THIS WEEK: Art!

Hi Everyone,

Artist Zoe Crosher is opening her exhibit "For Ur Eyes Only: The Unveiling of Michelle DuBois" at the Charlie James Gallery over in the East Side, Chinatown area.

If you haven't heard the history of Michelle duBois (as I hadn't) you must definitely check out Zoe's website. The work is essentially an interpretation of the prolific artifacts of duBois' life. Through much of the 1970's Michelle duBois (alias) chronicled her life as a stewardess, Pacific Rim sex worker and world traveler through many mediums. Until one day, she stopped... That is where Zoe's work comes in.

Here's a little info about Zoe, and her Michelle DuBois work.

"The Unveiling of Michelle duBois opens with the final published photographs in the archive, to which the artist refers as “the last four days and nights in Tokyo.” The West Coast was Oklahoma-native duBois’ last American port of call before setting off for Asia. So it is perhaps fitting that Chung King Road’s Hollywood-ized take on Chinese culture should be the place to unveil duBois’ Oriental escapism. Crosher has fixed in on duBois’ transient obsessions, making pictures of pictures - of obfuscated faces, of repeated shadows in dark black &white doorways, of arched backs, of backs of backs of photographs and backs of necks, of notes taken and rewritten, scanned and scratched, kept and held and returned - all archives within archives through which we are momentarily granted access into one woman’s fantastical worldview and performed sexuality, framed and reframed by a medium disappearing before our eyes." - Charlie James Gallery Website

This sounds so cool! Please check it out, and let me know what you thought!

The Exhibit runs from Oct. 21st - Dec. 4th

Charlie James Gallery
975 Chung King Road
Los Angeles, CA 90012

Xo
L.A.F.

TODAY: Marie Jager - The Big Nowhere

Hi Everyone,

So, I love Los Angeles.  I love learning about Los Angeles. I despise driving my car. Hence, I'm excited for this exhibit.  The François Ghebaly Gallery near Pasadena is exhibiting a collection of Marie Jager's blueprints of Los Angeles.  The means by which she develops and alters each of her blueprints are meant to represent the various elements in L.A. living.  Sun, smog and Cars. I love it. Here's a little summary of what you'll see...

"In her Pollution Painting series, Marie Jager makes visible the invisible combustion and sediment that defines the city's landscape. Playing off LA's varied reputation for car culture, inevitable sunshine, and smog-induced sunsets, Jager placed canvases in the outdoors and retrieved them a month later as readymade landscape paintings.... In contrast to these durational portraits of the urban environment, the instant of ignition that defines everyday life in Los Angeles—turning over the engine in your car—is captured repeatedly in Jager's Starter paintings where the burnt oil discharged when the motor engages makes an instant oil-on-canvas landscape of the city's mobility and automobile reliant citizenry."

Where:
François Ghebaly Gallery   
510 Bernard St
Los Angeles, CA 90012     
323.221.2300

When:
12PM - 6PM

TONIGHT: ART OPENING - Kirsten Huntley Gabbe and Caroline Kim

Hi Folks,

It's Friday night, so naturally we all want to go to some sweet Art Openings. Thank goodness we have just the one for you...

Kirsten Huntley Gabbe, and Caroline Kim at Gallery 208 in Little Tokyo!

Site-specific Installation by Caroline Kim | Oil Paintings by Kirsten Gabbe
Gallery 203
Little Tokyo Galleria 333 #208
S. Alameda St.
Los Angeles, CA 90013

"On display is Caroline Kim’s “Contact: experiment on broadcasting” which plays with the idea of art existing in malls. With her site-specific installations and performance art, Caroline creates unexpected contemplative and interactive moments.

Kirsten Gabbe presents her most recent series “After Paintings,” departing from her representational work to explore the base nature of oil painting in translucent washes on canvas. To encourage interaction from the community, Kirsten set up “Memory Net,” on which visitors can add their personal connections to a Little Tokyo timeline."
- Gallery 203

See you there!
xo
LA Femmedia