Frances Stark, Push (2006)

The Ephemera of Art and Life
The Hammer Museum – Los Angeles, CA
1/30 thru 4/24/11

All of this and nothing is the sixth in the Hammer Museum’s biennial invitational exhibition series, which highlights work of Los Angeles-based artists, both established and emerging, alongside a number of international artists. All of this and nothing features more than 60 works, much of it created for the exhibition, by fourteen artists: Karla Black, Charles Gaines, Evan Holloway, Sergej Jensen, Ian Kiaer, Jorge Macchi, Dianna Molzan, Fernando Ortega, Eileen Quinlan, Gedi Sibony, Paul Sietsema, Frances Stark, Mateo Tannatt and Kerry Tribe.  The Hammer is in our estimation the coolest and culturally relevant museum Los Angeles and this exhibition will an be eye-opening display of our local art community!

Charles Gaines, Manifesto Scores

EXHIBITION-RELATED PUBLIC PROGRAMS
Sunday, January 30, 2PM
Exhibition Walkthrough With Hammer curators Anne Ellegood and Douglas Fogle, and artist Charles Long

Wednesday, February 2, 7PM
Artist talk with Charles Gaines
Charles Gaines was born in Charleston, S.C., in 1944 and has been described as “one of the first, if not the first, African American, to work in the field of conceptual art.” All of this and nothing will feature Gaines’s 2008 work Manifestos, consisting of monumental graphite drawings of musical scores conceptually derived from four famous political manifestos. Gaines lives in Los Angeles and teaches at the California Institute of the Arts.

The first major exhibition at the Hammer to be curated jointly by the museum’s chief curator, Douglas Fogle and senior curator Anne Ellegood, this exhibition presents a wide range of media including painting, sculpture, drawing, installation, sound, performance, and the moving image.

Sunday, February 6, 2PM
Exhibition Walkthrough*
With All of this and nothing artist Paul Sietsema

Thursday, February 17, 7PM
Exhibition Walkthrough*
With photographer and filmmaker Charlie White

Sunday, February 20, 2PM
Exhibition Walkthrough*
With All of this and nothing artist Dianna Molzan

Tuesday, March 22, 7PM
Hammer Lecture
With art historian Tim Griffin

Gedi Sibony – “The Predicament”

Tuesday, March 29, 7PM
Artist Talk with Gedi Sibony
Gedi Sibony was born in New York in 1973 and educated at Brown University, Skowhegan School of Painting and Sculpture, and Columbia University. Using primarily found discarded remnants, Sibony minimally alters raw materials that are often associated with building construction, including drywall, wood, cardboard, and carpet. Through their quiet, unusual placement, Sibony affects subtle shifts in the surrounding architecture. Sibony lives and works in New York.

Thursday, March 31, 7PM
Exhibition Walkthrough*
With artist James Welling

Sunday, April 3, 2PM
Exhibition Walkthrough*
With All of this and nothing artist Evan Holloway

EXHIBITION-RELATED PERFORMANCES
The exhibition will also be accompanied by a series of performances by artists in the exhibition.

Wednesday, March 9, 7PM
Performance of Manifestos scores by Charles Gaines

Thursday, April 7, 7PM
Performance of Kerry Tribe’s Critical Mass (performers: Jasmine Woods and Reed Windle)

Sunday, April 17, 2PM
Performance by Frances Stark

Thursday, April 21, 7PM, Closing Bash
Performance by band The Right Wing with Evan Holloway, Stan Kaplan and Jason
Meadows.

EXHIBITION-RELATED FAMILY WORKSHOPS
Sunday, February 20, 1PM
Family Workshops: Everything and Nothing: Sculpture of the Everyday
In this workshop, parents and kids engage in artistic processes inspired by the work of the artists featured in the exhibition All of this and nothing. Participants will experiment with found materials, sculpture, ephemera in activities designed to reveal the immense world of art-making materials that surround them. There is a $25 per family refundable registration fee to hold your place for all three workshops.

Enrollment is limited; please call Academic Programs at 310-443-7055 or email: academicprograms@hammer.ucla.edu to enroll.

Dates:
Session 1: Sunday, February 20, 1–3PM
Session 2: Sunday, February 27, 1–3PM
Session 3: Sunday, March 6, 1–3PM

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