Jennifer Krasinski: "Limitations and Lamentations"
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Image: Limitless (d. Neil Burger, US, 2011)
News: February 2012
Jennifer West: Aloe Vera & Butter
February 4–March 10, 2012
S1 Artspace presents a solo exhibition of new and recent work by Jennifer West, her first solo exhibition in a UK public gallery. It includes six new and recent videos presented across two large-scale triptychs, installations that immerse and implicate the viewer within the work.
Broke People's Baroque Peoples' Theater
My Barbarian residency
February 11–March 11, 2012
Human Resources
410 Cottage Home Street (Chinatown)
Los Angeles, CA, 90012
Gallery hours: 12–6 pm, Thursday–Saturday
or by appointment
Ruth Weisberg: Now & Then
As part of the Getty Initiative
Pacific Standard Time: Art in L.A. 1945–1980
February 18–April 28, 2012
Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
357 N. La Brea Avenue
Los Angeles, CA 90036
Ruth Weisberg: Now & Then presents paintings and works on paper by one of Los Angeles' most celebrated figurative artists since her arrival in 1969. The exhibition, which includes her most recent paintings, and spanning more than three decades, reveals Weisberg's unique vision through which the viewer sees the convergence of art history, personal memory, and cultural experience.
The exhibition reveals Weisberg's decades-long interest in re-imagining the works of such past masters as Titian, Velazquez, Blake, and Corot. Through fresco-like effects in her unstretched paintings, as well as the veils of washes in her masterful lithographs, Weisberg brings past-time into contemporary context.
Finds! The Unusual Object
Curated by Joshua Aster and Kristin Calabrese
February 18–April 21, 2012
FOCA Gallery
970 N Broadway, Suite 208
Los Angeles, CA 90012
Stanya Kahn
February 18–March 30, 2012
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
6006 Washington Blvd
Culver City, CA 90232
Five Days: Los Angeles
Kelly Barrie / Renée Petropoulos / Jen Smith / Alexis Zoto
Curated by Sherin Guirguis
February 22–25, 2012
Opening reception: Friday, February 24th, 6–10 pm
The Lobby Court
The Westin Bonaventure Hotel and Suites
404 South Figueroa Street
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Small Paintings: Group Show
March 3–April 14, 2012
Opening reception: Saturday, March 3rd, 5–7 pm
Lora Schlesinger Gallery
2525 Michigan Avenue, T3
Santa Monica, CA 90404
Forward Thinking: A Curatorial Roundabout
This program is curated and produced by Visual and Media Arts students in six Los Angeles colleges. Each group of students has curated exceptional media work from another participating graduate program to be projected as large screen video in the Media Lounge Theater at the Los Angeles Convention Center during the centennial College Art Association Annual Conference, from February 22–24th, 2012. Conceived to showcase work by top student-artists on the West Coast, this program introduces vibrant innovative work by a new young generation of artists with a fresh perspective and approach to video and digital media.
Greg Wilken: The Road of a Thousand Wonders
January 26–March 10, 2012
For the new body of work on view at CUE, Greg Wilken was inspired by the Southern Pacific Railroad company's early 20th century photographic survey, "The Road of a Thousand Wonders." This promotional title was used by the railroad to describe their trains' coastal journeys from Los Angeles to Portland. To promote this travel line, the railroad commissioned photographic surveys to capture the vistas and attractions along the route, producing numerous postcards, posters, and prints, now collected in a photographic archive. This pictorial record prompted Wilken to travel the same route, sometimes by train, sometimes by car, creating his own image archive while traversing the roads originally charted by the railroad.
SHARON LOCKHART ❘ NOA ESHKOL
December 15, 2011–February 15, 2012
The Center of Contemporary Art, Tel Aviv
SHARON LOCKHART ❘ NOA ESHKOL at the CCA is a companion to the same-titled exhibition simultaneously on view at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Lockhart's presentation in Tel Aviv is devoted to live performance, as well as the creation of a dialogue and open interface between the work of Noa Eshkol and the community. Noa Eshkol (1924–2007) was an Israeli movement theorist, dance composer, teacher, and artist. In collaboration with architect Abraham Wachman, she invented the Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation System, designed to express the spatial relationships between body parts, both in stasis and in motion. The exhibition at the CCA features a single-channel film installation by Lockhart, Eshkol's daily journals, as well as an ambitious series of public programs on Eshkol including lectures, open rehearsals, dance workshops, and formal performances.
SHARON LOCKHART ❘ NOA ESHKOL
December 13, 2011–April 30, 2012
Associate Professor and MFA Core Faculty member Sharon Lockhart debuts SHARON LOCKHART ❘ NOA ESHKOL at the Israel Museum, Jerusalem. Noa Eshkol (1924–2007) was an Israeli movement theorist, dance composer, teacher, and artist. In collaboration with architect Abraham Wachman, she invented the Eshkol-Wachman Movement Notation System, designed to express the spatial relationships between body parts, both in stasis and in motion. The exhibition at IMJ features a five-channel film installation and twenty-two photographs by Lockhart, as well as a vast selection of Eshkol's "wall carpets," drawings, original scores, and additional materials from her archive.
Robbert Flick: Trajectories
February 25–March 26, 2012
Pioneering LA photographer Robbert Flick is known for working within and furthering the well-established traditions of California landscape photography and for his emphasis on the distinctive urbanscape of Los Angeles. After studying under Robert Heinecken at UCLA in the late 1960s, Flick went on to produce a hard-edged series of photographs of parking structures in the late 1970s (Arena Series), and multi-image grids of the urban environment known as Sequential Views in the early 1980s.