THE ARCHAIC REVIVAL | Amy Sarkisian, Charles Irvin

THE ARCHAIC REVIVAL
Curated by Dani Tull

CHROMIUM DUMB BELLE
ALISON BLICKLE
TRACY CONTI & STEPHEN MCCARTY
LIZ CRAFT
SARAH CROMARTY
MICHAEL DECKER
FRANCESCA GABBIANI
WENDELL GLADSTONE
PEARL C. HSIUNG
CHARLES IRVIN
PENTTI MONKKONEN
SANDEEP MUKHERJEE
ALIA PENNER
BRIAN RANDOLPH
EWOUD VAN RIJN
EDDIE RUSCHA
AMY SARKISIAN
ALLISON SCHULNIK
ANNA SEW HOY
MINDY SHAPERO
JIM SHAW
LAURIE STEELINK
THADDEUS STRODE
OWLEYES "JAMES" WEIGEL
LANDON WIGGS
MARNIE WEBER

The exhibition will also feature special musical performances and ceremonial happenings.

Archaic Revival Events:
Jan 29th “Mujical” performance by Featherbeard at the opening

Feb 4th Oracle readings by Maja D’aoust and “Spectral Psychography” by Christian Cummings and Michael Decker

Feb 12th Ceremonial Earth Acupuncture Dream Journey by Urban Shaman Eric Baumgartner
TBA The Entrance Band

Special thanks to Amanda Kobritz.

OPENING RECEPTION Saturday, January 29, 7-10pm
CLOSE Saturday, February 26
GALLERY HOURS Wednesday - Saturday, Noon-6 pm

Las Cienegas Projects
2045 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034

The Archaic Revival from YDGN Productions on Vimeo.

John Pearson | Kristi Engle Gallery

TBA: A Group Video Exhibition in 7 Parts Dec 1 - Feb 18
John Pearson Jan 23 -29

	Kristi Engle Gallery 5002 York Ave. Highland Park, CA 90042 323.258.2385 Thursday, Friday, and Saturday: 12 to 6 pm or by appointment

Collective Show | WPA

COLLECTIVE SHOW LAUNCHES LOS ANGELES EXHIBITION
Los Angeles, CA – January 7, 2011 – Collective Show is pleased to present “Collective Show Los Angeles 2011,” an artist-organized exhibition of contemporary art groups recently established in Los Angeles. This collaboratively curated “group show of group shows” features artist-run spaces and projects formed in the past five years.
Previously realized in New York in 2009 and 2010, Collective Show exhibits local art groups that work in a growing space between established non-profit organizations and commercial galleries. These groups explore a wide range of collaborative approaches and missions, often in flexible and adaptive conditions with an emphasis on communities and conversations.

Over 30 groups will exhibit artwork, publications and posters during the show at a newly renovated space in Chinatown. In addition, screenings, performances and talks will take place during the exhibition. A catalogue will accompany the exhibition and will be available at www.collectiveshow.org/LA

Participating groups include: 323 Projects, Actual Size Los Angeles, Adrian Piper Gallery, Artist Curated Projects, CANAL, Commonwealth and Council, CUBO, Dan Graham, Ditch Projects, Eighteen Thirty Collaborations (ETC), Electronic Disturbance Theater 2.0 *particle group* b.a.n.g. lab, Elephant, The Elysian Park Museum of Art, Eternal Telethon, Gibsmir Family, Human Resources, JMoca (Justin’s Museum of Contemporary Art), LA Pedestrians, Los Angeles Road Concerts, MATERIAL, [Name], NIGHT GALLERY, Public Address, Public Fiction, The Public School, S1F, secondhome projects, Silvershed, Statler Waldorf Gallery, Summer Camp, Workspace, WPA, and guest groups from Zurich and Berlin.

Collective Show Los Angeles 2011 is organized by artist groups ACP (Artist Curated Projects), Human Resources, Name, Night Gallery, Public Fiction, The Public School, Silvershed, Statler Waldorf Gallery and Workspace. Collective Show was founded by collaborators from New York and Los Angeles, and aims to further creative relationships by providing an open-source format for locally organized shows. Collective Show is not-for-profit, volunteer organized, and is free and open to the public. To learn more about Collective Show, please visit us online at www.collectiveshow.org

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Public Hours Opening Reception: Thursday, January 20, 2011, 6-9pm Exhibition Hours: Friday, January 21 to Sunday, January 23, 2011, 12-6 pm and Thursday, January 27 through Sunday, January 30, 2011, 12-6 pm

Location
995, 997 North Hill Street, Los Angeles, CA 90012

Bart Exposito | @ Thomas Solomon Gallery

Thomas Solomon Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new works on paper by Los Angeles artist BART EXPOSITO. This is the artist’s second solo exhibition with the gallery. The show will open at Thomas Solomon Gallery with a reception for the artist on Friday January 21st, 6 – 8 PM at 427 Bernard Street, Chinatown, Los Angeles.

Considered one of the most well regarded painters of his generation, Exposito has developed and maintained a unique voice in the milieu of abstraction. For more than a decade he has produced beautiful, subtle, intelligent works that evoke design and architecture, as well as nod to the hard-edged abstraction of his predecessors. After years of painting and drawing on parallel trajectories, in 2009/10 the artist turned his attention to paper as a distinct medium, elevated from its often subordinate position within the art hierarchy that privileges ephemera and concept within the contemporary dialogue. "Paper Primitives" as an exhibition title implies that drawings are preparatory, “primitive” paintings; but also alludes to characteristics of history and language, unaffected, original, not derivative of another form. Rather than subject his practice to a bifurcation between “study” and final work, Exposito has developed a technique and mastery of material that produces works on any scale, on canvas or paper, that share the same DNA. Using both wet and dry media in harmonious partnership and to wonderful formal effect, painting is revealed as drawing and drawing is revealed as painting, and the traditional lines between them begin to dissolve. Yet the immediacy and purity of the medium, however, signify that drawing is, as the exhibition title proposes, the form from which all others have been derived. The exhibition will include a collection of new works (all 2010/11), mostly on paper, and for the first time preparatory studies, inviting the viewer for the first time into his practice. The installation will carry the viewer from pencil sketches – the most immediate and perhaps most pure works an artist can create – to mature, exquisitely rendered images in acrylic and pastel on paper and canvas. Themes of landscape, architecture and figuration will be visible throughout, and formal and conceptual connections will be made across works in all media.

Bart Exposito was born in Amarillo, Texas. 
He received his BFA from the University of Texas, Austin (1998) and MFA from California Institute of the Arts, Valencia, CA (2000). He has exhibited nationally in galleries and museums including the Riverside Art Museum, Riverside, California; University of Nevada, Las Vegas; Daniel Weinberg Gallery, Los Angeles; Black Dragon Society, Los Angeles; Creative Artists Agency, Los Angeles; Claremont Graduate University; Galerie Grimm/Rosenfeld, Münich, Germany; and Galerie für Gegenwartskunst, Bremen, Germany. In 2009, Exposito was included in the exhibition Abstract America at the Saatchi Gallery, London (catalogue). Public collections include Bank of America, Frederick R. Weisman Art Foundation, Los Angeles, Cleveland Clinic Foundation, Ohio and Saatchi Gallery, London. Bart Exposito lives and works in Los Angeles.

Charles Irvin | Opening

Charles Irvin | Ride the Fantasy
January 8 - February 5
Opening Reception Saturday, January 8th 7-10pm

Come with me take my hand we will see
Right here now is a place that is free
What you feel to be real is your right
Happiness is hidden in plain sight

Ride the Fantasy is Irvin's second show at WPA and features recent paintings and prints.

The message is mystical, the medium is physical.
Stuff of the earth, depict signs of the birth
of the Aquarian Age.

Gallery hours:
Open 12-6pm, Friday - Saturday or by appointment.