Kohn Gallery's group exhibition "Engender" features 17 contemporary artist who are revolutionizing the way we visualize conventional gender as exclusively male or female.
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Chingaderas Sofisticadas - Artishock
Kohn Gallery , in Los Angeles, presents Chingaderas Sofisticadas , an unprecedented exhibition that brings together nine outstanding artists living in Guadalajara, whose varied practices contribute to the growing cultural ascent and international recognition of that Mexican city.
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Chingaderas Sofisticadas — sophisticated f**kers — is the provocative title of a group show of artists associated with the culturally rich city of Guadalajara. Organized by Esthella Provas with Samantha Glaser, it includes a marvelous painting by Jorge Méndez Blake.
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LA-based Kohn Gallery’s upcoming Fall exhibition, titled ENGENDER, will reexamine male and female gender classifications—a topic that is quite timely now as it has ever been given the ongoing gender debates within our political climate.
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The exhibition titled "Chingaderas Sofisticadas” brings together the works of nine prominent artists. These include Eduardo Sarabia, Gonzalo Lebrija and Milena Muzquiz - Muzquiz’s work with ceramics can be interpreted as an exercise ofscrutiny; the accumulation of elements seeks to imitate the uneven and contradictory way in which the human mind works
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Today’s show: “Chingaderas Sofisticadas” is on view at Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles, as part of Pacific Standard Time: LA/LA, through Saturday, November 4. The group exhibition, curated by Samantha Glaser and Esthella Provas, presents the work of nine Guadalajara, Mexico–based artists.
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Chingaderas Sofisticadas es la nueva exposición de Kohn Gallery en Los Ángeles, la cual estará conformada por el trabajo de nueve artistas mexicanos que viven y trabajan en Guadalajara y que han colaborado en posicionar a esta ciudad como una capital artística.
Read MoreBruce Conner @ Northwestern Block Museum of Art
In the summer of 1967, more than 100,000 young people streamed into the Haight-Ashbury district of San Francisco and the Sunset Strip in Los Angeles, as well as Greenwich Village in New York and Old Town in Chicago, to celebrate peace, love, and music. Many of the artists, poets and musicians associated with the “Summer of Love” embraced the work of British visionary poet and artist William Blake (1757–1827) and used it as a compass to drive their own political and personal evolutions.
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Bruce Conner in the 14th Biennale de Lyon, Floating Worlds with films CROSSROADS (1976) and EASTER MORNING (1966-2008).
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Delirious times demand delirious art, or so this exhibition proposes. The years between 1950 and 1980 were beset by upheaval. Around the globe, military conflict proliferated and social and political unrest flared.
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This exhibition marks the 25th anniversary of the Weisman Museum of Art at Pepperdine, dedicated on September 12, 1992. It celebrates the varied styles found in contemporary California art from the 1960s to present, an important focus of the Frederick Weisman collection.
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Unsettled amasses 200 artworks by 80 artists living and/or working in a super-region we call the Greater West, a geographic area that stretches from Alaska to Patagonia, and from Australia to the American West.
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Dennis Hopper might be best known as a film actor and director but his first love was photography. In the early 1960s he went everywhere with his Nikon around his neck, photographing streetscapes and people who symbolize street culture, whether they were famous or lived on the fringes. He photographed seminal pop artists who broke artistic barriers by making art from street culture, the Hell’s Angels who made their hang out on the street, the Sunset Strip Riots, and Martin Luther King Jr., whom he accompanied on civil rights marches from Montgomery to Selma. The rediscovery of these lost photographs provides an intimate diary of the time, places and people that shaped his rebellious creative spirit.
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I shoot a lot of crap,” Dennis Hopper once said of his photographs, most of which date from the early to mid-1960s, the period when the difficult actor, often unemployed, most avidly wielded a still camera.
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Laughing on the Outside: Selections from the Permanent Collection presents artworks from MOCA’s collection that register the ludicrous, the impossible, and the playful. On view are stairs that lead to nowhere, invitations to exhibitions that contain no objects, and boots that appear to walk by themselves.
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"Dennis Hopper: The Lost Album” is currently on view at Kohn Gallery in Los Angeles. The exhibition, on view through September 1, includes 400 photographs taken by the artist in the ‘60s, originally shown at the Fort Worth Art Center Museum in 1970.
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The late actor Dennis Hopper is remembered for a lot of things. There is the volatile hippie he portrayed in “Easy Rider,” the 1969 counterculture classic he also directed. And there’s his depiction of an unhinged Frank Booth in David Lynch’s “Blue Velvet” in 1986.
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Dennis Hopper, actor, director and art collector, apparently wanted his legacy to be his photography. From the time his actress wife Brooke Hayward bought him his first Nikon camera, he took thousands of black and white photographs.
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As an actor, Dennis Hopper’s ability to go from raving lunatic (Blue Velvet) to passionate loser (Hoosiers) to lovable idiot (Cool Hand Luke) really came down to one asset: his eyes.
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Dennis Hopper’s The Lost Album, a collection of the late actor’s poignant black-and-white photography on view now at L.A.’s Kohn Gallery through September 1, was made possible by two key actors: his Rebel Without a Causecostar James Dean, who encouraged him to try his hand behind the camera (albeit as a director), and his first wife, Brooke Hayward, who bought him a Nikon mirror flex in 1961.
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