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LUST 4 LACE

Geoff Cordner, Pig, 2006 (video still)

Thursday, February 14, 2008
Doors open 8pm
Tickets $10; call 323.957.1777

LACE’S INFAMOUS VALENTINE’S DAY PARTY IS BACK
To kick off our 30th anniversary in decadent style!

Featuring brand new or rarely seen explicit videos and performances from Southern California artists 

LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) is proud to kick off LACE’s 30th Anniversary on Thursday, 14 February, with Lust 4 LACE––the revival of LACE’s Infamous Valentine’s Day Benefit Bash.

Tickets $10; call 323.957.1777, doors open 8 pm. Start planning your outfit immediately!

Organized by artists David Burns and Margie Schnibbe (aka Vena Virago) with Peter Bolton & Carla Hart, Lenora Claire, Chad Clark, Robert Crouch and Christine Nichols, Lust 4 LACE celebrates the grand tradition of years past and all manner of delightful debauchery by creating a night featuring explicit, naked, juicy, tasty, slippery, slimy, crunchy, gooey, sexy, voyeuristic, fetishistic live action animated narrative squishy hand-made video, live art and musical performance––DJ sets by John Tejada, Henry Self and Robert Crouch––not to mention kinky crafts with JP Craft Captain sponsored by Babeland.

Participating media artists include:

Buck Angel
Skip Arnold
Jordan Biren
Squeaky Blonde
David Burns
Peter Caine
Franco Castilla
Mark B. Chamness
Charong Chow
Jennifer Cohen
Geoff Cordner
Michael Dee
Dino Dinco

Willia Drew
Zachary Drucker
Martin Durazo
Micol Hebron
Tyler Hubby
Bryan Jackson
Kadet Kuhne
Darin Klein
Matt Lipps
Selene Luna
Ming Ma
Eon McKai
Julie Orser

Julianna (JP) Parr
Kathryn Layne Paxton
Eva Posey
Dustin Robertson
Margie Schnibbe
Mark Cosmo Segurson
Thairin Smothers
Vena Virago
Austin Young
Nadya Ginsburg
Carlos Zamora
and more…

These works will kick off LACE’s 30th anniversary and celebrate three outrageous decades of performance and media art in Los Angeles. All works will become a part of the LACE Media Archive. The LACE archive represents a crucial site of cultural history for southern California. The past three decades of contemporary art in Los Angeles have featured diverse and diffuse practices and the LACE archival holdings are one of the primary sources of information of this important work.

PROCEEDS BENEFIT LACE, a crucial resource to the history of art-making post 1978 in Los Angeles. Join us in celebrating LA’s rich legacy of creative production, LACE’s unforgettable part in that history and ringing in its feisty future!

Filed Under: 2005-2009, Benefit Tagged With: Babeland, Chad Clark, Christine Nichols, David Burns, Henry Self, John Tejada, JP Craft Captain, Lenora Claire, Lust 4 LACE, Margie Schnibbe, Peter Bolton & Carla Hart, Robert Crouch, Vena Virago

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“A Tender Excavation” approaches research-based artistic practices through propositions of alternative histories, bringing together a group of artists that work with historical and familial photographic archives as a point of departure to construct new narratives and elicit transformation. Artists featured in the exhibition include Zeynep Abes, Susu Attar, Jamil Baldwin, Mely Barragán, Artemisa Clark, Arleene Correa Valencia, Mercedes Dorame, Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai, Leah King, Tarrah Krajnak, Heesoo Kwon, Ann Le, Arlene Mejorado, Star Montana, and Camille Wong. “A Tender Excavation” is on view from November 1, 2025–February 21, 2026.

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Thank you for joining us last night at the 𝗟𝗔𝗖𝗘 𝗙𝗢𝗥𝗘𝗩𝗘𝗥 Supporter Preview & Artist Celebration! ♡

We truly appreciate your encouragement of our work supporting emerging artists, curators, and cultural workers. With your generosity, we raised crucial funds for LACE’s operations and programming, which platforms artists and communities currently under attack including LGBTQ+, disabled, immigrant, and BIPOC individuals. With the dismantling of federal funding for the arts and humanities, support for LACE is as urgent and impactful as ever.

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