The theme of this week's editor's picks is, "Building Awareness." Many exhibitions opening this Saturday address concepts of one's place in a larger environment.

At LAXART: For the Wild is the collaborative manifestation of Kelly Poe’s intimate correspondences with seven activists. In her letters, Poe asked them to describe the places that keep them sane, to tell her what time of day to visit these sites so that she could capture the location’s undisturbed beauty as it existed in their mind’s eye. In addition to the collection of images exhibited here, the artist produced a handmade, oversized book. 

At Thomas Solomon Gallery: In an exhibition of new work by Mitchell Syrop entitled, Bifurcated Life, the artist presents a series of 28 images, derived from notebook pages. The work evolves through a series of statements sometimes repeating themselves while transmuting in the process and eventually pushing the boundaries of language and representation. Written from an interior perspective, the work resounds with existential tones that reflect on the dialectic of writing as creation and the embodiment of the artist’s divided public and private personas.

At Favorite Goods: The Real Conquests redirects the gaze to the peripheral, putting the viewer behind the lens or in the shadows. The overlooked object is turned into the subject and portrayed with a simplistic ambiguity, creating new myths, understandings, and a nostalgia for what is lost even while being in it’s presence. Featuring work by Milano Chow, Julie Grosche, Andres Laracuente, and Van Hanos.

Peace. ;)

Friday:
+ Screening: "Exhibition Film Series: Ellsworth Kelly Selects" at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)

Saturday:
+ "Open Network" at Cirrus Gallery
+ Kelly Poe "For the Wild" at LaxArt
+ David Schafer "What Should an Astronaut-Painter Do?" at Glendale College Art Gallery
+ Mitchell Syrop "Bifurcated Life" at Thomas Solomon Gallery
+ Andres Laracuente, Julie Grosche, Milano Chow, Van Hanos "The Real Conquests" at Favorite Goods

Tuesday, March 6

Lecture: Jeffrey Kipnis "Who is Moss?" at Sci-Arc
Downtown: 960 E 3rd Street, CA 90013, 7-9pm

"Super Tuesday Party" Co-presented with the Los Angeles League of Conservation Voters and the L.A. Chapter of Drinking Liberally at Hammer Museum
Westwood / Century City: 10899 Wilshire Blvd, CA 90024, 7pm

Wednesday, March 7

Workshop: "Green Living Workshops with Sustainable Works" at G2 Gallery
Venice: 1503 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, CA 90291, 7-8:30pm

Panel Discussion: "Fast Forward: Big City Forum" at Armory Center for the Arts
Pasadena: 145 North Raymond Avenue, CA 91103, 7pm

Thursday, March 8

Owen Kydd, Sarah Cromarty, Sarah Dougherty, Timo Fahler "MFA Exhibition #1" at UCLA (New Wight Gallery)
Beverly Hills: 240 Charles E. Young Drive, suite 1100, CA 90095, 5-8pm

Jennifer Locke, Tad Beck "Capsize" at LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Hollywood: 6522 Hollywood Boulevard, CA 90028, 8-10pm

Natalie Bookchin "Now he's out in public and everyone can see" at LACE Los Angeles Contemporary Exhibitions
Hollywood: 6522 Hollywood Boulevard, CA 90028, 8-10pm

"LACDA Eighth Anniversary Retrospective" at LACDA (Los Angeles Center for Digital Art)
Downtown: 107 West 5th street , CA 90013, 7-9pm

Artist Talk: Rebecca Farr "Edge" curated by Deb Klowden Mann at Gallery KM Santa Monica: 2903 Santa Monica Boulevard, CA 90404, free, 7-9pm

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Reading: "Poetry: Louise Glück" at Hammer Museum
Westwood / Century City: 10899 Wilshire Blvd, CA 90024, 7pm

Friday, March 9

"Is This Thing On? 2: The Weird Year" at Gallery 1988 (Melrose)
West Hollywood: 7020 Melrose Avenue, CA 90036, 7-10pm

+ Screening: "Exhibition Film Series: Ellsworth Kelly Selects" at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
West Hollywood: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 7pm

Mathew Timmons "Open Mind" at Weekend
Hollywood: 4634 Hollywood Boulevard, CA 90027, 7-10pm

Saturday, March 10

"LACMA Special Projects: Ryan Perez, The Arrival" at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
West Hollywood: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 5pm-8:30pm

Samantha Viloria, Veronica Florez "Brainchild" at Co-op 28 gallery
Los Feliz: 1728 N Vermont avenue, CA 90027, 6-9pm

Auction: "Celebrate: The Wearable" at A+D Museum (Architecture and Design Museum)
Miracle Mile / Mid-City: 6032 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 7-11pm

"Print Imprint" at Actual Size Los Angeles (Cirrus Gallery)
Downtown: 542 S Alameda St., CA 90013, 7-10pm

+ "Open Network" at Cirrus Gallery
Downtown: 542 S. Alameda street, CA 90013, 7-10pm

Inigo Manglano-Ovalle, Marco Brambilla, Richard T. Walker, Sharon Ellis, Takehito Koganezawa "Visionary Landscape II" at Christopher Grimes Gallery
Santa Monica: 916 Colorado Avenue, CA 90401, 6-8pm

Lillian Bassman "A Life" at Peter Fetterman Gallery
Santa Monica: 2525 A7 Michigan Avenue , CA 90404, 2-6pm

Panel Discussion: "Moving Forward, Life after the Great East Japan Earthquake" at Fowler Museum at UCLA
Westwood / Century City: Westwood Blvd at Sunset Plaza, CA 90069, 1:30-3:30pm

"Four Year Anniversary Party" at G2 Gallery
Venice: 1503 Abbot Kinney Boulevard, CA 90291, 6:30-9pm

Phil Chang "Cache, Archive" at LaxArt
Culver City: 2460 S. La Cienaga , CA 90034, 6-8pm

+ Kelly Poe "For the Wild" at LaxArt
Culver City: 2460 S. La Cienaga , CA 90034, 6-8pm

Ben Sakoguchi "Paintings 1966 to Present" at Cardwell Jimmerson Contemporary Art
Culver City: 8568 Washington Blvd, CA 90232, 6-8pm

Amy Sol "Numina" at Corey Helford Gallery
Culver City: 8522 Washington Boulevard, CA 90232, 7-10pm

Allison Achauer, Timothy Sellers "Allison Photographs & Timothy Paintings" at Future Studio
Highland Park: 5558 N Figueroa St, CA 90042, 7-10pm

Cidne Hart, Ester Petschar, Fabian Debora, Guadalupe Rodriguez, Honorio Robledo, Isabel Martinez, J. Michael Walker, Marianne Sadowski, Mercedes Gertz, Mita Cuaron, Paola Gonzalez, Raquel Martinez, Rebekah Tarin, Suzanne Siegel "Guadalupe Malintzin: The Virgin and The 'Traitor'" at Avenue 50 Studio
Highland Park: 131 North Avenue 50, CA 90042, 7-10pm

Andres Montoya "Scapes-Real and Imagined" at Avenue 50 Studio
Highland Park: 131 North Avenue 50, CA 90042, 7-10pm

+ David Schafer "What Should an Astronaut-Painter Do?" at Glendale College Art Gallery
Misc., East of LA: 1500 N verdugo road , CA 91206, 4-7pm

+ Mitchell Syrop "Bifurcated Life" at Thomas Solomon Gallery
Chinatown: 427 Bernard Street, CA 90012, 6-8pm

"Bruno Fazzolari" at Jancar Jones Gallery
Chinatown: 506 Bernard Street, CA 90012, 6-9pm

+ Andres Laracuente, Julie Grosche, Milano Chow, Van Hanos "The Real Conquests" at Favorite Goods
Chinatown: 936 1/2 Chung King Road, CA 90102, 7-10pm

Closing reception: "My Barbarian’s Broke People’s Baroque Peoples’ Theater" at Human Resources (HRLA)
Chinatown: 410 Cottage Home street, CA 90012, 7-10pm

Sunday, March 11

Robert Adams "The Place We Live" at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
West Hollywood: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 11am-8pm

Book Signing: "Exhibiting Blackness" at LACMA (Los Angeles County Museum of Art)
West Hollywood: 5905 Wilshire Boulevard, CA 90036, 2pm

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