Top 10 Exhibitions Opening This Weekend in Los Angeles
Top 10 Exhibitions Opening This Weekend in Los Angeles
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Sep 08, 2016
Mira Schor: War Frieze (1991 – 1994) and “Power” Frieze (2016)
at CB1 Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sep 10, 2016 - Oct 30, 2016
CB1 Gallery is proud to announce ’s upcoming solo exhibition War Frieze, opening September 10, 2016. This will be the most comprehensive presentation of a major multi- canvas painting installation on the theme of militarism and aggression, conceived and begun by the artist in the immediate aftermath of the First Gulf War in the winter of 1991 and completed in 1994. The total work is over 200 running feet long and has never been seen in its entirety, either publicly or by the artist. read more...
Brian Kokoska: TRAUMA SAUNA
at ASHES/ASHES
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sep 10, 2016 - Oct 22, 2016
ASHES/ASHES is pleased to present TRAUMA SAUNA, an exhibition by Brian Kokoska featuring Chelsea Culprit, Erik Frydenborg, and . The exhibition will be on view September 10 – October 22, 2016, with an opening reception on Saturday, September 10 from 7–9pm. TRAUMA SAUNA presents a new series of paintings by Brian Kokoska within an installation of sculptures by Chelsea Culprit, Erik Frydenborg, and Ben Stone. read more...
Kyla Hansen: Rib Mountain
at 5 Car Garage
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sep 10, 2016 - Nov 02, 2016
Five Car Garage is pleased to announce Rib Mountain, the first solo exhibition by Los Angeles-based artist, . In Rib Mountain, Hansen’s assemblage sculptures and text-based works reference the anthropomorphized, feminized desert landscape through storytelling. She combines scraps and aesthetics from the American desert – urban and rural, interior and exterior – enthusiastically forming and filling spaces as an intrinsically feminist act. read more...
Laurel Shear: Where Dreams Come True and Go to Die
at Tiger Strikes Asteroid, Los Angeles
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sep 10, 2016 - Oct 01, 2016
Tiger Strikes Asteroid presents their first exhibition of California based painter entitled Where Dreams Come True and Go To Die opening on Saturday, September 10th, 2016 from 6pm to 8pm. The exhibition runs through October 1st and is open to the public on Saturdays from noon to 5pm. The unique culture and landscape in California serves as Shear’s complicated visual source for her paintings. read more...
Chris Coy: A Little Death
at Anat Ebgi Gallery
Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sep 10, 2016 - Oct 22, 2016
Late 18th century France brought us decapitation and, in equal measure, rococo, with its playful, effervescent brush strokes and soothing pastel radiance. Fragonard’s grand gesture of The Swing was as much a sweeping erotic spectacle of ancien régime courtship as it was a prologue to the sanguine collapse of the French social order. And yet, within the jardin à la française, all are subject to a rigid Cartesian logic, from the hare’s warm blood still flowing over freshly-cut grass to the upskirt hijinks of a maiden and her two male admirers. read more...
Zemer Peled: Nomad
at Mark Moore Gallery
Culver City - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sep 10, 2016 - Oct 29, 2016
Mark Moore Gallery is proud to present Nomad, by Israeli born artist . This marks the artist’s first solo exhibition in Los Angeles. Featuring large-scale sculptures and smaller objects, the exhibition highlights Peled’s labor-intensive process that bridges narrative and formalist elements. Peled utilizes a process of creation and destruction to make sculptures consisting of thousands of handcrafted porcelain shards resulting in works that can be read in relation to art historical tradition, outsider art, and natural phenomena. read more...
Doug Aitken: Electric Earth
at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
Downtown Los Angeles - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sep 10, 2016 - Jan 15, 2017
For more than 20 years, has shifted the perception and location of images and narratives. His multichannel video installations, sculptures, photographs, publications, happenings, and architectural works demonstrate the nature and structure of our ever-mobile, ever-changing, image-based contemporary condition. With a profound knowledge and understanding of the history of 20th-century avant-gardes, experimental music, and cinema, and an intimate kinship with the protest movements of the late 1960s, Aitken has invented a unique immersive aesthetic. read more...
Hanne Darboven
at Sprüth Magers, Los Angeles
Park La Brea - Los Angeles, CA, USA
Sep 09, 2016 - Oct 29, 2016
is recognised for her ambitious and idiosyncratic body of work that operates at the limits of representation. Sprüth Magers presents the first solo show of her work on the West Coast since 2010 – exhibiting three of her monumental installations that knit together mathematical procedure, historical and cultural artefact, and autobiographical documentation in an attempt to record subjective and objective perceptions of time via a conceptually coherent visual system. Darboven’s unwavering dedication to the representation of time began in earnest in the late 1960s after a stint in New York where she met artists Joseph Kosuth, Carl Andre and Sol LeWitt. read more...
Jean-Pascal Flavien & Mika Tajima
at Kayne Griffin Corcoran
Santa Monica, CA, USA
Sep 10, 2016 - Oct 29, 2016
Kayne Griffin Corcoran is pleased to announce a two-person exhibition with and Mika Tajima. While making very different work, both artists investigate social relationships to built environments and attempt to expose the constructed nature of these designed systems. The artists postulate in various forms such as architectural interventions or deconstructions of design objects, all in relation to the human subject. read more...
Line into Color, Color into Line: Helen Frankenthaler, Paintings 1962-1987
at Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Beverly Hills, CA, USA
Sep 16, 2016 - Oct 29, 2016
Gagosian Gallery is pleased to announce an exhibition of paintings by . The exhibition comprises eighteen canvases by Frankenthaler from a twenty-five year time span, selected to reveal how the renowned abstract painter articulated the relationship between drawing and color during this period. In her pioneering work of the 1950s, inspired by Jackson Pollock, Frankenthaler had poured both linear tracks and spreading areas of thinned paint onto unprimed canvas. read more...