As a continuation of CalArts' commitment to experimentation and innovation in the arts, the Gallery at REDCAT aims to provide an active intellectual space for the CalArts community and beyond.


April 24 - June 15, 2008
Dave McKenzie: Screen Doors on Submarines
Opening reception: Wednesday, April 23, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Conversation between Dave McKenzie and Rodney McMillan, 6:30 pm

Through video, performance, sculpture, and installation, Dave McKenzie’s diverse practice explores notions of public space and cultural exchange in relation to the private self. For his work While Supplies Last (2003) at the Sculpture Center, the artist wore a large head of his own likeness, becoming a caricature of himself | click here



June 28 - August 24, 2008
HAEGUE YANG
Opening reception: Friday, June 27, 6:00 - 9:00 pm
Artist’s talk 6:30 pm

Haegue Yang’s practice stems from her interests in the subtle irregularities and minute possibilities that destabilize conventional order. Through deliberate acts of erasing, misplacing, or rearranging the ordinary, Yang’s work directs attention to the underlying structures that regulate perception and experience | click here



September 18 - November 9, 2008
John Bock: Palms
Opening reception: Wednesday, September 17, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Perhaps best known for his live, unpredictable performances, John Bock blurs artistic convention, constructing a boundless world all his own. The artist often employs uncanny costumes, assemblages, and props that both reference and examine a range of social, political, philosophical, and aesthetic interests | click here



November 22, 2008 - January 18, 2009
9 Scripts from a Nation at War
A collaboration between Sharon Hayes, Ashley Hunt, Katya Sander, David Thorne, and Andrea Geyer
Opening reception: Wednesday, November 21, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

9 Scripts from a Nation at War is a multi-channel video installation that responds to conditions and questions that have arisen since March 2003, taking the U.S. context as an initial point of view. While 2003 marks the beginning of the invasion of Iraq by U.S. military forces, it is a conflict that reaches backwards and forwards in history and memory, as a "long war" that has few, if any, boundaries | click here



February 5 - April 5, 2009
Atelier Bow-Wow
Opening reception: Wednesday, February 4, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

Tokyo-based architecture studio (Yoshiharu Tsukamoto and Momoyo Kaijima) explores the use and function of space within urban environments. As working architects in Tokyo, Atelier Bow-Wow developed the term “pet architecture,” a style of small, ad hoc, multi-functional structures that make the most of limited space | click here



Past REDCAT Gallery Exhibitions:


February 21 - April 6, 2008
Two Lines Align: Drawings and Graphic Design by Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge
Opening reception: Wednesday, February 20, 6:00 - 9:00 pm

The practices of Los Angeles-based graphic designers Ed Fella and Geoff McFetridge explore the tenuous relationship between visual art and independent graphic design in two very different generations | click here



December 8, 2007 -- February 3, 2008
Truth: Choi Jeong-Hwa
Opening reception: Friday, December 7, 7:00 – 10:00 pm

Choi’s residency at REDCAT from 2007-2008 will culminate in a solo exhibition that will include works by invited artists and craftspeople alongside his own, challenging concepts of individual authorship and original works of art | click here



September 15 -- November 25, 2007
Barry McGee: Advanced Mature Work
Opening reception: Friday, September 14, 7:00 – 10:00 pm

Perhaps best known for his site-specific wall paintings that feature satirical figurative imagery, decorative script, floating heads, and simple tags, Barry McGee presents a newly commissioned installation at REDCAT that draws upon the attitudes and processes of unsanctioned acts of expression | click here



June 30 -- August 26, 2007
Renata Lucas: Falha
Opening reception: Friday, June 29, 6–9 pm. Artist’s talk: 6:30 pm

Renata Lucas’s practice is a critical interpretation of how our built environment determines actions, behavior and social relationships, and by extension, society’s dependency on the preservation of prescribed definitions of space, property and order | click here



April 18 -- June 17, 2007
Apichatpong Weerasethakul
Opening reception: Wednesday, April 18, 6–9 pm. Screenings: June 4, 6 and 8, 8 pm

Internationally recognized for his work in experimental and narrative cinema such as Mysterious Object at Noon (2000), Blissfully Yours (2002), Tropical Malady (2004) and Syndromes and A Century (2006), Apichatpong Weerasethakul presents his first solo exhibition in the United States | click here



February 14 -- April 8, 2007
ETERNAL FLAME
Opening reception: Wednesday, February 14, 6-9pm; artists’ discussion 6:30 pm

Eternal Flame brings together recent projects by six contemporary artists working in Bangkok, Ho Chi Minh City, Los Angeles, and New York. The exhibition elaborates on recent intellectual and artistic attempts to cope with commerce, society, and art | click here



December 6, 2006 -- January 28, 2007
RESTROOM M: SONG DONG
RESTROOM W: YIN XIUZHEN

Opening reception: Wednesday, December 6, 7-10 pm

For their first exhibitions in Los Angeles, artists Song Dong and Yin Xiuzhen will divide the Gallery at REDCAT and present two solo exhibitions: Restroom M: Song Dong and Restroom W: Yin Xiuzhen | click here



September 16 -- November 19, 2006
Snake River:
Charles Gaines and Edgar Arceneaux

Opening reception: Wednesday, September 15, 7-10 pm

The artists will collaborate with contemporary British composer Thomas Ades who will be in residence at the LA Philharmonic and musicians at the historical home of 19th century Austrian composer Anton Bruchner | click here



June 28 -- September 3, 2006
Nothing is Neutral: Andrea Bowers
Opening reception: Wednesday, June 28, 6-9 pm

Andrea Bowers has explored individual expression within society at large, including sports and rock fans as well as political activists.



April 20 -– June 18, 2006
Ubiq: A Mental Odyssey
MATHIEU BRIAND

Opening reception: Wednesday, April 19, 7-10 pm

Marseilles-based artist Mathieu Briand works in various installation forms with computers, electronic music, robots and video technology to explore systems of stimulation, play and perception.



February 2 -- April 2, 2006
An Image bank for Everyday Revolutionary Life
Opening reception: Wednesday, February 1, 7-10 pm
Guest curators: Lauri Firstenberg and Anton Vidokle

The source material for this exhibition is the photographic archive of Mexican muralist David Alfaro Siqueiros who compiled thousands of images over the course of his own extraordinary life.



November 3, 2005 -- January 15, 2006
DamiÁn Ortega:
The Beetle Trilogy and Other Works

Opening Reception: Thursday, November 3, 6-9 pm
MOCA, 5–8 pm, and REDCAT, 6–9 pm

For this project, Damían Ortega will present The Beetle Trilogy as well as develop a new work that expands on his fascination with conceptual practice, social organization, and humor.



September 3 -- October 23, 2005
Kara E. Walker's Song of the South
Opening Reception: Friday, September 2, 6-9 pm
Closing reception: Sunday, October 23, 6–9 pm
Performance by the artist at 7 pm

Kara Walker’s "historical" shadow dramas depict unseemly acts of sex, birth, dismemberment and play that accentuate the slippery separations between dominance and desire, fantasy and fear.



June 15 -- August 21, 2005
Margaret Kilgallen:
In the Sweet Bye & Bye

Opening reception: Wednesday, June 15, 7pm to Midnight

Kilgallen’s unique re-sourcing of sweetly familiar and non-hierarchical everyday places, markings and people was in large part inspired by the wandering culture of immigrants, railway workers and dreamers.



April 13 -- May 29, 2005
Facing the Music
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 13, 6–9pm
Guest curator: Allan Sekula

A five-year long project by James Baker, Anthony Hernandez, Karin Apollonia Müller, Allan Sekula and Billy Woodberry, Facing the Music investigates the urban fabric of downtown Los Angeles in the wake of the construction of the Walt Disney Concert Hall.



February 3 -- April 3, 2005
Buried Treasure: Taro Shinoda
Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 2, 2005, 6-9 pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, February 6, 3 pm

During a three-month residency in Los Angeles, Shinoda constructed a trailer based on an engawa, the traditional viewing platform that separates architecture, or the domestic space, from the garden, or enchanted space.



November 18, 2004-January 16, 2005
COSMO VITALE:
GIMHONGSOK AND SORA KIM

Both Gimhongsok and Sora Kim use art as a means of communication, creating non-hierarchical exchanges that serve to de-institutionalize space. Their work employs common elements from people and daily life organized in ways that create unexpected spaces and dialogue



September 9 -- October 31, 2004
White Noise
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 8, 7-9pm
Artist Talk: Wednesday, September 8, 6-7pm

Curated by Assistant Curator Clara Kim

White Noise considers disruptions and interferences on the visual, sonic and structural landscape. Artists in the exhibition capture easily overlooked or hidden elements in the everyday perceptive field.



May 27 -- August 8, 2004
Julie Mehretu: Drawing into Painting
Opening Reception May 27, 7-10 pm
Artist Talk: Sunday, May 30, 3 pm

Julie Mehretu's language of abstraction borrows from real and imagined geography, architecture, history, mapping and photojournalism to navigate the unstable terrain of what she has identified as "a narrative filled with urgency and optimism, like a strange dream."



April 14 -- May 16, 2004
SUPERFLEX/SELF-ORGANISE/GUARANÁ POWER
Opening Reception: Wednesday, April 14, 6-9 pm
Closing Reception: Saturday, May 15, 7-10 pm

For this installation, the Copenhagen-based artists collective activates REDCAT with the independent manufacture of the natural soda, GUARANÁ POWER and a daily cinema featuring models of self-organization.



February 5 -- March 21, 2004
BOUNCE: MARK BRADFORD AND GLENN KAINO
Opening Reception: Wednesday, February 4, 7-10 pm
Artists' Talk: Saturday, March 13, 3 pm

Bounce: Mark Bradford and Glenn Kaino offers unique consideration of the social history of Los Angeles through the work of two emerging Los Angeles-based artists.



November 16 -- December 28, 2003
Emerson Woelffer: A Solo Flight
Opening Reception: Thursday, November 20, 6-9 pm
Curated by Ed Ruscha

A survey of the career of the highly regarded artist, teacher and innovator, Emerson Woelffer: A Solo Flight is a memorable tribute to the Los Angeles-based Abstract Expressionist.