Upcoming Events for Calendar

Jul. 8, 2012 - Jun 30, 2013 : Nate Page: Instituted Angles of Path and Display

Wed, 27 Jun 2012 15:25:24 -0700

Nate Page
Instituted Angles of Path and Display
Exhibition Date: July 7, 2012 - June 2013
Opening Reception: Saturday, July 7, 2012, 7pm - 9pm
Armory's Main Stairwell

Armory Center for the Arts presents a temporary, site-specific installation by Los Angeles-based artist Nate Page in its central stairwell through June 2013.

Page’s newest work, entitled Instituted Angles of Path and Display, challenges the ultra-functional design of the Armory’s main stairwell. Page has removed one of the stairwell’s two large metal handrails, turned it 90 degrees, and mounted it in the middle of the space on a pedestal-like structure that follows the crooked trajectory of the stairs and the landing. This simple gesture both highlights and alters the existing framework and prescriptive design of the space, which remains fully functional although visually distorted. Central to Page’s practice is an interest in engaging elements of perceived and given space in built environments, often through objects dismissed as peripheral or incidental.

Page acknowledges that railings generally can serve two functions: one for handrail support, and the other as a boundary. By turning a railing on its side and using it to bisect the Armory stairwell, Page shifts our point of view what a handrail is for. Page has created a topography of the climber's passage and an opportunity for visitors to become aware of their physical and psychological relationships to the architecture by negotiating passage (stair) vs. path (boundary railing). Familiar visual and spatial rhythms are interrupted, inviting the viewer to reconsider the function of the space – and possibly, the artist hopes, to find more potential than what it is programmed for.

Nate Page lives in Los Angeles. His work has been seen at Lothringer Dreizehn Space for Contemporary Art in Munich, Hotel Pupik in Schrattenberg Austria, Warsaw Academy of the Arts, Warsaw, John Michael Kohler Center for the Arts in Sheboygan, WI, No Name Exhibitions @ The Soap Factory, Minneapolis, and at Cooper Union and Jen Bekman Gallery, both in New York. Page has produced many environments with Machine Project in Los Angeles including A Field Guide to LACMA at Los Angeles County Museum of Art and has shown nationally including Woodbury University Hollywood Gallery, Institute of Visual Arts at University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee, and Otis College of Art and Design in Los Angeles. From 2001-2004, Page co-directed an experimental artist collaborative and exhibition space in Milwaukee called the Rust Spot. He received a MFA from the California Institute of the Arts and a BFA from Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design and attended the Warsaw Academy of Art in Warsaw, Hotel Pupik in Schrattenberg Austria, and the New York Studio Program and the Summer Residency at The Cooper Union, both in New York City.

Nov. 15, 2012 - Dec 31, 2013 : The Full Dollar Collection of Contemporary Art on York Blvd. by X. Andrade

Thu, 15 Nov 2012 15:04:41 -0800

Outpost @ Armory is pleased present The Full Dollar Collection of Contemporary Art, an ongoing, neighborhood-based public art project conceived and launched by X. Andrade, an artist and anthropologist based in Ecuador. Andrade reconsiders the traditions of public art, signage, and murals by inviting collaboration between teams of artists, sign painters, and business owners. In the process he reveals and celebrates the inherent challenges of translation that occur within collaborative undertakings. This iteration of Full Dollar, realized for the first time in the United States, features four collaboratively produced images, hand painted by professional sign painters and inspired by the work of visual artists, on the storefronts of partnering businesses along York Boulevard between Avenues 50 and 52.

The resulting signs will be on display for one year and are made by the following teams:

Sign painter Rodolfo Cardona (“Kardona”), visual artist Ruby Osorio, and Awesome Playground, an indoor/outdoor children’s play area.

Sign Painter Anna Ialeggio, visual artist Martin Durazo, and Digicolor, a digital image lab.

Sign painter Kimberley “The Window Goddess” Edwards, visual artist Shizu Saldamando, and Mi Vida, a lifestyle boutique.
Sign painter Rodolfo Cardona (“Kardona”), artist Sandow Birk, and The Nogueira Building, a leading proprietor in the community since the 1960s.

Presented by Pop-Hop Books & Print. The Full Dollar Collection of Contemporary Art in Highland Park is produced by Outpost @ Armory with support from the Los Angeles Department of Cultural Affairs and the Los Angeles County Arts Commission.

About X. Andrade
X. Andrade (Otavalo, Ecuador, 1963) currently lives and works in New York City by way of Guayaquil and Quito, Ecuador where he was the Chair of the Visual Anthropology Program at the Latin American Graduate Faculty for Social Sciences (FLACSO-Ecuador). He defines himself as “an urban anthropologist and Chairman-for-Life of Full Dollar Inc., a company that traffics in anthropology and contemporary art.” His work is informed by his interest in casting an ethnographic look on the social life of objects, images, and ideas in an urban context.

Full Dollar Inc. is a company created by Andrade that involves collaboration with artists and serves to explore the fringes between anthropology and contemporary art. Its preferred strategy is appropriation, ranging from buildings, pieces or parts of generic landscapes to commercial logotypes, works and/or texts on art history, and cultural-management initiatives. Full Dollar parodies the authorized languages of art and the dominant discourse on public spaces.

About Outpost @ Armory
In late 2011, the celebrated artist- and neighborhood-centered organization Outpost for Contemporary Art was at a critical financial and administrative juncture. Rather than see the organization close, Armory Center for the Arts invited Outpost into the Armory fold with the aim of maintaining Outpost’s well-regarded programmatic vitality while augmenting Armory’s spirit and capacity to invent. Through focused planning and collaboration, a vision is emerging for melding Outpost’s international and community-based programs with Armory’s respected gallery and arts education programs.

May. 25, 2013 : 4D: New Work from USC Roski School of Fine Arts' Advanced Video Studio Class

Thu, 23 May 2013 13:12:28 -0700

4D: New Work from USC Roski School of Fine Arts' Advanced Video Studio Class

May 25
Installations from 6-9 pm
Screening at 8 pm

Featuring work by:

Matthew Cook
Christopher Hanke
Anna Helm
Brandon Jardine
Christopher Kaye
Cody Kennedy
Devon McDonald-Hyman
Sean McElhenney
Nihura Montiel

4D is the final exhibition of Jeff Cain’s Advanced Video Studio class at the USC Roski School of Fine Arts. The students have been embarking on semester long research projects that cover a wide variety of ideas including visual perception in the landscape, radical narcissism, performing site-specific historical narratives, and obstruction based filmmaking. For this one night exhibition, installations will run from 6-9 pm and an hour long screening will begin at 8pm.

Image still from "4" Anna Helm, 2013

Jun. 1, 2013 : Make Music Pasadena

Fri, 03 May 2013 11:32:58 -0700

Make Music Pasadena is a FREE music festival in Downtown Pasadena from 11 am until 11 pm on Saturday, June 1, 2013. Join us for the opening of This Ain't A Scene, a photography exhibit featuring images from Los Angeles's vibrant indie music community, and the Radio Free Silverlake's Make Music Pasadena Stage at the Armory Center for the Arts.

This year's line up at the Armory will feature:

1:00 Lost & Found
2:00 Auditorium
3:00 Vanish Valley
4:00 The Californian
5:00 halfbluud

Photo credit: Sterling Andrews

Jun. 4, 2013 : Please join us for two special screening dates of G-Dog

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:30:44 -0700

Armory's Community art programs proudly partners with Learning Works and Homeboy Industries on a regular basis.
Please join us for two special screening dates of G-Dog

Tuesday, June 4, 2013, 5:00PM
Homeboy Industries
1912 E. 1st Street
Los Angeles, CA 90033

or

Tuesday, June 11, 2013, 5:00PM
Learning Works Charter School
90 N. Daisy Avenue
Pasadena, CA 91107

Popcorn and refreshments will served.

Jun. 6, 2013 : Benefit screening of GROUND OPERATIONS: Battlefields to Farmfields

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:47:03 -0700

You are Invited to A Fundraiser for Veterans in Food & Farming

Please join us for a special screening of GROUND OPERATIONS: Battlefields to Farmfields, a documentary Film by Dulanie Ellis & Raymond Singer followed by a conversation with the filmmakers & a farmer-veteran Edgar Hercilla.

GROUND OPERATIONS: Battlefields to Farmfields has begun a national tour to champion a growing network of combat veterans who are transitioning to restorative and challenging new careers in organic farming, ranching and artisan food products. Our goal is to raise awareness and resources to help them get started with healthy new lives for themselves and food security for communities across America.

Event tickets are available at Eventbrite for $45. There will be delicious, locally-sourced organic food from Little Flower Cafe served with craft beer, organic & biodynamic wine tastings from Everson Royce. Proceeds from this event benefit the Ground Operations national campaign and Edgar Hercilla's new farm operation at The Growing Experience

Jun. 11, 2013 : Please join us for two special screening dates of G-Dog

Thu, 23 May 2013 14:31:09 -0700

Armory's Community art programs proudly partners with Learning Works and Homeboy Industries on a regular basis.
Please join us for two special screening dates of G-Dog

Jun. 13, 2013 : Go Public: A Day in the Life of an American School District

Wed, 15 May 2013 08:34:03 -0700

Conscientious Projector Goes Inside the Pasadena Unified School District

One year ago, 50 small film crews followed Pasadena public school students, teachers, volunteers and administrators as they went about a typical day on the school district’s 28 campuses. The stirring result is Go Public: A Day in the Life of an American School District, this month’s Conscientious Projector selection, screening on Thursday, June 13, 7:00 p.m. at The Armory Center for the Arts. Co-producers James and Dawn O’Keeffe have fashioned a spirited cinema verite-style feature documentary that not only contradicts the conventional meme that public education is irrevocably broken, but also shows the vitality, dedication and teamwork that exists amidst the challenges of providing a learning experience for children and teenagers in a racially and economically diverse urban area like Pasadena.

A community discussion with the filmmakers and participants will follow the film. The Armory is located at 145 N. Raymond in Old Pasadena. Admission is free and the facility is accessible to disabled persons. For more information contact Marty Coleman at 626.792.4941 or visitwww.gopublicproject.org.