Events on Saturday, October 27
Saturday 10/27 @ Pomona College Museum of Art
Victor Hugo once said that, in contrast to the sublime, the grotesque is the richest material that nature can offer art....
Saturday 10/27 @ Richard Heller Gallery
Internationally acclaimed, Berkeley-based artist Brendan Monroe returns to Richard Heller Gallery — one of the West Side's premier sources of contemporary...
Saturday 10/27 @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects
The humorous, poignant, and technically impressive paintings, drawings, and prints by Nicole Eisenman at Vielmetter Projects are neatly explained by the...
Saturday 10/27 @ Christopher Grimes Gallery
Anton Henning's loopy abstractions, painterly portraits, and grandiose furniture are loveable yet curiously familiar. Consuming broad swathes of modernism from Manet...
Saturday 10/27 @ Black Maria Gallery
There's a lot more to punk than style — after all, safety pins and mohawks were really just window dressing to...
Eric Tucker & Rae Scarton: Exit East
Saturday 10/27 @ Commissary Arts
Eric Tucker and Rae Scarton's Exit East explores the transformation of the Inland Empire with large-format color prints that pay special...
Saturday 10/27 @ Robert Berman Gallery
Marischa Slusarski's paintings would be at home in Bosch's nursery school. Her strange, surreal landscapes — full of hideously adorable babies...
Saturday 10/27 @ Lightbox Gallery
Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes...
Saturday 10/27 @ Ruth Bachofner Gallery
Ironically, LA-based Jennifer Faist uses one of the most labor-intensive, obsessive processes imaginable to create serene, harmonious, and even poetic monochromes....
Barry McGee: Advanced Mature Work
Saturday 10/27 @ REDCAT
Barry McGee (aka San Fran street scriber Twist) has created everything from a demolition derby (complete with cars featuring his painting)...
Saturday 10/27 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Saturday 10/27 @ DF2
While French artist Mathieu Briand is best known for his ambitious sound installations, with UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey, he takes things...
Saturday 10/27 @ Various locations
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That,...
Saturday 10/27 @ See Line Gallery
Shona Macdonald: SHIFT & Heimir Björgúlfsson: Allure Gone Buffalo
Saturday 10/27 @ d.e.n. contemporary art
Aberdeen-born Shona Macdonald's delicate gouache, silverpoint, and graphite works, exhibited in d.e.n.'s main gallery, comment on the endless order and routine...
Saturday 10/27 @ Sandroni Rey
From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her...
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Saturday 10/27 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
One of three new exhibitions on view this fall at the Pasadena Museum of California Art, vinyl-obsessed group show Beyond Ultraman...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Saturday 10/27 @ Los Angeles County Museum of Art
Exhibitions addressing mythologies of Southern California are suddenly seemingly ubiquitous. The Orange County Museum of Art's Art Since the 1960s: California...
Susan Silton: The Day, the Earth
Saturday 10/27 @ SolwayJones Gallery
Susan Silton's latest photography project packs centuries of history and cultural politics into what many think of as a lowly design...
Saturday 10/27 @ High Energy Constructs
California native Mark Dutcher utilizes Shakespeare as a thematic backdrop, adding a tinge of the macabre to his lavish, effervescent paintings...
Saturday 10/27 @ Museum of Contemporary Art San Diego, La Jolla
Soundwaves: The Art of Sampling is MCASD's response to MOCA's 2005 exhibition Visual Music, a survey of the influence and/or direct...
Saturday 10/27 @ Thinkspace Gallery
Thinkspace ventures into the depths of the forest's terrestrial foliage with Lesley Reppeteaux and Chris Ryniak, two artists whose enchantments include...
Saturday 10/27 @ Los Angeles Public Library: Central Library
Julius Shulman has done more for the way California modernist architecture is seen and appreciated than probably anyone else —...
Fumiko Amano: Heian Dream Series & Art Weeks: God Only Knows (what I'd be without you)
Saturday 10/27 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Fumiko Amano's saturated palettes, thick color fields, and raw patterns have an intensely serene and meditative physicality. Offering a powerful counterpoint,...
Saturday 10/27 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
The theme of unlearning is an essential aspect in BLK/MRKT gallery owner Dave Kinsey's art. As a result, his multi-medium portraits...
Saturday 10/27 @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery
Curator Melissa Levin has gathered six New York-based artists whose work focuses on the nature of consumables. While the duo of...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Saturday 10/27 @ Materials & Applications
Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore...
Saturday 10/27 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Los Angeles' own Camille Rose Garcia isn't just part of the hot "lowbrow" urban-art movement — she's a key player. Her...
Saturday 10/27 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
