ACTUAL SIZE
The Sterio Blak
15 minutes

HUMAN RESOURCES
Corey Fogel 20 minutes
DUBKNOWDUB 20 minutes

L.A. PEDESTRAINS
15 minutes

In conjunction with the launch of Dispatches and Directions: On Artist-Run Organizations by ART2102 of Los Angeles and their Public Discussion series, this will explore how the activity of collectivity generates new aesthetic forms and models in the 21st century.

Panelist will include:
Miles Coolidge, Moderator
Stacey Allan, East of Borneo
Sean Dockray, Telic Arts Exchange/ Public School
Patrick Meagher, SilverShed and Collective Show
Michael Minelli, WPA

HUMAN RESOURCES presents:

Monstro
vimeo.com/5366599

Lady Noise & Friends (Jorge Martin, Anna Homler, Greg Lenczycki, Ron Russell and Steuart Liebig)
www.gabiestrong.com/index.php?/architectonics/lady-noise-
www.artsblock.ucr.edu/main.php?content=blog-entry&post-ID=PID00070

Sneaky Snake
www.myspace.com/sneakysnakecharmers

Doors open at 8pm.

FRI JAN 14TH 7-10pm
HUMAN RESOURCES: OPENING
DIVINE VIOLENCE

Collaborative installation with Sayler/Morris & workshop participants, reading by Maggie Nelson and performance by Joshua Kit Clayton

performance by Joshua Kit Clayton at 7:30pm
reading/Q&A with Maggie Nelson at 8:30pm

Human Resources is pleased to present Divine Violence, an exhibition featuring a workshop and week-long collaborative installation process culminating in an opening event on Friday, January 14, 2011. The opening event will feature a reading by Maggie Nelson from her soon to be released book, The Art of Cruelty: A Reckoning, a performance titled Cordon Off the Contempt in a Word Compartment (and Other Whispering Moments) by Joshua Kit Clayton and video and photographic works by Sayler/Morris and an installation created by Sayler/Morris with the Divine Violence workshop collaborators: Sofia Arreguin, Arely Villegas, Sean Grattan, Sarah Wang, Nora Berman, Asher Hartman, Giles Miller, Malene Dam, Sandy Medina, Solomon Bothwell, Sille Storihle, Kate Wolf, Ko Kawashima.

Screenings will be announced on the blog: divineviolence.wordpress.com.

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FRI JAN 14TH 7-10pm
STATLER WALDORF: OPENING

Statler Waldorf Gallery presents: “HACK,” January 14 - February 27, 2011. The artists in the exhibition disassemble pre-existing cultural forms, images, and objects, subverting our expectations to create personal and idiosyncratic new meanings. The works in the exhibition also explore different meanings of the word “hack” and its physical, cultural, and social connotations.

Artists: Alice Clements, Kelly Cline, Zackary Drucker, Rafael Esparza, Rico Gatson, Onya Hogan-Finlay, Katie Herzog, Bari Ziperstein

Statler Waldorf Gallery is an artist-run exhibition space located at 1098 W. Kensington Road, Los Angeles, CA, 90026, a private residence in Echo Park. We are open by appointment only. For more info: www.statlerwaldorfgallery.com/

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FRI JAN 14TH 6–9pm
Anthony Greaney x Dan Graham x Samsøn
Cottage Home (Chinatown)
This three gallery collaboration at Cottage Home presents large scale sculpture, installation, painting, drawings, photography and video by artists Craig Drennen, Liz Glynn, Greg Hayes, Ian Jeffrey Keith Rocka Knittel, Nick Kramer Calvin Lee, Annette Lemieux Todd Pavlisko, Matthew Rich and Carlin Wing. Anthony Greaney and Samson are galleries based in Boston, MA.

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FRI JAN 14TH 7:30–10:30pm
RELICS ACROSS THE SEA OF SIMULATION
Dan Graham (Chinatown)
Run and curated by Aaron Wrinkle, Dan Graham Gallery is always full of surprises. For one night only, noted LA DJ and Artist Daniel Pineda and Artist Miles Martinez collaborate to incorporate sound and moving image.

SAT JAN 15th 6-8pm
Commonwealth & Council presents Goldilocks
Exhibition: January 15 – February 5, 2011

Commonwealth & Council presents Goldilocks, a group exhibition hosted by Gallery Spatium of sculpture, works on paper and site-specific installation by Erich Bollmann, Enrique Castrejon, Kelly Cline, Michael Decker and Maryrose Cobarrubias Mendoza.

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SAT JAN 15th 7pm – 10pm
ACTUAL SIZE GALLERY : OPENING “PALS” GROUP SHOW
www.actualsizela.com/rightsite/upcoming.htm

TUE JAN 18th 10pm - 2am
NIGHT GALLERY: OPENING
Yunhee Min, Patrick Meagher, Miles Coolidge
www.nightgallery.ca

SAT JAN 15th 2-6pm
ART2102 at LAXART: BOOK LAUNCH AND PUBLIC DISCUSSION SERIES
www.art2102.org/home.html
www.laxart.org/events/

Launch event for DISPATCHES AND DIRECTIONS: ON ARTIST-RUN ORGANIZATIONS IN LOS ANGELES, a compendium of works, thoughts, essays and a directory of artist-run and non-profit projects. The publication, edited by Ronni Kimm and Jesse Aron Green, features contributions from various artist-run projects; thoughts and anecdotes from past advisors and directors; a directory of over 60 artist-run and non profit organizations; and a specially commissioned "Star Chart" to help navigate the scene, by artist Jim Skuldt.

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SAT JAN 15th 7-10pm
Darin Klein & Friends present with Suzanne Wright
2nd Annual Queer Pile-up!
Plus... 'zine release party for 21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves #2 & #3
Collective Show Los Angeles 2011 Satellite Event

At Amy Adler's Echo Park Studio
1296 Sunset Blvd, Los Angeles, CA 90026
Install 6-7pm
Exhibition/performances 7-10pm
FREE ADMISSION

Local queer artists are invited to participate in this one-night only event. All mediums welcome, with wall and floor space available on a first-come, first-served basis. Artists supply everything they need to install their work. Performers come prepared with all equipment, power cords, props, etc. Last year's wildly successful drop-in DIY experience attracted 29 visual artists and performers. Work must be installed and de-installed on the night of the event. Two new issues of 21st Century Queer Artists Identify Themselves available for purchase: $10 each, editions of 100.

Please see darinkleinandfriends.blogspot.com for more information.

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FRI JAN 21st 8pm
Leaving Records Presents....

Matthewdavid
Asura
M. Geddes Gengras
DubKnowDub (BK)

Video jams: Thumbs Up Machine