“After nine years, the annual Vice Photo Issue and Exhibition has become an anticipated cultural institution. This year, Vice’s Photo Issue is comprised entirely of still life photography – a departure from years past.
For the photography exhibit, opening August 14 at Scion Installation L.A., the curatorial reigns have been handed to Jonnie Craig, longtime staff photographer of the British edition of Vice magazine. About the theme of the show, Jonnie says: “The pictures gathered for this exhibition express youth in a number of forms—from train surfing to hiking in the woods to working a dead end job—every image acting as an entry of what I have experienced youth to be.” The featured photographers are Angela Boatwright, Asger Carlsen, Jonnie Craig, Jackson Eaton, Seth Fluker, Nicholas Haggard, Jerry Hsu, Kevin Long, Ross McDonnell, Sophie Mörner, Patrick O’Dell, Alex Olson, Valerie Phillips, Jared Ritz, Lele Saveri, RJ Shaugnessy, David Benjamin Sherry, Peter Sutherland, Patrick Tsai, Sean Vegezzi and Gavin Watson.”
The 2010 Vice Photo Show
Opening Reception August 14th, 7-10pm
Scion Installation L.A.
3521 Helms Ave. Culver City, CA 90232
Show runs from August 14 through September 4, 2010
Also…new works and limited edition prints from Emberley himself!
From Scion:
“For “Ed Emberley & Friends,” each artist will create a six-foot-by-six-foot wood panel that is a mash-up of their own style and that of Ed Emberley’s instructional drawing books. The tribute paintings will be exhibited alongside examples of each artist’s individual work. After the show, each of the large painted panels will be donated for long-term display in children’s hospitals around the United States. Emberley will have the largest presence in the show, contributing work from his archives including dozens of pages from the 1970s original mockups of his books. He will have recent drawings of his classic characters for sale, as well as a limited-edition print made especially for the show.”
Ed Emberley & Friends
Opening reception: Saturday, July 17th, 7-10pm
Scion Installation L.A.
3521 Helms Ave. Culver City, CA 90232
Show runs from July 17 through August 7, 2010
Three generations of art icons from their respective disciplines (or undisciplined as the case may be) join forces like a deformed Voltron as Gary Panter, Bob Zoell and Devin Flynn form ZPFfffft!!! at Scion Installation LA in Culver City.
From Scion:
““ZPFfffft!!!” brings together three generations of artists. Panter explains, “Devin and Bob and myself of are representatives of nearly equidistant generations, and it is interesting to see how artists of successive generations evolve the problems of iteration and mediums and the game of making art, to produce objects that prompt the mind and slow the moment of the encounter.”
The exhibition will include a 23-foot wall covered in Panter’s playful chalk drawings, as well as a series of small and affordable works; two 6-foot-by-12-foot paintings by Zoell; and a number of new works from Flynn, among other surprises.”
Gary Panter, Bob Zoell & Devin Flynn-ZPFfffft!!!
Opening reception: Saturday, June 19th, 7-10pm
Scion Installation L.A.
3521 Helms Ave. Culver City, CA 90232
Show runs from June 19 through July 10, 2010
BONUS!Devin Flynn’s legendary ode to dudes who like to cut off circulation to their genitals, Lady Pants. You’re welcome.
Hungry for food? How about for art? Or maybe you’re just thirsty for free booze amongst food inspired art? Then look no further than the international group show Palate where the idea of food as both a medium and muse is explored through art and installation at the Scion Space in Culver City.
From Scion:
“If cooking is an art form, then food is the most common medium of artistic expression in the world. Opening May 22, Scion’s Installation L.A. Gallery presents “Palate,” a group exhibition of internationally lauded artists in which food takes its rightful place inside the gallery.
“Palate,” which means the sense of taste, but also references an artist’s palette, will showcase a wide array of food-related art from Martha Rich’s feminine, cake-laden illustrations to Alan Macdonald’s classically rendered paintings of pilgrims that feature the unlikely additions of grocery bags, baked beans and chips. “Palate” will also include James Reynolds’ series of photographs documenting Death Row inmates’ last meal requests, as well as Jeff Vespa’s giant Polaroids of fast food burgers. Scott Hove’s monstrous cake sculptures will be on display, as will Tamara Kostianovsky’s realistic sculptures of slabs of meat, which she makes with articles of clothing. Clare Crespo will crochet a smorgasbord of fun foods, and Jeph Gurecka will build an installation out of bread he bakes himself that explores the idea of food as sustenance.”
Palate
Opening reception: Saturday, May 22nd, 7-10pm
Scion Installation L.A.
3521 Helms Ave. Culver City, CA 90232
Show runs from May 22 through June 12, 2010
“Rooms” will feature unique installations and new works by Kime Buzzelli, Adam Wallacavage, Dueling VHS, Chris Stain, Bill Daniel, Justin Van Hoy, Rocky Grimes, and Dan Monick with Caitlin Reilly. For the exhibition, Scion’s 4,500-square foot Installation Space in Culver City will be built out and subdivided into eight individual spaces. Each space will be assigned to an artist, who will create a room from their imagination. In addition, the artist’s work will be hung on the walls of their designated room, and be available to purchase.”
Rooms
Opening reception: Saturday, April 24th, 7-10pm
Scion Installation L.A.
3521 Helms Ave. Culver City, CA 90232
Show runs from April 24 through May 15, 2010
Find some joy roup at Scion’s Installation Space in Culver City as they presents It Was On Earth That I Knew Joy, “a group exhibition curated by Lionel Vivier of Sixpack France that explores the increasingly blurry boundaries between humans and the technology we create”. With original posters, installations and a short film exploring the theme of man vs. machine, the show features the art of Ill-Studio, Cody Hudson, PMKFA, Steven Harrington and many more.
It Was On Earth That I Knew Joy
Opening reception: Saturday, February 20th, 7-10pm Scion Installation L.A.
3521 Helms Ave (at National) Culver City, CA. 90232
Show runs from February 20 through March 13
What this weekend’s events and openings may lack in quantity they more than make up for in quality.
New Yorkers are in for quite the creepy treat as visionary director Tim Burton invades theMOMA for a retrospective of the director’s uniquely original visions from his many odd films, sculptures, creatures, and equally quirky works on paper.
Tim Burton The Museum of Modern
Art 11 West 53 St. New York, NY 10019
Show runs from November 22, 2009 through April 26, 2010
One of the founding fathers of the lowbrow art scene, Shag (aka Josh Agle) makes a triumphant gallery return with a series of large format panoramas in Autumn’s Come Undone at the Corey Helford Gallery in Culver City. View a selection of the works from Shag’s website here.
Shag-Autumn’s Come Undone
Opening reception: Saturday, November 21st, 8-11pm
Corey Helford Gallery
8522 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232
Show runs from November 21 through December 9, 2009
The Scion Space hosts another interesting group show in their massive Culver City residence with Euphoria Left the Room, “an exhibition addressing the sense of creativity and visionary imagination, which throughout the 20th century was set free through experimentation and what-if scenarios governed by the “if anything was possible” logic commonly displayed in Sci-fi literature and film.”
Euphoria Left the Room
Opening reception: Saturday, November 21, 7-10pm
Scion Installation Space LA
3521 Helms Ave (at National) Culver City, CA. 90232
Show runs from November 21 through December 12, 2009
Art all weekend long from Fullerton to Culver City to the entire expanse of Washington boulevard and Beyond Eden with a little ghostbusting thrown in for good measure.
The Barnsdall Art Park in Los Feliz goes Beyond Eden for a two day art fair celebrating the latest movement in contemporary art in Los Angeles. Fifteen LA area galleries will be represented along with live painting, screenprinting, performance art and food trucks galore. Other highlights include the documentary film on southern California artists Scribble.08 and Tatiana Willsand Roman Cho’s photo series Heroes and Villains, intimate portraits of emerging and established figures in the Pop Surrealist, Graffiti and Alt-Comic Book worlds including LA based artists Todd Schorr, Dave Kinsey, Gary Baseman, Seonna Hong, Saelee Oh, Mark Ryden, Robert Williams, Tim Biskup, Mr. Cartoon, COOP, Shepard Fairey, Kozyndan, Souther Salazar, Shag and many more. Check Beyondeden.com for the full schedule of events.
Homeboy Ito not only strolls into town from New York to catch all three Thom Yorke shows, but he also “presents images from his time traveling the world as Damon Dash’s personal photographer and a collection of personal work captured during the Summer of 2009″ in his photo show titled EVERYBODY SOMEDAY at the PÄS Gallery in Fullerton.
ITO-EVERYBODY SOMEDAY
Opening reception: Saturday, October 10th, 5:30-9:30pm
PÄS Gallery
115 S. Harbor Blvd. Fullerton, CA 92832
Show runs from October 10 through November 8, 2009
Concert poster master/vinyl toy creator Frank Kozik unveils a show shrouded in mystery at Billy Shire Fine Arts in Culver City. Who knows what to expect but I have a feeling it involves these two mutants:
Frank Kozik
Opening reception: Saturday, October 10th, 7-10 pm
Billy Shire Fine Arts
5790 Washington Blvd. Culver City, CA 90232
Show runs from October 10 through November 7, 2009
The Scion Space in Culver City goes to Infinity with a “group exhibition of artists whose practices or aesthetics relate to the many facets of the infinite.” Featuring Richard Colman, Andrew Schoultz, Aaron Noble and many more.
Infinity
Opening reception: Saturday, October 10th, 7-10pm
Scion Installation Space LA
3521 Helms Ave (at National) Culver City, CA. 90232
Show runs from October 10 through November 7, 2009
Spend A Day in LA as over 60 artists Los Angeles artists and non-artists show off their work in unused public outdoor spaces along the entire length of Washington Boulevard’s 27 miles, from Whittier to Venice Beach. “For one day artists will perform works, create installations, facilitate happenings, and make music in unexpected spaces, such as on the sidewalk, between dumpsters, along railroad tracks, as well as inside the audience’s cars as they traverse one of LA’s most iconic boulevards.”
A Day in LA
Sunday, October 11th, 12-6pm
The entire length of Washington Blvd., from Whittier to Venice Beach
Ghostbusters
Sunday, October 11th
Gates open at 6:00 pm, Movie starts at 7:30 pm
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
6000 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90038
So it seems that the end of Summer not only makes way for Fall, but also the beginning of the art season. If you live in the LA area, love art, like mingling with people who also love art, and enjoy drinking free alcohol while looking at said art then you’re in luck because this weekend is chock full of openings and all those things.
The British artist collective known simply as The London Police respond to a call at the Carmichael Gallery on La Brea bringing with them Brothers in Arms, an exhibition of all new Hollywood-themed paintings, video and photography.
Los Angeles photographer extraordinaire Doug Aitken migrates to Regen Projects on Santa Monica with a series of new text-based light boxes along with the west coast debut of the film Migration. *Also, the large-scale cinematic installation will be presented to the public on Santa Monica Boulevard projected onto the courtyard of Regen Projects II; visible only at night from sunset to sunrise. Check out some beautiful production stills from the film here.
Doug Aitken
Opening reception: Saturday, September 12th, 6-9pm
Regen Projects
633 North Almont Drive Los Angeles, CA 90069
Show runs from September 12 through October 17th, 2009
Cartoon master painter Kenny Scharf comes home to the Honor Fraser Gallery on La Cienega with Barberadise, a showcase of new paintings that integrate familiar icons from Scharf’s visual lexicon and implies a utopian world that is at once nostalgically comic and vibrantly cosmic.
Kenny Scharf-Barberadise
Opening reception: Saturday, September 12th, 6-8:30pm
Honor Fraser Gallery
2622 S. La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034
Show runs from September 12 through October 31, 2009
Camille Rose Garcia comes to the Merry Karnowsky Gallery on La Brea and brings with her The Hydra of Babylon, her latest paintings on wood and paper which explore the converging ecological and human catastrophes and the healing power of nature.
Philip Lumbang brings his friendly faced bears and found mediums to a warehouse space in LA and transforms it all into a gallery space as he opens his show, Hug Life. Special musical guests DJ Diabetic (Shepard Fairey) and Intricate Machines will keep the show rocking all night long.
Phillip Lumbang-Hug Life
Opening reception: Saturday, September 12th, 8pm-???
724 S. Park View St. Los Angeles, CA 90057
Scion Installation 5: Self Portrait
Opening reception: Saturday, September 12th, 7-10pm
Scion Installation LA
3521 Helms Ave (at National) Culver City, CA. 90232
Show runs from September 12 through September 30, 2009
Flock to the Flock Shop in Chinatown as they celebrate their 2 year anniversary with a show of Patrick Hruby’s new serigraph work in CMY Not?
Synchronicity Space on Melrose opens the group show From Here to There, a show featuring photography, drawing, and collage centered around the theme of transitory spaces which the collective defines as spaces that represent pauses between a range of states or being. Wait-what?
From Here to There
Opening reception: Saturday September 12th, 7-midnight
Show runs from September 12 through October 10, 2009
Cinespia’s second to last screening of the season brings Tim Burton’s 1985 classic comedy Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure to both the dead and undead at the Hollywood Forever Cemetery.
Pee-Wee’s Big Adventure
Saturday, September 12th
Hollywood Forever Cemetery
gates open at 6:30pm, movie starts at 8:00pm
6000 Santa Monica Blvd. Hollywood, CA 90038
$10 donation tickets available at gate
And finally for all you music lovers and beat heads out there, spend your Sunday diggin the crates with fellow record collecting connoissieurs at the Beat Swap Meet at the Grand Star Jazz Club in Chinatown.