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The editors at Artcards would like to express our sorrow for the loss of artist Mike Kelley (1954-2012). If you would like to add to a memorial for this influential artist, you can help re-create Kelley's 1987 piece entitled, "More Love Hours Than Can Ever Be Repaid and The Wages of Sin," by contributing stuffed fabric toys, afghans, dried corn, or wax candles. Location: End of Tipton Way near Tipton Terrace, off Figueroa St. in Highland Park, 90042. At the end of Tipton Way there is an abandoned driveway next to an empty lot. 
 
Pick up some reading material this Saturday at Various Small Fires, 10am-4pm: Book Affair will function as both a fair and a temporary library and will take place within the current installation, "Murals and Print" by Fiona Connor. Book Affair will also feature furniture made specifically for the event by various artists and designers including Tahi Moore, Joshua Nathanson, Michael Ned Holte, and Fiona Connor among others.

Later, an exhibition at ACME entitled, "Traces," features sculptures and wall works that address different approaches to mark making using everyday materials, with work by Kelly Cline, Erik Lindman, and Christopher Miller. Saturday, 6-8pm.

Did it rain today? 

Lee Foley
Editor, Artcards Los Angeles 

Thursday:
+ Christian Tedeschi, Dave Dyment, David Michael DeBoer, Eamonn Fox, Grant Vetter, Ichiro Irie, Joseph G Cruz, Joseph Hammer, Kaz Oshiro, Matthew Winkler, McLean Fahnestock, Nathan Danilowicz "Twelve" curated by Kio Griffith at West Los Angeles College Art Gallery

Friday:
+ Book launch: "Manifest Destiny... The Gold Launch." at museum of public fiction
+ Euan Macdonald, Floyd Claypool, Jonathan Kroll, Kai Altoff, Microinternational, Pae White "Once Again Particular" curated by Kevin Hanley at Control Room

Saturday:
+ 2nd Cannons, A-Z video, Chinatown: The sequel, Dexter Sinister, Fiona Connor, Harsh Patel, Henry Glover, Joshua Nathanson, Kaleidoscope, Michael Ned Holte, Ooga Booga, Prism of Reality, Semiotexte, Tahi Moore, Textfield, Works Sited, WorldFood Books "Book Affair" at Various Small Fires
+ Pietro Roccasalva "The Strange Young Neighbours" at David Kordansky Gallery
+ Christopher Miller, Erik Lindman, Kelly Cline "Traces" at Acme Gallery
+ David Abir "Renew" at Actual Size Los Angeles

Tuesday, February 7

Tour: De Wain Valentine "Curator's Gallery Talk" curated by Emma Richardson, Rachel Rivenc, Tom Learner at Getty
Brentwood: 1200 Getty Center Drive, CA 90049, 2:30-3:30pm

"So Close And Yet So Far" at Jose Vera Fine Art & Antiques
Eagle Rock: 2012 Colorado Boulevard, CA 90041, 3-5pm

Bobbi Woods, Mark Hagen, Matthew Greene "Spare Me" curated by Mark Verabioff at Night Gallery
Lincoln Heights: 204 S. Ave 19 , CA 90031, 10pm-2am

Wednesday, February 8

Performance: "Chouinard: An Overture" at REDCAT @ CalArts Theater (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater)
Downtown: 631 West 2nd Street, CA 90012, 6-8pm

Izhar Patkin "One Hour / One Painting" at Shoshana Wayne Gallery
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, B1, CA 90404, $25, RSVP to mail@shoshanawayne.com, 6-8pm

Artist Talk: "Culture Fix: John Valadez on the Chicano Art Movement outside of East L.A" at Fowler Museum at UCLA
Westwood / Century City: Westwood Blvd at Sunset Plaza, CA 90069, 12-1pm

Lecture: Ellen Schultz, Jennifer Taub "Corporate Power And Social Responsibility" at Hammer Museum
Westwood / Century City: 10899 Wilshire Blvd, CA 90024, 7-9pm

Thursday, February 9

Andrew Lee, Brian Burchfield, Bridgitte Klappert, Burton Rein, Campbell Laird, David Hudson, Douglas Hill, Fred Kaplan, Gillian Ware, Jeff Alu, Jon Deshler, Kathryn Jacobi, Leslie Rosenthal, Melinda Smith, Merrilee Adler, Pete Jackson, Randall Bass, Wanda Boudreaux "L.A.NDSCAPESII" at LACDA (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art)
Downtown: 107 West 5th street , CA 90013, 7-9pm

Reading: Sarah Lindsay at Hammer Museum
Westwood / Century City: 10899 Wilshire Blvd, CA 90024, 7-8pm

+ Christian Tedeschi, Dave Dyment, David Michael DeBoer, Eamonn Fox, Grant Vetter, Ichiro Irie, Joseph G Cruz, Joseph Hammer, Kaz Oshiro, Matthew Winkler, McLean Fahnestock, Nathan Danilowicz "Twelve" curated by Kio Griffith at West Los Angeles College Art Gallery
Culver City: 9000 Overland Avenue, CA 90230, 7-10pm

Friday, February 10

"Multiplayer x2" at Gallery 1988 (Melrose)
West Hollywood: 7020 Melrose Avenue, CA 90036, 7-10pm

Screening: "Double Feature: 100 Years Of Paramount Pictures" Lady Sings the Blues and Hit! at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
West Hollywood: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 7:30pm and 10pm

+ Book launch: "Manifest Destiny... The Gold Launch." at museum of public fiction
Highland Park: 749 avenue 50, CA 90042, 7-10pm

+ Euan Macdonald, Floyd Claypool, Jonathan Kroll, Kai Altoff, Microinternational, Pae White "Once Again Particular" curated by Kevin Hanley at Control Room
Boyle Heights: 2006 East 7th St, CA 90021, 7-10pm

Saturday, February 11

"Artists Merchandising Art" curated by Christopher Richmond, Hans-Peter Thomas at Wonderloch Kellerland
Silverlake / Echo Park / Atwater: 3149 Glendale Blvd., CA 90039, 7-11pm

Ruth Trotter "Informal" curated by Mariana Hazdovac at Historic Gas Co. Lofts Downtown: 820 South Flower street, CA 90017, 5-7pm

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David Micheal Lee, Michael Kindred Knight "Quotient Space" at Autonomie
Downtown: 333 South Spring Street, Unit #E4, CA 90013, 7-10pm

Rebecca Farr "Edge" at Gallery KM
Santa Monica: 2903 Santa Monica Boulevard, CA 90404, 6-8pm

Farideh Azad, Joel Harris "Dreaming" at Topanga Canyon Gallery
Topanga: 120 N. Topanga Canyon Blvd, suite 109, CA 90290, 4-7pm

Chris Stain, H.Veng Smith, Mimi Yoon, Taka Sudo at C.A.V.E. Gallery
Venice: 1108 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, CA 90291, 6-10pm

+ 2nd Cannons, A-Z video, Chinatown: The sequel, Dexter Sinister, Fiona Connor, Harsh Patel, Henry Glover, Joshua Nathanson, Kaleidoscope, Michael Ned Holte, Ooga Booga, Prism of Reality, Semiotexte, Tahi Moore, Textfield, Works Sited, WorldFood Books "Book Affair" at Various Small Fires
Venice: 1212-B Abbot Kinney Boulevard, CA 90291, 10am-4pm

+ Pietro Roccasalva "The Strange Young Neighbours" at David Kordansky Gallery
Culver City: 3143 S. La Cienega Blvd., Unit A, CA 90016, 6-9pm

"Animal Kingdom" at Corey Helford Gallery
Culver City: 8522 Washington Boulevard, CA 90232, 7-10pm

"From a Whisper to a Roar" at Avenue 50 Studio
Highland Park: 131 North Avenue 50, CA 90042, 7-10pm

Artist Talk: Jack Reilly "Paintings - The Basic Object" at Bleicher/Golightly (MID WILSHIRE)
Mid-Wilshire: 355 N La Brea Avenue, CA 90036, 3pm

James Gobel "Fancy Wonder Free" at Steve Turner Contemporary
Mid-Wilshire: 6026 Wilshire Blvd, CA 90036, Free Admission, 6-8pm

Courtney Johnson, Maysha Mohamedi, Sarah Thibault "Moxie" at Steve Turner Contemporary
Mid-Wilshire: 6026 Wilshire Blvd, CA 90036, 6-8pm

+ Christopher Miller, Erik Lindman, Kelly Cline "Traces" at Acme Gallery
Mid-Wilshire: 6150 Wilshire Blvd., CA 90048, 6-8pm

Jennifer Steinkamp "Moth" at Acme Gallery
Mid-Wilshire: 6150 Wilshire Blvd., CA 90048, 6-8pm

Laurie Frick, Lynn Aldrich, Tim Hawkinson "Death and Life of an Object" curated by Carl Berg at Edward Cella Art + Architecture Mid-Wilshire: 6018 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 6-8pm

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Ken Gonzales-Day, Xavier Cázares Cortéz at Vincent Price Art Museum (East Los Angeles College)
Monterey Park: 1301 Cesar Chavez Ave., 5-7pm

+ David Abir "Renew" at Actual Size Los Angeles
Chinatown: 741 New High Street , CA 90012, 7-10pm

"My Barbarian’s Broke People’s Baroque Peoples’ Theater" at Human Resources (HRLA)
Chinatown: 410 Bernard Street, CA 90012, 7-10pm

Adam D. Miller, Ali Smith, Annie Lapin, Brad Spence, Devon Oder, Erich Bollmann, Florian Morlat, Josh Peters, Kim Fisher, Lara Schnitger, Matthew Monahan, Melise Mestayer, Michael Rey, Pearl C. Hsiung, Roger Herman, Tomory Dodge "Chasm of the Supernova" at Center for the Arts Eagle Rock
Eagle Rock: 2225 Colorado BLVD, CA 90041, 7-9pm

"Swerve" at ShoeboxLA (Kabab Way)
Glendale: 919 Glendale Ave., CA 91205, 3-7pm

Sunday, February 12

"The Difference of a Single Day" at Los Angeles Museum of the Holocaust
West Hollywood: 100 S The Grove Dr. , CA 90036, 1:30pm

Lecture: "Genuine Or Fake? Establishing Authenticity In Traditional Chinese Painting" at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
West Hollywood: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 3-4pm

Artist Talk: Lorenzo Hurtado Segovia at CB1 Gallery
Downtown: 207 W 5th Street, CA 90013, 3:30pm

Performance: Shahrnush Parsipur, Suheir Hammad "The Magic Of Solidarity" at REDCAT @ CalArts Theater (Roy and Edna Disney/CalArts Theater)
Downtown: 631 West 2nd Street, CA 90012, 6-8pm

Camomile Hixon "Sequential Logic" at Frank Pictures Gallery
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, A-5, CA 90404, 6-9pm

M.A. Katcher "This is Not a Person" at Frank Pictures Gallery
Santa Monica: 2525 Michigan Avenue, A-5, CA 90404, 6-9pm

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