Events on Wednesday, January 16

African-American Avant-Gardes, 1965-1990

Special Event

African-American Avant-Gardes

Wednesday 1/16 @ The Getty Center

The '70s and '80s were periods of explosive cultural, political, and artistic change in LA, particularly within the African-American community. Inspired... 

Tighten Up

Music: DJ

Tighten Up

Wednesday 1/16 @ Zanzibar

Sure, a lot of monthly dance clubs promise rootsy Latin breaks and jazzy Afrobeat — but new party Tighten Up is... 

Low End Theory presents Daedelus w/ Labwaste

Music: Electronic

Daedelus

Wednesday 1/16 @ The Airliner

Not since Prefuse 73 replaced Japan's Cornelius (who just replaced Stereolab, anyway) has a producer made sweeter experimental beats 'n loops... 

Ongoing Events

<em>Lights! Camera! Glamour!</em>

Art: Photography

Lights! Camera! Glamour!

Wednesday 1/16 @ California Heritage Museum

George Hurrell shot studio stars as they are remembered today: glamorous, graceful, and a tad theatrical. With his sophisticated black-and-white blowups,... 

David Sedaris: <em>Black Box Readings</em>

Books: Reading

David Sedaris

Wednesday 1/16 @ Macgowan Little Theatre, UCLA

Fans of David Sedaris' bone-dry wit can get a sneak peak of the humorist's new book, scheduled for release this summer.... 

Rachel Mason: <em>The Candidate</em>

Art

Rachel Mason

Wednesday 1/16 @ Circus Gallery

There's political art; there's the art of political stagecraft; and then there's The Candidate, the new exhibition of sketches, sculptures, and... 

Henry Lewis &amp; Regino Gonzales: <em>Burning at Both Ends</em>

Art

Henry Lewis & Regino Gonzales

Wednesday 1/16 @ Corey Helford Gallery

Individual series and a set of collaborative works from prodigal SoCal tattoo artists Regino Gonzales and Henry Lewis showcase the profound... 

<I>Julius Shulman's Los Angeles</i>

Art: Photography

Julius Shulman

Wednesday 1/16 @ 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 —... 

Ruby Osorio: <em>Looking Through the Blind</em>

Art

Ruby Osorio

Wednesday 1/16 @ Cherry and Martin

Los Angeles artist Ruby Osorio's collection at Cherry and Martin Gallery was heavily influenced by her recent trip to Athens. Surrounded... 

Masao Yamamoto

Art: Photography

Masao Yamamoto

Wednesday 1/16 @ Craig Krull Gallery

In his latest collection of photographs for Santa Monica's Craig Krull Gallery, Japanese artist Masao Yamamoto's work is somber and still,... 

Angelika J. Trojnarski: <em>Ricochet<br />
</em>

Art

Angelika J. Trojnarski

Wednesday 1/16 @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery

Born in Poland and educated in Germany, Angelika J. Trojnarski depicts desolate cultural landscapes, dismembered bodies, and the barbwired evidence of... 

<i>SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s</i>

Art

SoCal: Southern California Art of the 1960s and 70s

Wednesday 1/16 @ 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... 

Matthew Heller: <em>Everything Is a Love Story</em>

Art

Matthew Heller

Wednesday 1/16 @ DCA Fine Art

Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text.... 

<em>Poster Renaissance 2</em>

Art

Poster Renaissance 2

Wednesday 1/16 @ New Image Art

New Image Art owner Marsea Goldberg remembers when posters were a vehicle for edgy, urban art and illustration — and so... 

Bill Owens: <I>Suburbia</i> and <I>Leisure</i>

Art: Photography

Bill Owens

Wednesday 1/16 @ DNJ Gallery

Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic... 

Francis Al&#255;s: <I>Politics of Rehearsal</I>

Art

Francis Alÿs

Wednesday 1/16 @ Hammer Museum

Pushing a block of ice through the streets of Mexico City, moving a mountain several inches, hiring a stripper who never... 

Wallace Berman: <i>Photography and Other Works of Art 1950-1976</i>

Art

Wallace Berman

Wednesday 1/16 @ 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,... 

David Sandlin:  <i>Swamp Preacher</i> & Martha Rich: <I>Imitation Snakeskin Superstore</i>

Art

David Sandlin & Martha Rich

Wednesday 1/16 @ La Luz de Jesus

While gallery owner Billy Shire's other endeavor, upscale Culver City salon Billy Shire Fine Arts, exhibits a collection of David Sandlin's... 

<em>Modern American Sculpture</em>

Art

Modern American Sculpture

Wednesday 1/16 @ Forum Gallery

Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven... 

Neil Farber: <em>New Works</em>

Art

Neil Farber

Wednesday 1/16 @ Richard Heller Gallery

At first glance, Neil Farber's vivid, whimsical drawings seem to capture all the ignorant bliss of childhood, but their darker intentions... 

<i>Steep</i>

Film

Steep

Wednesday 1/16 @ Landmark Nuart Theatre

Like Werner Herzog's slo-mo documentary on ski-flying The Great Ecstasy of Woodcarver Steiner (1974), Steep conveys the breathless exhilaration of an... 

<em>(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]</em>

Art: Photography

(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]

Wednesday 1/16 @ Fette's Gallery

Twenty-five photographers working in cities around the world were given a simple task: to take an 11 x 14-inch self-portrait —... 

Modern Aboriginal Art + Australian Architecture

Art

Aboriginal Art

Wednesday 1/16 @ MODAA gallery

Jill Greenberg: <I>Ursine</i> & <I>Performance</i>

Art: Photography

Jill Greenberg

Wednesday 1/16 @ 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... 

<em>Wunderlust Berlin</em>

Art: Photography

Wunderlust Berlin

Wednesday 1/16 @ Paul Kopeikin Gallery

Berlin is in perpetual transition. The enduring fountainhead of Western culture is endlessly fascinating to students of art, architecture, and politics,... 

Gardar Eide Einarsson: <I>All My Friends Are Dead</i>

Art

Gardar Eide Einarsson

Wednesday 1/16 @ Honor Fraser

Gardar Eide Einarsson's latest series features nine massive plywood panels, printed with graphics from a '60s police manual. As the officers... 

Julia Schwartz, Gary Polonsky, and Stephanie Visser

Art

Julia Schwartz

Wednesday 1/16 @ The Artists' Gallery

The Artists' Gallery (TAG) is one of the best membership-based art galleries in LA, in part due to the talent of... 

<I>Treasures from the Vault</i>

Special Event

Treasures from the Vault

Wednesday 1/16 @ 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... 

<em>Under the Influence: A Tribute to Stan Lee</em>

Art

Under the Influence

Wednesday 1/16 @ Gallery 1988

Looking through Gallery 1988's roster of artists, it's easy to spot the legacy of the giants of alt-culture illustration and progressive... 

<em>Os Brasilieros Part I</em>

Art

Os Brasilieros

Wednesday 1/16 @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art

You've probably never heard of any of the over 40 artists included in this multimedia dragnet of a group show —... 

Materials & Applications: <em>Density Fields</em>

Art

Materials & Applications: Density Fields

Wednesday 1/16 @ 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... 

Victor Burgin: <I>The Little House</i>

Art

Victor Burgin

Wednesday 1/16 @ 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... 

<I>La Vida Lowrider: Cruising the City of Angels</i>

Art

La Vida Lowrider

Wednesday 1/16 @ Petersen Automotive Museum

The lowrider tradition originated in the Chicano barrios of Los Angeles, inspired by a fierce love for classic cars and the... 

Cassandra C. Jones: <I>Photos Taken</i>

Art

Cassandra C. Jones

Wednesday 1/16 @ 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... 

Einar and Jamex de la Torre: <em>New Colonies in the New World</em>

Art

Einar & Jamex de la Torre

Wednesday 1/16 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery

Brothers Einar and Jamex couldn't possibly deny the influence of their heritage — their blown-glass and mixed-media works radiate with the... 

Tim Sullivan: <em>Perfect Entrance </em>and Colin Roberts: <em>The Inscrutable Immutable</em>

Art

Tim Sullivan and Colin Roberts

Wednesday 1/16 @ Steve Turner Contemporary

Photographer and video artist Tim Sullivan, the highlight of last year's OC Biennial, inserts himself into bizarrely macabre and possibly drug-induced... 

<i>My Kid Could Paint That</i>

Film: Documentary

My Kid Could Paint That

Wednesday 1/16 @ 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,... 

<em>Don't Fence Me In</em>

Art

Don't Fence Me In

Wednesday 1/16 @ 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,... 

Choi Jeong-Hwa: <I>Truth</i>

Art

Choi Jeong-Hwa

Wednesday 1/16 @ REDCAT

Interdisciplinary Korean wunderkind and founder of the Gaseum Studio, Choi Jeong-Hwa obliterates the boundaries between visual art, graphic/industrial design, and architecture,... 

Matthew Barney: <I>Drawing from Guardian of the Veil</i>

Art

Matthew Barney

Wednesday 1/16 @ Regen Projects

Matthew Barney, iconic multimedia rainmaker and Björk's baby daddy, shows drawings relating to his newest multimedia work, Guardian of the Veil.... 

<i>Generalized Anxiety Disorder</i>

Art

Generalized Anxiety Disorder

Wednesday 1/16 @ Walter Maciel Gallery

Curator Kristine Bowen brings together 16 artists who channel the contemporary American spirit of fear and, as the show title suggests,... 

Karen Liebowitz: <I>Leviathan</i>

Art

Karen Liebowitz

Wednesday 1/16 @ Rosamund Felsen Gallery

The empowered female subjects of Karen Liebowitz's paintings exist in a fantasyland encompassing mythology, religious tales, and the contemporary world. For... 

Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk

Art

Kyoung Ha Yoo, Jon Tarry & John Krawczyk

Wednesday 1/16 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery

The trio of contemporary artists assembled for the first show of the year at the Lawrence Asher Gallery draws inspiration from... 

Nicole Cohen: <em>Please Be Seated</em>

Special Event

Nicole Cohen

Wednesday 1/16 @ The Getty Center

Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she...