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Art
Sound in Space
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (8pm) @ Sea and Space Explorations More times »
Free
Bask in the explosion of aural-art happenings on offer during Sound in Space. This miraculous monthlong program series explores the variety of the sound-art community... View details »

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Film: Documentary
My Kid Could Paint That
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 @ Various locations More times »
Free
An abstract-art prodigy for the digital age, four-year-old Marla Olmstead is a rare bird indeed. In My Kid Could Paint That, Amir Bar-Lev documents the... View details »
My Kid Could Paint That
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Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (10am–10pm) @ Materials & Applications More times »
Free
Experimental-architecture and landscape-research center M&A is a lightning rod for visionary thinkers, bringing the brightest artists and architects together to explore the artful use of... View details »
Materials & Applications: Density Fields
Art: Photography
Bill Owens
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ DNJ Gallery More times »
Free
Photographer Bill Owens skillfully captures Americana in his two series Suburbia and Leisure. The former, an early-1970s photo essay, features domestic scenes rendered with the... View details »
Bill Owens
Art: Architecture/Design
Jean Michel Crettaz
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (9am–6pm) @ SCI-Arc More times »
Free
Head of the Visual Studies Program at SCI-Arc Jean-Michel Crettaz has plenty of experience, having studied in Switzerland, at the ultra-exclusive Cooper Union school in... View details »
Jean Michel Crettaz
Art: Photography
Wunderlust Berlin
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Paul Kopeikin Gallery More times »
Free
Berlin is in perpetual transition. The enduring fountainhead of Western culture is endlessly fascinating to students of art, architecture, and politics, teeming with creative magic... View details »
Wunderlust Berlin
Art
Ruby Osorio
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin More times »
Free
Los Angeles artist Ruby Osorio's collection at Cherry and Martin Gallery was heavily influenced by her recent trip to Athens. Surrounded by such history-rich environs,... View details »
Ruby Osorio
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Virginia Katz
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Jancar Gallery More times »
Free
LA's Virginia Katz uses a complex mixed-media process that involves so many layers of hand-worked pigments and liquids, her art can almost be considered geological.... View details »
Virginia Katz
Art
Karen Liebowitz
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ Rosamund Felsen Gallery More times »
Free
The empowered female subjects of Karen Liebowitz's paintings exist in a fantasyland encompassing mythology, religious tales, and the contemporary world. For this collection — Liebowitz's... View details »
Karen Liebowitz
Art
Tucker Neel
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ Commissary Arts More times »
Free
Frustrated debutantes, overdressed crocodiles, and bandaged aristocrats parade through Tucker Neel's latest exhibition. The LA artist conjures up witty, intriguing imagery in his delicate ink... View details »
Tucker Neel
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Rosson Crow
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Honor Fraser More times »
Free
In a departure from her usual allusions to European art, Crow focuses on America, particularly Los Angeles, in her latest collection of paintings. Despite the... View details »
Rosson Crow
Art: Photography
Masao Yamamoto
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ Craig Krull Gallery More times »
Free
In his latest collection of photographs for Santa Monica's Craig Krull Gallery, Japanese artist Masao Yamamoto's work is somber and still, with no loss of... View details »
Masao Yamamoto
Art
Einar & Jamex de la Torre
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ Koplin del Rio Gallery More times »
Free
Brothers Einar and Jamex couldn't possibly deny the influence of their heritage — their blown-glass and mixed-media works radiate with the colors, textures, and imagery... View details »
Einar & Jamex de la Torre
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Angelika J. Trojnarski
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery More times »
Free
Born in Poland and educated in Germany, Angelika J. Trojnarski depicts desolate cultural landscapes, dismembered bodies, and the barbwired evidence of human destruction. She channels... View details »
Angelika J. Trojnarski
Film
Alfred Hitchcock
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
Stylized, self-mythologizing director Alfred Hitchcock would have you believe him to be a one-man originality machine — when, in fact, his films took hundreds of... View details »
Alfred Hitchcock
Art
Matthew Heller
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ DCA Fine Art More times »
Free
Matthew Heller has stripped down his busy aesthetics for something more minimal, without straying from his trademark shadowy figures and text. Though at times pained... View details »
Matthew Heller
Art: Photography
Freeze Frame
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Academy of Motion Picture Arts & Sciences More times »
Free
The Academy honors Douglas Kirkland's carefully composed photography with Freeze Frame, an exhibit of celebrity portraits riddled with familiar faces. Besides shooting spools of film... View details »
Freeze Frame
Art
Girly Group Show
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (9am–6pm) @ Ghettogloss More times »
Free
This exhibition at Silverlake's favorite gallery/alt-culture hangout features the work of Noel ILL, Jenny Mollen, and Jessica Garrison among a sizeable roster of talented lady... View details »
Girly Group Show
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Neil Campbell and Peter Schuyff
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ The Balmoral More times »
Free
This Venice Beach gallery's latest endeavor juxtaposes the work of Dutch artist Peter Schuyff and Vancouver-based Neil Campbell. Schuyff's paintings are equal parts Surreal and... View details »
Art
Alex Steinwiess
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Robert Berman Gallery More times »
Free
Rocker/designer Kevin Reagan and Juxtapoz's Greg Escalante co-curate this survey of images by Alex Steinweiss. In 1939, the Columbia Records packaging designer revolutionized the music... View details »
Alex Steinwiess
Art
Special Relationship
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ The Scion Installation LA Space More times »
Free
Britain's Scrawl Collective is an emerging group of post-illustration urban romantics. They bring their ramped-up aesthetic energy to the States this week to curate the... View details »
Special Relationship
Art: Photography
Chris Anthony
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (noon–6pm) @ Corey Helford More times »
Free
Chris Anthony inhabits a strange, haunting world in his new exhibition. Influenced by childhood visions and containing authentically dreamlike narratives, Anthony's dark images use vintage... View details »
Chris Anthony
Art: Photography
Rocky Schenck
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ M+B Gallery Los Angeles More times »
Free
Known for haunting images that envelop the viewer in an uneasy haze, Rocky Schenck finds beauty in rural landscapes and unremarkable interiors. Using Los Angeles... View details »
Rocky Schenck
Art
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 @ Various Chinatown galleries More times »
Free
As Chinese New Year celebrations bring you to Chinatown, remember that the neighborhood is also home to dozens of contemporary art galleries, many of which... View details »
Chinatown Gallery Exhibitions
Art
Daniel Richter
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects More times »
Free
German painter Daniel Richter's expressionistic, figurative works are both dark and disarming. With influences that range from Goya to comic books and contemporary news media,... View details »
Daniel Richter
Art
Sheng Qi
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ DF2 More times »
Free
Renowned Chinese artist Sheng Qi lived in exile in Europe for a decade after the Tiananmen Square massacre. Before fleeing China, however, he left a... View details »
Sheng Qi
Art
Modern American Sculpture
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ Forum Gallery More times »
Free
Forum Gallery usually sets the gold standard for classical figurative painting, exhibiting works ranging from the creamy, high-res romanticism of Steven Assael to the visceral,... View details »
Modern American Sculpture
Art
Dustin Yellin
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Samuel Freeman More times »
Free
Dustin Yellin does not suspend exotic crimson seaweed inside his freestanding resin columns — it just looks like it. What he does do is actually... View details »
Dustin Yellin
Art
Projection
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 @ [delete] More times »
Free
This private-residence-turned-gallery's latest offering, Projection, interprets the titular concept both literally and figuratively in an ambitious multimedia group show. The works probe the idea of... View details »
Projection
Art: Photography
Hiromi Tsuchida
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (10am–5pm) @ Michael Dawson Gallery More times »
Free
Renowned Japanese photographer Hiromi Tsuchida has trained his lens on facets of ordinary life throughout his lengthy career. Tsuchida's first solo exhibition in the US... View details »
Hiromi Tsuchida
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Wynne Greenwood
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects More times »
Free
"Interdisciplinary" is an understatement when it comes to Brooklyn-based artist Wynne Greenwood: she's known for melding performance, installation, video, and two-dimensional works into outrageous, breathtaking,... View details »
Wynne Greenwood
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Luke Whitlatch
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art More times »
Free
In his new series of work, painter Luke Whitlatch offers a meditation on both the emotional events that define human life and the craft of... View details »
Luke Whitlatch
Art
David Brady
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ High Energy Constructs More times »
Free
One of Chinatown's most interesting emerging galleries, High Energy Constructs inaugurated its space with an exhibition by David Brady. Two years on, the gallery returns... View details »
David Brady
Art: Photography
(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (11am–5pm) @ Fette's Gallery More times »
Free
Twenty-five photographers working in cities around the world were given a simple task: to take an 11 x 14-inch self-portrait — of someone else. The... View details »
(Untitled) u = ____ [a photographic group show]
Art
Callaloo
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (1–7pm) @ Pounder-Koné Art Space More times »
Free
Don't call Pounder Koné Art Space a "gallery." Owner CCH Pounder wants you to think of her and her husband's venue as a fount of... View details »
Callaloo
Art
Artist/Gallerist
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (noon–5pm) @ another year in LA More times »
Free
Gallery owners spend the majority of their working lives combing through an ever-growing pile of art, searching for a particular brand of genius. But with... View details »
Artist/Gallerist
Art
Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (11am–9pm) @ La Luz de Jesus More times »
Free
Hollywood's La Luz sticks to what it knows best with another collection of high-minded lowbrow art. Featured in this month's show are Southern California-born and... View details »
Marco Almera, Bryan Cunningham, and Krystopher Sapp
Art
Nick Walker
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (3–8pm) @ Carmichael Gallery of Contemporary Art More times »
Free
Bristol-based street artist Nick Walker — known as the Apish Angel — comes to America, ready to stencil Tinseltown. Like his notorious countryman Banksy, Walker... View details »
Nick Walker
Art
Frohawk Two Feathers
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (11am–5:30pm) @ Taylor De Cordoba Gallery More times »
Free
Los Angeles artist Frohawk Two Feathers makes fanciful, avant-folk paintings featuring a cast of singularly imaginative characters. For his latest collection at Taylor de Cordoba,... View details »
Frohawk Two Feathers
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Rachel Mason
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (11am–6pm) @ Circus Gallery More times »
Free
There's political art; there's the art of political stagecraft; and then there's The Candidate, the new exhibition of sketches, sculptures, and photographs that artist Rachel... View details »
Rachel Mason
Art
Think Big
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (1–6pm) @ The Hive Gallery & Studios More times »
Free
Global Inheritance and fashionPEACE connect socially minded youth with an international activist community. One of their finest endeavors is TRASHed, a campaign that finds artistic... View details »
Think Big
More Flavor: City Gem
Ugo Wine Bar
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (5:30pm–12:30am) @ Vinum Populi More times »
Free
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie selection — with one... View details »
Ugo Wine Bar
Art: Discussion
Nicole Cohen
Thursday Feb 7, 2008 (10am–5:30pm) @ The Getty Center More times »
Free
Nicole Cohen engineers recombinant layers of still and video imagery, investigating the network of associations that interior spaces contain. Also, she has something of a... View details »
Nicole Cohen