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Urban Jungle
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Thursday Dec 4 (7–9pm) @ Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum
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LA-based installation artist Jennifer Vanderpool teams up with Swedish sound engineer Rasmus Persson in this one-night-only performance of Urban Jungle, a multimedia situation inspired by... View details »
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Finding Joy
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Thursday Dec 4 (7–10pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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On a battlefield, "finding joy" means functioning radio contact has been initiated. At MoCA, it means building a working, decidedly low-fi radio of your own.... View details »
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Nomad
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Saturday Dec 6 (6–9pm) @ Found Gallery
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Nomad is a visual and creative opportunist: the multimedia artist wanders the globe making art that not only responds to the locales in which he... View details »
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Create:Fixate
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Saturday Dec 6 (7pm–2am) @ Create:Fixate
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After seven years spent promoting the arts in Los Angeles with innovative programs supporting emerging artists, youth, and art-appreciation, Create:Fixate is throwing itself a much-deserved... View details »
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Hans Burkhardt
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–6pm) @ Jack Rutberg Fine Arts
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In the years bracketing WWII, a great many artists were among those fleeing to US shores from the specter of Nazi Germany. In fine-art terms... View details »
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Mark Bradford
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Tuesday Dec 2 @ Steve Turner Contemporary Gallery
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Los Angeles painter, installation artist, and (most recently) video artist Mark Bradford has exhibited in some of the world's most prestigious galleries and museums, but... View details »
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Plush
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–6pm) @ Eagle Rock Center for the Arts
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Eagle Rock Center for the Arts' new group show, Plush, uses sculpture, video, and drawing to explore the excesses of the economic bubble and the... View details »
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William Hundley
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–6pm) @ Kinsey/DesForges Gallery
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Austin-based photographer William Hundley's work intervenes in reality, harnessing his inner trickster with the yoke of labor-intensive production. His staged and manipulated street scenes generate... View details »
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Enrique Martínez Celaya
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–6pm) @ LA Louver Gallery
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Cuban-born artist Enrique Martinez Celaya's oil-and-wax paintings and mixed-media sculptures offer a rare combination of vigorous, pre-Raphaelite style and pensive, academic deliberation. Though depicting a... View details »
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Cindy Wright
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–6pm) @ Mark Moore Gallery
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Influenced by Dutch vanitas of the 16th and 17th centuries, Belgian artist Cindy Wright creates excruciatingly detailed, large-scale portraits and still-lifes of human skin, fat,... View details »
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Wolfgang Tillmans
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–6pm) @ Regen Projects
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Wolfgang Tillmans is like the Madonna of the art world: never afraid to change directions, reinvent himself, or throw in a surprise or two to... View details »
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Hernan Bas
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–6pm) @ Sandroni Rey
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Fascinated by homo-eroticism and inspired by mythology and classic fiction, Miami painter Hernan Bas' tableaux present an enchanted world of roaming teenage dandies, where spritely... View details »
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Mark Dean Veca
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–5pm) @ Otis College of Art and Design
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Entering Mark Dean Veca's site-specific installation at Otis College's Ben Maltz Gallery is like stepping into a psychedelic playhouse filled with surreal pop-cultural cartoons. A... View details »
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Gordy Grundy
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Tuesday Dec 2 @ Western Project
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The Fellowship of Fortuna (and its "messenger," LA painter and media artist Gordy Grundy) takes up residence on Western Project's website for a 21-week series... View details »
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In It Together
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Tuesday Dec 2 @ Tinlark Gallery
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In It Together is the meta-title for a pair of simultaneous collaborative exhibitions: Matthew Rodriguez and Nicholas Bohac's Drill, Baby, Drill! and Saelee Oh and... View details »
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Linda Besemer
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Tuesday Dec 2 (10am–6pm) @ Angles Gallery
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Linda Besemer produces the kind of art that provokes people to solve the mystery of how she does it. Without divulging trade secrets, it has... View details »
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Jennifer Vanderpool
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Tuesday Dec 2 (11am–5pm) @ Bandini Art
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Overtaking every nook and cranny of Bandini Art's box space — including the ceiling — Jennifer Vanderpool's recent, large-scale installation features a garden of manufactured... View details »
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Martin Kersels
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Tuesday Dec 2 (11am–6pm) @ Santa Monica Museum of Art
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The Santa Monica Museum of Art hosts LA artist Martin Kersels' first retrospective, Heavyweight Champion, drawing from 13 years of his multimedia work. Informed by... View details »
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George Stoll
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Tuesday Dec 2 (11am–6pm) @ Lightbox Gallery
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In sacred and profane, Los Angeles-based artist George Stoll expands upon his traditional examination of everyday Americana. Objects such as his well-known "Tupperware" pieces of... View details »
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Josh Dorman
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Tuesday Dec 2 (11am–5pm) @ Craft and Folk Art Museum
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Traditional paper and canvas simply won't do for New York artist Josh Dorman, who employs vintage maps and textbook diagrams as foundations for his fantastical... View details »
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Mear One
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Tuesday Dec 2 (noon–6pm) @ 01 Gallery
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Very few painters can swing the brush with the technical wizardry of LA native Mear One. Returning to the... ce where he got his start... View details »
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CUT: Makings of Removal
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Tuesday Dec 2 (noon–4pm) @ Vincent Price Art Museum
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The 17 young and emerging artists included in this ambitious group show follow diverse strategies in making work, but the organizing principle is one of... View details »
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Holly Coulis
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Wednesday Dec 3 (11am–6pm) @ Cherry and Martin
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Whatever outfit they sport, leisurely activity they pursue, or unearthly landscape they inhabit, Coulis' men are never revealed as themselves (and neither are the women... View details »
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2008 California Biennial
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Wednesday Dec 3 (11am–5pm) @ Orange County Museum of Art, Newport Beach
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The 2008 installment of the California Biennial should come with an anxiety-attack warning label. In a way, it does, with Patrick Hebert's sprawling outdoor installation... View details »
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Mexican Calendar Girls
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Wednesday Dec 3 (11am–4pm) @ California Heritage Museum
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Glamor gets deep and classic at the California Heritage Museum's Mexican Calendar Girls, opening with a Cinco de Mayo reception. The color-soaked exhibition comprises a... View details »
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Ismail Farouk
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Wednesday Dec 3 (11am–6pm) @ MAK Center for Art and Architecture
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Johannesburg-based urban geographer and artist Ismail Farouk offers a multimedia overview of his recent work in the second installment of the MAK Center's Locus Remix:... View details »
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Earworms
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Wednesday Dec 3 (noon–5pm) @ Pasadena Museum of California Art
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PMCA's Project Room is transformed into a beguiling labyrinth, addressing the elusiveness of memory and the neurobiological basis of thought, via Deborah Aschheim's installation Earworms.... View details »
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The Art of War
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Wednesday Dec 3 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon Museum
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When searching for a means of drumming up support for World War I, officials in Washington didn't have to look much further than two-dimensional art.... View details »
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Marcel Duchamp Redux
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Wednesday Dec 3 (noon–6pm) @ Norton Simon
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This year marks the 45th anniversary of By or of Marcel Duchamp or Rrose Sélavy, the famous Marcel Duchamp retrospective at the Pasadena Art Museum... View details »
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Human Resources
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Wednesday Dec 3 (noon–6pm) @ The Company
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The economy be damned: amid a spate of gallery closings, it's still full speed ahead for the fearless founders of the Company, Annie Wharton and... View details »
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Kelsey Brookes
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Wednesday Dec 3 (1–6pm) @ New Image Art
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San Diego artist Kelsey Brookes' recent work resembles the slashed daydreams of a flower child: bright swathes of colors splash onto white backgrounds. Disturbing details... View details »
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Louise Bourgeois
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Thursday Dec 4 (11am–8pm) @ Museum of Contemporary Art
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Louise Bourgeois' deeply personal art combines an in-your-face sexuality with disturbing, even terrifying, imagery of trespassed flesh and violated privacy. Yet her work, including her... View details »
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James Turrell
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Sunday Dec 7 (10am–8pm) @ Draper Courtyard, Pomona College
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It's up for debate whether James Turrell is a sculptor, an architect, a light-and-space artist, or an earth-works artist. Whichever he is, the transcendent, full-body... View details »
