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This conversation between George Baker and Tacita Dean marks the final program at LA><ART's Culver City location before reopening in its ne Hollywood space on January 10th, 2015.
“It was a decade ago. I remember passing slowly through the unfamiliar but homey landscape, on a train from London to Cambridge, or perhaps it was the reverse, with only one book in my bag to read. It was the catalog An Aside: Selected by Tacita Dean, the artist’s first curatorial project, an exhibition at the Camden Arts Centre that I had just seen and that affected me immensely. In some way that I find hard to describe, it was this exhibition that I had foremost in my mind as I proposed and worked on bringing D.E. May’s constructions, abstractions, and objects to Los Angeles. It was the intensity that glowed from Dean’s chosen objects and reclaimed histories that I wanted to remember, to approximate. In my mind, at least, I imagined inserting D.E. May’s work, with all its found objects and materials, into the fabric of Dean’s exhibition, finding a place for it there. Next to Sharon Lockhart’s ikebana photographs, perhaps, or Paul Nash’s images of uprooted trees, or Eileen Agar’s rocks, or Kurt Schwitters’ painted stones.”
-- George Baker, Los Angeles, 2014
“A show created through a meandering, ill-formed thought process…I described it as a process of objective chance, but I have been more the dilettante than the devotee…Nothing is more frightening than not knowing where you’re going, but then again nothing can be more satisfying than finding you’ve arrived somewhere without any clear idea of the route. I did not, and could not have, pre-imagined this show; it is not at all what I expected it to be, and that’s the point: I have at least been faithful to the blindness with which I set out…”
-- Tacita Dean, An Aside, 2005
On the occasion of the closing of D.E. May: Half Distance, the art historian and critic George Baker, curator of the exhibition at LA><ART, engages artist Tacita Dean in a wide-ranging conversation on the found object in and beyond her own work and the work of D.E. May. Immediately following the program there will be a closing reception.
This program is organized with support from the Getty Research Institute.
Discursive Programs at LA><ART is a multi-faceted initiative that generates opportunities for publics to engage with artists, curators, and other cultural producers through intimate conversations, group discussions, research presentations, workshops, and readings. This initiative produces one-time projects and ongoing programs that create unique conditions for intellectual exchange and public engagement. In addition to providing an independent curriculum, Discursive Programs serves as an open forum with partnering institutions, to pursue knowledge through artistic interests, curatorial activities, and interdisciplinary reflection on cultural production today.
Founded in 2005, LA><ART is Los Angeles’ leading independent contemporary art space supporting and presenting experimental exhibitions, public art initiatives, and publications with emerging, mid-career and established local, national and international artists.
LA><ART's programs are produced with generous support from The Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts; The National Endowment for the Arts; The Los Angeles County Arts Commission; Nathan Cummings Foundation, with the support and encouragement of Roberta Friedman Cummings, Dashiell Driscoll and Clea Shearer; The Philip and Muriel Berman Foundation; California Community Foundation; City of Los Angeles, Department of Cultural Affairs; Foundation for Contemporary Arts; Robert Rauschenberg Foundation; and The Anthony & Jeanne Pritzker Family Foundation.
LA><ART
2640 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Please RSVP for this free event at: rsvp@laxart.org
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This event would not have been possible without support from the following foundations, corporations and individuals:
Sheryl Amster, Ruth and Jake Bloom, Praz-Delavallade, ForYourArt, David Kordansky Gallery, Iris Z. Marden, Shulamit Nazarian, Kelsey Lee Offield, Eloise & Carl Pohlad Family Fund, Michael Price.
Thank you for the generous support of our Host Committee: Sheryl Amster, Maria Bell, Stacen Berg, Adam Bernhard, Ruth and Jake Bloom, Rebecca Bloom and David Kurtz, Jacki and Jason Bloom, Filippo Brignone, Nicole Brooks, Sheridan Brown, Jodi Guber Brufsky and Seth Brufsky, Meredith Darrow, Sidney B. Felson and Joni Moisant Weyl, Fred Fisher and Jennie Prebor, Oliver Furth, Jane Glassman, Julie and Richard Harrah, Lonnie Levi Israel, Isaac Joseph, Mara Kamins, Adam and Brooke Kanter, Bettina Korek, Nancy Lainer, Kimberly Light, Karyn Lovegrove, Ashlee Margolis, Julie Miyoshi, Candace Nelson, Irene Neuwirth, Christine Nichols, Kelsey Lee Offield, Jeffrey Poe, Charles Pohlad, Deborah Page, Esthella Provas, Candice and Darren Romanelli, Adam P. Schneider, Jeffrey and Catharine Soros, Ben Spector, Sutton Stracke, Jessica Robin Trent, Joseph Varet and Esther Kim Varet, Susanne Veilmetter, Richard and Liane Weintraub and Laurie Ziegler.
Special thanks to Amy Bailie, Marilyn Heston, Alex Butler, Ariana Lambert Smeraldo and Daniel Flores.
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Bryan Zanisnik: The Problem With Appetite
Monday July 7th, 2014, 6-8pm
Globalized hamburgers
Over consumption as patriotism
Pancake breakfast summits
Bryan Zanisnik presents a new performance celebrating the US holiday.
Zanisnik’s performances contain an absurdist, dark humor resembling dream or nightmare scenarios. Most recently they are in the style of the tableau vivant, a theatrical arrangement of non-moving actors. Visually complex and often fantastical the installations are filled with symbols and metaphors left for the viewer to decipher.
Bryan Zanisnik received an MFA from Hunter College and attended the Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture. His performances, video and sculpture has been exhibited internationally including MoMA PS1, Sculpture Center, Queens Museum of Art, Fabric Workshop, De La Cruz Collection (Miami), Istanbul Museum of Modern Art, Kunsthalle Exnergasse and Future Center for Contemporary Art in Prague.
Starting in May 2014, LA><ART launches a series of performances to be curated by Summer Guthery, LA><ART’s Curator of Performance and Special Projects. Alongside exhibitions and programming, the performance series is meant to highlight the critical role of live performance in the visual arts throughout history. As performance exists in parallel to artistic practice, it is key to understanding notions of artistic refusal, artistic intelligence and overall intention. This performance series then in its own modest way intends to suggest this history and incite curiosity by revealing the layers of an artists practice. Performances will take place at LA><ART’s gallery and other venues around the city and includes local, national and international artists working in literature, dance, theater, film and in-between.
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Please join us Saturday, June 21st for the New York Magazine Artist Tour and
LA><ART Family Workshops
Family Workshop with Artist Sharon Lee: 11am-1pm (Ages 4+)
Sharon Lee is a Los Angeles based artist creating mixed media paintings, art objects, and wallpaper. As studies for her larger works, she often creates maquettes in the form of 4” square panels to test her hand-carved blocks and gold leaf process. Over time, these studies have taken on a life of their own as the artist started stringing them on twine as gifts for friends. For the workshop, we will be creating these small hanging paintings that will illustrate the importance of doing quick sketches and studies to inform larger ideas. The panels will be decorated with aquarelle watercolor, stamps, markers, and metallic pens, exploring pattern, color, and composition on a diminutive scale. These paintings will become a decorative item to take home or give as a gift, illustrating the fine line between art and object.
Family Workshop with Artist Melanie Nakaue: 1pm-3pm (Ages 5+)
In this workshop, participants will learn the basic principles of stopmotion animation and character design and will also have the opportunity to fabricate a character for use in an animation. The artist will animate all characters created at the workshop and the finished animation will be screened on the LA><ART website.
Los Angeles based artist Melanie Nakaue focuses on the re-examination of personal histories and narratives utilizing experimental animation, sculpture and installation. Melanie received her MFA from CalArts and BA from Scripps College. Recent and upcoming screenings and exhibitions of her work include: The Nichols Gallery (Pitzer College), The Luckman Gallery, LAND, The Harris Art Gallery and Monte Vista Projects.
Kindly RSVP to: marika@laxart.org or (310) 559-0166
Both workshops will take place at
LA><ART: 2640 S. La Cienega Blvd, Los Angeles 90034
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Saturday, February 15, 2014 at 3pm
All the Difference in the World Inside a White Cube
In a recent conversation, Raphael Montañez Ortiz, the artist and founder of El Museo del Barrio in New York, said that, at the time the Museo was founded, he thought all of its exhibitions should start with a rainforest. In her presentation at LA><ART, Chus Martínez will consider interpretations into this vision of the rainforest as the preface to every exhibition. For Martínez, Ortiz’s rainforest—as a principle that in its complete otherness and expansive life force defies the notion of a container—introduces what is a novel element to discussions around the politics of the white cube.
Born in Ponteceso, Spain, Chus Martínez has a background in philosophy and art history. Prior to her newly appointed position as Head of the Institute of Art of the FHNW Academy of Arts and Design in Basel, Switzerland, she was Chief Curator at El Museo del Barrio, New York, and dOCUMENTA (13) Head of Department and Member of Core Agent Group. Previously she was Chief Curator at MACBA, Barcelona (2008–11), Director of the Frankfurter Kunstverein (2005–08), and Artistic Director of Sala Rekalde, Bilbao (2002–05). For the 51st Biennale di Venezia (2005), Martínez curated the National Pavilion of Cyprus, and in 2008 she served as a Curatorial Advisor for the Carnegie International and in 2010 for the 29th Bienal de São Paulo.
Chus Martínez’s presentation at LA><ART is part of the touring Curator’s Perspective––a free, itinerant public discussion series ICI developed as a way for international curators to share their research and experiences. The Curator’s Perspective series has been made possible, in part, by grants from the Robert Sterling Clark Foundation and by generous contributions from the ICI Board of Trustees and ICI Access Fund.
This event is organized in collaboration with ICI, LACMA and LA><ART.
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