June 2016
Overnight at LACE
Free
June 15-August 14, 2016 Opening Reception: Wednesday June 15, 2016 7-10PM Tim Youd brings his 100 Novels Project to LACE with the retyping of two John Rechy novels. These retyping performances will mark the 47th and 48th novels Youd has retyped in his ongoing multi-year performance series. The 100 Novels Project is an extended and idiosyncratic literary pilgrimage. Youd journeys across the world retyping entire novels in locations germane to each story. In these charged locations, he uses the original…
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 »September 2017
Juan Downey: Radiant Nature
Juan Downey: Radiant Nature Curated by Robert Crouch and Ciara Ennis Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE) and Pitzer College Art Galleries LACE Opening Reception: September 13, 2017 7-10PM Pitzer College Art Galleries Opening Reception: September 9, 2017 3-5PM LACE Exhibition Dates: September 14 - December 3, 2017 Pitzer Exhibition Dates: September 10 - December 8, 2017 Installation photo by Robert Wedemeyer Juan Downey: Radiant Nature, is a two-part exhibition on the early works of Chilean-born artist Juan Downey as part of the Getty-led…
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Thank you
Thank you Patricio Bernal Morales On view through 2018 Thank you is an installation by Patricio Bernal Morales. Thank you utilizes the instance of exchange as a permeable stage for the definition of value. During its year-long residency at LACE, the installation will perform as a donation box, providing assistive funding for the sustainability of the institution. Thank you is an inaugural piece in a series of on-site interventions, surrounding LACE’s 40th anniversary. Patricio and LACE thank you for your contribution.
Find out more »October 2018
THE QUOTES PROJECT ’92 by Kulov
From left to right quotes by Sandra Day O'Connor, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court (a.k.a. Feminist), George Bush, President U.S.A. (a.k.a. Humanitarian) and Clarence Thomas, Justice, U.S. Supreme Court (a.k.a God's Gift to Women) THE QUOTES PROJECT ’92 October 12 – November 6, 2018 Created by performance artist and political activist Kulov prior to the U.S. presidential election of 1992, the Quotes Project features disturbing quotations by conservatives in the U.S. political system at the time, and presents them visually as “true”…
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