THE Magazine - Los Angeles

³PROJECT A 5² is a special anniversary show celebrating five years of ARTAMO GALLERY. Over a dozen gallery artists, including Pollock-Krasner and Prize of Rome Award winners, together with four selected guest artists are creating special works for the occasion and will present their artistic interpretation of the five years anniversary theme, including a unique 10-pieces series of pigment prints by digital and moviemaking artist Metrov. All pieces will be in a square format between 24" x 24" and 48" x 48". At the First Thursday reception a free raffle will be held to give away a new monotype by Jack N. Mohr, titled "High Five". ...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

Matt Mullican: Works from the 1980s and 90s will include painting, etched granite sculptures and etchings and screen prints from two portfolio sets published in 1988, and 1993. The exhibition will include Untitled, 1993, a portfolio of ten silkscreen prints and 64 etchings based on twenty years of Matt Mullican's notebooks....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