July/August 2010
Don’t miss Hillary Brace’s magnificent charcoal drawings at Craig Krull Gallery. Created through a subtractive method, the artist literally erases the charcoal to create the nature-based imagery. Click here for a recent review. see: Thru 7/10/10.
Ruth Bachofner Gallery exhibits Monika Ritterhaus’ photographs of LA Opera's presentation of Wagner's Der Ring Des Nibelungen. Achim Freyer suggests: ”Rittershaus's photographs reveal images of stillness, depicting instances of a movement as great moments. This stillness makes the singing audible; those moments make the breath of the theater palpable.” Thru 7/17/10.
World Maps at Couturier Gallery features mixed media works by Kim Abeles, Irene Dubrovsky, Joyce Kozloff and Ibrahim Miranda. Of special note is Abeles’ Looking for Paradise and her new Smog Map of the world's continents "drawn" with particulate matter (smog) on acrylic. Also pioneering feminist artist and WCA Lifetime Achievement Awardee, Joyce Kozloff is fascinated with the map as metaphor for the psychology of domination, seductions of power and fallacies of a patriarchal and Western-centric vision of history. Thru 7/17/10.
disambiguations features the photographic work of Sinan Revell at Cella Gallery in NoHo that addresses the ambiguity found in the barrage of mass media imagery. Thru 7/24/10.
The Political Landscape by Andrea Bowers at Suzanne Veilmetter Los Angeles Projects focuses on contentious locations where countries and corporations cause environmental degradation or human rights violations to attain or maintain power particularly in the American West. Also on view is new sculptural work by Shana Lutker, H.Y.S.T. el al. that draws on research of hysteria, psychoanalysis and their legacy in art. Both exhibits thru 7/31/10.
Luis de Jesus gallery presents paintings and screen prints by Karen Ann Myers in Thinking of You. Rooted in self-portraiture and autobiography, her female figures appear both strong and confident in their sexuality, yet offer glimpses of confusion and doubt felt in their solitude. 7/3-8/7/10.
Avenue 50 Studio in Highland Park hosts Women on the Verge, an exhibit curated by Sonia Romero of the drypoint, collage and stitchwork of artists Stephanie Mercado and Alpha Lubicz. Opens 7/10-8/8/10.
Magnificent sculptures of polymerized modeling medium and steel painted in exquisite colors by Jacci Den Hartog are on exhibit at Rosamund Felsen Gallery in Bergamot Station. 7/10-8/14/10.
Morono Kiang Gallery hosts Grow, a group exhibition that invites the viewer "to reflect on one's ability to creatively solve what ails our contemporary existence starting with our own backyards.” Participants includes Kim Abeles, Betty Lee, Sarah Perry, May Sun among others. Thru 8/21/10.
Shoshana Wayne gallery features Yvonne Venegas: Maria Elvia de Hank Series. Her poignant series of photographs intimately document the family and home of Maria Elvia De Hank, wife of millionaire and former mayor of Tijuana Jorge Hank Rohn. Click here to see the L.A. Times review. Thru 8/28/10.
Noctilucent, an exhibition of acrylic and watercolor paintings of the night sky acrylic by Susan Holcomb, will be on view at Lora Schlessinger Gallery. 7/17-8/28/10.
ONGOING MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS
Home Lands: How Women Made the West continues at the Autry Center. Thru 8/22/10.
Some Assembly Required: Race, Gender and Globalization at the Craft and Folk Art Museum continues with a Curator and Artist Conversation on Sun. 7/25 at 3 pm. Thru 9/12/10.
Catherine Opie: Figure and Landscape at LACMA features her recent portraits of football players across the country juxtaposed with paintings and photographs of athletes by Thomas Eakins. A video interview with Opie is part of the exhibit. Artist Conversation: Sun. 7/25 at 2 pm. 7/25–10/17/10.
Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties at the Getty Center includes work by Susan Meiselas taken in Nicaragua during the turbulence of the late seventies, photographs by Mary Ellen Mark from her Streetwise Project with runaways and Lauren Greenfield’s chronicle of young girls’ relationships with their bodies. Thru 11/14/10.
In celebration of their 60th Anniversary, The Long Beach Museum of Art will present A Light in the Shadow – Decades of Art by Women with selections from their permanent collection. Included are works by Isabel Bishop, Helen Lundeberg, Dorr Bothwell, June Harwood, Uta Barth and Alison Saar. Thru 1/2/11.
