THE Magazine - Los Angeles

The art works in this show seek to address issues of religion, spirituality and self-help through performance, sculpture, painting, video and printmaking. The title has been lifted from Louse L. Hay’s best selling and controversial self-help book You Can Heal Your Life, which was first published in the late 1980’s - an era awash in New Age ideas. Adherents of the New Age movement believe that a spiritual era is dawning in which individuals and society will be transformed. Some of the artists in this show are connecting with or questioning new age beliefs and others are directly engaging with religious iconography and dogma. ...more info

Announcing the gallery's first exhibition of 2010, Gerald Incandela: New Photographic Drawings. Incandela emerged as a photographer and filmmaker in the mid-1970s, at a time of profound and restless investigation of photography and its processes. Incandela's distinctive use of composite negatives and selective application of developer and fixer by hand, in a drawing like gesture, transformed the monocular vision of the camera into a painterly medium. In the words of critic Klaus Kertess, "Incandela subverted photography with its own tools and brought focus to the dialogue between the eye of the artist, the eye of the camera, and the eye of the viewer."...more info

Project_210 is very pleased to present RUTH TROTTER: Preludes to Painting, an exhibition of acrylic ink drawings on paper. Trotter’s investigation into the history of early and mid-20th Century painting, particularly Surrealism and Abstract Expression, provide fuel for her newest body of work. ...more info

USC Fisher Museum of Art celebrates the 2010 Centennial Anniversary of the Mexican Revolution with the unveiling of a new Mexican art acquisition and prints from USC's Special Collections Library....more info

A mingling of underwater and space realms, Jennybird Alcantara's "Swooning at the River of Oblivion” depicts characters positioned between the waking world and the world of sleep, and a continued exploration of dual nature, created with oil on wood, acrylic on paper and mixed media dolls. The works are inspired in part by the mythology of Nyx, the primordial goddess of nighttime, Morpheus the Greek god of dreams as well as a quote from a Nick Cave song that reads "You jump into the Abyss to find, it only goes up to your knees". ...more info

George Thomas spent his formative years surrounded by Googie architecture, automobiles with tremendous tail fins, theme parks, advertising and old Hollywood movies in 1950s -1960s Orange County, California and it reflects in his art. Mixing the real with the surreal, sometimes separately and sometimes in the same piece, Thomas uses oil on canvas to portray a variety of subject matter, from landscapes and floral pictures, cars, mid-century architectural portraits, and iconic allegories, the latter of which are intricate, complex, retro-futuristic and nostalgic. Thomas, a father of three, is a graduate, with honors, from Art Center College of Design in Pasadena and currently lives in the high desert country of the Antelope Valley....more info

Scott White Contemporary Art is pleased to present Deborah Oropallo's Wild Wild West Show, an exhibition of new digitally constructed, provocative paintings by the Bay Area based artist....more info

Andi Campognone Projects is proud to announce THE ORGANIC LINE, an exhibition featuring work by Dawn Arrowsmith, Barbara Berk, Virginia Katz, Gary Paller, Ann Marie Rousseau, Michael Salerno, and Valerie Wilcox....more info

Past examples from Manfred Menz’s Invisible Project called attention to nature by means of erasing buildings, landmarks, and other cultural evidence from the international sites represented in his photographs. This action was achieved by digitally removing structures like the Golden Gate Bridge or Eiffel Tower—structures that proclaim man’s power over nature. Even when the trees and plants remaining in his photographs were manicured to show traces of human passage, Menz salvaged them in order to highlight the adjoining emptiness which exposed the mortality of our built environment. ...more info

The original exhibition included works by Peter Alexander, Richard Amend, Michael Balog, Greg Card, Carole Caroompas, Judy Chicago, Ron Cooper, Ron Davis, Doug Edge, David Elder, Fred Eversley, Craig Kauffman, Linda Levi, Ed Moses, Karen Nelson, Terry O'Shea, Helen Pashigian, Fran Raboff, Roland Reiss, Lynn Roylance, Barbara Smith, De Wain Valentine, Vasa, and Rita Yokoi. "The Last Plastics Show" at Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art will feature vintage pieces by many of these same artists. ...more info

Scott Rhea was born and raised in Louisiana enjoying the many cultural attributes that the redneck state offers. Early aspirations of designing clothes combined with his love of photography gave way to a career shooting fashion. Rhea has since lived and worked in Europe and the U.S. shooting advertising campaigns, and editorials. While professionally Rhea now focuses his attentions to directing film and commercials, his stunning still-photography work has become a means to explore his personal beliefs and ideas. Unencumbered by the pulls of commercial photography, his unique vision creates hauntingly, beautiful worlds that simultaneously threaten and entice the viewer....more info

Charlie James Gallery is pleased to announce the gallery's first solo show of Bay Area conceptualist Lizabeth Eva Rossof. In "Hey, China!" Lizabeth will exhibit paintings and sculptures commissioned and fabricated by workers in the People's Republic of China. Uniting all of the paintings in the show is the politically sensitive subject matter depicted throughout. There are images from the Tiananmen Square massacre (otherwise known in the People's Republic of China (PRC) as the "June 4th Incident")), images concerning Tibetan liberation, the Falun Gong spiritual movement, as well as images culled from pornographic websites blocked in the PRC. In point of fact, every painting in the show is of content deemed illegal in the PRC, with the source images taken from websites currently blocked in the PRC, made by workers in the PRC. ...more info

Renowned Mexican sculptor Jorge Marín returns to Couturier Gallery with a series of bronze sculptures for his autobiographical solo show Conversaciones / Conversations. The figural works in the exhibition illustrate Marin’s inner dialogues, aspirations seen within an admittedly surrealist context....more info

Tradition - the handing down of statements, beliefs, legends, customs, information, etc., from generation to generation, esp. by word of mouth or by practice: a story that has come down to us by popular tradition. ...more info

The New York based artist's fourth exhibition with the gallery will feature ink and graphite drawings, which reflect their intense, almost obsessive making. They resemble aerial views and charts, reflecting a wide range of sources, from road maps, satellite imagery, electron micrographs to anatomical diagrams....more info

William Lane's abstractions start and finish with color. It is color that defines his often architecturally influenced compositions, providing depth and resonance to the geometric structure of the paintings. Lane's formal paintings are the result of countless hours of observation, consideration and alteration as the artist pursues a harmonious balance of color, light, composition and surface. ...more info

Many of the smaller, early works show the artist’s interest in Asian ceramics. He was particularly fond of Imari ware and Kutani ceramics. Rare among American ceramists, his works were collected by museums in Asia, including the Shigaraki Museum of Contemporary Ceramic Art in Japan, and the National Museum of Modern Art in Kyoto. In the U.S., Bacerra’s work was included in the National Collection of American Art at the Smithsonian Institution in Washington D.C., the M.H. de Young Museum in San Francisco, and the Everson Museum in Syracuse, New York. ...more info

am interested in making art which parallels the way that smells, words, images numbers, memories, ideas and fantasies all rumble around in our brains at any given moment. Our lives involve many contradictions: I hope to reflect this complexity in the work. I do this through the means of drawing, painting, installations and lenticular print editions. My perennial focus is in finding the connections between unlike images. By consciously revealing these links, I hope to help with the integration of these contractions and opposites. ...more info

Interior Landscape is a photographic series that uses the natural distortions present in our every day world, moisture on windows, to evoke a painterly quality that re-contextualizes our way of seeing the everyday architectural landscape, while still retaining a connection to the realism inherent in photography. While focusing on the most minute details of these natural distortions, we generate a space for quiet contemplation breaking old, rigid view patterns and allowing for a new external and internal vision to occur....more info

Rembrandt van Rijn was a prolific printmaker and created about 300 etchings throughout his long career. The exhibition will include a variety of etchings with subjects ranging from religious narratives to figure studies and landscape. Drawn from the extensive collection of the Hammer's Grunwald Center for the Graphic Arts...more info

Manrique Torres is an artist whose talent cannot be restricted to one medium. He combines images and mediums together in a style that builds upon surrealist tradition. His latest series focuses on the otherworldly landscapes of Joshua Tree, transporting the viewer into a mesmerizing and gorgeous setting. ...more info

Jered Sprecher's (b. 1976) paintings explore the "handwriting" of humankind. Taking cues and samples from our visually cluttered landscape, Sprecher incorporates and imports them into his abstract painting and drawings. In 2009, he received a John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellowship. Most recently, Sprecher's paintings were exhibited at Jeff Bailey Gallery (New York), Steven Zevitas Gallery (Boston), ADA Gallery (Richmond, Virginia), Cheekwood Museum of Art (Tennessee), and Calvin College (Michigan). In previous years Sprecher's paintings were included in group shows at The Drawing Center (New York), Mark Moore Gallery (Santa Monica, CA), Wendy Cooper Gallery (Chicago), and solo exhibitions at the Irish Museum of Modern Art (Dublin), The Flourescent Gallery (Knoxville) and Arthouse (Austin, TX) among others. Sprecher received his M.A. and M.F.A. from the University of Iowa and is currently an Assistant Professor at The University of Tennessee in Knoxville, Tennessee. ...more info

Laguna College of Art + Design MFA Graduate Shay Bredimus will exhibit his figurative drawings and paintings in a solo exhibition at Koplin del Rio in Culver City, CA. Shay Bredimus earned his MFA in 2008 from LCAD and a BFA in painting from Emily Carr University in Vancouver, Canada in 2004. He has studied under MFA faculty mentors F. Scott Hess and Wes Christensen, among others. His work was featured in a solo exhibition at the San Luis Obispo Art Center in 2008. Bredimus has earned critical praise from Artweek and the New Times San Luis Obispo....more info

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Since her first solo show at Mark Moore Gallery in 2007, Allison Schulnik has embarked on an unparalleled contemporary tour de force. She has established an acclaimed global reputation with one-person exhibitions in London, Rome and New York City, in addition to her inclusion in over twenty international group shows. ...more info

McGinty’s Gallery at the End of the World is pleased to present Circa Sometime, an exhibition of selected works by six artists working in assemblage and collage. Circa Sometime marks the first such show at the gallery and includes collaborative and individual installation works....more info

Monte Vista is pleased to announce our first exhibition of 2010, featuring Ah-round, a single channel video by Australian artist Rebecca Hobbs. About the work, Hobbs says: Ah-round was made in the summer of 2008, during which time I was involved in a romantic relationship with Madou, the man in the video. Madou and I endeavored to make a work together that celebrated our shared experiences in spite of our apparent differences. ...more info

Alex Prager, Alma Márquez, Amanda Marsalis, Ashira Siegel, Brandy Eve, Cheryl Dunn, Deanna Templeton, Jeaneen Lund, Kassia Meador, Laura Flippen, Lauren Dukoff, Rebecca Wright, Susanne Melanie Berry, Taylor Brittenham. Project Room: Lauren Kelley ...more info

INCLEMENT - a photography exhibition opens at PEDERSEN projects on January 9, 2010 at 6:00pm and features artists from London, Cork (Ireland), Quebec City (Canada), Tokyo, New York and Los Angeles....more info

We are happy to present 'Hope Springs Internal' - the first one person show at POVevolving Gallery by artist John Casey. The show will feature a collection of new pen and ink drawings and a large scale installation....more info

Richard Heller Gallery proudly presents the first Los Angeles solo exhibition by Winnipeg based collaborators, Michael Dumontier and Neil Farber Corp. Farber and Dumontier are founding members of Winnipegʼs Royal Art Lodge, a collaborative group of artists including Marcel Dzama, and Jonathan Pylypchuk. Dumontier and Farber were featured in a widely popular traveling exhibition, “The Royal art Lodge: Ask the Dust”, that originated in New York City at the Drawing Center. The Drawing Center exhibition of The Royal Art Lodge was the most attended show ever in the history of The Drawing Center. This exhibition also traveled to Los Angeles and was shown at MOCAʼs pacific design center space....more info

In this latest body of work, Udo Nöger continues his interest in light and its manifestations. The artist creates specific perceptual environments in his work through an intricate process of manipulating paint, volumes and space....more info

The Happy Lion is very pleased to present an exhibition with Los Angeles based artist Joe Sola featuring the debut of a new video work, A Short Film About Looking. With his signature dry wit Sola’s latest work is a meditation on looking, as positioned by his characters: the artist, the patron and the gallery. A parallel narrative unfolds as we follow the morning of the two males: the first a scruffy artist type, the second a wealthy consumer. ...more info

Landscape for il Sassetta is a site specific video installation that makes use of a disused fireplace in the library. Suderberg describes Landscape for il Sassetta as "a contemporary approach to the contemplative disciplines, a fascination with fire and flying monks converge in an examination of place, habit and aspiration." ...more info

Stare is an exercise into the committed gaze and color (active and passive viewing); one will replace the other based on the individual's efforts of looking at the work. Stare consists of two video portraits projected adjacent to each other, both saturated in color, making the image a challenge to see. In addition, the viewer is also being washed in the colored light of the projection as he/she stands between the two portraits -- in effect becoming enmeshed in the exchange....more info

This new series of paintings continue to explore the realm of fine painting with a subtle mixed media under painting that amplifies the tension between exacting brush work painted on top of bits of text and maps. These paintings deserve your close attention, and reward it generously!...more info

Following the first known self portrait by Jan van Eyck, in 1433, to Durer and the haunting self portraits of Rembrandt art history has since been full of the subjective gaze of the artist upon themselves and others. Today the practice continues, often for very widely differing conceptual reasons, but the telling study still hints at mortality as well as exploring that strange meeting point that the introspective self gaze and objective outward look attunes itself to in order to displace the subjective/objective dichotomy....more info

FAX invites a multigenerational group of artists, as well as architects, designers, scientists and filmmakers, to conceive of the fax machine as a tool for thinking and drawing. Although the technology for transmitting printed images and texts over distance dates from the nineteenth century—a machine by Scottish mechanic Alexander Bain patented in 1843—it was the introduction of the modern fax through commercially available machines in the 1970s that turned facsimiles into a ubiquitous communications medium for international business. Artists readily exploited its immediate, graphic, and interactive character, making it an important part of the history of telecommunications art, nestled between the legacy of mail art and the nascent practices of new media....more info

It started out simple enough: a couple glasses of wine, several shots of bourbon, and pondering what would happen if Dr. Seuss, Richard Scarry, and a stable of My Little Ponies each downed a bucket of liquid acid and proceeded to engage in an orgy that spawned a hundred love-children....more info

Project_210 presents ABEL ALEJANDRE: Familiar Ground, a debut solo exhibition of new work by the Los Angeles artist. Chronicling his family history, Alejandre tackles personal issues that include masculinity, patrimony, sexuality, aggression and isolation. In “My Fathers”, a massive woodcut measuring four by eight feet, the artist has exquisitely rendered the image of two men. The older man¹s weathered face reveals evidence of a hard life and his eyes fill with tears as stares poignantly into space. ...more info

Thomas Garner: Paintings of Paintings, Miguel Osuna: The Commute Series and Michael Pearce: Two Installations On Display in the Project Windows, Jerico Woggon: The Four Seasons ...more info

For this installation, Jeff & Gordon, inspired by the private / public nature of HAUS (both home and gallery), humorously explore the breakdown between these increasingly borderless realms in society today. Filmed in the homes of associates of HAUS, their “Running with Scissors” video mocks the “real estate walk-through” that litters websites like YouTube, with the artists themselves interjected as disruptive elements. In “Party Pics,” Jeff and Gordon synthesized and documented a party where hired actors staged an artificial social scene in the gallery, mimicking the ubiquitous images found on facebook and flickr. ...more info

3x3 (Three by Three) celebrates the work of three painters and three sculptors of different generations, backgrounds and artistic approach, who engage in a dialogue with abstraction. Each artist uniquely explores the boundaries of form, color and surface, to question the very nature of how painting or sculpture is defined....more info

Left Coast Galleries will feature artist Chaz Guest's new paintings in an exhibit titled, "Hybrid." The works were inspired by Guest's recent trips to Asia, as well as his newfound inspiration in African culture, namely the Ethiopian culture of the Omo Valley. In Asia, Guest traveled to Nagoya, Kyoto, Tokyo, Obama-Shi and Aizu, and he spent time in Hangzhou. "These travels were a strong key to the creative process," says Guest. "My work is about one individual using his imagination to create a hybrid of the two cultures." ...more info

Electron Salon is a group exhibit of Los Angeles based artists exploring the exciting possibilities in working with digital print technologies from a wide range of cultures and disciplines. Works include examples of digital photography, manipulated images, photo composites, digital paint, custom camera images, 3D generated art, digitally manipulated Polaroids, electron microscope images, biologically based images, cell phone photography and data driven art....more info

Michael Kohn Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new paintings by David Korty. In his second show with Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles-based artist David Korty expands his subject matter to not only include everyday scenes, but also everyday objects. Merging his distinct geometric visual language with images of universally commonplace events and objects, this new body of work is the culmination of the artist’s style and view of the world....more info

Young uses extreme action as generative force; he records the traces of these actions in videos, drawing, painting, sculpture and photographs. The final work of art is often the after-effect of some dynamic, energetic, or even dangerous performance. Young's participants are classic rebels, such as skateboarders and motorcycle riders, hired to perform various stunts on specially prepared supports in spectacular settings such as Greeting Card at the Park Avenue Armory, New York in 2007 and Arc Light at the Red October Chocolate Factory, Moscow in 2008....more info

Uta Barth, Larry Bell, Gregory Crewdson, Roe Ethridge, Faile, Jacob Kassay, Mike Kelley, Monica Majoli, Adam McEwen, Allison Miller, Kori Newkirk, Enoc Perez, Seth Price, Rob Reynolds, Ed Ruscha, Tom Sachs, Taryn Simon, Robert Therrien, Piotr Uklañski, Kara Walker, Andy Warhol ...more info

JAUS is very pleased to presents LUBE, a three woman exhibition curated by artist Martin Durazo featuring work by Samantha Magowan, Tameka Norris and Kiki Seror. One of the main objectives for this exhibition is to create a forum for the exploration and discussion of ideas related to objectification, the gaze, and ownership of sexuality. The works exhibited were selected as a challenge to the conservatism in the Los Angeles visual art community in recent years. The title suggests an antidotal spin for a society of artists, curators, and critics in need of moral and emotional lubrication. ...more info

Owen Smith's lurid figurative art often depicts the basic, sometimes base elements of life. Inspired by popular culture and artwork of the first half of the 20th century, his works are reminiscent of the robust style and subject matter of Depression Era art. Smith's paintings mirror our current social and economic climate. His archetypal characters inhabit the boxing rings, construction sites, flophouses and burlesque theaters of urban America. Like the characters from Film Noir, Smith's subjects seem to survive on their wits, sexual allure and violent tendencies, trapped by life, circumstances and social roles. Smith paints in oils with rich colors and shadings that emphasize movement and volumetric form. Smith also creates large charcoal drawings. His tight compositions heighten the sense of tension between the figures. Smith enjoys playing the line between serious art and kitsch, making comments about society at the same time he is having fun with a romanticized view of America's tough past. ...more info

Painter, illustrator and author Mark Todd was first inspired to become a visual artist by the comic books and adventure movies that captured his imagination as a child. These realms of fantasy still populate his art, a body of work in which superheroes and villains are altered but still archetypal. In pieces that blend images, words, and iconography-and that are both vividly action-packed and cleanly minimal-classic Silver Age comic book covers are the subjects of Todd's forthcoming show "Juggernaut: New Comic Paintings and Collage Works on Paper."...more info

Daniel Dove’s recent paintings depict structures in states of transition, either half-ruined or partially reconstructed. The subjects of Dove’s pictures range from suburban landscape detritus to charged contemporary artifacts (such as reconstructed bombed airplane fuselages), meticulously re-built to understand or reinvent their original trauma....more info

In a culture where we are bombarded with overwhelming visual stimuli, have we become desensitized to art? From sexual content on TV, graphic violence in the news, and flashy ads everywhere we look, obtrusive images are in constant competition for our attention....more info

In the words of Bad Otis Link, his new show consists of works "all done wrong, perfect for our current atmosphere." In this show, Link revisits ink and watercolor on Bristol. "I worked with these mediums in the '80s and recently realized that I miss this style" states the artist, who puts a slightly different twist on the pieces, using more line work and less stipple than in his previous works. The show will also consist of acrylic on hardboard and some three dimensional pieces: puppets and experimental foam work. "You'll be Sorry When I'm Dead..." is inspired, in title only, by a recent death hoax of a close friend and even more so, something Link's mother always told him when he was young. Though there is no consistent theme to this show, Link's work has (believe it or not) an environmental message. "I am somewhat of a realist, not in my art but in observation. I continue my attempts to illustrate how, as humans, we are so out of synch with the rest of the natural universe, noticing our human flaws and our collective mental illness and denials of the obvious, all that is wrong. I also like to inject odd little creature, birds (messengers in many ancient myths) and structures I would like to inhabit into the work" states Link....more info

Corey Helford Gallery launches into 2010 with “Youth Parade”, the highly-anticipated new body of work by New Yorkbased artist Michael Mararian. Returning to the gallery for his second solo exhibition, Mararian will unveil one of the gallery’s most significant exhibitions to date. “Youth Parade” challenges audiences, in both concept and context, with its controversial imagery and dark subject matter....more info

Craig Krull Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of self-portraits by Don Bachardy, one of the most celebrated portrait artists of our time. Recognized for his extraordinarily deft, fluid, and graphically concise portraits, Bachardy has rendered such figures as Aldous Huxley, Dorothy Parker, Cecil Beaton, Fred Astaire, John Huston, Fritz Lang, Ray Bradbury, Bette Davis, Igor Stravinsky, Natalie Wood, Joan Didion, Ed Ruscha and Jack Nicholson. His portraits are always from life, never from photographs. ...more info

"Reuben Nakian - Sculpture & Works on Paper," will feature nearly 50 works – some on loan from museum and private collections – including 30 sculptures plus select original prints and drawings. The exhibition spans work ranging from his provocative 1943 portrait of Marcel Duchamp - when Nakian took a decidedly independent stylistic shift - to Nakian's iconic sculptures and drawings inspired by Greek mythology....more info

J. David Carlson creates three dimensional models springing from his fun-loving imagination fueled by a rich past. He takes his play seriously, and it shows in these thoughtful, highly detailed and often highly functioning playscapes. While they often provoke a smile and stir a sense of joy, they also may trigger reminders of passage, growth and change. ...more info

Michael Dotson uses a vibrant palette and early video-game signifiers to take us back to the future. This young painter's scenes are warmly nostalgic while at the same time post-futuristically detached. Ultimately, they define an artist who brings painterly aplomb to creations inspired by what he knows best. ...more info

Project Room G3 is proud to announce Sensate Rainbow, a two person exhibition by Michelle Andrade and John Weston. Sensate Rainbow is an immersive multimedia installation that heightens the awareness of one‘s surroundings by invoking the senses of sight, sound, smell and taste. It is an experiential world inhabited by glowing canvases, pulsing video, experimental music, and black lights. ...more info

The Robert Berman gallery is pleased to present a selection of Ben Talbert’s paintings, drawings, and assemblages from the 1960’s. Luck and love Revisited, is curated by Talbert’s close friend, Hal Glicksman. ...more info

Noted filmmaker, artist and musician Brian Butler (www.brianbutler.com) will premier his short film, “Night of Pan” in Los Angeles on January 16 at 7:30pm at the opening of Projections, a festival of rare and hard to see films. Projections was curated by Aaron Rose an artist, film director, writer, musician, and independent curator most noted as the co-curator of the successful museum exhibition and book Beautiful Losers: Contemporary Art & Street Culture which toured the world through 2008. ...more info

Diana Thater: Between Science and Magic Working in film, video, and installation, Diana Thater has been an innovator in her medium for 20 years and is best known for creating complex visual and spatial environments. Between Science and Magic is a simple and beautiful interpretation of "movie magic" - a century-old expression that still conjures the mythology of Hollywood filmmaking. Read on ...more info

asmine Mohseni is a Los Angeles-based arts writer and independent curator. Her articles have been published in Beautiful/Decay, BlackBook, Canvas, ForYourArt.com, Newsweek, and Whitewall. She covers contemporary art and culture for magazines, with an emphasis on contemporary Middle Eastern art....more info

The Loft at Liz’s has crafted an exhibition that explores the overwhelming presence of numbers. Cell phones, credit cards, passports, time, money, distance – it would appear that numbers indeed dominate our lives....more info

For more than three decades Robert Rauschenberg created works at Gemini G.E.L., the world-famous multiple workshop in West Hollywood. A retrospective of Rauschenberg’s creative achievement at Gemini G.E.L. is being organized by the Armory Center for the Arts, where it will be on view in the Caldwell Gallery, January 17 through March 21, 2010. The exhibition is organized by Jay Belloli, Director of Gallery Programs at the Armory. Its initiation was approved by the Robert Rauschenberg Foundation. ...more info

James Earl Jones said, "David Hume Kennerly is like Forrest Gump, except he was really there." Kennerly has been shooting on the front lines of history for more than 40 years. He has photographed eight wars, as many U.S. presidents, and he has traveled to dozens of countries along the way....more info

Bleicher/Golightly and Hamilton Galleries announce a high profile cultural art exhibit Australian Artists. The exhibit will be featured in January 2010 for Australia Week, a multi-organizational ambassadorial event involving Australian celebrities, industry and cultural leaders....more info

In January 2010, Carmichael Gallery presents On & Off (Often On), the first West Coast solo exhibition of Aakash Nihalani. In addition to a characteristically arresting site-specific installation comprised of brightly colored tape, Nihalani introduces a new artistic direction by using metal and plastic to create sculptural objects. ...more info

Join serious collectors and dedicated art enthusiasts in an exploration of painting, sculpture, works on paper, photography, and video from over 130 galleries, both international and domestic. ...more info

Hope and Tragedy: Contemporary Paintings by Saphire...more info

Aldahl's new paintings introduce impossible landscapes of solemn beauty. His scenes are deceptively modest, their features have been reduced to only the most essential forms and planes. Thin layers of paint lay flat like collaged swatches of fabric to form the skies, mountains, and valleys. Any signs of brushwork or gesture are quiet. His palette of pale pink, soft yellow and rich brown is consistent and meditative....more info

DNJ Gallery is pleased to announce the upcoming exhibition, Signs of the Times, featuring panoramic photographs by Richard Gilles. Gallery II presents Laundry Lines by Bernadette DiPietro. Both exhibits form a subtle, political commentary on our precarious economic times and the natural environment. ...more info

This is the first retrospective exhibition of paintings by Mercedes Matter, a key figure in the New York City avant-garde of the 1940s and '50s. Her extraordinary life and art spanned the 20th century and involved key movements, from early American modernism of the Stieglitz circle to European cubism to abstract expressionism. Her gestural paintings stand as fascinating examples of the revolutionary modern art movement known as the New York School....more info

In the Interim Lies the Darkness is the first collaboration between artists Marcos Rosales and Dante Brebner. The collaboration first began when Rosales mined his collection of stream-of-consciousness writings to send to Brebner as inspirations. Brebner in turn created small wondrous dioramas based on the surreal phrases that Rosales had given him, such as "Tender genocide" and "Elegantly lit, meticulously scarred and otherwise unraveled". Interpreted by Brebner, these text fragments translated into painstakingly executed miniature worlds, at once theatrical, sinister and surreal. ...more info

Baldessari organized the three exhibition galleries to continually shift perception and challenge the viewer’s experience. Blue Line, executed in 1988 for an exhibition at Palais des Beaux Arts, Brussels, Belgium, is a three dimensional object with photographic images of Hans Holbein the Younger’s The Body of the Dead Christ in the Tomb (1521) on two sides. Tipped diagonally and installed perpendicular to the main gallery’s entrance, the work appears as a single, solid blue line. ...more info

The MexiCali Biennial 09/10 highlights work of artists from California and Mexico selected by Biennial Curators/Artists Ed Gomez, Luis G. Hernandez, and Amy Pederson. The exhibition opens in the OTIS Ben Maltz Gallery with a public reception Saturday, January 23, 2010, 4-6pm, and is on view through March 20. ...more info

Flazh!Alley Art Studio is pleased to introduce Los Angeles fine art photographer and filmmaker Brooke Shaden in her first solo exhibition, Ballet Vacate; A Dancer In Distress....more info

Half a Dozen from the Underground is a six channel video installation featuring collaborative works by Kristina Faragher and Curt LeMieux from the "Twelve from the Underground" video series. Sophia Louisa Projects at Phantom Galleries Los Angeles comes to life with six separate video pieces screening simultaneously. The individual works are projected throughout the gallery and responds directly to the vacuous architecture of the space. Many of videos have significant passages of silence allowing new soundtracks emerge as time unfolds. ...more info

The Great Recession that began in 2008 has brought renewed attention to the discontents of capitalism, particularly its periodic crises and concomitant social instability. Exploring the complexities and interdependencies of art and commerce, the artists in Capitalism In Question (Because It Is) offer a range of unexpected reflections that resonate, powerfully, with our current economic moment and the larger issues it raises....more info

Greenfield Sacks Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of new works by prominent Los Angeles artist Joe Goode. This exhibition, entitled �gGolden Dreams,�h will include seven acrylic paintings using archival digital prints as a ground....more info

Brightening the dull days of winter with colorful silk and paper banners and tails, historic and contemporary kites from around the world will swoop and soar through the Palos Verdes Art Center....more info

M+B is pleased to present the exhibition Week-End, the latest body of work by 29-year old photographer ALEX PRAGER....more info

The Hammer Museum presents the first museum retrospective of drawings by the British artist Rachel Whiteread. While her sculpture is well known and widely published, Whiteread's work on paper has remained largely behind the scenes. "My drawings are a diary of my work,...more info

Through a deep understanding of his subject and a delicate handling of light, mass, and volume, Frederick H. Evans (British, 1853–1943) created photographs of medieval cathedrals that capture the innate spirituality of each stone building. On view at the J. Paul Getty Museum, the Getty Center, February 2–June 6, 2010, A Record of Emotion: The Photographs of Frederick H. Evans explores the artist’s images of medieval cathedrals in England and France, rarely seen landscapes of the English countryside, and intimate portraits of Evans’s family and friends. This exhibition will run concurrently with Urban Panoramas: Opie, Liao, Kim. ...more info

Twenty-three artists working in the vein of California's conceptual art movement have each been commissioned to create a new work that critically responds to the medium of the billboard and interprets its role in the urban landscape. Investigating art as an idea as well as art as a media for critical intervention, the exhibition highlights the interaction of Pop, conceptualism and architecture in Los Angeles since the late 1960s....more info

Cirrus Gallery is proud to present new prints by Los Angeles-based artist William Leavitt. The prints were published by Cirrus Editions for Leavitt's Warp Engines installation, which debuted last fall at LA><ART. The three lithographs Installation Kit: Stone (2009), Molecule (2009) and Lamp (2009) deconstruct the sculptural pieces from the stage-like installation. The prints represent a theatrical and melancholic presentation of an environment that could exist at the edge of civilization. These are William Leavitt's first published prints and his first project with Cirrus. The lithographs are hand-drawn by the artist and printed in an edition of 40....more info