UPCOMING EVENTS

We encourage all of our members to submit one work for our upcoming exhibition. You may interpret this title any way you would like. 
Runs October 12 thru 27, 2019.
Opening Reception: Saturday, October 12, 2019 from 1:00 to 4:00 pm

Location: Neutra Institute Gallery & Museum, Silverlake, CA

SCWCA Members Only
Deadline to submit on  Entrythingy: October 6, 2019
$10.00 hanging fee
Drop off: Thursday, October 10, 2019 from 10:00 am to 2:00 pm
Closing Reception and pick-up: Sunday, October 27, 2019 from 2:00 to 4:00 pm

Words & Pictures: A Writing Workshop for Visual Artists 

If every picture tells a story, what does your work have to say? Is it poetry, fiction or personal memoir? This half-day workshop will inspire you to find the narrative tucked into your art. From an introduction to the ancient practice of ekphrastic writing, to samples of acclaimed authors drawing on visual art to lively writing exercises revealing metaphor, telling details, emotions, and attitudes, you’ll find new ways to engage with your own visual “statements.”
The workshop will meet Saturday, October 19, from 1:00 to 4:00 pm at Neutra Institute Gallery & Museum in Silverlake during SCWCA’s #ENOUGH All Members’ Exhibition.


Enrollment is limited to 15 students. Cost is $20. To sign up and pay for this workshop go to Entrythingy.

Nancy Spiller is an exhibiting artist, SCWCA member and author of the novel Entertaining Disasters (Counterpoint Press) and the memoir Compromise Cake: Lessons Learned From My Mother’s Recipe Box (Counterpoint Press), which she also illustrated. She created a version of this workshop for the UCLA Extension Writers’ Program, where she has been an instructor for 10 years.

Betye Saar: Call and Response is now on view at LACMA. The exhibitionl covers the span of Saar’s career with a focus on her sketchbooks and their transition to finished works in physical form. Here is a link to the review in the L.A. Times. Thru April 5, 2020.

With Pleasure: Pattern and Decoration in American Art 1972–1985 will open later this month at MOCA. It will be the first full-scale scholarly survey of this groundbreaking American art movement, encompassing works in painting, sculpture, collage, ceramics, installation art, and performance documentation. Covering the years 1972 to 1985 and featuring approximately fifty artists from across the United States, the exhibition examines the Pattern and Decoration movement’s defiant embrace of forms traditionally coded as feminine, domestic, ornamental, or craft-based and thought to be categorically inferior to fine art. Some of the artists included are Valerie Jaudon, Joyce Kozloff, Kim MacConnel, and Miriam Schapiro. Artists whose contributions to Pattern and Decoration have been underrecognized, include Merion Estes, Dee Shapiro, and Kendall Shaw. Artists who are not normally considered in the context of Pattern and Decoration, such as Emma Amos, Billy Al Bengston, Al Loving, and Betty Woodman are also in this exhibit. Though little studied today, the Pattern and Decoration movement was institutionally recognized, critically received, and commercially successful from the mid-1970s to the mid-1980s. The overwhelming preponderance of craft-based practices and unabashedly decorative sensibilities in art of the present-day point to an influential P&D legacy that is ripe for consideration. Oct. 27, 2019- May 11, 2020. 

Mary Corse: A Survey in Light continues at LACMA. Corse emerged in the mid-1960s as one of the few women associated with the West Coast Light and Space movement. She shared with her contemporaries a deep fascination with perception and with the possibility that light itself could serve as both subject and material of art.  Thru Nov. 11, 2019.
 
For her exhibition, Open House: Gala Porras-Kim at MOCA, the artist seeks to explore the ways in which museums act as stewards of the art it owns. "Her exhibition brings together a diverse set of artworks (and other ephemeral materials) to shed light on the role the museum and its staff of curators, registrars, and conservators play in the life of the works in its permanent collection. To do so, she has sought out artworks that challenge the perception that a museum’s permanent collection is comprised of immutable objects frozen in time. Using artworks that are ephemeral, transitional, malleable, decaying, or even made to expire, Porras-Kim’s exhibition will showcase the ways in which museums play an active role in the conservation, display methods, archiving, interpretation, and even the physical form of the works in its permanent collection." (MOCA) October 6, 2019- May 11, 2020. 
 

Craft Contemporary is featuring some compelling exhibitions opening this month.

Finding the Center: Works by Echiko Ohira

Los Angeles-based artist Echiko Ohira examines her prolific artistic production over the last two decades. Ohira’s work is founded upon the use of repurposed paper, with her love of the material springing from her childhood in Japan and its vast paper traditions. In addition to paper, Ohira utilizes nails, thread, and other found materials to create sculptural forms and collages that explore the physical and spiritual centers of the human body, natural world, and larger cosmos. Thru Jan. 5, 2020. 

Echiko Ohira 

Los Angeles-based sculptor Cynthia Minet’s colorful, multi-media installation is one-part animal and one-part machine. Combining the form of the panthera atrox – an extinct North American lion whose remains have been excavated from the La Brea Tar Pits – with a modern-day oil pump jack, Minet addresses our complicated relationship with petrochemicals and the specific cultural and geological history of the Miracle Mile neighborhood.Thru Jan. 5, 2020.

Cynthia Minet: Jacked

Dress Rehearsal curated by Kate Stern continues at the Oceanside Museum of Art. The intersection of art and fashion is represented by artists Melissa Meier, Mary Tuma, Alexandra Dillon, Janet Taylor Pickett, Gwen Samuels, Carolyn Hampton, Yaya Chou, Leigh Salgado, Marian Debris, et al. The myriad ways a garment can be interpreted and represented is showcased in this exhibition. The media ranges from sculpture, installation, paintings, and photographs to mixed-media.  
Thru Jan. 19, 2020. 

OBSIDIAN LADDER, a site-specific installation by Bolivian-American artist Donna Huanca continues at Marciano Foundation. Thru Dec 1, 2019. 

Also continuing at Marciano is Anna Uddenberg: Privé.  Uddenberg explores social conventions and norms that are the product of consumer culture. Thru Dec. 22, 2019.