Events for October 11th, 2008

Pasadena Art Weekend

Oct. 10 - Oct. 12: Make your weekend a Pasadena kind of thing. With over 20 "cultural events," tons of galleries opening their doors, live music from West Indian Girl and Very Be Careful, and (we hope) a little gratis wine, this should be just the thing to keep you occupied in lieu of the same...

Melanie Pullen - Violent Times

Ace Gallery - Los Angeles - 5514 Wilshire Blvd. - Los Angeles (Park La Brea)

July 12 - January, 2009: Los Angeles photographer Melanie Pullen reconstructs epic images of war through history. Working with make-up artists, wardrobe designers and set builders, Pullen has designed single troops and even battlefields by building large sections of the city of Berlin and using a...

Yin Zhaoyang - Radiation

Df2 Gallery - 314 N. Crescent Heights Blvd. - Los Angeles

Sept. 6 - Nov. 8: New paintings and sculptures from Yin Zhaoyang. Notable among these is "Tearful Buddha," a full-body self-portrait of the artist, carved from a single block of marble. Opening reception Sept. 6, 6 - 8 p.m.

Wish Trees - Yoko Ono

Aug. 2 - Nov. 8: Write your wish on a piece of paper and hang it from a limb of one of Yoko Ono's wish trees. Our wishes: paychecks that come on time, Oreos.

Index - Conceptualism in California

Museum of Contemporary Art - MOCA - Geffen - 152 North Central Avenue - Los Angeles (Little Tokyo)

Aug. 24 - Dec. 15: MOCA just loves to keep rooting in the basement. For this new collection of collections, they're capitalizing on the success of their previous exhibit while fine-tuning it to the wayward pitch of Conceptual art. Needless to say, this is fine by us. Works from wordy malcontents...

All Of This Is Melting Away - group exhibition

Royal/T - 8910 Washington Blvd. - Culver City

August 14 - Dec. 31: Jay Sanders, fresh from Greene Naftali Gallery in New York, curates this overview of contemporary Asian art. Like Royal/T's previous "Just Love Me" exhibit, expect a colorful spray of offerings large and small, 3-D and superflat, from usual suspects Takashi Murakami, Yoshitomo...

Alexandra Grant - A.D.D.G . (aux dehors de guillemets)

Honor Fraser - 2622 La Cienega Blvd. - Los Angeles (Art District)

Sept. 6 - Oct. 25: Paint a writing, or write a painting? Inspired by the text of hypertext writer Michael Joyce's "Six Portals," Alexandra Grant has decided to have it both ways with this new exhibit, which includes mobile sculpture, video and six large works on paper. Opening reception Sept. 6, 6 -...

Elizabth Turk - Traces

Bandini Art - 2635 South Fairfax Ave. - Culver City (Art District)

Sept. 6 - Oct. 18: Stone carving is some serious business, but Elizabeth Turk makes it look both easy and beautiful. Her water droplet-pooled sculptures favor heavy naturalism and, if you squint, an exactingly hewn subterranean world might just present itself. Opening reception Sept. 6, 6 - 8 p.m.

Kyle Field - More Country Questions

Taylor De Cordoba - 2660 S. La Cienega Blvd. - Los Angeles (Art District)

Sept. 6 - Oct. 25: Kyle Field, a San Francisco-based artist who also plays most excellent music under the moniker Little Wings (and just happened to play in a band called Rodriguez with a guy named M. Ward) presents a new exhibition of ink and watercolor works on paper. Just like the songs he...