art weekend LA returns Friday 9 / 27 / 13 through Sunday 9 / 29 / 13 in Los Angeles.

art weekend LA is a biannual exploration of art fairs, galleries, & museums across Los Angeles.

September’s art weekend explores the west side of town, spanning Santa Monica, Venice, Culver City, Miracle Mile, West Hollywood, and Beverly Hills.

art weekend LA connects culture seekers with selected art galleries, art fairs, and cultural institutions across Los Angeles. With access to VIP events, art fairs, artist talks, panel discussions, discounts, and giveaways, art weekend LA creates a new awareness of the urban art landscape.

Friday and Saturday focuses on special gallery events, art fairs, artist presentations, and salons while Sunday is museum day.

Art Platform 2012 Opening Premiere Party Recap

Art Platform — Los Angeles, the modern and contemporary art fair for Los Angeles, second edition at the historic Barker Hangar at the Santa Monica Airport, just minutes from the beach and the Santa Monica Pier. The move to the Barker Hangar emphasizes Art Platform — Los Angeles’ commitment to greater Los Angeles as an international art capital, and to the growth of the fair as an essential event in the ever expanding art world. As the premier art fair in Southern California, Art Platform — Los Angeles captured the very essence of this great city — light, space, innovation, and recreation.

The 2012 edition of Art Platform — Los Angeles brought together both local and international artists, dealers, collectors, museums and art enthusiasts, to engage in a vibrant exchange of art and culture.

Art Platform returns September 27 – 29th.

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LA Art Show 2013 Opening Premiere Party Recap

About the LA Art Show:

The LA Art Show, now in its 18th year, is the longest running platform for contemporary, modern, historic and traditional fine art in the country. The 2012 show hosted more than 100 prominent galleries and attracted more than 50,000 visitors with its ‘Fair-within-a-Fair’ concept featuring distinct sections catering to diverse collecting genres.

Taking a cue a cue from the public art museum model, where there has long been a trend of juxtaposing contemporary art alongside older works to show movements and highlight the evolution of art through the ages, the LA Art Show is entirely unique in the art world, providing collectors with a complete art experience through an expansive breadth of galleries that crosses contemporary, historic and print genres.

The show’s diverse array of artworks and galleries have been carefully curated and grouped into digestible sections. In essence, the LA Art Show is three distinct art shows under one roof. The Modern & Contemporary Section, The Historic & Traditional Contemporary Section & The Los Angeles IFPDA Fine Print Fair have been honed with the collector in mind. Unique in atmosphere, the aesthetics of each section have been designed to complement the art and create an immersive environment for collectors.

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Show Runs Through: February 9, 2013

These four artists span decades of experience and deliver different versions of working as an artist in Los Angeles today. Some have deep roots, some have disappeared and come back, but the QUAD SHOT is a high energy dose of LA originality.

Coagula Curatorial
977 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, California 90012
(424) 2-COAGULA
Hours: Wednesday – Saturday, 12 – 5pm
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Show Runs Through: February 9, 2013

In the gallery basement will be Karen Finley’s Sext Me If You Can, featuring the artwork created by Finley during her recent performance in Coagula Curatorial’s booth at the Miami Project Art Fair. Sext Me If You Can is a display of painted images that were “sexted” to Finley during a 2 day duration.

Karen Finley’s Sext Me If You Can blurs traditional distinctions of intimacy, which become obsolete under the specter of technology and power relationships are in flux when freedom and control are stored on a microchip. Finley brings the process of art-making back into performance art, by boldy returning to the act of painting and the artist’s commitment to studio practice to the center of this technologically-enabled social intervention.

Coagula Curatorial
977 Chung King Rd., Los Angeles, California 90012
(424) 2-COAGULA
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Show Runs Through: February 16, 2013

Jancar Gallery is pleased to announce an important survey of vintage and current work of Annie Sprinkle & Elizabeth Stephens – “The Collaboration”

Jancar Gallery
961 Chung King Road, Los Angeles, CA, 90012
(213) 625-2522
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L2kontemporary is pleased to present the fourth solo exhibition at the gallery from Belgian born Los Angeles based artist Simone Gad.

Open Friday, Saturday, and Sunday during art weekend LA.

Show Runs Through: February 9, 2013

After being introduced to the Fluxus movement in 1972 by Al Hansen, Gad began making collage and assemblage painting collages on vinyl. With these assemblage and collage works, along with painting and performance, Gad rose to prominence in the Los Angeles art scene throughout the 1970’s. An actress herself, Gad’s work focuses on Hollywood, exploring ideas of celebrity and stardom and providing unique insight into the world of fame, along with a not so flattering view of the soft white underbelly of Hollywood. Her career includes numerous exhibits throughout California and beyond, showing in Los Angeles at LAICA Downtown and Molly Barnes Gallery, among others. Gad is highly regarded in the Southern California art scene, being the recipient of numerous awards and grants, as well as being included in many publications and texts. Simone Gad’s previous exhibit, at Bleicher/Golighty, was in conjunction with the Pacific Standard Time initiative.

L2kontemporary
990 N. Hill Street # 205, Los Angeles, CA 90012
(323) 225-1282
Hours: Thursday – Sunday, 1 – 6pm
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LOST (in LA) is an exhibition and an innovative dialogue between LA artists and French artists. It reproduces the quintessential Los Angeles experience of being lost in the heart of this metropolis. Layers of time and space appear to be interlaced together atop a hill hidden in the middle of the city.

LOST – one of the influential TV series of this decade – is considered by many artists as a source of inspiration as well as disappointment, as it struggles to deliver a true formal link that would connect the different layers of time and space. The exhibition comes from the desire expressed by artists to create this formal link. On this hill located between the Hollywood sign, Venice Beach, South Central and Downtown LA, these different layers of time and space intercept, connect, disconnect and reconnect again.

Despite this fragmentation, we move around the space, guided by the works themselves, sometimes through their dialogue and at other times through disaccord. While they all try to develop their own “black box,” they strive to become transitive works, able to generate a multi-layered net of connections with their surroundings.

The works of art reposition themselves in a larger field – the exhibition – ergo taking on new meanings. With its absurd and “pataphysical” desire to bring a formal contribution to the TV series, the exhibition LOST (in LA) in turn might find its place in a larger field and contribute to the definition of itself.

LOST (in LA) is curated by Marc-Olivier Wahler and presented by

Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery
Barnsdall Art Park 4800 Hollywood Boulevard, Los Angeles, CA 90027
(323) 644-6269
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Sunday, January 27, Doors open at 7pm. and performances start at 8 pm.

Geo Wyeth’s I AM SERIOUS MAN is the internal landscape of a real live fictional exhibitionist named Kitchen Steve, articulated through interactive sculpture and song. Kitchen Steve moves through his desires to disclose, confess, and disrobe, repeatedly facing dire and absurd consequences for his behaviors. He is a kind terrorist, a mentally unstable Apple Store customer, a corporation, and a collective.

The installation will be activated by a performance on Sunday January 27th which will also include a musical performance by New York based artist Narcissister. Doors at 7pm and performances starting at 8pm.

The gallery will be open from 12 to 5pm on Jan 25-26 for visitors to interact with the sculptural element.

Conceived of and performed by Geo Wyeth. Additional visual consultation by Savannah Knoop.

Bios:

Geo Wyeth is a New York City based musician and interdisciplinary performer. His work expands on pop music performance and contemporary song structure through experimenting with conceptual ideas of interruption, failure, and representation in performance, often with handmade props and sets. Much of his work is generated from a place of deep despair and irreverent humor for the world around him. He is an out female-to-male transsexual and was born to a white father and African-American mother. His works are darkly humorous and ecstatic meditations on the absurdity of these embodied experiences. Featured performances at: PS1 MoMA, the regular old MoMA, La MaMa ETC, Joe’s Pub, the SoHo Theater (London), Kate Werble Gallery, Le Poisson Rouge, Marianne Bosky Gallery, as well as numerous music, theater, and art performance venues worldwide. He was born in 1984 in New York City.

Narcissister is a Brooklyn-based artist and performer. Wearing mask and merkin, she works at the intersection of performance art, burlesque, dance, and visual art. She actively integrates her prior experience as a professional dancer and commercial artist with her current art practices in a range of creative media, including collage, photography, video art, and music. In addition being a featured performer at The Box, she has presented work in New York at The New Museum, The Kitchen, and at Abrons Art Center and at many nightclubs, galleries, and alternative art spaces. Narcissister was a re-performer of Marina Abramovic’s Luminosity piece as part of The Artist is Present retrospective at MoMA. Narcissister has also presented her work internationally at the Music Biennale in Zagreb, Croatia, at Chicks on Speed’s Girl Monster Festival, at The Festival of Women in Ljubljana, Slovania, at Warehouse 09, Copenhagen’s first live art festival, and at the Camp/Anti-Camp festival in Berlin, among many others. Her art videos have also been included in gallery shows and film festivals worldwide. Her film The Self-Gratifier won an award for “Best Use of a Sex Toy” at The 2008 Good Vibrations Erotic Film Festival.

Interested in troubling the divide between popular entertainment and experimental art, Narcissister appeared on America’s Got Talent in 2011. Narcissister is currently in FORE at The Studio Museum. “Narcissister is You”, her first solo gallery exhibition opens at Envoy Enterprises in New York in Jan 2013, and she will present a new evening-length work at Abrons Art Center in March 2013.

Human Resources
410 Cottage Home Street, Los Angeles, California 90012-1415
(213) 290-4752
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Black White + Gray: A Portrait of Sam Wagstaff + Robert Mapplethorpe,
A film by James Crump @ Silent Movie Theater / Cinefamily

Sunday, January 20th, doors open: 8:30pm, program begins: 9pm.

“Before Patti Smith released her 1975 landmark debut album “Horses”, and before Robert Mapplethorpe’s photography caused national debates about public arts funding, these two burgeoning artists (both of whom would become seminal icons in their field, and who both once shared a loft apartment near the famous Chelsea Hotel) formed a unique troika with legendary curator/collector Sam Wagstaff. With this engrossing documentary, director/curator/author James Crump paints an illustrious portrait of the complex ties between these three visionaries. As the only one of them still living, Patti Smith — alongside such luminaries as Dominick Dunne, Richard Tuttle, Eugenia Parry, Timothy Greenfield-Sanders and Ralph Gibson — reminisces about a time when New York City’s CBGB’s, Studio 54 and the Meatpacking District (where a gay/S&M underworld had emerged) were all thriving. Crump meticulously illustrates the varied sides of these two enigmatic figures, as well as their close bond with Patti Smith, and arranges the pieces of this film — a story of love, friendship and personal transformation — into a carefully curated whole.” — David Kwok, Tribeca Film Festival.

The screening is followed by a Q&A session with filmmaker James Crump, as well as comments by Britt Salvesen (LACMA Head Curator of Photography) and Frances Terpak (Curator of Photographs, the Getty Research Institute.)

Buy Tickets- Tickets: $15

Co-presented by LACMA, The Getty Research Institute, and photo L.A.

Silent Movie Theater / Cinefamily
611 N. Fairfax Ave. Los Angeles, CA 90036
(323) 655.2510
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