Dominica, Rhizome, and MOCA present FIRST and NEGATIVE TWO, a pair of 2019 films by Daniel Chew and Micaela Durand.
A conversation between Dominica founder Martine Syms and the filmmakers will follow the screening.
Thursday, September 5, at 7 pm.
Geffen Contemporary at MOCA
152 North Central Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.
Daniel Chew and Micaela Durand, 2019, from top: First, still; Negative Two, stills (3). Images courtesy and © the artists.
For two of its last public events before closing shop for good, OOGA BOOGA welcomes Oliver Payne and Martine Syms for in-store appearances, conversation, readings, music, and a trunk show.
OLIVER PAYNE and SAFE CRACKERS
Saturday, July 20, from 4 pm to 6 pm.
MARTINE SYMS and DOMINICA PUBLISHING
Sunday, July 21, from 4 pm to 6 pm.
Ooga Booga
943 North Broadway, suite 203, Chinatown, Los Angeles.
From top: T-shirt designed by Oliver Payne; Borrowed Lady—Martine Syms, the third in Simon Fraser University Gallery’s Critical Reader Series from Syms’ exhibition, on view at the Audain Gallery from October 13 to December 10, 2016; Ooga Booga (2); exterior view of Borrowed Time—Martine Syms, Audain Gallery, SFU, Burnaby, British Columbia. Images courtesy and © the artists, the photographers, Ooga Booga, and Simon Fraser University.
PALIMPSEST—an exhibition in Ireland about how temporal connections alter definitions of place—features the work of Nicole Eisenman, Zoe Leonard, Hilary Lloyd, Charlotte Prodger, Martine Syms, Lynette Yiadom-Boakye, and Andrea Zittel.
Curated by Charlie Porter, the show will include a new text by Olivia Laing, author of the novel Crudo (2018), and The Trip to Echo Spring (2014), a memoir about writers and alcohol.
Through October 13.
Lismore Castle Arts
Lismore, County Waterford.
From top: Charlotte Prodger, Sophie with Sheets 3, 2015, inkjet print, stainless steel frame, glass, courtesy of the artist and Lismore Castle Arts; Martine Syms, Notes on Gesture (4), 2015, courtesy of the artist and Sadie Coles Gallery; Zoe Leonard, Untitled, 2002, courtesy of the artist and Hauser & Wirth.
This is the closing weekend for AT THIS STAGE at Chateau Shatto, an exhibition that considers the violent and contaminating “intrusion of images and the assault of narrative structures on consciousness.”*
The show includes paintings and sculptures by Body by Body, Aria Dean, Gardar Eide Einarsson, Hamishi Farah, Parker Ito, and Martine Syms, as well as videos by Chris Kraus (Terrorists in Love, and How to Shoot a Crime, with Sylvère Lotringer), Bunny Rogers (Mandy Piano Solo in Columbine Cafeteria), Sturtevant (Warhol Empire State), and Jordan Wolfson (Con leche).
AT THIS STAGE, through August 12.
CHÂTEAU SHATTO, 406 West Pico (at Grand), downtown Los Angeles.
* chateaushatto.com/exhibition/at-this-stage/
Top: Body by Body, Cafe U.S.A., 2015. High density polyethylene, powder-coated steel, aluminum frame. 48 x 36 x 4.75 in / 121.95 x 91.45 x 12.1 cm. Image courtesy Body by Body and Chateau Shatto.
Bottom: Gardar Eide Einarsson, Flagwaste (Stars and Stripes), 2016. Refuse collected from American flag manufacturers. Dimensions variable. Image courtesy Gardar Eide Einarsson and Team Gallery.
Postcard: Desert Botanical Gardens, Papago Park, Phoenix, Arizona.
This week on the blog we announced Richard Prince’s new book Bibliothèque d’un amateur. Richard Prince’s Publications 1981-2014, and a performance in Los Angeles by Stefan Tcherepnin & Tobias Madison – SHADOW TRENCHES. We took a walk through Martine Syms’ exhibition The Queens English at the Pasadena Armory Center for the Arts, David Horvitz’s and Pia Camil’s exhibitions at Blum & Poe in L.A., and the Dries Van Noten exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris. We also gave a little review of Richard Linklater’s new film Boyhood.
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