WEDNESDAY, NOV 6, 2013
THE BRICK BUILDING
8870 WASHINGTON BLVD.,

CULVER CITY, CA 90232
6:30 - 7:30PM VIP PREVIEW
7:30 - 9:30PM SILENT AUCTION
8:30 - 9:00PM LIVE AUCTION

TO START BIDDING AND REVIEW ARTWORKS FEATURED IN THE AUCTION CLICK HERE

TICKETS ARE NOW SOLD OUT!

Please note, tickets will not be available for purchase at the event. 

ENTRY Ticket ($125)

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VIP Ticket ($200)

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Bundle of 5 VIP ($750)

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Bundle of 10 VIP ($1500)+ Curators Council Membership

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VIP Table for 2 ($3000)+ 2 Curators Council Memberships

VIP Table for 4 ($5000)+ Collector's Circle Couples Membership

ARTISTS FEATURED IN THE AUCTION INCLUDE:  Joshua Abelow, Scoli Acosta, Nick Aguayo, Eleanor Antin, Kevin Appel, Kamrooz Aram, Edgar Arceneaux, Artemio, Christopher Badger, Kelly Barrie, Martin Basher, Math Bass, Daniel Bayles, Justin Beal, Leon Benn, Colby Bird, Brice Bischoff, Joshua Blackwell, Andrea Bowers, Matthew Brandt, Heather Brown, Sarah Cain, Phil Chang, Terry Chatkupt, Fritz Chesnut, Sarah Conaway, Fiona Connor, William Cordova, Isabelle Cornaro, Mario Correa, Meg Cranston, Zoe Crosher, Daniel Cummings, Michael DeLucia, Tomory Dodge, Roy Dowell, Sam Durant, Martin Durazo, Shannon Ebner, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Sam Falls, Patricia Fernández, Dan Finsel, Kim Fisher, Morgan Fisher, Harrell Fletcher, Brendan Fowler, Bella Foster, Rinaldo Frattolillo, Charles Gaines, Tierney Gearon, David Gilbert, Laeh Glenn, Liz Glynn, Sayre Gomez, Ken Gonzales-Day, Alexandra Grant, Katie Grinnan, Iva Gueorguieva, Jen Guidi, Sherin Guirguis, Wade Guyton, Karl Haendel, Mark Hagen, Emilie Halpern, Peter Harkawik, Lyle Ashton Harris, Drew Heitzler, Matthias Merkel Hess, Leslie Hewitt, Kenyatta A. C. Hinkle, Julian Hoeber, Violet Hopkins, John Houck, Pearl C. Hsiung, Whitney Hubbs, Salomon Huerta, Jibade-Khalil Huffman, Daniel Ingroff, Alex Israel, Patrick Jackson, Steffani Jemison, Matt Johnson, JPW3, Vishal Jugdeo, Yishai Jusidman, Wyatt Kahn, Glenn Kaino, Sanya Kantarovsky, Matt Keegan, Ellsworth Kelly, Mary Kelly, Michael John Kelly, Caroline Kent, Zak Kitnick, Silvia Kolbowski, David Korty, Alexander Kroll, Joel Kyack, Thomas Lawson, Ujin Lee, Nery G. Lemus (in collaboration with Gael F. Lemus), Justin Lieberman, Chris Lipomi, Nick Lobo, Caitlin Lonegan, Michelle Lopez, Israel Lund, Shana Lutker, Euan Macdonald, Nzuji de Magalhaes, Dashiell Manley, Daniel Joseph Martinez, Rodney McMillian, John Millei, Allison Miller, Nicole Miller, Yunhee Min, Julio Cesar Morales, Rebecca Morris, Carter Mull, JP Munro, Warren Neidich, Ruby Neri, Kori Newkirk, Amir Nikravan, Jed Ochmanek, Chris Oliveria, Edgar Orlaineta, Arthur Ou, John Outterbridge, Paul P., Paul Pescador, Kelly Poe, William Powhida, Ana Prvacki, Orit Raff, Marcos Ramirez, Noam Rappaport, Michael Rashkow, Heather Rasmussen, Sean Raspet, Scott Reeder, Joe Reihsen, Isaac Resnikoff, Michael Rey, Robert Reynolds, Laura Riboli, Marco Rios, Miguel Angel Rios, Jesse Robinson, Michelle Ross, Miljohn Ruperto, Ed Ruscha, Maha Saab, Asha Schecter, Betsy Lin Seder, Anna Sew Hoy, Brian Sharp, Lisa Sigal, Ryan Sluggett, Lucien Smith, Matt Sheridan Smith, Luke Stettner, Henry Taylor, Alexis Teplin, Samantha Thomas, Tam Van Tran, Cody Trepte, Mary Weatherford, Jennifer West, Pae White, Kehinde Wiley, Jesse Willenbring, Brian Wills, Jonas Wood, Aaron Wrinkle, Ulli Wulff, Rosha Yaghmai, Samira Yamin, Bruce Yonemoto, Nate Young, Bari Ziperstein, Robert Zung
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Office Hours are occasions for extended in-person dialogues between artists and their publics. Taking from the academic tradition of “office hours,” participating artists offer scheduled one-on-one meetings to follow up on aspects of their work and further pursue open questions, in a setting apart from the lecture hall or classroom. As an ongoing program, Office Hours fosters reception of artistic interests through enquiry, exchange, and reflection.
 
Individuals may sign up for one 50-minute meeting by emailing one of the available dates and times listed below to: officehours@laxart.org. All meetings are held at LA><ART. The program is free and open to all publics.
 
Fall 2013 participating artists and hours of availability:
 
John Houck

 
John Houck works with photographic materials and engages in architectural interventions, in both cases focusing on the relationship between embodied perception and depiction. Houck’s background in computer programming, architecture and photography equip him with extensive knowledge of diverse codes used to generate images. Houck employs such codes – intentionally disrupting their more advanced functions through simple repetition and recursive processes – to create new interstitial sites of resistance. His work examines a practical and real understanding of the digital systems that order our contemporary experience, and furthermore, the ability to reclaim pervasive systems for intentions at once poetic and defiant.
 
John Houck has an MFA from UCLA, he was a studio participant in the Whitney Independent Study Program in 2010, and attended The Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture in 2008. Houck’s work was recently included in the group exhibition “Lens Drawings” at Marian Goodman in Paris, and the artist has solo exhibitions this Fall at On Stellar Rays in New York and Max Wigram in London.

Available appointments with John Houck:

Office Hours is organized by Eric Golo Stone, Adjunct Curator of Discursive Programs at LA><ART.

Office Hours are occasions for extended in-person dialogues between artists and their publics. Taking from the academic tradition of “office hours,” participating artists offer scheduled one-on-one meetings to follow up on aspects of their work and further pursue open questions, in a setting apart from the lecture hall or classroom. As an ongoing program, Office Hours fosters reception of artistic interests through enquiry, exchange, and reflection.
 
Individuals may sign up for one 50-minute meeting by emailing one of the available dates and times listed below to: officehours@laxart.org. All meetings are held at LA><ART. The program is free and open to all publics.
 
Fall 2013 participating artists and hours of availability:
 
K8 Hardy
 
K8 Hardy is a New-York-based artist, one of the founders of the queer feminist art collective LTTR and creator of the cult zine fashionfashion. In her work Hardy often uses fashion as a material to sculpt, photograph, and produce performances interchangeably and simultaneously, creating a new genderqueer vision.
 
Hardy has directed music videos for groups including Le Tigre, Lesbians on Ecstasy, and Men. She has exhibited her work and performed internationally at numerous venues including MoMA PS1 and Artists Space in New York; The Tate Modern, London; Galerie Sonja Jünkers, Munich, Germany; Balice Hertling in Paris; and Dallas Contemporary, Dallas. Her work is included in the permanent collection of the Whitney Museum of American Art, New York, and was featured in the Whitney's 2012 Biennial. Hardy's artistic practice spans a variety of genres and media, including video, photography, sculpture and performance, and responds to issues surrounding identity, image commerce, branding, and gender power.
 
K8 Hardy's participation in Office Hours is realized in collaboration with the USC Roski MA Art and Curatorial Practices in the Public Sphere and MFA programs.
 
Available appointments with K8 Hardy:

Office Hours is organized by Eric Golo Stone, Adjunct Curator of Discursive Programs at LA><ART.

Artist & designer Bari Ziperstein will lead a clay bead-making workshop for necklaces and wall hangings! Kids will explore design, color, textures and pattern with model magic air-drying clay, clay tools, and twine.

Bari Ziperstein’s practice draws attention to the way built environments relate to desire and aspiration through meticulously constructed sculptural ceramic objects.

Bari Ziperstein is currently the Visiting Assistant Professor of Sculpture at University of CA at Riverside and has taught at Cal Arts, California State Summer School for the Arts and University of CA at San Diego. She obtained her BFA from Ohio University and her MFA from Cal Arts.

RSVP to: info@laxart.org

Join Edgar Arceneaux and Kevin Krapf serving as U.S. Embassy Cultural Attache to Sao Tome and Gabon, Africa in a discussion moderated by Sue Bell Yank to discuss the potentials and risks for social practice in 21st century U.S. cultural diplomacy. 

Thursday August 1st
7 PM 
Limited seating 
RSVP at info@laxart.org

Office Hours at LA><ART

Office Hours at LA><ART

Available appointments with Phil Chang:

Saturday, July 27, 2013
12pm – 12:50pm, 1pm – 1:50pm, 2pm – 2:50pm

Office Hours at LA><ART

Event sold out. 

Thank you for all your support!

LAXART is pleased to present an event organized by Los Angeles-based artist Susan Silton in conjunction with the recent publication of her conceptual book project, Who's in a Name?. 

Saturday July 13, 2013

4-6 PM 

The event at LAXART will consist of brief papers/presentations/readings by art historians/writers Jonathan Griffin, Natilee Harren, Michael Ned Holte, Liz Kotz, and Karen Tongson, along with readings by Who's in a Name? biographers Andrew Berardini, Sarah Lehrer-Graiwer, Stacie Martinez, Susanna Newbury, and Virginia Solomon. The event will also include a special performative work by internationally recognized artist David Lamelas, who registered the name of his friend and colleague Jack Goldstein for Silton's project.

Signed copies of Who's in a Name? will be available for purchase at LAXART.

The New International Cultural Centre in Brussels is continuing LAXART's Art in the Parking Space project.

"It tastes like shit, it is shit, want a toothbrush"

Solo show by Aline Bouvy

NICC Vitrine, Rue Lambert Crickx 1, 1070 Brussels

Window installation at LA><ART

Aaron Wrinkle
Studio Altar 1/ Window of Curiosity 
found produce container with miscellaneous recycled consumer products, incense, candles, and debris
2013

Saturday April 13, 2013
7:00pm
LA><ART
2640 South La Cienega Blvd.

This one-hour program presents the moving image of international artists Pilvi Takala and Ahmet Öğüt. The onsite event will be followed by a discussion with audience members, the artists and LA><ART curator-at-large, Matthew Schum.

Our retrospective look will feature the following works by each artist:

Pilvi Takala
Trainee
The Real Snow White
Players
http://www.pilvitakala.com/

Ahmet Öğüt
Oscar William Sam
Somebody Else's Car
Things We Count
Let It Be Known to All Persons Here Gathered
EyeWriter/DIY/arbakir
Guppy 13 vs Ocean Wave: A Bas Jan Ader Experience
http://www.ahmetogut.com/

* Image courtesy of Ahmet Öğüt; artwork commissioned by the Liverpool Biennial.
** Image courtesy of Pilvi Takala, Galerie Diana Stigter and Carlos/Ishikawa.

ABOUT THE ARTISTS
Ahmet Öğüt: (b. 1981, Diyarbakir, Turkey) Lives and works between Berlin, Istanbul and Amsterdam. Öğüt recently completed a year-long residency at the Tate and the Delfina Foundation to develop the ongoing project The Silent University (2012). Öğüt solo exhibitions include the Künstlerhaus, Stuttgart; SALT Beyoglu, Istanbul; Fondazione Giuliani, Rome; Artspace Visual Arts Centre in Sydney and Kunsthalle, Basel. Selected group exhibitions include the 7th Liverpool Biennial; the 12th Istanbul Biennial; the 4th Moscow Biennial; Performa 09 and the 5th Berlin Biennial. He is winner of the 2010 Europas Zukunft prize from Museum of Contemporary Art  Leipzig (GfZK), the 2011 Volkskrant Art Prize, and 2012 The Special Prize of the Future Generation Art Prize. Öğüt represented Turkey at the 53rd Venice Biennale with Banu Cennetoğlu.

Pilvi Takala: (b. 1981, Helsinki, Finland) Graduated from the Finnish Academy of Fine Arts in 2006 (MFA), was artist-in-residence at Rijksakademie, Amsterdam 2009-2010 and won the Dutch Prix de Rome 2011. Her solo exhibitions include Bonniers Konsthall, Stockholm; Site Gallery, Sheffield; Künstlerhaus Bremen; Kunsthalle Erfurt, Kiasma Museum of Contemporary Art, Helsinki; Turku Art Museum; Kunsthalle Lissabon; Sorlandets Kunstmuseum, Norway. Her work has been shown in New Museum, New York; S.M.A.K., Ghent; Kunsthalle Basel; De Hallen Haarlem; Wiels, Brussels; 4th Moscow Biennial; Witte de With, Rotterdam; 4th Bucharest Biennial; 5th Berlin Biennial; 9th Istanbul Biennial and Kunsthalle Helsinki.

Film Screening at the Silent Movie Theater: 

Edgar Arcenaux
An Arrangement Without Tormentors
I Told Jesus, Change My Name

April 7 from 1-3 PM 

Post screening conversation with Arceneaux, Martine Syms, and Curator Amanda Hunt

611 North Fairfax Ave.
Los Angeles, CA 90036

Office Hours at LA><ART

Office Hours are occasions for extended in-person dialogues between artists and their publics. Taking from the academic tradition of “office hours,” participating artists offer scheduled one-on-one meetings to follow up on aspects of their work and further pursue open questions, in a setting apart from the lecture hall or classroom. As an ongoing program, Office Hours fosters reception of artistic interests through enquiry, exchange, and reflection.

Individuals may sign up for one 50-minute meeting by emailing one of the available dates and times listed below to: officehours@laxart.org. All meetings are held at LA><ART. The program is free and open to all publics. 

Office Hours at LA><ART

Office Hours are occasions for extended in-person dialogues between artists and their publics. Taking from the academic tradition of “office hours,” participating artists offer scheduled one-on-one meetings to follow up on aspects of their work and further pursue open questions, in a setting apart from the lecture hall or classroom. As an ongoing program, Office Hours fosters reception of artistic interests through enquiry, exchange, and reflection.

Individuals may sign up for one 50-minute meeting by emailing one of the available dates and times listed below to: officehours@laxart.org. All meetings are held at LA><ART. The program is free and open to all publics. 

Participating artists and hours of availability:

Office Hours at LA><ART

Office Hours are occasions for extended in-person dialogues between artists and their publics. Taking from the academic tradition of “office hours,” participating artists offer scheduled one-on-one meetings to follow up on aspects of their work and further pursue open questions, in a setting apart from the lecture hall or classroom. As an ongoing program, Office Hours fosters reception of artistic interests through enquiry, exchange, and reflection.

Individuals may sign up for one 50-minute meeting by emailing one of the available dates and times listed below to: officehours@laxart.org. All meetings are held at LA><ART. The program is free and open to all publics. 

Participating artists and hours of availability:

Edgar Arceneaux

Available appointments:

Saturday, March 16, 2013

12pm – 12:50pm

1pm – 1:50pm

2pm – 2:50pm

Born in 1972, Los Angeles-based artist Edgar Arceneaux received a BFA from the Art Center College of Design and a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts. Arceneaux constructs drawings, installations and video and film works as complex arrangements of association that examine adjacencies and points of contact between implausible relations. From 1999 to 2012 Arceneaux served as Director of the Watts House Project, an artist driven neighborhood redevelopment project centered around the historic Watts Towers. He co-founded the WHP as a non-profit organization in 2009 with writer and arts organizer Sue Bell Yank. Solo exhibitions of his work have been presented at the Hammer Museum, Los Angeles; the Kitchen, New York; the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art; The Studio Museum in Harlem, and the Museum für Gegenwartskunst in Basel, Switzerland. His work was included in Marking Time at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Sydney, Australia; Mutatis Mutandis, at Secession, Vienna, Austria, and the 2008 Whitney Biennial, New York. Arceneaux is currently developing a collaborative project with the US State Department and the country of São Tomé e Príncipe, as well as a solo exhibition opening in May of 2013 at the Arts Incubator in Washington Park, a forum created by Theaster Gates as part of the University of Chicago’s Arts and Public Life initiative. He is represented by Susanne Vielmetter in Los Angeles and Praz-Delavallade in Paris.

Other Office Hours artists and appointment dates include:

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Iván Argote
La Estrategia, 2012
(TRT 30:12)

This film and video work focuses on clandestine communities founded in 1970s Bogotá by revolutionaries. Guided by a system of gnostic truths that consolidated their vision, these cellular groups applied their hermetic values in shared living situations. Their everyday reality consisted of physical and mental exercises that expressed their commitment to the collective and a way of life was intended to prepare them for the coming revolution.
 
Traveling between Bogotà and the jungle, La Estrategia establishes a mirror community of youth in Colombia. On the basis of family folklore collected by the artist, he and his actors immerse themselves in the spirit—and occasional absurdities—of a former, more militant generation. The new group stalks their predecessors in a series of staged actions and kinetic artworks that attempt to reconstitute the past. A visual journal unfolds in vignettes made-up of asynchronous passages anchored in half-truths, historical fiction and actual events. La Estrategia searches for traces of individuals that can only be approached by seemingly futile experiments in collective action and a blind willingness to narrate a story that will inevitably remain incomplete. In this sense, the work investigates how quickly partisan ideals transform while still imposing their influence.
 
“The strategy” seen in the footage tests how method relates to historical encounter and the provisional materials a micro community may use to mark the past.
 
Film screening will begin promptly at 7:30 PM
Public parking is free on La Cienega after 7 PM. 
 
About the Artist
Ivan Argote was born in Bogota in 1983. He holds a Master of Fine Arts degree from the École Nationale Supérieure des Beaux-Arts de Paris. Argote creates scenarios in his art that blend rebellion and absurdity. “My works are reflections on the way we behave and how we understand our environment and how our immediate surroundings relate to history, tradition, art, politics and power,” Argote says of his work. He has presented solo exhibitions at Palais de Tokyo, Paris, CA2M, Madrid and D+T Project, Brussels. The artist was included in the 30th Sao Paulo Biennale, Brazil, along with his partner, Pauline Bastard. 

Barbara Bush on LA><ART by Martha Wilson
Pitzer College Art Galleries in collaboration with LA><ART
2640 S. La Cienega, Los Angeles, CA 90034
Thursday, January 24, 2013 at 6:30 p.m.

Martha Wilson's signature performance work is political satire and she is known for impersonating First Ladies Nancy Reagan, Barbara Bush and Second Lady Tipper Gore. On Thursday, January 24, Wislon will present a special performance of Barbara Bush at LA><ART.