November 2018
A Message from the LACE Team
Photo: Exterior artwork, Young Joon Kwak, Preferred Pronouns, 2018, LED neon rope, plexiglass, cable ties; Storefront artworks from Emory Douglas: Bold Visual Language LACE matters because of its community Greetings from the LACE Team! We are an organization and a physical space that unites us in the exploration of important and provocative art and ideas. We support access to culture for all in Los Angeles and revel in connecting with one another. As the longest-running contemporary artist space in Los Angeles, we invite you to become a member…
Find out more »December 2018
LACE 40th Anniversary Celebration
Join the LACE Family for the 40TH Anniversary Celebration! Monday, December 10, 2018 7PM - 10PM Celebrate the legacy and future of LACE! Tickets to this event are free and all attendees are entered to win free LACE swag packages including new and vintage publications and LACE editions. RSVPs are encouraged: info@welcometolace.org Event Schedule 7PM – Festive cocktail hour The Archival Impulse: 40 Years at LACE in the Project Room. Find your name, your friend’s name, your teacher’s name, your students’ names – everyone knows…
Find out more »January 2019
Take My Money / Take My Body
Jiwon Choi, Parallel (photo still), 2017. HD video, 29 min 51 sec. Courtesy of the artist. Take My Money / Take My Body Curated by Narei Choi and Nicolas Orozco-Valdivia Opening Reception January 3, 2019 7-10 PM Exhibition Dates: January 3 - February 24, 2019 In Take My Money / Take My Body, K-Pop is an entry point for a question about the promises of popular media within highly bureaucratic, surveilled, and macro-scaled communities such as corporations / nations. Whether a data-mining…
Find out more »Creative Capital Award Application Info Session – Los Angeles
Creative Capital Award Application Info Session January 15, 2019 7-8:30PM Learn how artists can apply for funding of up to $50,000 for innovative project ideas, plus receive career development and advisory services valued at an additional $50,000. Creative Capital staff will present an overview of our program and answer questions about the application process, the type of work we support, and how to apply. The session is free and open to the public—artists in all disciplines are encouraged to attend.…
Find out more »WILD OSCILLATIONS
January 24, 2019 7PM ONE NIGHT ONLY! Experimental vocalists Carmina Escobar, soprano sound artist Micaela Tobin, and special guest from Mexico City, visual sound artist Juan José Rivas perform in LACE's main gallery. Juanjosé Rivas Electronics. Visual/sound artist specializing in electronic media, Juanjosé Rivas* employs myriad techniques to give voice to the translation, error, obstruction, and interference inside artistic languages. Attempts to define the impossible, reveal the hidden, articulate the unspeakable, and evidence the truth as an instituted lie are some of…
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K-CON @ LACE
Han Sol Ip, "NCT127 Touch, image courtesy of SMTOWN" from Objet petit a, mixed media, 2018. Courtesy of the artist. K-CON at LACE Emerging Curators 2019 February 2, 2019 1-6 PM Event Schedule: 1:15—2:45 PM "Communal Political Fan-Fiction Meetup" led by artist Gloria Galvez When it comes to our favorite characters or celebrities, fan fictions allow us to change the story, imagining what could (or should) have happened differently. Join artist Gloria Galvez to collectively write a political fan fiction…
Find out more »Promise Zone Arts Year 2 LAUNCH
Promise Zone Arts Year 2 LAUNCH Thursday February 7 2019 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm Enjoy a Dynamic Evening! Come participate in a wonderful opportunity to make connections and sample cultural highlights from the area through discussion, performances, and food. ¡DISFRUTEN DE UNA NOCHE DINÁMICA! Venga a participar en una oportunidad maravillosa para hacer conexiones y conocer de los recursos culturales más destacados de la zona por medio de discusión, presentaciones, y comida. Promise Zone Arts is a two-year, multi-neighborhood…
Find out more »Video in Site
Still from Kitty 54, Michael Webster, 2015 Video in Site Organized by artists Maura Brewer + Paul Pescador February 27 to September 2019 First screening Feb 27 7-9 PM Video in Site is a series of screenings that will occur regularly from February 27th, 2019 to September 2019. Each screening will bring together video art and experimental film, alongside clips from the internet and other digital detritus. The work will be grouped together loosely by genre, including the Musical,…
Find out more »April 2019
اجنبی ملن Ajnabi Milan (Strangers’ Union)
اجنبی ملن Ajnabi Milan (Strangers' Union) April 3 2019 6:30 PM As part of Unraveling Collective Forms exhibition. Fanaa led a procession the night of the opening from the Hollywood Blvd overpass (101 Fwy) to LACE. In the form of a shimmering procession, this street performance celebrates people that organize movement, that walk out, that make themselves visible together. A surrealist/situationist procession of SWANA (South West Asian & North African) diaspora with a message addressing alienation and inclusivity. It is an ode…
Find out more »Ensayos Libertarios: Maaynok (Libertarian Essays: Making)
Images: Left - Julia Bogany, Center - Escuela De Oficios: Jorge Gonzalez , Right - Luisa Capetillo As Part of Unraveling Collective Forms exhibition Ensayos Libertarios: Maaynok (Libertarian Essays: Making) April 7 2019 12-3 PM LACE gallery Join Boricua artists Mónica Rodríguez and Jorge González in collaboration with educator and cultural Tongva consultant Julia Bogany, as they lead a workshop at LACE that combines "basket weaving" with "out loud readings" from a selection of texts by Puerto Rican anarcho-feminist writer Luisa Capetillo. Bogany will teach participants how to weave…
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