BLOCK PARTY

2009-11-21T17:36:00.000-08:00

Block Party is a one-night tour of contemporary art exhibitions in non-traditional spaces, including apartments, studios, and storefronts. Organized by Daniel Ingroff and Paul Pescador, the event will occur November 21, 2009 from 6-10 pm and will feature exhibitions in Highland Park, Lincoln Heights, and Mt. Washington. Block Party is bicycle friendly, and accessible via Metro Gold Line.

Inquiries: info@workspace2601.com

Exhibitions:
a. Curated by Kate Hillseth
Young Art
Asher Mixtape Hell 2
Asher Penn
1727 N. Spring Street
Los Angeles, CA 90012
(Goldline Stop: Chinatown)

b. Curated by Daniel Ingroff & Paul Pescador
workspace
DOMESTIC PARTNER
Featuring work by: Lisa Anne Auerbach, Akina Cox, Joshua Nathanson, Mercedes Teixido and Jenny Yurshansky
2601 Pasadena Ave
Los Angeles, CA 90031
(Gold Line stop: Heritage Square/Lincoln Heights)

c. Curated by Evan Walsh & Ian James
I Was A Teenage Pieman, or… Attack of the Flying Pies
Featuring work by: Megan Cotts & Meghann McCory, Travis Diehl, Ani Raya-Flores, Liz Glynn, Philip Haut & Emily Kuntz, Peter Holzhauer, George Jensen, Steve Kado, Lisa Ohlweiler, Jared David Paul, Gala Porras-Kim, Jesse Rhelms, Matt Siegle, Brica Wilcox & Amy von Harrington, Aaron Wrinkle & Laura Kim, Miggie Wong
2939 Johnston St. (Blue House)
Los Angeles, CA 90031
(Gold Line stop: Heritage Square/Lincoln Heights)

d. Curated by Light and Wire Gallery
Andy Parker
4026 N. Figueroa St.
Los Angeles, CA 90065
(Gold Line stop: Heritage Square/Lincoln Heights)

e. Curated by Lizz Wasserman & Isaac Resnikoff
AN OBJECT TOSSED FROM ONE COUNTRY TO ANOTHER

Featuring work by: Anthony Campuzano, John Finneran, Anton Lieberman, Shana Lutker and Lawrence Weiner
5106 1/4 & 5106 1/2 Echo St. 
Los Angeles, CA 90042
(Gold Line stop: Highland Park)

AN OBJECT TOSSED FROM ONE COUNTRY TO ANOTHER

2009-11-18T21:09:00.000-08:00

Anthony Campuzano
John Finneran
Anton Lieberman
Shana Lutker
& (illegal) Lawrence Weiner

Curated by Isaac Resnikoff & Lizz Wasserman
in their home as part of BLOCK PARTY for one night only,
November 21, 2009 from 6 - 10pm

Curated by Isaac Resnikoff & Lizz Wasserman in their home as part of BLOCK PARTY, "AN OBJECT TOSSED FROM ONE COUNTRY TO ANOTHER" looks at the moment of transition from regular stuff into artwork that all artworks (however different they may be otherwise) in some way share. It is our hope that this inquiry could begin to point at a sort of "pure language" with which to navigate a pluralistic art landscape.

The show takes it's name from a public-freehold Lawrence Weiner piece, an unauthorized version of which will be executed for the exhibition. In this case the piece, in it's physically enacted form at least, would have a literal moment – as the object in question crossed the border – when it became an artwork. In addition to the clarity with which this piece demonstrates it's transformation, it also contextualizes this transformation poetically as a crossing of borders, both physical and political. It seems, for these reasons, an excellent starting point for the show. Because this particular instance of the piece is unauthorized — and therefore perhaps not an artwork at all — it further illuminates the question of our show: Where (and when) is the border between the Country of Stuff and the Country of Artworks?

In Shana Lutker's work this alchemy is psychological. We first discussed this show with Lutker with an eye to her dream pieces, particularly the sculptures of sculptures she'd dreamt she'd made. We were interested in the way in which they seemed to fluctuate between artworks and descriptions of artworks, and the way in which this positioned them precisely on the edge of transformation. The works we ended up including, the works which haunted us from our first meeting, are simpler in a way: photographs of sculptures of temporary containers (cardboard boxes, wine bottle dividers, packing peanuts). But they remain very much on the cusp of becoming, as though the photograph recorded the exact second of it's passage. Like a photo-finish, or a subway reminder to mind the gap.

John Finneran's paintings, of eyes and noses and mouths etc., have a similarly transitory quality. His recent works have been in two modes - light paintings and dark paintings. Both have a way of hovering in irresolution (the latter by way of an obscuring darkness, the former by being as yet unimagined) but they each seem to pull the space of the painting in opposite directions (the darkness pulls back, the light paintings sit behind your eyes). The actual surface of the work, then, on which the paint actually sits, becomes itself a border, over which the paintings of both modes must cross in order to become.

Anton Lieberman makes fragile, ingenious sculptures with found materials. There is a provisional quality to them which makes the time you spend with them seem specific. But what drew us to this piece in particular (a log, in which a neon tube has been set, which floats on clear plastic water bottles) was the clarity of it's decision making. Without any one of the simple gestures of which the piece is constructed it could not have worked. It might not even have been an artwork at all and would certainly have been no good. But the delicacy of it's balancing act, both physically (on bottles) and conceptually (of formal decisions) allows the piece to teeter on the edge just so, a perfect alchemical object lesson.

For Anthony Campuzano, on the other hand, the transformation is harder to pin down. You have a sense of it while looking at his densely scribbled drawings, but there has been so much labor, so much thinking and rethinking, that it becomes difficult if not impossible to say when the piece became an artwork. If there is a way to identify the transition, and we think there must be, it is through the physicality of the drawings, through their indexical relationship to Campuzano's knuckles and calluses and colored pencil shavings. The crucial moment, in this case, seems to hang in the air between the objects and their maker, as though the drawings were a plaster cast of the negative space between the artist and the artwork.

5106 1/2 & 5106 1/4 Echo St.
Los Angeles, CA 90042

From the 110 freeway exit at Ave 52.
Drive north on Ave 52 to Echo St.
Turn left at Echo St. Street parking is available.

November 21 from 6 - 10pm only

BLOCK PARTY AFTER PARTY

2009-11-18T14:22:00.000-08:00

With special performance by Kayla Guthrie

443 S. San Pedro St. #402

Los Angeles, CA 90013

I Was a Teenage Pieman

2009-11-18T14:00:00.001-08:00

I Was a Teenage Pieman

Works by:

Aaron Wrinkle & Laura Kim
Brica Wilcox & Amy von Harrington
Gala Porras-Kim
Peter Holzhauer
Liz Glynn
Megan Cotts & Meghann McCrory
Lisa Ohlweiler
Jared David Paul
Miggie Wong
Matthew Siegle
Philip Haut & Emily Kuntz

Performances by:
Travis Diehl
Steve Kado
Ani Raya-Flores
Jesse Rhelms

Interactive Piece by Megan Cotts & Meghann McCrory:

Be in your very own pie!
Through the ages, the pie has been a vehicle for storing, preserving, stretching and blending local ingredients as well as a space for food-oriented performance, spectacle and wonder. These cases have held everything from meats, fruits and spices to live birds, child dwarves and tortoises. This Saturday, we will be baking in our local flavors, found and received. Come help roll, fill, bake and obviously taste these filled pastries and bring your own offerings to bake in.
Megan Cotts and Meghann McCrory will be baking pies from 6 pm to 10 pm in the 2939 Johnson St. kitchen. We will be making the pie shells and are asking visitors to bring something from their travels to bake in. Offerings can be anything from that-apple-you-know you’re-never-going-to-eat-and-will-just-sit-on-your-counter-until-it-goes-bad, a freshly picked persimmon from one of the many trees producing free fruit in LA (seehttp://www.fallenfruit.org/maps.html) or any small treat or surprise for the next traveler to experience when they cut into a freshly baked pie.

BLOCK PARTY on FineArtsLA

2009-11-18T10:02:00.001-08:00

http://www.fineartsla.com/block-party.html

ANDY PARKER: Between Coming and Going

2009-11-18T10:01:00.000-08:00

Light & Wire Gallery is pleased to present Andy Parker's solo project Between Coming and Going. The show is a new iteration of the 2007 work Seventh Wave, a film which documents one of Parker's artistic processes: making sculptural replicas from cardboard and introducing them into the world in precarious scenarios.

For the online exhibition, Parker has made stickers of the working process behind the film. Sent from London, the Directors of Light & Wire Gallery stuck these ephemeral images to impermanent, discarded objects in locations around Los Angeles. These curated sitings were photographed and it is this documentation that creates the exhibition; the artwork itself exists only as a temporary, physical gesture

Seventh Wave will be projected @ 4026 N. Figueroa St., Los Angeles 90065 on November 21st, 2009, in conjunction with Block Party, a walkable tour of unlikely art venues in North-East Los Angeles neighborhoods, hosted by Workspace, L.A.

http://www.lightandwiregallery.com

DOMESTIC PARTNER @ workspace

2009-11-13T00:07:00.000-08:00

Asher Mixtape Hell 2

2009-11-10T21:46:00.000-08:00

ASHER MIXTAPE HELL 2
Asher Penn

November 21 - December 13, 2009

OPENING RECEPTION
Saturday, November 21, 2009
7-10pm

ASHER MIXTAPE HELL 2

I studied photography in college.

Sometimes when I think about my work, I get stuck on this sentence.

I studied photography in college.
I studied photography in college.
I studied photography in college.

Once, in college, I had asked a friend for a mixtape, and he gave me a drawing. It said Asher Mixtape Hell. I kept it on my wall. Sometimes I suspected that the drawing was getting kind of personal. It had my name on it. What did Asher Mixtape Hell mean? What was my friend telling me?

Was I in Hell?

A few years later I made a book called Asher Mixtape Hell. It was a collection of photographs taken in my apartment in college. A lot of them had been shot as a way to learn how to make photographs. These were photos of nothing. There were a lot of photographs with Asher Mixtape Hell in them. The writing was on the wall. There was the title.

Asher Mixtape Hell 2 is a sequel to Asher Mixtape Hell. After Asher Mixtape Hell I thought maybe I could start taking photos the way I did in college, but this time it would be OK. I'd still be in Hell, but maybe I could forget about college. I started taking photos in my apartment.

-Asher Penn, NY, 2009

Asher Mixtape Hell 2 corresponds with the release of Penn's latest book, a 550-page collection of images from photographic sessions taken over the past 3 years. Penn has selected a portfolio of 32 photographs from these series and presented each using the cover template for the book.
Asher Penn received his BFA from Rhode Island School of Design in 2004. He currently lives and works in New York. Asher Mixtape Hell 2 will be his first solo exhibition with Young Art.
The opening reception will be held Saturday, November 21st from 7 -10pm in conjunction with Block Party; a one-night tour of contemporary art exhibitions in non-traditional spaces through out Highland Park, Lincoln Heights, and Mt. Washington. Asher Mixtape Hell 2 will remain on view through December 13, 2009. Young Art is located in the Women's Building 1727 N. Spring Street, Los Angeles CA 90012.

To view more of Asher Penn's work, visit http://www.asherpenn.net/

For images or more information, please contact: Kate Hillseth 323 344 1322 or email info@youngartgallery.com