January 2010
Artist Talk with Lezley Saar
January 14, 2010 Free and open to the public Join I Feel Different artist Lezley Saar and curator Jennifer Doyle as they discuss the exhibition currently on view at LACE. Saar will talk about her practice, her “Tragic Mulatto” series, and the way in which her work ties into the exhibition’s central themes. Deemed “sentimental ambivalence” by Doyle, Saar’s work depicts the outcasted figures of an American culture that only exist in folktales and memories now. Focusing on the blurred…
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Meet the Artist : Kristin Calabrese & Joshua Aster
March 6, 2010 Please join LACE for an exclusive studio visit and reception with artists Kristin Calabrese and Joshua Aster, as part of LACE’s Meet the Artist program. Designed to facilitate lively, intimate conversation between artists and patrons and provide unique insights into the artistic process, Meet the Artist is a series of studio visits, lectures, and gallery tours held throughout the year, and is a benefit offered exclusively to LACE members at the Silver Circle and higher. Please RSVP…
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Unnatural Acts
July 21, 2010 Presented by Les Figures Press, 21 - 24 July Taking its name from the historic collaborative writing marathons led by Bernadette Mayer and others in NYC during 1972-73, Unnatural Acts will explore the themes of hunger, war, and desire through public acts of collaboration. Beginning with two days of installation and performance by Amina Cain and Jennifer Karmin, a group of ten writers/artists will gather on the third day to write together over the course of eight…
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It’s Just Capitalism – Applying for Grants and Maintaining Sanity
It's Just Capitalism - Applying for Grants and Maintaining Sanity Date: Tuesdays, March 22 and March 29, 2016 Time: 6:30pm - 9:30pm Location: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions (LACE), 6522 Hollywood Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 90028 Cost: $100 In this two-session workshop we will cover an introduction to grant-writing and fundraising for individual artists including dispelling myths, money fears, and belief systems that prevent artists from seeking support. Next, we will learn about the basic components of standard proposals for individual artists.…
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Closing Events: A new job to unwork at
A new job to unwork at Closing weekend: April 15-17 Free + open to the public A new job to unwork at is an interdisciplinary research platform involving a core working group of Los Angeles-based artists and curators. Together with these participants, we have been examining the function of work as a dominant life-structuring construct; work as a function of ideology and normativity; work as an activity that shapes our lives, pays our rent, drives us mad, and gives us many pleasures.…
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