LACE is thrilled to announce an upcoming solo exhibition with Gina Osterloh for Summer 2012. For the past several years, Osterloh has constructed life-size room environments through still serial performances with anonymous women, paper-maché models, and cardboard cutouts. Taking place in our main gallery, she will create three stage sets that explore the relationships between abstraction and identity, the space between individuals, and what determines “a group” within a social context. Each stage set will be unique in both material and lighting. Building upon previous working methods, the artist will conduct a series of photo shoots in each set with volunteers from the public, as well as cardboard cut outs of human figures.

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Gina Osterloh is an artist and educator based in Los Angeles, California. Currently she is working on a short film essay that addresses issues of perception and identity through the lens of blindness.  Osterloh’s photographic works investigate operations of mimicry and perception within the photographic plane.  Upcoming exhibitions include Silverlens Gallery, August 2011 and Yerba Buena Center for the Arts, January 2012. This September 2011, she has been selected to attend the Woodstock Artist in Residency Program for Photograph in Woodstock, New York. In 2007-2008, Osterloh was a Fulbright Scholar recipient to the Philippines, during which she created a new body of photographs that depicted spaces made from everyday office paper used in Manila. During her Fulbright, Osterloh also researched conceptual artist practices in the Philippines; and at Monte Vista Projects LA, curated the exhibition Minimum Yields Maximum that presented conceptual and political works from the Philippines, Vietnam, and California. Other awards include a Durfee ARC Grant 2010 and a Completion Grant by Silverlens Foundation, Philippines 2008.  She has exhibited widely including Hong Kong, Manila, Kuala Lumpur, Singapore, Los Angeles, San Francisco, and ...

For three decades and counting LACE has commissioned and presented the works of over 5,000 artists and has worked with artistic pioneers such as Laurie Anderson, John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Mike Kelley, Martin Kersels, Suzanne Lacy and Bruce and Norman Yonemoto. We have become a force in the community and remain committed to championing the role of the artist in Los Angeles and beyond.

LACE’s benefit art auction each spring is an annual signature event where patrons have the opportunity to purchase 100+ original artworks by some of the most important established and emerging artists working today including Carolyn Castaño, Zoe Crosher, Brad Eberhard, Ken Gonzalez-Day, Alexandra Grant, Jenny Holzer, Salomon Huerta, Olga Koumoundouros, Steve Roden, Amanda Ross-Ho, Ed Ruscha, Christopher Russell, Anna Sew Hoy, Mitchell Syrop, Pae White, and Brenna Youngblood.

To insure quality pieces and exciting new finds, LACE invited 20+ guest curators to each organize a personalized exhibition featuring works by their favorite contemporary artists.

The event attracts over 500 art patrons, collectors, celebrities, artists, gallerists, and creative business executives from around the world. Invited guests include LACE members and special supporters, as well as supporting level contributors to MOCA and LACMA. Recent auctions have attracted celebrities and cultural leaders such as Tony Alva, Jesse Dylan, Rachel Griffiths, John C. Reilly, not to mention Dita Von Teese, who performed to a sell-out crowd. This year, the auction will be co-hosted by none other than Drew Droege as Chloe Sevigny and Nadya Ginsburg as Madonna.

Join us for a very special performance by Eclipse Quartet, an ensemble dedicated to the music of twentieth century and present day composers. Consisting of members Sarah Thornblade & Sara Parkins, violins, Alma Lisa Fernandez, viola, and Maggie Parkins, cello, the scope of their repertoire spans works from John Cage and Morton Subotnick to collaborations with the singers Beck and Caetano Veloso. For their performance at LACE, the quartet will perform works by Ruth Crawford, Sean Heim, Roscoe Mitchell and Ben Johnston.

Eclipse has the versatility to cross genres from works that include electronics and computer processing to the jazz compositions of grammy award winning pianist Billy Childs. The Quartet has performed frequently on both coasts and has participated in festivals such as the Look and Listen Festival in NYC, the Scarlatti Festival in Naples, Italy, the Martha's Vineyard Chamber Music Festival and the Angel City Jazz Festival in Los Angeles. The repertoire of Eclipse contains works by such dynamic composers as Roger Reynolds, Julia Wolfe, Ben Johnston, Ruth Crawford Seeger, Annie Gosfield, John Zorn, Fred Frith, Philip Glass, John King and Lois V. Vierk.

They have premiered new works by Zeena Parkins, Carla Kihlstedt, Justin Haynes, Gernot Wolfgang, Stephen Cohn and David Jaffe. Eclipse has recorded the string quartets of Zeena Parkins for the Tzadik label and will be releasing Morton Feldman's epic String Quartet and Piano piece with pianist Vicki Ray on Bridge Records in the winter of 2013.

Please join ReVISIONS of LA for a family-friendly workshop at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions) in Hollywood to make stamps out of potatoes and draw together as a catalyst for discussion about the way urban space effects our daily lives. Three professional artists will be running the workshop, providing instruction and encouraging conversation.

This workshop is free. All materials for making stamps and drawing will be provided, and all ages are welcome to drop in.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

Jamison Carter is a Los Angeles based artist working in a variety of media. Recent exhibitions include solo exhibitions at the Da Vinci Gallery at Los Angeles City College and the West Gallery at California State University, Northridge. His sculpture pairs cut rubber and jet cut glass, while his prints are made from rubber stamps printed on Tyvek. He is interested in the juxtaposition of disparate materials and forms to redefine the understanding of form and material. Jamison attended Cranbrook Academy of Art and is an Assistant Professor of Art at Los Angeles Valley College. His home and studio are in Highland Park. More at jamisoncarter.net

elana melissa hill holds an M.F.A. from Claremont (2011) and a B.A. from the University of Irvine (2007). She has recently shown in the Emergent 12 at Object Gallery, La Cosa Nostra at Galerie Rheeway, and Hill / Hughes Hypersurregionalism at Autonomie. Hill was the co-founder and director of Catalyst Gallery at UCI from 2005-2007 and is currently the program director of ReVISIONS of LA, the monthly drawing program at LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions). She lives and works in Los Angeles.

A native of southern California, Eric Schott is a painter engaged with contemporary hard-edge geometric abstraction who completed his undergraduate studies at California State University Northridge, and is currently in the ...

LACE is delighted to host the curatorial project from USC Roski School's MA Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere 2012 class RADIO BREAK: Two Weekends of Artists' Low-Power Radio Transmissions and Live Performance. 

The first of two days in Hollywood, the LACE installment will feature the work of Lucy Raven, 2 Headed Dog, and a live performance by Vanessa Place. All work will be accessible through listening in via portable radio. Radio headsets will be available for checkout on site, but we encourage you to bring your own, too!

ABOUT RADIO BREAK

A way-finding map and interactive website accompany the exhibition and provide details about the projects and their locations. Click here to download map.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS

2 Headed Dog is a Los Angeles–based comedy troupe established by Dave “Gruber” Alleen, Craig Anton, Mark Fite, and Jim Turner. Building on the theatrical lineage of absurdist playwright Eugène Ionesco as well as the performance style of comedian Andy Kaufman, their work enacts familiar situations that unravel into nonsense and confusion. Clowntown City Limits is a bombastic, darkly humorous play about two out-of-work clowns, Big Bugs the Hobo Clown and the severely gored Corky the Rodeo Clown, their devoted butler Adolph, and a circus clown named Whistles. Set in a surreal world reminiscent of the work of Samuel Beckett, Clowntown City Limits details the desperate measures these characters take ...

After Three Weeks in January, LACE and Peace Over Violence come together again, and we want you to join us!

Self Defense Workshop for Women
Wednesday 18 April 2012, 4-6PM
LACE
6522 Hollywood Boulevard Los Angeles CA 90028
FREE, registration required

To RSVP, please email carol@welcometolace.org

SELF DEFENSE
Self-defense is a set of awareness, assertiveness, verbal confrontation skills, safety strategies, and physical techniques that enable someone to successfully prevent, escape, resist and survive violent assaults. A good self-defense course provides psychological awareness and verbal skills, not just physical training.

To learn more about the Peace Over Violence self defense philosophy:
peaceoverviolence.org/prevention/self-defense/philosophy/

Special Thanks to Verizon.

Peace Over Violence is building healthy relationships, families and communities free from sexual, domestic and interpersonal violence.

SAVE THE DATE: Denim Day 2012 is Wednesday, April 25th! Register now at denimdayinla.org or denimdayusa.org!

Join us for a  conversation with artist Natalie Bookchin about her installation, Now he's out in public and everyone can see, currently on view at LACE. Bookchin will be joined by Dr. Alexandra Juhasz, Professor of Media Studies at Pitzer College. 

Now he's out in public and everyone can see, an 18-channel video installation by Natalie Bookchin that weaves together found fragments from online video diaries in which vloggers recount a series of media scandals involving African American men. The multiple stories originally circulated and enflamed by networks of corporate media gone viral, intersect around themes of racial and class identity and explore popular attitudes, anxieties, and conflicts about race. Bookchin’s work creates a critical context for otherwise isolated and scatter-shot online voices, drawing links, making connections, and locating tropes between individual rants and responses. The montage produced by the multiple monitors in the gallery mirrors the composite story, of a racialized subject under scrutiny. Where the typical viewer of online video is a single person in front of her screen, the installation produces an active social space where multiple viewers navigate through a media environment, piecing together a fragmented and layered narrative told across space and time.

A major new work by Bookchin, Now he’s out in public and everyone can see was developed over the past two and a half years and is part of a larger body of work in which Bookchin repurposes videos made and circulated online, giving new social shape and form to individual expression. Previous video works in this series also address current social events and phenomena including joblessness, mood-stabilizing drugs, and DIY dance videos. This newest project is more spatially and conceptually complex, weaving together many more videos, sounds, voices, narratives, and perspectives into three-dimensional space. This further evolution ...