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.

L.A. Garden Show is this weekend!

Visit the L.A. Garden Show at The Los Angeles County Arboretum & Botanic Garden this weekend. The focus of this year's show is edible plants.

• See Showcase and Terrace garden displays designed by Southern California landscape architects and designers featuring edible plants.
• Learn about design, edible plants, organics and sustainable gardening practices from guest speakers.
• Shop The Marketplace for garden elements, edible plants, flowering favorites and rare finds.
• Discover new ways to incorporate edible plants in containers, small plots and landscapes.
• Enjoy food, entertainment and gardening activities just for kids.

L.A. Garden Show runs today 5/1 through Sunday 5/3.

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.

A Field Guide: the Book

Keep an eye out for a comprehensive guide to The Machine Project Field Guide to LACMA, currently in the works and due out in September of this year. The explosive exhibition took place at LACMA on November 15, 2008, featuring performances, workshops, installations and events that introduced new ways of experiencing LACMAs expansive space and it's mazelike galleries. The book seeks to not only document these projects but further practices beyond the actual day by  featuring new works, essays and interviews.

Cowboys & Presidents

The exhibit Cowboys & Presidents opens this weekend at the Autry National Center. The exhibit explores the fascinating and ongoing intersection of cowboy culture and presidential politics from Theodore Roosevelt to George W. Bush.
Check out items such as LBJ's mini branding iron and Bill Clinton's childhood drawing of the film 'High Noon'. Don't forget to take the two polls (designed by DGS) in the voting booths in the exhibit!

Cowboys & Presidents runs April 12 - September 7
Autry National Center
              4700 Western Heritage Way
              Los Angeles, CA
 

Happy New Year!

This week ushers in the Chinese New Year—the year of the rat. What better way to celebrate than to come on down to Chinatown for the annual New Year's Parade? Find out all the information about the parade and much, much more about Chinatown at the newly launched ChinatownLA.com. At the new site you can learn about the history of Los Angeles' Chinatown, where to eat and shop during your visit, or find out about upcoming special events.

The 109th Annual Golden Dragon Parade
Saturday, February 9 from 2pm- 5pm

The Alchemy of Comedy. . .Stupid Book Release Party Nov. 7

Please join Department of Graphic Sciences, Gallery 400, WhiteWalls & Susanne Vielmetter in toasting the release of The Alchemy of Comedy. . .Stupid, the book supporting the multi-media installation work of the same name by Edgar Arceneaux. Featuring video pieces from the 2006 exhibition, the evening will include a dramatic reading by David Alan Grier and book signing by Edgar and David.

WhiteWalls will also present its latest books, The Wisdom of Sun Ra: Sun Ra's Polemical Broadsheets and Streetcorner Leaflets and Pathways to Unknown Worlds: Sun Ra, El Saturn and Chicago's Afro-Futurist Underground, 1954-68 with a reading by a special guest, and a Sun Ra-inspired video installation by artists Robby Herbst and Karl Erickson.

Wednesday, November 7, 6-9pm

LA><ART
2640 S. La Cienega, Los Angeles, CA 90034
323.951.9790 | www.laxart.org

Edgar Arceneaux and the hosts enthusiastically thank LA><ART for the generous donation of their space for this event.

Get to know us! Open House Aug. 3

We are hosting an open house of our studio this Friday. Please come on by, check out our latest projects and chit chat while enjoying drinks, snacks and chill tunes from DJ Domo Beer Market.

DGS Open House
Friday, August 3, 2007
7-9pm

625 W. College St. #203
(corner of College & Adobe,
enter from parking lot in back, off Adobe)
Chinatown, Los Angeles, CA 90012
213-620-0625

See you there!

Double Fantasy

DOUBLE FANTASY is a co-exhibition of fashion by Bettina Hubby &
photography by Mike Slack (plus pillows & fire hydrants), on view at Naked
(181 N. Martel) in Los Angeles from June 15 to July 5, 2007.

A collaborative project incorporating two new collections of work, DOUBLE FANTASY offers an uncanny merger of sensibilities, an aesthetic feedback loop, a unique display of mirrored homages: Hubby to Slack and Slack to Hubby and back again. The installation consists of over 75 new Hubby garments for men & women, each altered and hand-sewn to import shapes and mimic content of 25 of Slack's polaroids. The show also presents a collection of Hubby's street photography in two unusual formats, plus a small catalog commemorating the project.

Preview the show.

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LAUNCH PARTY
Saturday, June 16, 12 noon to 6:00pm

LOCATION
Naked
181 N. Martel Avenue (at Beverly – red brick building on the SW corner)
Los Angeles, CA 90036
MAP HERE

VIEWING HOURS
Tuesday–Saturday, 12:00pm-6:00pm