Mike Kelley’s Playroom Décor, 1995, from the exhibition Timeless Painting at Hauser and Wirth in NYC in 2019.
Oct 312020
Apr 042019
People, the current sculpture exhibition at Jeffrey Deitch’s Los Angeles gallery in Hollywood, fills the large room with work in a variety of media but all representing human beings in some way.
From the press release-
More than fifty standing, sitting and hanging figurative sculptures will fill Jeffrey Deitch’s new Los Angeles gallery. The artists in the show span several generations from the 1980s to the present, with an emphasis on emerging talent.
All of the works in the exhibition reflect a contemporary approach to sculpture inspired by the innovations of Dada, Surrealism, Assemblage and by the influence of non- or meta- art sources like department store mannequins.
Only one work in the show is carved or modeled in the traditional way. Some are made from body casts, others are constructed with found objects and only a few use conventional sculptural materials like bronze.
The works in the exhibition reflect the diversity of the artists who created them and the diversity of the people who the sculptures represent. The styles range from hyperrealism to allegory. The subjects range from ordinary individuals to creatures of fantasy. The works explore the uncanny confrontation of the artificial and the real while simultaneously responding to the multiple approaches to human identity in the contemporary world.
One of the sculptures, Totem, by Narcissister even incorporates live women. This adds to the unsettling feeling that some of the other sculptures, like Nobody, by Karon Davis (who founded The Underground Museum with her late husband Noah Davis), might have included real people as well (they don’t).
Karon Davis, “Nobody”, 2019
One of the strongest pieces in the exhibition is David Altmejd’s Pyramid in which a human/dog hybrid figure sits smoking while its back opens to expose insides composed of quartz, a hand, and several ears protrude from its sides. The little details are fascinating. He’s even painted one of the figure’s fingers purple, perhaps a reference to Human, the Ibizan hound with one purple leg that was included in Pierre Huyghe’s exhibition at LACMA.
People was inspired by Mike Kelley’s exhibition and book project The Uncanny, from 1993, and that’s definitely an accurate description of how it feels to wander around in this particular room of sculptures.
This exhibition closes 4/6/19.
Jan 182018
Joyce Manor- Last You Heard Of Me
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (1/18-1/21/18)-
Thursday
Tennis System and Souvenirs are opening for Teenage Wrist at The Hi Hat
Artist Gala Porras-Kim will be discussing her work from A Universal History of Infamy with curator Megan O’Neil, at LACMA (free but ticket required)
Also at LACMA is a screening of John Carpenter’s classic They Live
Guards and Veronica Bianqui are opening for The Soft White Sixties at The Echo
At REDCAT, LA-based performers Rubén Martínez and Raquel Gutiérrez will be performing VARIEDADES, “an interdisciplinary performance that brings together music, spoken word, theater, comedy and the visual arts, loosely based on the Mexican vaudeville shows of early 20th century”
Friday
Surfer Blood are playing at The Hi Hat with Terry Malts opening
Sociologist and writer Greg Snyder will be discussing his book SKATEBOARDING LA at The Last Bookstore with some of the professional skateboarders profiled in the book joining him (free)
De Lux are playing with The Juan Maclean at The Regent Theater
Suno Deko is performing at the Bootleg Theater with special sets/collaborations with Zach Tetreault, Cyrus Gengras, Alex Somers, and Julianna Barwick
iHeartRadio ALTer Ego 2018 is happening at The Forum with Beck, The National, Spoon, and more
Saturday
The Women’s March is taking place in downtown LA- moving from Pershing Square to City Hall
Joyce Manor are playing two shows at Union Station– tickets are still available for the earlier one (3pm) with Surf Curse and Peach Kelli Pop
For the final weekend of Mike Kelley: Kandors 1999-2011 at Hauser & Wirth, Extended Organ, Lonely Street and Telecaves will be performing (free)
There are still tickets available for the later show at The Broad of En Cuatro Patas: The Formaldehyde Trip, a work by Mexico City artist Naomi Rincón Gallardo, that includes songs and videos dedicated to murdered Mixtec activist Alberta “Bety” Cariño, performed live with props (part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA)
Wolf Parade are playing at The Fonda Theatre with Charly Bliss opening (also Friday)
Sondre Lerche is performing at Largo
Sunday
Worn-Tin is playing at the Moroccan Lounge with Small Forward and runnner opening
Hammer Museum is showing the experimental short films of Narcisa Hirsch as part of Los Angeles Filmforum’s Ism Ism Ism: Experimental Cinema in Latin America, part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA (free)
Death of Lovers (members of Nothing) are playing at the Echoplex with Choir Boy opening
Nov 162017
Nilüfer Yanya- Baby Luv
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (11/16-11/19/17)-
Thursday
British singer Nilüfer Yanya is playing The Masonic Lodge at Hollywood Forever with Monogem opening
Array @The Broad is screening the film Daughters of The Dust at The Theatre at the Ace Hotel with a conversation to follow with directors Julie Dash and Ava DuVernay
Writer and artist Marisela Norte will be giving a walk-through of Hammer Museum’s Radical Women exhibition (free)
Tennis are playing at the Fonda Theatre with Wild Ones
Hauser & Wirth are screening German artist Andy Hope 1930’s Vertical Horizon (free but register)
There are still tickets available for Metronomy’s early (6pm) show at The Regent Theater
Beach Slang are playing at the Echoplex with Dave Hause and The Mermaid and See Through Dresses opening
Friday
The Underachievers are playing a $10 show with Warm Brew and Injury Reserve at The Novo
Surf Rock Is Dead and Sarah Chernoff are opening for Shout Out Louds at the El Rey Theatre
LA Zoo Lights, the annual holiday celebration at the zoo in Griffith Park, begins tonight and runs through 1/7
Curls are playing with Hibou and Suncruiser at the Moroccan Lounge
There are still a few tickets left for a midnight screening of Pulp Fiction at Tarantino’s New Beverly Cinema
Egrets on Ergot, Bastidas!, and Sister Mantos are playing a Solidarity with Mariachis’ Rent Strike Benefit Show at The Smell
Saturday
REDCAT is hosting an all day Symposium on Mike Kelley’s Kandors, currently on view at Hauser & Wirth (free but ticketed)
The Great Los Angeles Walk returns for its annual cross city trek, this time taking Beverly Boulevard (free)
Jackalope Art and Craft Fair returns to its outdoor Pasadena location (also Sunday)
Vulture Festival LA is bringing numerous celebrities to the Hollywood Roosevelt for ticketed events including Issa Rae, Jill Soloway in conversation with Lena Waithe and more
Gary Numan is playing at the Teragram Ballroom with Me Not You opening
Daedelus, Mono/Poly and Free The Robots are playing a show at Union Nightclub
Sunday
Pasadena’s wacky annual Doo Dah Parade returns with after parties to follow (free)
Window dresser, cultural critic, author, and creative ambassador-at-large for Barneys New York, Simon Doonan, will be discussing Mundo Meza in conjunction with MOCA’s exhibition Axis Mundo: Queer Networks in Chicano L.A., at the West Hollywood Council Chambers
Baio and Teen Daze are playing an early show at Zebulon
Ibeyi are performing with TheMind at The Theatre at the Ace Hotel
Tony Molina, Faith Healer, Toner, and Cecil Frena are playing at The Smell
Nov 092017
De Lux- Oh Man The Future
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (11/9-11/12/17)-
Thursday
Artist Artemisa Clark will be giving a walk-through and discussing artworks from Hammer Museum’s Radical Women exhibition (free)
Blanck Mass are playing at Resident with Egyptrixx opening
Red Nation Film Festival continues with independent films showcasing the Native American and Indigenous perspective (running until 11/19)
Pete Tong is at the Hollywood Bowl presenting Ibiza Classics with the Heritage Orchestra with a special appearance by Moby
Hovvdy are playing with Jurassic Shark and Young Jesus at the Bootleg Theater
Friday
LA based artists Candice Lin and Miljohn Ruperto will be discussing Lin’s article and Ruperto’s work in the new issue of X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly, at Ghebaly Gallery
De Lux are opening for Cut Copy at The Shrine Auditorium
Hamilton Leithauser is playing at the Fonda Theatre with Courtney Marie Andrews opening
Saturday
Artist Zoe Leonard will be discussing her work with curator Hamza Walker at Hauser & Wirth (free but register)
DUBLAB is hosting a free record fair at Zebulon
Shigeto is playing at the Echoplex with Ela Minus opening
Tropicalia Fest is happening at Queen Mary Park with a TON of bands playing including- Los Tigres del Norte, Chicano Batman, Kali Uchis, King Krule, Jhené Aiko, Surf Curse, Thee Commons, Slow Hollows, Red Pears and more
The Dead Ships are playing at The Moroccan Lounge with SPELLES and Velvet opening
Hennessey + Ingalls are having their annual art book sale- a good chance to start getting some holiday gifts (running till 11/12)
Sunday
Artist Sterling Ruby is doing a walk through of the exhibition Mike Kelley: Kandors 1999-2011 at Hauser & Wirth
The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA is celebrating recently opened site-specific exhibition, Adrián Villar Rojas: The Theater of Disappearance, with free admission all day, DJs and more
It’s the second and last day of DesignerCon at the Pasadena Convention Center
Artist Alex Israel will be in conversation with critic and curator Jack Bankowsky at LACMA Art Catalogues with a book signing and reception to follow (free)
Fazerdaze is playing at The Echo with Common Holly opening
The Grove’s Annual Tree Lighting celebration returns with performances and fireworks
Rebirth Brass Band are playing at the Teragram Ballroom
Oct 192017
Mitski- Townie
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (10/19-10/22/17)-
Thursday
Art historian Elena Shtromberg will be discussing the work of artist Anna Maria Maiolino at MOCA Grand Avenue (free)
Screaming Females are playing at the Bootleg Theater with Street Eaters and Hit Bargain
LACMA is hosting a free screening of 11/8/16, a documentary made up of 16 stories from 16 different filmmakers all taking place in America
Warbly Jets are having an album release party at Moroccan Lounge with The Entire Universe opening
Nick Hakim is playing at the Echoplex with Sam Evian and Jimmy Whispers opening
Sego are at The Echo with Goldensuns and Oddnesse opening
Friday
The Lemon Twigs are playing at the Teragram Ballroom with Cut Worms and Fatal Jamz (also Saturday)
The Pancakes and Booze Art Show returns to Los Angeles with art from over 100 artists, performances, and of course pancakes and booze (also Saturday)
Front Porch Cinema’s free movie at Santa Monica Pier this week is the live action Beauty and the Beast
Angel Olsen is opening for Arcade Fire at The Forum
Cloak & Dagger Festival runs tonight and tomorrow til 2am at the Globe Theatre and The Palace Theatre. Tonight the lineup includes The Jesus and Mary Chain, TR/ST, Mykki Blanco, HEALTH and more
Saturday
The Brewery Artwalk is back for its Autumn edition- a great chance to check out the artists in the large complex and get some food and drink while there (also running on Sunday)
Hauser and Wirth is having a public opening for Mike Kelley: Kandors 1999-2011, with food, drink and music by Moon Uterus
Curls (with Christopher Owens of Girls) are playing with Sure Sure at Moroccan Lounge
Allah-Las are playing at The Regent Theatre with Entrance and Mapache opening
Pop-Up Magazine at The Theatre at Ace Hotel brings a magazine to life with “film, photography, film, radio, and original music all mixed together and performed live onstage”- for this iteration presenters include LeVar Burton and TV writer Cord Jefferson
Moses Sumney is playing at the El Rey Theatre with Sudan Archives
Crystal Castles are playing at The Wiltern
Sunday
Mitski is playing with Palehound opening at the Fonda Theatre
The Beverly Hills Art Show is back for its two day outdoor show with over 245 artists (also Saturday)
The A.G. Geiger Art Book Fair is taking place in Chinatown and is focused on art books, zines and music created by people on the West Coast (free)
Santa Monica Art Studios is having its annual open studios event (opening night is Saturday 6-9pm)
Eyelids are playing with Two Sheds and The Broken Hearts at The Echo
May 252017
Sleepy Sun- Seaquest
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (5/25-5/28/17)-
Thursday
Band of Horses are playing at the Greek Theatre with Frightened Rabbit
At LACMA artist Michael Mandiberg and artist/researcher Lior Zalmanson will discuss “the connection between digital arts and online labor including its recent manifestations: crowdsourcing and the gig economy” (free)
The New Division are playing at Union Nightclub with FYOHNA opening
The Oracle Film Series continues at The Broad with Bruce and Norman Yonemoto’s film Kappa, a collaboration with artist Mike Kelley, and Apichatpong Weerasethakul’s Sud Pralad (Tropical Malady)
Pantha du Prince is playing at The Echo with Telefon Tel Aviv and Newman Wolf
No Parents are playing a show at The Hi Hat with C ROY, Dumb Fucks, Enemy and Musty Boyz
Friday
Constitutional Happy Hour returns to the Hammer Museum– the topic this week is immigrant rights
Ab-Soul is playing at the El Rey Theatre
It’s the last of the four part series Subject: Los Angeles at the Bob Baker Marionette Theater. The theme this week is Los Angeles on Shifting Ground and “will examine the city’s habit of erasure, as well as forms of collective recall, through disaster footage, visualizations of local wind patterns, documentation of lost neighborhoods and landmarks, contemporary marketing schemes for “historic downtown,” and a 16mm presentation of Thom Andersen’s GET OUT OF THE CAR (2010), with an introduction from Thom.”
Moaning are playing with Prettiest Eyes and more at The Smell
Wafia is playing at The Echo with Demo Taped opening
Saturday
Sleepy Sun are playing at The Hi Hat to celebrate their new record Private Tales, with Big Search opening
Artists Pippa Garner and Zackary Drucker will be in conversation at Redling Fine Art
The Bowtie Project is hosting Beginnings Marathon,” a performative collage of beginnings and unfinished narratives” with artist Vlatka Horvat. Bring your favorite book and read aloud from the first page ( it can be from any genre, and in any language) or you can just listen to the performance and enjoy s’mores around the fire pit.
Hitchcock’s North by Northwest is the film this week at Hollywood Forever Cemetery
Or you could see Pulp Fiction outside of The Autry
Feminist collective PLAG (Play Like A Girl) is having an all ages, all day, all female and non-binary fronted music event at the Echoplex with Kitten headlining
Sunday
L.A. Zine Fest is at the California Market Center (free)
You can get your Memorial Day beach trip in and enjoy a festival at Fiesta Hermosa, the annual Hermosa Beach event (also Saturday and Monday)
French Vanilla are playing with Peach Kelli Pop, Mommy Long Legs and Rotten Blossom at The Smell
The Lovely Bad Things are playing at The Hi Hat with Wild Wing, The Red Pear, and Joos
Jul 262014
Tonight (7/26) is the closing party for Mike Kelley’s exhibition at MOCA. It is free from 6-10pm. There will be DJs, food trucks and a cash bar.
More info- http://sites.moca.org/the-curve/2014/07/21/closing-party/
Jul 242014
White Fence- Like That
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (7/24-7/27)-
Thursday
White Fence are playing the Echo with Dream Boys and The Abigails- http://www.theecho.com/event/593685-white-fence-los-angeles/
REDCAT’s New Original Works Festival begins (through 8/9)- http://www.redcat.org/event/new-original-works-festival-2014
Cayucas are playing Santa Monica Pier with Papa (FREE)- http://tcs.dola.com/event/2014/07/24/cayucas-papa
Wolfmother at the House of Blues Los Angeles- http://www.houseofblues.com/losangeles/events/eventdetail/?viewNav=/event-detail&eventId=09004CCBE8A8BF04&oid=0
Friday
REDCAT presents the video work Apotome, by artists Jennifer Allora and Guillermo Calzadilla. For the opening on Friday there will be an artist talk as well as a performance that goes along with the video- http://www.redcat.org/exhibition/allora-calzadilla
The Internet (soul band on Odd Future Records) is playing Figat7th Downtown Festival (free)- http://artsbrookfield.com/event/figfest/#.U9DXL6hfnU4
Second chance to catch White Fence at the Echo, this time with Tomorrow’s Tulips- http://www.theecho.com/event/593687-white-fence-los-angeles/
Saturday
Mike Kelley’s show at MOCA is closing this weekend- check it out free from 6-10pm and there is a closing party from 7-10- http://sites.moca.org/the-curve/2014/07/21/closing-party/
ForYourArt event- Instagram Mini Marathon with Hans Ulrich Obrist at the Million Dollar Theatre (use FYAFRIEND for free tickets)- http://www.eventbrite.com/e/instagram-mini-marathon-with-hans-ulrich-obrist-tickets-12200380667?aff=eorg
Installations and performances by Machine Project artists at the Central Library- http://www.lfla.org/event-detail/1020/Machinations-in-the-Library-
GRMLN at Los Globos- http://www.clublosglobos.com/event/598043-ihc-los-angeles/
Saturday and Sunday
Renegade Craft Fair is at Grand Park (free)- http://www.renegadecraft.com/losangeles-july-market-details
Sunday
Super Duper Yard Sale at HM157(Historical Monument 157), food, drinks, haircuts and super cheap finds in Lincoln Heights- http://www.hm157.com/calendar
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Jul 172014
Melpo Mene- I Adore You
Things to do in Los Angeles this weekend (7/17-20)-
Thursday
Melpo Mene is opening for Figs Vision at the Bootleg- http://foldsilverlake.com/event.cfm?id=157706&cart
An evening with Genesis Breyer P- Orridge at the MOCA book store- a book signing, screening, talk, and performance by DJMREX- http://edu.moca.org/calendar/2014-07-17
Francisco Goldman discusses his latest book The Interior Circuit: A Mexico City Chronicle at the Central Library downtown- http://www.lfla.org/event-detail/1018/The-Interior-Circuit-A-Mexico-City-Chronicle-
Made in L.A. Music: An Evening of Community Music hosted by Alex Ebert (of Edward Sharpe and the Magnetic Zeros) at the Hammer- http://hammer.ucla.edu/programs-events/2014/07/made-in-la-music-an-evening-of-community-music-hosted-by-alex-ebert/
Friday
No Age is hosting Friday Night Flights at the Getty- They are presenting assorted installations, three experimental performances that will culminate with “an altered concert experience” of their latest album An Object, and a curated program of videos by filmmakers and artists- http://www.getty.edu/museum/programs/performances/friday_flights.html
Masters of Ceremony Hip Hop Reunion at the Nokia Theater with DMX, EPMD, Rakim, Big Daddy Kane, Naughty by Nature, Slick Rick, Special Ed and more- http://www.nokiatheatrelalive.com/events/detail/masters-of-ceremony-hip-hop-reunion
Jonathan Wilson and Mystic Braves are playing as part of the free weekly FIGat7th Downtown Festival- http://artsbrookfield.com/event/figfest/#.U8eGMKhfnU4
Saturday
MOCA curator Bennett Simpson discusses the Mike Kelley exhibit and afterwords there is an Extended Organ Music Event (an experimental band Mike Kelley was once a part of) -both free- http://edu.moca.org/calendar/2014-07-19#mevent-8062
The Autry’s outdoor movie this weekend is American Psycho and yOya are playing- http://www.eventbrite.com/e/eat-see-hear-american-psycho-outdoor-movie-tickets-11145395177?aff=eorg
Blue Velvet is playing at Hollywood Forever cemetery- http://cinespia.org/event/blue-velvet/
Saturday and Sunday
Viva Pomona is two days of great music at The Glass House in Pomona- some of the bands include- !!!, Thee Oh Sees, Fuzz, Crystal Antlers, Porter, So Many Wizards, and more- 20$ each day- http://www.theglasshouse.us/event/532173-viva-pomona-pomona/
Sunday
Closing reception for the exhibition “Phantom Color” at CB1 Gallery downtown features a talk with the artists (Eric Beltz, Brian Scott Campbell and Nathan Hayden), wine, DJs from the band Gardens and Villa and a dance performance- https://www.facebook.com/events/627280457379939/
Jimmy Cliff is at the Hollywood Bowl- http://www.hollywoodbowl.com//tickets/reggae-night-xiii-jimmy-cliff/2014-07-20
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