Opening: Visual Language, Saturday September 8

Subliminal Projects
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WHAT'S HAPPENING:

Subliminal Projects is at it again. This weekend their bicoastal group show, Visual Language opens with collaborators like Guerrilla Girls, Jenny Holzer, Ramsey Dau and Shepard Fairey himself. 

Simultaneously opening in Harlem at FACTION Art Projects, this show takes a look at the crossovers between literature, language and visuality. Bring your reading glasses and your camera.

THE DETAILS:

Subliminal Projects
Opening 7pm - 10pm September 8
RSVP here
On view through October 6
Wednesday through Saturday, 12pm - 6pm

Opening: Michael Williams, Friday September 7

David Kordansky Gallery
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WHAT'S HAPPENING:

David Kordansky Gallery presents its first solo exhibition of Los Angeles based artist, Michael Williams.  The painter interrogates the medium with disrupted compositions, digital intervention and playful content -- from still life to abstraction. 

from the press release - 
"Williams draws out an organic, flowing variant on the modernist grid and institutes in his pictures something like productive destabilization–a condition apparent throughout the works here."

THE DETAILS:

David Kordansky Gallery
Opening September 7, 6pm - 8pm
On view until October 20
Tuesday through Saturday 10am - 6pm 

Opening: Key Observation Point, Friday August 31

Los Angeles County Contemporary Archive
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What's Happening:

Working with materials from the Los Angeles Contemporary Archive, Susanna Battinwas inspired by the "Landscape Scenic Quality Scale," a metric used as a means of environmental preservation in the early days of urban development. Playing with the bureaucratic nature of of human dominion over land, these reflections on the landscape are vivid and unified in their presentation. 

By examining the archive within itself, Battin investigates the perspectives of city planners and the motives behind space and situating a city. Take a look at her intimate paintings reflecting on her time with these archival materials.

Details:

Friday, August 31, 6pm - 10pm
Los Angeles Contemporary Archive
Tuesday through Thursday, 12pm - 6pm
On view through September 28

Opening: TAG Gallery Group Show, Saturday September 1

TAG gallery
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What's Happening:

A group show at the mid-city TAG Gallery opening this weekend, this collection is sure to deliver on an individual and juxtapositional basis. 

Artist Pam Douglas presents Artifacts of Grace, which explores human connection through the vessel of the female figure. This work also grapples with the humanitarian crisis and atrocities occurring on our shared border with Mexico. 

K Ryan Henisey has on view Mythologies, a mixed media collection the artist describes as a 'queer celebration of the wind' — Henisey has integrated his social media presence into this work, creating a fluid barrier between the IRL and URL.

Boris Litvinov displays End of Privacy: generally a stone carver and sculptor, Litvinov has shifted to found-object collage and sculpture. Engaging with the corrupt nature of global powers and propagandic emergence in the last 3-5 years, the Soviet born artist faces the toxicity of digital media head on.

TAG President Karen Sarrow will also be showing work; a collection of paintings called FEM. Again using the body as a site of action and conflict, she goes one step further and connects the body to the earth and the urgency of climate change. 

Details:

TAG Gallery
Opening September 1, 6pm - 10pm
Artist Talk September 15 3pm
Through September 22
Tuesday through Saturday, 11am - 5pm. 

Exhibit: Made In L.A., Sunday August 26

The Hammer Museum
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WHAT'S HAPPENING:

It's the second to last weekend to catch Made In L.A.!

Curated by the Hammer's lead Anne Ellegoodand assistant curator Erin Christovale, Made in L.A. displays the work of 32 Los Angeles based artists. Engaged with core cultural themes of our 'now,' these artist hold common their grappling with issues of representation, marginalization, cultural practices, pressures placed on the body, and interpretations of ancient forms of knowledge.

featuring
Carmen Argote, James Benning, Diedrick Brackens, Carolina Caycedo, Neha Choksi, Beatriz Cortez, Mercedes Dorame, Celeste Dupuy-Specer, Aaron Fowler, Nikita Gale, Jade Gordon & Megan Whitmarsh, Lauren Halsey, EJ Hill, Naotaka Hiro, John Houck, Luchita Hurtado, Gelare Khoshgozaran, Candice Lin, Charles Long, Nancy Lupo, Daniel Joseph Martinez, MPA, Alison O'Daniel, Eamon Ore-Giron, Taisha Paggett, Christina Quarles, Michael Queenland, Patrick Staff, Linda Stark, Flora Wiegmann, Suné Woods, Rosha Yaghmai

 

DETAILS:

 The Hammer Museum
On display until September 3
Free
Tuesday through Friday 11 - 8
Weekends 11 - 5

Music: Reverberation Radio, Saturday August 25

Zebulon
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WHAT'S HAPPENING:

LA's favorite transplant venue, Zebulon, is at it again. Originally in Williamsburg but way more fun out west, be sure to dress for good times and flash photography. The Radio Reverberation crew will keep it groovy for ya late into the night, and Salazar has you covered on the tacos.

DETAILS:

Zebulon Cafe
Saturday, August 25, 2018
9:00 PM | RSVP

 

Opening: Slavery - the Prison Industrial Complex, Saturday September 22

Art + Practie
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WHAT'S HAPPENING:

Keith Calhoun and Chandra McCormick have been photographing prison life and labor practices for more than thirty years. The Louisiana State Penitentiary was once a plantation and is known as "Angola," the country of origin for many of the slaves; alternatively monikered "The Farm" due to its continued output of cash crops. The complex is bigger than the island of Manhattan and operates as the largest maximum-security prison in the United States.

In the minds of Calhoun and McCormick, slavery never really ended at Angola.

DETAILS:

Art + Practice
Saturday, September 22, 2018
2:00 PM - 5:00 PM

On display through January 6, 2019
Monday through Saturday 12pm - 6pm

Opening: Simone Kennedy Doig / Antonia Showering, Wednesday August 22

Baert Gallery
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WHAT'S HAPPENING:

Recent BFA Simone Kennedy Doig displays rich, fantastical paintings that grapple with feminine autonomy and collaboration. Doig's work will be shown alongside Antonia Showering's bold, veering towards abject figurative pieces. Both women are graduates of the Slade School of Fine Art in London, so this is an opportunity to view juxtaposed contemporaries. 

DETAILS:

Baert Gallery
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
6:30 PM - 8:30 PM

 

On view through September 22
Wednesday through Saturday 11am - 6pm

Opening: Stella & Scheibitz, Thursday September 13

Sprüeth Magers
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WHAT'S HAPPENING:

Taking the abstract to the point of completion, American artist Frank Stella's work is a favorite to any museum-goer. Utilizing the power of line and primary color, Stella continues his multi-decade legacy into 2018 with this look at his recent works.

Upstairs, explore German artist Thomas Scheibitz's collection of paintings and sculpture, The Hunter In The Snow, another set of abstractions. Colorful and intense, enjoy Stella and Scheibitz in the same space.

Enjoy what's sure to be expert display and curation by the Sprüeth Magers team.

DETAILS:

Sprüeth Magers Gallery
Thursday, September 13, 2018
6:00 PM  8:00 PM

On view through October 27
Tuesday through Saturday 10am - 6pm

Opening: William Lamson, Saturday September 1

Make Room LA
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WHAT'S HAPPENING:

Make Room LA's opening for installation-performance artist William Lamson is highly anticipated. From Storm King to the Arts District, Brooklyn-based maker Lamson is known for his confrontations at the intersections of the natural world and masculinity.

DETAILS: 

Make Room LA
Saturday, September 1, 2018
6:00 PM - 9:00 PM

Screening: Sign Painters, Wednesday August 22

The Institute of Contemporary Art LA
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WHAT'S HAPPENING:

Co-directed by Sam Macon and Faythe Levine, Sign Painters is a 2014 documentary exploring the economy and art of hand-painted signs throughout the country. The film champions artists who've dedicated their careers to this highly-specialized, almost-endangered form of visual communication. The Institute of Contemporary Art will be screening the film after a few opening remarks from Macon. 

DETAILS:

Free event, recommended RSVP
The ICA LA
Wednesday, August 22, 2018
8:00 PM - 10:00 PM