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18 Happenings in 6 Parts

April 22-26, 2008 LACE is proud to present a re-invention of Allan Kaprow’s seminal Happening –18 Happenings in 6 Parts – originally presented in 1959 at the Reuben Gallery in New York. The ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 2005-2009, Installation, LACE, Performance Tagged With: 18 Happenings in 6 Parts, 2008, Allen Kaprow, Brad Eberhard, David McDonald, Doug Harvey, Elizabeth Leister, Elonda Billera, Flora Wiegmann, Fran Siegel, Happening, installation, Justin Lowman, Mark Dutcher, Martin Kersels, Michale Ned Holte, performance, Rae Shao-Lan Blum, Renee Petropoulos, Roy Dowell, Simone Forti, Skylar Haskard, Stephanie Smith, Steve DeGroodt, Steve Irvin, Steve Roden

Voiceovers

October 6 - December 16, 2005 Voiceovers is a series of performances, readings and screenings exploring the voice as a physical utterance and carrier of meaning rather than a tool of language ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 2005-2009, Exhibition, LACE, Performance, Screening, Video Tagged With: 1974 in California, 2005, about Gravity, Adam Overton, Alan Calpe, Attempt To Raise The Temperature Of A Container Of Water By Yelling At It, B&T, Carnivorous Birds No Rules Tour, Chuck Jones, discussion, Dude Dogg : Dude Dogg Pilot TV Show Test Screening, ELIZABETH SPEAKS, Exhibition, Home Grown Folks, INVICTUS, Isolation Studies, Jeannie Simms, Jeff Cain, Jessica Hutchins, Julie Lequin, Krysten Cunningham, Landscape Annihilates Consciousness, LM², Lucas Michael, Martin Kersels, Michael Wilson, Natalie Zimmerman, Perfidia, performance, PONY BALLET, Post-traumatic Institute for Social Satisfaction, Rachel Kushner, Radio LAPD, Screening, Shrimps : HACK, site-specific performance, SLANGUAGE, Speech Lesson, Sterling Ruby, Sustaining Human Values in a Globalized World, Terry Chatkupt, The Butthole Tree, The Elizabeths, Therapeutic Spaces and Others, Trinie Dalton, Ultra-red, Ultra-Red: S I L E N T | L I S T E N (the object voice), Untitled Play, Video, voiceovers, Wide Eyed

25th Anniversary Gala Dinner and Benefit Art Auction

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Tagged With: 2003, 25th Anniversary Gala Dinner and Benefit Art Auction, Alexis Smith, Allan Sekula, auction, Barbara Kruger, benefit, Bruce Yonemoto, Ed Moses, Eleanor Antin, Frances Stark, gala, John Baldessari, Jorge Pardo, Karin Apollonia Müller, Marnie Weber, Martha Kim, Martin Kersels, Mike Kelley, Nancy Rubins, Paul McCarthy, Sharon Lockhart, Skip Arnold, Stephen Prina, Tom LaDuke

Mouthing Towards the Millenium Beyond Baroque

January 13-14, 20-21, & 27-28, 1990 New performances and readings by Los Angeles artists and writers Leslie Dick, Bob Holman, Michelle Huneven, Jack Skelley and Benjamin Weissman, Linda ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1990-1994, LACE, Performance Tagged With: 1990, Alan Pulner, Barry Yourgrau, Benjamin Weissman, Bob Flanagan, Bob Holman, Curtis York, Jack Skelley, Leslie Dick, Linda Albertano, Marisela Norte, Martin Kersels, Michelle Huneven, Mouthing Towards the Millenium Beyond Baroque, performance, reading, Robin Ryan, Theresa Chavez, Willie Simms

Enormous Bones and Shrimps

September 11, 1987 Trombonist/composer Bruce Fowler performed with his trombone quintet, Enormous Bones. Shrimps, a collaborative group of Pamela Casey, Martin Kersels, Steve Nagler, and Gail ... [Read More]

Filed Under: 1985-1989, LACE, Performance Tagged With: 1987, Bruce Fowler, Enormous Bones, Enormous Bones and Shrimps, Gail Youngquist, Martin Kersels, Pamela Casey, Shrimps, Steve Nagler

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LACE’s Lightning Fund Opens August 15, 2025!

PRESS RELEASE: Announcing LACE’s Next Emerging Curators

Announcing the 2025 Lightning Fund and Jacki Apple Awards

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⭒ We are excited to welcome Jason Villegas to th ⭒ We are excited to welcome Jason Villegas to the LACE team as our 2025 Hisako Terasaki Intern! ⭒

Jason is currently a student at Los Angeles City College studying animation. He is a Mexican American artist making work about queer identity and bear subculture, inspired by indigenous art, pop culture, and consumerism. Jason makes ceramic sculptures, paintings, comics, and enjoys swimming, sci-fi, collecting toys, and his cats.

Join us in welcoming Jason to the team!
“A Tender Excavation” centers identities that “A Tender Excavation” centers identities that have been systematically excluded from mainstream narratives and representations of not only American art but of representing an “American” identity.

LACE is thrilled to introduce 3 of the artists featured in the exhibition...

⋆ Star Montana (@starmontana) is a photo-based artist who lives and works in Los Angeles, CA. She was born and raised in the Boyle Heights neighborhood of East Los Angeles, which is predominantly Mexican American and serves as the backdrop to much of her work.

⋆ Prima Jalichandra-Sakuntabhai (@prima_jalichndrsakntbhai) is a transdisciplinary artist, working across performance, video and installation, based in Los Angeles. Born in Thailand in 1989, they grew up in Europe before moving to the US in 2011.

⋆ Arlene Mejorado (@ari.mejorado) is an artist from Los Angeles who works through analog and digital image-making processes to contemplate ideas around memory, landscape, and placemaking. Often working intuitively, Mejorado’s practice ranges from traditional documenting to staging scenes that merge elements of installation, performance, and studio photography.

Join us at the opening reception on Saturday, November 1, 2025 from 2–5 PM at CSULA’s Luckman Gallery. Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP at the link in our bio.

Support for this exhibition is provided by the Teiger Foundation.
LACE’s new group exhibition “A Tender Excavati LACE’s new group exhibition “A Tender Excavation” curated by Selene Preciado opens at the Luckman Gallery at CSULA on Saturday, November 1! Join us for the opening reception from 2–5 PM. Light refreshments will be provided. RSVP at the link in our bio.

“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.

“A Tender Excavation” is made possible thanks to our friends at The Luckman Fine Arts Complex at Cal State LA. Support for this exhibition is provided by the Teiger Foundation.
This is the final week to apply for the 2026 Light This is the final week to apply for the 2026 Lightning Fund! LACE is awarding 10 artist project grants of $6,000 each, as well as one $10,000 Jacki Apple Award grant to a mid- or advanced-career artist. Applications close this Sunday, October 5, 2025, at 11:59 PM PDT.

Applicants who are LA County residents, are at least 18 years of age, and are not currently enrolled in a college program, will be considered. Learn more about previously selected projects and submit an application through the Submittable portal at the link in our bio.
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