Tag Archives: MoCA Geffen

CONVERSION THERAPY — DIRTY LOOKS AT THE L.A. ART BOOK FAIR

Join Rick Castro, Mariah Garnett, Nguyen Tan Hoang, William E. Jones, and Brontez Purnell at the L.A. Art Book Fair for the Dirty Looks event CONVERSION THERAPY.

The panelists will discuss “the language of filmmaking and how it relates to underground publishing.”*

CONVERSION THERAPY*

Friday, April 12, at 6 pm.

Geffen Contemporary at MOCA

152 North Central Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

From top: William E. Jones, The Fall of Communism as Seen in Gay Pornography, 1998, still, courtesy the artist and David Kordansky Gallery, Los Angeles; Brontez Purnell, courtesy the artist; Nguyen Tan Hoang, courtesy the author; Mariah Garnett, Encounters I May or May Not Have Had with Peter Berlin, 2012, still, courtesy the artist; Tony Ward in Hustler White (1996), written and directed by Bruce LaBruce and Rick Castro, courtesy the artists.

REBECCA MORRIS ON LAURA OWENS

As part of MOCA’s Artists on Artists series in conjunction with the exhibition LAURA OWENS at the museum, Rebecca Morris will talk about the medium of painting in Owen’s practice.

(Morris’ exhibition THE ACHE OF BRIGHT will open January 11 in Houston.)

 

REBECCA MORRIS ON LAURA OWENS

Thursday, January 3, at 7 pm.

MOCA Geffen

152 North Central Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

 

REBECCA MORRIS—THE ACHE OF BRIGHT

January 11 through March 16.

Blaffer Art Museum

University of Houston

4173 Elgin Street, Houston.

Installation views of Laura Owens, November 11, 2018–March 25, 2019 at The Geffen Contemporary at MOCA, courtesy of The Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles. Photographs by Brian Forrest.

VOTERS RALLY AT MOCA GEFFEN

On behalf of For Freedoms—a national collective for creative citizenship—and their 50 State Initiative, join Klaus Biesenbach, Aja MonetAlex EbertBrigette Lundy-PaineMadame GandhiBeau SiaPhilip AgnewJammal LemyKristina WongMuna MalikKifah ShahAmir WhitakerBamby Salcedo, and Dave Driscoll for the VOTE FOR YOUR LIVES rally this week in Little Tokyo.

 

VOTE FOR YOUR LIVES RALLY

Thursday, November 1, from 5:30 pm to 7 pm.

MOCA Geffen, 152 North Central Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

Image courtesy of For Freedoms and the Museum of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

RAFA ESPARZA IN PERFORMANCE

This weekend—in a three-part PST: Live Art LA/LA performance—Rafa Esparza presents CUMBRE, his “meditation on bridges and bodies of waters as sites of connection and healing, as well as spaces of division and risk” as a means of investigating histories of immigration to and through downtown Los Angeles.*

 

RAFA ESPARZA—CUMBRE: LOOK AS FAR AS YOU CAN SEE IN EVERY DIRECTION, NORTH AND SOUTH, EAST AND WEST, Sunday, January 21, at 3 pm.

GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY AT MOCA, 152 North Central Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

*moca.org/program/rafa-esparza-cumbre

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Rafa Esparza in 2015. Image credit: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions. Photograph by Barbara Davidson.

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CHILL

Relax this Saturday at QUIET MORNINGS—ART x MINDFULNESS, MOCA’s “one-of-a-kind event, pairing a guided meditation exercise with the opportunity to experience Adrián Villar RojasTHE THEATER OF DISAPPEARANCE.”

This morning meditation is a Flavorpill project.

 

QUIET MORNINGS—ART X MINDFULNESS, Saturday, November 11, at 9:30 am.

ADRIÁN VILLAR ROJAS—THE THEATER OF DISAPPEARANCE, through May 13, 2018.

GEFFEN CONTEMPORARY AT MOCA, 152 North Central Avenue, downtown Los Angeles.

moca.org/program/quiet-mornings-art-x-mindfulness

Bottom: Adrián Villar Rojas, The Art of Disappearance. Image credit: MOCA.

Quiet Mornings: Art x Mindfulness @ MOCA
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