Art Walk Preview: December, 2009
Ed Fuentes
DOWNTOWN LOS ANGELES — December's Downtown Art Walk is heavy on holiday shopping, with galleries and vendors looking to cheaper sales to find a profit from the season. The non-profit that manages the monthly event is still in search of a leader, and the economic downturn has taken a heavy toll on galleries.
Still, Art Walk rolls forward, and the new Gallery Row signs on Spring and Main get an official dedication in a 3pm ceremony at 4th and Spring. Just make sure to bundle up and consider packing an umbrella.
Update (2pm): Umbrella warning heeded. Nic Cha Kim of Gallery Row sends a Facebook message that the signage ceremony will now be held at 4th and Spring, just inside the Continental Building.
The Art Walk website still lists the October map as its most recent, so let us guide your trip around the neighborhood.
Starting at 5th and Main, Bert Green Fine Art has extended Clive Barker's new photographic series "Imagining Man" to December 24. A catalog signing will be held Saturday, December 12 from 2-4 pm. 102 W. 5th
Walk a block up Main and turn east on Winston, where Crewest already has a hit with "Printed II: An Exhibition of Hand Printed Art at Crewest" and continues to offer some of the most important urban art -- and affordable art -- on the West Coast. 110 Winston
Back to Main, then up to 4th. Cut west to Spring and north one block to find Lot 44 Coffee's Holiday Art Sale featuring artists from the Lola Mora Gallery during Art Walk from 6pm to 9pm. 257 S. Spring
Head down Spring to 5th and turn right to find the Deborah Martin Gallery, whose website shows Melanie Van Latum's "portraits of hardboiled baroque, neo-noir coterie of haunting, flamboyant heroines" runs December 10- January 2, 2010. Artist Reception is Saturday December 12, 6-10pm. 209 W. 5th
One more block down Spring, then left on 6th. Across Main you'll find Compactspace, which offers "feeling Feelings" to "investigate the immediacy of emotive response to cultural production. The exhibition creates a space in which to reconsider the manipulation of feeling on the scale of the personal and the social." 106 E. 6th
Circle back up Main to 5th and find LADCA, with Wally Gilbert's "Vanishing" mix of science and art, "a series of abstractions that are each an ever more mysterious and complex variation on this initial image." 18 works include a number of large scale prints to be on display for the LACDA exhibit. 107 W. 5th
roberto on December 10, 2009, at 09:49AM – #1
i think you forgot the furniture space at 5th and main. they have some amazing ART i saw yesterday.. and they had ART up last month as well... amazing fun space.. works with aART WALK actually.. I can see what the ART would actually look like in a home environment.. NOT just hung on a blank white wall...makes you want to BUY the ART.
Roberto
Ankur on December 10, 2009, at 11:28AM – #2
didnt get you the first time roberto. please clarify.
ART?
Noe on December 10, 2009, at 04:16PM – #3
He means: bed, couch, lamp, sofa, and chair.
It's a conceptual approach to art, really, but the all caps remain a mystery, unless as an acronym for Aggravated Retail Terrorism.
roberto on December 11, 2009, at 12:51AM – #4
are you kidding me? i live above the space and it only brings SAFETY to my everyday walk home.. again retail in areas like ours bring light and safety!