Bruce Conner's Explosive Cinema at the Hammer February 28

Bruce Conner's Explosive Cinema: A Tribute

Co-presented with The UCLA Film & Television Archive, in association with REDCAT and The Los Angeles Film Forum

Influential maestro of found-footage, Bruce Conner (1933-2008) was legendary for his mastery of assemblage, drawing, collage and film. At once voluptuous and razor-edged, Conner's compact, cinematic bombs are an inspired mix of heartfelt meditation and political satire. BRUCE CONNER’S EXPLOSIVE CINEMA: A TRIBUTE is a two-night memorial tribute and will encompass Conner's major body of work over the past 50 years and will include Cosmic Ray (1961), Mongoloid (1978), The White Rose (1967), and his final work Easter Morning (2008). Longtime friend and co-conspirator Dennis Hopper will be on hand both nights to introduce the programs, along with guest of honor, Jean Conner.

Program curated by Timoleon Wilkins, Michelle Silva and Steve Anker.
Total running time for the evening is approx. 90 min.

The second night of the tribute will take place at the REDCAT on Monday, March 2. For more information please visit: www.redcat.org

ALL HAMMER PUBLIC PROGRAMS ARE FREE. Tickets are required, and are available at the Billy Wilder Theater Box Office one hour prior to start time. Limit one ticket per person on a first come, first served basis. Hammer and Cineclub members receive priority seating, subject to availability. Reservations not accepted, RSVPs not required.

Griffin Museum of Photography in Massachusetts

Submission Guidelines

Submission Guidelines for individual photographers and group exhibition proposals.

Thank you for your interest in submitting work to the Griffin Museum of Photography. Work is reviewed by the exhibition committee every two months. Responses are sent within roughly 2 - 3 months of receiving the submission.

To be considered for individual or group exhibitions, please submit the following:

• 15 to 20 images that represent a completed body of work. Work in progress is not considered. Work may be submitted in the form of slides, prints, or on CD. If sending a CD, please include proof prints of all images as reference.
• Each image should be labeled with your name, title, medium, size and date.
• Résumé, C.V., or bio (Including curators and all photographers if submitting group exhibition proposal)
• Artist statement (optional).
• If submitting group exhibition proposal include description of exhibition.
• Make sure to include materials for return postage. Remember to include postage paid return address packaging. If such is not included, your submission will be not be returned to you. (Please do not use metered postage, since it is not accepted at the post office after the date of purchase. If you are sending a submission from outside the United States, make sure to use American postage on your return envelope. You may purchase stamps online at www.stampsonline.com and may calculate the cost at www.usps.com )

Call for Entries: Umbrella Arts in New York City

We all have BED but it’s mostly hidden away in a remote room upstairs in our houses or in the back room of our apartments. BED is rarely discussed, is mostly taken for granted, yet we use it more than anything else in the house, spending perhaps one third of our lifetime there.

BED is where we cavort, entertain and are entertained, where we eat, sleep, talk on the phone, read, watch TV, dream, hang out, escape to. We live much of our life there, mostly our private lives, including dying.

We want to see your photos of your BED (and/or others) and what you do while you are there. Make them as personal, fun, interesting, beautiful, startling as you can, no subject is out of bounds.

ELIGIBILITY: The exhibition is open to all photographers, any format, any camera, black & white or color, any style acceptable. All types of photography-based work may be entered, including digital, alternative processes, photo collage and montage. Maximum finished print size is 16″x20″. Maximum frame size is 20″x24″.

BOOK POSSIBILITY: There is a possibility of a book publication based largely on the selected and submitted works for BED. All rights remain with the photographer.

Freak Show: New Photographs by Kendal Coopman & Kirsten Harkonen @ The Thomas P Kelly Student Art Gallery Opening Reception February 19, 6-9pm

Loyola Marymount University's Art Department presents "Freak Show," a partnership production by Kirsten Harkonen and Kendal Coopman, showing February 18-March 6, 2009. The artists' opening reception will be held Thursday, February 19 from 6-9pm at the exhibition space, the Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. Student Art Gallery.



Harkonen and Coopman are two young artists who've joined efforts to create a collective display. One from San Francisco and the other Valencia, the friends worked in collusion with their artistry somewhere in the middle. Both women are senior-year art major students at Loyola Marymount University, and they will transform part of their school into "Freak Show" with photographs and an installation for the soon upcoming three weeks.



Their collaborative photographic works will be open to the pubic at the Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. Student Art Gallery, which is located within the Fritz B. Burns Fine Arts Center on Loyola Marymount University's south side of campus.

2009 James D Phelan Art Award in Photography for California Born Artists

California-born photographers invited to apply for the 2009 James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography.

The 2009 James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography is administered by SF Camerawork in conjunction with The San Francisco Foundation, and will honor two California-born artists. In addition to a $3,750 cash prize, each award winner is invited to participate in an exhibition at SF Camerawork.

The James D. Phelan Art Awards were established by the trust of James D. Phelan (1861-1930), former San Francisco Mayor, United State Senator, and arts supporter, to recognize the achievements of California-born artists in a variety of disciplines. The Phelan Art Award is also given in printmaking, film, and video and is part of the Arts Awards Program at The San Francisco Foundation.

Eligibility
Application for the 2009 Award in Photography is open to any California-born artist. Current California residency is not required. Proof of birthplace will be requested. Past winners of the James D. Phelan Art Award in Photography are ineligible.

Jurors
The 2009 Award will be juried by Allan deSouza, Professor of New Genres, San Francisco Art Institute Cathy Kimball, Executive Director, San Jose Institute of Contemporary Art.

APPLICATION DEADLINE: February 28, 2009
The 2009 winners will be announced April 3, 2009.
No calls or emails, please.

More information and application materials are available at www.sfcamerawork.org/phelan_award/phelan_award2009.html

Lisa Ohlweiler Exhibition @ USC Roski Gallery Opening February 10 6-8pm

Check out former lab technician Lisa Ohlweiler's latest work!

Lisa Ohlweiler

AN INVOCATION OF MAGICAL THINKING
February 9-11

Opening Reception Tuesday, February 10 6-8pm
Graduate Fine Arts Building (IFT)
3001 S. Flower St.
Los Angeles, CA 90007
(Entrance on 30th St. between Flower St. and Figueroa St.)

Katy Grannan Lecture at USC February 25 12-2pm

February 25, 2009
12:00 PM - 2:00 PM
University Park Campus
Graduate Fine Arts Building
Lecture Forum

Katy Grannan received her BA from the University of Pennsylvania and her MFA from Yale University. The artist has exhibited at the 2004 Whitney Biennial; the Guggenheim Museum, Bilbao; the Palm Beach Institute of Contemporary Art; Los Angeles County Museum of Art; and the Orange County Museum of Art, among others. Grannan's work is in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art, New York; the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York; the Guggenheim Museum, New York; the Whitney Museum of American Art; the Orange County Museum of Art; the International Center of Photography; and the Bard College Center for Curatorial Studies and has been featured in Artforum, Frieze, Art on Paper, Art and Auction, Visionaire, the Village Voice, The New Yorker, the New York Times, and The New York Times Magazine, among others. Her monograph, Model American, was published by Aperture in 2005. Her exhibition catalog, The Westerns, was published in 2008. Katy Grannan lives in Berkeley, California.

For More Information: http://roski.usc.edu/calendar/event/868033/master-of-fine-arts-lecture-series-and-handtmann-photography-lecture-series-present-katy-grannan/

AIGA's EMERGE @ Thomas P Kelly Student Art Gallery Reception 2/7 6-10pm

Date: Saturday, Feb. 7, 2009 Time: 6 P.M. - 10 P.M. Event: AIGA's "EMERGE" opening reception Location: Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. Gallery Loyola Marymount University Westchester campus 1 LMU Drive Los Angeles, CA 90045 Admission: Free and open to the public Contact: Thomas P. Kelly, Jr. Student Art Gallery 310.338.2880 More about the event: Beginning January 26 through February 15, the LMU Student Chapter of the AIGA (the American Institute of Graphic Arts, the professional association for design) in conjunction with ASLMU, and the Graphic Design Program of the College of Communication and Fine Arts will be hosting EMERGE, an exhibition showcasing student work from the top graphic design programs in the Los Angeles area. LMU is among 13 schools including Art Center, CalArts, Otis, CSUN and USC participating in the exhibition, conceived and designed by LMU graphic design and multimedia arts students. AIGA is awarding $13,000 in scholarships for selected student entries. The reception for EMERGE will be on Saturday February 7, 6 P.M.-10 P.M. in the new Kelly Student Gallery where an anticipated 500 guests are to attend. Free food, music will be served during the reception.
About Loyola Marymount University: Located between the Pacific Ocean and downtown Los Angeles, LMU is a Catholic university offering a wide variety of undergraduate and graduate degrees. Founded in 1911, LMU is the largest Catholic university on the West Coast with nearly 5,500 undergraduate students and over 3,000 graduate and law students.