Events on Wednesday, December 19
Wednesday 12/19 @ Avalon Hollywood
Amon Amarth aren't too fond of their shirts, even in December. Being Vikings from
Wednesday 12/19 @ King King
Music makes the people come together, but money can keep artistic communities apart. Good thing King King's monthly shindig, Wink, brings...
Ongoing Events
Wednesday 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ Powerhouse Theatre
In this spectacular evening of magic and mirth, illusionist Michael Gutenplan performs a plethora of wondrous feats, from mind reading to...
Wednesday 12/19 @ 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....
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Wednesday 12/19 @ 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...
Alejandro Gehry & Brian Biedul: Raw Space
Wednesday 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ Regen Projects
Matthew Barney, iconic multimedia rainmaker and Björk's baby daddy, shows drawings relating to his newest multimedia work, Guardian of the Veil....
Jacob Magraw & Edward del Rosario
Wednesday 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ Petersen Automotive Museum
The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the...
The Charles Phoenix Holiday Jubilee
Wednesday 12/19 @ REDCAT
All new for 2007, Charles Phoenix's annual waltz down memory lane tilts helplessly into vaudeville, laughing merrily along the way. In...
Wednesday 12/19 @ La Luz de Jesus
Brooklyn-based illustrator and mixed-media painter Jordin Isip uses collage as his primary medium. This eclectic approach serves both as a literal...
Wednesday 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ Skirball Cultural Center
In Of All the People in All the World: The Americas, UK theatre company Stan's Cafe collects 300 million grains of...
Wednesday 12/19 @ Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Ojai
Don't let the title fool you: for her second solo effort at Nathan Larramendy Gallery, Cassandra C. Jones isn't just...
Brandi Milne: Sugar and Silence
Wednesday 12/19 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Los Angeles' illustrative It-girl, Brandi Milne, joins forces with whimsical Chicago-based artist Jeremiah Ketner to transform this Culver City gallery into...
Wednesday 12/19 @ LA Louver Gallery
Venice's premier art space reminds us that sculpture can be one of the most thrilling creative media with the debut of...
Wednesday 12/19 @ Hammer Museum
Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never...
Wednesday 12/19 @ Mollusk Surf Shop
Serena Mitnik-Miller doesn't take the usual kind of surf photography, and Venice's freshly opened Mollusk Surf Shop isn't the usual kind...
Wednesday 12/19 @ SolwayJones Gallery
LA painter Cherie Benner Davis sees the world in layered transparencies — crisp geometric shapes overlaying expressive, devotional elements of the...
Wednesday 12/19 @ Honor Fraser
Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers...
2 Days in Paris & Before Sunrise
Wednesday 12/19 @ New Beverly Cinema
Incandescent French femme Julie Delpy delves into romcoms in two irresistible films. First, 2 Days in Paris features a triple-duty Delpy...
Wednesday 12/19 @ 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,...
Beyond Ultraman: Seven Artists Explore the Vinyl Frontier
Wednesday 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ Bandini Art
The female artists showing their work at Bandini Art most definitely know how to have fun. For starters, there's Castillo's whimsical,...
Wednesday 12/19 @ Black Maria Gallery
Forget Wii, kid-sized Escalades, and paintball guns. Atwater Village's Black Maria Gallery shares its nostalgia (and collector's fetish) for old-time toys...
Wednesday 12/19 @ Gallery 825
Gallery 825, the La Cienega Boulevard location of LA's oldest artists cooperative, presents this year's Open Show. An annual highlight of...
Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann
Wednesday 12/19 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
Three newcomers to the LA art scene — Kim Kimbro, Barry Baldwin, and Doro Hofmann — open individual mini-exhibitions tonight at...
Wednesday 12/19 @ 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 —...
Wednesday 12/19 @ Walter Maciel Gallery
Curator Kristine Bowen brings together 16 artists who channel the contemporary American spirit of fear and, as the show title suggests,...
Wednesday 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ REDCAT
Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,...
Wednesday 12/19 @ Gallery C
Hyperrealist painter Kenny Harris showcases his recent paintings inspired by a trip to South America. While Harris' interiors hardly show direct...
Wednesday 12/19 @ Billy Shire Fine Arts
Like Victorian-era toys brought to life by the touch of a creepy goblin's wand, Elizabeth McGrath's works sprout claws and extra...
Wednesday 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ Fahey/Klein Gallery
Jokes about working with children and animals aside, LA-based photographer Jill Greenberg has built an internationally acclaimed fine-art career by doing...
Wednesday 12/19 @ Michael Kohn Gallery
Even though Wallace Berman exhibited his work at the highly influential Ferus Gallery within years of Andy Warhol's first solo show,...
Wednesday 12/19 @ Cavern Club Theater
Labeled by its creators as a cross between a Perry Como Christmas special and Pee-wee's Playhouse, the Fruitcake Follies have one...
Wednesday 12/19 @ Western Project
Carole Caroompas' fantastically imaginative paintings and drawings are a melting pot of pop-culture imagery. For Caroompas' latest collection at Western Project,...
SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s
Wednesday 12/19 @ 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...
Wednesday 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ Bonsorte Studio
Filmmakers, peace activists, and multimedia artists Antoine Bonsorte and Abram Zinberg have created a unique visual experience. Their short film and...
Wednesday 12/19 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Whether reading between the lines or blurring them entirely, ubiquitous designer Shepard Fairey mines the deep vein of irony running through...
Wednesday 12/19 @ DNJ Gallery
Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic...
Wednesday 12/19 @ LAXART
A Spanish artist who decamped to LA, Adrià Julià is a CalArts grad with a knack for telling unusual stories. Last...
Wednesday 12/19 @ Spin Gallery
Venice's brand-new Spin Gallery merges fine and automotive art, showcasing promising new visual talents alongside rare and beautiful cars. Its latest...
Wednesday 12/19 @ 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 12/19 @ The Getty Center
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...
