Events This Weekend

_ FRIDAY _



+ Nature LA: Robert Glenn Ketchum opening reception 6:30 - 9:00 pm @ G2 gallery 1503 Abbot Kinney Boulevard Santa Monica, CA 90291-3742




_ SATURDAY _


+ Pixels : The Art of iPhone Photography opening reception 6-10 pm @ Orange County Center For Contemporary Art 117 North Sycamore Street Santa Ana, CA 92701-5211

"The iPhone IS a simple, limited, almost awful camera, which is part of its great allure for me personally. I also love the apps we use to manipulate the images. Every iphonographer has a "toolkit" of apps he or she favors. The images we see are not manipulated as those in advertisements, or fashion magazines, or playboy, to sell something, but rather to bring out the greater truth of the image for the artist - and this is where, as much as the initial shot, the artist's personality emerges. The rule for the show (and our website) is no manipulation on a computer. It is a mistake, though an easy one to make, to compare iPhontography to traditional photography. It is a new medium, which begins with the photographic process." -Curator Knox Bronson

+ Month of Photography Los Angeles kick off 7 - 10 pm @ Bergamot Station Santa Monica, CA 90404.

Sound unseen: KCRW’s Visual Diary in Print and Projections as told by Stephen Laufer and Larry Hirshowitz.

Bergamot photo hop: Robert Berman, dnj Gallery, Frank Pictures Gallery, Gallery Luisotti, Peter Fetterman and Rose Gallery.

Clark|Oshin Gallery presents an exhibition of photographs by Marjoria Salvaterra.

A special projection by the Los Angeles Times and photographer Kiino Villand.

+ Melanie Willhide "to Adrian Rodriguez with love" opening reception 5:30 - 8:00 pm @ Kaycee Olsen Gallery 2685 S. La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034. (entrance at building rear) . Artist talk at 5:30. Reception 6:00 - 8:00 pm.

Here Willhide presents a cautionary tale about illusion in to Adrian Rodriguez, with love. The title is a dedication to the person who burglarized the artist’s home in the spring of 2010. He stole and erased the artist’s hard drive. In a twist of fate the computer was returned. Recovery software returned the artist’s digital images corrupted. Rather than attempting to recreate what was lost, Willhide made the bold move to work with the corrupted files. Treating the pixels more like paint, Willhide takes the corrupted image files and augments them. This accident as artwork offers the viewer a formal two for one—both abstraction and realism in the same picture plane.

+ "Scapes" opening reception 6 - 10 pm @ Bleicher/Golightly Gallery, 1431 Ocean Ave., Santa Monica, CA 90401. This is actually two-parter as Blue 5 Gallery will be hosting another "Scapes" opening at their West LA location the following weekend.

Bleicher/Golightly Gallery present a gallery exhibition of contemporary photography and paintings in the landscape tradition. The exhibit features works that have strong roots in traditional landscape approaches, while pushing the genre into more subjective, conceptual and expressive territory.