Category — On Location/Los Angeles
Art in Los Angeles
Fredrick Broden vs photography at the Clark/Oshin Gallery
Texas-based photographer Fredrik Broden’s work has appeared in Time, Wired, the New York Times Magazine and GQ. The Swedish artist’s conceptual work is direct and humorous, leaving no question to its intended message.
Fredrick Broden vs photography
June 5 – July 16
5450 Wilshire Boulevard
Los Angeles California 90036
Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties at The Getty Center.
Photojournalism in the second half of the 20th century gets the Getty treatment in this fantastic exhibition of independent photojournalists whose work has diversified from magazine spreads into powerful book-length projects that have documented the world. Both are on display here by such photojournalist luminaries as W. Eugene Smith, Lauren Greenfield and Leonard Freed with images from the American Civil War to turn of the century activism.
Engaged Observers: Documentary Photography since the Sixties
The Getty Center
June 29–November 14, 2010
West Pavilion, Terrace Level,
J. Paul Getty Museum,
1200 Getty Center Drive,
Los Angeles, CA 90049
Eye Photo at the Bob Poe Gallery
Bob Poe’s i-Phone photography is exhibited at the photographer’s gallery at Bergamot Station and features intimate i-Phone images of the human eye and one non-human eye for viewers to guess.
Eye Photo
June 19 – August 15
Bergamot Station
2525 Michigan Ave., Gallery G8A
Santa Monica, CA 90404
June 20, 2010 No Comments
Los Angeles
On location with Ginger Liu
The Fairoaks Project
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June 12th – 27th, 2010
Opening Reception June 12th, 2010
drkrm/gallery
http://www.drkrm.com/fairoaks.html
2121 San Fernando Road Suite 3
Los Angeles, CA 90065
DRKRM gallery presents an extraordinary, never-before-seen glimpse into pre-AIDS gay sexual culture. The Fairoaks Project is an exhibit of Polaroid photographs taken by Frank Melleno during the spring and summer of 1978 at The Fairoaks Hotel, a San Francisco bathhouse housed in a refurbished Victorian building near a black ghetto. The Fairoaks was known for its laid-back and racially integrated ambiance. Bold and unapologetic, Melleno’s images capture an aspect of gay life rarely seen in snapshot photography: sexually candid encounters that are playful, spontaneous and often affectionate. The dark storm of drug abuse and pandemic disease that would soon overtake the community is not visible in these celebratory pictures.
Melleno’s collection of Polaroids was put in a box shortly after they were shot and have not been seen until now. Many of the images contain nudity and frank erotic scenes, but they also capture men dressed in festive attire and engaged in other aspects of the counter-culture lifestyle the Fairoaks promoted. Many artists lived at the hotel, and ongoing therapy-support groups and monthly theme parties enhanced the Fairoaks’ reputation as a neighborhood center for gay men as much as a bathhouse.
A limited-edition book of photographs from the exhibit, with an introduction by Mark Thompson, is available for purchase in the gallery and on BLURB.
Frank Melleno: The Fairoaks Project
Polaroids from a San Francisco bathhouse 1978
June 19, 2010 No Comments
On Location/Los Angeles
Beyond The Horizon:
Selected New Works By Terri Lloyd
Terri Lloyd
Terri Lloyd
Terri Lloyd
The Majestic Roof
88 North Fair Oaks, Suite 102
Pasadena, CA 91103
Info: (626) 844-8886 (626) 844-8886 (626) 844-8886 (626) 844-8886
Other exhibitions:
LAKE OF FIRE
Doro Hofmann at Ghettogloss Gallery
http://www.ghettogloss.com/exhibitions/
“Excessive, sensual and kaleidoscopic, Hofmann’s image-saturated oil paintings comprise a meticulous study of the human impulse, desire. Magma-colored jewels and scintillating gold chains erupting from distant galaxies and lavish depictions of imaginary religious icons are some of the multifarious images Hofmann uses to visually construct how human desire motivates action, fantasy, destruction and uncertainty. ”
Ruby Ray: First Wave Punk Photography
William S. Burroughts in a San Francisco garden, 1980.
RUBY RAY
La Luz de Jesus Gallery
February 19-28, 2010
“Friends, collectors, and strangers know Ruby Ray’s work — even when they don’t. Ruby Ray’s iconic portrait of Beat author / Punk Avatar William S. Burroughs’ vibing, serene, Interzone menace can be seen on MySpace. Her photo of late punk rock legend Darby Crash is the cover of Darby biography Lexicon Devil. Other photos appear in magazines, on book covers, album covers, posters. Her punk rock photography pops up uncredited on fansites and music history websites. Ruby Rays’s esoteric studies and close collaboration with musicians and artists helped spawn a current that became trance music.”
Read more, and see what else La Luz de Jesus gallery has on tap ….. www.laluzdejesus.com.
February 20, 2010 No Comments