WPA Opening | Michael Minelli

Michael Minelli
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WPA, 510 Bernard St.,September 24 - October 17
Opening Reception Saturday, September 26, 7-10 pm

WPA presents “,” an exhibition of recent work by Michael Minelli. This is the second in a series of exhibitions scheduled at WPA, a new artist-run space located in Chinatown. Minelli’s work has long been invested in the quid pro quo between popular media discourse and the individual subject. In this recent series of sculpture and drawing, Minelli renders microphones, boom stands and free standing banners as avatars of public address. However, as opposed to being either “behind” or “in front of” the mic, the voice in these works emerges as stuck somewhere between states of mediation and misrecognition. Minelli’s use of materials and language suggests how distortion itself might be claimed as a site of agency. Be it through quotation, lyric or utterance, the voice in “” erupts as a shower of alternative somebodies; occupying positions of both call and response.

Gallery open 12-6pm, Thursday - Sunday or by appointment.

Video Screening | LAXART

A night of video, curated by Pilar Conde
At LAXART
Wednesday, September 2, 2009
7 pm

Featuring work by:
Uri Aran / Trisha Baga / Sena Basoz / Ronnie Bass / Susan Black / Mary Walling Blackburn / David Brooks / Sari Carel / Isami Ching / Joshua Clayton / Deville Cohen / Lucy Dodd / Debo Eilers / Maggie Foster / Marc Ganzglass / Tommy Hartung / Nick Herman / Nina Hoffmann and Ryan Harden Brown / David Horvitz / Chris James / Dani Leventhal / Matt Luem / Marylea Madiman / Yasue Maetake / Michael Mahalchick / Abby Manock / Gabriel Martinez / Alexander May / Justin Moore / John Pearson / George Raggett / Alia Raza / Tim Ridlin / Aki Sasamoto / Annie Shaw / Fern Silva / Bad Trucker / Arturo Vidich / Connie Walsh

www.laxart.org
LAXART
2640 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA

WPA Opening | Charles Irvin

Charles Irvin
Four Baboons Adoring the Rising Sun

August 29th - September 20th, Opening, Sat. Sept. 12, 7-10 pm

Gallery open 12-6pm, Thursday - Saturday or by appointment.

WPA presents "Four Baboons Adoring the Rising Sun," an exhibition of paintings by Charles Irvin. This is the first solo exhibit at WPA, a new artist-run space located in Chinatown. The title refers to the granite sculpture placed at the base of the Temple of Luxor in ancient Egypt. This massive sculpture shows baboons raising their hands, singing, and dancing in homage to the rising sun, which they guide and assist in its passage through the gates of day. Just as the Egyptian King Ramesses II appreciated this sculpture, enough to have his name inscribed upon the breast of each baboon, so does Irvin find fascination in this and other mythological concepts and belief systems that he explores and gives form to in this group of paintings.

Charles Irvin makes paintings, drawings, videos, performances and more. Most recently his work was presented at the Hammer Museum as part of Nine Lives: Visionary Artists from L.A. After the Sept 12 reception there will be performances by Santonio Flowere at 10pm and Charles Irvin's band Dude Dogg at 11pm

August 29th - September 20th, Opening, Sat. Sept. 12, 7-10 pm

Gallery open 12-6pm, Thursday - Saturday or by appointment.

WPA Opening | Group Show

An Exhibition of Selected Skills of the Unemployed
guide-LA.com is proud to announce the inaugural group show featuring the members of WPA. Bart Exposito, Andrew Hahn, David Hughes, Charles Irvin, Pamela Jorden, Michael Minelli, Rachael Neubauer, John Pearson, Terri Phillips, Fil Ruting, Henry Taylor, Ryan Tomcho, Tyler Vlahovich.

August 8 - 23, opening August 15 7 - 10pm
510 Bernard St, Chinatown, Los Angeles, 90026
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Conversation | Dennis Hollingsworth and Bart Exposito

New Conversation | Watch online now!
Dennis Hollingsworth and Bart Exposito

This is the second of the two conversations between Los Angeles painters Bart exposito and Dennis Hollingsworth. In this episode Bart visits Dennis's studio to see what his been doing as well as follow up on their ongoing conversations about each others philosophy and art practice.

Conversation | Bart Exposito and Dennis Hollingsworth

New Conversation | Watch online now!
Bart Exposito and Dennis Hollingsworth

This is the first of two conversations between LA painters Bart Exposito and Dennis Hollingsworth. In this episode Dennis visits Bart's studio to talk about his history as an artist and continue their ongoing dialogue about personal philosophy and studio practice.

Technical Update | Video problem fixed | New Video by Andrea Bowers

As you may or may not know there has been an issue with our video files stopping at 1/4 hr intervals recently. For anyone who has tried to watch any videos recently this has now been fixed and they will now all play completely through. Additionally there is also a new video by Andrea bowers, An Eloquent woman, 2009, now playing on her artist page here.