DGS NEWS

M.A. Peers at the Pomona College Museum of Art

Greetings from the DGS offices! We hope your Halloween was as exciting and spooky as ours was.

We wanted to let you know about an upcoming panel discussion for the M.A. Peers exhibition “Project Series 42: M.A. Peers", hosted by writer and curator Doug Harvey, joined by artist Steve Roden.

Thursday, November 18, at 7 p.m.,
at the Pomona College Museum of Art
The panel will be followed by a public reception from 8-10 p.m.

The reason why is, (A) because these are all interesting folks with a lot to say, and (B) the exhibition is accompanied by a catalog that we designed. We had a lot of fun working with M.A. Peers, and her broad array of paintings, including Soviet space dog portraits, made for the Museum of Jurassic Technology, purebred dogs painted on Op-y fabrics, and corporate figures slyly swallowed up in fields of brilliant color. The fact that Peers doubles as a competitive whippet trainer is also an extra-special bonus in our book. Check out the fluorescent spiral binding and the special hidden fold-out.

For more information on the exhibits and directions to the museum, see the Pomona College Museum of Art website.

Things to do this weekend

There are many good things to do this Saturday in and around L.A.. Here are just a few of the things are friends are up to:

MACHINE PROJECT BENEFIT

11/7: Machine Project is hosting its first ever fund-raising benefit. It should be loads of fun.
"What to expect? Opportunities to steal art from a laser-protected, action movie-style perimeter, wager on microscopic slime mold races, try your hand at gold panning to prospect for real gold nuggets, stay late to huddle around the firepit to make ’smores, partake from the amply stocked wine and beer bar, have a wood-fired pizza from an on-site brick pizza oven, enjoy music from four different acts, replace your old Getty Museum fake ID, participate in head-to-head speed soldering contests and eat noodles supplied by Kwong Dynasty Noodle Cart."

Oh yeah, the new book Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA is hot off the press and available for purchase.

PROJECT 39: RACHEL MAYERI

11/7: The opening reception for Rachel Mayeri's exhibition at Pomona College Museum of Art is this Saturday.
The exhibition "focuses on “Primate Cinema,” a video series begun in 2006 that deals with primates and their on-screen dramas and consists of several related videos, performances, and installations."

The exhibition runs through Dec. 20. Be sure to check out the catalog Primate Cinema while you are there.

WINTER CACTUS SHOW @ THE ARBORETUM

11/7: The San Gabriel Valley Cactus and Succulent Society exhibits the splendours of fall and winter by celebrating succulents and cacti rarely seen in summer shows. Featured plants will include the succulent pelargoniums - wild relatives of the common geranium - and cyphostemma - succulent members of the grape family. Haworthias and echeverias will be devloping new leaves at the start of the winter growing season, and conophytums - the jewels of the Mesembryanthemaceae - will be at their best.

Blockades

Our dear friend Robby Herbst has a show up through April 18th at David Patton Gallery here in Chinatown. This solo exhibition features amazing drawings of individuals in the acts of civil disobedience and aims to make visual what it feels like to act directly. This is a great show and is not to be missed.

David Patton Gallery, 932 Chung King Road, L.A., (213) 626-2524, through April 18. Closed Sundays through Wednesdays.

Read the review in the L.A. Times.