Superficial Superglow
Exhibition presented by UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design
Storefront installation on view 25 May to 17 June, 2007

2 Hollywood Boulevard storefronts, 500 pieces of vacuum formed plastic, 650 programmed LEDs, 11 AUD students. Superficial Superglow features two student designed interactive lighting environments in two Hollywood Boulevard storefronts led by UCLA Department of Architecture and Urban Design faculty David Erdman.

Special thanks goes to Paul Gleason Theater and Woodbury University's Center for Research and Design for additional storefronts and support.

Nuevo ArtE: Colección Tequila Don Julio
Tequila Don Julio Collection
Selected by Tere Romo, curator of exhibitions at The Mexican Museum

The Mexican Museum’s Nuevo Arte: Colección Tequila Don Julio is a national traveling showcase of contemporary works by some of today’s most innovative Mexican and Mexican-American artists selected by Tere Romo, curator of exhibitions at The Mexican Museum based in San Francisco. 

Of the 17 Nuevo Arte: Colección Tequila Don Julio artists, eight are California-based.  Highlights in the collection include Los Angeles’s own Camille Rose Garcia’s All Hail the Reindeer Army, a satirical interpretation of modern-day cartoons; local artist Arturo Romo’s Vast Arcade Los Angeles, a multi-faceted commentary on the complexity and beauty of the urban landscape; and Franco Mondini-Ruiz’s La Mojado, a delicate, porcelain teacup accented with cookies that look good enough to eat.

Following its showing at LACE, Nuevo Arte: Colección Tequila Don Julio will be gifted to The Mexican Museum to augment the museum’s permanent collection with artists whom are not currently represented.  This exhibition previously showed at White Box in New York City, New World Museum in Houston, and the Aldo Castillo Gallery in Chicago.

Click here for the press release.

Aporia:Aporia
Developed by Greta Byrum and Annabel Daou, the dBfoundation curatorial team.

Saturday, 16 June
2:30-4:30pm Everything About Nothing and Nothing About Everything Symposium
5:00-8:00pm aporia:aporia Opening & Grand Opening and Closing of The the food, aporia:aporia's restaurant

Click here for the schedule.

Aporia means roadblock. It is the logical conclusion that disproves its hypothesis. It is the idea collapsing under the weight of its own consequences. In a sense, it is a failure. It is also the moment that most starkly illuminates the true outline of the idea, hypothesis, or origin.

What would artists make if they were free to give in to ambition without constraint? -- if they were not limited by material circumstances, nor by anxiety over their work's reception, nor by their own faculties and resources? -- if, in fact, they were imagining something that could never be realized in this world? This unique curatorial project will inspire our audiences to imagine the impossible with both seriousness and delight.

The exhibition is accompanied by a podcast audio tour and two publications. Download the audio guide podcast at dbfoundation.org. Be sure to bring your mp3 player. The dBfoundation invites you to remix the aporia audioguide.

Featuring works by

(aporia) (aporia:aporia)

Aaisha
Joan Banach
Daniel Bozhkov
eteam
Rochelle Feinstein
Carl Ferrero
Monika Goetz
Nakazawa Hideki
Tianna Kennedy
Karen Margolis
Sarah Oppenheimer
Jim Skuldt
Allyson Spellacy
Peter Wegner
Treva Wurmfeld

(aporia:aporia)

Chiwan Choi
Raul Vincent Enriquez
Maymanah Farhat
Aaron Kunin
Judeth Oden
Linda Pollack
Tom Russotti
Maya Schindler
Geoff & Sarah Seelinger

(audioguide)

Juliana Francis
limbic, inc.
Henry Strozier
Raul Vincent Enriquez

This exhibition and accompanying publication, “Impossibility Made Easy” are made possible with support from the Peter Norton Family Foundation and the Pasadena Art Alliance. iPod shuffles courtesy of Tekserve, New York.

Additional support for LACE and its programs comes from City of Los Angeles Department or Cultural Affairs, The Coffee Bean and Tea Leaf, The Getty Foundation, Jockey Hollow Foundation, Los Angeles County Arts Commission, Morris Family Foundation, Stone Brewing Co., and the members of LACE.