Past Special Events

2011 Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Benefit Auction

Sunday, May 1. 2011, 3:00PM

The Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Associates and the Barnsdall Art Park Foundation present a silent and live auction of works by acclaimed contemporary artists—many of whom got their start at the gallery.

For more than fifty years the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery has been the City of Los Angeles’s primary exhibition venue for visual art. It has operated with equity and impartiality, embracing a wide-ranging aesthetic while remaining mindful of its responsibility to the public and striving to enhance the quality of life for all Angelinos. Over its life span the gallery has presented hundreds of exhibitions that showcased the work of thousands of artists from the region—many at the earliest stages in their careers. In an expanding environment of cultural exchange and imagination, the Municipal Art Gallery is a vital forum for introducing citizens to their own cultural heritage and the art of our time.

The benefit will help fund the exhibitions and innovative, participatory programs that have become the hallmark of a cultural institution dedicated to fostering awareness, curiosity, and creative seeing.

PREVIEW THE AUCTION HERE! >

From the top left, artwork by: Richard Serra, Alexandra Wiesenfeld, Tony Brown, Kyungmi Shin, Bonita Helmer, Karen Sikie, Nicholas Fedak II, Manfred Müller

Artists include
Kim Abeles | Edith Abeyta | Suzanne Adelman
Lita Albuquerque | Juna Amano | Michael Arata
Edgar Arceneaux | John Baldessari | Kireilyn Barber
Christopher Barbour | Barbara Berk | Richard Bilow
Sandow Birk | Caroline Blackburn | Lou Beach
Richard Bilow | Amy Bouse | Angie Bray
Tony Brown | Nancy Buchanan | Anita Bunn
Max King Cap | Jo Ann Callis | Castillo
Ching Ching Cheng | Joe Davidson | Roberto Delgado
Raoul De la Sota | David DiMichele | Dana Duff
Sam Durant | Val Echavarria | Nicholas Fedak II
Alice Fellows | Kathi Flood | Martin Gantman
Carol Goldmark | Orestes, Gonzalez | Phyllis Green
Todd Gray | Mark Steven Greenfield | Mary Addison, Hackett
Doug Harvey | Charles Hachadourian | Marybeth Heffernan
Bonita Helmer | Juan Carlos Munoz Hernandez | Anne Hieronymus
Linda Jacobson | Gegam Kacherian | Mike Kelley & Michael Smith
Siri Kaur | Yoichi Kawamura | Nicholette Kominos
Peter Liashkov | Ronald J. Llanos | Nuttaphol Ma
Daniel Joseph Martinez | Meg Madison | Barry Markowitz
David MacDowell | Charlene Matthews | Maddy Le Mel
Mineo Mizuno | John Mooney | Manfred Muller
Rosalyn Myles | Kristen Neveu | John David O’Brien
Chris Oatey | Stas Orlovski | Ara Oshagan
Sheila Pinkel | Mei Xian Qiu | Stuart Rapeport
Tony de los Reyes | Rebecca Ripple | Frank Romero
Charlene Roth | Joy J. Rotblatt | Alison Saar
Betye Saar | Lezley Saar | Connie Samaras
Gwen Samuels | Michael Sheehan | Kyungmi Shin
Peter Shire | Karen Sikie | Nathan Singer
Anna E. Siqueiros | May Sun | Kent Twitchell
Mauricio Vallejo | Margo Victor | Margaret von Biesen
Pat Warner | Marnie Weber | Wayne White
Alexandra Wiesenfeld | Karen Frimkess Wolff | Nan Wollman
Michiko Yao | Liz Young | Mary Younakof | Carrie Yury

Auctioneer: Alex Slato, Associate Director, LA ARTCORE
Benefit Committee
Edward Cella, EDWARD CELLA ART + ARCHITURE
Mary Leigh Cherry, CHERRY AND MARTIN
A. McLean Emenegger, MILO + MCLEAN/MCLEAN FINE ART
Stephen Cohen, PHOTO LA & ART LA PROJECTS
Sidney Felsen & Joni Moisant Weyl, GEMINI G.E.L. LLC
Lauri Firstenberg, LAXART
Emi Fontana, WEST OF ROME PUBLIC Art
Peter Frank, HUFFINGTON POST/FABRIK MAGAZINE
Kathy Gallegos, AVENUE 50 STUDIO
Eric Garcetti , LA CITY COUNCIL
Edward Goldman, ART TALK KCRW
Andrew Hosner, THINKSPACE
Nowell J. Karten, ANGLES Gallery
Kristi Engle, KRISTI ENGLE Gallery
Tom La Bonge, LA CITY COUNCIL
Steven Lavine, CAL ARTS
Merry Norris, MERRY MORRIS CONTEMPORARY ART
Jack Rutberg, JACK RUTBERG GALLERY
Billy Shire, LA LUZ DE JESUS GALLERY
Franklin Sirmans, LACMA
Rose Soshana, ROSE GALLERY
Louis Stern, LOUIS STERN FINE ART
Tressa Williams, GEORGE BILLIS GALLERY LA

Media Sponsors

Sponsors
Barnsdall Art Park Foundation
GYST Ink (An artist run company for artists)
Jeff Kies Custom Picture Framing

For information contact:
Meg Madison | meg@megmadison.com | 213.393.9333
Program Committee Chair, Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery Associates


2010 Juried Exhibition Special Events

Project Room

The Amazing Neutras: The Architecture of Richard and Dion Neutra in Orange County, California
An exhibition project of the Neutra Institute for Survival through Design curated by Dion Neutra

Conversations with the Artists

Friday, August 20 at 7 p.m.
Friday, August 27th at 7 p.m.
Friday, September 3 at 7p.m.
Saturday, September 25 at 2 p.m.
Admission Free

Conversation with the Jurors &
Special Micro Beer Tasting

Saturday, September 11 at 2 p.m.
Franklin Sirmans, Department Head/Curator of
Contemporary Art at LACMA

Sunday, September 19 at 2 p.m.
Ali Subotnick, Curator at HAMMER Museum

Admission: $20 per person
Please RSVP to 323.644.6269


The New Short Fiction Series™ moves to LAMAG in 2010

The New Short Fiction Series™, Los Angeles’ longest running spoken word series, is moving to the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery at Barnsdall Park in cooperation with the City of Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs. Reservations are recommended. Performances begin at 7:00 pm, admission is $10.00 with advance purchase, $15.00 at the door. For program information and tickets visit www.newshortfictionseries.com or call 866-811-4111.

The New Short Fiction Series™ is an institution, and a unique one—an exciting hybrid of literary and theatrical arts, nationally acknowledged for promoting the literature of West Coast writers. An invaluable and integral part of the Los Angeles literary scene, The New Short Fiction Series is one of the few great and original venues for narrative fiction to be enjoyed by an audience. West Coast writers face unusual obstacles in living so far from the New York center of publishing. The New Short Fiction Series™ provides writers and audiences a vital link to a wider literary network, and the Los Angeles Municipal Art Gallery believes that this spoken word series is one of the best ways to make literature available to the widest possible audience in Southern California.

Winter 2010
January 10: Andrea Lisa Leeb, Painted Bicycles and other stories
February 14: Shuba Venugopal, The Name of Longing
March 14: Tatijana Soli, Pasta Diva and other stories
April 11: Robert Morgan Fisher, Cabaret Nation

Summer 2010
May 9: Martha Ronk, Transfer of Qualities
June 13: 7th Annual Emerging Voices Group Show
July 11: Suzanne Rivecca, Death Is Not An Option Book Launch in cooperation with WW Norton
August 8: Andrea Seigel, Here At The Beginning and other stories

Fall 2010
September 12: Stefan Kiesbye, The Devil’s Moor
October 10: Peter Balaskas, In Our House
November 14: Mary Rechner, Hot Springs LA Book Launch in cooperation with Propeller Books