September 2010
Portable City Projects: Tianguis Market
September 18, 2010 11 - 5 pm Tianguis Market & Dialogue Ana Guajardo will lead a discussion on her Tianguis project. Tianguis (the Nahuatl word for open air markets dating from the Mesoamerican period and still in existence today) is a project examining a contemporary community of vendor-artists in Los Angeles that participate in and innovate the urban, public market culture. The Tianguis project is a three-month exploration integrating an exhibition, a live tianguis, community dialogues and workshops. It is a collaborative project utilizing the…
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Museum of Public Fiction
November 06, 2010 2 - 4 pm presented by Elysian Park Museum of Art Come by the EPMoA Visitor's Center at LACE for the climactic unveiling of artifacts uncovered during the Elysian Park Dig, a collaboration between Lauren Mackler and Riah Buchanan. This unveiling event will include a presentation of objects, audio and imagery relating to a few stories the collective have unearthed. These include the life and death of the native Gabrielinos, the dark undertone of the 1932 Olympics…
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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…
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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…
Find out more »LACE @ Art Los Angeles Contemporary
January 27, 2011 8 - 6 pm with a special performance by Brian Getnick and Kristian van der Heyden Come find the LACE booth at the Art Los Angeles Contemporary art fair for some exclusive previews of our upcoming year. View previously unreleased footage of LACE performances from Skip Arnold, Heather Cassils, Dawn Kasper, Julie Tolentino, Christopher Willits, and Swissnex. Be the first to own the LACE Living the Archives box set, available for purchase alongside the newly released Living…
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