Sincere thanks and gratitude to the following galleries, dealers, companies, and individuals for their generosity, their invaluable contributions to this event, and their support of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions and all it represents.
Honorary Committee
Councilmember
Eric Garcetti, Chair
Eleanor Antin
John Baldessari
Anthony de los Reyes
Jim Isermann
Mike Kelley
Martin Kersels
Barbara Kruger
Karen & Paul McCarthy
Al Nodal
Marc Pally
Lari Pittman
Stephen Prina
Nancy Rubins
Adrian Saxe
Allan Sekula
Joy Silverman
Alexis Smith
Pae White
Megan Williams
Bruce Yonemoto
Silver Circle
Lawrence Barth
Jill & Bob Bronstein
Jed Cohen
Jay Floyd & Jimmy Adams
Design Garden
Sirje H. Gold & Michael O. Gold
Orlando & Kathy Herrera
Nancy & Bernie Kattler
Jon Klages
Robert Knoop
Helen N. Lewis
Catherine Lord & Kim Thomsen
Sally Horchow Macauley & Christopher Macauley
Mike Mehring
Cara Mullio
Peter Norton
Tina Petra & Ken Wong
David Richards & Geoffrey Tuck
Smith Richardson
Russell Schwartz & Dana Cioffi
Lia Skidmore & Michael Zakian
Ellen & Jon Vein
Ronald R. Wilkniss
Art Committee
Mary Leigh Cherry
Rodney Hill
Tiffiny Lendrum
Mary-Kay Lombino
Lee Michel
Tony Payne
Susanne Vielmetter
Event Committee
Lynn Hasty
Bettina Hubby
Claire Joseph
Connell Ray Little
Sarah McPherson
Tony Meredith
Shirley Morales
Fran Siegel
Silent Auction Committee
Tiffiny Lendrum
Cris McCall
Susan Woods Robbins
Guy Smith
Advertising and Promotion
Artforum
Gary Cannone, website design
Gala Dinner Production
Shirley Morales
This year Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions celebrates its 25th anniversary. We are unabashedly pleased with and so very proud of this organization’s impressive, radical, outrageous, wonderful, notorious, checkered history.
Changes in this country’s cultural climate over the past 25 years have necessitated changes in the structure and management of arts organizations around the country. Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions is no exception. It is this organization’s flexibility and creativity that have brought it to this milestone of which we are so proud. With all the changes, however, we have not lost sight of the goals and objectives of our founders, and we remain wholeheartedly committed to operating on a conceptual continuum established by the organization’s earliest leadership.
Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions exists to promote a deeper understanding of ourselves and the social and cultural context within which we live. Furthermore, we advocate the notion that the profession of "artist" should be highly valued in this society, and as such believe it is the responsibility of institutions like ours to offer professional support to artists for what they do best — produce artwork. We value this country’s democratic principles, including unfettered creative expression, and believe that artists and contemporary art play critical roles in both testing and strengthening these values. We remain steadfastly artist centered, and we remain true to this institution’s founding ideals.
Our accomplishments over the past five years have been especially rewarding. In the middle of the 1990s, it is no secret that Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions was at what might be seen as its darkest point. Since then, ongoing assessment activities and training have been strengthening the planning skills of staff and board, enabling us to work together as never before to articulate strategies and goals for the next phases of growth. Our successful capacity-building efforts have had a vital, galvanizing effect and have resulted in measurable successes. For example, since 1997, we have doubled our organizational budget. Virtually all of our programs now receive critical attention in the art and popular press. Our attendance is up over 81% from last year. We are extremely proud to have created "The Living Art Fund," a cash reserve that was established earlier this year to further strengthen our ability to introduce artwork that challenges predictability. Our ability to present increasingly ambitious programming continues to grow, as seen in such recent projects as last spring’s Small Skyscraper by Chris Burden; Maria Elena González’s Music Carpet/Home, currently on display at Ted Watkins Park in Watts; and in this season’s upcoming exhibitions by Christoph Büchel, Kerry Tribe, Beat Streuli, Stephanie Taylor and Yvonne Rainer.
If you are reading this, you believe in this institution and its values. Your support is the lifeblood of this institution. This Annual Benefit Auction is our single largest source of unrestricted income, and it would not be possible without the heartfelt support and generosity of everyone whose name appears in this catalog. Yet one of the simplest but most powerful things you can do to show your support costs nothing; Tell your friends, your colleagues, and your associates about us and our impressive accomplishments.
As caretakers of an established institution with a twenty-five year history of provocation, excitement, and innovation, we ask ourselves how to guide this organization into a new era and how it can continue to function with vitality in the cultural landscape of this city. The programs of this institution will be motivated by raising these and other questions. As the organization moves from its position as an alternative space to an internationally respected contemporary arts center, we will continue some of the organization’s great traditions, and start some that are new. We don’t expect everyone to like what we do. Fearlessness, a willingness to probe, to irritate, to ask questions...these qualities were critical at the inception of this institution, and remain critical to its future.
Irene Tsatsos Director / Curator
Art and Silent Auction Donations
ACME., Los Angeles
Angles Gallery, Santa Monica
Anna Helwing Gallery, Los Angeles
cherrydelosreyes, Venice
Christopher Grimes Gallery, Santa Monica
Craig Krull Gallery, Santa Monica
Lisa Darling
Fredericks Freiser Gallery, New York
Gagosian Gallery, Beverly Hills
Griffin Contemporary, Venice
Hayworth Gallery, Los Angeles
Howard House, Seattle
Jack Hanley Gallery, San Francisco
Nancy Joseph
Karyn Lovegrove Gallery, Los Angeles
LA Louver, Venice
lemon sky: projects + editions, Miami
Mary Goldman Gallery, Los Angeles
Marc Foxx, Los Angeles
Margo Leavin Gallery, West Hollywood
Marc Selwyn Fine Art, Inc., Los Angeles
Michael Kohn Gallery, Los Angeles
Richard Telles Fine Art, Los Angeles
Roberts & Tilton, Los Angeles
Sandroni Rey Gallery, Venice
Shoshana Wayne Gallery, Santa Monica
Stephen Wirtz Gallery, San Francisco
Susanne Vielmetter Los Angeles Projects, Los Angeles
Sachi Yoshimoto
Auctioneer
Blake Koh, Sotheby’s
Edition Concept and Production
Tony Payne
Framing and Mounting
Finishing Studio
Jeffrey Kies Custom Framing
Jerry Solomon Enterprises
(framing, Allan Sekula)
Pierre Creative Frames
Silverlake Custom Frame
Universal Fine Art Framing
Weldon Color Lab
(mounting, Allan Sekula)
Artwork Printing and Production
Frank Green/The Lab
Ciba (Allan Sekula)
Board of Directors
Frederick Reisz, President
Guy Smith, Vice President
Cris McCall, Secretary
Randy Green, Treasurer
Sarah Conley
Mikel Gordon
Blake Koh
Tiffiny Lendrum
Tony Payne
Susan Woods Robbins
Irene Tsatsos
Catalog Printing and Production
Meryl Pollen, graphic design
Joshua White, photography
F.A. Daniels, invitation and catalog printing
Staff
Irene Tsatsos, Director/Curator
Bridget DuLong, Managing Director
Julie Deamer, Development/Communications Coordinator
Annie Shaw, Program/Membership Assistant
Susanne Fellinger, Communications Intern
Sarah Honorowski, Gallery/Administrative Intern
Chizu Morihara, Gallery/Administrative Intern
Astrid Martin, Gallery/Administrative Intern
Mike Richard, Gallery/Administrative Intern
Stephanie Sabo, Gallery/Administrative Intern
Enrique Castrejon, Getty Curatorial Intern
Rochelle Lozada, Getty Conservation Intern
Herbert Mendoza, Publication Intern
Joyce Chan, Bookkeeper
Jan Langer, Bookkeeper
Jeff Cain, Preparator/Technical Consultant
Martha Kim, Auction Coordinator
Artist Advisors
Skip Arnold
John Baldessari
Mike Kelley
Martin Kersels
Barbara Kruger
Sharon Lockhart
Paul McCarthy
Jorge Pardo
Stephen Prina