PLAN ForYourArt

September 10, 2009 - September 16, 2009

Each Week, ForYourArt highlights select cultural offerings throughout the week ahead to help you Plan ForYourArt.

THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 10
Downtown Art Walk
Historic Core (Downtown)
12–8pm
Every second Thursday of each month, MOCA and the galleries of L.A.’s historic downtown open to pedestrians and art enthusiasts for a celebration of the latest round of exhibitions and openings. MOCA admission is free from 5–8pm, and the gallery receptions are free and open to the public throughout the day.

June Wayne: Cognitos
Khastoo Gallery (West Hollywood)
6–9pm
Khastoo gallery unveils paintings from celebrated artist June Wayne’s Cognito series, begun in 1960 and completed in 1984. Wayne worked with master paper-maker Douglass Howell in constructing dense, highly sculpted textured surfaces. Exhibition on view until October 24.

Olaf Breuning
Michael Benevento (West Hollywood)
6–8pm
Olaf Bruening continues with his recent series, Color Studies, incorporating large photographs and sculptures that focus on the action and resolution of poured paint. A special screening of Home 2 will take place at Royal/T in Culver City on Friday, September 11 at 2pm. Exhibition on view until October 22.

Hammer Forum: Untying the Knot of Separate and Unequal Marriage
Hammer Museum (Westwood)
7pm
Legal scholar Tobias Barrington Wolff and civil rights attorney Eva Jefferson Paterson discuss ramifications of the passage of Prop 8 and the future of same sex marriage in the state of California. Wolff served as co-chair of Obama’s LGBT advisory committee during the 2008 presidential campaign. Paterson is the president and founder of the Equal Justice Society and former executive director at the Lawyers’ Committee for Civil Rights.

FRIDAY, SEPTEMBER 11
Abraham Cruzvillegas: Autoconstrucción: The Film
REDCAT (Downtown)
6–9pm
Cruzvillegas’ film work explores the material and psychological landscape of his native town of Ajusco, situated on the outskirts of Mexico City and considered derelict when first settled by migrants in 1960. The artist’s use of improvisational techniques and materials reflects the unstable, transmutable nature of the land itself. The artist will be giving a talk of his work at 6:30pm. Exhibition on view until November 8.

4 Solo Shows
Los Angeles Art Association (West Hollywood)
6–9pm
New work by artists YaYa Chou, Emily De Araujo, Adele Mills and Shizuko Greenblatt. Exhibition on view until October 9.

We Belong Together: Yale Photo MFA 2009
Eighth Veil (West Hollywood)
7–9pm
Eighth Veil hosts the Yale Photo MFA 2009 exhibition, presenting single images from each of the 9 graduate’s thesis projects. This is the closing reception and last day of the exhibition.

Allen Ruppersberg: You and Me or The Art of Give and Take
Santa Monica Museum of Art (Bergamot Station)
7–9pm
The opening reception for a show by Allen Ruppersberg in the main gallery, on view until December 19, and for a show by Nicole Cherubini in Project Room 1, as well as a collaborative show with Kim Schoenstadt and Rita McBride in Project Room 2. Project Room exhibitions on view until December 5.

Cigarettes & Alcohol: Eight Films by Hong Sang-soo
LACMA (Miracle Mile)
7:30pm
In conjunction with the exhibition Your Bright Future, LACMA embarks on a film series celebrating the work of Korean filmmaker Hong Sang-soo. Screening 8 of his most notable films from September 11–19, the series begins with Like You Know it All (Jal aljido mothamyeonseo), which premiered at the 2009 Cannes Film Festival. Tickets are $7 for LACMA members and $10 for the general public.

SATURDAY, SEPTEMBER 12

CULVER CITY
William Leavitt: Warp Engines and Gustavo Artigas: Vote for Demolition
LAXART
6–9pm
William Leavitt’s new installation combines sound with sculptural elements in a staged environment, while Gustavo Arigas’ first solo exhibition offers the city’s least aesthetically pleasing structures up for demolition. Exhibition on view until October 31.

David Mckenzie: On Premise
Susanne Vielmetter Projects
6–8pm
In this solo exhibition of new painting and video work by David Mckenzie, the artist probes issues of connectedness in human relationships. Exhibition on view until October 24.

Kenny Scharf: Barberadise
Honor Fraser
6–8pm
Kenny Scharf’s new work comically explores the realities and falsities of a utopian environment. Exhibition on view until October 31.

Also Opening in Culver City:
Elad Lassry
David Kordansky
Claire Oswalt: Peril in Perfection
Taylor de Cordoba
Brian Bress: The Royal Box
Cherry and Martin
James Everett Stanley: Let it Burn
Kinkead Contemporary
Dan Attoe: I’m Done Worryin’ About Shit
Peres Projects

WEST HOLLYWOOD
Doug Aitken
Regen Projects
6–9pm
This exhibition will present a series of new text-based light boxes and will feature the west coast debut of the film migration. Exhibition on view until October 15.

David LaChapelle: The Rape of Africa
David DeSanctis Gallery
6–8pm
An exhibition of LaChapelle’s monumental new work, The Rape of Africa, inspired by Botticelli’s Venus & Mars, 1484, opens today. Preparatory drawings and photographs are also on display. Exhibition on view until October 31.

Also Opening in West Hollywood:
Cristof Yvore
Michael Kohn Gallery
Jacob Hashimoto: Forests Collapsed Upon Forests
Otero Plassart
Andrew Bush: Vector Portraits
M + B Gallery

MID-WILSHIRE
Zoë Sheehan Saldaña: Ersatz and Joshua Callaghan: The Distended Hand Truck and Other Curiosities
Steve Turner Contemporary
6–8pm
A solo exhibition by Zoë Sheehan Saldaña, including objects and animation created since 2007, and a solo exhibition by Joshua Callaghan featuring three new sculptures. Exhibitions on view until October 10.

Jorge Pardo
1301PE
6–8pm
Opening reception for a new solo show by artist Jorge Pardo. Exhibition on view until October 10.

Late Night Party
LACMA
8–10pm
LACMA’S Late Night Party celebrates Korean Culture. Tickets are $10. After party in LACMA’a West Penthouse: $25 members, $40 nonmembers.

Also opening in Mid-Wilshire:
Seasonal Pictures and Kevin Appel: Drawings
ACME
Victoria Gitman
Daniel Weinberg Gallery

CHINATOWN
The Curse of Ceramics
China Art Objects
6–9pm
Opening of a new group exhibition featuring the work of David Korty, Jon Pylypchuck, Caroline Thomas and Torbjorn Vejoi. Exhibition on view until October 10.

SANTA MONICA & WESTWOOD
Fowler OutSpoken Lecture: Beatrice Hohenegger: Steeped in History: The Art of Tea
Fowler Museum
4pm
Guest curator and tea specialist Beatrice Hohenegger considers the history and culture of tea, one of the world’s most ubiquitous beverages.

Francesca Gabianni : The Present and Thomas Helbig, Georg Herold, Melli Ink, Won Ju Lim, Michelle Segre and Jim Shaw: The Sculpture Show
Patrick Painter
6–8pm
An exhibition of new sculptural and installation work. A show of intricately layered work by artist Francesca Gabianni explores issues of time and ambiguity. Exhibition on view until October 24.

Also Opening in Santa Monica:
Ultrasonic IV: Fresh Perspectives
Mark Moore Gallery
Eric Johnson
William Turner Gallery

SUNDAY, SEPTEMBER 13
Graduate Thesis Presentations
SCI-Arc (Downtown)
9am–4pm
The Graduate Thesis presentations offer examples of work by some of the best emerging architects and designers in the country.

Lynda Benglis Art Talk
MOCA (Downtown)
3pm
In conjunction with A Changing Ratio: Painting and Sculpture from the Collection, featured artist Lynda Benglis discusses her distinguished and multifaceted career, which has included a range of formal investigations of the materialization of painting into the physical—from her early wax paintings to poured latex sculptures—as well as the examination of social aspects of the male-dominated art world of the 1960s and ‘70s. Free with museum admission.

Something Small
Little Tokyo Market Place (Formerly Mitsuwa)
7:30pm
Something Small, a film by Alyse Emdur, will be projected on location, at the Little Tokyo Market Place where it was filmed. It will also be simulcast on 27 flat screen TV's throughout the mall. The film explores the hopes, desires, and surprises of a supermarket sweepstakes in Los Angeles's Little Tokyo.

TUESDAY, SEPTEMBER 15
Working Class: Irving Penn's Small Trades Series in Context
Getty Center (Brentwood)
7pm
In order to come to terms with his success as a fashion photographer, Penn needed to photograph other kinds of subjects as well. Colin Westerbeck, director of the California Museum of Photography at UC Riverside, explains how these 1950s studies of working-class people in their work clothes were a seminal project for the photographer in the context of his full career. Reservations required.

Banana Lecture with Dan Koeppel
LACE (Hollywood)
8pm
Author of the best-selling Banana: The Fate of the Fruit that Changed the World, Dan Koeppel discusses the controversial and often sinister history of the fruit. Adding to Fallen Fruit’s current exhibition on the banana, the talk focuses on the way in which this household staple has shaped the politics of Central and South America.

WEDNESDAY, SEPTEMBER 16
Tom Vanderbilt: Is traffic Curable?
The Actors’ Gang (Culver City)
7:30pm
Zocalo Public Sqaure presents a lecture by Tom Vanderbilt, author of Traffic: Why We Drive The Way We Do and What It Says About Us. Vanderbilt discusses the ways in which the phenomenon of traffic, which not only plagues the human urban condition but has also become synonymous with it, stems from a complex relationship between physics and social interaction.

Filed Under: See Exhibitions Greater L.A.

Posted by: Bettina Korek on September 11, 2009

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