms
Photo Credit: "The Oculus" by Larry Kirkland, installed at the California Science Center in Los Angeles Using Memory & Connection to Occupy Space: Art in the Virtual and Natural Realms April 24, 2019 7pm This conversation will explore the siting and creation of art experiences in the natural world and in virtual reality. Artists Sherin Guirguis, Nancy Baker Cahill, and Samantha Harris will discuss the motivations and inspirations driving their respective practices. We will hear about their interactions with and investigations of spaces, memory,…
Find out more »Screening Night with Los Angeles Filmforum
Still from Fainting Spells by Sky Hopinka Screening Night with Los Angeles Filmforum Sunday, April 28, 2019, 7:30 pm In conjunction with the exhibition Unraveling Collective Forms at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions 6522 Hollywood Blvd), Filmforum co-presents digital films by artists Cecilia Vicuña, Jeannette Ehlers, Arshia Haq and Sky Hopinka whose work are on display in the show. At the Spielberg Theatre at the Egyptian, 6712 Hollywood Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90028 Tickets: $10 general; $6 students (with ID)/seniors; free…
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Homeward LA
Homeward LA Saturday May 4, 2019 2 pm Performance at LACE Homeward LA brings true stories of those who have suffered from homelessness to venues all over Los Angeles between April 26 and May 5. Performed by professional actors, these stories are meant to inspire and bring the community together to end homelessness. Last year’s inaugural event raised $55,000 for The Midnight Mission, a nonprofit on Skid Row that provides shelter, food, education and more to LA’s homeless population. Please…
Find out more »Oral Histories of Environmental Resistance
Oral Histories of Environmental Resistance May 5, 2019 2-4PM LACE gallery (See Spanish version below) As part of Unraveling Collective Forms exhibition activist members Jennifer Reyes, Dimas Efren Donis and Hilda Dueñas from East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice and artist Carolina Caycedo share stories of resistance in LA and other places. East Yard Communities for Environmental Justice (EYCEJ) is a community-based organization that works to facilitate self-advocates in East Los Angeles, Southeast Los Angeles and Long Beach. By providing workshops & trainings, EYCEJ prepares community members to engage in the decision-making processes…
Find out more »LACE Benefit Art Auction 2019
SAVE THE DATE | LACE BENEFIT ART AUCTION MAY 29, 2019 Vibiana 214 S. Main Street Los Angeles, CA 90012 As LACE enters its fifth decade as the longest-running contemporary artist space in Los Angeles, join us for the annual Benefit Art Auction on May 29, 2019 at Vibiana with a special reception by Redbird & Vibiana Chef Neal Fraser’s Redbird. The online auction launches on Paddle8 May 15th LACE BENEFIT ART AUCTION | EVENT SCHEDULE PRIVATE HOST COMMITTEE RECEPTION | 6:00 PM Private…
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A NonHuman Horizon
A NonHuman Horizon Opening Reception June 29, 2019 2-6pm Exhibition Dates June 29, 2019 to September 1, 2019 Curated by Andrew McNeely Aritsts: Andrea Chung, Eddie Rodolfo Aparacio, Jenny Yurshansky, and the Harrison Studio. A NonHuman Horizon explores art that situates California’s ecology in meditations of personal and collective social marginalization. By bringing into dialogue work by Andrea Chung, Eddie Rodolfo Aparacio, Jenny Yurshansky, and the Harrison Studio, this exhibition aims to draw into focus larger questions about the entanglement…
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2019 Summer Residency: Sandra de la Loza
LACE is thrilled to announce that artist Sandra de la Loza is our next Summer Resident 2019 Opening in July 2019 Sandra de la Loza is an artist who creates open-ended, research-based frameworks that guide inquiries that include visual, experimental, social and pedagogical components. Working as a performative archivist, she moves critically from and in between the institutional and the social occupying a variety of sites to interrogate underlying power dynamics and knowledge production through history and memory. She…
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