March 2011
So Funny It Hurts: Alice Cunt and Kale Likover
10 March 2011 curated by Brian Getnick LACE is thrilled to present So Funny it Hurts, a series of performances curated by artist and writer Brian Getnick. At a base level, humor, especially dark humor attracts an audience. All of the works of these artists can be enjoyed as humorous at first reading. However, the ways that these artists use satire to mine complex psychologies and slippery notions of self offer even more to those who are willing stay…
Find out more »Conversations on Making Place
17 March 2011, 7 - 9 pm Closing Reception and Panel Discussion Painted Over/Under Part 3: Making Place is the architecture-inspired section of a yearlong exhibition conceptualized by artist Kim Schoenstadt. Featuring Los Angeles-based architecture and design firms Predock_Frane Architects, Chee Salette Architecture Office (csao),and Florencia Pita mod and curated by Erin Cullerton, Making Place showcases two-dimensional, abstracted vignettes of the Los Angeles cityscape. As both an exercise in artful placemaking and a response to the powerful imagery of forgotten urban landscapes,…
Find out more »So Funny It Hurts: Lauren Weedman and Nathan Bockelman
24 March 2011, 7 - 9 pm Curated by Brian Getnick LACE is thrilled to present So Funny it Hurts, a series of performances curated by artist and writer Brian Getnick. At a base level, humor - especially dark humor - attracts an audience. All of the works of these artists can be enjoyed as humorous at first reading. However, the ways in which they use satire to mine complex psychologies and slippery notions of self offer even more to those…
Find out more »Artist Talk with Sarah Seager
31 March 2011, 7 - 9 pm with On The Line curator Cody Trepte As part of the On the Line exhibition, LACE invites you to join artist Sarah Seager and curatorCody Trepte for a discussion of the artist's work in relationship to language, literature, and Conceptualism. For this exhibition, Seager presents graceful new work in addition to older works. Her career as an artist spans a breath of time which has seen language and text-based imagery develop dramatically in…
Find out more »April 2011
Explanation as Composition Listening Party
02 April 2011, 1 - 4 pm Organized by artists in residence Les Figues Press Join UNFO (Unauthorized Narrative Freedom Organization) members Harold Abramowitz, Amanda Ackerman, Sarah Shun-lien Bynum, Teresa Carmody and Kate Durbin for a discussion about the making of the Explanation as Composition audio tours. The discussion will be followed by a (mostly) silent listening party: choose your individual audio experience in a collective environment! Attendees are encouraged to download the audio tours to their own mp3 player…
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