Events on Thursday, November 8
Graphics for Social and Political Change
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Cal State LA Luckman Gallery
Carol Wells, director of the Center for the Study of Political Graphics, once said that protest posters' true power was their...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ [delete] Echoplex
Adorably fierce indie foursome Great Northern bring their heart-wrenching, unbridled intimacy (and giant steel drum) to the Echoplex tonight for a...
Heavy Metal Parking Lot (1986)
Thursday 11/ 8 @ The Silent Movie Theatre
Beer, mullets, bad perms, Camaros, and the party in the parking lot were as essential to the '80s heavy-metal-show experience as...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Social Hollywood
While it's still very much a car company, Scion makes a foray into independent film with Easy Ten, giving select young...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ El Rey
Hip-hop is for nerds, or so seems to be the sentiment of LA's own Stones Throw records. You won't see the...
Ongoing Events
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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....
Clayton Murdach and Travis Somerville
Thursday 11/ 8 @ delete
This exhibition unites two like-minded artists whose work addresses the unstoppable decline of American society. Clayton Murdach manipulates a bevy of...
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ See Line Gallery
Thursday 11/ 8 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
Ashley McLean Emenegger & Paul Pitsker: You Are Here
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Bandini Art
Inspired by the groundbreaking mixed-media assemblages of Betye Saar and Joseph Cornell, Ashley McLean Emenegger explores themes of masculinity and femininity...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ UCLA Live at Royce Hall
Without question, Pina Bausch has exerted profound influence on contemporary dance, developing the medium of dance-theatre by incorporating dramatic sets and...
Shona Macdonald: SHIFT & Heimir Björgúlfsson: Allure Gone Buffalo
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Various locations
It's been nearly four years since desertification precipitated a tragic conflict in Sudan. According to some estimates, to date as many...
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Kim Rugg: Don't Mention the War
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Mark Moore Gallery
British artist Kim Rugg distills printed objects to their barest essentials by cutting them up and reconfiguring. For her well-known newspaper...
Susan Silton: The Day, the Earth
Thursday 11/ 8 @ SolwayJones Gallery
Susan Silton's latest photography project packs centuries of history and cultural politics into what many think of as a lowly design...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Fumiko Amano: Heian Dream Series & Art Weeks: God Only Knows (what I'd be without you)
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Brickhouse Kitchen
As part of its ongoing series of exhibitions spotlighting Venice Beach's legendarily talented denizens, the Brickhouse Kitchen welcomes Monica Martinez and...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Eric Tucker & Rae Scarton: Exit East
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Barry McGee: Advanced Mature Work
Thursday 11/ 8 @ REDCAT
Barry McGee (aka San Fran street scriber Twist) has created everything from a demolition derby (complete with cars featuring his painting)...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Western Project
Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project,...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Chung King Project
Born in Germany and raised in Iraq, Peter Rösel is now a devotee of the whisperings of desert mirages. Rösel's sparse,...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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....
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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....
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Egyptian Theatre
In the oft-vapid world of
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Bert Green Fine Art
Clive Barker is known for creating some pretty frightening characters — Candyman, Pinhead, and the army of monsters in Nightbreed. The...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Sandroni Rey
From the horrific to the mythic, Sue de Beer's video installations unravel twisted paths into the sputtering darkness of adolescence. Her...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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,...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Hammer Museum
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art
The modest Canadian artist known as Labrona considers himself to be "just a guy... [who] doesn't want a regular nine-to-five" —...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ SAE Institute of Technology
Remix magazine's Remix Hotel decamps to LA this weekend for three full days of mind-expanding panels, workshops, afterparties, free tunes, and...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Black Maria Gallery
There's a lot more to punk than style — after all, safety pins and mohawks were really just window dressing to...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ DF2
While French artist Mathieu Briand is best known for his ambitious sound installations, with UBÏQ: A Mental Odyssey, he takes things...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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 —...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ 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...
Thursday 11/ 8 @ Lightbox Gallery
Kim Dingle has a knack for turning the innocent into the disturbing. Clownish kids getting their faces stuck in garish cakes...
