Events on Friday, January 16
Friday 1/16 @ Samuel Freeman
Each of the six artists assembled in this Samuel Freeman group exhibition is a master of the watercolor medium. Bucking tradition,...
Friday 1/16 @ 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...
Friday 1/16 @ 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...
Friday 1/16 @ Subliminal Projects
Photojournalist Martha Cooper literally wrote the book — several books actually — on the co-emergent graffiti and hip-hop scenes in New...
Friday 1/16 @ Benjamin Trigano Gallery
A suite of digitally collaged fantasmagorias from German artist Martin Denker, Citizenoftheplanet shows us what it would be like to see...
Friday 1/16 @ Armory Center for the Arts
With At the Brewery Project: 1993-2007: the Finale, the Armory pays its respects to an LA art mainstay. For the past...
Friday 1/16 @ Angles Gallery
Israeli-born, LA-based artist Yuval Pudik executes remarkable graphite drawings on paper that defy the laws of anatomy, narrative, romance, and even...
Friday 1/16 @ Lightbox Gallery
In sacred and profane, Los Angeles-based artist George Stoll expands upon his traditional examination of everyday Americana. Objects such as his...
Friday 1/16 @ Lawrence Asher Gallery
LA painter Lisa Adams is something of a riddle. Her work is almost violently sweet, with a dulcet, wafting quality to...
99¢ Only Calendar Girl Competition
Friday 1/16 @ Bootleg Theater
Bargain-hunting beauty queens and dollar store Don Juans convene as Bootleg Theatre pays homage to LA's kitschy holiday headquarters. The 99¢...
Friday 1/16 @ Mark Moore Gallery
Collaborative painters Daryoush Asgar and Elisabeth Gabriel make no attempt at seamlessness or illusion. The scars of their clashing styles is...
Friday 1/16 @ 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...
Friday 1/16 @ C4 Gallery
Marquetry is an ages-old technique of applying wood veneers to solid surfaces, popular among extremely wealthy Europeans in the time of...
Self-Portraits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook
Friday 1/16 @ I-5 Gallery
Self-Portraits in the Age of MyFaceSpaceBook is a big, fat group show that delivers just what its title promises: an unwieldy...
Friday 1/16 @ 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...
Friday 1/16 @ Museum of Contemporary Art
Louise Bourgeois' deeply personal art combines an in-your-face sexuality with disturbing, even terrifying, imagery of trespassed flesh and violated privacy. Yet...
Friday 1/16 @ Pacific Design Center
Blake Edwards has established a lasting role in an otherwise fickle entertainment industry, directing gems like Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Party,...
Friday 1/16 @ Steve Turner Contemporary
In previous collaborations between Julia Meltzer and David Thorne, audiences have been offered printed manifestos, photographic projects on public billboards, and...
Friday 1/16 @ Vinum Populi
Culver City's latest spot of interest is Ugo Wine Bar, a cozy wine bar with the usual bistro couches and charcuterie...
Tango with Cows: Book Art of the Russian Avant-Garde
Friday 1/16 @ The Getty Center
In Tango with Cows, the Getty Research Institute presents a concentrated display of unabridged books published in Russia between 1910 and...
Friday 1/16 @ The Company
The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the...
Friday 1/16 @ George Billis Gallery
In an inspired mashup of childhood comfort, adult-onset ADHD, and modern-art history, Brooklyn-based painter Derek Buckner delivers luminous, refined oil paintings...
Friday 1/16 @ Charlie James Gallery
Los Angeles artist David E. Stone practices a surreal brand of punsterism, often producing exhibitions in serial form that build upon...
Friday 1/16 @ Western Project
The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website...
Friday 1/16 @ La Luz de Jesus
In Fragments, professional illustrator Mark Todd brings his increasingly abstracted art to La Luz. Bastardizing his signature, comics-based style, Todd's latest...
Friday 1/16 @ Art/Works Theatre
For the first half of the 20th century, Le Theatre du Grand Guignol in Paris reigned as the predominant purveyor of...
Bob Baker presents The Nutcracker
Friday 1/16 @ Bob Baker Marionette Theater
In the early '60s, Bob Baker and partner Alton Wood founded a marionette theater, establishing what has become the longest-running children's...
Friday 1/16 @ Norton Simon Museum
When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much...
Friday 1/16 @ Koplin del Rio Gallery
Moira Hahn is known for conceptually complex, masterfully rendered mash-up paintings in which wild and domestic animals play the roles of...
James Naccarato, Erik Alos, and Lauren Bergman
Friday 1/16 @ Corey Helford Gallery
Experts in the unexpected, James Naccarato, Erik Alos, and Lauren Bergman all employ the stylistic underpinnings found in pop surrealism, combining...
Friday 1/16 @ Scribble Press
Technically, Scribble Press is for children, but if you behave yourself, you can use the impressive bookmaking emporium — complete with...
Friday 1/16 @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick...
Friday 1/16 @ Regen Projects
The first of this winter's pair of Raymond Pettibon exhibitions at Regen Projects focused on early monochromatic, pop-culture infused pen-and-ink drawings....
Friday 1/16 @ Gallery 1988
Gallery 1988 hits '09 running with the second installment of its Under the Influence series, this year paying homage to the...
Friday 1/16 @ Dorothy Chandler Pavilion
The best operas hint at larger mysteries than their traditional, even predictable, story arcs at first seem to address. Reviving an...
Friday 1/16 @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
In the years bracketing WWII, a great many artists were among those fleeing to US shores from the specter of Nazi...
Friday 1/16 @ Norton Simon Museum
It's not often that Angelenos have the chance to examine an original painting by Dutch Baroque master Johannes Vermeer. His surviving...
Wallace Berman and Richard Prince
Friday 1/16 @ Michael Kohn Gallery
Aside from the landscape, womankind has been art's favorite subject — and few portray femininity quite as impressively or distinctly as...
Friday 1/16 @ Jail Gallery
While it's certainly true that things are finally looking up in this country, the premise of curator Claressinka Anderson's latest parfait...
Friday 1/16 @ Materials & Applications
First, there were robot maids, robot pets, and robot vacuums. Now, there are robot gardens. The technical specifications for Materials &...
