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February 19, 2010 – March 20, 2010
23/25 Eastcastle Street
London W1W 8DF
March 12, 2010 – April 24, 2010
1447 Stevenson Street
San Francisco, CA 94103
January 7 – February 13, 2010
525 West 21st St
New York, NY 10011
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
Two projects that fit loosely into a larger idea of supporting ideas that work quietly and locally.
I have a few projects from this Porto-based label via trades with my friend Isabel (who produced the work above, from BF10/Wanda II). BdF’s website is pretty clear and concise as to aims and background information, so there’s not much else to say here other than this is one of my favorite imprints.
I met Maki Hakui in NYC at this years Art Book Fair, and her magazine School was the only title I ended up shelling out cash for. I support her mission to avoid discussing the usual aspects and figures of Japanese art culture, and going straight to intimate, direct dialogues with its lesser exposed – but equally interesting – women creatives.
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
You are invited to attend:
CONTRA MUNDUM II
Sunday, June 7, 2009
7PM
Private Issue New Age (PINA)
Anthony Pearson, artist, discusses Private Issue New Age recordings
(PINA), the final unexamined genre of rare records.
The talk will be followed by a DJ set 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
Book launch & reception
Tuesday, May 26, 2009, 7:00 p.m.
Director’s Roundtable Garden | LACMA
Please join the Wallis Annenberg Photography Department to celebrate the release of the WORDS WITHOUT PICTURES publication, meet some of the authors, and start your own discussions.
Books will be available for purchase at the special discount price of $25 (plus tax).
Mark · 05/22/09 
Documentation: Danielle Levitt
Second Floor is a private exhibition space started by curator Sarvia Jasso and artist Kathryn Garcia. In part fueled by the economic crisis, Second-Floor was developed as a way to challenge the “white cube” mentality of the market driven NY art-world by providing artists a platform outside of the normal exhibiting structure.
2 May — 14 June 2009
In 1973, Ana Mendieta invited unsuspecting visitors to her apartment. Without having been warned, they witnessed a horrific (albeit confusing) scene: Mendieta was bent over and tied to a table with her underwear at her ankles, blood stains on her legs and broken dishes all over the floor. Protesting the recent attacks against women that were occurring on campus at the University of Iowa, Mendieta’s performance Rape Piece is a poignant reminder that the distinctions between private and public, inside and outside, remain somewhat unclear.
Using this performance as a point of departure, the group exhibition Can’t Rape the Willing not only poses some of the same questions that Mendieta considered but, more deliberately, it diverts by exposing what happens behind closed doors between consenting adults. By challenging rampant taboos about sexual fantasies, intimacy and deviant behavior, the artists in the exhibition are invited to delve into unrestrained—and unapologetic—perverse territory.
Theo Adams
Arlen Austin
Andres Bedoya
Cara Benedetto
Michael Bilsborough
Brendan Carney
Azul Ceballos
Tara DeLong
Chloe Dzubilo
Juan Pablo Echeverri
Kathryn Garcia
Danielle Levitt
Richard Lidinsky
Megan Lindeman
Lovett/Codagnone
Quinn Luke
Hector Madera Gonzalez
Nadja Verena Marcin
Elizabeth Neel
Marc Robinson
Julika Rudelius
Georgia Sagri
Dean Sameshima
Michael Sharkey
Dena Yago
For more information, contact Sarvia Jasso or Kathryn Garcia. After May 2nd, open by appointment only.
Such a bonkers work ethic; I don’t think this Flickr account represents even 20% of his total output.
Harsh · 05/14/09 
Distributed in Agua Prieta, Sonora
Photographer
Juan Carlos, Age 29, Honduras
Notes
Traveled from Agua Prieta, through Arizona, to the Hoover Dam; camera mailed from Las Vegas
Thanks Michael
Walead Beshty: Passages
21 March — 2 May 2009
Opening reception: Saturday, 21 March 2009, 7-9pm
Walk-through with Walead Beshty and Aram Moshayedi: Saturday, 21 March 2009, 6pm
Artist Talk: 3 April 2009, 7:30pm
via South Willard and Aram Moshayedi
Jonathan · 04/03/09
Photograph by Michael Wells
“The Global Game has published a nice story about Municipal de Fútbol (”Where Angelenos do not fear to tread“). There you will also find a podcast interview with Jennifer Doyle by John Turnbull. The post includes extra research he put into the article — especially his inclusion of a link to this June 2008 story in the LA Times about a team of Guatemalen women playing in MacArthur Park. He points out that the spot where those women play is the location for the opening scenes of Goal. We should also remember that this is where the LAPD attacked people participating in an immigrants rights march and rally in May, 2007 (see LAPD tries to crush immigrant rights movement).”
Municipal de Fútbol is distributed by D.A.P.
Textfield · 03/31/09 
My friend Andrew got a digital camera, check out his flicks of Los Angeles from his cycle, etc…
Jonathan · 03/24/09 
The Box in Chinatown is hosting the first solo exhibition in Los Angeles of work by pioneering artist and filmmaker Stan Vanderbeek (1927-1984). The show includes a number of original collage works, as well as a recreation of his Movie Mural (1965) and Panels for the Walls of the World, Telephone/Fax Mural (1970). Not to be missed. On view March 14 - April 18, 2009.
More info here.
Mark · 03/18/09