Events on Wednesday, November 28
Wednesday 11/28 @ SCI-Arc
It is not entirely clear how one would comfortably inhabit Mark Foster Gage's buildings. While visiting them for a short time...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Orpheum Theatre
Austin multi-instrumentalist Sam Beam sets the tea kettle (or is it the whiskey still?) on simmer for a one-night-only stint at...
Wednesday 11/28 @ The Airliner
Local-scene vets the Entrance Band have expanded their psych-folk sound lately, trading in misty acoustics for distorted, electric hellfire with a...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 11/28 @ Bert Green Fine Art
Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Roberts & Tilton Gallery
For Ellen de Meutter's first US solo exhibition, the Belgian painter displays her signature childlike aesthetic, juxtaposing bright, expressionist imagery with...
Wednesday 11/28 @ University Art Museum, California State University, Long Beach
Sandow Birk's Depravities of War examines its titular subject's social, political, and aesthetic constructs. Birk's precursor was 17th-century printmaker Jacques Callot,...
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Wednesday 11/28 @ DCA Fine Art
Alejandro Gehry may be the son of uber-architect Frank, but it's his co-exhibitor, Brian Biedul, whose work really focuses on spatiality....
Wednesday 11/28 @ DF2
While French artist Mathieu Briand is best known for his ambitious sound installations, with UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey, he takes things...
Wednesday 11/28 @ The Scion Installation LA Space
Mark Mothersbaugh, the DEVO diva-turned-soundtrack composer, designs rugs the way David Byrne designs chairs — as humorous objects, not items of...
Wednesday 11/28 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Wednesday 11/28 @ SolwayJones Gallery
LA painter Cherie Benner Davis sees the world in layered transparencies — crisp geometric shapes overlaying expressive, devotional elements of the...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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...
Shona Macdonald: SHIFT & Heimir Björgúlfsson: Allure Gone Buffalo
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Los Angeles Opera
Giacomo Puccini's four-act opera La Bohème has been immortalized in more films, songs, and remakes than any other work of its...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Pete & Susan Barrett Art Gallery, Santa Monica College
Following the DIY aesthetic to a T, Sharon Kagan, Lana Shuttleworth, and Leslie Yagar, collectively known as the ladies of PiNK...
Wednesday 11/28 @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
The Little House, Victor Burgin's new project at the MAK Center, explores the potential of narrative sound installation. Selections from Jean-François...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Sandroni Rey
From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Milo Gallery
Don't call Joan Tucker another Rothko wannabe. While her exploratory, painterly abstractions are obviously influenced by the forefathers of abstract expressionism,...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Japanese American National Museum
Pop-culture empire Giant Robot began way back in 1994 as a zine, and has since grown to include a glossy magazine,...
Wednesday 11/28 @ The Lab 101 Gallery
Culver City's Lab 101 celebrates its third year in LA's newest international art-world hub with a show that, appropriately enough, features...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Various locations
It's been nearly four years since desertification precipitated a tragic conflict in Sudan. According to some estimates, to date as many...
Wednesday 11/28 @ New Image Art
Bay Area artist Alex Kopps' undeniably beautiful work has been endorsed by Target, Home Depot, and Taco Bell — but don't...
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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....
Wednesday 11/28 @ La Luz de Jesus
Custo, Nike, Honda, and others have tapped Barcelona-based illustration sensation Catalina Estrada’s super-stylized imagery. Mark Todd, influenced by comic book artist...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Gallery C
Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct...
Wednesday 11/28 @ LAXART
A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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...
The Red Balloon and White Mane
Wednesday 11/28 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre
In the early 1950s, cinemagician Albert Lamorisse created a new French board game, The Conquest of the World — or, for...
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Western Project
Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project,...
Ashley McLean Emenegger & Paul Pitsker: You Are Here
Wednesday 11/28 @ Bandini Art
Inspired by the groundbreaking mixed-media assemblages of Betye Saar and Joseph Cornell, Ashley McLean Emenegger explores themes of masculinity and femininity...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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...
Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann
Wednesday 11/28 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Three newcomers to the LA art scene — Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann — open individual mini-exhibitions tonight at...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Natural History Museum
Whether you cherish the memory of dueling dino skeletons from long-ago field trips, or a more recent late-night music show amongst...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
Beautiful and sublime, paintings by Seattle-based artist Robert Hardgrave boast slick, slippery, intestinal arabesques, quivering flora, and mysterious corpuscular floaters. Channeling...
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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,...
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin
Wednesday 11/28 @ Applegate Gallery
Jacob Arden McClure and Charles Wilkin's paintings and collages radiate pop sensibility: McClure's all-too-lovely works layer nostalgic imagery and text, while...
Wednesday 11/28 @ De Soto Gallery
If LA-based video artist Pascual Sisto had been born a century earlier, he and Salvador Dalí would have been best buds....
Wednesday 11/28 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
East meets West (coast, that is) in this exhibition of 14 NYC-based up-and-comers. Independent curator and New York gallerist Amy Smith-Stewart...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Hammer Museum
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never...
Wednesday 11/28 @ 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 —...
Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario
Wednesday 11/28 @ Richard Heller Gallery
LA painter Jacob Magraw's gouache-on-paper works are improvisational landscapes composed of layers of Skittles-worthy colors. His latest batch of works at...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Brickhouse Kitchen
Poet, artist, and amateur Buddhist Milo Martin claims to "write what I can't paint, and paint what I can't write," so...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Lightbox Gallery
Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes...
Wednesday 11/28 @ Various locations
Steal a Pencil for Me is the improbable-but-true documentary about the love affair conducted between two prisoners of a Nazi concentration...
