+ Art Night Pasadena 6-10 pm @ various locations in Pasadena. Participating venues include : Alliance Française de Pasadena, Armory Center for the Arts, Art Center, Lineage Performing Art Center, Pacific Asia Museum, One Colorado, Pasadena Museum of California Art among others. Free shuttle service, bike tours, and of course, food trucks :)
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+ "beauty CULTure" opens today 11 am - 6 pm @ Annenberg Space for Photography and runs till Nov. 27, 2011.
BEAUTY CULTURE presents diverse viewpoints on beauty as it has evolved through the 20th and 21st centuries. These viewpoints are at times challenging, daring and controversial. Ultimately, the exhibition illustrates the power of the still image in shaping cultural ideals and expectations of feminine beauty – and photography’s undeniable influence on conceptions of the Self.
+ LomoJourney to the Huntington Botanical Gardens noon to 4 pm. Cost of $30 per participant includes a loaner camera, 2 rolls of film, a seat on the chartered bus, and entrance to the Huntington Botanical Gardens. . Meet at Lomography Portrait Store noon @ Lomography Gallery Store LA 7998 Santa Monica Blvd West Hollywood, CA 90046
+ " Face to Face: Portraits from the Bank of America Collection " opening reception 3:30-5:00 pm @ Museum of Photographic Arts 1649 El Prado San Diego, CA 92101
Face to Face explores one of the largest corporate collections of photography in the United States, illuminating the rich historical diversity of photographic portraiture. Curated from one of the leading corporate collections, Face to Face includes some of the earliest techniques, including a salt paper print from the 1840s by David Octavius Hill and Robert Adamson, and a half-plate daguerreotype by Albert Southworth and Josiah Johnson Hawes. Other works include portraits by masters of the medium such as Yousuf Karsh, Lisette Model, Tina Barney, Rineke Dijkstra, Walker Evans and Richard Avedon.
+ "Ward of the State" opening reception 6-8 pm @ Rivera and Rivera 454 N. Robertson Blvd West Hollywood, CA 90069
Ranging from the 1980s to the present, Ward of the State will feature paintings, photographs, and works in other media based on Tony Ward’s role as a visual icon. Through their respective mediums, each artist communicates a different facet of a man not easily defined. As a collective work of art, Ward of the State reveals Ward as the embodiment of ideals of masculinity, beauty, brutality, fashion, and sexual ambiguity.
+ Anthony Lepore " New Wilderness" opening reception 6-8 pm @ M+B 612 North Almont Drive West Hollywood, CA 90069 as well as Francois Ghebaly Gallery 2600 La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034 6-9 pm. Two-fer !
As the title suggests, Lepore’s images recast the wild as it is restaged in the low-budget theater that is the visitor center. These spaces are the vestibules to wilderness—indoor recreations intended to instruct the newcomer on the open spaces they border, asking only that they walk the distance of the parking lot. By reframing these displays, which usually incorporate other photographs, these images also reflect on our predominant way of experiencing nature—through photography.
+ Ori Gersht "Falling Petals" opening reception 6-8pm @ Angles Gallery 2754 S. La Cienega Blvd. Los Angeles, CA 90034. Artist talk at 4:30 pm
+ 32nd Annual Student Photography Show opening reception 6-8 pm @ Pete and Susan Barrett Art Gallery / Santa Monica College (Madison Campus) at Santa Monica Blvd and 11th.
+ Marco Brambilla "The Dark Lining" opening reception 6-9 pm @ Santa Monica Museum of Art 2525 Michigan Avenue Santa Monica, CA 90404
The Dark Lining, Marco Brambilla’s first solo museum exhibition, features seven major time-based works from 1999 to the present. Brambilla’s oeuvre consists of complex video installations. Much of his work comprises found film footage edited, layered, and spliced to create compelling new narratives and stunning visual mosaics. With exquisite technical production and seamless editing, Brambilla’s multi-layered tableaux of interconnecting images and looped video blend into an expansive landscape that forms his hallmark style.
+ Kahn & Selesnick “Mars: Adrift on the Hourglass Sea” opening reception 6-9 pm @ Kopeikin Gallery 2766 South La Cienega Blvd Los Angeles, California
“Adrift on the Hourglass Sea” is set on the planet Mars where the artists present a dark and powerful visage of a collapsed civilization on the red planet. Using photo-mosaics of the Martian landscape taken by NASA space rovers (they were recipients of a NASA commission to create work about Mars) and combining them with their own photographs of deserts in Nevada and Utah, the artists present their distinctive brand of sci-fi mysticism.
+ Chris Anthony "A Captured Species" opening reception 8-11 pm @ Merry Karnowsky Gallery 170 S. La Brea Avenue 90036
The photographs in the series were taken with a large-format camera in Big Sur, Sequoia National Forest and Southern California. Anthony uses his 4x5 camera and most of the images are photographed with 150 year old French lenses. The locations are key to providing the necessary context that serves as both juxtaposition and provides a wonderfully or-ganic landscape to the images
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