June 2016
Warren Neidich: The Palinopsic Field
June 15-August 14, 2016 Opening Reception: June 15, 7-10 PM LACE presents Warren Neidich:ThePalinopsic Field, an exhibition that revisits the Second Red Scare and the Lavender Scare, events following World War II in which Joseph McCarthy’s House Un-American Activities Committee directed a witch hunt against many artists and writers suspected of having affiliations with the Communist Party, and many homosexuals who were deemed “sexually perverse.” Using painting, neon sculpture and installation, the project resurfaces this history and gives us a fresh…
Find out more »Miha Strukelj: Here Somewhere
June 29-August 14, 2016 Opening reception June 29, 2016 7-10PM HERE SOMEWHERE involves a spatial drawing installation that relies on real and fictitious views of urban architectural structures to develop a new cityscape, questioning how one perceives urban landscapes and their landmarks. By abstracting, disrupting, transforming and fragmenting real information from the source photographs, the original locations are obscured, and along with added fictitious elements, become part of the completed image. In this process a special paradox arises: abstraction that serves…
Find out more »Jibade-Khalil Huffman: Verse Chorus Verse
June 29-August 14, 2016 Opening reception: Wednesday June 29, 2016 - 7-10PM Performance: Thursday July 28, 2016 - 7:30PM For his summer residency at LACE, Los Angeles based artist Jibade-Khalil Huffman presents a newly commissioned multimedia installation that explores the subject of spectatorship, systems of display, and narrative making. Verse Chorus Verse is comprised of a suite of formally connected works concerned with the question of perception by exposing and foregrounding systems of image-making and storytelling. Here, the projector serves…
Find out more »September 2016
DISSENT: what they fear is the light
Opening: Tuesday, September 13, 2016 – 7:30-10 PM Exhibition dates: September 14, 2016 – November 6, 2016 Curated by Shoghig Halajian and Thomas Lawson with works by Laura Aguilar, Barbara Ess, Coco Fusco, Juliana Huxtable, Metahaven, Carlos Motta, MPA, Sondra Perry, Christine Rebet, and Jimena Sarno DISSENT: what they fear is the light is a group exhibition that explores the changing understanding of privacy and control in a world inundated with surveillance and oversharing. The political discourse of this century has been framed…
Find out more »Open Air Prisons
Opening: Tuesday September 13, 2016 – 7:30-10PM Exhibition dates: September 14 - November 6, 2016 Curated by Kelman Duran Does a railroad never finished by colonial agents in Brazil signify a free-market halt? Does it point to a utopia filled with de-growth and unattainability as opposed to competition and expansion? A win for the forest and the Natives in it who didn’t succumb and who threatened to commit mass suicide if the logging continued to face them? Doesn’t the body in these…
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