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Working on a project last week in Las Vegas I had the opportunity to meet Dr. Peter V. Calabria, PhD. His website is amazing!
Michael· 12/14/10 
CONTRA MUNDUM I-VII BOOK RELEASE
Sunday, Dec. 5, 7pm
Mandrake
Featuring music by Dallas Acid
and films by Matt Anderson.
e-mail your order (or order online) and receive 15% off ALL books, catalogs, editions, magazines, monographs, multiples, objects, and videos, in our Distribution Catalog and Bookshop, between November 26 and January 2, 2011. All orders placed by December 10, will be delivered by December 24. If ordering online, please include ‘book sale’ in the ‘add instructions’ field of the checkout (we will refund 15% of your total). Free shipping on all (domestic) orders over 200 dollars.
Happy Holidays!
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The City Proper, curated by James Welling
20 November — 15 January 2011
Reception: Saturday 20 November 3-5pm
Zoe Crosher
Shannon Ebner
Christina Fernandez
Frank Gohlke
Anthony Hernandez
Peter Holzhauer
Brandon Lattu
William Leavitt
Lisa Ohlweiler
Catherine Opie
Arthur Ou
Allen Ruppersberg
Asha Schechter & Jacob Stewart-Halevy
Mark Wyse
Amir Zaki
Margo Leavin Gallery
812 North Robertson Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90069
(a film by William Eggleston)
Tuesday 11/2 @ 8:00pm
at Cinefamily
Legendary photographer William Eggleston, working with filmmaker Robert Gordon, recently edited thirty hours of video footage he’d shot in 1974 of friends, family, and eclectic characters encountered in the bars and back roads of his hometown of Memphis, as well as New Orleans and the Delta region. The hypnotic result is Stranded in Canton, a film that consistently teeters on the edge of dream and nightmare states. Father of Modern Color Photography he may be, but he kicks just as much ass in eerie B&W, wrenching glorious images out of the early Sony Porta-Pak to conjure a febrile, desperate atmosphere that captures the Southern Gothic with an extraordinarily raw and rambling intimacy. The evening’s open bar is sponsored by Maker’s Mark — and special guests TBA! Dir. William Eggleston, 1974/2008, digital presentation, 77 min.
(This rare screening of Eggleston’s underground video masterpiece is organized by the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department at LACMA in conjunction with its exhibition “William Eggleston: Democratic Camera – Photographs and Video, 1961-2008″)
Mark· 11/01/10 
Geometric Persecution
12 September — 23 October 2010
Opening Sunday, 12 September 6-8 pm
Overduin and Kite
6693 Sunset Blvd
Los Angeles CA 90028
Thursday August 5, 2010 at 7 PM
235 Bowery
New York, NY
The Bidoun Library Project at the New Museum is a highly partial account of five decades of printed matter in, near, about, and around the Middle East. Arrayed along the library’s shelves are pulp fictions and propaganda, monographs and guidebooks, and pamphlets and periodicals, representing the oil boom and the Dubai bust, the Cold War and the hot pant; depicting Pan-Arabs and Black Muslims, revolutionaries and royals, Orientalism and its opposites.
For the opening night Bidoun will present selected readings and video clips from the collection. In addition, for the opening day of the project, Bidoun has invited booksellers usually found outside the New York University library to set up shop outside the New Museum.
Join us afterward for dancing and drinks at:
Sweet and Vicious
5 Spring Street
9pm
Music by Tim DeWitt (Gang Gang Dance)
For information visit bidoun.com or newmuseum.org
Tiffany· 08/02/10 
Picture Industry (Good Bye To All That)
Organized by Walead Beshty
July 17 - August 21, 2010
Opening reception
Saturday, July 17, 6 - 8 pm
In most Los Angeles social circles, when one speaks of the “industry” they are referring to the Entertainment Industry (a.k.a. the “Picture Industry”). Pictures have a knack for supplanting the concrete, sliding as though self-lubricating around the globe, like poltergeists, they haunt the world they represent like vague recollections, inhabiting concrete forms briefly until slipping off to another host, a billboard here, a magazine page there, creating momentary associations, and chance resonances. And what to make of the application of the term industry, with the heaviness of factories and smoke stacks encircling it, to the production of ephemeral pictures whose power is synonymous with their lightness? It could be said that it is the seemingly invisible and ephemeral aspects–the means of distribution, the contextual frame, the vicissitudes of taste, and an object’s ability to “pass”–which serve as the most robust material of the contemporary work, an embrace of convention that produces an endless sequence of provisional “meanings.” Perhaps the only solution available to us is to allow pictures to be concrete, to reclaim their moments of heaviness, instead of pretending that they are endlessly able to float listlessly in the breeze.
Olivian· 07/14/10 
Paper Surrogate by Anthony Lepore for Works Sited.
June 15 - August 22, 2010
Reception today from 6-8pm @ Central Library.
Using photographs, wood and plastic, Lepore has created a quarter-scaled replica of the library’s display case housed within the original. This smaller edition contains a photographic snapshot of an arrangement of books that either deal directly with subjects of expectancy, birth and parenthood or have titles that invoke these themes despite their actual contents. Using a diverse selection of library books from a wide range of topics, Lepore frames how such complex and abstract phenomena – that of birth and procreation – have been embedded in today’s social and cultural imaginary.
Art, Music & Recreation Dept, 2nd Floor
Central Los Angeles Public Library
630 W Fifth St
Los Angeles, CA 90071
Hours: M, W 10-6; T, Th 10-8; Fri, Sat 10-6
Parking available in lot on Flower between 5th and 6th streets
Marcelo Gomes, Exploding, Still
3 June — 2 July 2010
Opening Reception, Thursday, 3 June, 7-10pm
Performance by Secret Circuit
Free
436 N Fairfax Ave
Los Angeles CA 90036
Brazilian photographer Marcelo Gomes’ photos tend toward the blearily-focused and askew, his landscapes, nudes, and abstract forms awash with sunlight and saturated color. The work has the foggy nostalgia of a photographed memory, with flashes of blissed-out transcendence. Exploding, Still is Gomes first exhibition in Los Angeles.
Secret Circuit is a new musical project of Eddie Ruscha
The Wallis Annenberg Photography Department is pleased to celebrate new and recent publications including Bananas for Moholy-Nagy by Patterson Beckwith, Four Over One by Phil Chang, the Aperture edition of Words Without Pictures edited by Alex Klein, and the limited edition of The Sun as Error by Shannon Ebner. A conversation moderated by Britt Salvesen, Curator, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, with artists Patterson Beckwith and Phil Chang will begin promptly at 4:20 pm. Reception to follow. Light refreshments will be served. Signed books will be available for purchase.
Reception and Conversation
Sunday, May 23, 4-6pm
Art Catalogues at LACMA
Art Catalogues at LACMA is located in the Ahmanson Building near the Tony Smith sculpture Smoke.
Saturday, May 15, 2010
5:00pm-7:00pm
Printed Matter
195 Tenth Ave
New York, NY 10011
In Four Over One, the Los Angeles based artist Phil Chang employs the format of an artists book to explore ideas of economy and obsolescence. In collaboration with designer Jonathan Maghen, Four Over One is structured around Chang’s interest in how new outcomes arise from an antagonism between perceived and actual forms of value. The photographs that appear in the book were created using expired photographic materials exposed by an archival book scanner. Through a sparse display of color, black and white, and half-tone photographs, in conjunction with a restrained typographic treatment, Four Over One employs an economy of scale in order to consider the roles of abstraction, methods of art production, and modes of distribution in our contemporary culture.
Published by the Los Angeles County Museum of Art, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department , in association with Textfield, Inc.
Distributed by RAM Publications
Experimental Film in a Museum Context: MATERIAL
Tuesday, May 4, 7:00 pm
LACMA
Brown Auditorium
Free, tickets required, available one hour prior to the program
The final discussion in the three-part series, MATERIAL will consider the physical conditions of film pertaining to issues of preservation, digitization, process, and nostalgia. Participants include Morgan Fisher, artist, Mark Toscano, filmmaker and film preservationist, and Jennifer West, artist. The conversation will be moderated by Rita Gonzalez, assistant curator, Contemporary Art Department, and Alex Klein, Ralph M. Parsons Curatorial Fellow, Wallis Annenberg Photography Department. The event is co-organized by the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department and the Contemporary Art Department and is supported by the Ralph M. Parsons Fund.
Image: Jennifer West, Naked Deep Creek Hot Springs Film (16mm film neg soaked in lithium hot springs water, Jack Daniels and pot - exposed with flashlights - skinnydipping by Karen Liebowitz, Benjamon Britton & Jwest), 2008.
Mark· 05/04/10
Cannon Hudson, New Painting and Sculpture
Alex Klein, Person to Person
Vishal Jugdeo, Violent Broadcast
May 1-29, 2010
Opening Reception
Saturday, May 1, 7-10 pm
Las Cienegas Projects
2045 S. La Cienega Blvd.
Los Angeles, CA 90034
In June 2009, Marc Kremers stumbled across the personals section of Haitianconnection.com and collected several hundred of the brazen images he found there. After the devastion that the earthquake on 12th January 2010 has caused, and the subsequent media coverage of their plight, we at As-found think it’s pertinent to show Haitians according to their own self-image and means. Thanks to Damien Poulain for the title illustration and Julie Rubio for the exhibition title.
Jonathan· 02/09/10 
Circles of Confusion: Hollis Frampton (Part 3)
Saturday January 30, 2010 @ 2:00pm
Pacific Design Center
8687 Melrose Avenue (at San Vicente)
Free Admission
More info on the five-part screening series at LA Film Forum.
In conjunction with Art Los Angeles Contemporary fair and Khastoo Gallery.
Hollis Frampton (1936-1984) was an American filmmaker, artist and writer who left a legacy of brilliant innovation in avant-garde cinema. His films are challenging and ground breaking explorations in the material properties of the medium, including but not limited to mathematics, the contours of perception and cognition, and the phenomenological nature of the motion picture.
In this retrospective of more than half of his complete catalog of films, audiences are offered an unique glimpse at what made this modernist “thinker” so significant to art history and relevant to contemporary practices in film, from pure celluloid to digital and online technologies.
PART THREE of this series will include Poetic Justice and (nostalgia), followed by a panel with Alex Klein, David James, Madison Brookshire and Michael Ned Holte.
Mark· 01/26/10 
Shrouded Monument, 2008, C-print, 48.5 x 40.5 inches
Shannon Ebner, Signal Hill
7 January — 13 February 2010
Altman Siegel Gallery, San Francisco
—Shannon Ebner
James Harris Gallery is pleased to present an exhibition of new work by Amir Zaki. The artist has been working as a photographer for more than fifteen years, showing work from New York to Los Angles to Seattle. This is his fourth solo exhibit at James Harris Gallery. For this exhibition, Zaki shows a series of color-saturated lifeguard towers that have been digitally manipulated to render them more iconic than real.
Zaki’s new work explores structures common to his new locale: lifeguard towers and the Volkswagen Vanagon. The beach-side architectural structures seem to float in the sky, as all access to the towers has been digitally erased. Colors in both the skies and the small buildings themselves have been intensified, adding to sense of the fantastic. Several structures read like military outlooks, all streamlined angularity, while others would not seem out of place at nearby Disneyland. The image of the Vanagon presents this beach mobile as both an emblem of 1960s hippiedom, as well as a smooth-edged visual sculpture. On a biographical note, the two vans represent the vehicle Zaki owned as a younger man, and the replacement he sought out more than a decade later. The two mirrored images look at each other nose to nose, perhaps a portrait of youth staring age in the eye.
Amir Zaki, Relics
Reception: 7 January 2010, 6pm
7 January 2010 — 20 February 2010
James Harris Gallery
312 Second Avenue South
Seattle, WA
Not Equal, 2009, Plywood, wood glue and enamel paint, 13.1 x 17.75 inches
Shannon Ebner
Invisible Language Workshop
30 October — 19 December 2009
Opening Reception: Friday 30 October, 6-8pm
Wallspace
—Shannon Ebner
The theme of the nineth issue of Here and There is HER LIFE. It deals with the various factors that make up the many waves in a woman’s life, such as working, becoming pregnant, giving birth. The colorful stories told by Elein Fleiss, Laetitia Bena, Yurie Nagashima, Miranda July, Midori Araki and Aiko Yamada, reflect each of their lives.
Nakako Hayashi, Here and There 9
Softcover, 56 pp., offset 4/duotone, 210 x 297 mm
Edition of 1000
ISBN 978-3-905714-69-2
Published by Nieves
Distributed in North America by Textfield, Inc.
Phil Chang, Untitled (C496)
Renwick Gallery is pleased to announce the group show Beyond Process. The exhibition features Lucas Ajemian, Patterson Beckwith, Phil Chang, Samara Golden, Alexander Hoda, George Kontos, Jason Kraus, Megan Marrin, and Lisa Williamson.
Renwick Gallery
45 Renwick St
New York, NY 10013
(212) 609-3535
www.renwickgallery.com
Lewis Baltz
The Park City Portfolio
26 September 2009 — 2 January 2010
Opening Reception: 26 September, 6-9pm
Thirty years ago, in 1979, as he completed his photographs of a ski resort being built in Park City, Utah, Lewis Baltz was in the middle of the middle of his most productive period. Four years earlier he had finished a series on The New Industrial Parks of Southern California, and four years later he would complete his study of San Quentin Point, a dump site where a notorious prison once stood. He thought of the three projects, he said, as a “trilogy”. Where Ansel Adams, Baltz’s most famous predecessor in the photography of Western vistas, had seen the American landscape as pure Romance, Baltz now saw it as a Tragedy, since that is the art form for which the term trilogy is customarily reserved. The photographs of jimcrack “luxury” housing under construction at the foot of ski trails in Park City show us where the tragic flaw lay in the American character.
Textfield· 09/28/09 
Mandrake Bar
2692 S La Cienega Blvd
Los Angeles, CA 90034
Wednesday, September 2
7:00–10:00pm
This book was made possible by the generous support of LACMA’s Wallis Annenberg Photography Department, with additional support from LACMA’s Photographic Arts Council.
The * as E//OR was coordinated by Dexter Sinister, New York.
You are invited to attend:
CONTRA MUNDUM III
Sunday, July 5, 2009
7PM
Animalize
Elad Lassry, artist, will discuss animal subjectivity
and the animal as subject in film and photography.
The talk will be followed by a DJ set by Wendy Yao of related music.
Mandrake
2692 S La Cienega Blvd Los Angeles, CA 90034
(between Venice Blvd and Washington Blvd)
www.mandrakebar.com
www.osloeditions.com
