Location: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

Wednesday 8 October 2003

Cocktails at 7:00 pm,
Dinner at 8:00 pm

Includes admission to the exclusive Gala Dinner with live entertainment, honored guests, a silent auction launch, and priority access to a limited-edition multiple by Jim Isermann. Also includes admission to auction on 15 October.

Location: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

Wednesday 15 October 2003

Doors open at 6:30 pm with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres

Live auction begins at 8:00 pm

Ticket price $75/ticket includes one ticket to Art Auction, one paddle, and one bidding number

Location: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions

Wednesday 8 October – Tuesday 14 October from 12 – 6 pm, Friday 10 October from 12 - 9 pm

WHAT: A 25th anniversary celebration and fundraiser for Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions, a non-profit interdisciplinary contemporary visual arts center. Organized with a sharp eye on the future, and informed by this organization’s impressive and notorious, outrageous and prescient past, the 25th Anniversary Benefit Art Auction and Gala will be a festive event that will embody all the creativity and excitement our audience has come to expect from Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions.

WHO: Contemporary artworks by some of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions’ most legendary artist alumni as well as some of the most important visual artists working today will be auctioned live at the 25th Anniversary Benefit Art Auction. Contributing artists include Eleanor Antin, Tom LaDuke, Ed Moses, Karin Apollonia Müller, Allan Sekula, Alexis Smith, Frances Stark, Nancy Rubins, Marnie Weber, Bruce Yonemoto and many more. Additionally, a silent auction will showcase and celebrate exciting design and highlight furniture, architecture, and décor by well-known designers and architects. Among the many fabulous Silent Auction contributors are Circa Editions (Frank Gehry Print), Claire Joseph, Donghia Furniture and Textiles, Claudia Laub Studio & Gallery, Inner Gardens, Claudia Benvenuto - The Fainting Couch, l.a. Eyeworks, Jeffrey Alan Marks, Inc., Paulin Paris, Jim Schatz, Paul Robbins Garden Design, Michelle Minch Interior Design and Feng Shui, TK Architecture, Sandy Koepke Interior Design, Leslie Sachs Breathing Room, Tony Meredith, and Vitra, Inc.,

WHY: Since the organization's inception twenty-five years ago, the primary fundraising activity of Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions has been the Annual Benefit Art Auction. Every year this event has been a highlight on the calendars of area collectors of contemporary art and a lively social event in which art patrons, collectors, gallery owners, and young professionals mingle with many of the artists whose works are available. Now, presented with the amazing once-in-a-lifetime 25th anniversary opportunity, a grand Gala Dinner will set the stage for this year’s Annual Auction. Both the Dinner and the Auction will raise important funds that will help build the foundation on which to achieve another twenty-five years of challenging and unique programming.

ABOUT LOS ANGELES CONTEMPORARY EXHIBITIONS: Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions maintains an unwavering commitment to innovation in the visual arts by presenting work that is new, untested, controversial and experimental. Uniquely positioned among commercial galleries and major art institutions, Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions distinguishes itself by serving as a laboratory for artistic research and unfettered, positive creative expression, where artists—including newly-emerging and under-represented artists as well as more established artists—have the freedom and the opportunity to take risks. Since its inception, the organization has presented the work of over 5000 artists in over 3000 exhibitions, performances, screenings, and works of public art.