December 2010
Community Dance Series: Elizabeth Yochim
December 12, 2010 12 - 2 pm presented by Portable City Lights Join Elizabeth Yochim in exploring diverse and fun ways to build individual and community choreography, culminating in the creation of brief site-specific performances. Find inspiration in discovering a new way to create dance and movement to carry through your life. We invite you to join us! RSVP at voice@portablecityprojects.org Yochim is a dancer, choreographer, and arts advocate. Trained in Classical Ballet and Art History, with ten years of…
Find out more »Wintering: Claire Cronin and Julia Horter
December 16, 2010 7 - 9 pm a Thursday Nights at LACE performance Settle into the solstice with two poetic music performances by Claire Cronin and Julia Holter. In the last Thursday Night at LACE of the year, both songwriters will delve into the sounds and experiences of December, the holidays, and the deep chill of winter. Claire Cronin is an artist and songwriter whose work blurs the boundary between psychic and creative processes. She recently composed a series of…
Find out more »Artist Talk with Karen Lofgren & Andrew Berardini
November 18, 2010 7:30 - 9 pm Part of Thursday Nights at LACE Join Karen Lofgren and writer, critic, and curator Andrew Berardini in an exclusive evening discussion in conjunction with Signs Point to Yes, currently on view in LACE's new Microlounge project space. Lofgren's site-specific installation approaches fate, fortune, and mysticism. Darkly painted organic forms with a multilayered, reflective finish creep down LACE’s gallery walls, appearing to seep or pour into the space from above or within. Lofgren’s work…
Find out more »January 2011
Re-Visions of LA with Alex Moore, Dai Toyofuku, and Tom Norris
January 09, 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 »Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945 – 2000
January 20, 2o11 7:30 - 9 pm Post Conceptual Performance: Video 1977 - 1997 LACE is thrilled to host an evening of video screening to celebrate the recently released book Radical Light: Alternative Film and Video in the San Francisco Bay Area, 1945-2000. By the mid-seventies, the concept of the artist’s body as medium had evolved from arid performance to effusive provocation. Tony Labat emerged in 1977 with the remarkable series Solo Flight in which the artist’s identity is given…
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