2019 LAXART Benefit Celebrates The Discovery Of Art As A Gateway Drug To Culture

LAXART celebrated its 2019 Benefit on Friday, November 8 in Hollywood, bringing together major figures in Los Angeles’ contemporary art community to celebrate the nonprofit art space founded in 2005. Beginning the evening at LAXART on N Orange Dr, guests were presented with a reception and discussion between Director Hamza Walker and artist Phil Peters whose exhibition Outside/In, done with Karen Reimer, presents an audio installation derived from microphone recordings of fracking sites in West Texas, with Reimer’s quilted hand dyed fabric hanging above throughout the space. The show’s audio component also pays homage to the history of the building that houses LAXART as the legendary former recording studio Radio Recorders. photographs courtesy of Jojo Karsh/BFA.com, courtesy of LAXART

Barbara Stauffacher Solomon Presents 'Relax Into The Invisible' @ LAXART In Los Angeles

Relax Into the Invisible is an exhibition by Barbara Stauffacher Solomon comprising works on paper, artist books, a new body of sculpture, and site-specific Supergraphics. These works build upon the artist's signature design sensibility while cleverly playing with language, feminism, symbolism, technology, mass media, politics, and personal narrative. Relax Into the Invisible is on view through August 10 at LAXART 7000 Santa Monica Blvd Los Angeles. photographs courtesy of the gallery

LAXART Reopening Benefit And Art Auction In Los Angeles

This summer, LAXART will be welcoming the international art community to celebrate its newly revamped exhibition space, kicking off the celebration with a multi-week festival of events and a new site-specific mural by Barbara Kruger. Under the leadership of Director Hamza Walker, LAXART will share its newly expanded mission and reinvigorated programming. Founded in 2005, LAXART promotes developments in contemporary culture through exhibitions, publications and public programs, using contemporary art and performance as a means of understanding key issues of our time. For this launch, the exterior of the building has been visually adorned with a new site specific work by Barbara Kruger. Wrapping around the building’s façade, Untitled (It) speaks to the immediate central Hollywood environ with its pawn shops, peep shows, dollar stores, nail salons, marijuana dispensaries and currency exchanges—all nodes of identity, commerce and elements that define the unique urban topology of Los Angeles. The opening benefit included musical performances by Rob Mazurek and Ambrose Akinmusire, as well as a selection of works on auction by Liz Larner, Karl Holmqvist, Arthur Jafa, Glenn Ligon and Jonas Wood. Kruger’s Untitled (It) is on display from June 3 through Fall 2018. photographs by Oliver Kupper