LOS ANGELES ART EVENTS CALENDAR HONOR FRASER
MANNY SILVERMAN GALLERY
Bitch is the New Black
Michael Goldberg
THRU AUGUST 29, 2009
THRU AUGUST 15, 2009
“Bitch is the New Black,” running until August 29, takes its title from an interaction on Saturday Night Live during the 2008 presidential campaign, but here it’s repurposed to describe the attitude(s) and approach(es) of 14 newly prominent women artists whose work could be characterized as neo-feminist. The work is at once heady and tough, no-nonsense and comical, sexy and dour. Artists include Kirsten Stoltman, Mindy Shapero, Anna Sew Hoy, Amanda Ross-Ho, Cathy Opie, Ruby Neri, Shana Lutker, Annie Lapin, Pearl C. Hsiung, Krysten Cunningham, Rosson Crow, Andrea Bowers, Kathryn Andrews, and Cathy Akers.
This is the gallery’s first Michael Goldberg exhibition since the indefatigable and much-loved New York abstract expressionist died two years ago. The show concentrates on Goldberg’s later work, when his expansive slashes had given way to denser, more lyrical markings, his palette had lightened and intensified, and his energy danced in every corner of the canvas.
Gallery Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10 - 6 pm. 2622 S. La Cienega Blvd., Los Angeles, 90034. For more information: (323) 837-0191; www.honorfraser.com
Gallery Hours: Tues.-Sat., 10-5 pm. 619 North Almont Drive, Los Angeles, 90069. For more information: (310) 659-8256; www.mannysilvermangallery.com
SUSANNE VIELMETTER LOS ANGELES PROJECTS Patrick Wilson THRU AUGUST 29, 2009
KOPLIN DEL RIO West Coast Drawings THRU AUGUST 29, 2009
“West Coast Drawings” is the gallery’s eighth such survey, rounding up over 20 artists who work in – well, at least around and near – traditional representation. The figure figures prominently, of course, but there are still life and landscape subjects on view as well. Organized by Seattle artist Norman Lundin, the group hanging in Culver City until August 29th includes artists from the northern end of the West Coast; a selection of 19 southern Californians showed in Seattle in July. Gallery Hours: Tues.-Fri. 10- 5:30 pm, Sat. 11-5:30 pm. 6031 Washington Blvd., Culver City, 90232. For more information: (310) 836-9055; www.koplindelrio.com
Patrick Wilson’s latest paintings and works on paper, on view through August 29, continue his investigation of color and transparency in geometric formats, but take more and more liberties with those formats, shifting panels and overlaying unlikely combinations and discovering new translucencies. The large canvases are the most striking, but some of the oddest, most intriguing things happen in the smaller-scaled series. Gallery Hours: Tues.-Sat., 11-6 pm and by appointment. 5795 West Washington Blvd., Culver City, 90232. For more information: (323) 933-2117; www.vielmetter.com
WESTERN PROJECTS We’re Not the Jet Set THRU SEPTEMBER 5, 2009
THE LOFT AT LIZ’S Diverted Destruction THRU SEPTEMBER 15, 2009
The gallery’s second annual “Diverted Destruction” show, up through September 15, displays work created from objects rescued from landfill. That is, instead of throwing away things like used teabags, crushed soda cans, junk mail or package wrapping, the artists – Juan Rosenfeldt, Sandy Schimmel Gold, Lark Pilinsky, Melinda Altshuler, Maddy Le Mel, and Steve Olson – make art of them.
“We’re Not the Jet Set,” on display until September 5, pairs the diaristic collages and notations of punk princess Exene Cervenka (also featured in the Craft and Folk Art Museum’s “Celestial Ash”) with the hilarious word interventions Wayne White visits on cheesy vintage lithographs. Who knew neo-Pop could be this much fun? Gallery Hours: Tues.-Fri. 11-6 pm, Sat. 11-5 pm. 3830 Main Street, Downtown, Culver City, 90232. For more information: (310) 838-0609; www.western-project.com
453 S. La Brea Ave. Los Angeles, 90036. For more information: 323.939.4403, ext 6. www.theloftatlizs.com
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