Past
July 6, 2008
SEW (a) PIECE: a COLLABORATIVE FLAG REARRANGEMENT
In March 2008, at the War Protest in Hollywood, Jade Thacker performed a rearrangement of Yoko Ono's Cut Piece wearing an American flag as her dress. Sitting in the street, Jade invited anyone to cut a piece from her dress/flag and offered them the choice to either keep it or put their piece in a cup she had for use in a later attempted reconstruction.
With many cut pieces remaining and one very disheveled American flag, Jade invites anyone and everyone to collaborate in a Flag Rearrangement.
May 31-June 28, 2008
"Hey, You Never Know." is the promotional slogan for the New York lottery, including Mega Millions. A multi-state lottery, Mega Millions draws its capital from twelve states, two of which are New York and California. Since migrating to the east coast three years ago, Annie Shaw has found herself living next to the Mega Millions billboards in Manhattan and in Brooklyn. Twice a week, as the number indicating the jackpot would change from low to high, she imagined anticipation rising and falling at each transition. And then once in a blue moon, the number would drop drastically, and she knew someone's life had changed.
May 17, 2008
An Evening With Martha Ronk, Kate Wolf, and Jibade-Khalil Huffman
A celebration of new work by poets and fiction writers at Monte Vista.
April 12 - May 10, 2008
The Mystical, Scatological and the Occult
The Mystical, Scatological, and the Occult is an immersive exhibition of film, video, and sculpture. Inspired by anthropologist Mary Douglas’s idea that all margins are imbued with transgressive power, this exhibition explores the liminal territories between the living and the dead, the sexes, and the bodily interior and exterior, as metaphors for the marginal at large.
February 16, 2008
MATERIAL volume 1 launch party
Started by artists interested in the writings of other artists, MATERIAL supports visual artists with textual concerns. MATERIAL is not a thematically driven nor 'on-topic' publication, but rather an image-free, ad-free context for the materialization of artists' ideas, divergent opinions, thoughts, and appropriations of language. Our sensibility is experimental and critical. We solicit friction and conviviality both.
January 12 - February 9, 2008
Monte Vista is proud to present “Circle Jerks,” an exhibition of a collaborative painting project initiated by Max Lesser and Brett Cody Rogers. Participating artists are Kathryn Andrews, Tomory Dodge, Bart Exposito, Hadley Holliday, Max Lesser, Katie Lewis, Jay Lizo, Allison Miller and Brett Cody Rogers.
December 15 and 16, 2007
Monte Vista 2007 fundraiser
November 16, 2007
A Short Treatise on the Game of Back-Gammon
Mini Tournament With A Brief At The
Opening Regarding the
Rules & History, Pips, Points & Blots
October 27 -November 14, 2007
Monte Vista is pleased to announced the first solo exhibition in the space, featuring the photographs of Dee Williams. For this exhibition, Dee Williams has photographed 4 office buildings built in the Los Angeles area between 1979 and 1986.
Dee Williams participated in the group show Beneath the Underdog at Gagosian Gallery in New York, June 2007.An untitled work, the daguerreotype project, is included in the book We All Laughed at Christopher Columbus, published this summer by Stedelijk Museum Bureau Amsterdam and Platform Garanti CAC, Istanbul.
September 15 - October 14, 2007
Pyramids still loom before me—something vast, indefinite,
incomprehensible, and awful. — Herman Melville, 1857
Monte Vista is pleased to announce The Pyramid Show, a truly monumental group show on a miniature scale. From the very first pyramids in ancient Egypt, to the glass pyramid of the Louvre, to the still-emerging mysteries of the Great Pyramid of Cholula, pyramids are among the most evocative and distinctive forms in the world. Their continued use as architectural and visual motifs in contemporary culture testifies to their lasting allure. They have long been potent multivalent symbols, representing, among other things, power, divinity, wealth, exoticism, human triumph, nature's perfection, and the occult. The Pyramid Show celebrates the richness of pyramid lore by presenting an exhibition of more than 30 artists, offering the pyramid as common ground to connect their diverse work.
The artists gathered together for The Pyramid Show have exhibited widely in the U.S. and internationally. For many of them, this will be their first pyramid-themed show. This is the second exhibition at Monte Vista, an artist-run space in Highland Park. The Pyramid Show was co-curated by Noah Peffer and Frank Chang.
The Pyramid Show artists are: Yuki Ando, Raul Paulino Baltazar, Lara Bank, Sadie Barnette, Chris Bassett, Dan Bayles, Alisa Benfey, Becky Brister, Jeff Cain, Frank Chang, Marcus Civin, Irina Contreras, Mike Cronin, April Day, Chelsea Dean, Michael Decker, Lauren Dees, Michael Dodge, Diego J. Garza, Zeal Harris, Fiona Jack, Dawn Kasper, George Kontos, Max Lesser, Katie Lewis, Candice Lin, Jay Lizo, Shana Lutker, Patrick Marcoux, Leah Morelli, Mahyar Nili, Sarah Olmsted, Gina Osterloh, Niki Pressley, Maeghan Reid, Marco Rios, Colin Roberts, Shelby Roberts, Shizu Saldamando, Marco Gimas Sanchez, Sherm, Michael Underwood, Max Warsh, Joel Westendorf, Christie Williams, Alexandria Wolff, and Marco Zamora
July 14 - August 18, 2007
The inaugural show "First Kiss" is a group show curated by the artists initiating the Monte Vista project space. Each of the artists involved in running the space selected one artist that interests them, and the group collectively selected work for exhibition. Participating artists are William Basinski, Jessica Dobkin, Miriam Ewers, Mary Beth Heffernan, Patrick Marcoux, Amitis Motevalli, Layla Rudneva-McKay, and James Everett Stanley.
Thursday, July 5th, 2007, 7 pm
Art 2102 Presents
Beyond Quoi?: Connecting Parallel Universes
Instigated by Japanese curator Mizuki Endo and his interest in discussing ways that alternative projects and spaces in LA can connect with similar ventures in Asia, the event is intended to initiate a discussion of practices in both these contexts. The resulting discussions will contribute to research for a publication by ART2102, Mizuki Endo and other participants on people and organizations wanting to collaborate and expand horizons for contemporary art practices.
Mizuki Endo will present two alternative spaces he established in Fukuoka, Japan and Manila in the Philippines that highlight the different situations of the art system in Asia. He will be joined by Mauricio Marcin, an independent curator based in Mexico City, who will additionally talk about a range of projects that are currently operating in the metropolis. A discussion will follow, coordinated by Danny Orendorff, curator-in-residence at ART2102.
See www.art2102.org for more information