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18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(2/26/2010 - 3/20/2010) United States Veterans Artists Alliance (USVAA), a 501(c) (3) non-profit organization that works with military veterans involved in the arts, announced today that their production of BUG: a play by Tony and Pulitzer Prize winning playwright Tracy Letts, opens Friday, February 26th, 2010 at 8:00 PM. The show will run Thursday through Saturday evenings at 8:00 PM and Sunday afternoons at 2:00 PM through March 20th at the USVAA Theater located at 10858 Culver Blvd., Culver City, CA 90230.
Directed by Keith Jeffreys (Veteran, U.S. Army) and starring Maribeth Monroe (Second City, The Back-up Plan), Christopher A. Sweeney (Veteran, U.S.M.C.), Heidi Brook Myers (V...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(2/20/2010 - 3/20/2010) Recent work by LA artist Lana Shuttleworth - featuring her traffic cone works on panel and sculptures.
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(3/17/2010 - 3/21/2010) L.A. Theatre Works presents a major new docudrama about Robert Kennedyandrsquo;s personal and political journey during the civil rights movement. How did RFK ultimately grow into his role as a leader within the Civil Rights Movement? RFK explores the sequence of events that transformed Kennedy from a political player to a true believer in a higher cause. His moving story provides a compelling and dramatic illumination of the 1960s, enabling a new generation to hear the words, feel th...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(3/9/2010 - 3/21/2010) Theres no better way to introduce your family to the wonders of live theater than with the magic, the mystery, the memory of CATS. What began as a musical about cats after Andrew Lloyd Webber picked up a book of poems in an a...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(1/19/2010 - 3/21/2010) Rauschenberg at Gemini will present over 30 years of multiples that world famous American artist Robert Rauschenberg created at Gemini G.E.L., the internationall recognized printmaking studio in Los Angeles. The exhibition will include approximately 50 pieces that Rauschenberg produced from 1967 through 2001. In his m...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(1/23/2010 - 3/21/2010) The world premiere of Cousin Bette. Antaeus Theater Company Hatchers sublilme adaptation of Balzacs masterpiece is a thrill-ride of violent jealousy, sexual passion and revenge.
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(2/10/2010 - 3/21/2010) Martin Sheen, Frances Conroy and Brian Geraghty to star in The Subject Was Roses.
When it comes to family, there are three sides to every story. A young mans return from World War II becomes a catalyst for an emotional tug-of-war in which love is a prize and a weapon..
Martin Sheen returns to the play that earned him a Tony Award nomination in 1964; now as the patriarch of a family forced to confront its own privatized emotions and buried truths. Frances Conroy (Six Feet ...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(12/4/2009 - 3/22/2010) The Norton Simon Museum presents The Familiar Face: Portrait Prints by Rembrandt, an exhibition of 15 etchings by Dutch master Rembrandt van Rijn (16061669). Rembrandts prominence as a painter of portraits, particularly those of the merchants and burghers of Amsterdam, is well known. But the artists etched prints also have a place and purpose in recording the visages of his contemporaries. A skilled, innovative printmaker, Rembrandt embraced etching as a means of expression and experimentation. The artworks in The Familiar Face illustrate the artists keen power of observation as well as his gift for drama and humor.Culled from the Norton Simons extensive collection of Rembrandt prints, the artwork...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(1/10/2010 - 3/23/2010) RARE EXHIBIT OF PAUL KNAPP FOLK ART SET
AT HISTORIC ANDRES PICO ADOBE IN MISSION HILLS
Currently Running
Mission Hills, CA A rare exhibit of Paul Knapp folk art featuring Native American arrowheads, polished rocks, and buttons fashioned into decorative patterns will be on display from 1-4 p.m. on Sunday, February 21 at the Andres Pico Adobe in Mission Hills. Sponsored by the San Fernando Valley Historical Society as part of its Third Sunday Open House, the special Paul Knapp folk art exhibit is free and open to the general public.
Selected from the historical societys archives, the Paul Knapp folk art exhibit will ...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(2/24/2010 - 3/24/2010) McNish Gallery, Oxnard College, has asked guest curator Ronald Lopez to put an all women show together for the month of March, 2010. For this occasion Lopez has decided to bring attention to a group of women who deal with issues of social justice, human frailty and global awareness in a show entitled Harmony Reverberates Optimism.
Artistandrsquo;s include:
SaeRi Cho Dobson
Kristin Ross Lauterbach and Christina Lee Storm
Ofunne Obiamiwe
Lea Redmond
Azadeh Tajpour
Considering the recent woes of our nation, including recession and war; fear and despair might characterize the average American household. Thus, Lopez has decided to curate a show that brings...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(2/28/2010 - 3/25/2010) Main Gallery - 5th Anniversary Exhibition
George Yepes, Yolanda Gonzalez, Margaret Garcia, Eloy Torrez, Emilia Garcia, Juan Solis, Ofelia Esparza, Tito Sturcke, Joe Bravo, Dolores Haro, Mario Chacon, Grace Barraza-Vega, Michelle Taylor, David Flores
North Gallery New Works by Maria Kane
We are pleased to present ChimMaya resident artist, Maria Kane in her first solo exhibition at ChimMaya.
Marias popularity with collectors, the success of the joint exhibition with mentor George Yepes, and the refinement and growth of her style over the past...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(2/5/2010 - 3/26/2010) The MAK Center for Art and Architecture at the Schindler House is pleased to announce its most ambitious project to date: em How Many Billboards?Art In Stead. /em This large-scale urban exhibition debuts 23 new works by leading contemporary artists, presented simultaneously on billboards throughout Los Angeles for seven weeks from February 5 through March 26, 2010. The exhbition will be accompanied by an overview exhibition and orientation station at the Schindler House, which opens on...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(1/23/2010 - 3/26/2010) On Saturday, January 23, 18th Street Arts Center kicks-off its 2010 season with Love in a Cemetery. Robert Sain, LACMAlab founding director, and LA based visual artist Andrea Bowers collaborate with the students of Otis MFA Public Practice and guest artist Olga Koumoundouros to transform 18th Streets gallery into a unique visual arts laboratoryThis expansive collaboration between artist, curator, graduate students, and community organizations will consist of a participatory laboratory that sponsors commun...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(3/6/2010 - 3/27/2010) Western Weekend Workshops are a fun way for children ages 8 to 12 to learn about Native American and Western arts and crafts. Along with museum teachers, children can spend four consecutive Saturdays i...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(1/29/2010 - 3/27/2010) Brightening the dull days of winter with colorful silk and paper banners and tails, historic and contemporary kites from around the world swoop and soar through the Palos Verdes Art Center in Art on a String, a traveling show organized by Blair-Murrah Exhibitions.
Images of kites appear in ancient Egyptian hieroglyphs and there is evidence that silk and bamboo kites flew in China 2800 years ago. Kites were popular throughout Asia for religious ceremonies, celebrations, signaling, communications, measuring distances, carrying noisemakers to frighten enemy troops, testing the wind and even lifting men and supplies.
Kite fighting, with the goal of crashing an opponents kite by cutting his flying line, became part of numerous cultur...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(1/29/2010 - 3/27/2010) On Time: NY to LA uses the New York School, post-World War II American abstract expressionists, to explore temporality in contemporary West Coast art.
Independent curator Maddie Phinney compares the current work with its abstract expressionist forebears. She writes, Tera Galantis 16401-482 evokes the drips and spills of Jackson Pollock while extending the picture plane into the gallery, encouraging viewers to imagine themselves mingling among the colorfully rich stalactites that appear to float mid-air.
She compares Michael Rohdes richly woven tapestries to the expressive flatness of paintings by Mark Rothko with his blocks of rich color.
The ethereal works of Linda Jo Russell channel the grid-like meditative quality of a...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(3/3/2010 - 3/27/2010) LA Artcore presents a solo exhibition of Los Angeles-based artist Kaoru Mansour. Both of Mansours sculptural and two-dimensional bodies of work will be on view.
For over twenty-five years Mansour, who studied at Otis College of Art and Design, has been involved in achieving finished artworks by way of investigating both the technical and material processes that have lead to continually examined surfaces in both of her two-dimensional, mixed media works and sculptures. A native of Japan and a vocalist, Mansours graphic works reflect upon her native culture as well as her musical inclinations, composing images of plants and vegetation overlaid with graphical and diagrammatic notations. Mansour...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(3/4/2010 - 3/27/2010) LA Artcore Brewery Annex presents the recent works of Los Angeles artists Richard Godfrey and Kenzi Shiokava.
Multimedia artist Richard Godfrey has long been engaged in the use of light and the ways in which multi-dimensional space is perceived, and the investigation is continued in his current series of paintings.
Richard Godfrey received his M.F.A. from the San Francisco Art Institute in 1978, and has exhibited extensively throughout the United States and internationally. Most recently his work was included in exhibitions at the Musee dAdzak in Paris, and at the Museum of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles.
Kenzi Shiokava current series of sculptures i...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(2/5/2010 - 3/28/2010) Criss-Cross: New Gouache Paintings by William Conger
Psychedelic Suiseki: Sculpture by Michael Blasi
Friday February 5 - Sunday March 28, 2010
Opening Reception: Friday, February 5, 6-10pm
HAPPY is pleased to present the renowned Chicago artist William Conger in his first-ever Los Angeles solo exhibition. The esteemed artist will offer intimate gouache works that further investigate his trademark abstract style. In a career that spans over 50 year...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(2/27/2010 - 3/29/2010) Its been more than a century and Lewis Carrolls Alices Adventures In Wonderland continues to enchant children andadults. With the highly anticipated film adaptation by Tim Burton and Disney Studios looming in the horizon,
Gallery Nucleus presents a captivating exhibit as artists of the film and beyond create their vision of the
iconic story and celebrate its lasting legacy.
Featuring work by Amy Sol, Chris Appelhans, Kukula, Naoto Hattori and more, a superbly talented and diverse
roster get curiouser and curiouser with work that range from the gothic to the whimsical. Glimpse into the creative
brilliance of Disney Studios artists as exclusive, never-befor...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(11/19/2009 - 4/1/2010) Brooklyn-based artist Rob Fischer finds furniture, windows, mirrors, books, flooring, car parts, and other abandoned materials and reconfigures them to create large-scale sculptural environments that are like monuments to a forgotten past. Fischers use of these found materials is a commentary on the lifecycle of objects and how those discarded things will inevitably be reclaimed by nature. While his constructions contain an aura of melancholy and we feel the loss and the weight of the lingering presences of those who used these o...
18 Mar 10, 12:03:00
(11/27/2009 - 4/1/2010) Brooklyn-based artist Rob Fischer salvages material from abandoned buildings and junkyards and reconfigures them into large-scale sculptural environments that weave past histories into the present. For the Hammerandrsquo;s Lobby Wall, Fischer used recycled wooden floorboards from the gymnasium of a derelict school in souther Minnesota to create a labyrinth-like mural that winds around sculptures made of han...
