August 2011
ReVisions of LA with David Lee, Brian Pourray, and Kelsey Lou Ann Riley ( KELSO LA)
07 August 2011, 1 - 4 pm ASAP @ LACE LACE is located in the heart of Hollywood, an ideal place to observe and contemplate the collision of Los Angeles -- its intricate networks hum with activity as resources are transferred and spaces are reconstructed through use or development. ASAP’s 2011 Re-Visions of LA drawing workshops will build conversations around how our urban environments are constructed and what that means to our every day lives. Each month a new group…
Find out more »Unfinished Paintings Panel Discussion
Join LACE and Los Angeles artists/curators Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster, artists Brad Eberhard and James Hayward as well as special guests Carol Cheh and Lily Simonson for a lively conversation moderated by Doug Harvey about the provocative curatorial project Unfinished Paintings. The headlining exhibition for our 2011 summer season, Unfinished Paintings is an exhibition of 38 medium sized paintings by 38 artists, hung alphabetically by the artist’s first name. This show is meant to dissect and turn contemporary painting inside-out. Works-in-progress will be put on view…
Find out more »Native Strategies Launch Party
11 August 2011, 7 - 9 pm A Thursday Night at LACE program Native Strategies is a new experimental platform and journal for performance art in Los Angeles. Initiated by Brian Getnick, Zemula Barr, and Molly Sullivan, each issue will be released following a series of performances curated around themes, strategies and ideas present in the work of Los Angeles based performance artists. Over the course of five years, the interviews, essays, reviews, drawings and photo documentation from each issue will be compiled into a book.…
Find out more »Tessa Wills
18 August 2011, 7 - 9 pm Curated by Dino Dinco for Thursday Nights at LACE This performance event will be clothing optional, and therefore we ask that guests be at least 18 years of age. There will be a clothes check in the main gallery. Please stay for a Q & A session with the artist afterwards. ABOUT THE ARTIST Tessa Wills is a British live / performance artist and choreographer based in San Francisco who has also made…
Find out more »Screening: The Polymath, or the Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman
25 August 2011, 7 - 9 pm A Thursday Nights at LACE program LACE is proud to present in conjunction with Speculative a rare screening of Fred Barney Taylor's 2007 documentary The Polymath, or the Life and Opinions of Samuel R. Delany, Gentleman. Polymath depicts the intense life of Samuel R. Delany. This self-described “ordinary, dull, Black faggot" has been a rebellious pioneer who opened up the white male universe of science fiction to issues of race, gender and sexuality. In…
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