Events on Wednesday, September 3
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Frank Pictures Gallery
British ex-pat painter David Eddington may have left the grandeur and historical heft of Europe for a life by the Pacific...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious...
Citizen Artists Making Emphatic Arguments
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 18th Street Arts Center
The 18th Street Art Center continues its tradition of presenting politically and socially engaged visual art with its four-part exhibition series...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Laemmle's Royal Theatre
Screenwriter/director Jirí Menzel translates this tale of a Czech waiter working through both the Nazi and Communist regimes from a novel...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ AndrewShire Gallery
The five artists brought together for this end-of-summer group show have little in common — except perhaps episodes of childhood trauma...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Fowler Museum, UCLA
World-renowned Mexican silversmith Antonio Pineda brings more than 200 of his masterpieces up the coast to UCLA's Fowler Museum, to show...
Contemporary Photography from China
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ DNJ Gallery
In DNJ's latest exhibition, eight artists take their cameras on the road and on rail, underground into mines, onto farms, and...
Truthiness and Absurd Recreation
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ California Museum of Photography, UC Riverside
Borrowing a recently coined neologism from Stephen Colbert's faux-conservative lexicon, Truthiness questions the reliability of the visual by featuring artists who...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
Peter Saul, who hit his artistic stride mid-century during America's pop-art movement, has become best known of late as a creator...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
For California Scenarios — the third installment of Signals, OCMA's ongoing contemporary video-art survey — the museum showcases the vivid work...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ LACE (Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions)
Known for its progressive, boundary-pushing performances and interdisciplinary bravado, LACE's lofty space transforms into a clean, white gallery for Against the...
Dennis Hopper and Wendy Burton
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Craig Krull Gallery
Craig Krull Gallery pulls out the big guns for its season opener, with concurrent solo exhibitions from two of its most...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Norton Simon Museum
This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ ACE Gallery
Melanie Pullen extends her macabre view of the world in her latest series, Violent Times, which explores the aesthetics of war...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Cal State University Northridge Art Gallery
Comprising selections from the nearly 1,000 works that European-native-turned California-great Hans Burkhardt personally donated to Cal State Northridge (where he taught...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Materials & Applications
M&A gallery continues to push the frontiers of architecture and landscape research with Jimenez Lai's installation Phalanstery Module. Zero-gravity design presents...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Hammer Museum
The risk-taking John Lautner is often described as an architect's architect, even though some of his designs brought him both criticism...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Griffith Park Driving Range Clubhouse
With summertime in high gear, there's no shortage of happening spots where you can grab a chilled post-work cocktail. But few...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ 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 9/ 3 @ Smockshop
For artists who don't yet sustain themselves from their work, there are myriad ways to bring in some income — peddling...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Royal/T
Director of New York's Greene Naftali Gallery, Jay Sanders steps into cafe/shop/gallery Royal/T to curate this group show of works from...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ California Heritage Museum
Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The...
Kori Newkirk and Miguel Angel Rios
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ LAXART
Kori Newkirk transforms the mundane into the monumental with his new installation, RANK. The deceptively simple sculpture — an outsized, mirrored...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Huntington Library, Art Collections & Botanical Gardens
If only our cracked sidewalks, classic homes, sprawling hills, and endless streets could talk. But even if objects can't, camera lenses...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Vincent Price Art Museum
The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ The Getty Center
Art's love affair with landscapes was captured with brush strokes until technology gave way to the click of the shutter. In...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Little Bird Gallery
Drawing on her suburban So-Cal roots, Kelly Lynn Jones depicts modern America's decay in sparse, childlike paintings. Using house paint and...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Laguna Art Museum
To those who have been reading the contemporary-art magazine Juxtapoz since it was founded in the mid-'90s, it may come as...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ The Wiltern
Whether playing deity to the mod-obsessed masses or leaving an indelible impression on future members of Oasis, British rocker Paul Weller...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
Video artist Doug Henry and composer/audiophile Joe Potts collaborate in a major new video work honoring the 100-year anniversary of cubism...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery
Austrian artist Mercedes Helnwein's darkly beautiful pencil drawings are equal parts Tim Burton fairy tale, Cindy Sherman photograph, and girlish fantasy....
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
Kori Newkirk first came to national attention thanks to his contribution to the Studio Museum in Harlem's daring group show Freestyle:...
Wednesday 9/ 3 @ Ghettogloss Presents: An art conglomerate on the move
When Jenny Mollen-Biggs isn't acting in films and television shows, she is exhibiting paintings that are simultaneously cute and sinister. The...
