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DORIAN WOOD — ARDOR

In March [2020, when everything was] shut down, knowing that I wouldn’t be going anywhere for a very long time, I took a month off to be sad and frustrated. When the murders of George Floyd and Breonna Taylor set off a series of massive nationwide actions led by Black Lives Matter, I turned my feelings of anger and helplessness into motivation, which inspired me to work simultaneously on ARDOR and REACTOR. I created these two works to serve as love letters to activists, medical workers, and service workers everywhere—music to encourage acts of resistance, and to soothe at the end of the day…

[In June 2020] I was generously offered a week-long residency at Human Resources Los Angeles to do whatever I wanted. After months of being at home [in quarantine], I was so happy to have the opportunity to let loose inside a big, empty space, and one that has hosted so many of my past performances. I invited my dear friend and longtime guitarist Michael Corwin to come down and record a mix of original and cover songs we’d performed together over the years. We were masked and distant throughout the recording session. After the first hour of setting gear up, we immediately fell into our own special chemistry. Thus, most of the songs you hear on ARDOR are single recorded takes. — Dorian Wood

ARDOR—the first of two upcoming albums by Dorian Wood—will be released on Friday, September 4. The album includes three original compositions by Wood, as well as songs by Prince, Juan Gabriel, Malvina Reynolds, Violeta Parra, and Chavela Vargas.

On the weekend of ARDOR’s launch, the Institute of Contemporary Art Los Angeles presents a livestream album release concert.

See links below for details.

DORIAN WOOD—ARDOR

Pre-order now.

DORIAN WOOD—ARDOR LIVESTREAM CONCERT

ICA / LA

Sunday, September 6.

Noon on the West Coast; 3 pm East Coast; 8 pm London; 9 pm Paris.

Dorian Wood, photographs by Gonzo Bojorquez (2); Wood, photograph by Max Fleury; Dorian Wood, Ardor (2020) cover; Wood, photograph by Fleury; Wood, photograph by Bojorquez. Images courtesy and © the artist and the photographers.

ANN GREENE KELLY

Ann Greene Kelly‘s suspended exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Art in Los Angeles features sculptural works which combine “found, everyday objects, such as mattresses and tires sourced from the areas surrounding her studio, with traditional sculptural materials, drawing, and collage.”

Kelly is a participant in the Hammer Museum biennial Made in L.A. 2020. See Andrew Berardini on Kelly in Mousse 71.

ANN GREENE KELLY

Through June 14.

Institute of Contemporary Art

1717 East 7th Street, downtown Los Angeles.

Ann Greene Kelly, from top: Still Life Studio Door, 2019, colored pencil on paper, collection of Keith Couser; Untitled (Folding chair building with boot), 2018, plastic furniture, folding chair, resin, plaster, and graphite; Untitled (small, circular bench), 2017, plastic chairs, resin, wire, hardware, plaster, colored pencil; Shirt with Smokestack, 2019, colored pencil on paper; Untitled, 2019, mattress, onyx fountain drain, fence, and plaster; Untitled, 2020, tires, hardware, plaster, cans, graphite, colored pencil, fabric (2), photographs by Jeff McLane, ICA LA; Spilled Drink, 2019, colored pencil on paper. Images courtesy and © the artist, Chapter NY, New York, and Michael Benevento, Los Angeles.

WU TSANG AT ICA

Wu Tsang—the spring 2019 Art Council Chair at the UCLA Department of Art—will give a visiting artist lecture at the Institute of Contemporary Art, Los Angeles.

WU TSANG—ARTIST TALK

Wednesday, December 4, at 7 pm.

Institute of Contemporary Art

1717 East 7th Street, downtown Los Angeles.

From top: Wu Tsang, photograph by Maciek Jasik; Wu Tsang, Into a Space of Love, 2018, stills (2), courtesy and © Frieze and Gucci; Fred Moten and Wu Tsang, Who Touched Me? (2018), cover image courtesy and © If I Can’t Dance; Wu Tsang, The Looks, 2015, featuring boychild, Kunsthalle Düsseldorf, photograph by Achim Kukulies, Düsseldorf; Wu Tsang, Damelo Todo / Odot Olemad, Migros Museum für Gegenwartskunst, Zurich, photograph by Stefan Alteburger. Images courtesy and © the artist, the photographers, the publishers, Clifton Benevento, Michael Benevento, and Isabella Bortolozzi.

KARA WALKER AT CAAM

In conjunction with the ongoing exhibition CALIFORNIA BOUND—SLAVERY ON THE NEW FRONTIER, 1848–1865, join Kara Walker and Institute of Contemporary Art curator Jamillah James for a conversation at CAAM.

KARA WALKER and JAMILLAH JAMES IN CONVERSATION

Monday, April 1, from 7 pm to 9 pm.

California African American Museum

600 State Drive, Exposition Park, Los Angeles.

From top: Kara Walker, courtesy the artist and CAAM; Kara Walker, The Katastwóf Karavan,Prospect 4: The Lotus in Spite of the Swamp, Algiers Point, New Orleans, courtesy the artist.

LUCAS BLALOCK

Lucas Blalock—whose work “highlight[s] his technical footprints within an image”—will give the Handtmann Photography Lecture at USC this week.*

A week later AN ENORMOUS OAR—Blalock’s first solo museum show—will open in downtown Los Angeles, presenting over twenty works from the last five years.

Blalock will join ICA LA curator and exhibition organizer Jamillah James for a conversation in mid-February.

LUCAS BLALOCK—HANDTMANN LECTURE

Tuesday, February 5, at 6 pm.

MFA Art Building, USC

3001 South Flower Street, Los Angeles.

LUCAS BLALOCK—AN ENORMOUS OAR*

February 10 through July 21.

LUCAS BLALOCK IN CONVERSATION WITH JAMILLAH JAMES

Sunday, February 17, at 3 pm.

Institute of Contemporary Art

1717 East 7th Street, downtown Los Angeles.

From top: Lucas Blalock, Conch and Berries and, 2015–17, archival inkjet print; Lucas Blalock, Emile, Man of the Future, 2016–17, archival inkjet print; Lucas Blalock, Dancing Girl, 2016; Lucas Blalock, The Sleepers, 2016, archival inkjet print. Images courtesy the artist, Galerie Eva Presenhuber, Zürich and New York, and ICA, Los Angeles.