Movers & Shakers in Los Angeles.
2 Jan 2008
In the past weeks, some spaces here in the city have closed, some have opened. I have compiled a list of the notable and movable items from the late 2007 and fresh 2008.
November 10th, the Treehouse Gallery closed its doors after six years of alimenting East Downtown’s hunger for the arts. The website mentions the eventual rebirth of the space, which I am eager to hear about, so inquire back on these guys and in the meantime, check Sven Barth’s own venture, Unitard.
December 1st, The Lab 101 in Culver City organized its last exhibition with many of the artists who have shown at the space over the past 5 years. TheLab was quite the institution here in LA and seeing it go make me feel nostalgic of my own 5 years here in LA. How I stumbled upon Freddi C.’s previous venture in Santa Monica, to her move in the belly of the beast. Yet I feel I haven’t heard the last bits from the lady.
(Left image, C.Finley from the artist’s website. Right image, view of the installation Canceled Flight: 101 Tried and True Pigeon Killin’ Methods, July 2005, at The Lab 101, from The Flog.)
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Redling Fine Art opened last fall and their current show, Mario Correa: Ducks & Drakes is up until the end of the week.
Chung King Project moved across the street in the corner space previously operated by Art For Humans, a three-months gallery project organized by Paul McLean. LA based artist Dan Bayles inaugurated the new space with a new series of striking paintings derived from the US plans for the new US embassy in Badgad, currently under construction. The show is running through January 26th.
Previously based in Venice, Honor Fraser moved to La Cienega strip in November - Angstrom Gallery being the immediate next door neighbor - with a show by Gardar Eide Einarsson on view until January 17th.
Kristi Engle Gallery also moved last November. The gallery left its Downtown LA space for Highland Park and a new open-on-the-street space. Their next show opens January 12th with Bettina Hoffman.
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Another batch of spaces will make their moves in the upcoming months. BLK/MRKT will present its next show and the work of Angelika J. Trojnarski, under the name Kinsey/Desforges. Not a physical move per se, yet it will be interesting to see how the venture evolves.
One of the great forces behind 6150 Wilshire, Roberts & Tilton will be located in Culver City starting May 1st. From the look of the future address, 5801 Washington Blvd., it looks like Susanne Vielmetter, David and Billy Shire will be their next door neighbors (and I can’t wait to have lunch breaks with you Lindsay!).
I am now curious to see where sixspace will resurface.
Overtones left its Venice Boulevard address for Mar Vista and will re-open January 26th with a solo show by Margi Scharff who passed away last summer.
Finally, I see that Ace is talking about an Ace Museum (!?) to open in the winter of 2008 with a solo exhibition of Matt Hope, and I am really curious to see what this is all about.
(Left image is Matt Hope, Perfect Cubes, 2005, 125 Cubes of Solid Aluminum on a Blanchard Ground Steel Pedestal with Leveling Spikes, 22 1/2 x 23 1/4 x 22 inches, Ace Gallery. Middle image is Gardar Eide Einarsson, installation view of All My Friends Are Dead, 2007. Photo by William Nettles, Honor Fraser. Right image is Adam Janes, inandoutandinandoutandin (Study), 2007, mixed media on paper, 89 x 25 inches, Roberts & Tilton.)
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