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12.07.2008 Art Matters

Recommended film
Louise Bourgeois: "The Spider, The Mistress and the Tangerine" screening (2008, 99 mins.) on Wednesday – 12/3/08 at 7 PM at the UCLA Hammer Museum, 10899 Wilshire Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90024. Co-directed by Marion Cajori and Amei Wallach, the film follows the artist as she produces her work, spends time with confidants, and reflects upon the traumatic personal history that informs her art practice.

Recommended exhibition
Interested members are encouraged to view the current Louise Bourgeois exhibition at MOCA Grand Avenue (opened 10/25 and runs thru 1/25/09). Spanning the distinguished career of one of the most important artists of our time, this major survey—the first tour in the United States in 25 years—presents an extensive and deeply symbolic body of work. See an impressive selection of over 150 works from the 1930s to the present—including Bourgeois’s best-known sculptures and large installations as well as early paintings and significant pieces from Los Angeles collections.

08.24.2008 Art Matters

Recommended exhibitions
"Contradictions and Complexities" - contemporary Indian art by women at d.e.n. contemporary art and "Western Project, Mami Wata: Arts for Water Spirits in Africa and Its Diasporas" at UCLA Fowler Museum, "Haegue Yang: Asymmetric Equality" - multimedia installation by a Korean woman artist at Redcat Theatre Gallery and "Marlene Dumas: Measuring Your Own Grave" at MOCA Grand Avenue.

3.30.2008 Art Matters

Recommended exhibitions: The Goat’s Dance: Photographs by Graciela Iturbide at the J. Paul Getty Museum; Kara Walker: My Complement, My Oppressor, My Love at the UCLA Hammer Museum; Spirits of LA and Tropics: A Contemporary View of Brazil, Cuba and Haiti at the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery.

10.27.2007 Art Matters

Recommended exhibitions: Body Double at the Luckman Gallery/Cal State Los Angeles, Cosima Von Bonin: Roger and Out at MOCA (Grande Avenue), A Woman's Journey: The Life and Work of Artis Lane and Blacks in and Out of the Box at the California African American Museum in Exposition Park.

6.10.2007 Art Matters

Recommended exhibitions: Ruth Weisberg Unfurled at the Skirball Cultural Center, Identity Theft: Eleanor Antin, Lynn Hershman, Suzy Lake at the Santa Monica Museum of Art, and Women Artists of Southern California: Then + Now at Track 16 Gallery.

Program: After discussing the three exhibitions, there will be a screening of a 40 minute video, Ruth Weisberg: On the Journey by Laura Vazquez.

10.22.2006 Art Matters

Recommended exhibitions: Eva Hesse: Drawing and MOCA FOCUS: Lecia Dole-Recio at the Museum of Contemporary Art.

Reading: Meridel Le Sueur’s poem "Rites of Ancient Ripening," a short essay on aging and ageism, and an article titled "The Crystal Quilt: A Performance and Its Legacy" by Patrice Clark Koelsch.

6.25.2006 Art Matters

Recommended exhibitions: Family Legacies: The Art of Betye, Lezley, and Alison Saar at the Pasadena Museum of California Art. This exhibition explores how a mother and two of her daughters share a passion for transforming found objects and materials into personal artworks that reflect contemporary social issues. Through the lens of their mixed ancestry, the three artists interpret aspects of family and identity, race and gender.

2.12.2006 Art Matters

Recommended exhibitions: Contemporary Soliloquies on the Natural World (Karen Carson, Merion Estes, Constance Mallinson, Margaret Nielsen, Takako Yamaguchi) at USC Fisher Gallery, Meditations on the Natural World by Linda Vallejo at the Natural History Museum in Exposition Park, and AOR – A Solo Exhibition by Lita Albuquerque at The Frederick R. Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine University.

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