VARIOUS SMALL FIRES

PAST GALLERY EXHIBITIONS

PAST ART FAIRS

The Dallas Art Fair (Dallas)--April 12-14, 2013
Amir Nikravan and Anna Sew Hoy.

The Armory Show (New York)-- March 7-10, 2013
Liz Magic Laser's official Armory 2013 Commission Project.
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Art Los Angeles Contemporary (Los Angeles) -- January 24-27, 2013
VSF inventory curated by Lucie Fontaine. With works by Lucie Fontaine, Anna Sew Hoy, John Houck, Liz Magic Laser, Diego Singh, Andrea Longacre-White, Fiona Connor, Amir Nikravan, Kerstin Bratsch and Debo Eilers.
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NADA (Miami) -- December 6-9, 2012
Diego Singh + Anna Sew Hoy + Liz Magic Laser
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PAST GALLERY EVENTS

LAXART UNGALA
Empress Pavilion, Chinatown
Los Angeles
~~March 14, 2013~~

LAXART hosts a performance by Lucie Fontaine.

OOGA BOOGA

Holiday Pop-Up ~~December 6-24, 2012~~

VSF hosts Ooga Booga's holiday retail outpost in Venice. Ooga Booga brings a wide selection of art publications, music, fashion, art and design objects to VSF's storefront on Abbot Kinney.

For this occasion, Ooga Booga commissioned four print editions by artists Shannon Ebner, Raymond Pettibon, David Benjamin Sherry, and Bella Foster, which will be on view and available in the holiday shop.

GILAD RATMAN

Representative 2013 Venice Biennial's Israel Pavillion

Artist Talk
Monday, September 24th, 2012
6:30pm

Join Artis & Braverman Gallery (Tel Aviv) for a Los Angeles presentation by artist Gilad Ratman. Ratman will discuss his recent work and give a preview of his highly-anticipated project for the Israel pavilion at the 2013 Venice Biennale.

This event will take place at ForYourArt (6020 Wilshire Blvd., Los Angeles) and has been organized in conjunction with VARIOUS SMALL FIRES.

BRENDAN FOWLER

LAXART Summer Garden Party
~~Sunday, July 22nd, 2012~~

VARIOUS SMALL FIRES in collaboration with LAXART
presents a new performance work by Brendan Fowler.

Buy presale tickets here.

"ABBOT KINNEY ANNEX" - Hammer's Venice Beach Biennial Weekend

Curated by Human Resources LA
~~Saturday, July 14th, 2012~~
~~3-5pm~~

Please join us on Abbot Kinney at VSF during the Venice Beach Biennial for a series of creative musical performances by SheKhan (Kathleen Kim and Kelly Coats), Paul Waddell, and SFV Acid.

Beverages sponsored by Blue Print Cleanse.
Venice Beach Biennial map pick-up point.

Additional thanks to Sumaiya Kaveh and Dean Spunt of Post Present Medium.

X-TRA MAGAZINE

X-TRA Contemporary Art Quarterly
Summer Issue Launch

~~Sunday, June 19th, 2012~~
~~7-9pm~~

Join us at VARIOUS SMALL FIRES for an evening of short presentations and lectures curated by The Modeling Agency and X-TRA's Managing Editor, Shana Lutker. Dedicated to the study of surfing and smoking, the night’s themes are pulled from the pages of X-TRA's Summer Issue. This event is free and open to the public.

http://x-traonline.org/events/surfingandsmoking/
www.themodelingagency.net

LIZ MAGIC LASER

~~Performance of Preview by Katie Simone Nehra~~
~~Saturday, May 12th, 2012~~
~~7pm~~

For opening night only, Laser will present Preview, a live performance in collaboration with Katie Simone Nehra. Preview is an interactive monologue that adapts language from movie trailers that command audience members to imagine losing their identity. An earlier incarnation of Preview debuted at Recess Inc. in New York City on March 8th, 2010, with actor Max Woertendyke as part of Simone Leigh's Be Black Baby project.

DEBO EILERS & KERSTIN BRÄTSCH

~~Live Painting and Auction~~
~~Saturday, March 27th, 2012~~
~~6-9pm~~

For their opening of Kaya 2, Debo Eilers and Kerstin Brätsch present a performative painting experience. Fifty-three unique paintings will be produced continuously throughout the evening and be auctioned off in real time by auctioneers Amy Yao and Ross McClain. These Eilers/Brätsch collaborative paintings will receive their final touch that evening when Brätsch paints her authorial signature across each painting using Eilers' sculptural paintbrushes.

AMANDA HUNT: A BRIEF VIDEO PROGRAM

~~Saturday, March 3rd, 2012~~
~~8pm~~

Join us for "A Fear of Paranoia,"a carefully selected video program by LAXART Curator, Amanda Hunt.

The evening will feature short video works by Sanya Kantarovsky, George Kontos, Eder Santos, and Yemenwed. Many of these works will have their public debut this evening.

ALEX ISRAEL

~~Mural Project 2012 Commission Unveiling~~
~~Friday, January 27th, 2012~~
~~7pm-10pm; 8pm Ribbon Cutting~~

Please join VARIOUS SMALL FIRES, Seathos Foundation and Alex Israel for the unveiling of his mural commission, "Abbot Kinney Mural." The party will also feature a Freeway Eyewear pop-up shop, with proceeds benefiting the Seathos Foundation's mission to raise ocean awareness. Please visit our MURAL page for more information.

FIONA CONNOR & CO.

~~Book Affair~~
~~Saturday, February 11th, 2012~~
~~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. Participants include 2nd Cannons, A-Z video, Chinatown: the sequel, Dexter Sinister, Harsh Patel, Henry Glover, Kaleidoscope, Ooga Booga, Prism of Reality, Semiotexte, Textfield, Works Sited, and WorldFood Books.

While books will be offered for sale, the event will also be an opportunity for local publishers and artists to share titles and editions that are not always available to the Los Angeles community. Along these lines, each participant will bring five books for either selling and/or sharing. A comprehensive bibliography with all participants and their titles will also be compiled and distributed. There will also be a xerox machine located on the premises for visitors to use. Organized by Olivian Cha.

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.

~~Walls and the Subtle Body & Heatwave~~
~~Sunday, January 15th, 2012~~
~~6pm~~

Two performances that will engage the architectural environment of Fiona Conner’s current exhibition at VSF, Murals and Print.

Walls and the Sublet Body is a collaborative sound work produced by Chiara Giovando and Brian Butler. Heatwave is a dance exploration of Connor’s walls choreographed and performed by Zachary Sharrin.

As Giovando states, “Architecture exists in two realms the physical and the subtle. It effects us tangibly, walls bar us, direct our movement and designate private space, but also architecture effects us energetically in abstract ways. The form of walls shape things unseen.”

This evening is part of a series of performative acts throughout the "Murals and Print" exhibition intended to demonstrate the body’s relation to space in general as well as to commercial gallery spaces at large.