JORDIE OETKEN: CRUX July 14th – August 25th, 2018 Reception for the Artist Saturday, August 25 from 6 – 8pm “The artist’s background in painting and sculpture is evident as she layers limbs and forms creating compositions that are reminiscent of Baroque paintings or Hellenistic Greek sculptures. Oetken’s scale, lighting and compositional containment maintains a
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STEVE FITCH: VANISHING VERNACULAR July 14th – August 25th, 2018 Reception for the Artist & Book Signing Saturday, July 14th from 6 – 8pm “Steve Fitch is among America’s most well-known chroniclers of the American West and has been photographing its changing vernacular landscape and vanishing roadside landmarks for more than 40 years. In his
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Fresh Awards Exhibition, 2018 May 26-June 23 Opening Reception June 2nd, 4-7 pm Workshop on Sat. June 16 at 2pm on using vintage/vernacular photographs to create new artworks. South Bay Contemporary SoLA Gallery 3718 West Slauson Avenue, Los Angeles, CA 90043

Kirsten Tradowsky: Time Echo June 2nd – July 7th, 2018 Reception: Saturday, June 2nd from 6 – 8pm “…Time Echo, a collaboration between Bay Area painter Kirsten Tradowsky and Paul Kopeikin. Tradowsky’s original oil paintings depict scenes from everyday life the artist chose from Kopeikin’s collection of vernacular photography. This will be her first exhibition
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KAHN & SELESNICK: Madame Lulu’s Book of Fate June 2nd – July 7th, 2018 Opening Reception: Saturday, June 2nd from 6 – 8 pm “Kahn & Selesnick’s latest project “Madame Lulu’s Book of Fate” continues the adventures of the Truppe Fledermaus, a cabaret troupe of anxious mummers and would-be mystics who catalogue their absurdist attempts
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IN FOCUS: EXPRESSIONS May 22—October 7, 2018 “The exhibition begins with the most universal and ubiquitous expression: the smile. Although today it is taken for granted that we should smile when posing for the camera, smiling was not the standard photographic expression until the 1880s with the availability of faster film and hand-held cameras. Smiling
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Icons of Style: A Century of Fashion Photography, 1911-2011 June 26–October 21, 2018 “Exhibition explores the genre’s rich and varied history through more than 180 photographs, costumes, drawings, and more” J. Paul Getty Museum, Getty Center

ROGER BALLEN: A RETROSPECTIVE April 28, 2018 – June 15, 2018 Reception: Saturday, April 28th, 2 – 4 pm. Book available. “The exhibition, as with the book, is a chronological journey through Ballen’s entire oeuvre divided into four periods. Part I explores Ballen’s formative artistic influences and his later rediscovery of boyhood through photography, culminating
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