Undertones "Teenage Kicks"

Since watching Mathias Poledna's "Actualite" at Index, the show at Geffen MoCA, been getting in a rock mood. I only watched it three times yesterday. Rilo Kiley is sorta in it.

Eric Sall @ Acuna-Hansen Gallery

Opening: High and Wide
September 6th
from 6 to 9
427 Bernard Street
Los Angeles, CA
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HOW TO GET THERE




I will be attending this opening for sure. Promises to be a very hip show by a great painter who is only getting better and better. Perhaps I'll steal his skateboard again and kick into an elevator, wonder if he's forgiven me for that one?

Index pt. 1

Some photos from Index. A little blurry but will be getting some official/nice ones sent to me. And will be putting some more up later or updating this post.

Opening at Geffen Contemporary MoCA

INDEX: CONCEPTUALISM IN CALIFORNIA FROM THE PERMANENT COLLECTION

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Opening Sunday August 24th, 11AM-6PM, $5
08.24.08 - 12.15.08



Index: Conceptualism in California from the Permanent Collection draws upon MOCA’s substantial holdings of works by artists who have lived and worked in California and have contributed to the international lexicon of conceptual art. Curated by MOCA Curator Philipp Kaiser and Curatorial Assistant and Project Coordinator Corrina Peipon, the exhibition surveys the evolution of conceptual and post-studio practices by highlighting significant individual works alongside multiple works by artists in the collection. Acknowledging California artists’ particular contributions to defining and expanding art historical notions of conceptual art, the scope of this exhibition reaches from the proto-conceptual disciplines of artists Wallace Berman and Bruce Conner to the groundbreaking work produced during the mid-1960s, ‘70s, and into the ‘80s by artists John Baldessari, Chris Burden, Guy de Cointet, David Ireland, David Lamelas, and Alexis Smith, among others.




In recognition of the undeniable legacy of this period in California art, this exhibition also presents post-conceptual explorations by artists that were influenced by the preceding generations. Building upon the dialogue initiated by their mentors, artists Cindy Bernard, Andrea Fraser, Mike Kelley, Mathias Poledna, Stephen Prina, Pae White, and Christopher Williams continually redefine the boundaries of their various mediums and subjects through rigorous scrutiny and serious, though often humorous, analysis.

Tonite in LA, NeckFace opening

NECKFACE
“CANNIBAL CARNIVAL”
NEW IMAGE ART GALLERY
7908 Santa Monica Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90046
www.newimageartgallery.com

Opening Reception Aug.16th, 7-10pm
Show runs Aug. 16th – Sept. 20, 2008

Nancy Popp

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Phantom Galleries
LA Art Girls

LA Downtown Art Walk Today!

Downtown Art Walk
The Second Thursday of Every Month in Downtown Los Angeles

Thursday, August 14 2008

12pm - 9 pm • Free Admission

The cool thing about this; Both MoCAs are free from 5-8, next time I'm going there at 5. Marlene Dumas was the show at the non-Geffen one, and yes I still don't believe the hype. And the permanent collection was closed for reinstallation, I'll be going back soon.
Saw Nancy Popp at Phantom Galleries, which was great. And a few other good shows like Robert Reynolds'
"From Babylon to Baghdad"

Downtown Art Walk

LACMA how I miss you

LACMA.

Victor Vaughn & Ben Kehoe @ Transmission

TRANSMISSION
presents new work by

VICTOR VAUGHN (Richmond, Va)
and
BEN KEHOE (Pittsburgh, Pa)
Opening Friday, August 1, 7-9pm
Show runs August 1-30
321 Brook Rd. Richmond, VA 23220
transmissionrva@gmail.com
Gallery summer hours: Fri, Sat, 12-5
or call for apppointment (804.200.9985)

This show is the premier for both artists in Richmond.

Victor Vaughn lives in Richmond, and goes to school at VCU.
He has received multiple honors in the Painting and Printmaking
department there. Victor will be exhibiting an installation which
incorporates photographs and prints.

Ben Kehoe is an artist living in Pittsburgh, PA. He graduated from
Temple University in 2001. Nature, pattern-based medieval artwork,
comical violence, and uncomfortable situations are his influences.
Ben will be exhibiting a new series of acrylic and gouache paintings.
His website is www.benkehoe.net
Transmission

Angles in America @ Rhona Hoffman

An opening reception for an exhibition including works by Mary Heilmann, Jim Isermann, Gordon Matta-Clark, Robert Overby, Laura Riboli, and Jennifer West, curated by Terry R. Myers. The exhibition runs until October 11th.

RECEPTION:
Friday, September 5, 2008
5:00pm - 7:30pm
Rhona Hoffman Gallery
118 North Peoria Street
Chicago, IL


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Peter Saul @ Orange County Museum of Art

Peter Saul
Newport Beach

jun 22, 2008 - sep 21, 2008

The Orange County Museum of Art presents the first major American survey of works by Peter Saul. Organized by the Museum with guest curator Dan Cameron, the exhibition features paintings and drawings from the early 1960s to the present, including large-scale “historical epics,” satires of art history, and several of his most recent paintings addressing World War II and the war in Iraq. After its premiere at OCMA, the exhibition travels to the Pennsylvania Academy of Fine
Arts in Philadelphia.

Peter Saul (American, b. 1934) is among the handful of American painters and collage artists
whose groundbreaking proto-Pop achievements in the late 1950s and early 1960s were demoted once the champions of that movement were anointed a few years later. Saul has always forged his own path, creating often difficult, funny, and trenchant works—“sick jokes” according to Robert Storr, distinguished curator and dean of the Yale School of Art. His art embraces personal foibles and important events in American history, such as the Vietnam War and the Civil Rights movement. His twisted comic-book forms, artificially hot colors, controversial subject matter, and unquenchable ambition to provoke strong feelings through his paintings have kept him on the edges of the art world while also preserving, for over forty years, the freshness of his work.

"Peter Saul is some kind of national treasure."–Christopher Knight, art critic, LA Times


Major sponsorship for this exhibition provided by the Andy Warhol Foundation for the Visual Arts, Inc.

This exhibition is organized by the Orange County Museum of Art with guest curator Dan Cameron.