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Art Openings in L.A. This Week: Hugo Crosthwaite at Luis De ADVERTISEMENT ENTERTAINMENT & ARTS Datebook: Lezley Saar conjures magical beings in a solo show at Walter Maciel “Septime, a collector of breezes...,” 2019, a mixed media work by Lezley Saar at Walter Maciel Gallery. (August Augustsson) By CAROLINA A. MIRANDA STAFF WRITER JAN. 9, 2020 8 AM The arts scene is getting rolling again for the new year, with shows that dwell in mystical and a screening series that is all about dance. Here are almost a dozen exhibitions and events to check out in the coming week: Lezley Saar, “A Conjuring of Conjurers,” at Walter Maciel Gallery. Inspired by a 19th century French novel about a character who builds a fortress devoted to the worship of the senses and arts, Saar has created a series of invented mystic characters with supernatural powers. Her painted conjurers are presented on found fabrics and antique frames, along with sculptures and works of photographic collage. Opens Saturday at 6 p.m. and runs through Feb. 22. 2642 S. La Cienega Blvd., Culver City, waltermacielgallery.com . Jacob Hashimoto, “Histories,” at Mixografía. This new series of prints finds Hashimoto working more improvisationally, arranging his intricate rice paper kites into panoramic compositions on paper that shows them in small groupings or tangled into smaller clusters — their strings functioning as expressive lines. Opens Saturday at 4 p.m. and runs through Feb. 15. 1419 E. Adams. Blvd., Central-Alameda, mixografia.com . “Tracing the Ever-Fragile Balance of Dreamless Silence...,” 2019, by Jacob Hashimoto at Mixografia. (Jacob Hashimoto / Mixografía) ADVERTISEMENT Art for All, at the Museum of Contemporary Art. Starting this month, the Museum of Contemporary Art Los Angeles will have free admission courtesy of trustee Carolyn Clark Powers. To kick things off, the museum is staging a one-day celebration that will feature taiko drumming, DJ sets and art-making sessions, including a silkscreen session with Self Help Graphics & Art’s Barrio Mobile Art Studio. There will also be a cash bar and complimentary ice cream. Saturday from noon to 4 p.m. at both of MOCA’s locations, 250 S. Grand Ave. and 152 N. Central Ave., downtown Los Angeles, moca.org . Sanlé Sory, “Volta Photo,” at M+B. The multifaceted Sory has worked, over the course of his life, as a reporter, photographer and illustrator for record sleeves. This exhibition gathers his studio portraiture from the ’60s to the ’80s, capturing a period in his native Burkina Faso just after independence — an ebullient moment in the wake of colonial rule. Also on view is an exhibition of new paintings by New York-based artist Clintel Steed. Opens Saturday at 6 p.m. and runs through Feb. 7. 612 N. Almont Dr., West Hollywood, mbart.com . “Sory Photographe,” 1968, by Sanlé Sory at M+B Art. (Sanlé Sory / M+B Art) “ITSOFOMO,” at the Getty Center. In the 1980s, composer and musician Ben Neill and painter David Wojnarowicz collaborated on a work that combined music, text and video and was first presented as a live performance at the Kitchen in Manhattan, N.Y. The work addressed the politics of the AIDS crisis at a time in which an HIV diagnosis was practically a guaranteed death sentence. For this performance, Neill teams up with percussionist Don Yallech (who was part of the original performance), alongside a recording of Wojnarowicz (who succumbed to AIDS-related complications in 1992). Saturday at 7:30 p.m. 1200 Getty Center Dr., Brentwood, Los Angeles, getty.edu . ADVERTISEMENT “Hard Concept, Soft Material,” at Ochi Projects. A group show features artists who take soft materials — literally, fabric, faux fur and nylon — to make works that address difficult issues such as race and gender. Participants include Areli Arellano, Rachel Apthorp and Sean-Kierre Lyons, and was organized by Rakeen Cunningham. Also on view is a series of new paintings by L.A. painter Nick McPhail titled “Windows” that explores those junctures at which nature, light and architecture meet. Opens Saturday at 6 p.m. and runs through Feb. 15. 3301 W. Washington Blvd., Arlington Heights, ochiprojects.com . “Una Oración de Las Voces Marginadas,” 2018-19, by Arelia Arellano at Ochi Projects. (Arelia Arellano / Ochi Projects) “Sound Off: Silence + Resistance,” at Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Part of LACE’s Emerging Curator series, this exhibition, organized by artist Abigail Raphael Collins, explores the idea of silence as a political act. Artists featured include Pauline Boudry, Lawrence Abu Hamdan and Sharon Hayes, among others. Through March 15. 6522 Hollywood Blvd., Hollywood, welcometolace.org . Dance Camera West 2020, at REDCAT. Dance. Dance. More dance. That’s what will be on view over the next three days at REDCAT as part of Dance Camera West’s film series, which will feature 50 different films submitted from 40 countries. The opening night program will feature guest appearances by Edouard Lock, founder of the Canadian dance company La La La Human Steps, and Scottish dance author and producer Katrina McPherson. Opens today and runs through Saturday. 631 W. 2nd St., downtown Los Angeles, dancecamerawest.org and redcat.org . “FÖLD - Sculpted in the wind,” a short narrative film by Marzio Mirabella, screen in the Dance Camera West 2020 festival at REDCAT. (Marzio Mirabella) “Peter Alexander,” by Parrash Heijnen Gallery. The light and space artist is known for his translucent gradient sculptures that toy with light and the nature of color. This exhibition shows some of his recent sculptures in juxtaposition with some of his sea and landscape paintings, made from 1990 to today. Through Feb. 1. 1326 S. Boyle Ave., Boyle Heights, Los Angeles, parraschheijnen.com . “Hostile Terrain 94,” at the Art, Design & Architecture Museum. This participatory work, organized by the Undocumented Migration Project, consists of 20-foot long map of the U.S.- Mexico border that will be populated with toe tags to commemorate the thousands of immigrants who have died trying to cross into the United States. Opens Saturday at 5:30 p.m. and runs through Dec. 6. UC Santa Barbara, museum.ucsb.edu . Kathleen Henderson, “Watch Me Make You Disappear,” at Track 16. Thirty-five drawings made over the past year satirize human folly in the face of extinction. Also on view are a series of “outtakes,” or clippings drawn from larger works, which the artist has accumulated over the years. Expect images that read like a cross between political cartooning and the surreal. Through Feb. 1. Bendix Building, 1206 Maple Ave., #1005, downtown Los Angeles, track16.com . ADVERTISEMENT Last Chance Calvin Marcus, “Go Hang a Salami Im a Lasagna Hog,” at David Kordansky Gallery. Marcus creates paintings, installations and ceramics that are infused with humor (imagine a pair of ceramic eyeballs peering at you from a plinth). In his second show at the gallery, he toys with scale and ideas of precarity. Through Saturday. 5130 W. Edgewood Place, Mid-Wilshire, davidkordanskygallery.com . “L.A. on Fire,” at Wilding Cran Gallery. A group exhibition examines fire — both its cleansing and destructive properties — as it relates to the city of Los Angeles. Whether it be through uprising or climate change or poetic license (think: Ed Ruscha’s “Los Angeles County Museum on Fire”), the more than 50 artists in this exhibition explore its significance in a range of works. These include John Divola, Salomón Huerta, Juan Capistrán, Karon Davis, Gajin Fujita, Rachel Mason and many others. Through Saturday. 1700 S. Santa Fe Ave., Unit 460, downtown Los Angeles, wildingcran.com . Tatiana Trouvé, “On the Eve of Never Leaving,” at Gagosian. The Paris-based artist has a series of paintings and sculptures on view in Los Angeles that fuse visions of natural ecosystems with the hard objects that give away evidence of human presence. Her scenes, which reveal a dexterous use of surprising materials, are both haunting and dreamlike. Through Saturday. 456 N. Camden Dr., Beverly Hills, gagosian.com . “August,” 2019, from the series “The Great Atlas of Disorientation,” by Tatiana Trouvé. (Tatiana Trouvé / Florian Kleinefenn / Gagosian) “Mexicali Biennial: Calafia — Manifesting the Terrestrial Paradise” at the Armory Center for the Arts. The latest iteration of this roving, cross-border biennial is landing in Pasadena and the theme on this go-around are the literary origins of our state: Calafia, the black queen and her Amazon warriors who figure in Garci Rodríguez de Montalvo’s 16th century novel “Las Sergas de Esplandian,” the figure from which California gets its name. Featured in the show are artists such as Sandy Rodriguez, Mely Barragán, Chelle Barbour, Noé Olivas, Chinwe Okona, Cog*nate Collective, Invasorix and many others. As in other iterations of the biennial, there will be more to the show than the exhibition at the Armory Center, with satellite programming in Calexico, Mexicali and Tijuana. Through Saturday. 145 N. Raymond Ave., Pasadena, armoryarts.org. “Loitering is delightful,” at Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery. In his essay “Loitering Is Delightful,” writer Ross Gay explores the meaning of the word and the ways it is employed as a tag of criminality when used to describe people of color. This group show, featuring work by artists such as Cauleen Smith, Milano Chow, Lauren Davis Fisher and many others, invites dawdling and other forms of “non-productive” activity. Through Saturday. 4800 Hollywood Blvd., East Hollywood, lamag.org . A work by Megan Whitmarsh in the group show “Loitering is delightful.” (Megan Whitmarsh) “Manet and Modern Beauty,” at the Getty Museum. Painter Edouard Manet was notorious for large, confrontational nudes that unabashedly challenged convention in their day (such as his infamous “Olympia,” from 1863) and for being part of an upstart group of artists that turned their rejections from the French Academy into the now famous Salon des Refusés.
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