The Flog.

Patrick Jackson: City Unborn @Chung King Project (May 3 - June 7, 2008)

Anne-Laure Sacriste @Chung King Project (March 22 - April 19, 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.)

I am packing up and will be leaving for London in a few hours to join the hordes of art lovers slash buyers who will be attending the various fairs all throughout the city. Needless to say, I am really looking forward to walking the paved and foggy streets, and standing under blasting air conditioners.

Chung King Project will be hosting me, and bits of fette’s gallery during the Zoo Art Fair, so don’t hesitate to stop by and say hello.

A bunch of LA galleries are making the move accross the Atlantic, some were already in Berlin, between Art Forum and Preview, yet none is staying for Paris’s own fair, fiac.

- Frieze Art Fair.
ACME
China Art Objects Galleries
Marc Foxx
Gagosian Gallery
Jack Hanley
David Kordansky
Patrick Painter
Peres Projects
Regen Projects

- Pulse London.
Bank
Mark Moore Gallery
Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Walter Maciel Gallery

- Year07.
sixspace

- Zoo Art Fair.
cherry and martin
Chung King Project
The Happy Lion

(Left image is Jason Fox, from his saatchi-gallery page. Right is Mario Garcia Torres, from the Frieze website.)

Dennis Rudolph, Damien Deroubaix, Martin Dammann, Marcellvs L., Rommelo Yu & Michael Müller: Männerphantasien - Curated by Ellen Blumenstein @Chung King Project (September 8 – October 13, 2007)

Dennis Rudolph.

Left Michael Müller.

Left & bottom Damien Deroubaix. Right Martin Dammann.

Adrian Ghenie @Chung King Project (March 3 - April 7, 2007)

Guy Allott, Edward Kay, Victor Man, Gavin Nolan, Rigo Schmidt, Gavin Tremlett: Icons @Chung King Project (September 8 - October 21, 2006)

Gavin Nolan.

Left is Gavin Tremlett. Right is Edward Kay.

Florian Merkel: Jade @Chung King Project (January 14 - February 18, 2006)

Amy Adler: The Rainbow Hour @ACME. (September 10 - October 8, 2005)

Matthew Ronay and William Daniels @Marc Foxx. (September 10 - October 8, 2005)

William Daniels.

Matthew Ronay.

Francesca Gabbiani: On your way to where @Karyn Lovegrove Gallery. (September 10 - October 8, 2005)

Tom Chamberlain @Kontainer. (September 10 - October 8, 2005)

Mihai Nicodim - owner of Kontainer, in association with two other galleries: Fa Projects from London and Wohnmaschine from Berlin are opening a new gallery, Chung King Project in Chinatown. The Grand opening will take place Saturday, October 8th. I am already very excited by the idea of another Europe-US collaboration and definitely look forward to see which European artists will be featured.

Eishi Takaoka: Every Morning @GR2. (September 17 - October 12, 2005)

Whitney Bedford @cherrydelosreyes. (September 17 - October 23, 2005)

Pieces of Sheet @The Lab101. (September 17 - October 17, 2005)

Bari Kumar: Brown is the New Black @Billy Shire Fine Arts. (September 17 - October 22, 2005)

The Ganzfeld: Marc Bell and Peter Thompson, Paper Rad, Brian Chippendale, C.F., Julie Doucet, Jim Drain, Leif Goldberg, David Sandlin, Frank Santoro, Patrick Smith and Matthew Thurber @Junc. (September 17 - October 12, 2005)

Right image: Jim Drain.

Patrick Smith.

Marc Bell and Peter Thompson.

Ariadna Capasoo @Atelier Deluxe Musique. (September 17 - October 15, 2005)