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THE MUSEUM OF CONTEMPORARY ART, LOS
ANGELES (MOCA) PRESENTS
ORIGINAL PHOTOGRAPHS
AND FILM OF LAS VEGAS STRIP
FROM LANDMARK ARCHITECTURAL STUDY
March 21 through June 20, 2010
The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los
Angeles (MOCA), presents Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archives of Robert
Venturi and Denise Scott Brown March 21 through June 20, 2010, at MOCA Pacific
Design Center. This exhibition presents original photographs and films produced
in the context of the “Learning from Las Vegas Research Studio” conducted by
architects Robert Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and
Steven Izenour at the Yale School of Architecture in the fall of 1968. Out of
this research resulted Learning from Las Vegas, a landmark treatise on
architectural theory published in 1972. Las Vegas Studio: Images from the
Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott Brown is curated by Martino Stierli
and Hilar Stadler in collaboration with artist Peter Fischli. MOCA’s
presentation, organized by MOCA Curator Philipp Kaiser,
follows presentations at Museum im Bellpark, Kriens, Switzerland; Deutsches
Architekturmuseum, Frankfurt, Germany; and Yale School of Architecture, New
Haven, Conn.
“The theory of communication in architecture set forth in Venturi and Scott
Brown’s groundbreaking publication is crucial for experiencing space in major
cities across the world, including Los Angeles,” commented MOCA Curator Philipp
Kaiser. “Martino and Hilar have taken on the task of reappraising the engaging
visual discourse from this study, and have directed our attention to the
photographs themselves.”
“For the architects, photography was both the means of argumentation and
representation of their research,” commented curators Martino Stierli and Hilar
Stadler. “We have removed the images from their original analytical context and
have presented them as photographic sensations.”
At the end of the 1960s and in the beginning of the 1970s, architects Robert
Venturi, Denise Scott Brown, and Steven Izenour discovered Las Vegas as a
paradigm of the commercial city. Their findings, published in the book Learning
from Las Vegas, are legendary, extending the categories of the ordinary, the
ugly, and the social into architecture. Their contemporaries reacted strongly
against the Las Vegas research, which approached architecture from the
perspectives of symbolism and the phenomena of appearance. For the architects,
photography was both the means of argumentation and representation of their
research. Their approach used photographic methods borrowed from the disciplines
of anthropology, sociology, and art.
Las Vegas Studio: Images from the Archives of Robert Venturi and Denise Scott
Brown presents the original research materials from the archives of Venturi
Scott Brown & Associates, including over 80 photographs and a selection of
films. Motivated primarily by an interest in the image, the exhibition returns
to a point before theory formation, and refers directly to the photographic
material. The selection of images included in the
exhibition focuses largely on secondary aspects and side products of the
research project. It thereby shifts to the forefront previously unknown
photographs that settled on the fringes of the Las Vegas research. |
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ALLIANCE FRANÇAISE DE PASADENA
PRESENTS
FAMILY PORTRAIT: WOLF, GRANDMA AND OTHER ACCOMPLICES.
AN EXHIBITION OF PAINTINGS BY VALÉRIE DAVAL
Through March 31st
Alliance Française de Pasadena is
pleased to present Family Portrait: Wolf, Grandma and Other Accomplices, an
exhibition of paintings by French artist Valérie Daval from March 5 through
March 31 at 34 East Union Street in Pasadena.
Family Portrait: Wolf, Grandma and Other Accomplices is a series of paintings
encompassing real and fictional characters, including animals that look
strangely human. Alternating between miniature and life-size images,
black-and-white and shades of gray and color, Daval plays with contrasts,
thereby altering reality to carry us into an imaginary and mythical world for
which she feels great passion. Originally inspired by the little Red Riding Hood
story, the artist has developed her own myth, which echoes her own history.
Little by little, the children are turned into animals and, as in a game of hide
and seek, accomplices appear. These transformations, or voluntary disguises,
make this a unique Family Portrait, where reality blends with fiction, where
animals speak and grandmas have big ears…
Daval was born in Normandy, but during her childhood her family moved to several
different places in France. Living in Limousin, south France, and then in
Brittany, she retains strong memories of these places – woods, animals, walks
outdoors, seaside – influencing her artwork even today. Daval started painting
when she was a child, and took part in various painting workshops. After moving
to Sarthe, she signed in with Guy Brunet’s workshop and attended Le Mans’ School
of Fine Arts.
After graduating, she began visual research work, which took her through various
stages working on portraits and mythology. Whether real or imaginary, the
attraction for portraits was not so much anatomical, but came from a fascination
with their plastic dimension and history. “A unique color and gesture spring
from each of us.” She draws her inspiration from her memory guided by the
feelings she had in front of the landscapes, the people and even the animals she
encountered. “My work is also influenced by myths. The stories we find in the
origin of each civilization inspire me and are reflected in my own history. As
part of our collective memory, myths bring us together.”
Daval has made Los Angeles her home since 2007. She has exhibited widely in
France, Germany and the United Kingdom, as well as locally at the Deborah Martin
Gallery (2009) and Madison Gallery in La Jolla (2008). Daval is represented by
the Madison Gallery in La Jolla and by the Cupola Gallery in Sheffield, UK.
The Alliance Française de Pasadena was founded in 1924. Its purpose is to
encourage the study of the French language and culture and promote understanding
and friendship between the French people and others who share these interests.
The Pasadena chapter differs from other language schools by offering a blend of
language learning and cultural immersion. |
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100 for 1000 – Tomorrow’s Legendary
Art Priced for Today
Through March 31st
LOOK Gallery presents all original
artwork, reproductions, and limited edition prints for under $1000. Featuring
work by Ann Arden, Gregg Chadwick, Cathy Charles, Ghislaine Fenmore, Jerri Levi,
Mike Lohr, Ramon Lopez, Stephanie Mercado, Chris Naylor, Sally Peterson, Walt
Peregoy, Eric Poppleton, Jeff Robinson, Ronald Santos, Bruna Stude, Artie
Twitchell, Kent Twitchell, Mike Vegas, and Adam Wolpert.
WHERE:
LOOK Gallery
1933 S. Broadway, Space 111
Los Angeles, CA 90007
213-748-1113 |
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TILGHMAN BRANNER: INTROSPECTIVE
@ MUZEUMM
through
April 16, 2010

Air Sculptures, the Grid, Space, and
Beyond
New Los Angeles Gallery Presents
Daring New Work
One thing is clear to all who step
into Muzeumm, a new art gallery that opened in October 2009 in L.A.’s West Adams
district: I’ve stepped into another world.
That’s the type of reaction this daring new art space generates with its newest
exhibition of work, Introspective by artist Tilghman Branner, opening March 6,
2010. Muzeumm Founder/Director Mishelle Moross explains; “Tilghman’s work takes
the familiar and turns it into something exotic. It's alive and bold while
inducing child-like inquisitiveness. This body of work beautifully executes the
visual parallels between micro-organisms and outer-space to reveal a stimulating
relationship that human beings shouldn’t live without.”
In Introspective, Tilghman Branner’s mixed-media work is up to the task. Branner
begins with, in the artist’s own words, “light and shapes and form and
weight…and absence of weight”. Her paintings play out as hyper real snapshots of
camouflage in nature, while the sedated fuzz of Branner’s TV set sculpture
transforms space junk into another refraction of light, sound and shape. A
series of incredibly dense bronze castings establish a point of reference for
the show’s featherweight, paper and gauze air-sculptures.
Central to all of the work in Introspective are two themes: first, is the
concept of a grid – be it spiritual, spatial or technological – that binds all
things; and second, is a vessel-like formal structure that Branner asserts one
encounters repeatedly, “in outer space, under a microscope, in spores—forming
and dropping and reforming.” These themes interplay with one another throughout
the work in the show, mapping out an unmistakable internal grid of their very
own.
WHAT:
Introspective – Mixed Media Paintings and Sculpture by Tilghman Branner
WHEN:
Opening Reception: March 6, 2010 at 7:00PM
Exhibition runs from March 6 to April 16, 2010
Gallery Hours: 11:00am to 7:00pm Tuesday-Friday (by appointment Saturday-Monday)
WHERE:
Muzeumm
4811 W. Adams Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90016
310-388-6161
www.muzeumm.com
ABOUT MUZEUMM:
Muzeumm is a daring new art gallery that opened in October 2009, in the West
Adams neighborhood of Los Angeles, a burgeoning creative enclave located
directly between the gallery districts of downtown and Culver City. Since its
opening, Muzeumm has shown work by contemporary artists Tilghman Branner, Bianka
Kovar, Peter Liashkov, Elena Moross, Pierre Picot, and Sergei Tivetsky.
Muzeumm Founder and Director Mishelle Moross – whose mother is a St. Petersburg
born artist, and whose father was a Motown recording artist with the Soviet
dissident band Black Russian – guides this innovative space. Muzeumm shares its
facility with Aleksei Tivetsky, the founder of the West coast’s most
sought-after art restoration and conservation studio. |
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Herb Alpert Black Totem
Series
Through May 25, 2010

Herb Alpert, the renowned
musician and music producer as well as accomplished artist presents his
Black Totem Series at Ace Gallery Beverly Hills.
Totems have pan-cultural associations throughout diverse cultures around the
world, and these vertical forms have been used over the course of history as
tribal talismans representative of genealogies, ancestors and documenting
societies. Herb Alpert, in his Black Totem series, has focused on this
totemic language of sculpture for the past 20 years.
Alpert’s process for creating these sculptures is very hands on. He works
with wet clay first molding it into vertical forms ranging from 8 to 36
inches tall. From these he selects the ones he will make into larger
sculptures that will range from 12 to 20 feet in height. These larger works
are also hand formed with the wet clay. When completed, molds are made and
then the sculptures are cast in bronze and patinaed black. Alpert’s totems
read abstractly yet suggestions of recognizable forms appear; an eagle form
seemly emerging from the top of one, or human shapes surfacing. That their
forms evolved naturally, organically, and are formed by the artist without
carving tools that further convey their biomorphic qualities.
Alpert was, for the most part, inspired by the totems unique to the Pacific
Northwest of North America such as those of the Haida, Tlingit and Kwakiutl
tribes, whose totem poles were made of single pieces of cedar, some up to
forty feet in height. For the Haida tribe, these ancestral totems are, and
have been for hundreds of years, the essence of family and tribal identity
and sometimes were used to mark entranceways to their lodgings. The totems
of the Pacific Northwest function as crests of families or chiefs
commemorating major events or occasions, represented by hierarchies of
different creatures, animals or various supernatural beings (each signifying
different human attributes). In Native American tradition, a totem is an
entity or symbol that watches over or ‘assists’ a family, clan or tribe.
Totemism, derived from the Ojibwe language, refers to that which is
kinship-related, and it is also a belief system that is frequently
associated with shamanistic religions. Totems act as ‘familiars’ or guides
accompanying one through life, both in the physical and spiritual worlds.
Alpert’s totems subliminally engage these theories and histories.
Herb Alpert’s Black Totem Series is an exhibition well worth exploring. ACE
GALLERY BEVERLY HILLS: 9430 Wilshire Blvd. in Beverly Hills. Phone:
310-858-9090
Photo: Herb
Alpert Black Totems, 2005-2009 Bronze 10' - 18' (H)
Image courtesy of
Ace Gallery Beverly Hills
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