Welcome to the Santa Monica Art Palette for the weekend of January 19, 2006. The Art Palette’s goal is to showcase the many eclectic arts and cultural opportunities available in Santa Monica every week, highlighting one or more of the many happenings within our borders.
Santa Monica Museum of Art opens a very exciting exhibition this weekend with Dark Places, exploring the subtle interconnections between memory and social space, and the possibility that traces of events are scripted into the fabric of our physical and psychological environment. Uniquely formatted and designed, this large-scale group exhibition brings together a diversity of artistic visions to reconsider how we navigate urban, suburban, and other kinds of territories on physical, perceptual, political, psychological, and ideological levels.
The entire installation—which echoes and embodies the themes of the exhibition—provides an interactive and animated viewing experience for museum visitors. With Dark Places, the Santa Monica Museum of Art, takes a further step toward redefining the ways that art can enhance and transform our perceptions and our lives.
DARK PLACES Guest curator: Joshua Decter Exhibition Design: servo January 21 - April 22, 2006 Participating artists: Acconci Studio, Franz Ackermann, Francis Alÿs, Michael Ashkin, Jaime Ávila Ferrer, Dennis Balk, Matthew Barney, Judith Barry, Thomas Bayrle, Julie Becker, Douglas Blau, Monica Bonvicini, Daniel Bozhkov, Mark Bradford, Miguel Rio Branco, Troy Brauntuch, Candice Breitz, François Bucher, Sophie Calle, Eduardo Consuegra, Jordan Crandall, Teddy Cruz, Jonas Dahlberg, Stephen Dean, Anne Deleporte, Diller + Scofidio, Sam Durant, Anna Gaskell, Douglas Gordon, gruppo A12, Fariba Hajamadi, Pablo Helguera, Noritoshi Hirakawa, Julian Hoeber, Emily Jacir, Christian Jankowski, Vincent Johnson, Mitchell Kane, Joachim Koester, Glenn Ligon, Dorit Margreiter, Fiorenza Menini, John Miller, Muntadas, Paul Myoda, Yoshua Okon, Catherine Opie, Lucy Orta, Hirsch Perlman, Raymond Pettibon, Richard Phillips, Richard Prince, Raqs Media Collective, Alexis Rockman, Julian Rosefeldt, Aura Rosenberg, Peter Rostovsky, Sam Samore, Paige Sarlin, Julia Scher, Gregor Schneider, Allan Sekula, Andres Serrano, Nedko Solakov, Doron Solomons, Wolfgang Staehle, Javier Téllez, Anton Vidokle, Eyal Weizman/Nadav Harel, James Welling, Wim Wenders, Judi Werthein, Charlie White, Måns Wrange, Jody Zellen, Heimo Zobernig Santa Monica Museum of Art Bergamot Station G1 2525 Michigan Ave Santa Monica, CA 90404 310.586.6488 310.586.6487 fax http://www.smmoa.org/ This weekend kicks off the first of three of the West Coast’s most prestigious art sales, all happening right here in Santa Monica. For the next three days you can view (and purchase) some of the finest photographic art in the world. Tonight, Diane Keaton hosts the opening night reception of photo la benefiting the Photographic Arts Council of LACMA. Check the schedule below for exhibition hours, lectures and seminars. Next weekend, January 26, the Palette will feature the other two art events, Art LA and the Los Angeles Art Show. photo l.a. 2006 15th ANNUAL INTERNATIONAL LOS ANGELES PHOTOGRAPHIC ART EXPOSITION Santa Monica is home to one of Southern California’s most respected art galleries specializing in work by African Americans, the M. Hanks Gallery. This weekend the gallery opens an historic 150 year retrospective of art created by African Americans.
Paintings and sculpture by the best and most well known black American artists in the U.S. are on exhibition in Masterpieces of African American Art: An African American Perspective at M. Hanks Gallery, from January 18 to April 1, 2006. This exhibit also celebrates both Black History Month and Women's History Month and will include several lectures by artists and art historians as well as readings by local African American poets.
The exhibition covers over 150 years of creativity, from 1851 to 2005. Artists represented in the show include Robert S. Duncanson, Meta Fuller, Palmer Hayden, Walter Williams, Charles Ethan Porter, Keinyo White, Elizabeth Catlett, Augusta Savage, David Driskell, Phoebe Beasley, William Pajaud, Richard Mayhew, Varnette Honeywood, Lois M. Jones and Charles Alston.
Masterpieces of African American Art: An African American Perspective January 18 to April 1, 2006 3008 Main St., Santa Monica 90405 310/392-8820, Fax 310/392-3968 E-mail, Web site, http://mhanksgallery.com Gallery Hours Wednesday - Saturday, 12-6pm Schedule Thursday, January 19th Opening night reception: 6 - 9 pm Friday, January 20th Noon -7 pm: public hours 9 am: collecting seminar with Stephen Perloff 1 pm: Seminar “The Business Of Being An Artist”† Saturday, January 21st Noon -7 pm: public hours 10 am: lecture by Eikoh Hosoe* 12 pm: lecture by David Hilliard* 2 pm: lecture by Jeff Brouws* 4 pm: lecture by Lucien Clergue* Sunday, January 22nd Noon-6 pm: public hour 9 am: collecting seminar with Rick Wester 10am: lecture by Paul Messier* 1pm: Collecting Photographs in the New Art Market** 3pm: lecture by Martin Parr* Web site: http://www.photola.com January 19 - 22, 2006 Santa Monica Civic Auditorium 1855 Main Street, Santa Monica, CA 90401 Opening Reception $50 - Opening Reception To purchase tickets for opening night, please phone LACMA directly at 323-932-5846.
Fair Tickets $20 - 1 day pass Includes fair catalog $80 - per seminar Advanced reservation required $10 - per lecture Student discount are $3 off for lectures and $5 off for each one-day pass. Valid current student i.d. required.
Santa Monica is home to one of Southern California’s most respected art galleries specializing in work by African Americans, the M. Hanks Gallery. This weekend the gallery opens an historic 150 year retrospective of art created by African Americans.
Originally published in the Santa Monica Daily Press print edition on January 20, 2006. Read the original PDF.